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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure. But in the first Fast and Furious movie they're not driving syncro-less transmission semis. They're driving tricked out sports cars in a straight line and somehow having about 14 gear changes in a 6 speed manual.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Knowledge is eventually gained, someone would have built practical devices relating to nuclear fission, whether that was a bomb or a reactor.

Nazi Germany would not have done that in any time frame relevant to WWII. They specifically rejected aspects of atomic/quantum theory because they were tainted by "jewish science" which unknowingly set them back decades and sent them in the wrong direction. As much as they were obsessed with super weapons, they were very unscientific in their R&D.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wyoming thinks it's cool to for armed citizens to oversee state senate votes.

It can be both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I feel like using that statistic is misleading in terms of efficiency just from the factor of "gallons of gas per pound of food transported".

Sure there's spoilage from product going bad, but marginal efficiency gains there are so far down the list of things to worry about that they're not really worth going into. The reason people don't have food isn't because enough isn't produced, it's because they're not allowed to have it because they don't have enough money. Less food spoiling doesn't fix that problem.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

heralded by the Biden administration, tribes and conservationists as historic

This is the reason. It's an absolutely terrible reason. But we're at the point where the 2nd Amendment folks are cheering the deployment of National Guard and Marines against protesters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Like with Florida Man a lot of that is simply due to Florida's more lax reporting standards. It's less that Florida law enforcement are exceptionally worse and more that they're the sample that is most transparently on display.

Which is worrisome.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Dick Van Dyke is also still around and doing projects heading towards 100.

If keeping busy is keeping them around I look forward to each of their 150th birthday parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If the message is "that circle of people in the back of the crowd are mumbling something", it doesn't matter.

More people checking out instead of getting involved means the more easily influenced are all that remain to campaign for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

IIRC they think it's weird, but importantly they still do it. He's an agent so there's Special Circumstances but they still value the choice to do it more than they do sticking to norms.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Frankly good luck finding one that isn't cheering for the LAPD, National Guard, and Marines to "control" civilians.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And what I mean is that prior to the mid 1900s the etymology didn't exist to cause that confusion of terms. Neither Babbage's machines nor prior adding engines were called computers or calculators. They were 'machines' or 'engines'.

Babbage's machines were novel in that they could do multiple types of operations, but 'mechanical calculators' and counting machines were ~200 years old. Other mathematical tools like the abacus are obviously far older. They were not novel enough to cause confusion in anyone with even passing interest.

But there will always be people who just assume 'magic', and/or "it works like I want it to".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Computer" meaning a mechanical/electro-mechanical/electrical machine wasn't used until around after WWII.

Babbag's difference/analytical engines weren't confusing because people called them a computer, they didn't.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

  • Charles Babbage

If you give any computer, human or machine, random numbers, it will not give you "correct answers".

It's possible Babbage lacked the social skills to detect sarcasm. We also have several high profile cases of people just trusting LLMs to file legal briefs and official government 'studies' because the LLM "said it was real".

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