BurningFrog

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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
We already have 8 billion human brains, and we routinely duplicate them biologically. AI is something else, as it should be.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Supporting parties or candidates you want to win elections is a core part of democracy. Calling it "interfering with elections" is utterly bizarre to me.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
And yet sorting a deck of cards is much easier than solving the cube. 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 is a fun trivia number, but it tells you nothing about how hard it is to solve the cube.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
It's really 21, since the centers are all one unmovable piece. https://jhodileongseportfolio.weebly.com/center-faces.html
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
This is indisputably true, but downvoted without comment...
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Sure, but it's only damaging globally. It's no more damaging to the local environment than to anywhere else on the planet.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Since not everyone seems to be familiar with human communication: The phrase "X is the hard part" means that X is the hardest part, not that all the other parts are easy.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Stopped reading when he out of nowhere felt the need to say that Linnaeus was probably a racist bigot, based on nothing.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Yeah, but are you getting the perfectly targeted ads that Google serves you?
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
One theory is that the shipping lanes there are not forced to go near the coast. Another is that Somalis are extra prone to piracy.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
One story I've heard is that European colonists in the Caribbean only survived a few years before dying of Malaria. The natives didn't do any better. So the sugar industry started importing African slaves, who actually had some ma
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Most of this happened centuries before the germ theory of disease. No one on either side had any real clue what was going on, and most probably thought it was a cruel punishment from the God(s). Often the disease travelled faster than peopl
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
On land we abandoned the hunter/gatherer system for farming thousands of years ago. Because it just doesn't scale! It can feed 50-100 million people at most. Maybe we need to empty the oceans of wild fish before we make that trans
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
The process is well understood: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/3821/2025/acp-25-3821...
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
The SO₂ cleans up itself in ~2 years.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Maybe it's not clear that I'm talking about what to do with the excess CO₂ after we've stopped emitting more! The stratospheric injections of SO₂ can bring temperatures down to healthy levels. This fixes most of the negativ
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Their huge solar panels will surely block some sunlight! That will lower the warming!
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Surely it matters even more while we're still emitting?
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
The Mt Pinatubo volcanic eruption in 1991 actually did inject huge amounts of SO₂ to the stratosphere, and it disappeared over the next few years. While it remained, northern hemisphere temperatures lowered by ~0.5°C. USGS report: https:&#
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
One not very well known fact is that even if we stop emissions today, the elevated CO₂ levels will remain for many centuries. They way I think/hope we can fix this is two parts: 1. The only way I think you can get rid of the excess CO₂
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
If we figured out how to store chopped down trees somewhere where the wood doesn't break down, that would be a really effective way to get CO2 out of the air! Easier said than done, of course. Sinking millions of trees to the bottom of
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Germany is singled out because decided to close their safe and well functioning zero emission power plants for no good reason, thus exploding their CO2 emissions. Yeah, other emit more, but the rank stupidity of this environmental vandalism
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Prescribed burns are a good way to clean forests! Burn the debris every 10-20 years rather than let it accumulate and become unstoppable disaster fires once a century. This tends to be very hard hard to do in a democratic system though. Peo
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
I looked this up, and you're right! Thanks for teaching me something new. That doesn't happen every day!
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
I really doubt they try to determine the immigration intentions of strangers they encounter. From what I hear, they kill any outsider within spear range.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Do we know anything about their morals, aside from that they kill immigrants at sight?
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
I can see how the evolutionary advantage of such hardened eggs would be huge!
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
Look at any outside surface in a rainy climate. The dirt may not be piling up, but it's far from clean.
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by BurningFrog 2mo ago
It's perfectly rational to assume someone who didn't bother to clean the house before selling probably didn't take good care of the house in other, less visible ways.
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by BurningFrog 3mo ago
Obviously (I hope), once you've grafittied your book, you shouldn't sell it as unaltered! That doesn't mean scribbling in your own book is wrong.

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