SaltSong
@SaltSong@startrek.website
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 19 hours ago:
Isn’t the after sex cigarette kind of a trope?
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 23 hours ago:
They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I’ve never seen.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.
OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 week ago:
This collapse didn’t start in January.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Note your use of the word “cool.”
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 2 months 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". 3 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". 3 months ago:
Yea. Not helpful.
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 3 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’ 3 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". 3 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.