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Text: congrats on the failure babe, most people don't even try
A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings
You wanna know what's fucked?
Your brain is a 25-watt computer.
Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.
I don't like that fact
No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.
It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable
so an average toaster runs at about 1200 watts, say it takes 5 min to toast bread thats 0.1Kwh. itd take 4 hours of brain power to toast it
Just connect multiple humans together matrix style
in the woods amongst my coven, 48 all in total, linking hands deep in concentration. our collective will united on our task of great importance for what feels like days but in reality scarce but a few minutes. in the centre of us lays a single slice of toast cooked to perfection
every criticism of effective altruism seems to value the lives of africans at ~0. its like arguments about vegetarianism but vastly crazier, because it's yknow. it's human children! theyre not even that far away! you could take a plane and go see them! EA matters, a lot!
The recent NY Post hit piece against effective altruism basically says it outright. Giving money to people who live in the third world "takes away building relationships with your neighbor, that impulse to give locally"
Lives saved in Africa are just abstract statistics, numbers, and caring about them makes you a nerd. Lives in the first world are real people, and if you withhold from them their chicken nuggets and opera houses you must hate human flourishing.
i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
at first the anti-AI outrage was merely annoying but the more I see people retreating to positions like "parents should have more authority to surveil their kids" or "more electrical/internet infrastructure is bad, Not In My Back Yard!" the more I'm worried that kneejerk anti-AI sentiment will be a great new way to trick casual leftists into accidentally becoming conservatives.
anyway remember when the US government commissioned a study on dangers of pornography and when the commission returned with a report saying it doesn’t pose a danger and recommending removing restrictions the US government denounced its own study
Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and
Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?
I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit
I don't think people understand the danger of over reliance on ai. ai is trained on biased data. no matter how hard they try it will always be skewed. if ai is dictating what sources you find it's going to be much harder to find neutral information. media literacy and critical thinking is already at an all time low and this'll only make it worse
I don't disagree in principle, but without a solid replacement plan -- for the likes of the current large corporate users and maintainers of Border Gateway Protocol, Internet Protocol and ICANN and IANA, Domain Name Services and especially Cloudflare, DNSSEC and SSL/TLS and all the signing authorities, all the cloud providers and especially AWS -- implementing these policies would burn down the Internet.
And yes, there is So Much Wrong with how the Internet is currently used!
But without a really really solid plan for what to do after crushing the current power structures to dust and opening enormous power vacuums, the Internet Would Just Die.
And millions, possibly tens or hundreds of millions of people, in the worst cases billions, would die with it; if not in weeks, then probably in months; because, even in the Global South, but especially in the Global North, there just isn't robust electrical distribution or food logistics or water distribution or sanitization or sewer services or any other public services, or non-personally-powered transportation, or so many other things, without the Internet. Not to mention anything-like-social-media would die, perhaps a little slower, but die nonetheless. Not just the big ones. Not even just Tumblr. Discord, too; Slack, certainly; Reddit, absolutely; even plain old web forums, and soon enough, even email would die except for small self-hosted stuff which would melt under increased demand (and often is hosted on existing cloud providers anyway). This would come at an enormous cost in loss of connection with loved-ones, friends, healthcare providers, employers, government politicians and officials and bureaucrats, and just about anyone else you couldn't physically visit, which would have immense negative externalities in pretty much any domain of harm you could imagine. Even landline phones in many places depend upon the Internet functioning as it currently does, and cellular networks mostly do too.
Maybe it would, in the end, in some final accounting (by whoever would survive, starving or else having to bootstrap their own everything, hopefully with neighbors?), be worth the price -- in megadeath events (famine, especially) or hundreds of megadeath events -- that in exchange the current empire(s) of evil, which prey and subsist and are hosted upon the Internet landscape, would die as well?
I'm not sure, and I lean toward no, that this would be worse on net for humanity -- and all parts of the biosphere which now depend upon humanity; pets and livestock, certainly, but many species at various levels of extinction risks as well.
We need something solid and feasible to replace the house the powerful have built, unless we decide to burn it down with ourselves inside -- occasionally it's possible to exit the house entirely, yes, but not on a massive scale, or even a small scale for most people. And I don't know about others, but I'd rather not burn down the house I'm living in while I'm living in it, even if that house does evil to me and most others.
fandom loves to see a unique and interesting story and go ah this would be great in my little boxes that make everything the same
The deep irony of someone using generic 'quote-turned-mad-libs text pasted over virally popular screencap' memes to denounce the creatively bankrupt and plagiaristic nature of AI art.
"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉
We have to get better at recognizing that top/bottom, dom/sub, masc/femme, active/passive, experienced/inexperienced, and even shit like assertive/shy too are distinct categories from one another that don’t have to collapse in on each other all the time, and that being one or more of these outside the bedroom doesn’t mean you are exactly the same inside it, and that these are not immutable traits characters (or real people) are born with. Not even for justice or whatever, but just because I’m bored.
Truly you do not have to justify your reasoning beyond “it’s hot this way,” because the moment you do is the moment I suddenly have to read with my own eyes that you believe being assertive in like one social scenario is associated with being in control is associated with masculine is associated with being a top is associated with being a dom, or weirder, that you’ve decided the character is a top or bottom and now retrofitted a new personality onto them outside the bedroom scenes, and it’s exhausting, and that’s before we even touch the way alllll of this gender stuff is also racialized.
I’m tired!
I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory
I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know
Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.
fake Goncharov fans don’t even realize that Scorsese did NOT direct the 1973 cult classic. he was executive producer. 🤦♀️
The actual director is Natted JWHJ0715, and they deserve credit!!!
It's Matteo JWHJ0715!!!!! Very talented director (italian mother, license plate father)
Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man
reaching up to get it off of the fridge and the big tshirt im wearing as pyjamas rides up and the reader sees my panties
fucking losing my shit over elizabeth holmes' fucking twitter banner
stunning and brave and corrupt
Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year! Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3
PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!
I’m reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepin’ this ol’ goat girl goin’ so long
(Also hi, I’m still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soon…)
Falling for imperialist propaganda from your own country is dumb, but falling for imperialist propaganda from a faraway country that doesn't even exist anymore is way dumber
Hallucinating a communist state in Russia so that you can be uncritically in favour of its imperialist foreign policy.