SaltSong
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- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Note your use of the word “cool.”
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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". 5 weeks 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". 5 weeks ago:
Yea. Not helpful.
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 5 weeks 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’ 5 weeks 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". 5 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
Also, that whole thing is nonsense of the highest order.
- Comment on 29% of adults couldn't go hour without internet - survey 1 month ago:
Because we don’t want them doing surge pricing.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 2 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"? 2 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"? 2 months ago:
using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.
What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?
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“Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.
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I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.
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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.
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 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.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 months ago:
I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”
All of them seem to be social constructs.