Material phase changes are like a cheat code for humanity. Reusable chemical handwarmers are also black magic. You just click a metal plate inside and all of a sudden it's a hot solid.
NightHawkInLight made a video showing how you can mix two different salts together and it'll create a packet that stays at 65 degrees for hours.
Miles is chill in my book. I appreciate what he is tackling, and hope he continues.
It seems that there are much worse issues with AI systems that are happening right now. I think those issues should be taking precedent over the alignment problem.
Some of the issues are bad enough right now that AI development and use should be banned for a limited time frame (at least 5 years) while we figure out more ethical ways of doing it. The fact that we aren't doing that is a massive failure of our already constantly-fucking-up governments.
My brain just did some work. Now I can't unseen this as that manly handshake scene from Predator. The two 'i's are the guys, and the 'W' is a zoom-in of their handshake.
- Disruption doesn't sour public opinion toward a cause, but it's not clear if it's more effective than non-disruptive methods.
Have they considered the Holy Week Uprising getting the Fair Housing Act passed within the span of a week?
There's an entire section of Hamas' Wikipedia page dedicated to it. The gist is that there's testamony that Israel explicitly funded Hamas in order to counter the PLO. This was to ensure a Palestinian state would never materialize.
I have not researched the matter due as enough to have a full opinion, though I've heard multiple individuals state that it is almost indisputable that it happened.
I understand what you mean. The future is scarily uncertain right now.
I encourage folks take that anxiety and turn it into productivity. Look into your local solidarity communities, which may take form as Union groups, local food shelfs, or many other forms. Donating your time or resources is what can help those most impacted right now and later down the line. There's no cut and dry way to find them, you just have to look and ask around your community.
I would also recommend beginning to prep. There's some small communities on Lemmy, such as [email protected] ( you can find others by searching communities with 'prep' in their name). There's also some great podcasts covering prepping such as LLTWID and It Can Happen Here(this one is more heavy on current news but provides prep info in some episodes.
I would also say that keeping your ear on guntubers isn't a bad idea (Brandon Herrera, Garand Thumb, etc.). Not only do they provide tutorials that are potentially useful in extreme cases (Garand Thumb's urban and rural evasion tutorials and TRex Arm's summary of radio comms for example), but they are also likely laying out the playbooks most amateur militia will use in the future (if it comes to that), which could be useful info to know going forward.
Why's this person posted here? They're fucking killin it!
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That is a bit of a weird criticism of STAR voting. Scoring Then Automatic Runoff. The runoff is fundamentally a key stage of STAR voting.
I also do not think runoff fixes most voting systems. It isn't compatible with FPTP, approval voting with runoff would cause alot of vote erasure (if you approve of both finalists, your vote is ignored even if you approve one more than the other), and you'd fundamentally have to change how ranked choice works to accept runoff, to the point that you've essentially recreated STAR voting again (but with more or fewer boxes depending on how many candidates there are).
EDIT: just realized the math is off. 101 giving 5 stars each is 505 stars. Doesn't change outcome, just the math'll be slightly different.
It feels like you do not fully understand the system yet.
Yes trump and Biden win the most stars, and trump has ~~1~~ 5 more stars.
Then runoff happens. It's now a two-person race between the two individuals with the most stars.
Each person has their vote count towards the candidate they gave more stars to, with equal ratings being treated as abstained votes.
I am taking your writing to mean that if a candidate isn't mentioned for a group, then that group gave zero stars to that candidate. So that is now 200 voters who gave more stars to Biden than trump. Biden 200 - 101 Trump. Biden wins.
The star count only matters for the first stage in narrowing the playing field to two candidates. The actual vote then occurs in runoff. That is not a flaw. The system operated as intended, and the candidate preferred by the largest portion of society won.
Couldn't tell you the outcome unless you actually gave me the actual votes for each candidate. For personal impact, the first voters has communicated "anyone except this guy" and the second has communicated "I don't like this guy but I hate every other option".
STAR does have the risk of having more than two candidates win with the same rating, but the chances of that happening are astronomically low - even in town elections. You'd have to be using an insanely low number of voters for it to even be plausible.
I view it as sidelining cars to improve public transportation.
That's what I've got. It takes decades to break down this infrastructure for new stuff. You also need the to be having accessibility in mind whenever you are thinking about installing public amenities or removing infrastructure.