Rhaedas

The great thing about Coldplay is they’ve changed over the years, which of course pisses some off who liked one style and now expect it every time. I don’t like some of their songs, but the songs I do like I enjoy. The era of Clocks and Speed of Sound and Scientist were solid. There have been a few later ones I like too, but the songs either click for you or not. That’s how music should be, eclectic and not formula.

I think the last song of theirs that hit me hard was All I Can Think About is You. May not be everyone’s type of song, but it felt like the Coldplay I like. And there’s the sleeper The Hardest Part.

My mother’s car, a 1981 or so Dodge Aries K-car. I guess those who went to a driving school got their license from there as well? Back then we just got a short course in high school, drove a few times with the instructor, and then had to go to the DMV with our own car to do the actual test.

It took two times. The first time I had trouble starting the car (because it was a Dodge/Chrysler POS) so that instructor denied me after the third try at cranking it. Of course it rattled 17 year old me. Second time (different place, different instructor) went a lot smoother, only issue was my slamming on brakes for a red light, but that probably helped me rather than running it.

Apparently given his own definition, even Socrates needs to touch grass.

I prefer clover myself.

I don’t think we’re sure what makes it and what doesn’t. Some of the first radio broadcasts were very strong and maybe even directed more, but over time due to competition limits were put on transmission power. Then there’s the question of general direction vs. a directed beam which would have more distance before it gets lost. Lastly, lower bandwidths were used as technology modernized, which would hide more in the background.

But even if the strongest part gets to a planet and lasts for years, what if their time to invent and use radio is still far in the future, or gone in the past and they don’t even look in those frequencies. It could be more a matter of timing than anything else.

I still wait for the darkly humorous joke until it really happens message to us, “Shhhh, they’ll hear you.”

They had fair warning. No way they didn’t pick up signals on the way here and still chose to land.

In space I doubt he was able to get enough momentum to kick through a space suit to do much. Which makes the last panel a WTF look.

What if we become wealthy one day?

What if you could just live comfortably for your entire life?

Aye, I could do that.

There are different kinds of players in the same game. But I agree that the whole ability to bend districts in any favored direction should be removed. There are impartial ways to determine districts that change over time with the population, but neither side likes them because it’s a loss of control and potential loss of seats for both. The irony is that it would favor the left more, just like changing how we vote would favor that lean, but that gets into the issue of what “left” means in the US vs. reality, and maybe that’s part of the problem as well.

You don’t have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.

At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk’s attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.

I’ve seen this movie.

“The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug Skynet Grok in.”