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bluGill

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  • Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets

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  • There are a few things facebook is better at than anything in my life - checking up on distant friends that I wouldn't call normally but I want to know the big events in their life; ensuring my parent see pictures of my kids (we don't live in the same state). However those things only need a couple minutes of my time per day, and that isn't enough to make them a big company and so they keep shoving garbage that doesn't make my life better in my face. That garbage takes up hours per day of many people's time and is worth a lot to facebook.

  • It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00

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  • There would be so much other news that this slow-new-day story wouldn't be covered by anyway. Assuming it even moves - the idea that at 0 it is too late and so it can't reach zero because nobody is left to move it is reasonable.

  • Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting

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  • Standard procedure - there are people tho opposite of horders who destroy everything unless forced to keep it.

    there are malicious actors too but there are people who are not trying to hide anything who need to be stopped

  • How to become a team/department lead?

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  • A good boss won't have problems with that - they are always looking for their next position anyway and having a replacement ready to go is good - if you can't be replaced you can't be promoted. A good boss will help your get involved with the politics needed to be good at this. A good boss will put your name up for leads in a different department where there is an opening that you wouldn't even know about.

    Note that I said good boss above. Not all bosses are good.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Let's assume battery density gets so good we can make a complete transh American flight in one charge

    Nice thought experiment, but the physics of how batteries work mean we can't. The theory behind batteries only allow for so much improvement, and will never get close to gasoline/diesel. For most driving batteries are good enough, but they will never be as good as gasoline despite how inefficient ICEs are.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Sort of. Wind is very good at stirring things up, but you can still see differences in places where there are a lot of plants (1-2%). This things needs CO2 to function and that means it needs concentration so the more CO2 to start with the better.

    Fortunately this is small and electric is something we already move to cities in large quantities. Putting it in a city makes sense - assuming it works and is safe of course.

  • Sewer gas destructor lamp (aka "fart destructors", burning methane from sewer systems below)

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  • Better is to collect them and burn in a generator to make electricity when the sun is down and the wind isn't blowing. However that is also a lot more complex

  • Is it possible to reverse pit a copcar before they pit you? Like if you know a cop is going to pit you on their right side, can you use your left back end to hit them first?

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  • The most common tactic these days is raeio ahead and some other cop throws a tire puncture device in front of your car. You won't go fast with flat tires. They have to be careful not to get other cars but otherwise that is safest for them.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Anyone learns to just ignore them. So not unsighly becuse you look past them

  • Cycling without a helmet and high-visibility jacket may be made criminal offences in Ireland

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  • They make no difference to safety in any of the studies I've seen. (there are differences, but not statistically significant - and some of the differences are cars become more dangerous)

  • If an account is impersonating someone on Instagram you can only report them as such if they have an Instagram account

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  • Though a good lawyer can contest that. Probably not worth it, but ...

  • Im stupid but have money

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  • It is stupid to die with money in the bank. You don't know enough to plan this out exactly though, so the real goal is minimize the money left, but don't run out before you die.

    The first question is what is your situation like.

    How is your retirement savings plans? 6 figures at 25 is a very good amount of savings, 6 figures at 60 is a terrible retirement account.

    What is your education like - this will buy a good college degree, which tends to pay off very well in the long run for young people. (but only if you pick a good degree and study)

    Make sure you have a good amount of emergency savings. 6 months living expenses is the general rule of thumb. You never know when something bad will happen in life - but bad things happen to everyone and savings it a useful way to ride it out.

    Once the above is done:

    Will a better living situation improve your life more than something else? You could go on a cruise every year with that money instead (I picked something wasteful that some people like, others hate). You could buy a really nice piano with that money. You could do lots of other things. Buying a better flat is one good option, but it isn't right for everyone. There is no universal right answer here, only right for you, so you have to decide (and understand sometimes you will be wrong)

  • Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days

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  • That is a tricky question. IT isn't just does the CEO know, but should the CEO have known. If you make a machine that injures people the courts ask should you have expected that.

    The first time someone uses a lawnmower the cut a hedge the companies and gets hurt can say "we never expected someone to be that stupid" - but we now know people do such stupid things and so if you make a lawn mower and someone uses it to cut a hedge the courts will ask why you didn't stop them - the response is then we can't think of how to stop them but look at the warnings we put on.

    When Grok was first used to make porn X can get by with "we didn't think of that". However this is now known. They now need to do more to stop it. there are a number of options. Best is fix Grok so it can't do that; they could also just collect enough information on users that when it happens the police can arrest the person who instructed grok. There are a number of other options, if the court accepts them depends on if the tool is otherwise useful and if whatever they do reduces the amount of porn (or whatever evil) that gets through - perfection isn't needed but it needs to get close.

  • A Russian court ruled in absentia against the Ukrainian commander responsible for sinking the Russian flagship „Moskva“, admitting for the first time that ship was struck by a missile

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  • There is some risk that Russia will then have their spies kill that person. They have killed a few other defectors in other countries.

    Doesn't really do much here where they are already trying to kill anyone in Ukraine they can, but he travels elsewhere he better be sure he has security involved.

  • Do you play an instrument? If so, which one(s) and how proficently?

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  • There are bagpipes from places other than scotland. Much less well known and thus better fitting the weird/obscure qualification.

  • Nobody likes self checkouts

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  • my grandpa - his kids were boomers - preferred self checkout. He loved talking to strangers. He died 20 years ago when the ui wasn't as good (though honestly little has changed since). Self checkout is so much more efficient.

  • President Zelenskyy offered help in how to deal with Russian warships near Greenland

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  • What is stopping you? Just do it. Sure you need a little more range on your sea drones, but that seems feasable. (Getting out of the black sea is probably the hard part)

  • Volkswagen takes back the electric crown from Tesla in Europe

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  • STOP TEASING ME! I can't get the id-3, much less those others.

  • Do you play an instrument? If so, which one(s) and how proficently?

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  • Mandolin is the only one I claim. But I dabble in almost everything - with a prefrence for the weird/obscure. No recorder for me, I play the easier penny whistle instead. Someday I'm getting bagpipes, just need a place to practice where my wife won't divorce me.