zazo
@zazo@lemmy.world
- Comment on We met at a bar 1 month ago:
I’ll have uhh… reducing women to dick sucking machines? How original… With a sprinkle of men only think with their penis? Daring today, aren’t we?
- Comment on Plagiarizing Trump, Copycat Kamala Promises No Tax On Tips 2 months ago:
So you’re saying Kamala is running off Agenda 47 - the same manifesto that promises to ban critical race theory from schools? But I agree Agenda 47 is fucked up enough that more effort should be spent in outlining why entrenching systematic racism more and more is not only morally abhorrent but also an awful long term strategy.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
So people can just downvote it instead right? That’s literal direct democracy at play - if there’s more people that like the bot they’ll upvote it and it will have a positive score - saying “just bury your head in the sand if you don’t agree with this message” is the reason we’re in this political mess in the first place…
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Which is why the bot is not useful - it literally tries to standardize political stances when that’s actually impossible.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Same reason I don’t trust it - imagine rating fking BBC (the literal pro-state violence, austerity supporting, anti-immigration governmental mouth piece as “left-center”)
It just distorts people’s perception of what political biases are and makes them complacent by relying on an automated bot to do the important work of using your own judgment for what constitutes as moral or justified.
By letting it platform itself on lemmy, it’s basically inserting itself as the de facto expert on the topic - so for example, people overseas might see BBC rated as left-center and highly factual and start believing that wanting to “secure your borders” is a thing that UK leftist want. Well excuse me if I don’t want a privately owned (even if open source) US company deciding what political views others should have.
- Comment on Inspirational quotes. 3 months ago:
Being grateful is pretty neat but make sure to reciprocate! - “Suck her clit every morning to thank her for choosing you” 🥰
- Comment on A boomer gets just $1,056 a month in Social Security and works as a bus driver: 'I don't see myself being able to retire, but I'm grateful and healthy' 3 months ago:
sad af - she mentions “people not paying their bills” as a reason for wealth inequality but ofc businessinsider wouldn’t point a finger at the ultra-wealthy for hoarding so much money that a 68 year old can barely pay rent even with social security - it’s just unfortunate to see people accepting their poverty as “god’s plan” instead of seeing that sacrificing some of the wealth of the 0.1%-1% can have a monumental impact on those suffering the most.
- Comment on Seawater, caffeine, cans: MIT has the recipe for on-demand hydrogen. 3 months ago:
Here’s some math on that “revolutionary” idea to put things into perspective, as it turns out, it’s pretty underwhelming:
- If we used ALL the aluminum produced globally in a year (about 65 million tons), we’d get around 7.30 million tons of hydrogen.
- While that might sound like a lot, it really isn’t… That hydrogen would contain about 8.30 x 10^14 BTUs of energy.
- Meanwhile, our annual global methane production is sitting pretty at 1.14 x 10^17 BTU.
- Doing the math, and our “amazing” aluminum-to-hydrogen process gives us a whopping 0.73% of the energy we get from methane…
And remember, this is assuming we use EVERY SINGLE BIT of aluminum we produce globally!
Obv hydrogen is “cleaner” than gas, but the point is the scale - this method is a drop in the ocean compared to current energy usage.
TL;DR: Using ALL the world’s annual aluminum production to make hydrogen would only give us 0.73% of the energy we get from natural gas…
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For the math nerds, here’s more detail on the chemistry and energy calc:
- The reaction: 2 Al + 6 H2O → 2 Al(OH)3 + 3 H2
- Global aluminum production: ~65 million metric tons/year
- Molar mass of Al = 26.98 g/mol
- Moles of Al = 65,000,000,000 kg / 0.02698 kg/mol = 2.41 x 10^12 moles
- H2 produced = (2.41 x 10^12 moles Al * 3) / 2 = 3.62 x 10^12 moles H2
- Mass of H2 = 3.62 x 10^12 moles * 2.016 g/mol = 7.30 x 10^12 g = 7.30 million metric tons
BTU Calculation:
- Energy content of H2 = 113,738 BTU/kg
- Total energy from H2 = 7.30 x 10^9 kg * 113,738 BTU/kg = 8.30 x 10^14 BTU
Methane Comparison:
- Annual natural gas production ≈ 4,000 billion cubic meters
- Assuming 80% methane content: 3,200 billion cubic meters of methane
- Energy content of methane ≈ 35,663 BTU/m^3
- Total energy from methane = 3,200 x 10^9 m^3 * 35,663 BTU/m^3 = 1.14 x 10^17 BTU
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
it’s still a Li-ion (like most current rechargeables) but the electrolyte (the medium that transfers the ions from the anode to the cathode (the + and -) inside the battery is made of a solid material instead of the current gen liquid ones. The benefits are less weight/size (as liquids take IP more space than solids) and a more stable composition - the liquid electrolyte can’t leak - the way batteries get gunky and corroded if left for a while
- Comment on Not a single video wants to be played. · Issue #11255 · TeamNewPipe/NewPipe 4 months ago:
What I don’t get is why spend the effort dealing with YTs shit just to increase their userbase when we should be focusing on shifting people away from YT and into decentralized solutions like PeerTube anyways?
