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Comment Re:The Mystery of the Soggy Shipment (Score 1) 131

It's adding to the cloud cover, which will reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, which will cause temperatures to drop, which will plunge us into the next ice age. Then us humans will need to start burning fossil fuels again to drag us out of the ice age, just like we did last time.

Comment Re:"Demons and monsters"? (Score 0) 75

So, essentially, this thing was trained on a steady diet of pro-life propaganda and death metal album covers. What a combination.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 21

I've been using duolingo for a bit because I work on a demolition crew, and apparently I've been designated liaison with the hispanic construction workers we occasionally work with. I've pretty much reached the limit of progress with duolingo, and really just need to hang out with some native spanish speakers for a bit. Luckily one of my wife's friends is moving back to town, and her Mexican husband is all on-board with hanging out with a bottle of tequila and making fun of me in spanish :)

Comment Re:$10 billion (Score 3, Informative) 190

Brightline is a privately owned company. I think they actually intend for this to be a profitable venture- and hence a profitable investment- based on their experience in Florida. So 'We' who might use that money elsewhere is whoever they find as investors or lenders in this project, not any government.
One would have to do some research to be sure whether or not public funding is involved, but I haven't seen any in the linked article.

Comment Re:potential profit lost vs. cost (Score 1) 273

Lost revenue can indeed be loss. They don't pay cash for those buildings. If the revenue is reduced, they still need to pay the bank their monthly notes. To simplify, if you buy a car and have a $100 monthly note, but you drive for Uber and make $200 month, your revenue covers your costs. If you stop driving for Uber, that $100 becomes a loss.

Comment Is it really a fixing anything? (Score 1) 201

That doesn't mean we should sit on our thumbs and do nothing about small things that are easy to fix.

Make sure you're actually fixing things. A 'single use' plastic bag is 5 or 6 grams of plastic and is incredibly easy to make. Reusable bags take dozens or hundreds the amount of resources to produce, and must be periodically washed, increasing the environment footprint even further.

Comment Re:No rear sensor? Pass (Score 1) 45

Not necessarily a deal killer for me, but it's one of the reasons I stuck with Pixel 5. It's right where I put my finger holding the phone, anyway. A bigger deal killer for me is size. Am I the only person who doesn't want to carry a backpack for my phone? The 5 just barely fits in my pocket. When do we get a Pixel Mini? I'm seriously looking at the flip phones or (gag) the iphone mini.

Comment Hey folks! We're already dead (Score 0) 294

Remember back in the 90's when Al Gore said we'd all be dead from global warming in 10 years? Turned out that actually happened. Scientists were able to capture our minds and put them in a complex supercomputer that's solar powered at the last minute, and reset our memories to a few years before.

That's why simulation theory is such a hot topic these days, because the simulation is imperfect and we're beginning to see through the cracks.

But never fear, we're already dead from climate change, just as was predicted decades ago. We can't possibly die a second time. The computers are safely situated.

Happy trails! /end sarcasm.

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