It's not so hard as you make it seem.
If you have experience and are not from India or a third world country, raise your price to at least $50/h, and then just submit human-sounding proposals.
Remember that most of the proposals clients get are bot-submitted ones, by people who don't have the least experience or capability to deliver what they're promising, and it shows. The competition is very weak, is what I'm getting at.
You have to pay to submit proposals, that's true - but a single job you score there will make it worthwhile. It's an investment like any other, and it ends up being much cheaper than adwords or alternatives for finding work.
I believe that my bathroom and everything in it is full of germs; I also believe that my body has been perfectly able to deal with those germs for the last 40 years, as I don't really get sick besides the yearly-or-so cold or flu.
Taking my toothbrush out of the bathroom for the fist time at this point in my life because of "the germs" would be paranoid behaviour, in my opinion. It's not that there aren't germs, it's that they've always been there and I'm still here and healthy.
Fediverse is the name of a decentralized protocol in which different servers federate with one another, a bit like email. Mastodon is decentralized Twitter, Lemmy is decentralized Reddit, and there are a lot of others.
It's basically the same risk as learning about the roman empire from random youtubers. When I'm washing dishes and just looking for some edutainment, I'm not too worried about being misled on some random fact about an ancient civilization.
Bad/unoptimized VR makes people feel nauseous. I've never heard of anyone getting nauseous from a polished and performant VR experience like Moss or Beat Saber.
I've been thinking of the same thing, and I think the ideal thing would be to use the psychedelics as a sacrament in the context of a weekend-long initiation ritual. Participants would travel into a remote forested location and go through activities and rituals that would give meaning to the psychedelic experience, as well as rituals and activities with the objective of integrating the psychedelic experience into their day-to-day lives.
I have written out a bit of the experience, I can share it with you if you'd like. We're still in the planning phase.
An AI could generate relevant questions, follow-up questions during the oral, and evaluate the student at the end. The teacher could then review the whole conversarion at a glance and check/adjust the AI evaluation, which shouldn't take more time than grading an exam and be equally scalable.
I've actually tested this with a VR app (with support for mobile also), and it actually works quite well.
> Most UFO sightings are completely banal things that are not recognized at the time, like camera artifacts and (unironically) atmospheric phenomena.
Completely agree, but in this case it was not a balloon. When asked specifically if these objects were balloons, a US general said no and that "we are calling them objects for a reason" (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-milita...). K9YO-15, the supposed missing balloon, eventually turned up and pinged again in late February and then March, weeks after the shooting down of those objects, as seen here: https://aprs.fi/info/a/K9YO-15
The weird thing with the three other objects besides the Chinese spy balloon we all saw pictures of, is that not a single image of the other objects was released. They were also shot down in known locations, but no debris at all were supposedly found. A few days after the first time ever that F22's shot down stuff over the continental US, the whole thing was buried, never mentioned again, and everyone was left thinking that they were all Chinese spy balloons, like the first one that was very publicly shot down.
Only one of the four objects shot down earlier this year was a Chinese surveillance balloon, and that was also the only one we got pictures of. The other three were described as "objects". One of them was reported to have been "cigar-shaped", and other to have messed with one of the jet's electronics.
Regarding the object shot down over Canada:
> Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced Saturday's shootdown over the northern Yukon territory, saying Canadian forces would recover and analyze the wreckage. (...) Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand declined to speculate about the origin of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape. (...) "The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin," it said in a statement.
Officially, they gave up the search after a few days.
And as for the object shot down over Alaska:
> But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said. (...) Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that. (...) Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet. (...) It’s unclear what the object looks like, or where it came from. On Friday, Ryder said it was traveling north east across Alaska. He declined to provide a physical characterization, only saying that it was “about the size of a small car” and “not similar in size or shape” to the Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. (...) recovery teams are now collecting the debris that is sitting on top of ice in US territorial waters.
This one was also, officially, not recovered, for some reason.
If these are not bona fide UFO's, I don't know what to call them. What I know is that no government official called them "balloons", nor were they associated with China, nor did we get to see a single photo of them.
The extrasolar origin hypothesis is based on the reentry velocity, which is known and would have completely vaporized any other known type of meteor. That's what made this one special, the fact that an object with such velocity could survive reentry and impact the surface, and that's why the expedition to find remains (the spherules) was launched.
Citation needed.