IIRC about 20% of the cost of a new home is framing. So even if they make it free, it’s a nice little cut, but not world-changing.

The technology itself is still interesting. Maybe you could use it for water works or a chemical plant - things where a large, weird-shaped container is the goal.

Once ASICs and battery density advance enough make it practical, AR could still become a big thing. VR might have hit saturation, though.

Zuckerberg saying “let’s be a VR company” always smacked of “I got lucky once and now people expect me to find the next big thing”.

Cheese is not mold, though. Blue cheese contains it, other kinds are milk solids and maybe some bacteria.

Edit: To answer the question: Soy can be turned into either bioplastic or food. Pure carbon can be diamonds or soot/coal/graphite. Electrical resistance can either be unwanted waste or the primary purpose of the circuit (like in a space heater).

Pretty much. That wasn’t a complaint - it’s not sexy (it actually tends to liminal, with weird holdovers from multiple eras), but it works, and the healthcare received is seamless as soon as you’ve been identified as reasonably sick.

Or the old repurposed Tsarist ballrooms.

Very identical, sprawling lowrise construction, and not necessarily used as originally intended. I swear the pre-op area before my last surgery was originally a parking garage that they’d put up room dividers in. And just an absolute maze of them, backrooms style.

It’s cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called “institutional architecture” sometimes.

Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting.

Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.

It has all the makings of one of those slow-moving global commons issues that could get really bad, like with climate change. Hopefully the international agreements and organisations can manage things even as we move into what looks like a new Cold War. Nobody wants Kessler syndrome.

If something even cheaper isn’t found, anyway.

You probably shouldn’t fly this over populated areas anyway. I guess you could if you had too, and granted hydrogen would be worse in that case.

Aluminum is pretty impermeable to hydrogen, isn’t it? A foil layer would add weight, but then again hydrogen has slightly more lifting power, as well. Helium also leaks through some materials.

It actually doesn’t have that much more. It’s ~half the weight, but they’re both closer to vacuum than to air already.

On the other hand, boy is it cheaper.

Because I would have to go do that.

I’m not even sure being recognised is a plus.

Most European languages have no equivalent, since everything is gendered, not just pronouns. Efforts to embed equality in those languages go the other way - adding female gendered terms for male-dominated professions and vice-verse, as opposed to removing gender which is just too hard.

Russian in particular is spoken in places where they’re hostile to the whole idea. They have a neuter gender, and you might see it used in a mocking “it” kind of way for queer people of all kinds.

For languages outside the Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic families it’s usually a moot issue; 3/4 have no grammatical gender features at all.

Wow, very cool! Absolute poggers.

“It’s an end-to-European solution,” says Alessandro Giovannini, an ECB official. “All the engineering will be 100pc European, and it will be distributed by euro banks.”

Hmm, I should open a European bank account. It could help if I’m every visiting family out there, anyway.

Which open source projects have large expenses? Buying the creator a coffee is nice, but if money is actually required for something to exist I’d rather give there.

Right now I’m extremely poor, but maybe someday I’ll be in the same boat as OP. My Lemmy instance and Tor come to mind, and then maybe Wikipedia, although I know their aggressive fundraising has already worked.

Edit: Oh shit, the Invidious instance I use should probably go first.

A million? It will break.

Ten or a hundred thousand would be good, though. I expect as it grows it will follow the community trajectory of Reddit pretty well, although we’ll know not to nominate ourselves detective when there’s a marathon bombing.

Can’t argue about bases if you refuse to elaborate beyond Presburger arithmetic. (Guy pointing at head meme)

The atmosphere of Mars is arguably a feature. Otherwise it’s the same thing, just way further away.

It’s Zelensky’s first language, even. I think he avoids it now, but if it’s that or English I would hope there’d be no judgement.

Edit: And it shares a lot of vocabulary and ~all grammar with Russian, anyway.

Oh, just the registration data, not actually what you voted for.

In Canada they copy it in from tax data, so you’d really have to go for the off-the-grid sovereign citizen stuff and never pay taxes to stay out of it. Maybe it’s different in the US.

I was going to say Darude Sandstorm, but I actually think I have followed along with that one.

Diva dance from The Fifth Element?