I just had a thought that I could have spent most of this year in suspended animation and it wouldn't have made much of a difference, at least professionally. I wonder if in a future with radically enhanced lifespans, this is how humans will live. While your robots take ~5 years to build a space station, or 20 to terraform a planet, there's not really much to do other than sleep. You'd have a well-trained "house AI" to deal with minor issues as they come up, and anything major would of course require you to wake up. But sometimes you really just want to hit "skip" and get to the good stuff.

Is this the first foreign military base on US soil? Isn't this kind of a "big deal"? View quoted note →

I've been on a bit of a kick of watching dramas with "people accused of crimes they didn't commit, and the media spectacle that ensues"... Exhibit A is "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox" on Hulu... Highly recommend, whether you're familiar with this case or not:

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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox follows the eponymous American college student, who arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imp...

And last night re-watched 2014's Gone Girl... What I'm noticing as a common thread in both of these is, the late-00's and early 2010's media monoculture is still a thing. I remember there being some "salacious murder" every few months that would be on all the network news channels and dominate the national conversation. I guess that kind of stuff still happens today, but it's more of a local story, and/or confined to the particular online subcultures that connects to the people involved. This... seems like a good thing? Should the entire national news conversation be monopolized over whether Scott Peterson killed his wife?