here’s the thing though, you wouldn’t need to do that second part. You only need to know what the relative time for london is in the event that you fly over there, or something, and even then

What? Sorry, I must be misunderstanding your viewpoint here. People interact all across the globe all of the time; it’s important to know what part of day it is in the different places for all of that. You want to call someone in Singapore? It doesn’t help to know their clock shows the same time as you, you need to know if it’s the middle of the night, or maybe it’s likely lunch time etc. That’s why you need to know the offset from “your” time.

And you glossed over everything else… I’m not talking about movies for no reason. Movies tend to need to convey lots of information in a short amount of time so it’s a useful example of the differring amounts of information that can be communicated when we all share cultural understandings of things. If 3am means essentially the same thing everywhere that’s super useful in communicating all sorts of ideas.

Too bad movies never use shit like ambient moon lighting, or darkness

Probably because people’s beds tend to be inside… Plus darkness can mean morning or evening or middle of the night or something else (imagine the person notices it’s dark, looks at the clock and it shows 1pm. We know something’s off because we all experience 1pm as early afternoon).

The point isn’t that timezones are only good for movies, the point was that they help convey that cultural understanding very effectively across the world. Having a common understanding of what certain numbers on a clock mean and have that be universal can help convey quite a bit of information. 11am means “late morning” in a specific way that you could probably spend a paragraph describing.

Sure, without timezones I’d know what their clock says in London without having to use Google, but I’d still have to Google what time of day it is there and apply an offset to understand exactly what part of the day it is (which is what timezones do already). It’s no easier, plus we lose the ability to culturally share the same reference points.

Imagine you’re watching a movie, and the main character turns over to their bedside clock and it shows 4:13 am. With time zones we all understand what part of the day that is and instinctively can relate to the situation.

Without timezones, every locality would have a different shorthand and cultural understanding of what times mean what. Or they’d adopt a second system that helps transcend that but that’s just inventing timezones again…

What about complicated exercise?

Past and Current is not Future though.

Correct…? This is the problem of induction. As you’ve pointed out it’s flawed, and it’s also the best we can do for predicting the future.

That logically doesn’t make sense though, because it’s assuming the same amount of “step it up” (AKA ‘progress’), which is not guaranteed. Fusion realized can far outstrip consumables, “winning the race” as it were, even if it takes longer to do so.

This is the problem of induction again. Yes, fusion could have a breakthrough and then really take off. So could other technologies. The question is how likely are these things to happen? So far it’s not looking too great for fusion being special in that way.

Well, it hasn’t been invented yet. I think we should probably all wait until it actually has, before passing judgment on it.

I’m not passing judgment for the very reason it doesn’t exist. I’m making a speculation of what the end point will be based on how things have been going. The fact that it still doesn’t exist is a point against the technology btw.

Overall, I sense a general agenda from you, based on your comments, that you wish to forgo the investment in research and development for fusion, and instead concentrate on renewals like a solar, etc.

?? If you’re reading my other comments you’d see I literally explicitly say that fusion is still worth pursuing, even if it can’t be an energy source… Furthering science is good, even if it fails to do what we might’ve been trying to do. There’s essentially always other benefits that are often unforeseen at the time.

So, to recap:

• I think we’ll crack fusion.
• I think we’ll also get better at other stuff at the same time (and maybe find new things too).
• I also think that after all that, man made fusion as a source of energy isn’t likely to end up on top.
• Lastly, (and perhaps most importantly) I think it’s still worth trying to get fusion to work because it’d be great if it did! We’ll still learn things that can be applied elsewhere even if it’s not a great energy source.

I’m not sure how you can judge that, against something that doesn’t exist yet.

Simply based on past and current trends. The advancement curve on fusion would need to really step it up and if we say that it can, then we also need to accept the same is possible for the alternatives which means fusion still lags behind.

Fusion would need to be extra special somehow, and from what’s happened so far, it seems less special than the rest if anything.

Naturally this is all speculative of course, and being wrong on this is great either way as one way or another we will continue to get better at getting energy.

They also used to say Man will never fly.

Sure… I’m not saying fusion will never happen (it already does of course) or even that it’ll never be net positive for energy.

Just that, for energy it’s looking to be worse than most other options.

So I’m not saying man will never fly, I’m saying something closer to flying cars won’t happen. It’s not that we couldn’t do it, just that the alternatives are better.

I’m specifically referring to man-made fusion as an energy source… Otherwise essentially all of our energy sources could be called “fusion” since they all trace back to it in one way or another.

That’s not the stumbling block for fusion. Getting significantly more energy out than we put in is the issue. Other technologies did this better, and those other technologies are advancing more quickly as well.

That’s not to say it’s not worth trying since nothing ventured nothing gained. There are other technological advancements that will likely come from our progressions in fusion too which will be great. I just don’t see fusion as being a good way to generate energy.

I don’t think we’ll get to the point where the energy that comes out will be higher enough than the energy put in to justify its use compared to other energy sources.

I am quite positive I’ll see reliable, sustained fusion reactions in my lifetime.

I’m also pretty positive it’ll be useless as an energy source. Still could be useful for other things though.

I love DST! I just think ever switching out of it is where the mistake lies

I’m sure many, if not most, sure. But they are essentially fancy parks and I don’t think parks have to go. Green spaces for human activity/recreation are a necessary evil aren’t they?

Man, the places I could hike without having to carry a pack! Wouldn’t need to plan for resupply or anything. Would have communication access from anywhere in the world.

You could use it as a kickass home gym where you can dial up or down gravity depending on what you’re doing.

Smuggling would be a whole lot easier if you went that route. Transporting all sorts of things really; you only need to get yourself to the new location.

Could do some very amazing magic tricks since you can disappear (and swap props or outfits or whatever).

With gravity turned down you could presumably build up some momentum and launch yourself places. Not sure how you’d stick the landing unless you can control which way is “up” as you teleport to the room.

Edit: Just realised this idea is kinda similar to an ability from HunterxHunter

There were “food safe” cleaners on the line that I have no idea what they were. Essentially everything in the dishwashing area would get scrubbed down with Comet, to the point that “cometize” was a verb for closing

Presumably they are starting wherever the trend “started”, although I’d like to see what it was doing before that to see if this is an unusual trend or not

Yeah, they should have an offer of employment I’d think? Guess it depends on the job though as I haven’t always had that, but you bet I’d be checking that first paystub so it’s weird OP went so long without noticing.

it is original release

In the pic it looks like they’re loosening the belt and not tightening

Funny, I’m the opposite! I like a bar of soap in the shower and liquid soap in a little pump for hands