Yeah well one time he made fun of people I find icky and they meekly said “don’t make fun of us please” so actually Dave is the best comedian to ever have existed and has never done anything wrong. You ever considered that?
It might also be environmentally precarious but I’m interested in seeing some of the ocean current and heat differential and other non river hydro solutions being proposed.
I made a new comment for your edit cause I didn’t mean to ratio, just trying for discussion. It’s not a big deal to dislike it; I guess I just think of it as winter holiday season and not Christmas season. And I’m guessing it’s not a bunch of triggered Christians downvoting it’s just people responding to what comes across as a little grumpy (which again for the record is an opinion you’re entitled to).
I think overtly religious displays and sanctimony are pretty annoying. I just don’t see the rest of the season as affected by that. Maybe they’re Chanukah lights. But to steel man you a little: if anything I’m more triggered by the consumerism and capitalist co-opting of time to reflect and be with family than any religion being overbearing, which goes along with what you’re saying regarding the overboardness people do with the decorations and extraness of their lawn displays and the presents and holiday sales etc.
An oversimplification but Imagine you have an algebraic math function where every word in English can be assigned a number.
x+y+z=n where x y z are the three words in a sentence. N is the next predicted word based on the coefficients of the previous 3.
Now imagine you have 10 trillion coefficients instead of 3. That’s an LLM, more or less. Except it’s done procedurally and there’s actually not that many input variables (context window) just a lot of coefficients per input
This is for the primary, so the typical voting direction of the state isn’t a factor. Every state matters in a primary election. If enough states bar him from the primary ballot even if they are blue states he could lose the rnc nomination
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Or just set milestones and penalties for failure. Who gives a shit about out vs down the target is X tons yearly emissions by 2030. Meet it however you want, if you fail you owe this fine to disaster fund.
I understand that. My point was that even using words like phase out is still giving too much weasel wording. Just set numerical targets and if countries want to try to meet them with carbon capture that is their prerogative.
if you use numerical targets it forces the companies/countries defending fossil fuels to reckon with the infeasibility of carbon capture. They will be disincentivized to do something that only gives the appearance of being helpful while not actually helping that much if they are penalized for failing.
At the end of the day all that matters is net carbon emitted comes down and eventually goes negative. it ends the endless debate about fossil fuel discontinuation. If they can make it work good for them, while the rest of us will switch to renewable.
Not to run interference for those shitbags cause most of them are just as evil but I wouldn’t say they all equally threaten democracy. For one I’m not sure their base would allow a woman to be dictator lol even if she won due to institutional fuckery
Testify under oath about Jeffrey Epstein abuse scandal, Prince Andrew urged (www.theguardian.com)
New Chappelle special searing hourlong takedown of trans cashier who forgot to smile at him (www.thebeaverton.com)
Japan is Japan (startrek.website)
40% of US electricity is now emissions-free (arstechnica.com)
Good news as natural gas, coal, and solar see the biggest changes....
Which distro in your opinion is the best for virtualization (Windows 10 on either KVM or VMware), stability, and speed?
It's not just you: Christmas lights look different now, and can give you headaches — NPR (apple.news)
That story explains why I dislike led lights
How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem (www.nature.com)
What is the term for an abstract personification? (Examples below)
Something like “the Firm wants to hire you,” “London doesn’t like you,” or “the Company has noticed your achievements.”
Starfield End of the Year Update (bethesda.net)
Security Council searching for Gaza resolution that U.S. won't veto (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived link: archive.is/…/israel-gaza-united-nations-ceasefire…
Colorado Supreme Court bars Donald Trump from the state’s ballot in 2024, ruling he’s disqualified by Jan. 6 actions (www.denverpost.com)
Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from ballot (www.cpr.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9772125...
Phew... (r.nf)
Only a nightmare…
One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. (startrek.website)
I2VGen-XL: High-Quality Image-to-Video Synthesis via Cascaded Diffusion Models (files.catbox.moe)
Abstract...
And this is why I fear Cthulhu (startrek.website)
The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay."
How a single word could hold up global talks to save the planet | The COP28 climate talks in Dubai feature a big fight over whether to phase ‘out’ or phase ‘down’ fossil fuels (wapo.st)
A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/MEbuN?wr=true