blooalien

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by blooalien 6d ago
> There are technologies for battery storage that don't look like batteries. Thermal energy storage is an example. Yeah, there's also pumped water storage, and other forms of gravity/kinetic storage, various means of chemi
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by blooalien 6d ago
> It is to bad these people do not care how much of a sucky life they are handing their grandchildren. It's a cryin' shame these people don't care how much of a sucky life they are handing everyone's grandchildren,
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by blooalien 10d ago
I think I would prefer an optional separate channel specifically for people to share such things with each other who wanted to see that exact sorta thing. Then nobody gets bothered by it who's not interested in such things, and peop
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by blooalien 10d ago
> The golden path I dream of has ASI replacing human-run governments Fingers crossed, hoping for a genuinely benevolent ASI Overlord if we somehow find ourselves on that particular timeline (although, there's still a number of way
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by blooalien 10d ago
> Or a fair die roll. https://xkcd.com/221/
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by blooalien 13d ago
> Having AI in charge can represent hope actually. If we can get "AI in charge" that was developed and is overseen by genuinely ethical individuals who truly and deeply understand the technology and how it actually work
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by blooalien 13d ago
> ... someone can at once be very hated and very loved ... And (like Musk) can even be both (or more) all at once to a given specific individual (loved for the good he's done, and hated for the bad) and even pitied at the same tim
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by blooalien 13d ago
> I live under a rock. Why is musk hated so much in here? Let's say for a moment that you "live under a rock" enough that you actually haven't got a clue why Musk is such a hated figure (not only just here, but acro
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by blooalien 16d ago
> Consider me not even an iota of surprised. Yeah, I followed this link specifically to see how many folks are surprised that Amazon may have did yet another vile thing to their employees, and I'm not one bit surprised to find
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by blooalien 17d ago
> ... only runs on windows. The version I bought on Steam runs fine on Linux (in Proton of course). I just click "Play" and it plays.
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by blooalien 17d ago
One guy will die with "all the things" and the rest of us will just die.
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by blooalien 18d ago
> Zombie apocalypses are a fun meme ... A) Not really that much fun (as evidenced by how shitty life gets for pretty much everyone in "The Walking Dead"). ;) B) In my mind "The Zombie Apocalypse" has always just
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by blooalien 19d ago
> Allowing judges to interpret the “spirit of the law” more widely would create a different set of absurdities, I think. Yeah, kinda genuinely terrifying to think about that timeline. That's how you get George Orwell's worst
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by blooalien 20d ago
> If you feel there should be cuts to nsf, then congress should do so (as enshrined by law). Not executive fiat by the president. Per the constitution the congress has the power of the purse. Yes, exactly, and if someone don't like
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by blooalien 20d ago
I'm not 100% sure about your usage of the word "can't" since it's been actively happening. Maybe "shouldn't" might apply better to the reality of the world we now find ourselves living in.
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by blooalien 20d ago
For Reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces...
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by blooalien 21d ago
> water ... usage are the less problematic parts Except when some rich clown from another country comes into a drought-stressed desert area where residents have already been under increasingly draconic water usage restrictions for goin
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by blooalien 21d ago
> I'm curious the reason why it was ever held in the US and Canada Random Educated Guess; Probably part of some show of mutual trust to cement a treaty or other agreement, made way back when allied governments could mostly trust one
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by blooalien 21d ago
> What can a single person legally do about corruption though? These days not much it would seem. :(
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by blooalien 21d ago
> ... algo tuned bubble, curated for them by the data scientists ... > ... the distortion is coming from inside the borders. Yeah, this really does contribute significantly to the whole problem. It's all kinda terrifying really.
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by blooalien 21d ago
> 35% approve I also gotta wonder what percentage of this group is amplified beyond reality by bot armies and hostile foreign actors. There can't really be that many people so completely detached from reality, can there?
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by blooalien 21d ago
> On the flip side, let's keep pointing to all the specific Trump examples. "They" (the cult that worships Trump) would simply presume "TDS" over such an idea, but the fact here is that Trump absolutely is &quo
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by blooalien 22d ago
> The government in the US isn’t for the people. Sure it is, but only the really rich people...
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by blooalien 22d ago
> Just gotta make the hole the perpetrators are in deep enough. Oubliette [1^]: The dungeon you throw people in that you want to forget. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dungeon#/media/Fi...
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by blooalien 22d ago
> I sense it's more a backlash against tech-bros in general. I can almost guarantee there's a good bit of that also involved in addition to all the other concerns and issues folks also rightly have.
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by blooalien 22d ago
> Even worse some data centers have been caught running on diesel generators even in places where that is illegal. Yeah, Elon's a big fan of this tactic.
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by blooalien 22d ago
> Why and how would they contaminate the water supply though? One recent-ish example: ^[1] > ... or is it being caused by poorly executed construction practices? I believe their contractor was responsible for this one IIRC? [1]: http
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by blooalien 22d ago
There's also the water usage, which time and time again they lie blatantly about, and they choose to want to often build these things in heavily populated drought-stressed areas for some foolish reason. And then you got clowns like
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by blooalien 22d ago
> Turns out putting them in space is the answer! Can we put them on Mars, and maybe send Elon to tend them?
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by blooalien 23d ago
I used to take a buncha glow sticks and a "shakey" flashlight too (just in case).

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