wonderingwanderer

I don’t support her, I think she’s a self-interested opportunist and doing everything for the wrong reasons, and deep down she’s still a bigot and a grifter, but lately she’s actually had some reasonable takes. I find it mildly annoying whenever she says something I can agree with, but any fracturing of the maga base is a good thing in my view.

Of course, it’s mostly attributable to broken-clock syndrome, but strangely enough, that demonic look on her face has started to fade in recent photos. It’s almost as if breaking with maga is akin to having an exorcism. Weird…

They could route emissions through a system like this directly from smoke stacks, capturing the carbon before it even reaches the atmosphere

You’re deliberately ignoring the fact that in vernacular terms, “carbon” is used to refer to “carbon dioxide” in contexts where the meaning is obvious.

People using the term that way aren’t “morons” with “no clue about chemistry.” They’re just using a commonly-understood shorthand for saying “carbon dioxide.” They understand perfectly well that carbon dioxide has a molecular structure of CO2. You’re being willfully obtuse. [Edit: People also sometimes refer to table salt as “sodium,” so your example is really poorly thought-out.]

Also, while there’s a commentary to be made about corporate greenwashing using phrases like “carbon neutral” and “net zero” to mask their true impacts on the environment, there certainly is such thing as “carbon neutral,” and it absolutely is a scientifically useful term.

Going for a walk is a carbon neutral activity, unless you happen to fart. Planting trees to compensate for burning fossil fuels is not carbon neutral, although it may meet the regulatory definition required of corporations to use the term. That doesn’t mean the concept itself is mythical.

Planting trees or sowing a wildflower meadow is carbon-negative. While that can’t displace emissions from regularly burning fossil fuels, it might neutralize the carbon-positive processes of manufacturing a bicycle, meaning riding your bike to work might also be carbon neutral.

A circular-process that only emits as much C02 as it removes from the atmosphere is, by definition, carbon-neutral. And rejecting novel processes solely because the concept didn’t exist previously is nothing short of dogmatism.

Maybe it whisks the heat away to space?

Or they lost their password and the email associated with the account, and can’t log in to delete their account…

It’s his fiduciary duty to lie to everyone.

That’s how capitalism works, and the fact that the people who have steeped their entire lives in that game don’t see through it is… sad, to say the least…

“People don’t want our product and we’re in danger of failure, wahhh” -capitalist oligarch

Something something free market dynamics something something. Oh wait, they only believe in that when it means deregulating, but if it means letting their company fail then all of a sudden everyone else has a responsibility to carry weight for them?

Privatized profits and socialized losses. Damn greedy crooks.

If Microsoft cared about privacy then they wouldn’t have made windows practically spyware. Even if they install AI locally in the OS, it’s still proprietary software that constantly sends data back to the mothership, consuming your electricity and RAM to do so. Linux has so many options, there’s really no reason not to switch.

Small LLMs already exist for local self-hosting, and there are open-source options which won’t steal your data and turn you into a product.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard#/

Bear in mind that the number of parameters your system can handle is limited by how much memory is available, and using a quantized version can increase the number of parameters you can handle with the same amount of memory.

Unless you have some really serious hardware, 24 billion parameters is probably the maximum that would be practical for self-hosting on a reasonable hobbyist set-up. But I’m no expert, so do some research and calculate for yourself what your system can handle.

They’ll still find a way to triangulate whose dick that is

“Okay, bluetooth disabled for 24 hours.” It’ll turn itself back on tomorrow.

Microsoft knows your dick size

This is almost perfect, except Rizzo is definitely Pippin and Gonzo Merry

Someone really dedicated to finding you could theoretically analyze a series of random points over time and extrapolate the radius and center of the circle, effectively locating your radio

It honestly wouldn’t be that complicated after collecting enough random points

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Well I haven’t tested this new discovery on many knives, but I’m certain I’ve had the same problem with many different ones over the years. At the very least, they’re all beveled on at least one side…

A couple weeks ago, after more than three decades on this earth, I discovered for the first time that if I slice the butter from the other end of the stick, I can get a nice clean, straight, vertical cut. Because the butter knife is only beveled on one side.

All my life, I’ve been slicing butter from the wrong end, and the knife has slipped off a third of the way down every time…

The handedness binary is a worn-out social construct

(/s, for anyone who needs it said)

In essence, I agree with you. Perhaps that just means that all capitalism is crony capitalism. It’s not that big of a distinction to my mind.

And yes, I too would much prefer an economy that’s planned for the good of the common person. Why does that feel more like a pipe dream with each passing day?

Some capitalists might argue on ideological grounds that government intervention is not a truly free market (although none would turn down government funds if offered, because they’ve sold their souls to the infinite pursuit of greed).

In reality though, most modern capitalism is crony capitalism. So the distinction loses meaning.

Cronyism implies someone with their hands on the levers of power pulling them to help their friends/accomplices, which this certainly is an example of.

tRump hands out favors to anyone who bows to him. It’s cronyism.

Cronyism. They always say “There’s no money for that” when it comes to helping people who need it, but as soon as it comes to helping their rich friends or building monstrosities of vanity, suddenly they find the money for it.

At this point, ordinary income-earners in america should just stop paying taxes, because they’ll never see that money come back to help them in anyway. It’s all getting funneled directly to the rich, who also happen to be receiving enormous tax cuts.

It’s stealing from the poor to give to the rich…