I used to be a stranger

I'm a layman fan of all sorts of applied sciences nearly by necessity, because I'm studying to become an engineer. Space construction, rocketry and aeronautical design are all practical outputs of metallurgy, physics, fluid dynamics, astrodynamics and meteorology. Am I the only one looking forward to Planetology becoming a word?

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This year's gift loot: Given: To Brother: $50 Steam Gift Card The Art of Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki (2001, hardcover) To Girlfriend Bath & Bodyworks Shower Gel (qty. 3) Hand-painted wooden jewlery/letter box (limited edition) Received: From Sister: Henckels' Fine Edge Statement kitchen knife set Duct Tape (qty. 1) Lego City - Volcano Starter Set 60120 The Science Book by National Geographic; Marshall Brian (2008, softcover) From Parents: Lego Creator - Construction Vehicles 31041 Mattel Hot Wheels - Tesla S Socks (qty. 2 pair, color. green stripe) Blue Piston bluetooth portable speaker Order Receipt for Generic Item in Gift Exchange (qty. 1) From Girlfriend: The Sacred Acre by Mark Tabb (2011, hardcover) The Complete Calvin & Hobbes (volumes 1, 2, 3, 4; 2012, softcover, box) Kisses (qty. several)

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Why aren't you giving me rubs?

Telekenesis is phenomenally useful from a practical standpoint. The extent to which it's useful probably is countered by how much it's desired to be used by unicorns for actual work. Think about Rarity. She manipulates fabric and tools all the time. Speaking from an engineering standpoint, her most useful occupation would probably be something like a warehouse worker or post sorter, where manipulation and organization of materials was the only task. Rarity and everyone who knew her would find it a travesty of a waste to have her working labor when she could be doing something creative. Thus unicorns doing magical manual labor or hiring themselves out for such may not be common. Maybe there are unicorns who find it fine and dandy to just move things around with telekinesis and do it for pay, but maybe it isn't worth the expense to Applejack.

What in the world is going on with you guys?

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There's no obvious form of rigor one can follow as we can with real world physics. When one tries to apply consistency or ontological inertia, one must remember that for Sonic Rainbooms sound travels faster than light, and that magic disobeys Newton's Third Law of Motion. The MST3K mantra applies for whenever we think about how well animals get along without ponies, or if anyone in Equestria poops.

This is a vector of a background element in Season 1 Episode 7. People interpreted Lyra trying to be a humanoid with her sitting posture. Five years of fans being dim and splendorous about the things they enjoyed conflated that interpretation into an entire characterization. People began to assume something must've been going on between Discord and Fluttershy ever since their first encounter with each other (S2E2) lead Discord to realize she was genuinely so kind that she was immune to his temptations to vitrify her flaw. (Turn her gray.) Which is to say by some standards that Discord cheated even according to his own rules, in order to warp her mind. That unusual thing suggested to shipping-inclined people that perhaps Discord regarded Fluttershy differently from the rest. But it all started to mount up even more seriously when Keep Calm and Flutter On (S3E10) then made it clear that Fluttershy was patient and forgiving enough to make a real friend out of Discord even if no one else was (initially). Shipping inclined people took this and ran with it all the way to third base.

Applejack would be common sense, a continuous background thing that often gets ignored by the other emotions.

Is it in any way related to YASNAC or FANUC?

They told me mechanical engineering was exceptionally difficult. BUT I DIDN'T LISTEN

Frat

My leg!

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Given 10 years I'll probably have several AIs. One drives me to work (it's intelligent about paying attention to the road and obeying traffic laws) One helps the car drive (it's intelligent at talking to Google Maps and listening for GPS pings) One manages power usage in the house (it's good at talking to the local substation, sweet-talking the washer and dryer so they only go on at non-peak hours, saving me money, and turning on my computer when I'm home from work) One helps me find music on my phone, either through my player app, Youtube or Spotify One is really intelligent at recognizing chairs and how not to drive into them while vacuuming One is really intelligent at logistics management in the kitchen: it cross-checks my meal plan with the current fridge inventory and updates my phone with a list of groceries every couple of days One is really good at not being annoying: it filters all the others and blocks advertisements. Unfortunately, way to many people today have this monolithic concept of intelligence, as if the IQ metric actually can fully encapsulate how we think. There are probably hundreds of different ways one could try and quantify intelligence. Some people are more intelligent at spatial navigation and become taxi drivers. Others are better at hand-eye coordination and become artists or basketball players. Some have high mathematical intelligence and become physicists, and other have high dimensional intelligence and become carpenters. Whales have intrinsically high intelligence when it comes to pressure and buoyancy in order to survive. Birds have handily better perception and orientation awareness that isn't as necessary for humans. (Thus only humans who are orientation-intelligent become pilots.) Robots are built so that they're more intelligent than us usually in one very specific way, like drawing circles or balancing a stick, but we don't make them intelligent in any other ways because it's expensive and they don't need it. If we make machines that can combine a number of these sorts of characteristics, we can say that's an artificial intelligence superior to us in that particular way. I'm much better at understanding objects than a CNC machine, but a CNC machine is entirely superior to 1000 machinist geniuses and artisans when it comes to precise cutting movement. When our intelligences are combined, when we work as a team, the powers of the programmer and machine then have synergy. It will likely be the case with lots of AIs coming up. It's already happening with AIs playing games like Chess and Go: the best teams of those in the world are masters playing alongside computers.

My brain mashed together Top Gun, the Death Star space battle in Star Wars: A New Hope and the Coconut Kakamora from Moana. Porkins made a dive attacking their ship and coconuts got sucked into his engine, making his plane explode.

Well humanity would include you. Unless you're going to pick favorites, in which case it's not misanthropy, you just want to put cages around people you don't like.

I presume your intent is to start with caging yourself.

Element of SURPRISE STAB FUN

I can't actually believe that I relaxed before a Final Exam by doing ladder logic.

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TK421 why aren't you at your post?