How....

We truly live in the dumbest timeline

This is fine.

I am starting to wonder if those tipping points everyone was talking about 10 years ago are starting to get hit.

The short version;

1. There was probably a legit sighting of a few drones at some point. (Its a pretty regular occurrence).
2. It got amplified by a few people.
3. News media amped it up more
4. People started looking up in the sky at night and not knowing what they were looking at.
5. MANY many reports of drones are just regular air traffiic, or planets, or stars.
6. More people started looking. Some of then launching their own drones to look at the drones.
7. And it just kinda snowballed from there.

TLDR; People looking at the sky for the first time discover its full of lights from various sources which they can't id.

Note: I do find it rather amusing how many people apparently can't ID an aircraft flying overhead or know what an out-of-focus star looks like. I guess theres always new people learning new things. Just wouldn't have put those two things on my list.

Edit: A fair bit of it is the usual "Aliens" people making noise, and im sure there are plenty of others farming engagement for $$$. I don't think we are going to get a clear picture for a while. We will have to wait for the hype / hysteria to die down before we get any reasonable assesment.

This could be a real pain if anyone used copilot.

Guess they are just saying the quiet part out loud now?

They can't control the narrative, and they don't like it.

Seems to be working then! (From lemmy)

Yep. Lays it out pretty clearly.

It does feel a bit like building a statue of the animal that killed your friend.

T-2 Days till it wipes someones boot sector somehow.

Weight == $$$

Yeah....it doesn't work like that.

I used to skydive, which takes you up to ~15,000ft.

Most normal people don't get hypoxic untill your above ~12,000ft for 15-20min. Some of the smokers used to get hypoxic going through 8,000ft. Scary shit.

In breaking news; The sky is blue.

More at 4.

Its all the drain bamage.

That particular scene is from The Andalite Chronicles book. 😊

Too big to save.

The ammount of money in these companies for AI (4.5B 3.9T for Micosoft alone) is too much for even the US to bail them out.

Edit: Double checked the number -- I was off by 3 orders of magnitude because these numbers are just dumb.

Neat idea.

RSS is still how most podcasts get distributed. (Excluding Spotify)

One of the few times where being left off a map is a win.

Thank you for making me aware of Jenova 7.

I'm listening to their whole back catalog now :D

I'll add it to my list of reasons not to use google