You are an ally I guess, just making that neighbor lose their mind over those loose nails

Grab the nail heads with a pliers and push them out a little every week or so

Voicemail? Dead? Naww, it’s better than ever. If you get that far spit something out so I can read the transcription or I’ll straight up block your ass and forget you for eternity. Never do a callback if it’s one of those scam robocall ring-and-hangup shits

Sure, when looking at statistics behind fatal crashes, but when looking at other metrics such as ‘deciding to park in a lane next to a concrete support under an overpass in order to look for damage after a fender bender in rush hour traffic’ California is probably right up there. Oddly specific because I’ve only ever seen California drivers do that (multiple even)

Yeah and the problem I’m pointing to has nothing to with electrical infrastructure and instead the sheer amount of energy wasted on bullshit.

You could have fantastic electrical infrastructure but if people are consuming literal gigawatt hours and boiling municipal water dry making Garfield and Shrek comics, that’s the problem. Where does this energy come from? How is the copious amount of heat dealth with? Those are the corollaries

It’s seriously the biggest waste of energy in human existence and it’s staring at you right in the face. Gotta be blind to miss it

Infrastructure in this case refers to the data centers and LLMs. It takes hundreds of megawatt hours to train a single current-gen LLM and who knows how many gigawatts of energy are being consumed by the sum of LLMs at any given point but it likely dwarfs the sum of all energy spent training LLMs.

But then there’s the energy involved in producing those cards, shipping those cards, the data centers themselves.

It wouldn’t be preposterous to suggest that the sum of energy spent at any given time on generative AI is enough to power New York City. Might even be well more than

It’s not uncommon to wind up with a fracture like that from ankle sprain while running so the added flavor got a chuckle out of me. Something about the forefoot being planted while the hindfoot inverts alongside with the added force of landing kinda makes the 5th metatarsal wrap around the 4th and it’s not bendy enough

The whole planet is threatened by AI. If you look at the amount of energy needed not only to power the infrastructure, but the energy needed to create the infrastructure, and compare it to the work produced, and the energy needed for humans to produce equivalent work, it’s totally fucked and dumb as hell

Edit: to elaborate, there was this commercial for a Google Pixel I saw, people in group chat talking about a football game, person says “create an image of football gloves made out of butter”. .08kWh later that image gets posted in chat for a chuckle. Dude, just say “gloves made of butter? smdh” Lady laying in bed talking to a glorified chatbot, just hop on Lemmy or reconnect with an old friend and save .16kWh. These are the most common use cases for AI, basically finessing a prompt a dozen times to make a Shrek and Garlfield comic that winds up in some Facebook group with 9 likes. Multiply those figures a couple million times tho and it’s like holy shit. We somehow went from extremely low-bandwidth words to high bandwidth Youtube and Tiktok to the messiest bullshit humans have ever invented, to do things we could easily do with characters on a keyboard

We unfortunately live in a world where people get elected simply by stating that they’ll undo some progressive’s green policy legacy.

And technology as a whole has done more to destroy than preserve. A dozen die shrinks later, where’s the promised efficiency, home computers hungrier than ever. Generative AI straining water supply. A couple apps have enough footprint and resources to make a compelling case against the traditional employee-employer contract.

At some point people gotta start becoming skeptical of the notion that policy and technology will save the planet and that point was like 20 years ago

Yacht gang: What the fuck is this? It costs 7% more to produce than the stuff we’re already using

I like how the illustrator threw in a 5th metatarsal fracture for added effect

Now say something that bros can really understand, like “fluoride affects zinc and magnesium absorption”. Just don’t tell them how it interacts

It’s pretty much that. Articles have a headline, then a subheadline (the deck or dek), which is usually used to expound upon the headline.

Back in the days of print the headline, subhed, and body all had to fit and look nice so there were limits to how many characters you could use with a headline and subhed and make everything fit and stand out at different sizes, so headlines wound up being written in a distinct style.

And now Google and Apple News and all the other have imposed limits on characters so it all remains. Everyone knows China can’t literally talk but everyone knows what “China, US to discuss” means, and if they don’t they can RTFA

AP style recommends <100 characters, hence stuff like this and the ubiquitous comma used in lieu of the word ‘and’, among other things.

But the ideal headline has even less characters than that due to search engines. 100 characters are an awful lot in that regard, so <60-70 becomes even better

Edit: didn’t take long for me to find an example for you. This is what is considered a ‘bad headline’:

I’d argue that monopolization and subscription models have led to mega caps actively stifling innovation. Why get into a frantic rat race of better and better, only improve when the revenue starts drying up

The icy winds of Northrend will consume your souls!

Find a way to connect to those you disagree with.

I’d rather find a way to integrate them into society in such a way that they aren’t actively trying to destroy it on multiple fronts as if it’s some sort of prank

I think it’s because he didn’t disclose that he paid hush money.

His own lawyer confirmed to NPR a couple days ago, that he and his accuser ‘reached a settlement’ in which Hegseth offered money in exchange for accuser to sign an NDA, which is basically saying ‘hush money’ but with a lot more words.

Trump wants to lead people to believe that the DOJ was ‘weaponized’, and the best way to do that is to get a cabinet that won’t be mired in stuff like this after they allege that they have ‘fixed the DOJ’. If nobody is being prosecuted or sued it’d be offered up as conclusive evidence that the DOJ was, in fact, weaponized, and the less-informed would eat that right up.

Logical fallacy I may add, but the bar is set pretty low for his backers. If they just stay out of trouble after the inauguration they don’t need to fix the DOJ, and instead use that as ‘proof’ that the DOJ was unfairly targetting Trump and Co.

But, if the DOJ is still prosecuting and they’re still facing civil suits that kinda shoots that whole narrative to shit

All the single issue economy voters realizing the Trump administration is single issue too

I think the sad thing is that if Trump has any hard skills, it’s probably reading fine print in contracts to find gaps or flimsy ambiguous wording, so he’ll probably just get worked up over the fact that Biden won this battle and go be dumb elsewhere.

It would be funny if he was mega dumb and just cancelled it all but he basically carved out a name for himself by being a weasel so that’s unlikely.

Props on Biden for the one finger salute tho lol