bss03
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- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 day ago:
Global warming is independent of population, emissions can be controlled without population controls.
Yes, they do need more people, and immigration is a possible “solve”, but right now they aren’t getting the immigration necessary – tho largely due to their own policies.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 day ago:
We need less people
No we don’t. And, S. Korea in particular will need more people than they have available, soon.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 day ago:
Smaller economy is fine, I guess – tho deflation has certainly caused problems in the past. Better distributed wealth is a shared goal. Depopulation, and other forms of Degrowth, are largely driven by eugenicist ideas and are neither necessary nor desirable: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8vkUY93i8
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
The future for S. Korea looks bleak, not better.
I agree that infinite growth was always impossible, but in some countries birth rate is well below replacement rate (if they matched, population would be stable, not growing), and in many birth rate + immigration rate is also below replacement rate – we are failing not at growth, but “mere” stability.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
I agree with your premise, but I don’t think it implies your conclusion, which I disagree with.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
I don’t think it is shrinking globally, yet. But, some countries (e.g. South Korea) are in dire situations due to shrinking and aging population already.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 3 days ago:
Sorry, maybe I was ambiguous. The violent/revolutionary approaches would be to achieve some sort of climate recovery, which might obviate needing an “exit plan”.
- Comment on Just a reminder that our planet is currently the coolest it will ever be in our, and our children's lifetimes. 4 days ago:
Yeah, we not only have to reach net-0, which is a pipe dream with the current leadership / collective will, but we’ll need to figure out some method of carbon capture that can actually be net-negative AND deploy it on scales far beyond any sort of “carbon capture” that has been planned, whether their number were sane or just hype to get some of the “pork barrel spending”.
I suggest making sure you have an “exit plan” for when it get worse than you’d like, which I expect to be in my lifetime. There are more violent, revolutionary, or both approaches, but I won’t mention them explicitly.
Even if we replaced all energy production “magically” with solar/wind/tidal, we’ll still have to keep extracting oil to make plastic!
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen auto-calculated tip of all combinations of with/without tax, with/without percent discount, and with/without individual item discounts.
I wish tipping would end, by mandating a living wage for all workers from the chef to the diskwasher and including all the waitstaff and everyone else in both the front and the back. But, until it does, I try to be generous with my tips, but also kind to people that can’t or are simply tired of “tipflation”.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
Maybe a comp’d desert (or app) that’s ~$8 ?
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 week ago:
I know it’s crazy, but I can absolutely understand this feeling. I had recently married Abby in Stardew Valley and was starting to make friends with the other villagers. I did something the game wasn’t expecting, and gave Seby a loved gift on his birthday, and then quickly triggered an event where we kissed! (FWIW, I think this behavior has been fixed and you can’t do this on the current patch.)
I still feel bad thinking about that Abigail that I accidentally cheated on, and I haven’t loaded that save again. It’s been years; SV 1.4 wasn’t even out yet.
So, despite how much I dislike all this “AI” hype, I really do sympathize for the users that feel like they’ve lost a relationship.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 week ago:
I’m a soulslike vegan.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 week ago:
Chicken’s not vegan?
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 week ago:
I can’t say I’m a (normal) vegan, but I’m definitely an AI vegan. I was turned off by the ethical considerations, and the few “bites” I have tried leave a bad taste in my mouth. I avoid using it because much of the training data was (and is) stolen, the power costs are far too high compared to the utility, and it’s basically worthless to me, having a screwed up response to nearly every prompt I tried.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
They are so insane they inspired art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU8H-Ts_rfA
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 1 week ago:
The way I had it described to me was that veganism is against the exploitation of all animals, including “stealing” honey from a hive.
But, “vegan” is a label at least as malleable as “Christian”.
To some people, this Foie Gras might be vegan, if they can’t find the exploitation. To others, large-scale U.S. produce might be non-vegan since it depends on exploitative labor (humans are animals) practices. To a few, mussels are vegan because there’s no mind to suffer or be exploited. To a very few, plants that show a “pain” response are non-vegan, even if that response happens over time, as long as it has a clear trigger in human interference (which is expliotation due to the “pain”), despite the complete lack of a nervous system, which humans (and other animals) use to feel pain.
Anyway, I’m NOT a vegan, but I do try to limit my meat consumption. It just feels like the amount I used to eat isn’t really globally sustainable, and I take up too many resources in to many other ways, too.
- Comment on This is WAR. 2 weeks ago:
Everyone is a Forklift Operator until the real Forklift Operator shows up. Drawfee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgdyhIuEhw
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 weeks ago:
I use Paypal and they charge my Discover (Novus network, IIRC). No MC policy issue, let me buy what I want.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 weeks ago:
I’d never heard of this before. I hope Liberapay adds support for it. I don’t think all itch.io developers would be interested. I’m not sure it quite solves all the problems that Steam has with getting payments to game publishers.
Quite interesting; thanks for the link!
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 2 weeks ago:
My biggest issue used to be that in the global industrial base collapses, we won’t have surface coal/oil available to restart it. I’ve been informed that we might be able to restart just from turpentine. (Wind and solar both need advanced manufacturing techniques so can’t be bootstrap electrical sources.)
That said, I don’t think I’m very interested in hanging around after the global Internet collapses. My interests are too niche to be satisfied within a regional power grid.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Confidence is often mistaken for competence. I’d like to believe that’s why “con(fidence) men” are ever successful.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Edited, thanks for the correction. I’d like to blame it on a typo, but I frequently “mispronounce” that word in the my head, so it was probably just a mistake.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, why can’t they just be a weirdo freak (celebratory) like the rest of us anarchists?
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
I think you have to go several levels of racism deep to even understand it. Like the (censored) phrase “I don’t hate black people; I hate N-----s” has to make enough sense you understand the “distinction” being made. Then you translate that distinction and apply it to some sort of “good billionaire” and you sort of get his claim.
I think?
I certainly would have missed his point, if any; I’m not sure it was worth catching.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
I’m also in the South and have a very different experience.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 weeks ago:
The pendant in me is glad he didn’t misuse niggardly.
It could be correctly used to describe many billionaires, but post in image would surely misuse it.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 weeks ago:
Everything 1Upsmanship puts on their “Celestial Hard Drive”.
Or, Minecraft.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 weeks ago:
Self-hosted GitLab is what GNOME and Debian chose to do.
I still use the main GitLab for most things.
repo.or.cz provides just git hosting.
It’s also relatively easy to just self-host Git, though permissions can be wonky, at least last time I tried.
I can’t recommend Darcs. Luckily I don’t see MS (or any other corp) being able to take over core Git development. I really should try Pijul again, but least time I played with it, the history/branch visualization (which you can do without, but I really like to have) was actually still worse than Darcs.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 weeks ago:
It’s more than just FOSS users. It’s “The Internet” in general. At least two of the modding scenes I’ve been in have had multiple developers (and artists and translators) just quit due to their users aggressively complaining about the stuff they give away for free.
Of course, it doesn’t get that much better when people have to pay for things – ask customer service representatives how much toxicity they see from unsatisfied customers.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 weeks ago:
Oh. Time for a fork. -ND variants are not Free Software / Open Source.