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  • Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students' Ability to Think

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  • Isn’t the whole reason we know global warming is a problem because of academics?

    The funny thing is, academics did make the world aware that global warming was a problem but all the fearmongering did nothing to actually solve the problem.

    What did solve the problem, however, was China subsidizing solar energy for 20 years to make it economically viable and cheap enough for the rest of the world to install it. And i guess they did so not for climate protection reasons, but for reasons such as energy independence, energy security, jobs programs, etc.

  • China approves 'ethnic unity' law requiring minorities to learn Mandarin

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  • how is this different than europeans learning english at 10 years old? except the earlier onset age.

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  • i don't actually consider myself conservative, i consider myself unemployed and extremely liberal. please elaborate

  • Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

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  • Why does “theory” carry starker claim absolute truth to you?

    I think the word "theory" derives from the words "theo" (meaning god) and "ergy" (meaning work). So it's "god's work" literally translated.

    What is meant by that is that people recognize the truth, such as truths about how the world works. The truth is called "god", or rather, "god" in the christian context is understood to be the set of all truths. So mathematical insights and physics rules are a subset of god, because they represent truths of some sort. And applying these truths in practice, i.e. building machinery according to them is the work that people put into it. So people work according to "god", i.e. according to rules. Like when you build a car, you have to know about thermodynamics. The knowledge makes you do the work. So it's insight->work, or in latin/greek: "theo-ergy" or "theory" for short.

    You have to remember that all these words were invented in the 1800 so it's not unreasonable to claim that there's a heavily christian background in them since that's how people thought at the time.

  • Haha yes society is great

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  • yeah i was gonna say, some dude published a (german) analysis of the total cost of buying a house / renting an apartment + investing in stocks for the same total yearly expenses and found that with the second option, you end up having more wealth at retirement age.

    i can't find the study rn but i'm sure i remember it.

    it also makes sense intuitively since renting an apartment in a city uses much less resources overall. both in terms of material used for the building (since you share most of your walls with your neighbors) but also in terms of transport being significantly cheaper.

    this is especially true if you live in cities with strong communal housing, like vienna.

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  • democracies are stabilized through the workforce: people work and gain power that way. it's not possible to shit on workers if they're needed. if there's ever a mass unemployment, that's when you can expect democracy to crumble. i believe it has surprisingly little to do with schooling, actually.

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  • Why would the CIA make up feminism

    women working jobs means companies have a higher supply of labor force that they also pay lower wages too.

  • State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

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  • because the government is not a business and doesn’t make money from taxes

    so you're saying taxing the rich doesn't make sense?

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  • I believe that AI including chatgpt and genAI are a good thing and they bring us one step closer to where humanity should be going.

    I also think that feminism was instigated by the CIA, that Israel is losing the Iran war on purpose, and what else can i tell you? Lots of diverging opinions.

    I just rarely bother to formulate them because all it will cause is lots of people categorically saying "no you're wrong" and i don't really get anything from that.

  • my ideal relationship

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  • if adora and jessica stop posting, blahaj.zone might as well close.

  • Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

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  • I'd also like to interject that physics deals with models of how the world works, i.e. physicists make predictions about what would happen in specific scenarios. That has nothing to do with knowing what goes on underneath, because we can't know that.

    Consider quantum physics. It might be that the universe is indeed a wave and that's just how things are. But it could also be possible that we're living our entire lives in a simulation, whoever hosts the simulation is having a tea party and giggling at us silly being on how we're confused by our observations. You can't really tell these two apart, experimentally, since they would have the same outcome. So physics can't really tell about what things are, just how they behave in certain situations. That's why i think of physics as models, not theory (because "theory" carries a starker claim to absolute truth to me).

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  • interesting! i had wondered whether that exists. the wikipedia page on radionuclides seems to hint so since it gives 10 kg as a possible total mass of fissile material in a critical scenarion but i still had doubts till now.

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  • correct.

  • Please drive carefully: scientists plan to transport volatile antimatter for first time

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  • and here i was contemplating yesterday whether interstellar rockets will ever use antimatter drives and when the technology to store and transport antimatter will ever mature ...

  • It's not that complicated.

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  • just add wheels to the ships and make them drive over land

  • Trump calls on UK and others to send warships to Strait of Hormuz | LBC

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  • in other words, he wants to make the problems he created other people's problems

  • I feel like there was a reason I didn't post this before...

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  • hmm seems i'm mixing something up in my head

  • I feel like there was a reason I didn't post this before...

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  • nature truly thought of everything!

  • I feel like there was a reason I didn't post this before...

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  • breadcrumbs in bed are actually totally fine once you stop caring

  • I feel like there was a reason I didn't post this before...

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  • eh, i saw it but didn't like it much

    wait it is the one with the girl playing violin and the boy playing piano, right?

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    catgirl

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    thing goes in the hole

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    true shitpost

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    meirl

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    Meirl

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    Pillars of Creation

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    Gendo - Aim Through Impact Into Paradise

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    biblically accurate angel

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    This poster at a Japanese supermarket explaining the types of oranges they sell.

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    A drone can lift itself only through the power of a solar panel

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    jellyfish go to hell

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    which one of you is the fork rule

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    pride flag rule

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    owner rule

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    Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them

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    theoretical considerations on identity management

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    theoretical considerations on identity management

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    Content Recommendation Algorithms

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    Solar is the new oil