When I soon™ get the chance to put up solar, my plan is to have a separate breaker box on an interlock that can only be solar or grid power. So to start I don’t need a huge investment in panels or batteries, and slowly add capacity and demand while always having a grid backup if needed
Sorry, I’m gonna have to hear about the transmission lines
When you need a nannybot? Yes.
A switch is a type of door for the pixies… and every car has a whole number of those, so doors win
Now I’m curious, have you studied/speak any other language? If you learned later, what would you say was the comparative difficulty? I ask since it seems the dominance english in my internal monologue clouds what I intend to say some times
Optimistic me says “well we already recovered the ozone once!” But unforunately I think you’re right. At the same rate I do not see the same kind of real talk about ICE as much lately, even though that’s dozens of names to remember now. I think we’re exhausted and this heat here ain’t helping either.
jet pollution and a plane crash.
Yeah okay if satelite debris ends up hitting a jet I think we win this parlay (jk, don’t gamble.)
Pass through, praise be 🙏🙏
I get where your heart is at, but I’m going with ozone depletion being my talking point, as the cumulative effect on top of runaway greenhouse will certainly kill more people.
Europe, US midwest here… look out for your neighbors and yourself. We’ve got some similar heat over here at the moment, AC not quite adequate in my living situation either.
I cannot recommend enough some of Ben’s (@nighthawkinlight on youtube) 18C/65F cooling pack recipe (1.2L water, 240ml Sodium Sulfate (Na2SO4), 60ml table salt (NaCl), and additionally some 20mls xanthan gum to gel). It’s so cheap that I’ve given a bunch of small packs out to neighbors and gym friends and everyone has been equally fastinated by them.
Small pack for my hat or shoulders, lasts some hour or so. Pillowcase, I want to make a blanket soon, but I’ve also made some small towel like ones that I’ve used outside extensively. This 115F/46C heat index weather is fucking miserable, 80% humidity, made more certainly worse by local microclimate. Im lucky to have a nice basement to retreat into, but I genuinely believe this simple recipe could be life saving. Cost me some 20USD total to make with simple freezer bags, but I invested in a vacuum sealer also for my food, but the bags have shown to be durable, especially resealing multiple times in the food preserver.
I don’t mean to conpare the fucking US’s situation to yours, but I feel the global wealth disparity will affect much the same regardless, and the warming still won’t stop for anyone now. Be prepared, care for each other.
Actually, I’d take a bluetooth tracker in my 10mm socket
Well then you had a bad point, sorry to bear the bad news.
Yeah I’m kinda done arguing with that guy too, probably asking Grok to come up with arguments 😭
To anti-AI folk the technology exists in this cognitively dissonant superposition of simultaneously being a useless nothingburger and an existential threat to all white-collar labour. The first position is the cynicism and the second reveals the fear.
No, I’m just, not at all concerned.
You did nothing to address my real larger threats than AI currently, which proves my point further.
You’re too wrapped up thinking about possible sci fi futures that you haven’t sat down and thought of how these things could work. I’ve watched ML cancer screening advance, then watched as these new age “AI” companies tried the same research I saw years ago and unequivically fail because they strapped a fn language model that’s been trained off Reddit to patient health records, thinking it would become smarter (it didn’t).
None of that will matter if these companies run out of money before they unveil the singularity, which is quite statedly their bets. It won’t happen. Why? Because the true labor utility of these models is already known, and its only benefit is that its cheaper than human labor, for everything but the slightest critical task. Even
2 years later after I was told I’d be replaced, by a boss that sounded just like you, he got fired for continuously failing to meet targets, because he really thought he could have AI catch him up on every meeting and never attend. If it can’t even summarize meetings properly, how long is skynet gonna take??
Now if you actually wanted to talk some real threat like AI powered state sponsored surveilance, I’m all ears, but I’m getting really tired of Kurgesat sci bros suddenly thinking “oh yeah the end of civilization is actually the good option, but we also want the transhuman ultra singularity” while they actively cheer the richest people to trash the economy, environment, and democracy to make it happen. Who do you think will control AI when it takes over the world. Or it’s just gonna call itself AM, right?
Lets play “How Hot is too hot for Bloomcole”, 30C at 90% humidity? Or hows 40C at 70%? How about 100% humidity?? Nobody has ever died from heat before, everyone has AC!
Actually, much worse than ignoring climate change, because even in the worst case climate change is a self-correcting problem (civilization collapses but humans as a species survive) whereas AI could well end all life on the planet.
Mmm yes so thats why we ship a bunch of people off to the desolate red planet so they can wait out either! /s
Please wake me up when some AI becomes more of a threat than A) the people using it Pentagon confirms grok usage for target selection, B) the people betting the economy on it NYTimes Anthropic+SpaceX+etc IPO (mind you, anthropic and openai have costed over 3 times their revenue yesr after year, you can find those numbers, but now are being rolled into index funds, ie 401K money), C) the already low bar for manipulating public discourse online (I think thats evident in itself)
AI Doomists will say anything to get you to believe it’s Roko’s Basilisk in the making, but its jist ELIZA Syndrome yet again. Wake me up when it does CAD without someone pretending I’m a child in CAD that doesn’t see that their bullshit AI workflow returned dogshit. And I’m the one who has to do it properly.
And sorry PS that quote has gotta be one of the most Musk coded verbal drivel. End of game for us is if civilization collapses, because if the people meant to rebuild have this few functioning neurons, we will end up all dead anyway. And if thats so, lets just stop making the computer want to be my girlfriend by liquidating these companies, because they are the largest threat to every functioning democracy.
How do you campaign without needing to eventually appeal to the brain addled masses you describe? That’s a losing strategy if you’re suggesting every aspiring political figure completely removes practically 90% of the direct action, let alone why would they play their hand in that and surely get censored on major TV anyway? And here we both are on this weird niche half forum/half reddit… so what are you trying to say?
I will give you that the site does seem to be a rag, though I was seeing discussion on bluesky as it came out from various leftwing orgs. Besides the point, if rightwingers are disliking these datacenters just as much, it could be a point of education for the less dedicated(depraved).
But still to this point, if the democrats in general had half as much sheer motivation and reaction to the voterbase as the fascs get with even the most inane culture war items, we wouldn’t have people having their homes in some cases stolen from them, or now be next to one of the most annoying machines mankind has made yet.
Absolutely no politician has clean hands
Which is very much why we have to start collectively raising the bar. Make it known no future canidate can afford to be so duplicitous. They’re going to have to proverbially get their hands dirty if anyone is going to stand against and undo what’s already been done imho
The context? She’s conversing with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about the datacenter of theirs currently being constructed despite Saline township’s vote against it. If you can’t smell check the people who are ideally supposed to be representing you, of course you’ll get ratfucked, as we all have.
Edit: even being charitable with the interpretation that she’s used to the wealthy breaking laws and getting away with it: she’s just politcally weak then, which is no better of an admission from her 😭
Try it, get your eyes gouged out
I feel like too many people have the general impressing that this is some normal gambling. For example, on polymarket, if a bet defaults, such as a game being cancelled, the pool is split 50/50. Most users do not know of this, and it can be gamed until you get banned, what other platform (or hell if Im betting with friends) does that?