Perhaps the most inhuman trait of all, agreeing with people easily.

The baby of Idiocracy and Blade Runner would be called Running While Holding A Sharp Knife I believe

People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.

Or both, not a singularity, but a duality

Starting this conversation with Sam Altman is like showing up at a funeral in a clowncar

Gates don’t give a fuck. He’s really wants to do the right thing and leave a solid legacy. Call him greedy, and he certainly was in the day, but he’s no longer concerned with personal enrichment.

Money is a drug, rich people if anything are more greedy for each dollar they get than poor people because their tolerance goes up and they need more and more power/money to still get high.

Any amount of money billionaires like Gates steals from workers has to be just the beginning or else his high will peak and then fall and billionaires will not accept a cold brush with reality/mortality like that.

Bill Gates is full of shit

no!

no

Strictly speaking Bandcamp was one of the best places to just buy music on the internet. It served for years as an inconvient counterpoint to shitheads like the CEO of Spotify who claimed there was no way that Musicians could expect to earn money from selling music in this day and age.

Bandcamp was a threat as an independent company to the strangling action being done on music by big corporations, and now it is not.

With this in mind, strictly speaking, I would say we need a new Bandcamp not owned by a massive corporation as a bare minimum requirement.

me in the US

HiNa supplied sodium-ion batteries for JAC Motors in 2023. Early batteries had lower gravimetric energy density (145 Wh/kg) and volumetric energy density (330 Wh/liter) than LFP, but sodium-ion batteries have already improved since then. They have outstanding temperature range, yielding 88% retention at -20°C. For reference, the discharge capacity of NMC at 0°C, −10°C and −20°C is only 80%, 53%, and 23% of that at 25°C. The HiNa batteries had a cycle life of 4,500 cycles with 83% retention and a 2C charge rate, but even better sodium-ion batteries are on their way.

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These developments point the way to much more. The cost of sodium battery materials is much lower than for any lithium battery. There are no resource bottleneck materials like cobalt or lithium to contend with. In addition, aluminum can be used for electrodes, whereas lithium requires copper for one of the electrodes. Carbon or graphite and separator materials will be similar, but in all other respects, sodium has much lower material costs. Compared to LFP, sodium does not require phosphorous, a substance that is almost exclusively sourced from one state in north Africa, nor lithium, a relatively abundant but more expensive substance than sodium. LFP cannot compete on material costs or temperature range, and both BYD and CATL expect to phase it out first in energy storage. ‌

I wake up to the screaming of tiny flying dinosaurs

My friend finally pulled the linux trigger after being a windows user and they love it! The excitement is amazing I love it.

well said!

This was something that was lost in the aftermath of the brutal killing of Charlie Kirk, I am not on Instagram, I never watched the video because why would I? I don’t condone shooting people because you don’t like them, so despite the fact that I fucking hate Charlie Kirk’s guts, why would I need to see the violence literally? To believe it? To witness it? Watching gun violence doesn’t do anything for me but remind me of how uncomprehensibly awful gun violence and in general violence is…

The thing is, I noticed how many people around me who were on Instagram saw it without really wanting to, it was almost a foregone conclusion from their perspective they would be exposed to it. That is fucked up, why don’t we all collectively realize that?

This is a choice in architecture, in social media governance, it is something that we shouldn’t let conservatives get away with, they can’t manage this stuff because they are incredibly childish and unserious about realworld consequences and are unwilling to learn from realworld lessons or history. Rightwing billionaires shouldn’t control our social media because they let this kind of thing proliferate, they encourage it. They want us to be shocked by a violence appearing on our feed without our agency, it puts our brains into a flight or fight response so we can be manipulated, made more afraid and intimidated into feeling powerless against forces of violence and wealth.

Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.

Also if you need your arrows to land all at the same time so you can fool the enemy into thinking you are many archers fire like this.

The british royal family is a massive for-profit real estate enterprise that is obsessed with marketing, that is why.

You are right, nobody cares compared to the material crimes, it is only cynical structures of profit and wealth that care.

I mean, Biden is definitely responsible for running a stupid af campaign as a wayyyyy too old candidate and then falling apart at the worst moment…? Doesn’t make him the one that is doing the evilest things, it doesn’t make him as shitty as Republicans and Trump, but yeah, I do find Biden responsible in a lot of ways?