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Many people here have posted the link to Climate Town’s video on expiration dates, but your comment also brings into focus a video of theirs about consumer waste. Actually he’s probably made a few on that subject, but the one that came to mind was about the circle of buying and returning products (eg. Amazon returns), and what really happens. Good lord, the waste.

What is the optimum angle to secure such a device for the maximum result? Asking for science.

Also, I wouldn’t ever glue/tie/epoxy one of these. I’d do four in various places.

Oh, so nastier than being asked by a reporter to tell the scared American public something encouraging during a pandemic? So Presidential, this guy.

I’m sure from a code perspective there’s something wrong here, but there must have been an issue with securing it from the right, and someone saw a bunch of scrap lumber pieces and said, got an idea. It’s not structural and needing to hold weight, so I’m really curious why, other than aesthetics, this is bad. Once covered by drywall, will this be some problem in the future?

Those would be fractured kyber crystals. Not something the Jedi would want.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true. Also, look at the inventory spreadsheets from last year, you can see what went into construction.

My non-scientific gut feeling is that regardless of what we do, we’re too late to stop the natural feedbacks already in progress. Which was the problem all along - humans were never the sole cause of global warming, they were the catalyst with their emissions to set things rolling. Even twenty years ago if we had done everything right and stopped emissions, we had already pushed the environment to change. And we didn’t, so we’ve been pushing that boulder down the hill even as it gains its own momentum. Smart, we are. The boulder will stop when it stops, not when we wish it.

A bit true of larger trucks too. Long ago when we had an RV trailer and a dually truck, it rode and drove the best when it had a full load behind it.

There are multiple timelines of potential futures. They all end up collapsing into a singular “now”. Many of the futures have very low probability.

I can’t say if the frequency is right, but poorly shielded spark plug wires will send all kinds of EM out. You know, the older cars where if you touched one of those wires you’d feel it, or you could see the aura if it was dark jumping around.

Really. I get that the business world is dynamic and not adapting to changing times kills companies, but so does torpedoing a long-established and recognized name. It’s not just HBO, there have been many examples it seems recently, as somehow the suggestion to just drop what your customers look for and use something different and worse is a common boardroom thing, and with applause and promotions. It’s stupid. It’s great for ad and marketing firms I guess, but I’ll bet a typical first utterance is:

“Why are they getting rid of their old trademark, it’s good.”

“Shhh, this is worth a lot to us, let them make their mistakes.”

Might be something else too. Many people are so sick of hearing about certain people that they’ve set up filters to avoid any news about them. So what better way to get past that than to just keep the references generic enough to get the views through such blocks but still be accurate.

It was a bit much to work with, but once I realized that the civil war itself and the whys weren’t what the movie was about, I went with it. This scene was the most disturbing of them all. Maybe because it’s not that hard to imagine some people going this far. I’m sure there’s some veterans of various conflicts that would agree and saw it happen.

Exactly my stance. Federal regulation makes sense when there’s a common ground, but my first response when seeing the quote about a “light touch” was, it can’t get any lighter than it is. If you want to push for federal over state enforcement, then present something that is actually protecting more than the profit interests of those economically invested in AI. Like human species interests, preservation, not opening something we can’t close.

And before the “LLM isn’t AGI” comes into play, of course it isn’t. But if we’re treating LLM R&D with a full throttle and safety concerns on the shelf, we’re doing the same with any related field. And even LLMs can have alignment issues and be misused or misguided while connected to crucial or even life-threatening conditions. “We wouldn’t do that.” Of course we would. Money.

I’ll give him credit and say it’s “and” since that would make more sense in the flow of the sentence. He’s a terrible orator, so even the basic things said by him can be confusing. Not a fan of the heavy hand of military, but Eisenhower warned us we’d get like this. A strong defense is a good offense, but I think the US politically, economically, and even socially embraces that a little too much through history, and we definitely have war hawks in control right now.

Safe drivers are just that, no matter how they park. If your visibility is bad when you park front in, then either you’re hauling something that’s blocking your line of sight (in which case it would make sense), or your vehicle has terrible visibility, which is far too many of them.

Park how you want to park. I’ve never had a problem backing out of a space.

The math and physics problems of SDI (Reagan’s Star Wars) hasn’t changed. I guess this is yet another lesson of history we’ve forgotten, even though so many in the political realm were around then.

But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”

He can’t remember his name either, memory got wiped.

Ron, you know there’s reasons why you should be monitoring emissions…oh, right, you’re the anti-science guy in a state that has long been affected by the very thing you don’t want to talk about. Dumb ass.

The opposite of woke is still asleep, regardless of its use. Close your eyes, Ron. That’ll help.