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
That’s easy. People who wish others to die. They die first. If they are willing to accept sacrificing others, they die first.
I didn’t agree to die. Or to be killed. Or murdered. Yet I have to be executed all the same, because they don’t care if you die or not.
First to die.
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 4 months ago:
Isn’t this just a DIY brushless dynamo? Am I missing something? Still cool tho
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 6 months ago:
If you don’t think building chairs or sculptures requires solving “intellectual” challenges you’ve never tried building a completely wooden multi-axial interlocking joint furniture…
- Comment on UK judge cast doubt on the existence of climate crisis 8 months ago:
I guess we’ll have to start calling it the environmental calamity? or how about we’re-all-going-to-boil-to-death-because-of-dumb-fucks-that-are-too-stupid-to-be-allowed-anywhere-near-positions-of-power or is that a tad too long?
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
My dude, my grandfather got fired after the collapse of the soviet economy because “artist” wasn’t a productive enough job to be kept around, but he still made art for 20 years after without getting paid because his purpose in life was to create art, not to sell it.
And sure the theft argument would be valid, but that’s a strawman, because Adobe have already trained their own image gen model on fully licensed images and real life artists are already paying money to use it, so they must see the value in it.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
But like, it will happen anyways. You can’t stop Musk from shoving Grok down everyone’s throats and firing 80% of his work force to replace them with AI drones.
If we saw the potential in these tools, and decided as a society to just let the machines do all the stuff we don’t want to do, and we all got to do whatever meaningful beautiful things our hearts wanted, then sure.
Yes, literally this, my argument is literally we use all our efforts to fight for this, as making something beautiful out of a shit situation is literally all life has and I feel always will be.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
Any artist who stops being an artist because someone else can put words into a computer and get a big tiddy goth gf pic out, wasn’t really that interested in making art in the first place.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
That’s a good attitude to have and I’m not advocating for putting down our arms and waiting for big tech to steamroll us all.
But as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, the people making the AI models are fully aware they are contributing to a technology that will take away their own jobs, because they think that it will create other, even more interesting jobs in the process. (see trad artists swearing off photography in it’s early days because it was “mechanical and soulless”, only to realize it’s creative potential years later)
My advice would be to continue being aware of the negative history of things, but don’t let it blind you to the positive aspects either.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
See, that’s the crux of the argument I feel. You can’t have one without the other, you can’t have voice generation for the mute without that technology also displacing voice actors in the process.
That’s why I think the Luddite approach doesn’t work, we can’t forcefully break the machines that are capable of so much good because they’re also capable of so much bad.
Instead we should focus on helping those that are most negatively impacted by their existence, while supporting everyone that is already being positively affected by them. (like the UBI mentioned in my other comment)
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
It’s fine to get paid for your skills, but from experience I can say that developing skills just to get paid is also rather soulless.
Since, sure, I can bet there’re furry artists that love drawing sexy tigers to bits, but I can guarantee there’s a not-so-small percentage that would much rather draw something else, but the yiffing money is too good to pass up on.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
Do you think the software engineers who are developing the AI models (which have been trained on freely given away code) are just stupid and are willingly creating a machine that will take away their jobs because they don’t understand the impacts? Or could it be that they do understand the stakes, but continue on despite that because of (as you mention) the unfathomable good the technology can bring? I would hope most people would be willing to sacrifice their wellbeing now for the betterment of everyone else in the future.
If you’re still understandably worried tho - just start a garden and begin building tightly knit communities now, since you never know when a solar flare will wipe all our technological progress away…
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
Ah yes, because the favorite part of the process for every artist is the hours spent going back and forth with their client touching up the most minor details instead of creating art they actually want to make…
Idk, I feel AI art only affects commercial artists who first and foremost care about making money off their art form. The ones that actually make art for the love of the craft (without expectation of getting anything in return) aren’t really affected in any way.
TL;DR Let UBI free artists from the capitalistic yoke and let the oligarchs use AI to automate the soulless part of art creation that nobody enjoys anyways.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 10 months ago:
Look I’m not supporting mega rich assholes extracting even more from working people, but would you use the same argument for textile weavers and the Jacquard loom? Sure a lot of people lost their jobs at the time, but most, if not all, respecialized and we got computers in the end so would you say it wasn’t good progress? 🤷
- Comment on Different social class different rules 11 months ago:
You don’t genuinely believe the US cares about Israel and doesn’t just give out trillions of their defense budget so they have a strong foothold in the middle east to prevent the caliphates from uniting, do you?
- Comment on Different social class different rules 11 months ago:
Oh oh, are we on Jeopardy! I’ll take “Brutal Middle Eastern Imperialistic State” for 500, Alex!
- Comment on US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art 1 year ago:
Software Engineers have entered the chat
- Comment on Success Saturday - 2nd September 2023 1 year ago:
lol was not expecting to see an Osie in the wild - that in and of itself is a pretty dece win