MNByChoice
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- Comment on Sometimes even the captain needs a little "me" time. 1 week ago:
Gotta keep the power hungry replicator out of the reach of the lazy.
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 1 week ago:
Thank you. I always hear about the fungi and not the bacteria…
Great reminder about the fires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous in the section titled “Atmospheric oxygen levels”.
For example: the increasing occurrence of charcoal produced by wildfires from the Late Devonian into the Carboniferous indicates increasing oxygen levels,…
- Comment on Sometimes even the captain needs a little "me" time. 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the use of the “ready room”? Picard had fish, old things, and the “totally not a TV, TV” on his desk.
- Comment on Plastic-eating bacteria discovered in the ocean 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, this has happened before, and I understand it was far hard for the bacteria then.
There was a time when cellulose could not be broken down. Trees fell and piled up for … miles? Anyway, then bacteria figured out how to break it down. (We also got coal from the trees that were burred.) Anyway, we still build out of cellulose. Sometimes we treat the cellulose, sometimes we don’t.
Plastic may, or may not, end up the same way.
- Comment on As China's economy slows, some young people are snapping up cheap apartments to 'retire' early 2 weeks ago:
Good for Chen! She deserves better than 996.
This will be interesting impacts on China if it becomes a larger trend, though no reason to think it will become a larger trend.
- Comment on Thank you, Enya 2 weeks ago:
An unrelated bit cool about clay from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_mineral.
Given the requirement of water, clay minerals are relatively rare in the Solar System, though they occur extensively on Earth where water has interacted with other minerals and organic matter. Clay minerals have been detected at several locations on Mars,[15] including Echus Chasma, Mawrth Vallis, the Memnonia quadrangle and the Elysium quadrangle. Spectrography has confirmed their presence on celestial bodies including the dwarf planet Ceres,[16] asteroid 101955 Bennu,[17] and comet Tempel 1,[18] as well as Jupiter’s moon Europa.[19]
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
This is why nudist colonies are so vibrant. Easy as.
- Comment on Gold tops $5,000 for first time ever, adding to historic rally 1 month ago:
The USA Dollar is dropping rapidly.
morningstar.com/…/what-weaker-us-dollar-means-inv…
Through September, the dollar depreciated 13.5% against the euro, 13.9% against the Swiss franc, and 6.4% against the yen, alongside a 5.6% decline versus a basket of major emerging-markets currencies.
I don’t have a ready source, but I understand the stock market rally in the USA is only a rally as the dollar is dropping. Priced in other currencies, the USA stock market is down.
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 1 month ago:
If college is just a certificate needed to get the good jobs, then this makes a lot of sense.
If college is there for learning, then it is terrible.I bet there is a difference in the ratios between degrees on these. (i.e. Civil Engineering versus Marketing)
- Comment on Many parents cab probably relate 1 month ago:
That’s why your Dad and/or Mom couldn’t get laid.
- Comment on Trump’s POWERFUL Letter to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas 1 month ago:
That is a really great image.
- Comment on Trump’s POWERFUL Letter to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas 1 month ago:
POWERFULLY!
- Comment on Trump’s POWERFUL Letter to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas 1 month ago:
If we discount the “landing of boats”, then who gets to sell the land the documents could have been based on?
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- Comment on Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as 'Invisible Speaker' 2 months ago:
between this and the sound visualizer (like an infrared camera, it shows hot spots of where sound is coming from), directional sound things are having a moment.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 2 months ago:
A war against our biggest trading partner. One where many of their nationals, and decedents live legally within our country. One we share a large land boarder with. A country that has voluntarily held migrants that want to enter our country on their side of the boarder. A boarder known to be porous.
This can only go well.
- Comment on Mexican Senate Suspends Meeting That Would Have Authorized Entry of US Military Personnel for Naval Exercises 2 months ago:
Threatening to do something similar to Mexico is likely not helping.
Maybe threatening to annex your neighbors and biggest trading partners will negatively impact national security? Nah…
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 3 months ago:
Not to be a dick, and I clearly have not read the rest of the article’s author’s writing, but these two items go together.
Our brand-awareness shrunk into obscurity.
If you’re curious, I’m sorry to disappoint. I haven’t name-dropped, nor will I now or in the future.
A useful way to market is to have the engineers post shit online that is true. Is it a huge market driver? Beats me. I know I like my software crafted with care and try to patronize the companies that do it.
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- Comment on reaction 4 months ago:
I likely ordered it. So thank the waiter and start eating.
I can read a menu.
- Comment on World would be a better place 4 months ago:
Given the number of people that think the Sun orbits the Earth and that the Moon is never out in the day time, this would be a good idea. It doesn’t even need to be deep. Just random science facts.
As an aside, I want to buy a billboard in town and post science facts.
- Comment on coping 4 months ago:
Anything than to have to fix my life.
I don’t shower as I don’t want the females to think I am gay. I don’t read, study, or try so I am not a nerd. I work a deadend job to prove I am “self made”. I avoid the “roids”, the gym, and exercising, which saves me so much time.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 5 months ago:
I cannot read the article, but this seems like a non-issue.
Loads of old Wikipedia pages are essentially complete. Just freeze them.
And didn’t the Wikipedia foundation have years worth of funding already? And wouldn’t fewer visitors imply less need for server and bandwidth?
Current events need editors, and those will have controversy. I expect primary news sources would be better for anything less than a week old.
A Wikipedia that freezes at 2024 would still be of great value.
Clearly, I am missing the problem.
- Comment on The ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" 5 months ago:
It didn’t take much digging, but for exposure I am posting here.
A big page on Eliza at sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/About
One can try a reasonable Eliza right now. anthay.github.io/eliza.html (linked from the previous link.) - Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 months ago:
I understand the failure rates for the GPUs is huge. The duty cycles tend to be high, with power and cooling issues.
(Actually the power issues are wild and can destroy power distribution and generation equipment. “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” 21 Aug 2025 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14318)
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 months ago:
Another advantage of cookbooks. (There are good ones, but a lot are junk.)
- Comment on Taxes and nature 5 months ago:
Whoa Whoa.
The story of Noah’s Ark is not about saving animals. It is about surviving a calamity that one saw coming, AND NOT saving more of humanity. This way one and their children can become insanely wealthy, and nearly the only humans.
When one needed an elephant, where did they go? To Noah. Need a chicken? Noah! Need help due to your house washing away, killing you and your family? That’s right, Noah!
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 5 months ago:
Jesus would be rolling over in his grave, except he left that and is not there.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 5 months ago:
I fully expect OpenAI and the others are already doing this. And this is why the USA wants to keep China from developing better AI. Not for better AI, but to keep spying on corporate secrets within the USA.
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 5 months ago:
I did those as well. That and not using personal equipment.
Then at one company, we could use personal equipment. And accepting gifts was suddenly okay. And their training did NOT say I could not buy potential clients sex workers.
I never had the opportunity to clarify with HR…