CelestialTeapot

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by CelestialTeapot 3y ago
>Which, if you think about it, makes the "you're selfish to have kids" a sort of species-wide suicidal ideation. But then, non-suicidal people are sort of selfish, wanting to continue to keep living. You do know that you w
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by CelestialTeapot 3y ago
Yeah, but those guys want to get rid of those greedy artists, so they're all for AI they can leverage. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/08/google-record-labels-work...
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by CelestialTeapot 3y ago
Like normal...
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by CelestialTeapot 4y ago
More than 50 billion animals (land and sea) are killed each year for food in the United States, alone. Farmed animals must be fed to bring them to slaughter. If there was a reduction in farmed animals being eaten for food, far less agricult
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by CelestialTeapot 4y ago
Well, nobody designed us. We're a product of evolution. Had we been designed, and the designer was not a cruel monster, I'm sure they could have thought of a way for all beings to feed themselves without the monumental suffering t
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by CelestialTeapot 4y ago
Not to mention the terrible conditions that animals are forced to live in and injuries caused by processing (from birth to death) [1] as well as abuse by low-paid workers who are, themselves, working in poor conditions. [2] Factory farming
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by CelestialTeapot 4y ago
There would be far less suffering if we all lived on a plant-based diet. As well it would help in the fight against climate change, reducing environmental impacts.
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by CelestialTeapot 5y ago
Sorry, what? Citation please. The speed lost moving a DIMM from a 3cm path-to-CPU to a removable DIMM slot 6cm away is infinitesimal. You would not notice it.
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by CelestialTeapot 5y ago
>> soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery >Well, that's kind of the point. Not that I don't appreciate a security-minded platform, it jus
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by CelestialTeapot 5y ago
The same game is still played today with LED bulbs (whether there's a cartel behind it or not, I do not pretend to know). See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
As there has been community transmission and aren't actively testing symptomatic people (unless in known direct contact with someone who has traveled to an affected area, or traveled there themselves), it's questionable if they ha
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
I do the same when I am on my bicycle as long as there are no cars approaching. Particularly if I'm crossing a moderate speed highway. It's safer for me to clear the intersection when there are no cars moving in the same direction
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
Sure, after spending hundreds of dollars on a device, it only seems fair that the vendor exploit your personal information so that credit companies and anyone willing and able to buy the data can compile a dossier on you.
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
When I was 8 and all I had were half a dozen cartridges for my Atari, I would have loved this. Now, this might be interesting to try on a game or two, but I can afford any game I want and there are so many good games to play out there. I ca
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
That is indeed fictional, but the real world Ford Pinto that was based on is real [1]. 1. https://www.tortmuseum.org/ford-pinto/
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
Yes, people foolishly gravitate toward trucks and SUVs, fattening the wallets of the car manufacturers and fueling the insanely stupid 7 year auto loan industry [1]. Of course, this is also disastrous for mitigating carbon emissions [2]. Ad
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
One part Nova Sterling [1], 9 parts hideous. They should have used a CAD system that supported more than straight lines. 1. https://www.google.com/search?q=nova+sterling&tbm=isch
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
It should have been a free launch title with the Index to spur sales. This is not going to do that now as a separate sale. The buzz (what little there was for an expensive VR rig) is over. It may well be good for VR overall, however.
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
That would be a much better link than the one provided. Wasting energy on the "IQ" issue is not productive to the problem presented: that air pollution does, indeed, cause (hopefully only temporary) cognitive decline. It can be me
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
>as you pointed out Fedex is just following fed tax policy that it doesn't control. That is incorrect. According to the article FedEx is referencing [1], the NY Times wrote that FedEx (along with UPS) met regularly with Congressiona
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
"I don't believe any of the scrolls that overlap with biblical canon are believed to be originals, so what do you mean by fake?" That's true of any bible text we have. The original texts are lost, hence biblical exegesis
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
The problem is publishers are not managing expectations. If you're showing gameplay footage of a product that is still a year out or more in development, you had better follow up with new trailer releases as major elements of the game
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
According to a 2018 survey from an industry analyst group, 52% of active gamers play on pc, 90% on mobile, and 41% on console.[1] 1. https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-gamers-vs-console-gamers-numbers
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
Alright, but that's not how I read your comment. Regardless, until we as a society are so confident in autonomous vehicles that we eliminate manual control systems as outmoded and unnecessary, those systems should be designed to minimi
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
"Tesla’s can drive themselves a large portion of the time. Etc. Concerns about tactile feedback and such don’t really matter if you don’t have to pay attention to the road anymore. " And Teslas ALMOST never kill their driver or in
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
Good! They may make the interior look cleaner and save the manufacturer having to stock various small parts and not having to install buttons and dials depending on the trim level, but from a safety perspective tactile feedback is key to mi
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
> Huh. Then my friends and I may be unusual. We all seem to prefer solving problems to managing people. Clearly, you have never had the "opportunity" to manage people.
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
I use cloth bags, too. But, ignoring the marine dumping problem, cloth bags can be the worst.[1] You would need to reuse each thousands of times to be worth using over LDPE bags. 1. https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
I'd say it depends. Some grocery stores use plastic bags so thin that they rip or tear just getting the groceries to the car, rendering them non-reusable.
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by CelestialTeapot 7y ago
The problem with trash is that it will always find its way into the ocean. Would you rather have a natural product (paper) break down in the ocean, or a plastic product[1] that will leave behind micro-plastics that have unknown health impac

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