TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

For commercial services like Twitter or Reddit the bots make sense because it lets the platforms have inflated “user” numbers while also more random nonsense to sell ads against.

But for the fediverse, the goals would be, post random stuff into the void and profit?? Like I guess you could long game some users into a product that they only research on the fediverse, but seems more cost effective for the botnets to attack the commercial networks first.

Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology …

Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter. The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.

So basically academics finding people to fund a large scale lab experiment, they want to get working by 2030. It sounds like they sold Google on an idea (for funding) and now have to move their idea from the lab to the real world. It does sound safer than water cooled plants of old at least.

Well I would assume some of that comes from the lower volume of building the homes, with less people in construction in the area possessing the skills/materials to do so. Perhaps if the government put money towards volume buying materials and securing contractors able to build them, the price could come down to “market” values. I would think insurance companies would also see it as a win not having to payout as much for those that can actually be insured (and maybe makes it so more people can actually be covered making the graph go up).

I could be way off and the pricing of those homes are just unable to come down to an acceptable $ value, but government/insurance money would be put to better use looking to build more future climate safe homes as close as possible to the above model instead of today’s standard.

I think housing like this might be a smarter move than trying to move millions of people (or leaving them homeless).

OK, you’re the one that sounded like you wanted to move everyone. And I don’t think when natural disasters continue to get worse that it’s going to be just hurricanes causing mass destruction. We are eventually going to have the rise of sea levels coming into play, which will of course increase the destruction those hurricanes can create, but also the more water a hurricane like Milton spawning larger tornadoes has to move around inland.

Between 2010 and 2020, tornadoes have cost an average of $2.5 million per storm. The most expensive tornado of all time occurred on May 22, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, costing $2.8 billion dollars in insurance claims and a total cost of damages around $3.18 billion.

Source: The Effect of Tornadoes on Insurance

What about that too? If people want to continue to build on the path of hurricanes, let them. Just stop using taxpayer money to bail them out.

Your stance that its OK for taxpayers to pay $2.5 million per tornado, but hurricane survivors should be on their own sounds kinda hypocritical.

People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.

Former President… emphasis on former. As a candidate, his opinion shouldn’t carry anymore weight than any other citizen.

A meant a leak in the chamber would possibly put the facility at risk, not just having the chamber. And we know the kind of maintenance a chamber used maybe a handful of times a year is going to get to keep it air tight. Plus it’s added cost to the already absurd cost of killing someone, instead of actually trying to rehabilitate them (will always be some that cannot be of course). And putting it outside then makes the air tight chamber subjected to the weather/elements, adding more cost in maintenance.

And I know you mentioned the mask vs chamber thing, but I don’t see it going differently just because they are going to vacuum oxygen out and nitrogen in. And would also add the cost of further staff training on opening a chamber full of nitrogen (potentially) rather than a room with possibly some nitrogen from a leaking mask. Just don’t see the cost analysis of this being in the ballpark of cost effective when we could put that money to better use.

Not sure how we relocate basically everyone in the South though. And what about tornado alley, do we move all those people also? And then you have wild fires and earthquakes, do we move all of California also? I get what you are saying, but getting millions of people to move states or across the country isn’t a simple thing. And what do we do with all the then empty previously “high valued” real estate? I do think we ultimately have to do something as global warming continues to cause humans issues at what seems like an accelerated rate, but we also have an alarming number of people that do not want to address it (or that even deny it happening).

We need some kind of ACA for regular insurance, where unless people are literally building in a swamp or the bottom of a crater near a lake/river they should be just automatically covered.

If his crime was that bad, why wait 25 years to execute him? The guy also didn’t go into the store armed and looking to kill someone, he just wanted money for drugs, but then had a gun pulled on him and then exchanged shots with the shop keeper who pulled yet another firearm out. If this had been Zimmerman or Rittenhouse they might have called it “self defense”. The guy seems more than willing to accept responsibility for his actions and remain in prison for the rest of his natural life. My hot take is to let him do as he suggested, remain in prison and help to rehabilitate those he can, kinda like the idea of what prison was supposed to do. If they need to kill inmates, why not save it for the people that have no remorse for what they have done?

