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Aside from questioning self driving cars and Tesla’s misleading marketing stories in particular; “you don’t even have skin in the game anymore” (so who still has then?) Why - in this highly safety cri…

I might be taking this as the final cue to archive my own history with the service. Wanted to do that for a long time already.

We need to do something more productive and synergistic than that... But you are right with every shift in biodiversity there are consequences for food chains, etc. No such thing as a "distant ev…

It's both rotten and awesome though. I'm sure we could collectively still pull this off somehow. Defeatist or dystopian mindsets won't get us anywhere. In a way the current trend of &qu…

I distinctly recall the shock waves when the Bush administration sidestepped the Kyoto climate agreement [1]. In 2001, US stance on the Kyoto Protocol held sway, and its ratification might have superc…

The movie "don't look up" was very prescient in a way. I can see denial and unfounded optimism everywhere, including myself. As long as we keep falling for the illusion of continually b…

We just saw them for the first time with our own eyes at the Montreal biodome. Absolutely spectacular beings, hard for me to put in words how special they are.

Recent TWiV episode with tangents on COVID-19 / post-COVID-19 syndrome: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1034/ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126&…

Fan of the series and general “infinity engine” era, but was somewhat “worried” it would be less fun than Larian’s last great game (Divinity Original Sin 2). I was glad to learn it’s likely as silly (…

I don’t know, we might be closer to quality of service parity than we think. Even without taking into account “costs” of blatant privacy disregard / violation, data theft, potential industrial es…

Workers without deeper financial literacy notoriously underestimate how much capital there is rotting / desperately waiting for any potential investment upside.

I feel as if 2023 could become the inflection point where we will finally start investing in our own infrastructure again. Video calls for example are really a commodity service to be set up at this p…

I’m not the biggest slack fan but I won’t join any further personal zoom meetings going forward; will switch to slack “huddles” at the workplace instead.

> I don’t want to lose the experience of reading a book I’d never heard of but found on a stoop, or rereading a book even if it doesn’t count toward an annual goal. I don’t want every book I read t…

If feasible and indeed not as expensive to produce these materials, high potential for: - higher efficiency turbines and solar panels - more clean energy for the same investment - fusion? - low-energy…

Yeah that’s one of the forever-story talking points. Hard to refute your statement as we simply don’t know but again likelihoods are very low and often due to hallucinations etc. This “story” makes fo…

Tic Tacs? I remember they were big during my childhood, maybe I should buy some again just for that extraterrestrial taste.

The absolute majority of these “phenomena” have been observed exactly since the beginning of the Cold War / a War of the Worlds radio play induced science-fiction enthusiastic/literate popul…

I’m wondering which actual news might be supposed to be swept under the rug by this “wake up” call? For people who are bored, here is a good long podcast on all the “x-com” angles (with LK-99’s concur…

I’m not saying any reasonable government would be buying services from Musk at this point but so far he is doing fine for probably more than one perverse reason. Again, extrapolate mid/long-term …

Twitter is dying and Musk might actually be OK with this. From a certain angle it clearly looks like that was the brute force plan all along (Hanlon’s razor not applied). Maybe he just wants to build …

I don’t remember who stated this but basically there is this thought that Musk was in fact mad about how on Twitter the “common man” could indeed vocally and effectively share their disagreement with …

PRC holds 50% of world’s EV share by now. 22% of new registered vehicles are EV vs 5% in US. Clearly we are not even trying to compete. We keep on falling behind with our behind mindsets. And yes, I’m…

Terrifying thought, same as with aerosols as the predominant spread vector for SARS-CoV-2 being “invisible” I tended to think the “comprehension problem” probably is the invisibility of CO2. But yeah …

Quite the opposite, by now this seems to be the only way not to fall into chaos -> authoritarianism.

True, D1 involves strategy and resembles traditional roguelikes, yet its tactical breadth feels limited.. So in absolute comparison to other roguelikes it's all mere coating, even on the tactic…