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yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Meloni Seeks China Reset After Italy Ditches Belt and Road Pact

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yogthos , 4 months ago to worldnews in China Supports the Addition of the Palestinian State to the UN

that must’ve sounded so clever in your head 😂

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to programmerhumor in Perfect Exit

an absolute classic

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Left-wing political parties from Arab countries thank China for its support of Palestinian national rights

yes, please do read what the resolution actually said responsiblestatecraft.org/us-ceasefire-gaza-un/

yogthos , 4 months ago to worldnews in Vietnam tycoon given death for $12.5bn fraud

Your typical victim of communism.

yogthos , 4 months ago to asklemmy in Do you believe in Aliens?

I definitely believe that aliens exist, but I very much doubt that they have any interest in contacting us. I find that lot of the discussions around aliens fail to take into account the sheer vastness of the Universe.

• Universe has been around for close to 14 billion years
• Milky Way in its current form has been around for about 8~9 billion years
• Life on Earth appears around 4280 million years ago
• Humans start evolving around 2.8 million years ago.
• Use of language appears around 100,000 years ago
• Writing is invented around 5500 years ago

Inventions of language and writing are the landmark moment here. Before language was invented the only way information could be passed down from ancestors to offspring was via mutations in our DNA. If an individual learned some new idea it would be lost with them when they died. Language allowed humans to communicate ideas to future generations and start accumulating knowledge beyond what a single individual could hold in their head. Writing made this process even more efficient.

So, after millions of years of life on Earth nothing interesting happened. Then when language was invented humans started creating technology, and in a blink of an eye on cosmological scale we went from living in caves to visiting space in our rocket ships. It’s worth taking a moment to really appreciate just how fast our technology evolved once we were able to start accumulating knowledge using language and writing.

Now let’s take a look at how technology itself has been evolving. Once we discovered radio communication we went through a noisy period where we were leaking a lot of our broadcasts into space, and within a span of a 100 years we started using more efficient communication, and encryption. If somebody intercepted our broadcasts today they would look like noise because they’re designed to look like noise.

Our society today is utterly and completely unrecognizable to somebody from even a 100 years ago. If we don’t go extinct, I imagine that in another thousand years future humans will be completely alien to us as well.

So the period during which intelligent life would be recognizable to us during its course of evolution is infinitesimally small! The time between creating language and becoming an advanced technological society is measured in thousands of years, while evolution of life is measured in millions of years. The chance of two different intelligences finding each other at exact same stage of development where they might be able to communicate is incredibly unlikely.

I would also imagine that the biological phase for intelligent life is rather short. We’re likely to develop human style AIs within a century, and they will be the ones to go out and explore the universe. Meat did not evolve to live in space because we’re adapted to gravity wells. An artificial life form could be engineered to thrive in space without ever needing to visit planets. This is the kind of life that’s most likely to be prolific in space.

Furthermore, post biological intelligences would likely be running at much faster speeds than our mental processes operate on. What we consider real-time would be what we consider to be geological scales.

For all we know the Universe may be teeming with intelligent life and we just don’t recognize it as such. We might be like an ant hill next to a highway looking to see if there are other ant hills around.

I really can’t imagine that advanced civilizations would have much they could learn from us. We might be a curiosity at best to them, but it’s more likely that they would give as much consideration to us as we do to an ant when we pass it by.

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general

Do be specific what this Russian propaganda you speak of is. Last I checked, I’m quoting mainstream western publications here. Or perhaps, it’s Royal United Services Institute that’s spreading Russian propaganda I’m parroting, help me understand what you mean here little buddy!

rusi.org/…/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-wa…

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Left-wing political parties from Arab countries thank China for its support of Palestinian national rights

What US proposed was not an actual ceasefire. US was the one to repeatedly veto actual ceasefire resolutions.

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general

The answers are pretty obvious if you actually think about this for even a few minutes. There is no substitute for having real combat experience, and Russia now has a large seasoned army that’s seen serious combat action for two years. Not only does this mean that the troops are far more experienced than any NATO army, but it also forced Russia to iron out any supply chain issues they had, let them test their equipment, and learn the faults that need to be fixed, it resulted in Russia ramping up their military industry to incredible levels. As CNN recently reported, Russia now outproduces all of the west by a ratio of three to one in artillery shell production. This is just one example www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/…/index.html

Meanwhile, the only western source that provides any methodology shows that Russian casualty rates are relatively low, and have been going down significantly, which is an indication that Russian army is getting better at combat en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng

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yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in China Is Taking Countermeasures Against General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and General Dynamics Land Systems

It will be absolutely hilarious if China manages to achieve peaceful reunification within the next few years, and takes over all the US toys in Taiwan.

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to programmerhumor in Perfect Exit

I managed to do this on my very first job. I worked at a company where they needed to integrate data from multiple vendors into a unified schema. So, ended up building a library that could take xpath and a value and would navigate down the the path, creating missing entries along the way, then insert the value at the given location. It worked really nicely cause it let our business people just fill out a spreadsheet, and provide a csv that would get ingested. The internals of it were absolutely nightmarish though, cause I just kept kludging stuff in to accommodate for new use cases, and of course all of it was completely undocumented. After I left, I heard that at least three separate attempts were made at rewriting that nightmare, and everyone just gave up eventually. For all I know, it’s still in production to this day because it became a foundational piece that nobody has any hope of understanding. 😂

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general

People who actually have a clue on the subject seem to disagree with you there rusi.org/…/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-wa…

yogthos , 4 months ago to worldnews in Colombia's Medellín declares war on sex tourism after US citizen found with two little girls at a hotel

Sex pests are a major export from western nations to the rest of the world, it’s about time this infestation started being addressed.

yogthos OP , 4 months ago to worldnews in Russia's army is now 15% bigger than when it invaded Ukraine, says US general

www.nytimes.com/…/ukraine-demographics.html

yogthos , 4 months ago to asklemmy in How do you Lemmings like your tea?

Usually just black without sugar or anything, although on occasion I like it with honey and lemon.