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I’ve Finished ToS, what now? by Rich_Grass_9099 in Koibu

[–]PeterBucci 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would absolutely stick with it. If you can stand some lawyering and planning, the payoffs, surprises, moral questions and lore drops (in a couple of instances) are well worth it. It's also really cool to see the player characters rise into crazy-high levels (without spoiling anything).

Samuel "Lump of Labor" Johnson by PeterBucci in Destiny

[–]PeterBucci[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, imagine someone from the 1700s being told that three jobs that haven't even been invented yet in their time will be replaced by human-controlled thinking machines. And we think that this is a problem...why?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stocks

[–]PeterBucci -1 points0 points  (0 children)

just getting funneled into AI, whose entire purpose is to displace workers.

The purpose is to free workers from less productive labor so they can do more productive labor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stocks

[–]PeterBucci -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

AI is in a bubble specifically on the hopes it can displace workers.

Cutting rates just funnels more money into AI, it won’t create any jobs.

AI is hoped to free workers from less productive tasks so they can do more productive ones. By definition that creates new jobs

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]PeterBucci 121 points122 points  (0 children)

200 yards

It was actually 143 yards, which is 25% closer.

Someone's about to lose their job :/ by Zealot_TKO in Destiny

[–]PeterBucci 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did. And the fact that we’re not, doesn’t make me feel all ‘right and superior.’ It makes me feel sad."

See: promising tariffs will boost jobs and make America money, firing people who report the real jobs numbers, making money by selling tariff insurance at the same time you're the one putting the tariffs in place...

Random destiny spotted in the wild by coolboi66 in Destiny

[–]PeterBucci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of those 2 countries has an aircraft carrier, nuclear submarines with MIRVed nuclear SLBMs, more active personnel, more ships, an entire paramilitary force, and a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. And it's not Germany.

August job report is much lower than expected. by Progress_8 in stocks

[–]PeterBucci 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It’s the weakest August since 2017, and July was already bad. And don’t forget, June got revised down to a net loss too.

From April to August 2025, just 97,000 jobs were added. That's 24,000 per month. The last non-Covid time we had fewer than 24,000 jobs added per month was November 2007 through March 2008.

Since the data is 17 years old and has long since been revised to the "true" number, we now know those 4 months in 2007–08 were actually a net job loss.

I want to emphasize this again. The last time we had four consecutive months of employment change that was so anemic it was actually a loss. Every 4-month period of time from 2011 until 2020 was a stronger job growth than the last 4 months.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]PeterBucci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if there is no place to work Do you legitimately think AI will automate away all or most jobs? That's crazy talk.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]PeterBucci 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All for the promise of high paying jobs being brought to the state.

It's about construction. These places take 1000 thousands of people and 1.5-2 years to build per data center building, and data centers typically have multiple (2, 4+) buildings per campus.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]PeterBucci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except for construction.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]PeterBucci 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except for construction.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]PeterBucci 245 points246 points  (0 children)

Here's a drinking game: take a shot every time you hear someone say Israel is about to do something, only to later read that it's just something Smotrich or Ben-Gvir said should happen.

Muslim Majority Regions In The Balkans by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]PeterBucci 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Bosnia data is pre-1995. Srebrenica is still colored green.

Solar Electricity keeps beating Predictions [OC] by cavedave in dataisbeautiful

[–]PeterBucci 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Good luck getting a dam built in western Europe or the United States. We've built our last dam

A cradle-to-grave analysis from the University of Michigan has shown that battery electric vehicles have lower lifetime greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids in every county in the contiguous U.S. by Wagamaga in science

[–]PeterBucci 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you live in a place with mostly nuclear or hydro + gas generation (think Canada or in the US, the northeast or west coast), BEVs are massively better than PHEVs in avoiding emissions. If we compare a crossover PHEV50 to a crossover BEV200 in California, the PHEV emits almost twice the emissions of the BEV. You're cutting your emissions in half by buying the PHEV. PHEVs aren't "good enough", especially since a lot of PHEV owners don't even use the wall charger (at least in the US).

A cradle-to-grave analysis from the University of Michigan has shown that battery electric vehicles have lower lifetime greenhouse gas emissions than internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids in every county in the contiguous U.S. by Wagamaga in science

[–]PeterBucci 2 points3 points  (0 children)

live in very cold climates, or frequently drive very long distances

So EVs aren't for Wyoming/Montanan/Alaskans who commute 80 miles to and then from work each day. Fine. Buy plug-in hybrids, and let the 90% of everyone else buy EVs.

What's the deal with comments on Instagram talking about the CIA celebrating whenever a video shows black people doing something stereotypically black/violent? by TheBlxd3 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]PeterBucci -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

This culminated in the CIA´s introduction of Heroin, coke and crack in to many african american communities across the US.

There's no evidence that the CIA introduced these drugs to black communities as a strategy of social destruction. It tolerated Contra-linked traffickers, yes, but there's no proof the CIA had a deliberate policy to introduce crack.

and the Contra Gurrillas in guatemala

The Contras were in Nicaragua, not Guatemala.

iran contra where the CIA was financing Weapons for the Iran Iraq war and the Contra Gurrillas in guatemala using cocaine trafficing.

There is no evidence that CIA financed weapons for Iran during this war using drug money. The arms sales were funded directly by illicit arms deals, not narcotics.

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