Only problem is, while he's pissing all over you, he will tell you about Amway and Tupperware.

It's easier to slice ads out of streamed content than it was with cable.

My streaming providers still think I watch their ads while actually, I'm buffering at least 5 minutes of their stream to ensure I can cut them out.

Yes, it is kinda bad for the bandwidth that I basically stream hours of content I never watch, but hey, what can I do?

No, I'm pissed that real life has a better resolution than TV now, but with TV content getting worse and worse, real life is already on par with the boredom I get from TV now.

For now, for now... But rejoice, I'm sure ESPN will soon join and you can enjoy all the sports you never wanted to see again, just for 50 bucks more to the bundle price. No, you can't have it without.

And anything you want to see still costs a low, low extra fee.

Take the CET. We have a whole bunch of observations going back to the 17c for several locations.

We then take some proxies, for instance annual tree ring widths, and estimate annual temperatures from them.

We process the temperature readings so we extract a parameter comparable to what we can obtain from the proxies.

There is a divergence. The parameter derived from the temperature observations is warmer than that which we have estimated from the proxies.

Why do we conclude the observations readings are wrong and need correcting? Why is it not the proxies which are being shown to read cold?

Cannot do it like this.

The first step is to cool the past by assuming the temp records are wrong and that the proxies are right. How do we know the temp records were wrong and running hot? They are measuring two different things, the proxies are stuff like annual tree rings. The temp records are daily observations. You cannot correct the observations from the proxies.

Then it gets worse, the next step is to assume that the proxy records are comparable to the last couple of years temperature records.

"very single month since June, the globe has experienced the hottest temperatures for that month on record -- that's 11 months in a row now, enough to ensure that 2023 was the hottest year on record, and 2024 will likely be similarly extreme. There's been nothing like this in the temperature record, and it acts as an unmistakable indication of human-driven warming."

There may be human driven warning, but this cannot possibly be an indicator of it. There is no causal chain from these observations to human activity.

In addition, you have no idea from the proxy record what the monthly fluctuations of temp were in 1568 or whenever. It is entirely possible, from the cited evidence, that there have been many years like 2023 in the past 2,000 years. Its just that there were no instruments around to keep track of them.

What we can however do it take a given country with good instrumental records and ask whether, for that country, 2023 was particularly unusual. The cases I have read where this has been done do not show anything much out of the ordinary. The UK for instance, the hot summer was not remarkable. Unusual, but not unprecedented. Back in the seventies of the last century there were similar or hotter summers. Pakistan similar.

If this is the methodology and the evidence we are justified in classing this as alarmist nonsense. There may be a serious coming problem with global warming, but you cannot show that like this.

Yeah, restarting that oil tanker takes more fuel than anyone is willing to waste on that.

Show me one productive meeting and I show you 10 that could have been an email instead.

I'm down with that. I provide work. You pay for it.

That's about the whole "relationship" I expect from a company. Don't try to lure me in with some fee-fees about company culture and stick that fruit basket where the sun doesn't shine.

That's evil.

I like it!

The janitor could tell them that for a fraction of the price. The problem is, though, that the insane price is exactly what convinces. Because if it's SO expensive, you can't just ignore it, lest you'd have to admit that you fell for some con-artist who told you for six figures what the janitor would have told you for free.

CEOs are journal driven. They read something in some CEO journal, claiming it's the hottest shit and everyone must do it, and they do it.

Quite frankly, LLMs can't replace those useless spongers fast enough.

Which reminds me, I enjoy skeet shooting...

And that's the problem. Talented people don't care if useless waste looks good.

Hmm... let's see... LLM can ramble incoherently and occasionally they hallucinate.

Let's call that "them having visions" and we're set.