Mind blown. I want to add to the conversation, but I dunno what to say. This is some out-there science that needs pursuing!

This is quite nice in desert areas, but doesnt work well for areas like Florida where if you dont spend hours weeding or edging religiously, you’ll end up having to weedwhack your lawn because the grass and weeds have still grown, but now your mower has turned iinto a rock flinging machine with very dull blades

A yeard can be great space for kids to run and play, but still, fuck lawns for the most part. One basketball-court-sized lawn per couple blocks is plenty sufficient for kids. A soccerfield per 5 miles, and a major sports field per 10 miles…

Folks should let their yards be what the yards are in the wild.

In Florida, that means pine/oak forest with palm fronds. Maybe small grassy garden if folks want a spot to hang. But grass for the most part is shaded out by trees and covered by pine-straw and leaves.

Residential half-acre-plus fertilized lawns are stupid AF.

Maybe was cool in the 1950s when lawncare was a handy mode of wealth redistribution for a healthier economy, and no-one had thought of the negative environmnetal impacts.

Lawns used to be a big flex specifically because it took crazy labor to do; lords would show off how many gardeners they had under employ. Now folks are flexing in how they can kill everything including their wallets, free time, and planet

Push mowers are superior for small lawns.

Mowing lawnbots are the future for lawncare.

Just installed! It took me a minute to log in. Turns out I needed to look into my nextcloud music app’s settings to get the server url and to generate an api key to use (for totally good security reasons)

Friggin awesome app! Very snappy and well featured!

Im in love :)

I thin there should be a proper study and maybe proposal to Legalize and lightly-regulate class-A drugs so the Cartel loses their main revenue stream, black market drugs.

I am pulling this out my butt, but Im betting the main source of capital in the cartel’s economy is wealthy people buying drugs. Poor people too, but Im betting the wealthy addicts with jobs and clean records contribute more.

If we rerouted those funds to actual tax-revenue-generating jobs the Cartel mightlosee somepowera and our economy wouldn’t be leaking so much money to the illegal drug trade.

If I underatand correctly, you’re saying banks should be allowed to accept the risk of crypto market fluctuations and scams.

Unfortunately when banks lose bets, they effectivel hold the economy hostage until taxpayers bail them out.

Much better to tell them if they want to offer crypto holdings, they need to be able to cover total loss of it.

If that means banks can’t hold crypto, I won’t shed a tear.

Would like to add flax seeds to B12 list

Putin has been slowly taking lands of strategic importance for over a decade. Taking Ukraine would give Russia total control of the Black sea and a significant geographic advatage in the region. NATO was formed specifically to prevent Russia from expanding and it is very much in US’s interest that Russia doesnt decide to take over Europe.

Funny hearing your concern about money laundering as Putin and his cronies famously steal from state budgets and launder that money through various shell companies and even US real estate.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

I’m so glad this will be fed into Google AI to aid in results for Aircraft refuelling. It is very relevant and important for all things regarding aircraft and fuel.

Very good points.

I will maintain the the big broadcasters and newspapers have always been slanted, but you are right…

Many, if not most journalists themselves have integrity and should be honored and funded.

Many publications do too.

He’s not right though…

News hardly gets any funding by anyone wothout a goal of people telling others how to think.

The only reason this guy would think the news was ever good is because he used to not know any better.

I may have some names and details wrong here, but Elon is not the brains of AI.

He did start Open AI to find some people with the brains.

Andrej Karpathy was the mastermind of Tesla’s FSD. He left the company after it was clear his developments would get FSD solved with enough data and compute. He’s no longer at Tesla, but it is primarity his work that everything is based on.

Jim Keller was lead developer of the FSD inferrence chip I think. He also helps develop chips for Apple and Intel. He is not at Tesla.

Emil Talpes is lead architect of Dojo chip

Ganesh Venkataramanan is lead architect of Dojo supercomputer system

What we can credit Elon with is telling folks to make a robo taxi back in 2015 and paying people to do it, but thats about it. Keep in mind he became the richest man in the world for doing this. He doesnt need more compensation at the expense of Tesla and its shareholders.

If Elon died today Tesla would be just fine. I’d argue even better… A lot of folks I talk to think Teslas are cool cars, but hate Elon’s toxic personality and fear his attacks on free speech. They don’t want to support such a maniacal weirdo.

New acronym just dropped.

NIMQE - Not in my quarterly earnings! Pronounced Nimquee

Example usage: The CEO, upon receiving word of a new bill that would drastically help reduce carbon emissions but also create a temporary negative pressure on their multinational’s earnings per share, pulled a suitcase full of cash from their file cabinet and walked out the door, calling up the governor to arrage a round of golf where they would declare NIMQE.

Last time someone was taxed 45% was 1986.

In the 1950s anything made over $400,000 was taxed 90%

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/

I’ve though about this a lot. I suspect evolution tilts a little towards psycopathy when wealthy.

Hard to say if theres a mechanism for that encoded in DNA, but if there is, Im betting it would get naturally selected for.

If an individual is in a position of power, then being a self-entitled asshole rapist will reduce competition and increase the spread of genes… Especially if the individual is a male

Assuming this has a negative effect of society, cultural evolution would hopefully respond with counters to this… Which I think is what we see time and again all over the world.

Society gets living situations relatively reliable. Assholes rise making things worse, society either crumbles into weakness or rejects new situation and removes assholes, encodes new ethics into societal norms and works towards gettingliiving situations reliable, repeat.

When more people are fed abd housed, theres more resources to devote towards economic and war engines, so I think this makes asshole removal naturally selected for on a cultural level.

This loop seems to be getting more frequent and I’d love if we could skip the parts where folks are miserable and dying.

Cam you post original link? I’d love to reply with images of factories with wind turbines and solar panels.

Fear becoming? You mean ARE becoming

Dont forget record cold! The cold air thats supposed to be at the poles gets pushed into regions that should be warm. So our crops with both be frozen and baked before they can be harvested thanks to climate change

Everyone’s heard of the “Hello world” being people’s first program, but just as popular among teenaged boys is their second, more advanced program: Boobs! :)

Havent seen it yet. I hope he put Bidens feet to the fire a bit over the Gaza nonsense.

I’m sure it was a tough crowd. CNN and MSNBC are very much in on the current official narrative of the white house

Is this a comic about boomers and climate change?