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- Comment on Fun 10 months ago:
That sounds like something Jackass would do.
- Comment on Mercury Will Devour Your Gold If You Let It 11 months ago:
“Mad like a hatter!”
(Hatters were using some mercury containing colors or other stuff, leading to the saying)
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
Seen it far too often unfortunately.
And in some cities they got air conditioning banned or de-facto banned (made so expensive with additional hurdles that it’s unaffordable for most, ironically often leading to people using extremely inefficient hose-out-the-window monobloc units that you can buy without asking anyone for permission).
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
Of course companies will be against it.
Not sure why climate activists would want people to suffer.
Some because they think it’ll make people more aware of the problem and create more pressure to act, others because they think suffering is a virtue, people deserve it for what they have done to earth, and similar nonsense positions.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
I’m wondering how long it takes until climate activists start advocating against it (because it would increase the use of AC and thus emissions/energy use, and decrease the amount of people suffering from the heat).
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 11 months ago:
Are there any hidden interests (e.g. environmental activists trying to make traffic a nightmare to discourage cars, someone able to profiteer from the current situation somehow, NIMBYs wanting to block the project due to some other location it affects and attacking it here because it seems easier)?
- Comment on Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel 11 months ago:
So one of the complaints seems to be… that you won’t be able to see it from the road anymore, suggesting that the tunnel entrances will be out of sight of the monument. I haven’t seen arguments that it’ll disrupt the stability of the site or anything else either, so from the limited info I have, the complaints sound quite spurious.
- Comment on Meta's behavioral Ads banned in EU/EEA by EDPB 11 months ago:
Weird. The article does have today’s date but only mentions the Nov 10 decision. I think maybe what happened today is the publication of the full text of the decision?
- Comment on Meta's behavioral Ads banned in EU/EEA by EDPB 11 months ago:
It’d be great if that was how it works, unfortunately it seems like the penalties are closer to once every 3-5 years than monthly, skewing the balance even further to “screw the law, just pay the fee”:(
- Comment on Meta's behavioral Ads banned in EU/EEA by EDPB 11 months ago:
I’d say that’s a huge problem actually.
For a normal company, abusing data is a small part of their business and profit is a few percent of revenue, so such a fine would be devastating.
For some tech companies, profit is in the double digit percent of revenue and half of it comes from breaking the law, so the 4% are a tax they can happily pay and still be more profitable than if they followed the law.
- Comment on Meta's behavioral Ads banned in EU/EEA by EDPB 11 months ago:
Same misleading nonsense. If you follow the links it becomes obvious that it’s the old news banning FB from using the data on the basis of contract and legitimate interest - which they’re avoiding by claiming “consent” after people choose that they’d rather not pay a triple-digit amount per year to use the site.
- Comment on Meta's behavioral Ads banned in EU/EEA by EDPB 11 months ago:
No, the article is just regurgitating old news and the old misleading claim (omitting the critical part that they’re only banned from using data “on the basis of contract and legitimate interest”).
This “news” is what made Facebook start with the “agree or pay” bullshit.
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
Sometimes they also came up with literal malware as DRM.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 11 months ago:
They might be able to relay them in a way that the end to end encryption is actually handled on the phone and the relay only relays encrypted messages.
That would likely still give them a capability to MitM but it’s plausible that they couldn’t passively intercept the messages.
- Comment on If civilization continues to the year 9999, is the idea to go to year 10.000, or...? 11 months ago:
Why would that be a problem? We already often only use the last two digits to refer to the year, that’ll probably not change.
- Comment on How well do Swedish fish keep past their best by date? 1 year ago:
Since you already received the genuine answers:
You need to be really careful. The expiration date isn’t exact, but after that, they’ll quickly ferment and turn into Surströmming on the inside.
- Comment on Pest 1 year ago:
Aren’t succulents toxic for cats?
- Comment on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander arrives in Florida ahead of Christmas Eve Moon-bound launch 1 year ago:
Dogecoin to the moon! /s
(The lander will contain a box of various mementos. Since the contents of that box were collected in the middle of the cryptocurrency craze, various groups of course included various tokens representing their favorite coin, especially as “to the moon” was and is a meme representing the desired massive rise in value.)
