Americans elected Trump twice. We never learn our lessons.

That’s what I thought too, but if you google it, w sound is classified as “open mouth” sound by the experts. To me it feels like lips vibrating as sound and breath come through (lips open/close/open as they vibrate).

Yes, but who feels like exercising when you’re on chemo?

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Electric vehicles can charge from a standard outlet. I would imagine if you gather enough of those panels that actually plug into a standard outlet, you could charge a car (though slowly). Your average EV can put on about 10 miles to its “tank” every hour of charging at 120 volts. I don’t know what the amps of those panels are though.

The alternative would be if the protagonist found a home with solar panels and backup batteries. These exist today, and are becoming more common. I don’t know if sodium ion backup batteries have a longer life than LFP or lithium ion.

Is there a conservative versus liberal heat map of Canada? I’d like to see if there’s connectivity with the US version at the borders.

Clever use of the technology. I wonder if any other businesses are looking into this?

I think modern apocalypse movies should show someone grabbing solar panels off apartment balconies to recharge an abandoned electric car.

There might be a slew of still salvageable parts I would think. I guess the question is how salvageable, how complicated to recover, and how much those parts would be worth.

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Would it cost more than $60 mil to recover it from the ocean?

In the states, the land actually votes. California has 40 times more citizens than South Dakota. But they both get two senators. And we don’t elect our president by popular vote, but by state electors. That’s probably why election maps in many North American English markets fall into this trap.

That's *always* the case.

Maybe there’s a reason for that. The word “enshitification” doesn’t exist in a void.

Interesting article. I do wonder why a more of the data centers aren’t located in colder climates. I’ve read people are investigating piping/reusing the waste heat to warm homes and businesses in colder cities. There was one data center (not AI related) that was using their heat to warm an indoor pool.

The water usage they mention looks like it’s for cooling. I’m guessing they mean evaporative coolers? That would mean that the water wouldn’t have to be potable. Requiring the systems to use grey water might help. I also wonder if they could be located on the coastline and just use filtered seawater.

The other interesting point was about the amount of electricity at these places used to generate content. Some device manufacturers are moving towards on device AI. I’m guessing that would use a lot less electricity.

And then weren’t there some recent advances in AI models that didn’t require as much computing power? Maybe this will help dial back their electrical use.

It just seems like in the race to get ahead in AI, people are throwing money and processing power at the problem without worrying about the environmental consequences. Of course that’s usually the way it’s done, all in the name of making money. It’s good to see the industry being called out for it.

I hope no one gets it. It should be its own separate company.

Pepsi has actually been diversifying to sell more than sugar water because they know people are moving away from it.

Never had this problem with YouTube’s algorithm. If anything, it offers 20 more videos from the same channel after I watch just one.

Are you using the options where you tell it you don’t like this video/don’t recommend this channel/thumbs down the video? There are like three different ways to tell YouTube you’re not interested.

This actually sounds useful. You don’t have to send logs when filling a bug, and macos/ios logs are pretty much stripped of anything privacy-invading. You can view your logs if you have a Mac to see for yourself.

Using a computer to find similarities in crash logs means it’s faster for engineers to track down the cause and work on a solution.

Actors used to be on the hook for overdub voice work after shooting wrapped. I don’t know if that’s still the case.

Honestly, I’m more concerned about high budget movies where I can’t understand a fucking word. I know there have been many articles and YouTube videos on the subject, but there’s really no excuse for that nonsense.