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Thats how conventional lithium extraction works in the USA. Drilling for salt brine and evaporating it until the brine reaches a specific concentration. Then processing it with heat among other steps.

The alternative is crushing rock in Australia for example.

Man-made climate change, of course. Quick! Someone raise my taxes!

Making games isn't actually that easy? I've been doing it for 25 years, and making a game that's good that people enjoy requires, in no small part, that you yourself enjoy playing games, and that you understand what fun is.

That's a good insight - we're essentially talking about art. There's no real indication that AI can do the actually creative part. But I wonder if a union can either? Art is about allowing inspiration to hit somebody like lightning and allow it to rise to the top. Unions are about making rules for everything to enforce fairness, and I wonder if that will be the most creative environment. Of course top-down corporations struggle with it too especially as they get bigger.

So dumb. This will push iPhone users towards Google phone in droves.

For some people's beliefs and values, whataboutism is all they've got to offer.

Well, that and projecting.

The even shout "aieeeeee!" when some something scares them.

^^ Probably the most on-the-nose comment here. There are lots of exceptional people working at high level from unusual backgrounds. Unfortunately he got burn-noticed because he crossed the wrong person/s and was tipped off to local authorities, probably.

Yeah, I think they forgot to include "stupid" in the long list of his faults.

Maybe. Isn't it likely that the randomness in particle physics stems from us still not understanding fuck-all about how they actually behave? Feel like a caveman looking the weather and claiming it's random.

Pope jumping in on the AI policy debate about a decade before it's going to become relevant. I'm pretty skeptical whatever is written in there will be super applicable in 10 or even 30 years, but it's now part of the historical record for all time.

> UBI will create permanent poverty level while maximizing billionaire income.

Without a UBI the permanent poverty level is no income...

A UBI raises that floor...that's all.

You can think of it as we already have a $0 UBI... seems that a number greater than that would be a better outcome regardless.

Oh, but these are *preventative* wars. He gets a peace prize for every country he invades!

Venezuela was using fentanyl as a WMD. Iran was about to nuke us. Cuba might attack us with drones if someone provides them. Greenland might start a snowball fight, and make us look bad if we lose.

Presumably we've got all our best people on this, since they're obviously not on the UFO videos.