And it’s not junk science that nitrogen inhalation causes hypoxia.

I was stating the part about using nitrogen as an “easy and painless” death were based off junk science, well not even science really, just people that know that it kills people and looking for new ways to use it legally to do so.

You’re thinking of the execution where they used a mask instead of a chamber like you’re supposed to.

The use of chamber, would require even more of an investment to make safe. If it were to leak during the execution, or staff opened the chamber before it was completely removed it could endanger the lives of everyone in the facility. I also think the results with a mask or chamber would be in the end the same, someone gasping for breath while suffocating to death.

Also here is a bit about nitrogen executions, and the horrific job done in Alabama last year.

“[The] main reasons that motivate editors to add AI-generated content: self-promotion, deliberate hoaxing, and being misinformed into thinking that the generated content is accurate and constructive,”

I think the main driver behind people misinformed about AI content comes from the fact that outside of tech people, most have no idea that AI will:

1. 100% make up answers to things it doesn’t know because either the sample size of data they have ingested was to small or was bad. And it will do this with the same robot confidence you get for any other answer.

2. AI that has been fed to much other AI generated content will begin to “hallucinate” and give some wild outputs, very similar to humans suffering from schizophrenia. And again these answers will be given as “fact” with the same robotic confidence.

Nitrogen doesn’t actually work any better (I believe it was actually worse since the idea is based off junk science), and I believe John touches on that in the video I linked above also.

The amount of money and hoops these assholes that have a homicide fantasy go through to get the proper drug is kinda wild. And as per usual John Oliver covered it well in his Executions video.

How is there no red flag law for law enforcement? I mean I know why, but it’s still wild to me how many of these characters get to wear a badge + gun, and get to act out their violent desires on the public with impunity (99.9% of the time).

The fact that an officer can throw a handcuffed woman to the ground, and then strangle her and get to keep his job and with no jail time should be setting off alarms all the way up the chain of authority. He is then put back on the streets which is fucking insane, but sums up perfectly our current state of policing in the US.

I could be losing it, but it looks like freezing rain also. Can see some of the ice on her hair and the seats look iced over.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that it was imperative that messes from Helene be cleared ahead of Milton’s arrival so they don’t become dangerous flying projectiles. More than 300 vehicles picked up debris Sunday but encountered a locked landfill gate when they tried to drop it off. State troopers used a rope tied to a pickup truck and busted it open, DeSantis said.

“We don’t have time for bureaucracy and red tape,” DeSantis said. “We have to get the job done.”

Interesting to see the Governor and State Troopers breaking into a landfill of all places, trying to get debris in a central location I guess. Although unless they also have someone in this previously locked landfill burying or securing in some other manner all this debit, then it’s just putting it all in one place you hope the hurricane doesn’t hit?

Edit - Anyone in Florida and the surrounding areas stay safe! Evacuate if you can.

I don’t buy music like I used to, but when I do it’s probably a CD from the artists site, or something like nugs.net that usually have several lossless download formats. I listen to mostly live music these days though, so anything else is probably on etree or archive.org.

But Trump very much believes in eugenics, so you have to read his report knowing that Trump was part of crafting every word of it. His German heritage, coupled with his fascination with Hitler, his father marching with the KKK, all make it hard to believe he isn’t just telling you who he is.

Otherwise yes, some people hit the gene lotto and don’t have risk factors to a lot of diseases. But that is not what Trump is talking about when he talks about genes, he thinks he is the “master race”.

Edit - A piece on Trump’s gene beliefs for context.

We should probably just listen to his doctor, Dr. Ronny Jackson, who flooded the White House with all sorts of pills. He even had some nice dog whistles to eugenics to say about Trump.

“It’s called genetics,” Jackson said. “Some people just have great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years he might live to be 200.”

He also said Trump was 6’ 3" and 239 lbs. except when they did his booking in NYC and Georgia it said something else. His NYC booking put his stats @ 6’ 2" and 240 lbs., but then in Georgia a month later he was measured at 6’ 3" and 215 lbs. meaning he gained an inch and lost 25 lbs.

And apparently some “expert” used a photo to determine Trump is really only 5’ 11" when comparing him to his youngest son Barron who is 6’ 7" tall.