Sounds pretty good. From what I understand because of the massive compute required to train LLMs the only groups that can afford to do it are large corporations or states. And with this model because it's open source maybe less energy use from a bunch of different organizations creating their own models.
Dressing wildlife is illegal? The nanny state at work again
What would become tedious, eliminating crimes from the books? I'm not saying we need to go on some campaign, just here's a law that isn't being used, isn't just, and they're getting rid of it. That's good.
We should reduce as much as possible laws that make something illegal but aren't enforced. It creates uncertainty about your position and allows authorities to threaten citizens for unrelated reasons.
At the time I'm reading this the title notes that this design is from 1985. Here's an article I came across with more info.
That's interesting about them forming a governing coalition, don't see much of that in the states. Have to imagine RCV is a big reason.
Do we think this thing is legit? I'm more willing to experiment with a dicey land vehicle than an aircraft.
I could beat them both with my invention, the megaspear
Right, there's also a constitutional amendment saying insurrectionists can't stand for office
I do think Tesla has unsafe door latches whether that was the issue in this particular crash or not. But that design issue is unrelated to electric vehicle technology
Are you accounting for inflation? 17 years ago is a while
Not really representative of most electric cars
I hear you that achieving a certain percentage of sales is dependent on people actually buying the cars. And if there's a way to fuck over customers, dealers will find it.
What would you suggest as an alternative - the dealer has to have a certain number of electric models? Or when you say percentage of fleet do you mean just percentage of total cars on the road?
If it's just a question of models I could easily see a manufacturer making some "fuck off" models that meet the regulation requirements but which aren't desirable to customers so they don't get sold.
If percentage of total cars on the road that seems more desirable but not sure it's that different from percentage of sales? I guess less incentive to charge very high prices per car.
I also noticed the article has a much more opinionated view than a typical news article. That said, if Toyota only has one BEV available then of course it's not going to be able to hit an emissions target.
It's one thing to try hard and say it's impossible, but they haven't been trying hard.
It's worth pointing out that BYD is a threat to other auto companies, because they're actually manufacturing a serious amount of electric vehicles.
I'd rather it wasn't a company tied to an authoritarian government. If democracies think BYD is being funded unfairly how about we promote our manufacturers to do a green transition and make a good product, instead of whining that we need more tariffs?
In terms of shirts I'd actually wear I'm probably going with "music brand" but I've always loved "me want food"
Don't know your situation, but sometimes when you demonstrate you're able to do something, people keep on wanting you to do that thing. If it was me I would stop helping or even pointing to resources. For me it's hard to do because I naturally want to help, but at a certain point you're just enabling other people's poor processes.
Thanks for sharing this. I've been getting emails saying it's close and they're looking for volunteers to help cure ballots but hadn't taken the time to track down where we're at. A 40k gap with 100k outstanding votes doesn't seem like a slam dunk, but it's not impossible.
100k to 200k! Anyone have more pictures?
What would you replace the "pledge of allegiance" with?
In the US most students recite "the pledge of allegiance" every morning before school, which is kind of crazy. If you were in charge, what if anything would you replace it with?
What are the most important holidays for each major religion?
I just saw a discussion among corporate event planners where one person was upset that event organizers don't give proper consideration to scheduling over top of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
I can appreciate the annoyance, when I was still a practicing Christian I would never think to schedule a work thing over Easter or Christmas. We should treat others with consideration, and should be mindful of what others view as important days. But I also don't know what each religion considers to be major, non negotiable holidays. Do you?
Another question, does it matter where the event is? (for example, in the US should less consideration be given to holidays of religions that have fewer adherents?)
Does anyone make a wearable mic set that can do audio POV field recordings?
I know people can wear two video cameras to recreate a first person experience in virtual reality. I also know they make those mannequin head stereo mic sets that create interesting spacial audio, supposedly because they mimic the head's shape and position of our ears.
Instead of the dummy head, does anyone make a mic set that you can wear, with the mics in approximately the position of our ears / ear shaped?
I was thinking you could do some interesting things with that, like recording a band in their practice space from the perspective of the band members. Or tracking lead vocals where the singer is singing to a person wearing the mic set.
What other animals "make music" together? (Specifically harmony or rhythmic coordination)
Some animals sing (birds, whales) and plenty of animals make sounds together at roughly the same time (wolves howling, prairie dogs yelling at threats). Are there animals that harmonize? Or animals that make sound that's rhythmically coordinated, like has a time signature?
Guess I'm asking about more finely coordinated sounds. It's something that's pretty neat about human music.
How I got a truly anonymous Signal account
Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.
