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TimLovesTech

@ TimLovesTech @badatbeing.social

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Hi I'm Tim.

I'm AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.

  • How Will Lemmy and Social Media Handle Advanced Bots in the Future?

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  • For commercial services like Twitter or Reddit the bots make sense because it lets the platforms have inflated "user" numbers while also more random nonsense to sell ads against.

    But for the fediverse, the goals would be, post random stuff into the void and profit?? Like I guess you could long game some users into a product that they only research on the fediverse, but seems more cost effective for the botnets to attack the commercial networks first.

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    Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers

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  • Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology ...

    Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter. The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.

    So basically academics finding people to fund a large scale lab experiment, they want to get working by 2030. It sounds like they sold Google on an idea (for funding) and now have to move their idea from the lab to the real world. It does sound safer than water cooled plants of old at least.

  • Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

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  • Well someone is already deciding based on the ability to get a security clearance. And if being "Don citizen" and not able to get a security clearance at all, how should that person be allowed an office that needs a Top Secret clearance level?

    Also it shouldn't be up to Trump, or anyone he appoints (or that any president appoints).

  • Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’

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  • Well I would assume some of that comes from the lower volume of building the homes, with less people in construction in the area possessing the skills/materials to do so. Perhaps if the government put money towards volume buying materials and securing contractors able to build them, the price could come down to "market" values. I would think insurance companies would also see it as a win not having to payout as much for those that can actually be insured (and maybe makes it so more people can actually be covered making the graph go up).

    I could be way off and the pricing of those homes are just unable to come down to an acceptable $ value, but government/insurance money would be put to better use looking to build more future climate safe homes as close as possible to the above model instead of today's standard.

  • Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

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  • I think because Elon can let him run whatever he wants on Twitter unchecked (disinformation or whatever), and because Elon is all in on grifting crypto bros that Trump is hoping to pull in for their votes before they notice the con.

  • Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

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  • All compromised Dems? Sounds like a good idea. And I assume he would need to do it by proxy since he currently has only citizen powers.

  • Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida

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  • Are the Swastika flags black because they are "dark MAGA" like Elon? /s

  • Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida

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  • And because the religious sect believes they need the Jews to bring Armageddon/the rapture.

  • Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’

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  • I think housing like this might be a smarter move than trying to move millions of people (or leaving them homeless).

  • Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’

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  • OK, you're the one that sounded like you wanted to move everyone. And I don't think when natural disasters continue to get worse that it's going to be just hurricanes causing mass destruction. We are eventually going to have the rise of sea levels coming into play, which will of course increase the destruction those hurricanes can create, but also the more water a hurricane like Milton spawning larger tornadoes has to move around inland.

    Between 2010 and 2020, tornadoes have cost an average of $2.5 million per storm. The most expensive tornado of all time occurred on May 22, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, costing $2.8 billion dollars in insurance claims and a total cost of damages around $3.18 billion.

    Source: The Effect of Tornadoes on Insurance

    What about that too? If people want to continue to build on the path of hurricanes, let them. Just stop using taxpayer money to bail them out.

    Your stance that its OK for taxpayers to pay $2.5 million per tornado, but hurricane survivors should be on their own sounds kinda hypocritical.

  • Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting ‘attractive’ people

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  • People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.

    Former President... emphasis on former. As a candidate, his opinion shouldn't carry anymore weight than any other citizen.

  • 'The Interview' A Conversation with JD Vance

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  • He's a grifter, and the GOP audience will currently take the grift and ask for more. Like Trump, he pretends to be whatever he needs to be to allow him to continue the con. No morals, no dignity, just dollar signs and power.

    Edit s/right/GOP

  • every time

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  • It's fuel for the cult, it gives them something to fear. The fear of the outside world and its people are what keeps people from leaving the cult, even if the cult leader is an asshole and grifting snake oil to them for what little money they have left.

  • South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods

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  • A meant a leak in the chamber would possibly put the facility at risk, not just having the chamber. And we know the kind of maintenance a chamber used maybe a handful of times a year is going to get to keep it air tight. Plus it's added cost to the already absurd cost of killing someone, instead of actually trying to rehabilitate them (will always be some that cannot be of course). And putting it outside then makes the air tight chamber subjected to the weather/elements, adding more cost in maintenance.

    And I know you mentioned the mask vs chamber thing, but I don't see it going differently just because they are going to vacuum oxygen out and nitrogen in. And would also add the cost of further staff training on opening a chamber full of nitrogen (potentially) rather than a room with possibly some nitrogen from a leaking mask. Just don't see the cost analysis of this being in the ballpark of cost effective when we could put that money to better use.

  • Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’

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  • Not sure how we relocate basically everyone in the South though. And what about tornado alley, do we move all those people also? And then you have wild fires and earthquakes, do we move all of California also? I get what you are saying, but getting millions of people to move states or across the country isn't a simple thing. And what do we do with all the then empty previously "high valued" real estate? I do think we ultimately have to do something as global warming continues to cause humans issues at what seems like an accelerated rate, but we also have an alarming number of people that do not want to address it (or that even deny it happening).

  • Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’

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  • We need some kind of ACA for regular insurance, where unless people are literally building in a swamp or the bottom of a crater near a lake/river they should be just automatically covered.

  • Data shows migrants aren't taking 'Black jobs' or 'Hispanic jobs,' despite what Trump says

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  • What about the "union jobs"?

    /s obviously (hopefully)

  • South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods

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  • If his crime was that bad, why wait 25 years to execute him? The guy also didn't go into the store armed and looking to kill someone, he just wanted money for drugs, but then had a gun pulled on him and then exchanged shots with the shop keeper who pulled yet another firearm out. If this had been Zimmerman or Rittenhouse they might have called it "self defense". The guy seems more than willing to accept responsibility for his actions and remain in prison for the rest of his natural life. My hot take is to let him do as he suggested, remain in prison and help to rehabilitate those he can, kinda like the idea of what prison was supposed to do. If they need to kill inmates, why not save it for the people that have no remorse for what they have done?

  • South Carolina death row inmate told to choose between execution methods

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  • And it’s not junk science that nitrogen inhalation causes hypoxia.

    I was stating the part about using nitrogen as an "easy and painless" death were based off junk science, well not even science really, just people that know that it kills people and looking for new ways to use it legally to do so.

    You’re thinking of the execution where they used a mask instead of a chamber like you’re supposed to.

    The use of chamber, would require even more of an investment to make safe. If it were to leak during the execution, or staff opened the chamber before it was completely removed it could endanger the lives of everyone in the facility. I also think the results with a mask or chamber would be in the end the same, someone gasping for breath while suffocating to death.

    Also here is a bit about nitrogen executions, and the horrific job done in Alabama last year.