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- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 13 hours ago:
Charge at home. I think most people do that a quick unscientific stat looked up seems to indicate 80% charge at home in the US. Probably similar in other countries?
- Comment on Secret message in the cemetery 1 day ago:
Wonder if the fam disliked him or he/the fam was a ass thinking it was clever to make the message.
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 1 day ago:
We have working models. The difference is the Chinese can say “make it happen”, and they do it. In the US they say, “Gimme lots of investment capital and how can I profit massively off of this?” so it goes nowhere quick.
Maybe we should call them “AI power dirigibles” and people will put some money into it.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 days ago:
How don you enforce jurisdiction?
That sounds like a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 2 days ago:
They tolerate it because it’s easy, they can copy-paste, and they need even less critical thought about the output than having to search for and choose what might be a viable source of decent information.
The issues aren’t bugs. They’re acceptable flaws in the search for investment capital.
- Comment on Do not look at this if you live in Germany. 😐 2 days ago:
“Racism” would have been fine. I get trying to keep the three-letter theme going, but the KKK isn’t some organized and widespread group in a leadership role. Plenty of white-power, and or nationalist groups around that want to keep darker skinned folks out our under the boot that aren’t KKK.
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 2 days ago:
Considering people were just fine buying bubbly pink meat chicken nuggets from McD’s until the press decided it was their clickbait du jour I don’t think it would be a problem. I buy Impossible nuggets fairly often, they’re great. Wish they were a little cheaper.
- Comment on women 3 days ago:
Yes, this is what s/he is saying. They set an undefined and therefore unattainable standard for the purposes of this argument.
- Comment on women 3 days ago:
So you’ve put me in a place where the restrictions you impose on the argument make it impossible to prove by a) rejecting the provided evidence, b) saying it’s “feeling” even though I cited evidence and offered the opinion that it’s not good enough just because what? It showed up in search results?, c) declined to provide any counter evidence by your own.
No, we cannot know the unknown for the purposes of this discussion, but the preponderance of the evidence points to men being more likely to engage in violence against women, and women are less likely to report it. So by sheer numbers, it is likely (note this is the second time I used conditional language) that it is weighted towards women underreporting. Per capita (crime per person per report)? Not a clue.
Yes, I repeat my conclusion because I am making my argument, seeing as you provided nothing to refute other than opinion, not trying to do your job and prove yours for you.
- Comment on women 3 days ago:
Sexual assaults on women not reported
womenfamilies.org/why-most-sexual-assaults-are-no…
Domestic abuse goes unreported by women
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-08/…/100035002
Ergo, if we dig into the data and a) women underreport more crimes against them, or b) everyone’s crimes go underreported and the ratio remains the same.
I’m far more inclined to think more crimes go unreported against women because men tend to be the aggressors far more often.
And I have to add the caveat that I am NOT trying to detract from crimes against men AT ALL during this discussion.
- Comment on women 3 days ago:
He just said that. Why did you repeat it?
- Comment on women 3 days ago:
Plenty of women don’t report crimes against them. I think it would be fair to assume that reporting crimes against men in an attempt to sway these numbers probably would’t change much or might even swing them further in women’s favor.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 4 days ago:
Only a matter of time before the combined stupidity of AI and human laziness result in someone just believing that nuclear war can be winnable.
- Comment on oh no 6 days ago:
Imagine a room of deaf people. Someone farts. Nobody would ever figure out who did it.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 6 days ago:
Maybe AI/LLM being programmed by self-serving interests has bled through to the “thought” process. Do unto others before they do unto you.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 1 week ago:
Working exactly like it’s supposed to under trump.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 1 week ago:
Thank you for your service. Critical personnel like power and other utilities, medical and the rest that keep the lights on and save lives are undervalued.
- Comment on Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level 1 week ago:
Ignorant parents unwilling to monitor their kids or utilize already available tools to aid in preventing access to inappropriate material want devs to do so for them, ushering in a surveillance state.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
I can feel this and it’s making me squirm. TIHI.
