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Rhaedas

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Rhaedas ,

Don't worry, she won't bother taking that piece of shit.

Rhaedas ,

At some point even the best plans aren't going to be enough, and the more we built the worse it gets. When an area gets water amounts in a day that it used to get in a year, that water simply isn't going anywhere fast. You know how evolution is about adaptation? I don't think we're adapting all that well or fast enough. (Yes, it's not quite the same thing, but the same point. Don't change, don't expect to survive)

Rhaedas ,

"Another 100 year flood" seems like a ridiculous headline at this point. Denial is everywhere.

Rhaedas ,

That's correct, it's about probability based on past known history. An area could get unlucky and have repeat conditions sooner than normal. When many areas appear to be having this same bad luck, it's time to reevaluate the probabilities. It's also why regular weather forecasts haven't seemed to get things as right as they used to...using the past percent chance probabilities in a changing environment doesn't hit as well as it used to.

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Wages not keeping in step with inflation is exactly why everything seems so expensive. $30k of today's money is the equivalent of less than $10k in the 80's, and cars were more than $10K then except for a few that ended up being examples of "you get what you pay for".

I should probably state that as "wage increases being suppressed".

Rhaedas ,

"Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman accused President Biden of being “willing to sacrifice the American auto industry and its workers in service of its radical green agenda."

I mean we could try and transition workers from a more negative industry type to a positive one...but that seems like a lot of work and less profitable, so never mind.

Rhaedas ,

And making more than the minimum the government requires them to make for quota. Demand is even there now, so there's no excuse other than the bottom line, plus a bit of cooperation with the oil companies.

Rhaedas ,

I don't think it needs to be much bigger for an individual, just fast enough to keep them near the center even at a run. Smaller pads will be the way to go, just have to drive and control them in sync. Maybe predictive software to only run where your feet are at or will be, to minimize the noise.

Rhaedas ,

That scientist must not know how much mass hits the atmosphere each day from meteors.

Rhaedas ,

The 21st century DeLorean, only no one bothered making a time machine out of it.

Rhaedas ,

Even the small things. When work upgraded to Win11 overnight and I logged into the Start being in the middle, I almost lost it. Yes, I could fix it, and a few other things, but I had a moment.

Rhaedas ,

Guess no one at Microsoft realized people use computers differently and more options is always better than one. Or they intended to have the option and either forgot to include it or it was buggy. Either way it was #2 on my "how do you disable this" list, and I had to deal with it for a while. I get how grouping can be good for some things, but when you want to be able to bounce between various windows and some happen to use the same app, it was a pain.

Rhaedas ,

Automation itself also isn't the problem. Replacing human workers with machines has always been a good thing, if the workers are taken care of. That's the problem, the workers are expendable for a lower cost solution. It also doesn't help that at least in the US we have a Puritan view of work, where someone is classified by what they do to survive and not the person themselves.

Rhaedas ,

It gets worse if you can prove that the size has also decreased over time.

Rhaedas ,

When I learned that even World War I was sparked by oil grabs, I was briefly surprised, then realized, of course it was.

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Rhaedas ,

Look at this another way. We succeeded too well and instead of making a superior AI we made a synthetic human with all our flaws.

Realistically LLMs are just complex models based on our own past creations. So why wouldn't they be a mirror of their creator, good and bad?

Rhaedas ,

Emphasis on "plastic is often not". Only PET (#1 on the symbol) can truly be recycled into new material, and usually it's tossed in with other materials and contaminated enough to make that not possible. There is the reusable path, where plastics are remolded into other purposes, but that's not "really" recycling and likely ends there for that form to eventually degrade and be trashed.

So just make more things with PET and recycle better, right? I'm guessing there's limitations on what PET can be used for given its characteristics vs. other plastics, and it is still cheaper to just get new material for new PET rather than recycle. So of course companies are going to go that route.

The interesting thing that I learned not so long ago from the YT channel Climate Town is that people see the triangle symbol with the plastic type number inside and assume it's recyclable, since that's the recycle symbol. But it's not that symbol, it's just designed similar to give that impression.

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