AFaithfulNihilist

For now you have access to the ability to connect to the internet for multiple places and not have businesses immediately know exactly who you are. That is gradually going to be eliminated until you can be assured that every interaction you have on every website and every service will know exactly who you are at all times.

Then it becomes a lot harder to investigate this kind of stuff for yourself.

As an atheist that grew up in the Bible belt I have to say of all the books in the Bible, Matthew is probably my favorite.

There's not enough minable copper or lithium to make all of the batteries we will need. So e alternatives will have to emerge if we are to reduce the need for generating power on demand with fuels.

This CO2 is acting as a reusable fluid in a closed loop. The initial capture of the CO2 costs energy, but the battery keeps using the same CO2 over and over again. So the question of efficiency should be more about land usage and maintenance of the rest of the parts and the labor needed for each megawatt stored vs what other grid scale energy storage costs in materials and labor.

The rough reality is that batteries aren't going to be up to the task of grid scale energy storage unless they have a couple huge breakthroughs. Something like this is a far less materially expensive way to store energy for later use.

Currently most grid scale energy storage is just pumping water up a hill and letting it back down through a generator. It is extremely limited in where it can be used and requires tremendous space to be effective.

This is only a symbolic gesture until we see actual literal results. Those results are already questionable because we know they won't be arresting these criminals.

I'm not sure what you see this officer having done other than talk about encouraging his officers to do part of their job or risk losing it.

This isn't actually doing anything. This is barely an announcement of public intent to in the future do something. Every time the police don't do something will be evidence that this was full of shit. If an officer does something as a result of this order it can't even be praised because of what it's taken to force them to do it.

They aren't actually going to do it though. This is all marketing and public relations nonsense. This is purely performative. If I'm wrong I will be so happy to be wrong.

This reminds me of that teen parody of Stargate from episode 200 of Stargate.

Has anyone ever tried to communicate to open AI support? Their support is basically nothing but chat GPT with a filter on it. I am trying to help somebody set up SSO with Open AI and it's been two weeks of back and forth sharing videos showing screenshots that their AI system completely ignores and asks me if I've tried clearing my cache for the umpteenth time.

I'm helping a company set it up but they are wholly unprepared for how unreliable and shitty it is. So often I hear people excited about all of the things they can do with it and I worry that they actually believe it works as advertised.

I was told I was a bright kid, ignored and only complimented as criticism so I deeply mistust compliments.

In fairness a government should be the only entity surveilling people in its own borders under most any circumstances.

I'm pretty opposed to most any kind of surveillance outside of warranted due process, and I don't think that any domestic surveillance needs privacy for longer than it takes to do an investigation and prosecution.

It's when governments are allowed to do things in secret and outside of the law that the whole concept of the law is undermined.

I see this alot online but in real life I know more Liza Minnelli and Elvira types.

I don't have a computer to try it on and I can't be without a computer.

Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!

From what I can tell, it looks like there are a lot of loans out right now, the rate at which they are issued has increased since the beginning of the Trump presidency has increased dramatically, and this is like really bad because If those loans don't get paid back then pillars start collapsing underneath the financial system. Lose too many of those and the whole thing comes crashing down.

This one graph doesn't represent all of the bad that is going on, it's just a sort of a weathervane to tell you which way the wind is blowing. ...and right now it's blowing where the sun don't shine.