SaltSong

@SaltSong@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it’s one I’m familiar with.

  They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.

  The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn’t allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don’t want that.

  Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate “cold” is generating more heat somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Note your use of the word “cool.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A condenser will generate the same amount of heat that they are trying to dissipate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Quinn On How His Scotty Isn’t A Miracle Worker Yet On ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed it is so.

  Nevertheless, assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the employers are using computers to read my resume, why shouldn’t I used a computer to write it?

  Assholes to the lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, that whole thing is nonsense of the highest order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of this makes a bit of sense, but it still leans heavily on perception by others, rather than respecting what people know about themselves. This does not seem to be what many transgender persons want.

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.

  What would be a correct way to distinguish between the two?

  • “Woman” seems like it works refer to both, to be used in the majority of cases when the distinction is irrelevant.

  • I don’t want to say “natural” women, or “real” women, as even someone as thick as me can see that’s insulting.

  • It seems that using the prefix for both makes them equal.

  What do you think world be more appropriate?

  it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.

  But they would suggest that as soon as we discover a way to change that characteristic, transrace world be valid.

  Further, while gender identity may not be based on appearance, the way one is treated is very much based on appearance. If I look male, I get treated as male. If I look female, I get treated as female. If I look like one, but insist I am the other, people tend to have disagreements between their deliberate and automatic behaviors. (Well, the same people do, anyway.)

  I can’t think of a good way to prove it, but I am legitimately curious about this topic. I’m never happy with the answer “because this one is right, and that one is wrong.” There needs to be reasons why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe stop comparing race and gender then.

  Isn’t the entire premise of the post that someone is seeing parallels here, and would like to understand why the similarities are not meaningful? As I said, I agree that transracial people are being silly, but I haven’t seen an argument here that can’t be used against transgender people.

  trans women only pass because we’re women.

  But there are plenty of transwomen who don’t “pass” despite being women. But they should still be treated as women. Hell, there have been at least a few reports of ciswomen who couldn’t pass as women, at least to sufficiently assholish observers. On that basis, I don’t think we can use “passing” as a factor to determine people’s identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”

  All of them seem to be social constructs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, as a white person, I cannot pass as black, so I can never expect people to treat me like I’m black?

  Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea is silly, but all the arguments I’ve seen in this thread are a word-swap away from being a bad argument against transgender people.

  What’s the essential difference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality

  But surely how you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “gender” and subsequently it will shape your life reality?

  Everything you described up there sounds exactly like “cultural.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were to use their network to take advantage of the features for anything that the “predator” behind doesn’t care, you’re fine.

  But what will the predator care about tomorrow? Or next year? And how confident are you that aggregate data is not what they want, for whatever reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were to use their network to take advantage of the features for anything that the “predator” behind doesn’t care, you’re fine.

  But what will the predator care about tomorrow? Or next year? And how confident are you that aggregate data is not what they want, for whatever reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists created contact lenses that make farts visible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientists were so caught up with weather they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Far Can We Degrade Our Hurricane Forecasting Before People End Up Dead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Done people already end up dead most of the time? Our coverage is good, but it’s never gonna be that good.

  No reason to cut it back, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sandman Showrunner on Decision to End Series, Neil Gaiman Factor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also a consideration, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sandman Showrunner on Decision to End Series, Neil Gaiman Factor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Rowling is a shit, but as far as I know she’s never laid hands on anyone. She can cause a lot of harm with hateful words and her significant public exposure, but that’s a different kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Good to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, interesting. Good to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting.

  Not the answer I’m looking for, but still interesting. Thanks for the information!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT’S THE FEDS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a moment of curiosity.

  If my theoretical pistol did get pulled into am MRI machine, stuck against it by the magnet, and I, for the purpose of scientific inquiry, pulled the trigger, should I expect the bullet to fire more or less as normal, to fire, but the bullet be pulled back to the machine, or for the bullet to not move, or not move more than an inch or so from the barrel?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see. You are thinking about the properly structured flowchart, not the humorously true one.

  Yea, fair enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  chasing the dragon

  Huh. I guess it might be.

  Far from my first game, but my first perfect game. Yea, I guess that does track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a sequel. Just because it’s not Portal 1. The fact that it’s second is not the problem. The problem is that the first one was flawless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Portal 1 was flawless. Portal 2 had a crucial flaw.

  Specifically, it was not Portal 1. Everything else was perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see that as a problem. I can easily get caught in that loop.