end up inadvertently copying the bursting also.

I suspect these X-clone adventures are subsidized in multiple ways just as AI, batteries, and solar was.

I mean, from a horticultural perspective, there is some potential to gain more of other nutrients, in that if you have more energy, you can develop a larger root system, or generally more effectively, better feed mycorrhizal associations (fungal hyphae are much finer than root hairs, so can get into smaller cracks, and fungi can "acid mine" nutrients out of mineral grains - as an example, here's a microscopic image showing what they did to a garnet)

That said, yeah, in general if you can provide more energy, you expect the storage of "calories" to grow much faster than the acquisition of other minerals. Also, it's important to note that while more CO2 is generally good for most plants, more heat, or greater periods of drought (land dries out faster, monsoon belts spread) and flooding (atmosphere holds more moisture, monsoon belts spread) are not. In regards to heat as well, there's a lot of details. First off, though we commonly don't think about it, heat management in plants is critical. Their proteins are designed for function within an optimal temperature range, and to maintain it, they have to cool themselves down with transpiration, creating more water stress. Also it's worth noting that C3 plants (most plants) fundamentally don't tolerate heat as well as C4 or CAM plants (there's work to engineer C4 into some common agricultural crops... it's frankly amazing to me that they're getting some success, as it's not a trivial change).

BTW, the reason that plants grow better with more CO2 isn't what most people might think. The TL/DR is that the protein that sequesters CO2 so that (using ATP and NADPH from photosynthesis) - RuBisCo (the most abundant protein on Earth, something that has been evolving for billions of years) frankly sucks at its job. Something like 20-25% of the time (at normal CO2 levels), instead of binding with CO2, it binds with O2 instead ("photorespiration"), which means not only does it not sequester a carbon, but the plant has to *give up a carbon* to regenerate the RuBisCo. This is disastrous in terms of energy efficiency. And as a side effect, you also have to keep the stomata open more, which means more water loss. But as you increase the CO2 levels, the ratio between binding CO2 and binding O2 improves, and photorespiration waste drops. C4 plants "fix" this problem by instead of having RuBisCo directly bind CO2, they first bind CO2 into malate (with high selectivity), then the malate transports into bundle sheath cells, the CO2 is re-released, and THEN - in a high-CO2 environment - RuBisCo takes it up. This reduces photorespiration, but also introduces some more wasteful chemical conversions. (CAM plants to even further by storing malate inside vacuules - at the cost of even more energy - so that they can store it up during the night, and then use it during the day, which - although even more wasteful - lets them keep their stomata closed during the day to conserve water)

(BTW, there are some microbes that have developed a more efficient RuBisCo, but it's proving challenging to engineer it into higher plants)

Let's go for the low-hanging fruit:

  * Living things are driven to exercise using an evolved feedback loop whereby exercise reward us with brain drugs - there's an inherent benefit to exercise leading to increased proliferation of genes with this feedback loop

* Sport is organised exercise so satisfies the drive to socialise - again likely an evolved feedback loop resulting in brain drugs (mmmmn :-) because groups have benefits over individuals

  * Standing next to sport whilst it's happening gives some proportion of the same reward - of course there's no health benefits so really it's gaming the system to get (probably greatly reduced) brain drugs from the socializing aspect

  * Watching a recording of someone else standing next to sport whilst it's happening let's you listen to other people experiencing brain drugs - recall the excited two-person teams of commentators clearly having a great time watching sport happen - again limited exercise benefits for commentators or second-level observers but some brain drugs and we've been psychologically conditioned that sport is good so watching sport must be good also, right? - even via a time-delayed intermediary

* Now there are likely conversations along the lines of: "OK, we've repurposed the feedback loops 'intended' by evolution to promote socialising and exercising - now they promote watching other people doing those things - <boxing mc voice>Leeeeeet's - seeeeell - spooooort </boxing mc voice>" happening. It's super-cynical.

They're ovens that are faster to preheat. Which shortens the cooking time of meals that are mostly pre-prepared, which is what most people eat (if you're preparing a meal from scratch, usually prep work takes up the preheating time)

The point is that people who willingly contributed to the enshittification of the internet have no ground to stand no to complain about the enshittification of the internet.

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100% this. Recipe sites jumped hard on the SEO bandwagon, and became so hated for it that "having to scroll down 15 pages to actually find the recipe" became the butt of a joke.

Unfortunately flattery doesn't feed the kids or pay the rent.

One of the more appalling things I've seen in the US on this stuff is people saying "Well actors are so well paid why should we care". The thing is theres a very very tiny number of actors that are paid well, the stars. But the vast majority, and the ones currently being sold by the AI firms as being replacable by AI, are background actors and bitpart actors and these are the guys who MIGHT be getting $30K a year if they are in regular work, and more likely far far less (The mean wage for actors is around $56K but its heavily skewed by a small number of very highly paid star actors so in reality its down around the $40K wage. Burger flipper wages.

And thats not even touching on the majority of workers in film, the crew, who have been getting fucked on ever since covid, worse in LA where large numbers of crew have been struggling with the fallout of the fires.

I TOO AM ANGRY AT EDUCATION.

My dude. You might be the first accout I've seen where almost every post is marked -1 TROLL

I'd suggest sitting with that fact for a while, but I know your not here to think are you champ?

But yeap, choice would be good. This fuck-up might just be great for Vizio and consumers. Thanks Stallman.

corrupt SCOTUS will fix everything in favor of republicans and large corporations.

This will self-correct once the campaign donations he requests become so onerous they're worse than the problem donors want fixed. Free market wooh yeah *fist pump*

Racing sucks when no one makes any passes

Arguably any 'sport' you're not engaging-in yourself sucks ass.

Im actually not a fan of the AGPL at all. I think its intention is noble, but in practice it tends to get used as a shareware license instead of a free software license.

The GPL is very clear about its mandate. You can do whatever you want with this code, as long as you dont go distributing it, and if you do distribute it, here are your responsibilities.

The AGPL however violates GPLs freedom 0 , the right to USE the software however you wish (as long as you dont distribute it without source and a few other distribution requirements).

That means , for a start, its not compatible with GPL2 (GPL3 has a waiver for this). But to my mind the bigger issue is how its used. I have found very few examples of AGPL3 being used without an option of "dual licensing" (aka "shareware"), and since the AGPL3 pretty much prohibits almost any commercial useage as part of a web service, the end result is a license that effectively say "You cant test this, but if you use it for real, you must pay up".

Its a shareware license, not a free software license.

Forgot the link:
  * https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fe0qh1kkEAaM

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This is so awesome - I want one for the UK - can we get Paedo The Bear who explains that we need to support genocide in Gaza or our citizen score might be reduced abruptly or we might end up starving to death in detention? It's important for children to be taught their country's moral values as soon as possible.