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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s something called an environmental Kuznets curve that suggests that a population will sacrifice environmental health to industrial degradation in favor of per capita income up to a point, after which they are affluent enough to care, and after this environmental health improves. China seems to be at the inflection point. Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I find interesting about this article is that it critiques heavily about the first 200 pages, says almost nothing about the next 600, and then says the conclusion is unsatisfactory because it didn’t quote the book the author wrote in 1991. It’s transparently personal.

  Academics write books. Get over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s a summary work that draws on decades of research. Both of these authors are extremely well-published in their respective fields. I’m like a third of the way through Dawn of Everything and it’s just as academic as “Debt” was, and neither are mass-market pulp. But work like this always draws hit pieces because it’s a way for critics to get their name out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out “The Dawn of Everything” by Wengrow and Graeber

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is wrong with it? I’ve been using it for years and it does what it’s supposed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough data for language scrape

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chomsky’s stroke came at a really critical time and we could use a successor to point out how idiotic the whole movement is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea that LLMs are anywhere close to having the general intelligence needed to comprehend this kind of statement is ludicrous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been over there in a while but I noticed the AIs are starting to show up here. How was it over there? Rough percentage of how many?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Aaron Swartz is dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called digital enclosure. Enclosure was a movement that began in Britain in the 1700s (but really it’s always been going on…) to close off the commons that pastoralists had been using to publicly graze their sheep. It happens to all new media because it’s the only way capitalists can imagine their operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saturn is a mixture of gases. It has a solid rocky/hydrogen core surrounded by a layer of liquid hydrogen/helium. You could argue that this intermediate liquid layer might have solid particulates, and this would agree with the definition, but overall Saturn is too complicated to be classified this way. A better extreme example would be something like Earth’s oceans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah see here you go. Response to “meat is bad” is “meat is fucking awesome.”

  Evidence for meat is bad: I mean just drive by a factory farm. Look at any of the standard practices of the industry. Objectively horrific by any standard.

  Evidence for meat is awesome: bro check out this sick bacon weave. Guy Fieri. Etc. all of it divorced completely from the process, and acknowledging meat only as an industrial product that comes packaged as a block or cylinder.

  It’s an absurd argument. Nobody is arguing that meat isn’t delicious. We’re saying that everything about its production is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how people try to make this some kind of cultural issue about picking restaurants or providing options. Anybody who spends 5 minutes looking into the industry will realize it goes against basic human decency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rollin' coal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally children who want big loud vroom vroom trucks with lots of chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨checkmate, big geology!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally what happens when a volcano erupts. Magma solidifes at the top and creates a plug, which builds pressure until it explodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not happening, dude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they’re signing up for.