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Comment Sick Transhumanists (Score 1) 40

Some of these people just want to replace Humans in every way possible, no matter the reliability of the systems.

Wimbledon is not necessary. We don't need tennis tournaments to survive. People enjoy them and being a part of them gives some people meaning in life.

The people who want to take that all away can screw off. Today the line judges, tomorrow the players - and the day after the War Machine.

Comment FluffGPT (Score 0) 28

Example of a suspicious passage:

"This is the best scientific paper ever, believe me! It proves beyond a galactic doubt that climate change is a tremendous hoax perpetrated by deep communist woke liberals so that they had an excuse to regulate my grand and beautiful hotels and resorts, which score the highest ratings in the history of ratings, by the way, going all the way back to Ebbuh K. Neezer, loved the guy, taught me all about gold toilets, Making Shitting Great Again!"

Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 23

Tech companies in general...need to get over this precious-snowflake conceit that their aesthetic choices are sacred and not to be tampered with.

I still curse the small, low-contrast font craze from a few years back. Leftovers are still around. Was it a plot to keep us geezers off the WebTubes?

Comment Re:But China is the world leader here (Score 1) 14

I'm also confused what is going on here, though I was thinking more about the renewable energy side of it, not the electric car stuff. There must be some loaded language in the declaration?

However, the way China is building up the renewable energy capacity it looks like "Yuugen Jikkou" to me. That's actually a Japanese/Romaji version of a 4-character Chinese/Japanese expression that can't be used on Slashdot anyway. I'm not sure if there is a way to say it in English. "All talk, no action" is kind of the opposite idea (and there's also a 4-character expression for that), but yuugen jikkou is about doing what you said you were going to do. However what I wanted to say is still slightly different... It's more like the Chinese aren't really worrying about what the Europeans are saying about climate action, but they are just acting. The Chinese are building up LOTS of renewable energy capacity and not worrying too much about who says what. Pledges are cheap.

Now how to go for funny? One angle would be the YOB's recent claim there aren't any wind farms in China versus the reality. Not sure how much I trust the google's AI answers these days, but I'm pretty sure that the summary saying China has 40% of world capacity for wind power is in the right ballpark. However if the claim for new capacity around 50% (for 2022) is accurate, then that bodes even more Chinese dominance for the future...

Comment Independence Day (Score 2) 111

Americans: Fireworks are illegal? Fuckoff, I'm lighting them in the street then.

Worse: some dumbass caused a fire near LA by buying professional show grade fireworks without knowing how to use them.

If he had access to a fireworks store (like I shop at in New Hampshire) he probably would have just bought those.

I buy consumer mortars and those are *plenty* big for home use.

Much kudos to the Chinese who make very reliable pyrotechnics at quite a fair price. I only spent $160 this year despite the tariffs.

Comment Fuel or electrical? (Score 2) 103

Two theories that seem reasonable from what I've been hearing:

1. Contaminated fuel combined with high temps causing the fuel to become gaseous before getting to the engine.

2. Apparently a solar storm hit exactly at the time of the crash, raising questions about induced currents causing an electrical failure.

The emergency turbine shouldn't have deployed if it were bad gas, so that leads to the sudden electrical failure causing the crash.

That turbine works fine at altitude but not at take-off because at least you can glide to a landing if you have electrical/hydraulic power.

Comment Honestly who attacks the FSF? (Score 0) 34

LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

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