I like the way you think

I should have already known it but because I didn’t and I looked it up, so I’ll go ahead and post it here in case anyone else doesn’t know:

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country located in West Africa. It is bordered by six countries: Mali to the north and west, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the southwest. Its capital city is Ouagadougou, which is also the largest city. The country’s geographical position places it within the Sahel region, where the Sahara desert transitions into the savanna

Putting a tariff on Chinese electric car inports is fine, but the governments need to get off their collective asses and pump the digital accelerator on native companies expanding their electric lines. Let’s take the income from those tariffs and apply it directly to rebates on locally manufactured ev.

These are deep red areas, they were told that COVID was bullsijt and then some people died but not them. They’re told that solar and wind power and electric cars are a scam, They were told that global warming is a scam. So after all this why believe that anything is going to have an effect on you.

The loss of life is horrible. This is maybe, If we’re lucky, The turning point where people actually start to believe warnings again. Of course for the most part, it was only the people in low-lying areas that died. This means there is a equal chance that they’ll just claim it’s another case of them versus us and it was their fault for buying or building that close to water.

Vulnerable to 20,000 misconfigurations, But thearted by 42 billion different simple checks that we all do anyway.

5 minute load greater than 80% of the number of cores? That’s an alarm…

He would take a bite out of crime

Like everything else, if it’s worth doing it’s probably worth self hosting.

Can we start at the bottom of your list and work our* way up?

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Traveling through that strong of a magnetic field, that would definitely generate eddy currents. Like dropping a magnet down a brass plate causes it to move very slowly because the magnetic field moving induces current in the plate and the current creates a counter magnetic field. My instinct is that it would just slow it down, But that MRI is spinning magnets. Maybe it just slows down a little and is it noticeable, maybe it spins it while it’s slowing it down and amplifies the minute drop due to gravity. Too bad MythBusters are gone. There’s not many people out there funded well enough to test shooting bullets through an MRI machine.

Omg did you pull those out of… Dude wash those off first…

When you grow that third arm the production will increase by half by default…

I’m with her, she lost all that weight to date Bigfoot and now California says it’s just a bear.

To be honest I think she should go with the trend and choose the bear.

Well his primary goal is to be a science communicator. His first problem is that he’s trying to fill Carl Sagan’s shoes which is a tall order by itself. Sagan was pretty amazing but most of his bread and butter were describing molecular processes with analogies. Telling you why a rubber band is stretchy in a truly relatable way is awesome. His second problem is that in the quantum realm we have tons of observation about what things do but very little information about why they do them. Most of our smartest explanations are simply describing the math that would make our observations possible. And there’s generally no way to analogize that. When you try to explain superposition to the lay person, You’re both going to have a bad time.

I figure there’s something we don’t understand about the nature of the universe that makes quantum and gravity and dark matter all make sense at every scale. We’ll probably figure it out eventually if we don’t nuke ourselves back to fighting with rocks and sticks.

Yeah, that’s the gag order aspect. I think we should have protection laws in place to determine how many times, say, in a quarter, a company is asked to comply with surveillance requests. Nothing to hurt any investigations, just to service us as due notice.

Doctor Who recently as well, and Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Stephenson

There’s probably a boatload of it in books.

There’s no doubt she had bad intentions. The government is full of people with bad intentions. Taken at face value, somewhere between 40% and 60% of the US has bad intentions. Does that mean we’re almost half evil or that a lot of us are programmed horribly?

My father, born and raised in Appalachia, was born into racism. Met a black guy, he was nice to my dad. Over the years my dad liked him and considered him a friend. Years later he recounts that this guy was one of the good N’s. JFC dad, where do I start? It’s not that an entire race of people is bad; you’ve been lied to your whole life and watch news that perpetuates that lie. It’s the same overall story with an Indian guy from work who shared some of his family’s curry with him. “He’s one of the good ones…” He votes with the republicans because of “all these horrible minorities waving flags on top buildings”. He’s only ever met a couple and says they’re good. He’s not evil, he’s just been lied to his whole life and has never been exposed to enough minorities to get de-programmed. Would he throw a box of democratic votes in the river if no one was looking? His friends, neighbors, and politicians are telling him he’s going to get overrun and shot by minorities if the left keeps winning. He might. Thankfully, he’ll never be in that position, but their programming is intensely strong.

Would it be trouble to ask you to clarify?

I can’t wrap my head around "There are already causes of action for this sort of thing "

That’s horrifying. Assuming identities without permission is going to continue to be a problem going forward.

On the same note, how cool would it be to train a LLM on everything you know and you’re speech patterns and how you feel about things so that descendants could have a somewhat informed conversation with you.

I totally agree, for her that’s likely a life sentence. I wonder if there isn’t some form of psychiatric help some of these people could benefit from. They’re all deeply brainwashed. Subjecting them to the people who have been portrayed so long as the enemy might change some minds. Though, I don’t know that I’d want to subject minorities to them.

Yes, it didn’t re-sort by default. You can, however, hide based on score. so kinda?

They also used to (maybe they still do) have meta-moderation where you could flag things as funny or insightful. I always considered that a nice touch but it didn’t allow sorting either. .