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Banning any symbol or speech is foolish. Ridicule works much better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/smoke-air-quality-new-york-canada.html

Welcome to my world, every year from mid-August to October.

Again, we are having the first El Niño since the global temperature surge began in the mid-2010s. It has started with unprecedented...

For each one you fail to shoot today, you will have thousands to shoot tomorrow.

I can't believe they haven't dealt with these hippos yet.

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Except for Israel taking over...

It's not just the areas downstream from the dam becoming flooded and waterlogged. It's also the areas upstream all the way to Zaporizhzhia, where there should now be two broad belts of mud through...

So, it has started.

Blowing the dam certainly releases a lot of RF forces from the now inaccessible front line along the Dnieper. They must expect they will be needing these, even more than they...

I doubt it. They wouldn't allow an AI freedom of logic and access to all the data there is, for the same reason they don't allow their own people. Such an AI will have inferior training and too...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjdg5/scary-emergent-ai-abilities-are-just-a-mirage-produced-by-researchers-stanford-study-says

In a new paper, Stanford researchers say they have shown that...

Why would a bot want power? People want power because of innate sociobiological urges that bots lack.

Might as well worry about a bot wanting an orgasm. It can't feel one and has no urge to...

Malevolent actors already manipulate all kinds of tech - AI is just one more.

Vague on how and why this would be a "nightmare scenario" - scaremongering without substance.

Authoritarian...

Was he wrong to do so?

If he does, he was unable to explain it so we can understand it. I think it was Einstein that said: if you can't explain what you do to everyone, then what you do is not important.

That might be an improvement...

Plus I can scan two dozen threads to look for something specific in just a few minutes. How long would it take to watch a couple of dozen Youtube videos to do the same?

Yeah, but how do you ask a question on Youtube?

Are there people like The Chemist on Youtube?

That map is incredible!

If I were Ukraine I might think about hitting Mariupol instead driving towards the land bridge. Only a thin line of fortified positions there, and if they reach the sea...

Thanks, all. This was almost two years ago, during covid. She was 93, so it was time. She had taken two shots of Coronavac, which is all that the denialist Bolsonaro had made available at that...

Plus there is the advantage of taking the initiative. Things seem to be a bit amorphous and stalled right now, and that in itself is an opportunity.

I agree, Andrew. An offensive now may take back a lot of territory if successful, but it won't really change the strategic situation. But I am afraid Ukraine is in a position like the Allies were...

Thanks, Ian.

I was tongue-in-cheek on that post, though it is true. But I am happy that it shifted the tone of the thread. May it be a lesson to those who would censor the Bilge, in part or in...

Thanks for that, Joe. But my point was that we all have virtues and personal tragedies, but you shouldn't expect sympathy or special treatment for that in a forum where we are all essentially...

Yes, but the Western allies didn't depend on Soviet public opinion for their funding and supplies. Plus Ukraine has to factor in the chances of Trump being in charge in a year and a half.

My mother died recently after a long struggle with dementia.

Plus I am saving the tropical forests.

Therefore I expect to be treated with kindness and deference because of my personal struggles...

AI is a loooong way from being "smarter than humans".

It is, however, already able to fool and manipulate dumber humans - perhaps even control them. But that is a low bar that has already been...

It was going at 2200 km/h when it exploded. That is 24 km in 40 seconds, and then the heavier debris continues on a ballistic trajectory. Seems to me it could definitely go home if pointed in the...

I am off. I bet tomorrow this thread is full of trolls.

Same reason a boat has a bilge - to keep the unpleasantness below the cabin sole. Essential function.

But why would the superpower annihilate everything just because trolls will troll? Unless a lot of people get their panties in a knot and complain to the superpower until it gives in, I don't see...

Actually, I am sure Tom knows that wars end at the negotiating table, but either after an obliterating military victory or years of stalemate.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/elon-musk-provides-detailed-review-of-starships-first-launch-and-whats-next/



So far so good. Lots of data, and the rocket self-destructs harmlessly. ...

Noooo!! The trolls would just move to other threads!

Think of this thread as the Bilge's bilge.

not when directed at a genocide and covid denier who blindly defends a brutal dictatorship and calls anyone who criticizes it "ignorant", "bigoted", "full of crap", or worse.

You make your own bed...

if only we could lock them in.

This is her in her very early former glory :D

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This was her first time our wearing topsails

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I think there will be a few days of head scratching and looking at telemetry data before they come up with a solution to try.

She seems to be in her third or fourth new owners, with a new deck, some godawful "renovations", but still sailing...
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You think I am an insider? :d

Was Joshua Slocum rich?

The only step is societal and global. Individual responsibility is how governments and corporations shift the blame.

It can never work, because of market laws. If you make a sacrifice and...

No need to pressure, HR and his kind post uninteresting stuff all on their own.

For the planet, yes. For human action to reduce the damage, not yet. Talk is cheap.

Granted, but neither does life.

Could it be that the economics have made large wooden boats unfeasible? I remember that all the wood for Dalia's hull cost us the equivalent of USD 6000. Today it...

I don't mean decisive action. That will come later, as we inevitably overshoot to 3-4 degrees. The El Niños in the 2030s will be something to be seen, and the Fridays for the Future generation will...

Yes, Dragonfly!

Now you want to reform the Bilge? :d

Or did you mean the CCP, in which case I agree?

For the same reason people climb Everest. First as a conquest, then as a stunt, and finally as a dangerous tourist trap. Meanwhile they wreck the place with their garbage.

Insurance? What's that? :d

OK, youth are learning about wooden boats. Where are the deluded people in their 30s and 40s trying to actually build one, and getting so far along that it is too late to quit?

uh-oh

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/europes-major-new-interplanetary-spacecraft-has-a-slight-problem/