Really? I thought it was mostly solved by regulations that require filters at the industrial sites (and aren’t those used in Diesel cars, too?). Actually, what happens with the gunked-up filter material? Can the captured sulfur and nitrogen be used? I think you can use nitrogen as a fertilizer?

True, i looked up a bit more information on it and apparently it was at its height around the 80s, so I may have misremembered time a little bit.

Acidic rain.

I don’t remember any of the specifics anymore but it boils down to: Trees and plants died in masses, scientists and the general population got together and we changed what caused it.

Wow that casts a healthy dose of doubt on the entire study. Thank you for pointing it all out so thoroughly!

I just access it via the Firefox browser. Mostly because I’m tired of everything wanting to have its own app which turns out to just be a more colourful container to load the webpage (my tinfoil hat hypothesis is that they do it to bypass adblocks). And the other reason is that I couldn’t find anything I need to do on Lemmy that I’m not just as able to do from the browser.

I can bring in friends who used to work on this architectural project called “The Death Star”

Yes, although I would prefer to update the phrase to “My boss makes ten dollars, I make a dime…” to more accurately reflect today’s reality.

The difference is that we’re way past being able to say “it’s just a political difference, we can still be friends” A neglectable political difference would be not agreeing on whether tax money should be spent on repairing neglected rural roads or upgrading public transit. Or whether you want a military draft or not. Or what food safety standards should be pursued. If you’re supporting MAGA, it means you either believe that certain groups of people do not deserve human rights and can be kidnapped/killed on a whim or you don’t care that your party is doing that. It doesnt matter that we both love Star Wars and the same video games and can talk about them for hours, if you think that people who are important to me should vanish.

Those are the same words (but different language) I introe’d the long call with to tell my father that I’ll go low-low contact with him. I gave him my saved YT politics playlist so he can watch it to see a lot of how I came to my conclusions (it’s about 650 vids consisting of shorts, essays and anything in between) and give counter-evidence if he has any, but other than that I only want to be called in an emergency.

Good point I haven’t thought about. I have a Fairphone 4 and that is pretty much on the brink of what’s still okay/comfortable to use one-handed. (I also looked up the FP6 dimensions, dreading the size increase, but I just found that it’s actually slightly smaller than my current phone, yay)

I want to believe it’s that others have the same problem as me that holding the phone to their ear+cheek makes that face-part real moist after a minute or two. And I choose to believe the speakerphone-speakers just never realised they could slightly tilt/lift the phone away from their skin and still hear perfectly fine.

But I fear that @its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org might be correct on this topic and it’s simply a case of media/influencers portraying phone conversations that way for better filmability.

I just finished the article and yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing for Palantir

This is so disappointing and I’m so sorry that the people at GOG received some AI-hype-bro who had enough leverage to get the AI banner posted. In my mind I can hear them, against all the negative posts/comments, go “It’s not just a phase, mom moneybag!” and see GOG double down on this course.

I know that CEOs are out of touch with reality, but come on, even they don’t get new TVs this frequently. But the projected target audience also can’t be megalomaniac billionaires because, even though they might switch TVs with every few showers, they just buy the stuff outright instead of going through the hassle of subscription services, no? I genuinely fail to see a use-case for this. Maybe as a sort of paid trial/test period to see if you really need that 2000€ TV?

I think it’s time to showcase Grok’s abilities to put Pentagon officials into transparent bikinis. I can’t imagine management would keep using a tool that uploads non-consensual NSFW images of them straight to the comment section.

Cool, I’m in. Any attempt to break open homogeneous markets should be supported, even if only with my eyes and ears.

I can’t quite remember when or why I ever first visited that site. My brain wants to tell me it was in the years leading up to my Abitur when I got myself a pair of combat boots and wanted to be more quirky with the lacing than what they initially had. Either way, Ian’s site really is the best and I’m never wearing shoes without using his Secure Knot or at least the fast knot (for the few laces that hold together that way or just aren’t long enough for the secure one). When the site eventually goes down, I’ll be so sad.

My favourite part of today is about to come in half an hour when we eat the burritos for which we prepared the filling in the morning today

Because it’s frankly a somewhat ridiculous stretch of the word. That way, anything you purchase more than once in your life would be a subscription (toilet paper, bathroom repairs, even food and water). If anything, it gives more power to toxic subscription services (like how BMW gatekeeps seat heating iirc) by muddying the waters and making their subscriptions seem less outrageous than it is.

Disclaimer: I only started working at this company about three weeks ago, so this info may not be as accurate as I currently think it is.

I work in quality management and recently asked my boss what the current stance on AI is, since he mentioned quite early that he and his colleagues sometimes use ChatGPT and Copilot in conjunction to write up some text for process descriptions or info pages. They use it in research tasks, or, for example, to summarize large documents like government regulations, and they very often use it to rephrase texts when they can’t think of a good way to word something. From his explanation, the company consensus seems to be that everyone has access to Copilot via our computers and if someone has, for example, a Kagi or Gemini or whatever subscription, we are absolutely allowed and encouraged to utilize it to its full potential.

The only rules seem to be to not blindly trust the AI output ever and to not feed it company sensitive information (and/or our suppliers/customers)

In more ways than one. How is this different than what Putin is trying to achieve with the current “peace talks”? There it seems so obvious, because even MAGA and fanatic Zionists have been taught that Russia is bad.