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New comment by 542354234235 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

542354234235 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:02:08 +0000

The economics of petroleum would be totally different if you had to pay 5x more for crude to replace Straight of Hormuz blocked imports. Weird that it took way less than 20 years for that to hit.

New comment by 542354234235 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

542354234235 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:12:35 +0000

> Instead I got pages after pages of word-manure about nothing at all for reasons I don't even understand.

More writing means more space to shove ads in between every paragraph.

New comment by 542354234235 in "“Your frustration is the product”"

542354234235 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:52:06 +0000

No, its because greedy people try to make money off people. Ads are the reason the internet sucks. There could be a wikipedia like site for lyrics that would cost pennies to maintain and people who like music and contributing would add to it. But scummy sites making money will pay to be at the top of search results as an ad, so they can get people to click on their site that is full of ads, all while sucking up bandwidth and processing power. Why are their dozens of almost identicle recipes for every dish? Because each one is trying to extract money with ads. Why do they all have some long-winded story about how they grew up eating this recipe every 9/11 anniversary? So they have more space to shove ads.

Wikipedia only exsists because they refuse to sell out. Do you know how much money they could make turning every wiki reader into a product for ads?

New comment by 542354234235 in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

542354234235 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:59:18 +0000

Average includes vegans, and I'm pretty sure they eat it less than once per week. It’s just how much meat divided by population. The previous comment shows that the consumption is not anywhere close to equally distributed.

New comment by 542354234235 in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

542354234235 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:52:02 +0000

Building a new factory would cost $20 billion and take 3 to 4 years [0,1]. With chip output capacity and AI boom profit margins, it would take just under a decade to break even. If the bubble bursts and chips return to pre-boom levels, then it would take over 30 years to break even.

Ford had almost $20 billion in EV car manufacturing investments planned for the mid-late 2020s and the abrupt end of the EV subsidies cost Ford billions of dollars and they have abandoned multiple investments.

If you do nothing, you still are rewarded because you are making pure profit in either scenario. If you invest billions then you are digging out of that for years regardless, and could be in the whole for decades if you bet wrong.

[0] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-bil...

[1] https://techovedas.com/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-semicond...

New comment by 542354234235 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

542354234235 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:58:13 +0000

Meta isn't the only camera that might be pointed at you at any given time.

New comment by 542354234235 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

542354234235 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:56:36 +0000

It doesn’t seem like catastrophizing when discussing how people might react to a stranger attacking them. Hitting someone in the face hard enough to knock off their glasses isn’t exactly some silly little thing that people would be ridiculous to respond to. It is an attack and people would likely perceive it as such. Plenty of people would just be stunned and do nothing, but plenty of people carry and go to the range every weekend just waiting for someone to try something.

New comment by 542354234235 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

542354234235 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:16:58 +0000

I've tried to learn and grow from the stupid comments of my youth. I haven't been involved in a long list of scandals directly related to the ideas those comments expressed, and if I was, it would be pretty clear that I didn't learn or grow at all.

New comment by 542354234235 in "A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks"

542354234235 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:21:30 +0000

>Plastic isn't always forever

But molecularly, plastic is around forever. A wooden bucket will eventually breakdown to not be wood at all anymore. Products made from plastic is not what lasts forever, the plastic itself is.

New comment by 542354234235 in "Reading English from 1000 AD"

542354234235 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:08:41 +0000

The History of English Podcast gets much better once he gets into the groove of things and I'd definitely recommend sticking with it. I love all the random fun facts that come in most episodes, like where idioms came from, meaning behind the names of the days of the week, and how the word for hospital relates to Christians pilgrimaging to the Holy Land.

New comment by 542354234235 in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

542354234235 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:08:40 +0000

It kind of annoys me that the article says the people trapped behind the trucks are just inconvenienced, but the truck driver gains time and money. Considering commuting to and from work is what most people are doing on the road, that is exactly time and money. It really could be seen as truck drivers stealing dozens, if not hundreds, of minutes from other drivers to give themselves 5 minutes.

New comment by 542354234235 in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

542354234235 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:25:52 +0000

My grandparents didn’t smoke. They didn’t allow smoking in their house and that was seen as super weird in Texas. Even if you didn’t smoke, it was just expected that smokers can smoke wherever. Having ashtrays in the common area was the normal polite thing.

New comment by 542354234235 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

542354234235 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:56:41 +0000

The motive was pretty clear i.e. to murder aid workers helping Palestinians and assumed to be Palestinian. The report is very clear that the IDF could see the vehicle lights the entire time, making it clear they were protected aid workers. They attacked the first ambulance, the follow up ambulances, the UN truck, and the UN bus, before and after dawn, with plenty of time between. If this were a movie, there could be a clever twist to show some other motive, but in the real world, this is as clear as you get without confessions to tell you what was in their heads.

Why didn’t they murder everyone? As testimony says [0], when one of the survivors called out that his mother was Israeli, the IDF soldiers lowered their weapons and helped him up. It seems to me that these are soldiers that have decided that Palestinians are less than human, or that Palestinians will never coexist and it is “them or us”. This mindset happens in many wars, but actual incidents depend on leadership at all levels and how much it is implicitly allowed. I think their cover up actions speak the loudest to how widespread these things are. The on the ground commander clearly wasn’t worried about destroying any and all evidence or leaving witnesses. Buring everything was to make it too difficult for outsiders confirm what happened, not to prevent leadership from putting them in jail. They were counting on being protected, and they were. A letter of reprimand for the commander, and losing his position as deputy commander (not loss of rank or being kicked out of the military) is little more than a speedbump to their military careers.

[0] Page 36-37 of report

New comment by 542354234235 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

542354234235 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:17:51 +0000

Accuweather's Minutecast is usually accurate for rain to within 5 minutes and have used it to time my bike commute. It uses your specific location and if rain is passing over that specific spot, and when, over the next 4 hours.

New comment by 542354234235 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

542354234235 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:09:51 +0000

The same reason you use a calendar, to plan for the future. I can see the weather right now, but to plan, I want to know the weather in an hour, this afternoon, tomorrow, this weekend. When I am getting ready at 5am, I want to know if I can bike to work, and bike home in the afternoon, without getting rained on. If I'm thinking about weekend plans, should it be kayaking or board games? The weather affects those choices and having an unobtrusive way to just be aware of the future weather is nice to have.

New comment by 542354234235 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

542354234235 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:58:48 +0000

You are freeing your mind from mundane tasks you don't like, by filling your mind with automation tasks you do like. I find it is a good trade.

New comment by 542354234235 in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

542354234235 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:15:20 +0000

Anthropic is investing, conservatively, $100+ billion in AI infrastructure and development. A 20-person research team could put out several papers a year. That would cost them what, $5 million a year, or one half of one percent? They don't have to spend much to get that kind of output.

New comment by 542354234235 in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

542354234235 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:49:23 +0000

The Olympics are games. No one is hurt by someone playing for another team. Are people disloyal to America if they vacation in a foreign country? They are siphoning American money off to a foreign country instead of patriotically traveling inside the US of A. Don’t watch the Great British Bake Off! You are giving your American attention to a foreign show over the great Home Grown American TV!

New comment by 542354234235 in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

542354234235 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:47:34 +0000

They are, and it is very funny.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/35437979/Velocipedia

New comment by 542354234235 in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

542354234235 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:35:35 +0000

Oh no! The Federal government is targeting their political opponents with selective enforcement of long-standing statutes.