Rooskie91

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 points 4 hours ago

If it's just the bass, sounds like you can play any banger.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 31 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Teflon is the brand name for for the chemical Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Making PTFE requires PFAS, which are the toxic part. Think of PFAS as little bits of chain varying lengths that get strung together to make the larger PTFE molecule.

The argument you're making sounds similar to something like "Fossil Fuels are safe, it's just the CO2 that's dangerous." PFAS contaminated water being released to the environment is an unavoidable by produce of making Teflon. You can only make Teflon as a solid without suspending the PFAS in water first.

Here's a pretty good video about the history, manufacturing process, and toxicity.

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 points 12 hours ago

They've been reclaiming land from the sea for centuries. That's what all the dykes and windmills are for.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

The US has been doing this stuff in the background for forever, kinda weird it's mainstream news now.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Now that's a drinking problem.

I'll see myself out.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 20 hours ago

I think you can teach at community college without a teaching degree. You might need a master's though.

I have a CS degree but started out in nuclear power, then that got me into automation and robotics. There's way more of that take your time to do it right atmosphere, and these jobs are all over hiding in unexpected places. I guess nobody wants to turn on an expensive machine just to have it eat itself because of a software bug lol.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Yupp, that's it. Way back when communist revolutions were cool, they drove out the ruling class who took shelter in Taiwan.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate? Not casting doubt, just admitting ignorance.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lol how is this a fair comparison? 10 mins of watching 4k vs 1 AI question does not seem equivalent at all. Like you could change the quantities and make the comparison look as bad as you want. Why not compare 1 min of 4k video vs asking AI 1,000 questions? Why not compare 1 hr of 4k video to 10 AI questions? When you're changing the variables around between comparisons like that then the comparison is worthless.

Besides that, the environmentally damaging part of AI isn't asking it questions, it's training the models themselves. Training AI uses huge resource consuming supercomputers and can take days.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 139 points 3 days ago (11 children)

"I may be Jewish, but at least I'm not a jezebel"

Now that's a sentence with some baggage.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 6 points 4 days ago

Excedrin is one of the more popular brand names. They're specifically advertised for headaches.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is a similar to energy saying “all lives matter” when someone says “Black Lives Matter.”

Your argument falls apart when you remember that “women” aren’t some isolated, homogenous block. Women are investors, lenders, vendors, employees, political associates, foreign leaders, clients, etc. They exist in every single demographic you claim we should be paying more attention to. Erasing “women” from the conversation doesn’t make your assessment broader. It erases the reality that women are part of every single group you’re describing, and Trump has assaulted multiple members of those groups.

Also, if we did remove women from the equation entirely, Trump has still exploited people from every imaginable class, nationality, and background. The problem isn’t that he’s being judged “only” through the lens of women, it’s that you’re suggesting women’s perspectives are somehow less valid when they’re the ones disproportionately targeted and disbelieved.

 

IDK why, but this idea helps me sleep at night.

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