HelloMcFly

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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Well, it is change, but that doesn't mean it's not destruction. While the world has experienced mass die-offs before, the hallmark of the planet's current situation is distinguished by its unprecedented speed and the fact tha
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Certainty that your involvement is inconsequential requires too much intellectual hubris, it precludes the possibility that you may be wrong in your forecasts so you can let yourself off the hook for any effort. I get it, I do, but I thin
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> I think it is ok to not engage. I understand what you're saying. I appreciate the thought behind it. But in the end, I do not agree. I cannot be certain where my actions will and won't ultimately help accrue to impact; the pe
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> unless you take for granted that humans are inherently 'special' which leads to speciesism It is true humans are part of nature, but we are unique in our capacity for causal understanding and foresight. We are the only specie
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
I agree. Like many here, my job is now in the service of an AI-first business and people are incentivized to make AI as central and routine a part of our operations as possible. AI usage is not included in corporate commitments to social re
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Ah, then I would like to apologize. I interpreted your comment as a snarky response to me, not actually imploring others to trust those dedicated their lives to understanding the issue. Perhaps I'm too primed on this subject to assume
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Another bad-faith contribution, a snarky comment befitting of a default subreddit. Doesn't even logically build from what I posted, nowhere have I committed the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy, but you have made the l
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
This comment makes me so, so angry. Like, shouting angry. It's a person who hasn't engaged with a topic AT ALL except to find one headline that downplays the concerns of others. It's the quintessential bad faith comment, crea
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
I want to ignore these articles as it is so painful to watch the beautiful clockwork of the natural world unravel. I hate facing the suffering, diminishment, and extinction of so much in the name of profiteering and ever-increasing growth.
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
There's more research for you to explore if you're interested, but you sound more closed than curious if I'm honest. Maybe looking more into it will change your mind, maybe not!
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Much of it is, sure, but certainly not all of it! On your comparison to Sweden, be cautious! Finns generally have a higher risk and incidence of cardiovascular disease compared to native Swedes - in fact, they have some of the highest risk
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> That is this improves a marker for good health without improving health There is a substantial body of existing research to peruse about the impact of regular sauna use on health outcomes, much of it from Finland given the prevalence o
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
The rest of the quote you began continues: "On the other hand, Perrault noted that 'Epoch AI independently estimates Grok 4’s emissions to be significantly higher at approximately 140,000 tons of CO₂.'" I realize these a
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Besides the lead in robotics for China, those Grok emissions charts are the thing that most leap off the page.
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
I worked as a part-time bank teller from age 1999-2007 (not continuously). Over that time the volume of silver certificates and other special currency coming in dropped DRAMATICALLY. From 1999-2003 I'd say I would see those bills come
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
The Windows app doesn't always (or even usually, in my experience) stay synced with the webapp, so I only use webapp now. Wondering if the same will be true for the Mac app.
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> It's quite solid: most of these places are oversold, overcrowded, not that interesting, or a combination of the above. I would disagree with almost everything this person has written. I think you have to be completely incurious or
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Agreed. I've been to many canyons, and the Grand Canyon is truly a marvel - it's stunning, it took my breath away and still does. Just go and look at it for 15 minutes? That's all you can muster? "Featureless" steep
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
This is the kind of comment that you just really, truly do not need to make. Ever.
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
I won't be shocked (I don't have biometric logins enabled, thankyouverymuch), but does that mean I just celebrate it, or give up in all circumstances? I'm not yet a kicked dog, in either behavior or attitude.
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> The answer to that is the only one that matters. This statement rests on the belief that absolute crime rate is the only thing that matters, and is a cousin to the "I have nothing to hide!" response from people who care littl
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> You're just making excuses for them. I am communicating my own sincerely held belief on general practices with large-scale layoffs, and my sincere disagreement with the black-and-white declarative than a mass email is definitel
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
There is no perfect or right way to do this. Every approach will have criticism (and not every approach is equal), and different people will appreciate different things about the trade-offs. Is it polite to let people stew for hours, or day
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Ah I hear you, makes sense
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
> Rigged wins aren't a real problem. Aren't a problem for whom, exactly? I'm not commenting here with concern about the prediction market businesses , founders, or shareholders. I'm concerned for the suckers who are
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
You won't see swaths of honeysuckle or privet because it grows in the understory throughout the entire forest, choking out natives. Part of their destructive power is that they bloom earlier than most natives in spring, essentially ste
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
I believe they are incentivized to discourage insider bets and essentially "rigged" wins. I do not think they will ever be able to control the problem of insiders leveraging guaranteed knowledge to take money for the poor suckers
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by HelloMcFly 6mo ago
Kudzu's threat has been long overstated. It thrives especially near forest edgelands which are always visible on highways, so concern of prevalence was partially based on individual sampling error. In reality, its presence in southern
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by HelloMcFly 7mo ago
Ah, I see. Rock-solid, longitudinal studies be damned - the "lesser peoples" just get what they deserve.
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by HelloMcFly 7mo ago
What am I supposed to be reading here? The article? The short snippet of commentary about it? The back-and-forth comments on the commentary? Your link seems to have nothing to say about inequitible school quality based on unfair, racist, cl

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