More than that: "Gemini managed to get correct answers for 10 of the 12 problems, which earned it a gold medal. Only four of 139 human teams managed the same feat." So it didn't beat 139 teams, it beat 135 of 139 teams.

If you were dumb enough to buy one of these "smart" refrigerators, you get what you deserve. There is absolutely no reason to have a "smart" refrigerator. It's a refrigerator. It should only do two things: keep the stuff in the fridge cool and the stuff in the freezer frozen.

Anything else is a waste of money.

So present other data, you tendentious chud.

Neither is the earth getting meaningfully warmer outside of what would expect coming out of an interglacial, but that doesn't stop you saying stupid shit, does it?

But they have no problem paying $50 to have a Big Mac delivered to them.

Perhaps a rethinking is in order.

Sorry about that basic reading comprehension.
Maybe go back to reddit/bluesky? Echochambers tend to use simpler, in-group signaling like chimps, instead of words so much.

If corals are going to go totally extinct in the next century or two due to a degree or three (c) of warming, how is it that they as a species have lasted HUNDREDS of millions of years, most of which were several degrees warmer than today?

And don't talk about "speed of change" - corals have likewise survived (and frankly thrived) major extinction events for the last half-BILLION years that were EXTREMELY, traumatically short & intense, such as Chixiclub (66mya) which warmed the earth by +5C for more than 100k years. This makes the puny 1deg C global warming for a century laughably trivial.

Extreme cold kills 7x-20x the people that extreme heat does every year.

Why are we fixated on heat deaths only? Why not work to mitigate all extreme temperature deaths?

They've got global warming, COVID, Trump, and all sorts of things to be terrified about besides the usual predation, poachers, and leopards.

Maybe leave them the fuck alone on this one.

You missed the best part and directly related to this story. Texas got rid of the mandate that construction companies provide breaks for their workers in high heat.

This doesn't mean the company can't give their workers breaks, just that it is no longer mandated. How many do you think no longer give these breaks?

Sounds like the problem is the house and not the stove.

This is one of the oldest rationalizations for shitty behavior: "if I won't do it, somebody else will anyway".

Yup, and it's used to this day to justify genocide.

This is no different than requiring the manufacturer to include a warning about the stove tipping over if there is no anti-tipping bracket installed. Consumers are being warned of the issue.

If they're going to whine about this, might as well whine about every other warning they are required to provide with their product.

Yes, of course the reason the US space program is struggling is because it's actually enforcing the law re illegals, not because the previous administration tried to import millions of future voters.

And of course it has to do with the current president, not the decade+ previous administration(s) where the STATED primary mission of our space program was "Muslim outreach" and lately diversity*. Not to mention the $billions wasted (and nigh-hilariously) /failing/ to replicate a launch vehicle design that's essentially 60 years old?

*Notice the Artemis program name, and that it had a diverse crew before it had even basic mission parameters or a functioning launch vehicle? What was their first publicly stated goal, again? To put a woman on the moon? Is that how a pure meritocracy should work, you announce desired characteristics of your "best" before they're chosen?

Finally, the "seeming lunatic who is destroying our Democracy" is the only guy aggressively funding and accomplishing advances in launch programs?

Thanks, fully agree.
Somehow, my post was downranked to -1 Troll, I guess?