davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Surely resubscribing if they reverse their decision is the strongest signal to go woke or go broke. That there’s money in allowing criticism of president, that can go away again if they engage with government censorship in America (of all places) again.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 days ago:
I never understood why they were putting the internet on fridges and microwaves etc.
Now I understand.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
Why only 15?
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 days ago:
To be fair to Archimedes, heavy objects do usually fall faster than light ones*, and to be fair to Newton, stuff coming towards you usually has a higher relative velocity than things going away from you.+
*You need your objects to be weigh a lot relative to their air resistance to notice otherwise.
+You need some pretty ambitious equipment to detect that electromagnetic radiation such as light does not follow this pattern.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 2 days ago:
Brilliant, brilliant film.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 days ago:
https://lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=IEA
Like I said, the IEA. The International Energy Agency. I wonder if you’ve heard of them.You can throw scepticism as much as you like, dude, but
(1) I did not lie and
(2) your website is unreliable. Give it up.Again. LLMs are crap, they spout falsehoods all the time, they use unreasonably large amounts of data, but the airline industry pollutes a LOT more.
I begin to wonder whether your website was itself written by an LLM.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 days ago:
I checked. The IEA says airlines generate about a gigaton of CO2, and it’s still growing since the dip of covid, which is perhaps where your infographic authors got their screwy figures, which are, like I suggested, the wrong order of magnitude.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 days ago:
Picked at random, It also claims this:
Why does nighttime AI use burn dirtier energy? Fossil fuel dominance: Coal and gas supply up to 90% of overnight electricity. Solar drop-off: Solar disappears after sunset, while wind delivers only ~30% capacity at night. Peak carbon hours: Between 2–4 AM, grid intensity rises to 450–650 gCO₂/kWh, compared to 200–300 gCO₂/kWh in the afternoon.
This is complete bullshit in the UK, where energy is greenest in the small hours of the night when demand is low and the wind turbines are still turning. Least green and most expensive is late afternoon and evening, when energy usage spikes.
Let me reiterate. AI is crap. AI is a massive waste of energy, but your website has its calculations off in terms of order of magnitude when it comes to comparing the airline industry pushing tons of metal fast and hard into and through the sky with AI pushing a bunch of electrons through a bunch of transistors. Seriously, way off.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 days ago:
Just because something has a pretty infographic doesn’t make it true.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 5 days ago:
Yeah, AI is shit and a massive waste of energy, but it’s NOTHING compared to the energy usage of the airline industry.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 5 days ago:
Be careful what you wish for.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 6 days ago:
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
- Comment on People using fancy characters in their online username ironically makes them harder to be searched 1 week ago:
Maybe they like to stand out but don’t like to be searched out.
- Comment on Polls be damned, Labour have tripled down on Starmerism 1 week ago:
I remember when we elected a prime minister had literally fucked a (dead) pig, David, Cameron.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
The only thing you should put in your anus is your elbow.
No, wait, that’s ears.
The only thing you should put in your anus is your ear.
No, no, that’s still not right.
The only think you should put in your anus is something with a flared base.*
*If you’re worrying about whether your boyfriend’s penis has a flared base and you can’t find a tape measure, recall that most penises are not readily detachable, and most boyfriends have hips wider than their penis, so you’re in the clear.
If you’re worried that this advice doesn’t apply simply because you don’t have a boyfriend, there’s an app for that.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Funniest meme of the day.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
You’ve got to be a little bit careful, surely, because then one squared is ten.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 2 weeks ago:
I think if it’s to scale, Jupiter is way offscreen, like in another room in your building far away.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Australia installed battery farms made from of EV batteries to cope with the discrepancies between supply and demand.
You can’t turn the wind on when it’s calm, but you can turn wind turbines off, and solar still generates power on dull days, just less.
Oversupply of cheap clean green energy is the win. Right wingers can fuck right off with the coal firing.
Anyway, you could have written something more balanced from the start instead of leading with the contextless FUD like some maga nut or petrochemical shill would.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah carbon capture is nonsense and we just have to stop burning the carbon, it’s the only sane option.
Wind and solar is absolutely used note for grid, and increasingly. Whoever is telling you you can’t use them for grid is telling a bare faced lie. Onshore wind being the cheapest energy isn’t theoretical. It’s practical. It’s now.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
Sound plan. I wish I had done so a decade ago before the global price hikes by the oil industry.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
(There’s no way solar or wind generate enough energy, for several decades at least)
Only because it’s not being built, so really very very very misleading.
In sunny places like the southern parts of the USA, if you took the land footprint of a typical nuclear power station and covered it with solar panels with regular sized walkways in between, you generate pretty much the same power output, but with none of the toxic nuclear waste.
If you put a used EV battery under every 40-80 of them now you have 24 hour instantly responsive power.
Onshore wind power is the cheapest way of generating electricity, by some margin.
Guess why we’re not doing all this. Is it the cost? Of course not! It’s far more expensive to build a nuclear power plant. Is it the output? Of course not! Is it the environmental impact? Of course not! Is it the political lobbying and online FUD from vested interests in the power industry? Bingo bingo bingo! Of course it is!
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly it, I think. Or maybe he’s just in it so much that there’s not a lot left without him.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
Epstein “best friend” Trump chief among them, still working to help actual real life adults who have molested minors evade justice. Trump has always publicly lusted after under age girls, including famously his own daughter.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
Some executive noticed that they can’t sell you larger cloud storage if you haven’t used it up.
Then someone on the office copilot team said they wished they had access to more comprehensive data about what people write with office apps and the rest is history.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 weeks ago:
You’re right.
- Comment on How To Argue With An AI Booster 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 3 weeks ago:
What’s a left leaning site that has lots of ‘adult’ or ‘harmful’ content?