- Comment on Growing up in a conservative house hold where as far back as I could remember running away from these people was my strongest instinct. Its good to know I was 100% correct. 1 week ago:
I grew up under Old Conservatism. The one that still kinda made sense. The one you could still discuss issues with. They wanted the same things you did, just how you got them was the difference. I guess I was a Conservative, though I definitely remember having early awareness of some of the issues with it. It took some years and a lot of growing up before all the hypocrisy, racism, shitty economic policy, misogyny and all the rest soaked in. Sort of a convergence of my awareness increasing along with the mask coming off of Republicans. My parents are/were rabid republicans; racist, fearful, stingy in that welfare- and homeless-hating way, fine with the violence against peaceful protests, etc. Nothing dissuades from voting Republican.
Thing is, I could actually still be a republican IF they actually did what they said they stood for. Fiscal conservative, keep government out of people’s personal lives, smaller government, “real” christian values, take care of the small towns and little people, etc. But that’s not who they are. The exact opposite of everything they claim to be. Even now the Democrats are republican-lite and too far Right for me, they just give us bread and circuses arguing over painted sidewalks while losing every important real policy battle that prevents the slide into fascism.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 1 week ago:
You think people working at a multibillion dollar grocery chain give a crap about your 14¢ round-up? It’s implied this is not some “family owned” small store.
Do you think anyone keeps grocery receipts at tax time to claim the $5 write off over the year with 30 receipt’s worth of round-ups?
The meme is essentially true. A big corp is asking a nobody who is probably trying to save some cash to give a billion dollar operation money so the Big Corp gets the brownie points for the donation. They don’t give a shit about you other than “Big Grocer & ‘customers’” donate $$$.
The only two points you made that I agree with are “just say no” if you don’t want to, and donate if you like the good feels. Just make sure Big Grocery is donating to a charity that is decent and doesn’t soak up most of the $ in admin costs.
- Comment on Magical 1 week ago:
She’s got a big hand herself.
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 1 week ago:
I don’t think you know what a difficult situation that is. Getting rid of things for money is hard, and believe it or not, even donating things can be difficult. If you hire someone they’re going to pick through everything over several days (depending on the amount of stuff) and probably not take much if they have to store it themselves for sale, or charge you for storage rental if it’s a lot, and things don’t sell quickly or maybe not at all. Places taking donations will only accept certain things any more, we know this from personal experience, they only want stuff they know that will sell. So you’re left carting around a (probably rented) truck-full of stuff trying to find anyone that will take it only to wind up bringing a lot back home.
It’s far easier to rent a haul-away waste bin and do a cleanout in a day.
One last option, depending on the country if they allow it or there’s space to do so, is a “curb alert”. Advertise the cleanout on whatever social media or classified ad and state the kind of items available and just put them on the curb for people to take for free. Whatever’s left at the end of the day goes in the bin to be hauled off.
- Comment on me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt 1 week ago:
Right? What’d he do? I think his acting has improved with age rather than relying only on his pretty-boy good looks from his earlier films like River or Joe Black.
- Comment on Moats are back! 1 week ago:
I like trebuchets. They were really popular a while back.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 1 week ago:
Omg… except I call bullshit on the “speed of sound” claim. That would have been the equivalent of being hit by a 30mm round at 700 mph. That person would have been killed immediately.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 1 week ago:
I wonder if that would actually do damage. I think it would be painful at least.
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 1 week ago:
But one seems to always grant the other. You don’t get just the power, or just the money.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 1 week ago:
The assumption that I lack knowledge of alternate economic and governing systems and left them unconsidered is as insulting as your confidence that any other system is immune to corruption and disparity.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 1 week ago:
That is the tendency of people. Any system is open to exploitation and greed. The restrictions on growing exploitation are only as good as the humans enforcing them, and people suck. There’s always people trying to force cracks in a system to benefit themselves, and some tribal influences that will allow them to do it.
