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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐊🐓🦖⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is dumb as rocks

  The most charitable interpretation is “well crocodiles didn’t change in the last 100 million years but birds did so that means maybe crocs are closer since birds evolved to get farther away”

  That’s dumb because both birds and crocodiles have been changing the whole time. Just because crocs look more similar to their fossils, doesn’t mean they haven’t been evolving/drifting/etc.

  Same thing any time someone talks about “sharks haven’t changed”. It’s dumb.

  This is some dunning Kruger shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh jeez⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what too diverse means but it looks like you were right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh jeez⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my god there’s more than one person in America??? And they can have different thoughts and opinions? What the fuck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the ones at home. We’ve been friendly with some of them abroad since the country was founded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many of them after October 7th? The narrative is different now for the average person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys know that she has no choice, right? If she does literally anything else, you get president trump. Have fun with that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A golf course eight miles away from the hottest point on the entire planet.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Golf is actually a sport that should be perfectly playable without grass. Like use different grades of rocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use the water pressure to power a turbine generator, then use the electricity from that generator to run a window AC unit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys don’t iron clothes?

  I’m a millennial and I iron my clothes, how do you get the wrinkles out??? Teach me your secrets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello lovelies!!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with potato salad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pesticide Use Has Increased by Over 80% since 1990, Causing Pollinator Declines and Water Contamination⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glyphosate is an herbicide, not a pesticide.

  BT plants would have greatly reduced the need for pesticides, but we somehow decided gmos were bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this picture is 27kb⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for making me feel good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this picture is 27kb⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that instrument cluster from a jeep zj?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you take care of your parents or other elderly, how are you preparing to age gracefully?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have kids but I’d kind of like to have adult kids when I’m old. So maybe I can adopt a college age person when I’m like 50 or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2920: Survey Marker⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  datums

  Come on Randall 🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why AI is going to be a shitshow.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The censorship gets to me, too.

  Try asking bing image creator to draw Jesus. Not a problem. Buddha, Ganesha, David and Goliath, Zeus, no problem. It will give you great depictions.

  Now try asking it to draw the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him. No joy.

  Censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The United States of America, but for Trans People⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wyoming and Montana have absolutely amazing mountains. I say that as someone who lives in the third best mountains state. They have mountains as good as ours but without as many people in them.

  Alaska is simply amazing, one of the best places I’ve ever been in the summer. I can’t wait to go again.

  Otherwise nah fuck that shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s not that it means nothing to me, but my job in the US pays about $30k more than it would in Germany (I can’t speak to other countries). Lots of Germans come to the US to work in my field for that reason (well they used to before all the layoffs). Also my health insurance is free.

  That said, I absolutely still want public healthcare. Not just for the people in my country who desperately need it, but for myself too. Because while my healthcare is “free”, it isn’t really; my salary could be higher otherwise. And I lose coverage if I stop working (actually not really we have programs for that, but still kind of).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer confidence in current economic conditions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflation is easing up, people are getting raises, and gen Y’s boomer parents are starting to die leaving behind lots of money and houses. That light blue line is coming up and it will be fine for everyone except for those for whom it was never going to be fine anyway (which is a ton of fucking people, holy shit we need to help the poor).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people downvoting this because you made a fair comparison between something they like (flipper) and something they don’t (guns)? Like are you being downvoted out of cognitive dissonance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit I thought the 6.6 in my 2500 was huge, but imagine how much the block would weigh on an 8.3L. I mean at some point your front suspension gets absolutely crazy. Would be smart if they could make it a straight six though instead of a V8, way better balance characteristics and that’s why many of the big diesels have that layout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it had worse margins than other cars they could be selling. Heard an interview with their CEO about this exact thing. Other vehicles make them more money so they are focusing there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. economy added 353,000 jobs in January, much better than expected⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep hearing about adding jobs but they’re never tech jobs. Please figure out how to add tech jobs, it’s a bit scary out here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was making the point that “your car is spying on you” probably isn’t true for a huge section of people, since there are lots of 10-15 year old cars on the road.

  Also, older cars are much more repairable than people consider. We just have a huge economic infrastructure set up around having the “next best thing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it very hard to believe that almost any car made before 2012 or so is tracking me.

  My aftermarket radio may be tracking me though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probability.... Need I say more?!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like this comic because the frequentist statistician is operating with an effective n=1. You’d ask the detector 1000 more times, and use those results to get your answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Foresees AI Competing with Human Intelligence in Five Years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, can we have one that’s 100 times smarter and just runs the government benevolently? I’m really sick of civic responsibility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lucid's new all-electric Gravity SUV is a sustainability champion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to go electric but most of the electric vehicles I’ve seen are a) luxury and b) small. Like I want something large that can pull a trailer and haul my kayaks/bikes/skis/tools/etc.

  So an actual SUV (not a small suv like Tesla X) sounds great, but all this luxury shit is a big turnoff for me. It’s going to get beat to hell, and I don’t want to worry about fixing all this electronic shit like pop out door handles. I don’t even want power windows or AC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What future AI applications are you most excited about?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No I want it to run locally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What future AI applications are you most excited about?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want a personal assistant that actually works. Like Siri or Alexa, but it can actually do secretarial tasks.

  “Find and schedule a roofing company to come fix the roof”

  “See if you can get me dinner reservations for a nice Italian restaurant tomorrow night at 630”

  “Write an email to bob apologizing for running over his dog”

  “Find an image on the internet of a person being mauled by a bear, edit the picture so that it’s James being mauled, and send picture to him”

  “Find a new show for me to watch and torrent the first episode, re-dub it in Japanese with Spanish subtitles”