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New comment by nancyminusone in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

nancyminusone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:58:58 +0000

The person using the network is the one who put a quarter in the payphone.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs"

nancyminusone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:38:26 +0000

I don't think I've ever heard a mechanical engineer say "torus" in my life unless they're talking about the car. When you are doing feedback with a human operator you use terms like "make this thicker" or "rotate that this way" while pointing at them. Text does not have this.

New comment by nancyminusone in "The better the autopilot the worse the pilot"

nancyminusone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:41:39 +0000

>signal lights tell me whether or not I can pass

No they don't, they tell you and other vehicles to stop. You would fail your driving test if you depend only on the traffic lights and don't bother to verify it is safe to pass yourself.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse"

nancyminusone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:47:56 +0000

I'm not so good of a judge of these things but I don't think this is thst kind of article.

New comment by nancyminusone in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

nancyminusone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:34:44 +0000

>we can scale this up exponentially

Lost me here. It usually means something will require exponentially more resources, and eventually a finite limit (money, time, raw materials, land, energy, lifespan, speed of light, etc) will be hit.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

nancyminusone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:20:15 +0000

I had a relative for which it was CNN. We even share the same political views, but watching that stuff or having it on in the background literally from 8 am until midnight is tiring.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

nancyminusone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:15:32 +0000

I do find it amusing how on the internet the X and Y can be governments or corporations, or the hosted platform itself. Seems like something a competent "we control everything" organization should be able to prevent. But as long as you do nothing but come back for another helping of rage, I guess they're fine with it.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

nancyminusone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:53:14 +0000

I really forgot how stupid cable tv was 20 years ago. In my area, that old stuff is now getting broadcast over the air, which is the only kind of tv I get. It's not the history channel's Ancient Aliens exactly, but it is all the 2nd tier offshoot stuff that didn't air on the big cable channels. About half of them are "about" Hitler, and the topics are treated so unseriously you get things like "Dude, look! This door has an H on it! This must have been where he went!"

It's so stupid you almost can't help watching, but I'll be dammed if they didn't get me to. Wild times.

New comment by nancyminusone in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

nancyminusone — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:25:44 +0000

I can assure you that people protesting the the one near where I live barely know or care about AI, but they know something is up when a giant evil fuckass building shows up seemingly overnight. Who knows what sort of horrible things are going on inside, it's not like you'll be allowed in to check. The only connection to AI is that the AI companies placed the order for it.

My town also protested when Walmart decided they wanted to install one of their mega shopping centers here. A big building means someone has too much money, and its only a matter of time until they use it against YOU.

New comment by nancyminusone in "ISS astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak"

nancyminusone — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:46:14 +0000

NASA does. The Russians had to switch back due to sanctions /s

New comment by nancyminusone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:52:34 +0000

Your source talks about the disinfection of air, contains no references to disinfection of skin, and only mentions skin three times, twice to specifically warn against skin damage from UVC exposure, and once to clairify which types of UV light penetrate the skin.

New comment by nancyminusone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:48:38 +0000

You are welcome to paint my opinion of trump in any color of light you like as long as it isn't UV-C.

New comment by nancyminusone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:52:01 +0000

have a read for yourself:

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...

As for me, I don't think you need a phd to read the warning stickers on bleach and isoproponal which say "do not injest" [2] [3] or warnings on germicidal lamps that say "do not expose to eyes or skin" [4]. If you do or have otherwise hidden knowledge why these should be ignored, say so.

[2] https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/cloroxre...

[3] https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC423830040&...

[4] https://www.mscdirect.com/knowledge-center/articles/safety-t...

Next you will tell me that he isnt talking about UVC lamps, and I'll have to admit he speaks so vaguely that you can interpert his own words as almost anything.

New comment by nancyminusone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:35:55 +0000

He did not tell anyone to do these things nor do I claim he did. He did ask his staff to "look into" whether either of these sanitation methods "could be used inside the human body", which is a bit like if I asked my doctor if I could eat laundry soap and shampoo instead of showering and doing laundry.

The very fact that these ideas exist inside a US president's skull is VERY SAD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

New comment by nancyminusone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:53:47 +0000

Sure, I'll grow up and listen to riffs about how inhaling bleach fumes "gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number" or being exposed to a "very powerful light" are thought by same man above as a potential remedy for same disease with 100% seriousness.

New comment by nancyminusone in "ESP32-S31"

nancyminusone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:09:34 +0000

Thats an easy mistake to make when you reuse the series name of your first chip and decide it's gonna be the family name now.

New comment by nancyminusone in "ESP32-S31"

nancyminusone — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:51:31 +0000

if it were American it probably would have been hostile-takeovered by Qualcomm or someone else and tightened down long ago.

New comment by nancyminusone in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

nancyminusone — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:00:28 +0000

Trebuchet

New comment by nancyminusone in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

nancyminusone — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:57:30 +0000

I don't recall anyone in my town being overly angry when fiber internet dug up their front yards.

But the datacenter they couldn't stop has made national news multiple times.

Also, what wealth? "Please allow me to exploit your land for little benefit to you" isn't a great selling point.

New comment by nancyminusone in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

nancyminusone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:06:17 +0000

Asbestos is the miracle material it is advertised as. It really is great insulation, and really is absolutely fireproof. Thousands of industrial uses are readily apparent.

Despite this, because of its other effects, the cost to clean up and stop using asbestos is greater than the sum total of any benefit from all mined asbestos worldwide.

Even a miracle technology can still be a net disaster.