The Drake Equation is a probabilistic formula meant to derive the number of civilizations which humans could potentially communicate with.

The fermi paradox does challenge the formula though, as it implies fi and/or fc are very small or zero.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it’s all-or-nothing thinking to question the effectiveness of just doing the opposite of what conservatives propose. If we don’t base these decisions on real data or thorough analysis, we might end up with a policy that feels good politically but doesn’t actually deliver the best results for people. I’m not suggesting endless studies or using that as an excuse to delay action, but rather that we should be intentional and evidence based in making these decisions. Especially given our elected officials have cabinets full of paid staff who can already read the studies that have been published. No new studies and waiting is necessary.

1. Can you prove that’s the antithesis, and not -18%?

2. Would 82% be the best for regular people? If not, who would it be best for?

That delta (+3%) would still concede ground to conservatives when pre-Trump corporate taxes were at 30%. Even Biden told Congress it should be at 28%.

It’s just too reactive to want the opposite of what the new conservative playbook is. The best corporate tax rate for the average person has nothing to do with what Trump or P2025 think, so formulating our economic systems around the opposite of them won’t work either. We need a materialist analysis of our economy by experts and academics to determine what any particular tax should be in able to develop economic situations that best benefit regular people the most.

Rhetorically: What’s the antithesis of an 18% (base) corporate tax rate?

Project 2025 is fucking awful, but just doing the opposite of them doesn’t make sense when the working conditions of regular people can only be improved through a materialist view of the world, as the opposite of their goals isn’t what our goals are.

Jack Black Cancels Tenacious D Tour and ‘All Future Creative Plans’ After Kyle Gass’ Remark on Trump Assassination Attempt

The situation is rather complicated and it’s probably best to read for yourself, as I didn’t even know they had announced the band getting back together, possibly.

Jack Black Says Tenacious D Will ‘Be Back’

All this is coming from the guy who just that night sang:

People inside me are asking me to blow up City Hall

He killed Tenacious D mid-tour in an act of dick-riding for Donald Trump, while campaigning for Biden.

Also Borderlands is shit, and his role as the voice of Claptrap took the spot of two talented voice actors who have already played the character across multiple games.

Do the borderlands comic series, but make it a TV show instead of a movie.

Also dump all the A-list celebrities. Nobody needs Cate Blanchett, Jack Black 🖕, or Kevin Hart in a series that already has established voices for their characters.

So you’re telling me the software developed by Microsoft is being used on Linux platforms to convince manufacturers using Linux to use Linux instead of Microsoft because Microsoft systems are bad?? Make it make sense dawg.

Nvidia sells the hardware (shovels), but also develops portions of the software to make it run more efficiently, like OpenAI. Nobody else but Microsoft seems to be actually developing software, though AMD is slowly working towards having comparable performance.

1. OpenAI struck gold, NVIDIA followed suit, and everyone else bought shovels hoping to get investors even though they have no plans on striking gold (developing useful AI).

2. Would you like to buy a timeshare to the moon? If we all buy, you’ll be able to sell your spot for 10x the price! Don’t wait! Spots are limited!

In a general sense of messaging, that totally makes sense. Biden has raised the capital gains tax and reclassified cannabis, while Trump is a criminal who committed election fraud. I want people who live in swing states to vote for Biden for the sake of us all.

Specifically about the issue of voting though, am I missing something?

“…I am part-hippie, part-fascist, part-libertarian, and mostly just a Republican…”

First thing I saw there. I’m glad to see they’re such a diverse group lol.

Just hit him

Listen, I’m trying not to ascribe intent to their actions. But yeah, possibly.

If you look at the communities themselves, it seems like they’re trying to become mods of most religions, many political beliefs, and concepts related to India.

They’re also asking to become mods of already existing coms. I’m really not sure what they’re up to.

Edit: Even more interesting, it seems like there’s been common requests for religious and Indian communities on !community_requests@lemmy.ml over the past 2 months. I’m not sure what to make of that either.

I think there’s a good chance people will leave once Lemmy integrates with Threads. So if you time things wisely, you can probably get a good base of users to swap their coms to Sublinks.

What’s your planned policy for karma? I know users hated it, but as a reddit mod I found it super useful to determine between a misinformed user and a troll. If your plan for mod tools is as good as you’re saying, I wouldn’t mind going back to modding.

CSAM is still unfortunately an issue on Lemmy. Just yesterday I had to contact an admin of the 2nd largest instance directly to get a post removed that had been up for several hours. Worst of all, it had more upvotes than downvotes. I do applaud the admin for taking action the minute I notified them, but it should never have been able to get that far.

Also, some of the issues involving Lemmy developers really remind me of major Minecraft servers back in the day lol. There’s just an inability for the “helpers” to do much problem solving because of the lack of tools, and absolute reliance on the person at the top to take action. Even then, the person at the top doesn’t always have the skill set necessary to solve the issues that arise.

I look forward to seeing how Sublinks goes, but without a good reason for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival.

Always eat the pizza crust. If you don’t, I will.