Pretending publishers/authors should have some fundamental right to restrict what you do with the knowledge in their books is asinine. They themselves took the alphabet from somewhere (phoenicians), tooks the tropes they use developed over time (check out tvtropes.org), etc etc etc. Imagine if a math book author demands royalties for doing math in your head... even though they really didn't come up with anything novel.

The only thing you ensure if publishers/authors can restrict AI is that your country/region loses out to countries and regions with no such restrictions. This type of petty protecitonism why Europe is so far behind in info/sci tech the last 40 years.

Zero.

Or is that ZeRo?

We eat a pretty normal diet.

Nah, stop bullshitting. We (Americans) eat a ton of meat. We’re like #2 in the world, and definitely the top for big countries (population). There are just smaller rich countries near us, but not China, India, etc.

We especially love the high greenhouse gas meats (beef).

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Most household devices in many country use the same or similar plugs (ground or ungrounded), outside of high power needs.

We even made progress on some 120/220 swappable devices in the computer age.

Itâ(TM)s just maliciousness at this point because for fucks sake, 90% of all it has to do is charge or transmit data.

I donâ(TM)t care if it can charge at the fastest rate or transmit data at the fastest rate. It should fall back on some slower rate and while inconvenient it wouldnâ(TM)t be as bad as the absolute nothing that goes now.

Why I canâ(TM)t plug-in an Apple lightning cable that works on an iPhone 8 or 10 but doesnâ(TM)t work on the current iPhone at all is beyond me. Or a myriad of USB-C devices where the cables wonâ(TM)t work in between devices.

Fuck ALL these manufacturers.

I have no problems with the title, as I had better results with SOME alternative medicines than I had with now traditional pharmaceutical-based treatments.

As a former hardliner skeptic (of the James Randi variety), itâ(TM)s too easy to fall into our own version of Dogma.

Unfortunately, the alt scenes attracts more than its fair share of quacks by its fundamental nature, so it wouldnâ(TM)t surprise me if the journal is junk status.

The rest of us just want to watch good tennis, and donâ(TM)t give a shit over this referee wankery.

The fact that most tennis fans canâ(TM)t name a single ref proves this.

How would Jackson Pollack fit in?

Yeah, I think the human mind works the same way. Are you gonna claim that anybody that went through school owes infinite copyright to previous generation starting with use of the alphabet and number system?

They pointed to BOE in the Arctic as the same as adding 25 years of emissions (trillion tons CO2)

I hate to think what the Antarctic ocean (note: not the Antarctic itself, but the ocean), which is far closer to the equator and much more sunlight throughout the year will do as an additional emissions equivalent.

Iâ(TM)m guessing about 75 years equivalent warming if it goes ice free in the winter. 3 trillion tons CO2.

And itâ(TM)s not an all or nothing feedback loop. Last year it was almost 2,000,000 km lower than normal, and thatâ(TM)s normally the ice closest the crater meaning the most sunlight, meaning the most energy absorbed.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FOIR6mH1lSsE%3Fs...

Not much of a prediction, published September 26, 2023 after last year’s summertime (their winter) record low was occurred, as well as overall record daily low by a wide margin for many months running

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.climate.gov%2Fnews-f...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.copernicus.eu%2Fen%2Fm...

Tell me you know absolutely nothing about what's occuring without telling me. This is at least a 5 sigma event. It's not "drumbeating everything out of the ordinary".

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FEliotJacob...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F20...

Electricity is typically only 20% of a country's energy needs, which also range from transportation to agricultural.

It's nowhere near accurate to say these countries have run on 100% renewable energy. Electricity, perhaps. But not energy.

It only serves to give us an extremely distorted view on how easily solved the energy equation can be with renewables.

For both tickets and lottery machine?

Was it worth seeing in the theaters? Absolutely.

My local theater smells like piss and it’s in a nice area. So no for a lot of people.