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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In this example, the child is living, and has needs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

Do your iPhones usually take oil?

What do you think plastic is made from?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that’s not usually the case, and it’s usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you’d call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won’t affect the price I pay.

But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I’m an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it’s one I’m familiar with.

They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.

The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Interesting. They only works in a few cases, but It’s good to have the options.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn’t allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don’t want that.

Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate “cold” is generating more heat somewhere else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Note your use of the word “cool.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No sunlight for 10 days at a time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A condenser will generate the same amount of heat that they are trying to dissipate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Can’t imagine you’d want to put your mouth on a pig or cow either, but properly butchered and prepared, they are quite palatable.

I imagine it’s the same principle.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can’t apply it to me until then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No European law applies outside Europe. That’s kind of the nature of laws.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Provide anything to back your shit up or shut up.

This puts me in mind of the landlord skiing of a photo of the water not being hot. What would you expect “proof we were not noisy” to look like?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Context is as important to language as syntax.

Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yea. Not helpful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Quinn On How His Scotty Isn’t A Miracle Worker Yet On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Wasn’t he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way".⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Right, that’s “speaking figuratively.” There are rules for that.

But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.

I’d hate to find a box in my lab marked “inflammable.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Also, that whole thing is nonsense of the highest order.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨29% of adults couldn't go hour without internet - survey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Because we don’t want them doing surge pricing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is there some reason we want brands to join the conversation?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Some of this makes a bit of sense, but it still leans heavily on perception by others, rather than respecting what people know about themselves. This does not seem to be what many transgender persons want.

I’ll think about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.

What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?
- “Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.
- I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.
- It seems that using the prefix for both makes them equal.
What do you think world be more appropriate?

it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.

But they would suggest that as soon as we discover a way to change that characteristic, transrace world be valid.

Further, while gender identity may not be based on appearance, the way one is treated is very much based on appearance. If I look male, I get treated as male. If I look female, I get treated as female. If I look like one, but insist I am the other, people tend to have disagreements between their deliberate and automatic behaviors. (Well, the same people do, anyway.)

I can’t think of a good way to prove it, but I am legitimately curious about this topic. I’m never happy with the answer “because this one is right, and that one is wrong.” There needs to be reasons why.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

maybe stop comparing race and gender then.

Isn’t the entire premise of the post that someone is seeing parallels here, and would like to understand why the similarities are not meaningful? As I said, I agree that transracial people are being silly, but I haven’t seen an argument here that can’t be used against transgender people.

trans women only pass because we’re women.

But there are plenty of transwomen who don’t “pass” despite being women. But they should still be treated as women. Hell, there have been at least a few reports of ciswomen who couldn’t pass as women, at least to sufficiently assholish observers. On that basis, I don’t think we can use “passing” as a factor to determine people’s identity.