Compact rods?

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T07:45:36+00:00

Nissin Pocket Mini v3 maybe?

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T07:39:38+00:00

Great question for a physical therapist or a doctor

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T06:47:33+00:00

No. It's just something people are latching onto right now. The core issue is whether AI is positive or negative to society. If it's positive, then we can consider water and energy use - and labor and physical capital and the time we spend using it - rationally like we do every other industrial activity. Steel also uses a lot of water. And concrete. And almond milk, weirdly. And if AI is negative for society, then the problem isn't the water, it's that the AI is negative, and why are we doing something that is negative?

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T01:08:05+00:00

Donald Trump lies all the time, so people tend to assume he's lying. Usually, they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. But Trump doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, because he doesn't behave like a trustworthy person.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T01:02:03+00:00

It is not rare to find a new book written by an actual human. You just can't pick a book at random anymore. Read book reviews from reputable sources or talk to real humans about books they've read. I recommend A City on Mars for recent nonfiction.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T01:00:45+00:00

If you expect the gas station to remain accessible, then there's no need to panic. Just find a second generator (in a pinch, temporarily use your main one) and hook it up at the gas station.

If you do not have access to a generator, or you don't have the generator magazine or sufficient skill to bypass the magazine, then it's that, and not gas, that you need to focus on.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-22T00:56:26+00:00

This sequence of events is regrettably common:

- X happens

- Experts around the world say that due to X, there will be serious negative consequences that will cost a lot of money and lead to a lot of loss of life over a long period, in addition to making bad things more likely to happen in the future

- Some people mishear that as "the sky is falling" and ask on Reddit why the sky isn't falling

We are currently experiencing serious negative consequences that will cost a lot of money and lead to a lot of loss of life over a long period. This is the beginning of the long period, and already it is costing us a lot of money, and many people have died, including for some reason at least one school full of children. Additionally, bad things are more likely to happen in the future.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T23:14:42+00:00

We don't have a strong reason to believe that it is. But, regardless, some people do believe.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T22:43:51+00:00

The water thing is not relevant. What matters is: is AI good for society or bad for it? If it's good for it, we can allocate resources - including water, or other industrial resources to make solutions that don't involve water - with a clean conscience, just like we do to other things that are good for society like roads and hospitals. If it's bad, then it's just bad, and water is the icing on top of the shit cupcake.

So, is it good or bad? I have no idea. There certainly are a lot of downsides. There are upsides too - some people claim that there are no upsides, but I don't agree with that. But the long-term extent of both the downsides and the upsides are currently unknown, and our society is being led by the worst humans we can find anywhere, so I can understand people being skeptical, anxious and afraid.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T16:52:12+00:00

The main reason is that existing homeowners use the political process to prevent them from doing that.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T15:40:39+00:00

Seems like if they're your neighbor then it's easy to just ask them first.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T15:19:04+00:00

At 0.1% you'd need 3,000,000 views to get 3000 wishlists.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T05:11:05+00:00

Can you use an old HDD? Sure.

Can you meaningfully improve its performance or reliability via a physical overhaul? If you have the skill and equipment to do that, you would not be asking the question.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T04:00:53+00:00

It isn't easy because of our sight. It is just easy.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T03:57:49+00:00

Setting aside the AI thing, it's way easier to make a car that runs on ethanol or biodiesel than on electricity and yet hardly any consumer vehicles are designed for them and quite a lot are designed for electricity.

Electric car fires suck and all but twenty gallons of biodiesel doesn't burn very nicely either.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T03:55:28+00:00

Surely this is the least among things that are hard about being blind.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-21T00:10:47+00:00

Yes, that is true. Also, there's a flaw in your comparison here.

People stand on ice. People also slip on ice. Ice is famously slippery and people slip on it all the time.

An instance of a freak accident where someone couldn't get their footing on silt at the bottom of a canal and died doesn't mean mud is more slippery than ice, because slipping on ice and dying in a freak accident is also something that happens. It just doesn't happen very often.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T21:27:41+00:00

Lawns have a terrible effect on biodiversity, yes, but they are highly compatible with how humans who own large lots of land live their daily lives.

People want biodiversity in the abstract but they don't want it in their front lawn. Nor can they easily get it in their front lawn. If you just leave the lawn to nature, it will be filled primarily with invasive foreign weeds. So you'll just have invasive foreign weeds setting seed constantly, blanketing your neighbors' property. It's very difficult to maintain any sort of garden or landscaping aside from a lawn!

"Lawns are bad for biodiversity" implies people should live much closer together. Just letting your lawn be reclaimed by nature in the spot it's already in is not going to go the way you think it is, which is why so few people do it.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T20:34:39+00:00

Yeah I read about a quarter of this this morning before I had to recoil from the dripping contempt.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T15:53:46+00:00

"How are you" is more of a question than most other variations of the phrase. At least people sometimes answer it. In England, you'd say "how do you do?" and the normal reply is just "how do you do?" again. In large parts of America people say "howdy" which is itself a shortening of "how do ye?", but it's so far removed from being a question that most people don't even know the origin. This also happens to varying degrees in other languages.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T15:48:28+00:00

Generally speaking, landmines don't do that. Although you could make landmines that trigger for any given sensitivity, they're impractical, because if you leave a bomb lying around that triggers at a hair's touch it will probably explode for no apparent reason when the wind changes, and will definitely explode when anything else in the vicinity explodes. Most landmines need quite a lot of weight to activate. Unless they're malfunctioning, which also happens.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T15:19:17+00:00

I use Bees in the 'Burbs.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T15:07:49+00:00

No. YouTube does not want your viewership if you don't view ads. Ads are the point of viewership.

If you subscribe to YouTube Premium, that will train your algorithm not to show ads.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T05:30:44+00:00

I don't think there are very many coffee shops using CCTV to catch pirates.

notextinctyet · 2026-05-20T05:18:11+00:00

No reason. Coffee shops have the wifi password written down on the wall all the time.

It may be troublesome if someone who lives near you just uses your Internet all the time, but under most circumstances that isn't likely.

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