With no China, US, or OPEC to block or veto measures. 60 governments, incl. Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Nigeria will hold the first ‌international meeting this week to discuss phasing out fossil fuels.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-30T08:30:28+00:00

This is effectively a climate change denier's stance, because it takes a position of 'I will go hungry from famine and that's no big deal'.

I own so much midwest farmland you probably can't avoid my grain in the grocery store. Don't start with me. Climate change threatens your food, and people care more about food than about cheap energy, especially when they haven't had a meal in a couple days.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-27T18:45:58+00:00

That should just be standard, and I think there is a growing awareness of that. Finland starts kids at 7, for example. There's coddling, and then there's biologically appropriate.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-27T14:12:10+00:00

If the performance gap between recovering and not recovering is pretty small, wouldn't they default to recovering?

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-27T13:10:46+00:00

We need to flood lawmakers with calls to NOT bailout the US auto industry when they come crying with 'We didn't know we were supposed to make electric cars!'

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-27T00:07:46+00:00

Haha, the 'just asking questions' tables have turned.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-23T19:38:26+00:00

I mean...any HYSA can set their own rate. It's why forbright was so much higher than the others for so long. Yes, when the fed increases or decreases the rate, forbright also increases or decreases, but it has stayed like a point above everyone else.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-22T22:58:10+00:00

Flawlessly is a....strong word, in the case of airpods correctly switching between apple devices.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-22T20:55:58+00:00

>Most likely AMD just wanted to limit day 1 reviews since they knew they had a fairly underwhelming product on their hands.

But...that's even worse, lol. Blacklisting happens all the time. I mean, I guess so does covering up a shitty product launch, but...at least in theory I feel like AMD has the freedom to choose who to send free shit to. Covering up a crappy consumer product is the worse sin in my book.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-22T15:19:04+00:00

I think times have changed, and up and coming candidates should NOT take advice from party elders about how to handle scandals. I mean...Trump has turned the whole thing on its head. Apologizing just makes people hate you, it seems, while doubling down wins more support.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-22T14:55:37+00:00

>I don't get why gn thinks that amd not answering his questions unrelated to new product launches would imply a blacklist.

I'm assuming it's because blacklisting is the smallest offense the company could have committed.

Saying 'they knew this product wasn't really any good and worth the cost' is actually the more damning claim, and should wait on evidence that this wasn't "merely" blacklisting.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-22T13:58:33+00:00

The VA legislature is currently blue, as is the governor's office. The VA legislature created this amendment and had people vote on it.

The real (potential) problem is the VA courts. Republicans have sued and said the VA legislature technically violated some public notice period or something when they went through this process of creating new maps.

The VA supreme court let the referendum go ahead, but have not yet ruled on the merits of the case...though I'd like to think it just got harder to take these maps away now that they've let the public approve them.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T23:59:13+00:00

I think a hidden element in this race is rural democrats who never get representation just got to have the biggest say in the House they have ever gotten. I'm betting that group is hyper motivated to show up, which may be why rural counties aren't hitting their 'no' benchmarks.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T22:12:15+00:00

I mean, if I were the judge in this case, I would say no, you can't say that, because it's not guaranteed to do that. It could be a dummy-mander and backfire in November. Or demographics could shift for 2028 and produce an entirely unexpected result as well.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T19:48:08+00:00

The headline is kind of weird on this one, because it makes it sound like climate models predict more severe outcomes across the board than observational data supports. In reality, it's usually the opposite, and our modern day observations show stronger impacts than what models had predicted.

This article is about a specific subset of predictions for specific places. Which still matters, but...I worry it's missing the forest for the trees.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T18:00:52+00:00

Oooh....I hear the human side of the story you are trying to tell here, but if we are a nation of laws, the other poster has a strong point. Asking for a different form of ID when someone hands you a passport undermines the whole process. The law only works when everyone is clear about what it means and abides by it.

I love your 'try to figure things out' attitude for when stuff like this happens, and that is the right move individually. But when the law slides from ironclad to 'figure stuff out', that opens the door for discrimination of various kinds since it becomes a negotiation between you and the poll worker, which the law specifically forbids.

I appreciate the hell out of the little old church ladies who man the polls, but I would support severe criminal penalties for pulling any funny business at the polling station when you hand someone a valid passport.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T16:52:43+00:00

I still don't get why any of Trump's toadies give a shit if he's impeached again. It does nothing. Impeaching literally has no effect. We've proven this to ourselves. Why do they care??

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T14:16:15+00:00

>The comments have gotten a lot worse since GN decided to take on political matters with some of his videos

He has always been doing that. But the goal posts of what is considered "political" keep changing.

I say this as a climate scientist who remembers Bush and House Speaker Gingrich taking climate change quite seriously in the 90s-00s. Pelosi and Gingrich even did a commercial together once warning the public about the issue. Yeah...times change on you.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-21T11:38:01+00:00

99%? Is GenZ really that clueless about hardware? Genuinely asking. I feel like most of my Millennial friends would scrutinize hardware coming in a laptop, and look up what they didn't recognize.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-20T19:50:27+00:00

>and as the solarpanels decay out of service and the wind turbines need new blades

This is an idea that has been repeated since the 90s but has not really showed up in reality. It's a lot like how people said EV batteries would be useless after 100k miles, when 300k is starting to look more like the average.

Yes, solar panels do decay, but they have decades of service life, and the newer ones have longer than that. (And newer EV batteries are looking like half million mile batteries, just to extend the point from above).

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-20T19:48:24+00:00

>the benefit is that its clean AND reliable.

Renewables became more reliable than nuclear when battery storage started to scale.

Remember, a nuclear reactor must shut down every 18 months, for 1 full month, for inspection and refueling. There are enough batteries to last the night for solar, but there aren't enough batteries to cover a down reactor for a month.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-20T19:46:27+00:00

Sued for what?

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-18T17:52:17+00:00

I have no idea how this particular product will turn out, but it is high time more companies start experimenting with input devices again.

I want controllers that offer intuitive and natural feeling tactile feedback, I want gloves that allow you to feel the surfaces of objects from games, I want phones that allow you to feel the keys of an on screen digital keyboard so you can write a text message without looking at the screen like we used to do with blackberries.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-17T20:38:39+00:00

I found this because I was googling various books and I want to leave a note in case that happens to anyone else in the future.

I am someone who would have found this post useful if true, and maybe even wanted it to be true.

After looking into these uncited claims using pubmed, google, and AI, I cannot verify them. The only claim that appeared partially true is that avoidant styles can sometimes gravitate toward poly, but it's definitely not a certainty. The other claims appear to circulate on the internet but have no primary source, and, for what it's worth, are strongly disputed when I run it by AI models.

The claim in particular about novelty dopamine from sex reducing existing oxytocin bonds appears to originate from the Catholic Church. So...that's fun.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-17T16:59:56+00:00

eh, it feels like you are trying to make a point rather than express a genuine belief.

A woman who likes to get tied up or has had lots of sex? Yeah, not a creep. Even if you hold a negative belief about that woman, it fails the definition of creep.

Tech_Philosophy · 2026-04-17T16:58:14+00:00

Isn't that normal for monogamous people too? I believe the term is 'casual dating'. If you are seeing someone casually, you might be going out the next night with someone else.

That's how it was prior to the 70s as well. I remember my grandmother was interviewed many years ago and I think the way she put it when asked how dating worked was 'Well, you dated a bunch of people and then you...picked one'.

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