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Radiative IR cooling is still orders of magnitude less efficient than convective cooling. There is precisely zero percent chance that orbital data centers will be less expensive than terrestrial ones.

I mean how can you cease firing if you aren’t firing?

Checkmate atheists

Which is precisely why this will fail. Christians don’t actually believe anything they preach. They just want to be seen as pious, and a phone carrier doesn’t give them a visible virtue signal.

Today RFK jr announced a war on antidepressants, which will includes very similar language about “getting people off unnecessary prescriptions.” That’s what.

Oh we’re just going MAHA now?

Day, months and years?

Honestly, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anyone say “let’s meet up when my kid is 119cm tall.”

It’s likely the cloud backups they can read. Encrypted archives are hard to sync across devices while still keeping the same level of security. I always advise against it if you don’t have a good reason to do it.

It’s also all but confirmed that they use on-device keyword recognition for targeted advertising. So if the app can phone home for some keywords, then it can phone home for anything.

And turtles

IDK what kind of hospice you’ve been to but my grandmother was basically pumped full of morphine for nearly an entire year before she passed of “totally not a morphine overdose.”

Any adult should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their own body.

Let’s be honest - that exact same subtle misogyny follows “Karen” as well.

Right, this clearly is not Mom’s spaghetti

Right, Israel is the original sin of the post war political nation state concept, established under misguided but understandable circumstances as the least terrible option among a host of really bad options. The current apartheid state was not an inevitability, even if it was predictable. The world isn’t perfect but it isn’t evil either, and the goal should always just be to do better, not worse.

This is why the current conversation about Zionism makes me uncomfortable. This awkward rhetorical alliance between the far right and far left is not helping anyone. At the same time, there are real and extremely serious problems which need to be discussed, but which are being blown out by the use of a completely overloaded term which has a long history I think many who throw it around simply do not appreciate. It’s simply unnecessary, as there are many easy to articulate criticisms of Israel which do not carry the same baggage.

Israel is subjugating Gaza, and arguably perpetuating a genocide, and that deserves a level of intellectual treatment which isn’t drenched in language historically tied to neo Nazis, and this seems like such obvious low hanging fruit that I can’t help but be concerned that it is intentional.

The way they are doing it is kind of sketchy though. They are replacing the old search functionality with Gemini and now if you click the search icon in Google photos it immediately pops up asking you to pick your own face. There’s no option to skip this step, though you can still revert to the old search for now.

The creepy part is that when they ask you to select your face, it’s pretty clear they’ve already figured it out, because it’s the first face they show you.

Not my problem.

And I still don’t give a shit what your children do on the Internet. Even the hassle is more than I care to abide, even if it is somehow perfectly safe and private.

Labour not burning piles of political capital on ridiculous pet issues challenge (impossible, any%):

Look, usually I am just as much “fuck trump” as anyone else l, but seriously, how many of you would honestly just let a perfectly good racoon penis go to waste?

It’s hilarious how every EV thread on the Internet always has one person who is like “well I can’t set a land speed record for my daily trip to the one taco bell I like which is 376 miles away because my chalupas will get cold if I have to charge for 20 minutes.”

Meanwhile everyone who actually owns an EV is like “yeah it really isn’t a big deal, I get 400 mile chalupas all the time”

Yeah we studied this exact literal scenario in the “renewable energy” engineering course I took in like 2007. The future of grid scale storage will basically be utilities giving out free or heavily subsidized battery packs to individual customers to form distributed micro-grids which can balance the renewable “duck curve,” and a major catalyst for this will be when EVs help establish a lithium battery recycling ecosystem.