Tap water? If so, try filtered water, get a good, credible filter and filter the water. Depending on where you live there’s a fair amount of materials in the water that make it unpleasant.
In a pinch, boiling it, and letting it cool back down also helps some, if they can’t afford a filter.
making a sapient clone just to harvest their organs
A clone just makes a genetically identical baby, though, and they are shorter-lived. Dolly only lived half as long as the sheep she was a clone of, before she died of old age.
Unless you wanted to wait 15 - 20 years, for organs that might, on average, last 15, cloning isn’t practical.
They’re going when no-one has gone before, clearly.
Although the Enterprise in The Next Generation still takes the cake for nearly leaving the universe.
Voyager might also count if you include them jumping billions of years of time-distance thanks to Q meddling getting them tossed back and forth.
Look, their cure for the cold only evolved you into a spider once.
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foamed lactase.
Isn’t that the thing that digests milk, but not milk? You can buy little lactase pills at the pharmacy.
A lot of these aren’t paused entirely because people chose to pause them though, as much as it was hitting a limitation.
Cloning, for example. The bigger issue is that clones don’t live for very long, and that the clone is basically a new human. If we had a science fiction cloning machine that could copy people, you could easily bet that research would be forging ahead.
A fair bit of neurodivergent stuff is also neurotypical, just turned up to a degree that it begins interfering with daily living.
That just sounds like the employees are using AI as asked of them, but the company’s own offerings/tools are bad, or they’re given bad goals, so they just turn to one of the major AI companies, like ChatGPT, since it’s all AI anyway, rather than overt sabotage.
To be fair, that is a similar problem, just with a q instead of a k.
You’d need to know the name of the calculator to access it, if you don’t have a dedicated button to load it, or a menu to find it in.
If it’s your first time on linux, you might well think it doesn’t have a calculator at all.
It’s good for the animals too, since they have a shelter for weather.
Not even after. He was in the middle of talking when circumstances prevented him from saying any more.
That instance needs a login to show the post.
If you don’t have a Kobo, the file conversion is also a lifesaver.
I have one of the old Kindle e-readers, and it doesn’t support epub, for example. It does support pdf, in theory, but the age of the hardware means any decently large/complicated pdf bogs it down something fierce.
Being able to use calibre to convert my books to a format it does support is nice.
Do kind of wish that they had less silly names, though.
It’s hard to recommend them without sounding like you’re just babbling nonsense.
If you get Libby and Hoopla for your Kobo, you don’t need Ploob, no matter how much Ploob has it for you.
Third AI to determine human-ness?
It’s bots all the way down.
Mechanical Windows
As opposed to what, wireless windows?
Sort of? Apple’s reputation is traditionally that they make middle-of-the-road hardware, but make up for the shortcomings with software.
On paper, you can buy a Windows computer with better specs for cheaper, but the Apple computer still holds its own because the software is well-made, at least on the OS side of things. Even if the rest of their software was rubbish, you could get rid of it and still have a good foundation to work from. Hence why the Hackintosh was all the rage some years back. In theory, you could eke out the best of both worlds.
Is this anything new at all?
Even back in the day, you had people wanting to live in the recent past, because the past usually gets romanticised.
So people in the 1960s might have a rosy view of the turn of the century, and want to go back to the 1930 days of art deco and balls, or those today, that might want to return what they believe to be glory days of 1960. Even if it isn’t actually realistic to how you might live in the past. The average citizen in 1930 was not attending balls at a swanky music lounge.
Give it a few decades, we might also have people from 2050 pining for the 2020s, believing it to be just like the advertisements, where we all live in the penthouse level of skyscrapers, overlooking a vast cityscape.