Fukushima hasn't directly killed a single person; there were some deaths due to evacuation panic and cleanup efforts. Meanwhile, climate change risks billions of deaths, will probably render northern Europe uninhabitable (on the level of Alaska or frozen-brass-monkey-balls parts of Canada), etc, and short-term air pollution from power generation alone kills a Hitler's worth of people every 3 years.

So for those who don't parse your comment as irony, there's some astounding level of believing their feels rather than statistics.

Another point is that all three nuclear power plants that failed (Chernobyl, Three Mile, Fukushima) have been built in the '60s. The technology has advanced a wee bit since, and if new nuclear plants were allowed to be built...

How exactly what I describe here is a Troll, when I am actually sharing my experience as a user of a technology? I luterally feel nauseous (wanting to vomit) when riding as a passenger in a Tesla. Rarely happens in an ICE vehicle, happens in electric vehicles, especially Teslas. No matter how much I get moderated as a Troll, doesn't change what I end up feeling as an EV passenger. There is something about the way these things ride, it makes me want to vomit.

Trump received more black votes than any Republican in history.

As blacks move up, they move right. Same for Hispanics.

Democrats need a positive agenda that addresses the concerns of working-class voters. They aren't gonna win by playing the race card.

I already hate getting Teslas for my Uber drives and I do quite a bit of Ubering, so to speak. If the number of these Tesla vehicles goes up significantly and I feel like throwing up during *EVERY* Uber drive, I will no longer use this method of transportation. Teslas make me absolutely nauseous, especially when going up or down the hill.

Two economists were walking down the street when they saw dog poop on the sidewalk.

The first economist said to the second, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful of that dog poop."

The second economist figured it was an easy $100, so ate a spoonful of poop. Then he said to the first, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful."

The first economist ate a spoonful and collected his $100.

As they walked further down the street, the second economist said to the first, "We both ate dog poop for nothing."

The first economist replied, "Not true. We just added $200 to the GDP."

Yes. Much Cobol code was written before structured programming was standard. There are no unit tests. There are no classes to encapsulate complexity.

No, not really. A programmer can learn Cobol well enough to get work done in about a week. The problem isn't "learning the language", but learning about the legacy application you need to maintain. For instance, why is a discount applied to every invoice for customer #478324? Well, because he was the CEO's college roommate, but you won't learn that from the manual.

Only if you want to be pedantic.

There's been a lot of progress in programming languages in the last 60 years.

It is broke.

someone is going to make a crapload of dough...

no doubt. Which is why I only have subcontractors, not permanent employees and almost all of them are in Ukraine. Also as I said, should something like that be attempted, I would shut down parts of businesses and get rid of the people who attempt it, I wouldn't run a business where I had to deal with this.

The bubble will burst because of a failure to monetize, not a failure of the underlying technology.

People are using AI for free. Why will they start paying hundreds of billions for it?

It was the same in the Dotcom crash. Pets.com had a failed business model, but the Internet didn't go away.

as someone who owns and runs a few companies, the largest having around 1000 people working in it, I can understand why some people, especually who never built a company, think that the people working for a company are underpaid compared to the people who buolt it. This misunderstanding is easy to develop, people (and many other animals) have a strong built in mechanism responsible for having emotions and feelings related to fairness. This expectation of fairness is easy to channel into a different sort of a feeling - expectation of equality, feeling that equality must be enforced because it may ne argued that it is unfair that there is inequality of outcomes.

So it is clear that there are political forces tbat use thw easiest pressure points in the human condition to achieve low hanging political fruits. The fwelings of unfairness become especially inflamed during harsher times, so an economic downturn can be easily used to pass various socialist, even Marxist agenda, which changes the power balance in the ruling elite (those near the reigns of political power). This is done at the expense of economic health, any amount of political power over economic forces misallocates scarce resources and decreases economic activity in the long run, while achieving short term pplitical goals.

On a personal level, I woildn't allow unions to take over my enterprise, I would rather see the business shrink and restructure than lose control over how it is governed.

Military is made of people. They also burn coal, diesel, gas, kerosene. They eat, they need transportation even more than anyone else. If they cared they woild stop themselves first. Look at the wars, look at all of the world militaries. How much CO2 and varoous poisons is produced by them in proportion to the rest of the population? What do wars cost us in terms of CO2 and poisons and all other ways, that military destroys the environment? Will people of this planet stop fighting and disban all militaries of the world? Quite the opposite, the end of our civilization will be accompanied by the biggest acts of aggression, most destruction, largest conflicts on the global scale.

If bombing solved world problems we wpuldn't have any problems, we definitely have enough bombs.

I just flew over half of the planet to the Maldives, these islands will surely disappear sooner than later due to the glaciers melting down. It is nice to be able to visit in the meanwhile.

That said, I won't buy an electric car. Maybe as my fourth or fifth, maybe, but I will keep driving a gas sedan for work and my sports car is just a fum toy, I don't care that an electric one accelerates faster, electric scales also go 0 to 200 in less than a second, doesn't make me want to drive it.

Teslas make me nautios, that is a strong no from me, some Chinese or Korean just are not interesting. Charging time is not there, it must be less than pumping gas, I don't want to plan my days around charging a vehicle. The batteries are too dangerous and the entire thing is too heavy. Cold degrades batteries, heat may cause a fire. No thank you.

I would switch to a nuclear powered car though, that would work for me.

No. That would explain a general lack of new car sales, but that's not what's happening. It is only EV sales that are stagnating. People are still buying gas cars.

EV sales are booming in China. A big reason is much lower prices. In China, EVs are cheaper than equivalent ICE cars. That is also true in Southeast Asia, which imports EVs from China. But the West restricts EV imports, so the prices are much higher.

The land of neverending surveilance, home of peeping toms.
Flock cameras are a scourge, constantly recording everyone without any courtorder.

LLMs are trained based on gradient descent, this optimizes data relationships. What this means is that this story is really talking about noise in the data. The history of the disabled is noose when compared to overall history, the LLMs show this clearly, it is just that there are people who really really want to present noise as if it was seriously important, that is their agenda.