astropenguin5

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Took em long enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for finding the actual statistics. My initial feeling was that there are too many ways to interpret what the article was saying, and playing silly buggers with the statistics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, though I think currently only emissions cutting should be implemented, mostly because damage reversing tech like DAC take green energy that could otherwise be used to more effectively cut emissions elsewhere. Once we start getting excess green energy to do such things, then it should be implemented. It should still be researched and developed now tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do you find that menu? I can’t find it on my end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it still happens regardless, it just makes it easier and more likely to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A rare polar bear showed up on the shores of Iceland. Police shot it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit more context from reading the article

  • the bear was actively going through the trash of a woman’s summer house while she was there which is why it was reported

  • the Iceland environmental agency actively decided to not try and relocate it, likely due to how expensive it would be to take back to Greenland

  • the bear is also being studied for potential diseases/parasites, how healthy it was, body fat, etc. which is nice I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, there’s already plenty. I do my best to scroll as fast as possible and not interact, it will be unfortunate if this makes it worse tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pilot killed after Western-donated F-16 fighter jet crash in Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing some quick searching, it seems that we currently do not know how the plane crashed. It was in the air on a mission to shoot down cruise missiles, and after doing that on the way to another target they lost connection. It will likely be a while before we know, both because it will take time to investigate but also depending on what the cause was they may not want to release it publicly for a while.

  Slightly more informative article I found: www.nytimes.com/…/ukraine-f16-pilot-crash.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a other premium user, trust me that is not the main reason I use it, it’s entirely to get rid of ads on mobile. I use the feature occasionally on mobile too but on desktop I use sponsorblock and it’s wayyy better both from an accuracy and user interface standpoint.

  Sidenote: I also am on a plan that my parents pay for, though I used to pay for it myself after getting it for free for 6 months and I couldn’t go back to the ads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree, but that slope will be a long and hard one. And the hype cycle may have many more peaks and troughs of disillusionment, from new breakthroughs, but the researchers will still make steady progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They functionally do, at almost all points in time there are enough capsules docked to the station for all astronauts to be able to return to Earth. The starliner capsule is currently able to return if needed, they are having it stay up there a bit longer to check things out now and make sure that it’s fully safe and usable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putin hints Russia to start making previously banned missiles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out the missile in question is an intermediate range nuclear capable missile. So, on one have it’s possible we will see tactical nukes used in Ukraine, but on the other hand it will likely take a few years to get production back up and running after so long of not being in production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can pretty well? The search along route feature works pretty well, sure there are a few things a little out of the way but not much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, and petroleum really is a wonder material, it has so many amazing uses besides burning it but instead we decide to do the absolute worst thing with almost all of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While 55 gal drums are the standard physical barrel, barrels as used for oil are their own unit, and oil is rarely in actual physical barrels anymore anyways. It’s weird, but it’s how the oil industry measures it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you could feasibly bike, it would probably still be environmentally better to use the bike, mostly because it is more energy efficient at moving a single human places because it doesn’t have to move a whole car frame, and in most places a fair amount of power is still from fossil fuels, so less would be needed. Also the other benefits of biking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A little less yeah, considering that there has been an increase in renewables for grid power, also it’s much more efficient burn oil/natgas/etc. in a big powerplant than in an ICE car, so less is needed overall.

  So yes. It does help. But electric trains are still better lol And we need more renewable grid power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… Electric trains? Perhaps?

  (And the good ones with overhead lines not the shitty battery ones)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which slicer do you use⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only used cura (no particular reason, just what was shown to me and I now know how to use it

  However, I’ve heard good things about both prusa and klipper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m imagining spider-ships traversing the galaxy making strings of filament behind them, connecting the galaxy in a vast web of communication lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I don’t think this is anything particularly new. It’s pretty logical of you think about it for a few minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  web.archive.org/…/onlyfans-bryce-adams-top-earner…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1%based for calling Google malware 99% bullshit for being probably at least equally bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The employees secretly using AI at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For large-scale industrial production, yes. It is likely the original commenter is doing custom or fairly small-scale welding, which needs either a much more expensive welding robot, or lots of extra work reconfiguring a still very expensive one. For such applications it is both cheaper and faster to do by hand and likely will be for a long time, though how small scale the practical limit for having a robot will likely decrease over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Gaza's crowded Khan Younis, 90 people live in one house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about to get a lot worse with Israel trying to compress all of Gaza into half the land area and move over a million people south

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently have been playing a fair amout Stormworks: Build and Rescue and the new Space dlc, unfortunately there are a fair amount of bugs but it’s still quite fun.

  The other game I am playing a lot of is Deep Rock Galactic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In-video sponsorships are almost certainly never going to be gone for every channel, and definitely not as a part of premium since those sponsorships are done voluntarily by creators. As another said, the sponsorblock extension works great, find creators that dont do sponsors, or just skip manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lasers Could Soon Power U.S. Military Bases—And Not Even Jamming Could Stop It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow, I’m actually more comfortable with the military having small nuclear reactors

  Good, cuz they’ve had them for years on submarines and maybe some boats too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair it is only for a single satellite not being properly de-orbited, not for a whole constellation being a problem.