Yeah I do a lot of keyboard shortcuts. My computer career started before I even had a mouse, it was all keyboard editing. Doesn’t bother me a bit to leave the mouse just sitting there. In fact after typing a comment here I just tab to the Post button and hit Enter.
Not me man - before I had kids and responsibilities I would do a 6-month contract job and take the rest of fthe year off to do theatre. Good times!
I remember when all we had was the hamster dance and zombocom.
If that’s your thing there’s no reason to wait until a particular day. But if you think you and your freedom fighting weekend target shooting camo buddies are going to fend off the US armed forces, well… LOLOLOLOL. There are much smarter and less doomed ways to fight fascism. Unfortunately none of them involve looking at memes on your phone.
No, the greehouse effect involves the atmosphere trapping the sun’s heat, and at the distance of Neptune the sun just looks like another bright star - too far away to provide enough heat even to keep an atmosphere in a gaseous state. BUT… if a faraway planet (I’m just gonna go ahead and use that word) generates enough internal heat to keep its atmosphere gaseous, it wouldn’t need a greenhouse effect, or even a sun. It could roam around between stars and still maintain an atmosphere, and who knows… living things could evolve that get all their energy from heat instead of sunlight.
IMO “I don’t know” is a perfectly valid opinion if you just don’t know.
Rush Limbaugh once held up two newspaper clippings side by side - in one, women wanted to go topless downtown, in the other women were complaining about men staring at them. He made funny faces and asked, “Why can’t these women make up their minds???” Cuz they’re not the same women, dipshit. Anyway, kinda the same concept.
This critter has a disturbing head-to-body size ratio.
Agree, I imagine House only got a medical degree because he was effortlessly a straight-A student and it fed his ego.
I disagree, pretty much every character in the show has a LG moment when they do the right thing in spite of being tempted not to.
I was lucky, my worst childhood injury was breaking a toe on the bottom of a swimming pool I jumped into.
GingTFO isn’t actually a huge problem for Americans. I’ve looked into it and the only reason I’m still here is that my wife refuses to leave and I love her too much to leave her. Dozens of countries will give Americans residency, although citizenship is usually a lot more difficult and/or takes years. There is usually a minimum income requirement, but you don’t have to be rich. I’ve seen it in the $1200-$2k/mo range in multiple places. Of course this has to be income you can still make while you’re in the new country, not a US job you’re going to give up. Makes it pretty sweet for “digital nomads” tho who can work remotely.
A few countries highly rated by expats are Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay (esp good environment for LGBTQ+), and Thailand. Vietnam doesn’t even have a visa limit - technically it’s 3 or 5 years but all you have to do is go away for like 30 days. There are lots of others. If you want to get started google “Americans moving abroad”, there are tons of helpful videos and articles.
Throwing a tantrum doesn’t address the issue I raised. Nobody ever wants to question the perfection of their righteous arguments, but there it is.
Youi’re right that there isn’t much point in this conversation, but completely wrong about the reason. I’m saying if people are upset about the amount of power AI is using they should be at least 1/3 as upset about the power gaming uses. You’re saying the bigger issue is AI doing something on your behalf without asking. I don’t even know how to address an issue-dodging mentality like that. Oh well.
Ok, I get that you object to people who use AI to make images calling the images “art” and calling themselves “artists”. But I hope you understand that language evolves with use, and that you wouldn’t have the same objection to expanding the traditional meaning of “women” to include trans women.
Outrage for other people’s environmental effects because they’re “forcing it down your throat” but not your own because you’re doing it willingly? Yeah, that sounds super morally impeccable!
At the moment AI is consuming about 3x as much total power as gaming (60 terawatt hrs/yr vs 20), so presumably 3x more environmental impact. So my question is, if one thing is 3x worse does it make the other thing okay? I mean, it seems fair that the power consumption should make us roughly 1/3 as outraged by gaming as we are by AI.
B-b-but…
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