Gsus4

Gsus4, 10 months ago

It hits different when you’re the one being crashed into, but if it crashes less than monkeys behind the wheel and liabilities are all accounted for and punished accordingly, bring it!

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It’s not clear from the article, but if this is a direct solar-to-dessalination I can understand how it uses less energy (why does it use any energy at all?) than other methods with pumps and filters, the issue is rate maybe, but I can’t find a paper about this.

Found fuelcellsworks.com/…/malaga-students-patent-an-in… which says it produces 1 cubic meter per day, which is great for small-scale seaside production. Again, I have no access to details of how 1 square meter of sunlight (or more, maybe they use mirrors to concentrate sunlight, it says 9 square meters, as kerfuffle mentioned) can dessalinate 1 cubic meter of water per day, but it’s great if it works, just wondering why solar dessalination hadn’t been tried to this degree of success before.

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

You mean Adam Conover’s interviews? Me neither, this is completely new to me too, he’s like a literate Joe Rogan and less formal Lex Friedman :)

Gsus4, 10 months ago

I didn’t know Dan, but when I heard he actually studied theology, I finally understood his meticulous understanding and debunking of the crypto delusion, NFTs and tech hypecycles in general, now I’m watching “line go up” :)

Gsus4, 10 months ago

There is a sub for that (probably, c/horror, c/psychiatry), this ain’t it.

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

yeah, that makes more sense, haha: Loab is ň̴̖̭͂͋o̸̎͊̀͜t̴͇͉͑̅ͅ ̶͔͎̕͠r̵̤̹̄̌̇ȅ̷̛͎̪̱́å̴̱̲̃̚l̸̡͓̳͑͗͠ L̵͈̹̳̂̐͠ò̴̢͛̓a̶̡̛̟̳͑b̴̡̘̠͆̌ ̶̳͌ï̵͚͍͋s̷̫̼̿͐̋ ̷̳̍ň̴̖̭͂͋o̸̎͊̀͜t̴͇͉͑̅ͅ ̶͔͎̕͠r̵̤̹̄̌̇ȅ̷̛͎̪̱́å̴̱̲̃̚l̸̡͓̳͑͗͠ , so paste the article it in the original description and redeem yourself. Now here is another article with a picture to make you shit your pants: techcrunch.com/2022/…/loab-ai-generated-horror/ (don’t open this alone at night in the dark all of a sudden, you’ve been warned) turns out this is actually interesting. AI is probably able to create the most haunting images imaginable, there you go, another great use case waiting to be weaponized.

PS: in hindsight and after some habituation, it’s not that scary, but at first it’s spooky

Gsus4, 10 months ago

True, at this point they might as well rebrand to PM&C: porn, memes and crypto

Gsus4, 10 months ago

Thank god for firearms (yes, very regulated, etc, not that kind of comment), because now we don’t bother with decades of practice of swordfighting, archery only to die to some noob with a machine gun and have released millions of man-hours to do better things with their time, like gardening, RnD, corporate pole climbing :)

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

A big lesson from Trump and others like him is that when someone’s a piece of shit and brags about it in public, it looks innocuous and at best it may be revealing and may validate your views on power and the flaws of society, but on another level he’s likely to give voice to, rally and convince other assholes to feel entitled and protected to act like assholes and then you have an actual problem. So yes, polite amorality is better.

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yea, it’s an archetype, but it’s funny how some predictions are oddly specific for such a broad recurrent archetype:

“… a despicable person will arise… a man of contempt… to whom the royal honor has not been rightfully conferred. He will slip in when least expected and will seize the kingdom through flattery and intrigue.” Daniel 11:21

“He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior… He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.” Daniel 8:25, 2 Thess 2:10

“But then the court will convene, and all his power will be taken away.” Daniel 7:26

From these, the Antichrist’s description is starting to sound like Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil and how that is scarier than fictional supernatural evil with horns and pitchforks.

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Last time I checked, CO2 released at that altitude has 3x the effect on radiative forcing, so it’s good that we’re not dumping it up there. I know water is also a greenhouse gas, but I expect the residence time to be substantially lower than for CO2. So it would be a net positive as long as we’re emitting on the ground the same amount of CO2 as emitted up there (we’re probably emitting more, but probably not 3x more and it would be easier to capture at the exhaust than from up there)

PS: more on radiative forcing factors here …stanford.edu/…/s3-radiative-forcing-rfi-memo_pub…

Gsus4, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Technically a good boi then.

PS: bonus video to show that canines are not the strangest thing about a camel’s mouth: yewtu.be/watch?v=9NC2saE5MbQ…it actually seems to love munching on spiny things, look at him go 😍 😱

Gsus4, 10 months ago

I thought they weren’t even federated with anybody…at least I can’t see their communities in the list.

Gsus4, 10 months ago

Complete corporate happy-go-lucky fake unawareness, gaslighting, no shame, but even feels like they are just saying this to humiliate the people who understand what it really means and banking on the memorilessness of their cattle…is there a word for this?

Gsus4, 10 months ago

This is actually effective against iranian lawnmower drones, right?