It's about which forces act on them. Other than neutrons, every particle here will interact with charged particles (e.g. electrons or protons), which makes it an EM interaction. In the world of particles, EM is long range. Whereas the force that acts on neutrons is very, very short range. There's no actual touch the way we think of it, outside exotic conditions like in supernovae. Think of the size of a nucleus vs an atom. Those are the two forces keeping them together.

The way concrete stops neutrons is similar to a pinball machine. It doesn't need to be a solid material, it just needs to be dense. It just so happens that solid materials tend to be denser. But for example, older nuclear reactor designs use water to slow the neutrons.

Btw this is a very clever use of water and by no means dinosaur tech. We just have more clever materials now, e.g. molten salt.

That's pretty funny, considering it's one of the few times I'm not joking when mentioning these things.

I'd recommend looking up the driving factors behind a relationship that adopts bdsm. It's not all about wearing spiky latex gear and whipping a tied person. That's like thinking lgbt+ must mean a person is like a lead singer in Village People.

And going by your previous relationship, it looks to me that you appreciate being mistreated to a certain degree. Relationship role-playing is a common thing to do, we weren't all born to be a cliche in a romantic movie.

And probably because if they do use it and someone else does the same to their work they won't be able to harass them with a team of lawyers.

I'm just glad this case wasn't handed to the Ministry of Silly Frauds.

It's about the same reason why Vulcans got attached to us. They're a curious species. They didn't necessarily expect gain other than to satisfy their curiosity. They'd probably have respected lab rats about as much as they respected humans.

But I generally disagree with the OP above you. As far as observations go, the universe seems like a rather lonely place. I don't think a lot of science fiction is far off. Either from a civilisation looking to make friends or slaves. Both are sensible plots. The uselessness of humanity portrayed in that post seems incorrect and highly pessimistic. Evidence of that is easy enough to find just by looking at the rest of our solar system. We may be far from perfect but for something like us and all other life on earth to be born out of such chaos seems to beat the odds and so far we have no evidence of otherwise.

With that said, I don't think humans will ever reach a state of perfection. I don't think our universe allows that. Maybe outside our universe.

Africa has been a monstrous mess since the colonialism times. Europeans committed many atrocities there and a lot of them carried on and are what we see today. Humanity has a lot of baggage and that's mostly where today's problems come from. It's not that the world is doing a 180. More like a 30 degree turn or 45 tops.

But will there be any of them left after they're done?

This brings us back to the regulatory issues. If we over regulate western AI, AI from countries like China will gain an edge. And China gives 0 fucks about our laws.

That's not to say I'm against regulation. I think letting them loose could lead to disaster. Coming up with a solution for this is something I think our governments are incapable of and I'm glad it's not my job.

That's around the time the French invented baguettes. They just had other priorities.

I gave up today and downloaded another. Regularly taking me back to the top of the page also did me in.

I tried something similar for SQL and kept getting Star Wars memes.

For line in lines: if char[0] == SPACE { del char[0]} else if char[0] == TAB {char[0] = SPACE*3}

save('overwrite')