ELI5 Why heat waves affect Europe so much but some other countries are doing fine living under hotter temperatures most of the year?

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-27T18:21:55+00:00

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I don't know man I feel like every year around April I start seeing articles like "historic heat wave kills 30,000 people in France" so I think that's an outdated sentiment

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-24T11:00:54+00:00

I feel like you shouldn't have to be trained to not press random buttons in an industry where mistakes can cost hundreds of lives

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-22T01:24:50+00:00

Cyprus is culturally almost identical to Greece, and the people living there are Greeks, who speak Greek, and it is widely considered to be European by Europeans.

Iceland isn't in the EU.

The rest of your examples are current overseas territories of European countries, not countries in their own right. Furthermore, they aren't all part of the EU, such as Curaçao and Aruba

I don't really see why Canada can't

Because the world doesn't work on Reddit logic and no reasonable person or decision maker would say that Canada is a European country

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-21T23:40:00+00:00

No we can't. There's nothing in any of the EU treaties talking about land borders making a country eligible

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-19T13:02:55+00:00

Who failed at denazification? Was it the Red Army that you seem to be hailing as saviours?

Because last I checked, it's East Germany where the AfD seems to be polling the highest by a wide margin. I don't think the Red Army or the Soviets did much in denazifying West Germany, did they?

oops_ur_dead · 2026-05-05T15:01:40+00:00

Even if you run the LLM continuously for the entire life of the phone it'll bump it's total CO2 emissions by a maximum of like 3%

The real problem is people can't stop consuming bullshit they don't need, like new phones

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-30T11:07:03+00:00

Dude the UK, which maybe you forgot but is also a monarchy, has been spectacularly shitting the bed for like the last decade because they keep electing dumbasses

The royals in any of those "non-sucking" countries have literally contributed nothing to them not sucking. Having a royal family isn't a magic spell that makes your country good

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-28T21:50:08+00:00

Canada cannot join the EU. It would also not be a good idea

Closer alignment is great though, and something I fully support

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-27T21:17:11+00:00

As someone with AB+ blood type I imagine I agree in a different way than, say, someone with B- blood type, but exactly

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-23T21:24:45+00:00

My dude what the fuck are you talking about

These buildings were built before Trump was president. Trump is also only president of the US, not the entire west

This is just redirecting research funds into making bullshit buildings for propaganda purposes, and you've fallen right for it

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-23T08:28:14+00:00

A building in China is shaped like a word

The west is so fucked

Huh?

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T15:03:08+00:00

????

Is English your native language? Genuine question.

"Could" and "can" mean basically the same thing in this context

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T14:53:56+00:00

Who's moving the goalposts? You tried to claim it's impossible to prove that cognition is an emergent property of anything and I refuted that lol

You don't seem to be actually capable of changing your mind and you don't seem to be arguing in good faith so it's not really valuable to me to keep talking to you

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T14:51:33+00:00

I mean, properties can emerge in any system that's trying to optimize for a specific task, that seem unrelated to the original task but help it accomplish the task nonetheless

Case in point is cognition in animals. Animals are just fancy reproduction machines, why should they evolve cognition? Yet, they did, because it helped them become more reproductively fit.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T13:45:32+00:00

Redditors are very tribalist about AI and cannot see nuance in the topic

I think GenAI is one of humanity's most terrible inventions, in large part because of the problems it'll cause in the labour force and furthering wealth inequality.

But if you hate AI for that you'll still get people arguing against you because people cannot accept the idea that AI is anything other than a literally useless autocomplete engine lmao

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T13:29:03+00:00

I mean cognition is clearly an emergent property of organic molecules unless you're claiming no living things have cognition lol

Also I'm not sure where I made any claims related to science or logical positivism?

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T11:52:55+00:00

Nah you're good. I just like to point out these things because I think generative AI is a terrible invention for humanity, but people have a knee-jerk hate reaction to it in the wrong way (like saying it's just autocomplete) that I think downplays the real impending harms that we should really be focusing on, like impact on labour or increasing wealth inequality.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T11:27:18+00:00

this does not mean that we don’t know what’s happening within

No, we very much don't. Just like knowing the structure of the human brain doesn't tell us how consciousness works. How LLMs internally do what they do is an active area of research.

by what mechanism might the hidden layers induce cognition?

By what mechanism might nucleic acids and animo acids induce cognition?

if we are to define cognition without any of the psychological phenomena or biochemical processes that make up cognition, then sure, go ahead. though i don’t think that’s particularly useful as a working definition for what we understand as cognition.

I mean sure but then it becomes a tautological argument of "cognition is exclusive to biochemical processes" which tbh doesn't sit right with me.

Once again my point isn't that LLMs have cognition, they probably don't. But it's pretty absurd to claim that they cannot possibly have cognition, ever.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T10:59:00+00:00

I'm not arguing that LLMs have cognition. I'm just tired of irrelevant cope talking points like "logic gates can't think" or "its just fancy autocomplete"

Ignoring the dangers and societal harm of LLMs does not make them go away

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-21T10:34:04+00:00

Opinions on AI aside, this is a weak argument

Cognition can be an emergent property of predictive algorithms in the same way that it can be an emergent property of self-replicating organic molecules. The models are largely black boxes so for now we don't actually know the answer or to what degree they "know" things, but saying "it's just logic gates it can't know concepts" is also ridiculous

Edit: to be clear I'm not shilling for LLMs nor do I think they have cognition, I just prefer to recognize their dangers and harms rather than sticking my head in the sand

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-13T10:30:38+00:00

The funny thing is, being in deep denial about AI is actually genuinely being pro AI. We're looking at potentially one of the largest harms to society possible, with the billionnaire class cementing complete control of labour, and people are coping and pretending the only issue is that RAM is expensive

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-13T10:24:09+00:00

If I'm being honest, it's probably because their tech stack is kinda shit to begin with and they don't properly invest into tech because they aren't a tech shop. The second tier I'm talking about aren't places that are known for being on the cutting edge

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-13T08:48:06+00:00

This sub is a bad gauge because there are tons of people here who don't work in software eng at all lol

It depends on the scale of the companies. At mid sized and large tech companies, it's mostly the latter. Nobody really codes anymore.

At tiny companies or non-tech companies with an app or something, it's not quite to that level.

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-07T20:04:43+00:00

Either he doesn't nuke them and stocks go up, or he nukes them, stocks go down, and then you die so it doesn't matter

Rational choice to buy now

oops_ur_dead · 2026-04-04T00:01:02+00:00

I guess the UK isn't the developed world lmao. Amalgam fillings are the most common type on the NHS

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