Then you have the people that think upscaling an image 3x makes it more detailed and sharper.

It doesn't? You might want to tell these folks.

The male/female ratio in China isn't that skewed, it's something like 106:100. A lot of it is probably the same thing you see in every other country, where both men and women lose social skills and have unrealistic standards of what kind of partner they are entitled to.

Right-wingers have been loudly cheering the inevitable economic downfall of California for years as its economy continues to grow. It must be so infuriating to them that Commiefornia just keeps getting richer.

"After 9 years as a US citizen, he could run for the US Senate. He would be 76 (or 74) years old.In short, it looks highly unlikely that he could (or even would) run for the US Senate."

Yeah, he would be way too young for our Senate.

I feel bad for entry-level folks -- though continually surprised how many of them outsource so much of their thinking to AI themselves. It seems like most college students cheat with AI, making them less useful as entry-level employees.

So, die of skin cancer instead of Alzheimer's?

Nope, there's now a vaccine for that.

When Ukraine dissects the remains of Russian drones or missiles, they inevitably find western components. In one case, reported on here, they found an Nvidia chip inside a missile.

Is someone, or someones, inside the supply chain redirecting chips? Is this the same as the servers getting to China? Or is this merely a case of someone buying this stuff under a shell company and then passing it along?

No problem. I spent 43 years designing HVAC and plumbing using the crazy US customary units, it can get pretty convoluted converting between all the different measures, and I've had problems with them sometimes. Besides these "calculations" are way too rough to be accurate.

I think your calculations may be off. (I know mine weren't very precise) Let's say you need an average of 1.5 Tons of cooling for the day. That's 24 hours at 18,000 btuh or 432,000 btu total. Your proposing 18F temperature rise, which is pretty high for a chilled water coil in an A/C system - traditionally they ran at 10F, though modern systems are often greater, I've designed systems up to 16F. Still, using an 18F dT would require 24,000 lbs of water, which is about 385 cu ft, or a cube 7.25 feet on a side, basically a small room. I see you're only accounting for 12 hours of cooling with the water, but if you did that, you would need to use an average load for those 12 hours close to the 3-Ton peak.
All the rest of the complications and expenses remain, making it impractical for a single family home even with a time-of-day rates break.

This could, in principle, be easily solved-- air conditioners could easily store coolness. Water has a high heat capacity, and you could cool water during the solar peak, and use it to cool your living area in the afternoon.

Water storage is very inefficient in terms of weight and volume. Ice storage is better, since the heat of fusion is much greater than the heat capacity for a reasonable temperature difference, so I've seen ice storage used in a few large projects. Still a typical house has maybe a 3-Ton A/C unit, which is the equivalent heat removal rate of melting 3 tons of ice per day. Since you don't typically need full cooling all day, say storage of 1.5 ton of ice overnight, melting it during the day to supplement 1.5 ton of dx A/C at peak (actual numbers will undoubtedly be different). A ton and a half of ice requires hefty support, takes up about 52 cu ft of space, the tank & equipment to freeze and melt it efficiently takes up space and has significant cost, and the refrigeration cycle is less efficient since the evaporator has to get down to well below freezing while air evaporator coils operate around 45F, you have a lot of extra water piping and coils, and you still need a 3-ton refrigeration system but with more piping and controls It's probably not cost effective even if you're paying time-of-day rates.

I believe it was the OG Socrates who first started bitching about the ignorance of youth.

Actual Socrates loved the youth (wink, wink).
In the end, Socrates was executed for corrupting youth - the allegations being that he taught the youth to be anti-religious and not properly respecting the state's gods.

El Nino is more accurately Christ Child.

It's a reference to it being warmer water in the Christmas season.

And you think the fact that carbon dioxide has steadily increased over the past 150 years or as we pump a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a coincidence? You honestly believe that there is zero connection between pumping gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and there being gigatons more carbon dioxide in the air than pre-industrial times? Completely unrelated events?

I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time.

I noticed this in Claude (from DDG). It invariably tries to shorten sentences or make them more compact and concise. Sometimes that can be good, but most times long-winded sentences are what are needed.

and there is no way I can find to make it stop popping up giant intrusive ads for their other services every single time I open it.

Just like Firefox. There is no easy way to turn off being harassed by an intrusive pop-up telling me about a new update.

There used to be. It was a simple checkbox. But somewhere along the way someone had to justify their existence and removed that simple checkbox in favor of harassment.