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  • Horsepower was originally used to describe the work that a horse could do over the course of an hour. Specifically, the number of times an hour a horse could turn a mill wheel at a brewery. These are estimates of peak power, not sustained power, so I would say that it's accurate that horses can produce significantly more than one horsepower in short bursts.

  • Seems pretty easy to explain. LLMs are statistical models. Republican politicians are statistically more likely to be sexual predators. If you ask it if some random Republican politician is a rapist, it's going to give you a statistically plausible answer.

  • "Computer game-style drone attack system" means a drone attack system in the style of a computer game. It is real. They gamified the killing.

  • No such thing when you're watching live events, and I (and apparently most everyone else) can't tell the difference between 4K and 1080 at a reasonable distance anyway.

  • My desktop monitor is a 54" 4K TV that I sit about 3' from. It's somewhat difficult for me to pick out individual pixels even when I lean in. My living room TV is 70" 4K, but I sit 15' away from it. There's no way I could tell the difference in 4K and 1080 from pixel density alone. I can however tell the difference between 4K and 1080 streams because of how shitty low bitrates look. 4K streams crush all of the dark colors and leave you with these nasty banding effects that I don't see as often on lower resolution streams.

  • Obligatory copypasta:

     
        
    BALK RULES! IMPORTANT!
    
    1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
    1a. A balk is when you
    1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
    1c. Let me start over
    1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
    1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
    1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
    1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
    1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
    1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
    1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
    1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
    1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
    2. Do not do a balk please.
      
  • I think they meant to say $400K a year or $1.6M a term.

  • Influencers using horizontal video? Pft. So unrealistic.

  • I guess fuck everyone in Atlanta, Memphis, Austin, New Orleans, or any other city in the south, right?

  • I doubt maintaining a single deriver was their only responsibility.

  • The Collective Shout logo looks like a butthole.

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  • Non-profit organizations still exist within the capitalist system. Just because they don't pay out dividends to shareholders doesn't mean they can't be exploitative. If a non-profit makes a lot of money, the people who run it just increase their own salaries. Happens all the time. And yes, non-profits exploit labor all the time. Local arts councils are an easy example of this. Run an art show where the venue and food are donated. They take a fee at the door, ask for donations throughout, and require a cut of any art sold. If there's a bar, they get a cut of that too. The artists who enabled the show to even exist did all their labor for free in exchange for exposure and maybe selling something. They see none of the take though. Sounds pretty capitalist to me.

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  • You just know this rich asshole is really only concerned about how deportations and tariffs are affecting her bottom line.

    Edit: Oh no! I've made a potentially incorrect assumption about the true intentions of a billionaire. /s

    Fuck the rich. Billionaires shouldn't exist.

  • Legal Mexican immigrant: Tries to leave United States.

    Border Patrol: Oh no you don't. We need to pad our stats with your deportation.

  • Nazis and KKK members already hate Catholics.

  • HP shut it down, so it's effectively a paperweight or trash otherwise. Judging by the image of it sitting on a desk in a 3D printed enclosure, I'd say they're probably not using it for its original purpose anyway. Pretty easy to solder in a bigger battery if you're not trying to walk around with it.

  • The worst is that battle between my desire to turn the A/C off because it's loud and I can't think and my need to put it on full blast because it's 100 degrees outside.

  • I finally understand the Winnie-the-Pooh comparisons, and now I want to see a jacked Pooh Bear. Maybe a sexy Eeyore and a scrawny tweaker Tigger too.

  • Absolutely diabolical. Cutting off internet access is no different than cutting of electricity in modern society. Sure, you can live without it, but everything from paying your bills to getting a job or having a social life just got a whole lot harder. Fuck anyone who thinks this is a reasonable response.