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- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 days ago:
Yeah, the concept is nice, but it tells me that the Big Bang doesn’t explain what happened before it (the leading hypothesis is that the Big Bang started time, so there is no “before”) and sources a Wikipedia article on spiders. Then, it cites the common myth about Daddy Longlegs being highly venomous, says that that wasn’t dispelled until 2020, and then cites a fucking BuzzFeed listicle.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Trump has used the Presidency to set back most of the issues that that person claims to support.
- Comment on 2 OP 1 week ago:
“Withstand” is a strong word. It charred a groove into the durian in a minute or so.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 week ago:
The left largely fights by arguing, which can lead to better ideas if people are open to listen. That isn’t always the case, but it’s a possibility. The right is fighting with homicide.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 week ago:
Not just the right vs. everyone else, the right vs. everyone. The right is also fighting itself.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 weeks ago:
I feel bad for his kids. They didn’t choose to have a piece of shit for a father.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 weeks ago:
Billy Joel was finally wrong: not only the good die young.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 3 weeks ago:
Well, the people who want your art also have to both exist and have money to pay you if you want to make money. There’s probably a sweet spot. I’m not sure what it is, but the money to be made probably declines after a point.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 3 weeks ago:
Furries are notoriously rich, so I think that’s the only out for someone who’s drawn themselves into this type of corner. It was business, not pleasure.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 3 weeks ago:
Furries are notoriously rich, so I think that’s the only out for someone who’s drawn themselves into this type of corner. It was business, not pleasure.
- Comment on Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software 4 weeks ago:
Sure would be a shame if a hacker from a country that doesn’t prosecute these sorts of things (e.g. most of eastern Europe) noticed that the dev was keeping all of the source on an otherwise blank computer with a default password.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 weeks ago:
Nor John Kennedy, who’s even more of an asshole.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the reason is that RFK Jr. is a hack.
- Comment on do what you love 5 weeks ago:
So there is a way to use your philosophy degree for evil.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 5 weeks ago:
That’s still way newer than I thought. I guess they started updating it again.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, like the Nexus 5. Not anything you’d want to actually use today.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 5 weeks ago:
MLM actually have higher condom use rates than MLW. It wasn’t the case before AIDS, because they didn’t have to worry about pregnancy and all of the STIs were pretty treatable, but they pivoted once they had a compelling reason.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 month ago:
Well, you could get a 60W LED, but it would be extremely bright. Generally, a household bulb is a 60W incandescent, an 18W CFL, or a 9W LED.
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 1 month ago:
A lightbulb for an hour is about 60 Wh, assuming you’re talking about an incandescent one.
- Comment on What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think LLMs are close to their peak. Any new revolutionary developments in LLMs will probably be in efficiency rather than capability. Something that can actually think in a real sense will probably happen eventually, though, and unless it’s even more absurdly resource-intensive it’ll probably replace LLMs in everything but autocomplete (since they’re legitimately good at that).
- Comment on Something we can all agree on 1 month ago:
A barer, one who bares. What are they baring? Presumably nuts.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 1 month ago:
That’s cumulative deaths, so the graph is definitely trailing off. The deaths aren’t, but the graph is of confirmed deaths, which require hospitals to confirm them, and there aren’t any hospitals left.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 1 month ago:
It’s only trailing off because they can’t count the dead anymore. The toll is estimated to be 7-8x the confirmed number.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Evolution by artificial selection is still evolution.
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 1 month ago:
And hopefully they know the difference between podiatry and pediatric medicine.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 2 months ago:
That wouldn’t change anything in this specific case, since you can’t buy the whole anymore either.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 2 months ago:
How would you even start to enforce those laws against a company that no longer exists? It’s one thing to prevent the AI companies from selling a product that relies on continual support in the first place, but these earbuds will work until the batteries degrade (and theoretically longer if you can manage to replace them without destroying the things) with or without the company’s existence. The fact that the user lost the case with no company to replace it doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of thing that you can really address legally, unless you make the companies put a certain stock of parts in escrow or something, which seems potentially clear more wasteful than the status quo.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 2 months ago:
This is because “vegetable” is purely a culinary term. There’s no botanical definition of a vegetable. Tomatoes are berries, which is a type of fruit, from a botanical standpoint. So are cucumbers. They’re both vegetables from a culinary standpoint. Lettuce is a leaf. Broccoli is a flower. Carrots are roots. Celery is a stalk. All vegetables culinarily.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 2 months ago:
It’s called gunplay!
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 2 months ago:
Looks like a graduated cylinder to me on the first one. Second is an odd angle, maybe a selfie stick?