Also, the ores it’s found in are usually more concentrated than uranium and don’t form pockets of dangerous radon gas, so it’s safer, cheaper and more efficient to mine.

Right now the US is mining/transporting uranium in the Grand fucking Canyon. Besides risking a natural wonder of the world with rich cultural and scientific history, it also risks the native lands of the Havasupai tribe which would be permanently displaced if an environmental disaster occurred there.

Thesis: Nuking your reddit account is good for your mental health

Antithesis: If everyone nuked their reddit accounts, a lot of invaluable information (especially in niche communities) would be lost, and this would primarily hurt average people and not reddit as a corporation

Synthesis: Nuking all reddit accounts is good for society’s health. Reddit is a trash website. In the short-term it will hurt, but long-term we are better off moving these communities to decentralized platforms. There are ways to archive the important information from reddit. Reddit thrives off the free contributions of countless users who are paid nothing, and reddit claims ownership and monetizes all content freely published to it. If you don’t like reddit, simply stop posting to it, no matter how juicy the bait

Excellent info. Saving this for later.

Does this block YouTube ads?

It really has made me appreciate and gain an interest in FOSS. Always had a passing interest but I’m really starting to understand the principle behind it.

I guess I used to think of it as a more libertarian ideology, like “the government is going to spy on my porn folders” sorta reasons, so I didn’t think too hard about it. But for communists I think it’s important for reasons of escaping capitalist hell.

Makes me realize how some of the early computer folks like Richard Stallman saw what was coming, that it didn’t have to go the way of paid services. The good guys just lost. Or maybe it was never something to be won… idk. Free software, free digital media, free social media are important alternatives in capitalist society where everything is monetized, propagandized, and compromised/tracked.

AI is great for asking questions, not answering them

It’s kind of like how graphics cards are used to optimize specific repeated computations but not used for general computation

A channel I subscribe to just posted an explainer on spin, for anyone interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYeRS5a3HbE

It is a good demonstration of the limitations of our own thought. We understand new concepts in terms of familiar concepts. If there is no direct analogy to something familiar, the human mind is utterly lost and has to trust in rigorous analysis while only half believing what it proves.

are they adding extra ethanol or something?

Yes. 88 has up to 15% ethanol. You should check your manual before using it.

The term billionaire was named after him for a reason

Ok, use Android then. Millions of people don’t care about those things because they have different priorities for their phone which Apple accounts for when they decide which features to roll out.

It’s in beta 1. Some apps look kinda bad if you’re trying to pick a horrid color. Hopefully they do something to improve contrast before release.

Every new Android version adds features that have been on iOS forever. Both OSes have different priorities.

Android will often add new features but they are poorly integrated or thought out. iOS tends to add features with a much higher level of refinement the first time around.

Can you please call some cool stuff like healthcare?

Ad Nauseum

whoever came up with that name deserves an award

Hopefully they at least separate the long-form from short-form, like how YouTube isolates Shorts to their own area (sorta kinda)

It’s a large % increase of a small number

Otherwise there are a lot of enhancements and bug-fixes which improve your Notepad++ experience.

lol

“Your baby boy is speaking in tongues and likely to be the Antichrist; ~anywho~, please be sure to return for a check-up in three weeks, and here’s a coupon for some baby formula.”

CEO Sundar Pichai said, “We have a culture of vibrant, open discussion… But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place […] to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”

• Our apolitical business decisions
• Their disruptive protests

A billion-dollar contract with Israel is a political decision. There is no way to oppose it except politically. Own the decisions you make Google.

Americans hate individuals in government, believing that if it weren’t for [Specific Partisan] the US government would finally align with their dreams and everything would be way better than China ever could be. But it’s just because the wrong people are in power — the power structure itself is not to be questioned.

This is the same issue with the Harry Potter books, as Shaun points out in his video. Rowling is herself a major neoliberal, so she can’t write realistic villains (Voldemort) nor solve the systemic evils of the fucked up, racist, and discriminatory Wizarding World. Her solutions are all to remove the problematic individuals and stop short of systemic change. Harry decides near the end that

lmao.