BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
Whovis going to take care of all the 80 year old Japanese people in 50 years when they have less medical staff? What happens to all the empty and decaying buildings that have no one left to maintain them all? What happens to the smaller rural cities with a current population between 75,000-200,000 people when the only job options are hospice care because the local employers can’t operate anymore? Decreasing population by 50,000 a year over a few decades is manageable. Japan and Korea are way past that point and there simply won’t be enough people to care for the ageing population and shrinking pool of working people and children.
- Comment on YouTube will stream the Oscars -- exclusively -- beginning in 2029 | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Seems just gar enough down the road to be plausible and get both in the news while allowing either party to silently back out from the deal in 2 years once everyone has forgotten about this announcement.
- Comment on US suspends green card lottery after MIT professor, Brown University killings 3 weeks ago:
Am i crazy or does this guy not look anything loke the suspect they were looking for a couple days ago? The guy in the videos i saw on the news looked way stockier than the picture of this Portuguese guy. Seems to me like they just found a convenient enough scapegoat to push through their shitty wishlist
- Comment on AI Vending Machine Was Tricked into Giving Away Everything 3 weeks ago:
When he called me, the 30-year-old introduced himself by telling me he was using a skillet to heat up green tea, because he doesn’t have a pot or a kettle. (“I think my ex took them when we broke up,” he explained.)
Ngl, i stopped reading after that since i knew everything i needed to know
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
And Jake sure does love Bajoran women. And Riker and Paris chased every bit of alien tail they could find until settling down with a half human. And Dax seems to have mostly gotten bored with dating Trills after a few hosts and was interested in mating with other species.
The point is that there are a TON of interspecies relationships throughout all of Star Trek.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 month ago:
They are going to pivot all that processing to the next snale oil scheme. Do you think its a coincidence that rhe AI hype came immediately after crypto crashed?
- Comment on Stupid recipe 1 month ago:
Applesauce is a pretty standard substitute for oils when baking. My mom eould always use it when making brownies.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 month ago:
Yeah, I only have my gmail accounts for logins to various websites. They will only have LLM generated spam emails to train on from this
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 1 month ago:
I get that, but it is so damn convenient to just put a cup in the dispenser and have the fridge put ice in it.
- Comment on Why many in Gen Z are ditching college for training in skilled trades 1 month ago:
The other issue is that skilled trade firms don’t want to hire new graduates because they don’t want to train anyone. Plumbing school is one thing, but getting out there and trying to shutoff a toilet that’s spewing shit can’t be taught. The only people making miney in the trades are those who opened their own shop 30 years ago. We need electricians and plumbers and pipe fitters, but no one wants to hire or pay new ones.
- Comment on Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power 1 month ago:
We are looking at the mistake of allowing capital to offshore everything in the 70’s and 80’s. China didn’t force those companies to stop maintaining their existing infrastructure and outsource all their manufacturing overseas, they chose it in the interest of lower costs.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 month ago:
See, my first thought would be to crack down on the tech parasites that are ruining out society instead of changing the law to accommodate them. But I’m just a dumb American who lives in a place where corporations are allowed to do whatever they want including killing whistleblowers, but I’m sure that the fascist parties taking power in Europe won’t do that.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 month ago:
There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM’s from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn’t want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 months ago:
You can hold someone accountable when a person runs over a child or a pet. Who is the responsible party when a waymo kills someone?
- Comment on Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring 2 months ago:
They thought like would go up forever, and now that the line is starting to slow down, they gotta do a sacrifice to make the line look like it is still going up
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
Why use a ratio of the length of the Earth? Why not the Moon? Or the Sun? Or Mars?
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 months ago:
It’s gonna be like the dotccom bubble in that only the wealthiest and dumbest investors will be hurt by it. The majority of people are too poor to actually be affected by the stock market, and all the investment in AI has been under the belief that companies can use it to replace their workers.
Next week when SNAP/EBT benefits aren’t renewed is when shit is actually gonna hit the fan
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
I live in Northern Ohio 40 minutes from Lake Erie. We have COLD winters here with wet air. Plus, my shitty soft top VW Bug with a busted window lets in more than enough cold air
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 months ago:
It’s typically best not to use things dependent on wealth to assess age groups. A kid growing up in Hamtramck had very different experiences from a kid growing up in Birmingham Michigan, even though those two areas are only 10 miles apart.
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 months ago:
Depends on the cutoff line. But i would typically say Zoomers are too young to remember 9/11 and old enough to have grown up with Marvel movies. Born late 90’s-early 2010’s. 30 is around the cutoff between Millennials and Zoomers so that wwill come down to individuals. But also, generations are pretty suspect as a concept outside of the Baby Boomers since that was an actual charatable phenomen
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
You know you can adjustt the temperature AND air flow, right? You can blast the air to accelerate to the desired temperature and then dial back on the air flow and temperature to keep the car actually pleasent. I only say this because i have a friend who cranks the heat full blast in the winter and then rolls down his windows while still max blasting the heating! Dude has serious brain worms.
- Comment on 2,100 arrested for carrying Palestine Action signs 2 months ago:
Labour has been an effectivly useless party since Blair took over. The modern leadership doesn’t realize that their ideas are wildly unpopular and thatcthe only reason they have power is because the Tories literally destroyed the British economy. Labour is dead and will only have themselves to blame when Farage takes over in the next general election.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 2 months ago:
I was going over the numbers and i realized last week that I, at 30, make less money per year than my parents did when they were 30 WITHOUT adjusting for inflation. My rent and used car payments are also larger than their mortgage and mew car payments were. Coffee has nothing to do with it
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 months ago:
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
So the heater takes all energy you put into it and turns it into heat at a 100% efficiency
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
What happens when photons emittes from the heater hit items in the room? That energy is imparted into the object, heating it up.
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
Light is just heat energy
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 months ago:
Or you can get a window unit if you want your bedroom cooler in the summer and a heated blanket for the winter for a fraction of the cost. And once again, neither of those options will spy on you or stop working just because Amazon shit the bed 1000 miles away from where you live. IoT devices are a luxury tax on people too stupid for all their money.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 2 months ago:
The top 1% of earners in the US made over $1 million last year. I doubt any lemmy users are in that category.