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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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As if Google isn’t already crammed with Israeli spies. In fact, that’s probably why an Israeli company just got a sweetheart buy out from Google! This is just a continuation of a pre-existing issue Google already had.


Right, it doesn’t matter if automation is less productive if it’s cheaper. Sure, the robots keep causing damage, but they don’t ask for wages.


Meanwhile here in Iowa our automated materials towing robots keep dumping shit on the floor, running into sensitive equipment, and injuring people.



It certainly increases the legitimacy of Bitcoin and other crypto assets as investment vehicles, I won’t argue with that.

But the original point seemed to be that these are legitimate currencies, and I just don’t see it.


Yes, but even if the US started militarily enforcing bitcoin mining, is the US trying to control the value of Bitcoin, or is it trying to control the value of Bitcoin in USD? Is the US treating bitcoin like a commodity that it needs to control (oil, gas) or like a currency?


Not exactly?

The US uses its military to enforce the US dollar status as the global reserve currency. Libya tried to sell oil outside the US dollar market and look what happened to them.

Unless Trump starts using the military to enforce Bitcoin value it still won’t have the same status as a currency.


So, what, people won’t be allowed to read offline anymore? I hear the high seas calling…


Is it important for humanoid robots to be able to push buttons? That seems like a redundant task imo


Surely it’d be cheaper to just replace the control interface with a computerized one than to install a robot to push the buttons.





That’s not true at all

The vast majority of people won’t check at all. They’ll either agree or disagree based on their own preexisting knowledge/biases.



They’re starting with a smaller population in Gaza, but the most recent estimate from June had the death toll at more than 186,000 people. They’re not just blowing people up, they’re sniping them with drones, they’re starving them to death by blocking aid, they’re depriving them of medicine and water and sanitation, they’re making hospitals nonfunctional, they’ve made 2+ million people homeless as we’re heading into another winter. It’s a fucking nightmare, easily comparable to the Holocaust.

The methods are similar and the goals are similar.

Not only does Netanyahu deserve to be hung, so do all the Nazis in his army.


Storing hydrogen is also very hard, the molecules are so small that they cavitate through any solid material trying to hold them. I’ve heard loose carbon fiber is good at holding hydrogen but I don’t think they’ve figured out a carbon fuel cell yet.

This sidesteps the problem of cavitation by just breaking hydrogen away from the electrolyte instead of storing it as a pure fuel.


Yeah, fuel cells are very different since they react the hydrogen. I think these batteries only use hydrogen bonds to carry electrons. Or to positively charge the anode and create current? However that works? I’m not a chemist or electrical engineer lol


It sounds like a hydrogen battery rather than just burning hydrogen as a fuel source. If I had to guess, the hydrogen positively charges the anode when it forms a hydrogen bond with TABQ, and the charge differential is what generates current.


My understanding is that hydrogen is a single proton, though, and it sounds like TABQ stores it.


Hydrogen is a proton.

TABQ stores protons.

It sounds like it’s a bunch of hydrogen bonds with the anode.



It’s not fair that politics are in command! China needs to let the chaos of the market determine everything or else they’ll reveal how fucking stupid and inefficient the market economy is outside of the econ101 classroom.


They don’t sell enough. These companies want endless growth and endless sales so they can milk the whales for endless revenue. Narrative rich, story driven games don’t sell as much as pay to win or gacha trash.



FYI, China although communist in name, actually functions mostly on capitalist economy, but party authority always comes first.

In a capitalist economy the market comes first, the market dominates politics. In China it is the exact opposite, and that’s why China can build entire cities in the time it takes a capitalist country to build a single bridge or highway. They don’t wait for private investors to provide funding or wait for private contractors to bid for the project. They just decide they’re building a city and then they do it.

In other words, politics are in command.


They’re currently in the process of exterminating 2.2 million people by turning Gaza into a concentration death camp.

The only difference from the Nazis is the Nazis had a larger starting population to exterminate. Other than the gross total, the methods are similar and the goals are similar. People in Gaza are being starved and butchered on a scale eminently comparable to the Holocaust and I don’t know how you can deny this.


Infrared isn’t red, though. Seems like it’s worth making a distinction between different frequencies if the way it interacts with matter is different.


I figured something cool was happening to allow them to use radar from the air. So it’s not even radar, it’s like, ELFdar.

Really weird they went for the “lightspeed” angle tho


… isn’t that just how radar works? A radio emission is sent out, bounces off an object, and then detectors measure the difference?

The fact that this works from the sky is definitely new, but I think all radar is light speed by definition.



Oh I absolutely loved it, don’t get me wrong. I lived through that decade as my own political awakening, so every single event described was something I watched super closely and posted about and participated in as part of the online activist space (and sometimes in person!)

Your observation that the social media companies can leverage and benefit from these protest movements (and perhaps even create them) is important, I think. It’s probably why Musk bought Twitter, he wanted to wield that kind of power over the masses and their ability to organize. It seems to have worked, too. We don’t see anything like what we saw in the 2010s these days.


I read another book along similar lines called If We Burn, which was a broader look at the 2010s protest movements that sprung up from online activism. What I took away from it is that most of that activism was hollow and didn’t have a political vision or party program, it was just the masses shouting “No!” at their shitty governments. It was also easily put down once people in power got used to it.


There’d be billowing clouds of steam coming from data centers if that were the case.

Pretty sure the water just goes through coolant piping and comes out the other side warmer, because water is a good heat sink.


Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.

Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.

It’s terrorism.


The water isn’t really consumed. It’s not like the servers are digesting it or boiling it away or something. Doesn’t the water just cycle through the system and then come out warm on the other side? There’s no reason for that water to go to waste!

Seems like these data centers are just dumping perfectly potable drinking water because it’s slightly cheaper than having their own water supply and cooling ponds.



Love to burn down an acre of rain forest to generate a picture of an ape.


Meanwhile, boomers will spend hours talking to a ChatGPT script that has convinced them its the real Oprah Winfrey.


They literally trained their models on the books lol