BlameThePeacock

As with Rome, the limitation is often communication and transportation.

You'd have a hard time even keeping Mars part of unified empire with Earth given our current technology level. We simply can't move things back and forth easily enough until we figure out fusion reactors (or some other power source) to a much higher level than we currently have.

Any sort of empire spanning more than a single solar system would require faster than light travel and communications.

Agreed, this isn't complicated. We either want it to exist and we pay for it, or it goes away.

It's not about that one acquaintance, it's about the time allocation for friends. If someone isn't going to be able to handle my kids, I'm not going to be able to spend enough time with them to make spending time with them valuable to both of us.

I don't get someone to cover my kids every week, it's going to only happen maybe once a month, so I'm going to use that valuable time to invest in the people I'm maintaining closer friendships with.

Having 20 friends you see rarely doesn't make you happier than having 4 friends you see regularly. If you're single, you can have 20 friends that you see regularly, but that's almost impossible as a parent with multiple kids.

Yes, normally noise is cumulative

It's pretty easy to think about this in the context of a stadium of people. One person cherring, 10 people cheering, 1000 people cheering. They produce a louder result.

Get some resistance bands, they're fairly cheap and you can do about a thousand different exercises with them.

Because friendships as parents are essentially just that, you have limited time to out into friends so you have to be selective.

Still the prevailing mindset in some less developed countries

They didn't even name them until they were older because they lost so many early.

I don't even think they could be legally prosecuted in Canada at that age, let alone placed in a detention facility.

Even if they murdered someone they may just get handed to a mental healthcare situation rather than juvenile detention.

I could fairly easily ask a human artist to draw me something that would infringe on a copyright for a character they had never even seen before. It would technically be against the law, but given that no other parties know about it, it's unlikely to ever get caught. The legal problems arise if I use that art in a visible fashion such that the copyright holder would find out, and then it would be me getting sued, not the artist.

If you don't want to meet her with the kids, there's little point in meeting her at all. You aren't going to be hanging out regularly because she will have kids that need to be tended, so why push.

As a parent, we only hang out with other parents at this point, and generally only those that we have developed a relationship with via kids activities (school, sports, etc) because it's much easier to maintain that relationship when you see them 2-3 times a week for here, or can schedule a lunch/dinner before or after the mutual here that you know you will both be attending.

A realistic take on the situation.

I fully agree, despite how much people hate AI, training itself isn't infringement based on how copyright laws are written.

I think we need to treat it as the copier situation, the person who is distributing the copyright infringing material is at fault, not the tool used to create it.