Fortunately, societal expectations have changed radically over the past few decades. In the 1950s virtually nobody was voluntarily child-free. In the '70s that rose for the first time to roughly 10%. By 2010 it was 20%. Today (well, in 2023) it's 29% and still appears to be rising rapidly.

It's one thing to have a vague sense of despair for the future of humanity; it's another matter entirely to act on that feeling if it means your family and most friends will disown you. When I chose not to have kids 30ish years ago, fortunately I had fairly supportive parents (though the family elders nag me at every gathering even now); but I still watched most of my childhood friends basically drop off the map as soon as they had kids. Even at work, where reproductive status is theoretically a federally protected class, I would always get the worst shifts and even when I became a 9-to-5'er, the parents constantly check out early to pick their kids up from random events, and they always get first pick of PTO because boo-fuckin'-hoo they have a harder time scheduling things.

By contrast, today a third or more of someone's high-school friends are likely to remain after the breeders pair up and vanish from circulation. Parents have come to realize they may not ever get grandkids, and if they really want some, they'd better pop out a few extras of their own to boost the odds. And work... Still tries to play those same games, but I'm old enough now to put my foot down and demand they send a copy of any discriminatory policies in writing to my lawyer - To be clear, I'm not actually a litigious bastard, but those magic words are enough to make even the most worthless of HR drones stop parroting "RAAAWK! Employee Handbook, comply, comply!" and engage the brain long enough to realize what they're saying is blatantly illegal.

Whether or not the world is worse today than it was near the end of the Cold War, people are finally (somewhat) free to follow their conscience.

It's already the law at it's willful negligence, so the issue is enforcing existing law, not creating new.

But we won't do that either.

Surely some of these groups will be run by people stupid enough to help us do a fraud!

In this case the graphics capability shouldn't matter that much, as I have disabled animations on the Intel laptop because without that it was horrible. I haven't done any such thing on the AMD one, which also only has 2 GPU cores - it was in a $300 laptop. The Intel machine is a HP Elitebook... I remember when those were actually powerful, back in the Core and Core 2 days.

Yes, but he has to hire in the brain cells.

Correct, or the girls being coerced into marrying old Christian men in this country. Those Christians are the ones who lobby to keep it legal to marry and then fuck children in this country. But those are your special child rapists so you support those children being raped.

You mean what software told you, which is what you respect. That was my very point and you fell into it. Nice work.

At this point even the last trumptard should know what the orange shitgibbon is. They know, they don't care.

Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

Wait, now you're accusing me of generating my comments with AI? I thought you were kind of clever, but now I see you're only clever at trolling.

It's impossible to tell since the models don't reason. That's why they can say obviously incorrect things with confidence.

They have probabilities from it mixed in with everything else on their training data. They don't reflect the Internet so much as training data soup. But what's more important is that it's a semi-randomly generated chain of similarities. You can never ignore the randomness. That was added because it was found to make the output look more natural because otherwise it's too predictable, but it also is a reason why sometimes the output is inexplicable.

It's the randomness that I was bringing up primarily. You think you're getting data from the Web because it says so, but it's mixed with every other influence and it knows as much about that as it does about everything - nothing at all.

I like your AMD idea. They would have good vertical integration there, of the most important and expensive components. Plus it would be a way for them to finally get some competent programmers.

But in order to really make it work they would have to go back into the RAM biz...

x86? What year do you think it is?

Which of course is how you know that we're slaves