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And Ontario sucks because Doug Ford sucks. It’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken somewhere.

I think their point is that it’s not just energy that we get from oil, but lubricants, rubbers, solvents, asphalt, plastics, and so on…

EV only tackle the energy part. They still need tyres, seals and gaskets, insulation, road surfaces, and more…

To be rid of oil is a huge undertaking comprising thousands of individual cases of finding renewable alternatives or stopping use entirely. Which is why we need to be working to remove oil from every step today, not partially removing three steps because it’s cheap and distracts environmentalists from the other 14,962 steps.

I’ve noticed several newpipe derivatives having issues recently, it is a protocol thing? Did the YT API change in some places?

“Musume” is closer in usage to “Maiden”, and is often used in the same way words like “woman” and “girl” are used in titles, like Wonder Woman or Batgirl.

It doesn’t have a connotation of family by itself.

The Chicago parking situation is nuts. Not only did they sell them for 75 years, and not only did they sell for only a little over a single year of earnings, but they’re also required to reimburse the parking companies for lost revenue (such as from reducing parking spaces or construction). The price of parking has more than doubled since then.

Maybe this can be a lesson to everyone about privatization.

The formatting you’re seeing is controlled by carets (^). Just replace the start and end of the superscript text with them.

I see this often when talking about exponents: x^2 is less than x^3.

The superscript needs to be surrounded to work properly: x^(x+1) is greater than x^(x-1).

In this case, the effected text is $(h, h^‘)$ and $(h^’, h)$. I’m not sure why the prime notation needs to be superscripted, probably something to do with the formatter that is expectinng $s. I think the correct formatting (at least for me) is (h, h^’) and (h^’, h).

It got much worse when they went AI First.

Can they just get to the extinguish step already?

Maybe we can replace the boring bluegrass lawns with boulders.

Propaganda was short for “congregation for propagating the faith” in 1718, and meant a movement or organization for the propagation of ideology before the end of the 1700s. The modern usage refering to the information disseminated is from after WWI (which wasn’t perjoritive at the time), when German telegraph lines to other countries were cut and they turned to high-power radio communication. The negative connotation comes from WWII after Germany’s very effective use of it.

Nevertheless, propaganda has been used as long as humans have existed, and much like the subcategory “advertisement”, is more effective with as many lies as one can get away with. There’s nothing inherently untruthful about propaganda, but neither is it inherently truthful. It’s manipulation, and can still be effective without lies. It’s much broader than papers to circumvent censure.

Propaganda was originally a branch of the Catholic Church, so the connotation is that it’s as full of crap and dishonesty as apologetics.

It’s more inherent than that in most cases. The job attracts power trippers, the culture and standards in most precincts encourages abusive assholes and corruption, and once the cops can cover for each other it becomes self-selecting for abuse. At least in North America, cops are heavily pre-disposed to being bastards, even before the reality of their purpose.

Why would you want your OS to use you’re memory? My browser already takes too much, and I really push my system trying to run dev-builds of games built for desktops.

In a very technical sense, you can turn any distro into any other distro, in the same way you can turn Windows into OpenBSD.

It’s probably also true in a smaller way, where you could technically reengineer a distro manually by replacing components and reconfiguring things until it works, but why? Someone already did that.

That’s just how LLMs read data, it could just be for a text search. The problem is where that data came from, if they’re outputting text from it, if they’re getting people to trust that output, and if they’re getting kickbacks from Nvidia for it.

It’s not the same party anymore.

Aren’t water flow, electrical flow, and mechanical flow all strictly analogous? As in mathematically equivalent, not just similar?

Was that Worms and the churning up of the sea floor, or was that earlier than the Ediacaran?

Seems clickbaity to me. Lots of calls to action, burying the lead, and inflammatory language. Smells like rhetoric that we already are fighting against.

Flying Rhino Junior High is a 90s children’s cartoon that is a bit more niche than I remember. The only time I have ever heard the phrase “Flying Rhino”.

A flying rhino? Such a weird situation! We should name a junior high school after it.