Doesn't seem especially practical, but I thought folks here might be interested in this method. With the increasing scarcity of pay phones I suspect it might be equally as "easy" to get a burner cell phone with cash and register a signal account that way.
Are there foods that dogs can safely eat but humans can't?
No, not talking about their own shit or vomit, har de har. I mean how dogs can't have chocolate, can't eat grapes. Are there things it's no big deal for them but would be toxic for us.
Anyone here heard of Wikifunctions, and if so what do you think?
Just learned that Wikimedia has a project called Wikifunctions. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia and associated projects, and on its face sounds like a cool site. I do wonder how this would work in practical terms though, like how could it actually be used?
In what scenario is conscription acceptable? (if any)
Prompted by another thread about conscription in Ukraine.
If you're thinking about something and reach a conclusion that's super outside the mainstream, you could be right, but also could mean you should reinspect your assumptions.
I saw a post on lemmy about how we could prevent 133 holocausts by promoting animal rights and veganism. The article opened by doing some math about how many dogs you could torture and kill in order to be equivalent to taking a human life, and then how many animals humans kill, and concluded that we're committing holocaust equivalents many times over.
I have respect for people who question the status quo and think seriously about morality. Thinking about slavery, it used to be argued "this is the natural order," "this is actually the moral thing to do" and so on. It wasn't easy then to stand up for what we now see as the obvious moral position. So I have some receptivity to this type of argument.
That said, I think back to when I was a Christian (atheist now), and was fully bought into the anti abortion movement. They argued that fetuses were human, that we were committing fetus holocausts all the time. Taking that view to its logical conclusion, one could justify things like killing a few (abortion doctors, judges) to save many (fetuses).
The author of the vegan piece was not advocating for such things. But one could ask why not. I think the fact the conclusion (133 holocausts) is so far outside accepted views should prompt some examination of the starting premises. (Is any killing of an animal for food the same as torturous factory farming, should we do something about animals that eat other animals etc)
I'm glad I read the piece because there's value in hearing other perspectives. We can't see ourselves and our own blind spots. I would have responded in-thread but that community description said "not a place for debate", so tossing out this thought here.
Q: “Are we doomed?” A: “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.”
When people find out what I do for work, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Are we doomed?” My usual response is, “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” We know the people willing to destroy the planet for personal gain are still
I wasn't aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
AI is just one small part of data centers’ soaring energy use.
Elon Musk’s Boundary-Blurring Relationships With Women at SpaceX
Man, fuck this guy
Idea: government funded parties with attendees selected by sortition: "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Party" "Lincoln County Party"
Every week or every month each level of government throws a party funded with taxpayer dollars, and attendees are selected at random from the residents and given advance notice of the party schedule.
What should I know about buying / replacing a garage door opener?
My default buying process is research + spreadsheet creation, this time thought I'd ask the community here if you have any experience / wisdom with garage door openers. Thanks for any help!
Additional info: Single car garage built in the 1950s in the U.S. The current opener is a lift master, just eyeballing it probably from the 90s. The door could be original? I don't know. It's wood, seems fairly substantial.
Yesterday and this morning started having issues with the door just stopping in the middle of opening or closing. When it stops, the remote button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. When it starts moving again it goes the other direction so you have to keep pressing and try to get it to close/open before it stops again. This morning I ended up pulling it down part of the way because I'd gone through several rounds of up, down, up, down. It doesn't seem to want to move manually which isn't surprising. Worried my car is going to get stuck in there before work so I figure should probably be proactive here.
What are legitimate arguments for legalization of gambling?
Question inspired by the news that Dave and Busters is supposed to be adding gambling to their games. And of course there are the sports betting apps.
I get that all things being equal we should let people do what they want to do. But I don't see much of a benefit, and a lot of downside to allowing the spread of gambling.
Some disaster has befallen society: you have to secure a month of food for you and three other people. How do you do it?
Let's assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters
Edit: to expand on this, presumably if society has temporarily or permanently collapsed there would be issues with things like deliveries, security, digital transactions, utility service etc. Feel free to use whichever scenario seems most likely to you, I'm asking more because I was thinking how screwed I'd be if I was just out of food after say, seven days.
What does it take to get a constitutional amendment ratified in the U.S.?
I don't mean the actual rules of passing it, I mean what organization, activities and funding are necessary to do so.
The last one passed was in 1992 and it was just about congressional pay. Last one before that was 1971. Is there some kind of play book? It seems to happen so infrequently that it would be hard to study and conditions would vary enough that the last effort wouldn't be useful as a model.
("The amendment process is very difficult and time consuming: A proposed amendment must be passed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states." Link)