Wow. I did not know individuals could buy carbon credits. And... it's cheap. I just used an emissions calculator, and computed my penance to be about $250 per year. I would have expected it to be pricier, all things considered. Especially with a big air-conditioned home in a cold climate, and just me living in it.
Well hot damn. I can throw money at the problem and assuage my conscience. Feels like someone is selling indulgences... but hey.
5 L/100km. So not the worst, but not good. And all of it unnecessary.
The last straw might not be denial, economic pushback, or runaway capitalism, but fatalism. Easier to reach for the apple fritter when you've given up on weight loss.
I can see it in my own behaviour. I believe in the science of climate change. I know things will get bad, and if nothing is done, they'll get worse. Yet I spent the summer putting 20,000 km on my motorcycle, purely for recreation. I know it's the wrong choice, but I also know that part of me thinks, “It’s all burning down. Denying myself this won't change anything.
I know I could behave better, but I don't believe the world will follow suit, thus rendering my contribution meaningless So why bother?
Fatalism.
Of course it's... wrong, stupid, selfish, short-sighted... pick an adjective. Not defending it.
Retro gaming isn't really even retro anymore. I mean... this is coming from somebody who burned white bars into a crt with a Coleco TelStar.
There are so many great games that are a quarter century old. You aren't giving up that much to go old school. When I think if the gaming experiences on the original Xbox, like Rallisport Challenge 2 or SSX Tricky, I have a hard time defending the idea that modern gaming has really advanced all that much.
Prettier, sure. But sparkles on the lake aren't that big a deal when you're trying to beat a time on 10 minutes of rally track and the margin for error is about 10 seconds.
I'm relatively decently kitted out. 4070 Super, 13900k, 128 GB ram... but that's the end for me. If a game needs more than that to run well, I'm out. And my XBox series X is the console end of the line. A $1200 console is some weird joke,
The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.
It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.
about the Synergy post?
No, not me!
It's not like you can't use another model to validate the results you got with one model. That's a step you should be taking anyway. It's actually built into the system for test/dev of the agent and inference model itself. Active supervision, sandboxing and all that.
I viewed a YouTube about how Mafia control of the Las Vegas casinos ended by the 1980s on account of Department of Justice going after them for "skimming" income from the counting room to avoid taxes.
Apart from cheating the government, meaning you and me out of lawfully imposed tax revenue, along with the services we the people derive from it, and the odd murder here and there to maintain organizational discipline, Mafia Las Vegas was the Golden Age of the $1 buffet lunch. Sure it was a loss leader that you would drain your bank account at the gaming tables, but whether through illegal of legal gambling, the Mafia offered much better odds than the government in the form of state lotteries.
Sure, from the images, The Strip of the late 1970s was cheesy schlock, but private equity has sunk billions into schlock with high production values. And how they (the current owners) fleece you with a 50 dollars for parking, 40 dollars per night resort fee, mandatory 20% (or more) tipping and on an on. If you had no interest in gambling or set a strict budget on how much you were going to blow, Las Vegas used to be a budget destination, but not anymore!
in Back to School, explaining to a Business School professor tha palms you need to grease came to mind.
who gives it one star in their review on account for the catastrophic meltdown at an urban site.
I would feel better if these modular nuclear reactors were shipped from an Amazon warehouse and hence eligible for the over $35 dollars free shipping.
If they are sourced from an Amazon Partner, I bet they arrive with a cracked reactor core and a leaking pressure vessel?
With Multi Media eXtentions (MMX) the pics returned from this mission will be great.
Ah, I had missed Trump accounts because they originally couldn't hold individual stocks according to how congress defined them in the legislation. I was not aware Trump and co were trying to do an end-run around the legislation by arguing that the law doesn't prohibit corporations from donating individual shares.
However, that's a pretty new development, is controversial, and its unclear how it would really work, especially in tandem with the other rules.
When companies respect an "unsubscribe" request I'll consider the idea they won't just obfuscate the bot and barrel through the denial.
Nobody cares. They won't even beg forgiveness. The law is so far behind reality that it doesn't matter. The penalties are fiction.
Some of my readers ask me what a "Serial Port" is. The answer is: I don't know. Is it some kind of wine you have with breakfast?
