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ETA = Edit to add

Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.

McDonalds gets millions of applications? wtf?

ETA: Yeah, I guess they do.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/mcdonalds-hiring-surge/83595827007/

take the L and walk away.

I’m here having reasoned conversations with thoughtful people. I left the karma farming behind on reddit, and I don’t miss it. I can’t lose.

The word “see” predates the concepts of neurons, chemicals, and photons by thousands of years. We see objects, not light.

The word “see” predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.

That’s not what the word “see” means. You’re trying to to swap it for another word like “sense.” You see objects, not light.

The light that enters your eye carries enormous amounts of information with it. Your eye and a small portion of your brain comprise a highly specific tool for extracting a small subset of that information and processing it. The information you use is only related to the last object the light interacted with, not the light itself (with the small exception being the “brightness” - that has nothing to do with the object).

No one claims to hear the air in their ears rather than the violin that is being played nearby. That’s just not what the word “hear” means.

That’s not what the word “see” means.

Look around the space you’re in and notice that you can’t “see” the light, only the things.

Yeah! Let’s go!! Signal to me baby!

Humans didn’t “happen to this planet.” This planet (along with our fantastic if very average star) made us.

Well, you are what you eat, and so is your poo.

Agreed. But you don’t have to go that far to make rain and snow transparent. And radar might not be a bad idea to have on self driving cars, as long as it’s not the only thing.

LiDAR can be done with different wavelengths. It should be possible to make one that can see through rain and snow.

His disdain for NASA’s caution is obvious.

What a dumbass. If we send people in the quickest possible way (or any way at all, really) and they all die in the attempt, that will set the whole project back decades.

The answer to the radiation problem is better shielding, not a fundamentally unsafe mission.

btw it is not the nuclear propulsion that I’m calling unsafe. It is the idea that we could do without redundancy. That’s just a monumentally stupid idea.

I could be mistaken on this: don’t they get just one try?

Exactly. In other words, they have not been “allowed to infest” the fediverse.

I have not noticed any threads content in Lemmy.