I feel like a major limitation to a Stargate empire would be Stargate throughout.
A large enough military would need to be supplied at each Stargate to secure access. At a certain point, it is going to be difficult for the home world to supply all garrisons, even if some garrisons some self-sufficiency. Worse, if a garrison is self sufficient, how do you maintain loyalty to the home world.
Closed standards win all the time; messaging and social feeds being two major examples.
Open standards usually win only when complying with closed standards is more costly than using less developed open standards in the short run and developing the open standards over time.
So which sickfuck CEO is trying to figure out how to make an AI feel pain?
An idea is worth its weight in gold.
How much does an idea weigh?
I fell into alt right
That might have contributed to your friends ghosting you, depending on the friend group. You may have been legitimately grieving due to various reasons, but it might not have been perceived that way by your friend group.
I don't know the full details of your interactions, but I could easily see that being a red flag for some of your friends.
I got out of that shit.
Good, because a lot of the alt right influencers prey on people like you were in your predicament. I'm sorry you went down that rabbit hole.
Americans would likely use the term "small town" over "village" in most of the country.
Also the physical layout of a small town would likely be different and much more car dependent.
Based on stated consumption levels, you are probably not an alcoholic. However, your thought process indicates that you may be at risk.
Polygraphs, at best, potentially measure nervousness. The assumption is that lying makes people more nervous than telling the truth.
As others have said, the science behind this is bullshit.
I've put in as much effort to my profile as I wanted to. Sounds like a lot of others did the same.
Wouldn't that mean everyone who wants to host their own server will have to be approved by larger instances to be able to use their instance (or else their feed would be empty) that kinda sounds dystopian ngl
Over time, yes. We're already seeing blacklists form for various reasons.
Taking the email route can be dangerous many people who want to selfhost mail end up in the spam and the process itself is a hassle in the first place.
Except there isn't a better option. A fully anonymous system can't fight spam if there isn't friction in creating new accounts.
Flash and Silverlight follow what I said. They were ubiquitous until the costs, being a bloated platform that couldn't be ported to smartphones, caused the industry to shift to an open model.
And messaging is a very old use of the Internet. IRC was created in 1988; Discord shouldn't be a thing based on what you've said.