Let them eat cake… but remember, the cake is a lie.

Friggin’ mic drop dude! This statement is amazing 👏

Ideally if you fired striking workers the NLRB would get involved. Not so sure anymore.

Grifters gonna grift.

This seems like… a bad idea? If I understand you correctly, each region maintains disaster relief infrastructure & staff with help from the central/national government? If so, does that translate to richer regions being less affected by calamities (since they can pour more money into said infrastructure than the bare minimum)?

In most countries (with such plans in place) the national government maintains all disaster relief management to assist local governments, right?

Sorry I’ve asked a lot of questions, but I’m genuinely interested to know!

Money saved on k9’s is money for some super ugly Oakley’s dude

/s

Devils advocate: retiring an old service dog means you’d need to invest in training another pup which is way more expensive than titanium teeth and dealing even with animal cruelty complaints and/or lawsuits. Also “bleed blue” fanboys will see this as badass, so its free PR.

As a mortal/moral person advocate: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Yeah take no creative risks get no box office rewards, simple as.

And megalopolis wasn’t a risk, Coppola fronted the $120mn so they’re going make money on that flop.

From the article:

If the population is small to begin with, accidentally counting fewer animals has a more dramatic, negative effect on the population trend than accidentally counting more.

This seems sloppy or intentionally misleading. Studies like these need to be extremely self critical. Plants, Animal, Insects, etc. are definitely dying due to human activity. Studies like these put an easy target on skeptics (ignorant or malicious) to dismiss the entire problem.

And indeed the article mentions just this:

Young also mentioned that the “extinction denier” community … feeds off examples, real or not, that show that wildlife is doing better than we thought. That makes it ever more important for measures of biodiversity loss to capture examples of successful conservation.

Academia is broken, where citications are used as currency to further academic careers/funding. My question is how do we fight this? Are there real solutions to rigourous peer review (mostly) free from bias?

Most definitely. It was purely economic than militaristic. EU companies are generally seen as superior just for being from the EU in Asia.

This is a very insightful comment, thank you. I absolutely agree with most of your points. Though one minor disagreement I’d have: it wasn’t Trump who brought on the waning of US soft power, but US’s failure in Afghanistan/Iraq/Yemen during 2nd Obama term.

Ultimately the expense in forging the US influence overseas during the Bush era came at the cost of ignoring those back home. Trump capitalized on all that resentment. In fact he still is riding on it. Coinicdentally Its a lesson Modi needs to learn from his recent election result at home too.

Sidestepping the whataboutism of US support of Iserali “invasion”, the US/EU soft power is clearly waning in the East. Sanctions are only as effective as long as everyone is willing to comply.

That’s insane, failed! 😐

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Lol true, but then again if you leak papers about Pentagon’s secret program, you’d be Snowden-ed or worse.

Your loss

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A meme template without bottom text is indeed a collage.

I don’t think you realize the work involved in integrating a new unreliable power source into the grid. Its a delicate dance to anticipate demand to keep power always available. Having more power than you need is bad for the grid, which is why the costs go negative: power companies want it off the grid ASAP.

Conventional power stations can stay on all the time & that’s awesome for the grid stability. There is no power gap renewables are filling. So to turn solar on we need to turn off a coal powered plant. If this new source cannot match the reliability it hinders to grid than help. So there’s no question of “turn it off when you don’t need it”.

We need to turn off fossil fuel power generation for more renewables, sure, but it doesn’t alleviate their problems right now.

Ok, but what do you do when you’re short of power at night? Keep in mind to turn on conventional power stations it’s expensive & time consuming. Once they startup they need to stay on for a long while to be efficient & cheap.

The real solution is to store excess power in batteries. Lithium ion is too expensive to scale, Sodium ion batteries are economically & capacity viable AFAIK.

Spot on! I hoped this comment would be higher! The main problem isn’t corps not making money, but grid stability due to unreliability of renewables.

To be fair, the original tweet is kinda shit to begin with. They’ve unnecessarily assigned monetary value to a purely engineering (physics?) problem.

That’s interesting. I’m not going to lament the death of the old studios system. Sure it worked some of the time, but it was mostly bloat. Side benefit of this being, as Stewart points out, people who loved their craft got a chance to get better at it over time.

Instead of cutting the inefficiencies, silicon valley “disrupted” the system, aka undercut existing systems at a loss for the all valuable market share. Now that they’re competing with themselves, they’re squeezing everyone involved: creatives, technicians & the audience to make their unsustainable business model magically sustainable. The illusion “tech will save us all” is failing, AI & everything-as-a-service is their last hope.

I don’t know what the alternative is? Pandoras box is open, we can’t go back to the older system anymore.

That is a good point, but I think I’d like to make the distinction of saying LLM’s or “generic model” is a garbage concept, which require power & water rivaling a small country to produce incorrect results.

Neural networks in general that can (cheaply) learn on their own for a specific task could be huge! But there’s no big money in that, since its not a consolidated general purpose product tech bros can flog to average consumers.