- Comment on Baby how cold is it oitside? 1 year ago:
Title made me think centimeters.
- Comment on ‘Qantas can't guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can't guarantee specific fl... 1 year ago:
I don’t understand how many business practices by airlines don’t result in criminal charges. Selling so many tickets that you know you will occasionally fail to fulfill your contract should be fraud. Jail time for leadership and full reimbursement of all damages (e.g. private air taxi to still make to to the destination on time) would quicky make the airlines competent at finding voluntary agreements that make everyone happy.
Likewise, deciding that a flight isn’t profitable and cancelling it - WTF. That’s called making a bad business decision, you eat the cost. You don’t just decide “eh, let’s just not” and leave people stranded because it’s cheaper.
- Comment on ‘Qantas can't guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can't guarantee specific fl... 1 year ago:
Most importantly, they don’t let you substitute a different passenger. If you get sick and can’t make your flight, but your friend wants to go instead, you have to let your ticket go unused and your friend has to buy a (now much more expensive) last minute ticket.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
I guess it could be done as a Bandersnatch-style experiment on one streaming platform, but it’s so far from the regular way things are done that it seems unlikely.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
It works well enough to be shown for a few seconds at a keynote for static pictures in some cases. It won’t yet work well enough to be permanently known as the official “remastered version” for moving video consistently.
Now, someone uploading a watchable version on YouTube? That will happen in the next years if it hasn’t already. But that version would be widely ridiculed if released officially because something, somewhere will be off and fans will notice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
As harsh as it is, the color aspect definitely plays into it, but part of it is also expectations. Israel is expected be a developed place that’s at peace and not committing genocide. “Country X in Africa is in a state of {war, civil war, Warlord war, genocide, famine}” happens so frequently that it feels like “county X in Africa is currently stable and prosperous” would be newsworthy. That’s probably not reality, but that’s common perception, I think.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 1 year ago:
Adding imagery that reliably looks good is currently beyond what AI can do, but it’s likely going to become possible eventually. It’s fiction, so the AI making stuff up isn’t a problem.
Upscaling is already something AI can do extremely well (again, if you’re ok with hallucinations).
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
That’s why I provided the ranges I was able to find.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Countries with resources won’t have a reason to “devolve into war”. Countries without resources won’t affect much beyond that country. Why would logistics get disrupted?
I also think you’re overestimating the effect. Optimistic studies claim something like 8% impact in 2100, pessimistic 18% in 2050, which is a tiny effect per year.
Again, humanity deals well with slow changes. We’re mostly talking about “the economy grows by one percentage-point less quickly than it would without climate change” for the worst affected countries in the absolutely worst long term estimates (something like -65% by 2100), and a fraction of that for most countries. Just to be clear, we’re not talking about “x% less than now”, we’re talking about “x% less than it would have been without climate change”. It’s likely that over time, despite climate change, the standard of living even in those countries will continue to increase, unless they, as you said, devolve into (internal/local) wars for mostly unrelated reasons.
- Comment on What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in? 1 year ago:
Dealing with it.
Weather gets hotter, more people get A/C. Disasters get more frequent, more people get fucked by disasters.
Areas become less habitable, some people die, some people deal, some people flee. Migration gets more pressing? Borders get closed with increasingly violent measures.
We just had inflation make life 10% more expensive in many countries. That’s about the impact of climate change people in “rich” western countries can expect from climate change, except it will happen more slowly.
As much as climate doomers would hope for collapse, climate change is a slow moving disaster. Humans are adaptable, especially when there is time to adapt. Even the more pessimistic among the realistic/scientific predictions are on the “life will get X% worse” side, not “doom, we all die, no food no water” side.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
Last time it worked, they got over a thousand prisoners for one soldier.
Taking hostages was the one thing about the entire attack that made some logical sense.
The murdering, on the other hand… that guaranteed a violent response, and doing it in the most brutal way possible and then filming it and bragging about it ensured that Palestine lost most sympanties, and Israel basically got a free pass to do whatever they wanted.
- Comment on Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package 1 year ago:
One conspiracy theory I like is that it’s a measure against people working at two companies, collecting two salaries.