Looks like they hovered for 1000 seconds. It was previously stress limited such that the joints would break after just a few seconds. I think they might still be tethered for a power source, I haven’t seen any of these micro flapping bots include a battery yet, and they didn’t mention that they did.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adp4256

Turnout was one of the highest at 64%. (2020 was the highest recently at 66%) It’s hard to get everyone to do anything.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-15/how-many-people-didnt-vote-in-the-2024-election

Immortality can be scary. Eternity is an unfathomably long time. SCP-7179

Minecraft really has the most creative potential of any game I can think of, especially when you include mods.

The original claims of energy efficiency came from mixing up the energy usage of their much smaller model with their big model I think.

Tesla I’m sure will do fine. I’m not sure about the others who don’t have an in at the white house.

For example, I hope you wouldn’t consider planning how to exterminate Jews allowable free speech. There will always be limits on free speech, the question is where your limits are.

You’ll call some things free speech and others not. No instance is going to allow everything. You’d need to create your own instance so it aligns with your views. Then the other instances will decide whether they want your content or whether to defederate.

Taxation isn’t because there’s a middle man between your labor and the government?

How about taxes going to a military? Or is it just being forced to directly do morally abhorrent things?