People with stage 4 cancer usually don’t have estates once they pass. It’s fucking expensive to die in this country.

Tf? No it hasn’t. People have been persecuting gays for hundreds of years, and those churches are still going strong. Look at… well, every single church.

But it can’t be wrong, it’s confirming my preconceptions!!

ChatGPT for tailoring resumes and writing coverletters, for one

Fuck, are we going to have to crowdfund this? At least with CNN reporting on it there’s enough awareness they might secure alternative sources, but this is getting fucking insane.

I fear that would just turn into a system for forcing surprise dick pics onto people

God do I wish I thought this might matter.

So you say you’re autistic… <3

You’re right that its the framing here that reads as very rude - if someone is expressing their desire to do something, coming in and presenting something else as a clearly morally superior choice and denigrating the thing they wanted to do is considered quite rude; both because it assumes they’re somehow ignorant of the alternative choices and thus couldn’t have made an informed decision, and because it comes across like you’re asserting your own preferences as “more valid” than theirs.

Much as with all other forms of encoding (limerick, haiku, .mp4, web packets, semaphore, all written languages, etc) the format in which a lemmy comment is left is as critical to the communication of it’s idea as the actual content of the words themselves.

Needlessly judgemental, wow.

It’s a pretty recent one that seems to be gaining popularity in more and more subcategories as youtube’s hypersensitive demonization bot rolls out to more and more videos. Using the words ‘suicide’, ‘pedophile’ or any terms related to self harm reportedly set it off, regardless of their use in context. People are retaliating by using “youtube” as a euphemism in place of the censored terms, hoping it will catch on. So far it seems to be working, as no matter your political, ideological, social or cultural baises we can all band together and agree that youtube are just the worst.

For the sake of her family’s closure, I hope we find out. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have speculation like this about something so horrible.

Oh hell sorry, “youtubing” oneself is a current euphemistic slang term for self-harm/suicide. I wish I was young enough for it to have meant something less depressing.

My thought as well, though this is in texas so why would they be bothering to cover it up? It’s not like they’d be convicted anyways.

Even then it must have been really abnormal, normally they just don’t release the officer’s name and give them a month of paid time off. What the hell…

Yeah, all of my real guesses are too bleak for me to want to type them up. This is just awful.

I had whooping cough as a child (vaccine resistant strain) and it got so bad I tried to youtube myself just to get some rest. It’s truly horrifying how bad it can be. I just wish there were recordings of what it sounds like, so anti-vaxxer parents could at least begin to understand why its so awful.

Only the brown ones, if they’re white it’s technically poaching unless they’re in-season.

It’s extremely strange that no details have been released in this case. I kinda doubt it’s actual full-bore corruption, that’s still fairly rare here, but man for a case involving a foreign citizen it’s sure suspicious they’re so quiet about it. And even in texas there’s so few situations where a fatal shooting doesn’t merit charges. It seems a little far fetched for her to have, say, been mugging someone who then shot her in self-defense. Was she shot by some kind of trained combat armadillo? A senile centenarian who passed away during the investigation? A very small child? (actually those last two are feasible, though in both cases the owner of the firearm they got ahold of would probably have been charged, though it’s texas so that isn’t 100%). Those are the only sort of examples where this might be justified, but lets be honest it was probably the cops.

Just fucking weird. Her poor family.

Yeah, this is a case of me assuming things are common knowledge which I really had no business assuming.

Here’s the best source to use, the CEC’s data reports. FWIW, cali still generates 43% of their power using natural gas - and has added a truly pitiful amount of renewables over the past 5 years. While the end-goal here is absolutely the way to go - induction stoves and heat pumps are undeniably more efficient than their gas alternatives (often 400%+ for heat pumps) - any money here would be much better spent on updating the electrical grid to the point that the kind of losses which plague California’s truly neglected power infrastructure are addressed.

If the natural gas power plants were all CCGT running desulfurized gas on decent transmission infrastructure, this would absolutely be a positive move. But right now, your substation is running a 1970s dry-loop stepdown transformer on the transmission lines (and every poor area is running at least one, thanks PG&E) and that alone is eating any potential energy savings this could achieve. Plus, adding load to this already overtaxed system (anyone else remember the summer brownouts?) before its updated is just shifting the responsibility for the environment onto the consumers, again, pretty blatantly greenwashing the whole broken system. And also it’ll force the decrepit standby gas powerplants back into more regular operation to keep up with the increasing power demands. (This is just ignoring the greenhouse emissions present in the supply and disposal chain for which I cannot find concrete numbers)

Right now this is a pilot project, and it’s investigating strategies to get people to switch their appliances and the feasability/impact of neighborhood decarbonization. That’s great, but it’s spectacularly not the problem that actually needs to be addressed, and just taking the funding for their dumbass “block party” and putting it towards transmission infrastructure would have a larger impact than all three blocks switching from gas could ever have. The emissions from the already failing infrastructure are far more critical, and are not being addressed, and I can’t understand why nobody is talking about this more. Assuming the best case, that all the current trends hold but power consumption plateaus (and you can check the math for yourself if you want), california is going to miss their 2045 deadline by ~10 years. Switching to an induction stovetop (which nobody in a poor neighborhood is going to be able to afford anyways) or a heat-pump (which many low-income multi-units will require structural updates to be able to install the new equipment) are good things to encourage, but it’s not going to actually help anything until we youtube some PG&E executives and overhaul the system.

(Uhhh sorry, got a little side tracked there. Gas doesn’t have trasnmission losses, that’s the thing I originally meant. It’s only significant if you’re stuck with old infrastructure, but hey guess what…)

Guys I swear, this time It’ll happen. Forreal. I can feel it.

(Good on the EU for recognizing open source solutions as finally being truly viable options)