https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology

L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.

Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch

The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.

The USOC and IOC facilitate all sorts of heinous shit.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

100%

I feel like the AI should also have a beret here.

The spiral’s more fun, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_periodic_tables

Palpatine and Dooku commissioned the clone army in secret, then revealed it as a solution to the robot army attacks, which they also funded. The Jedi/Republic accept the help begrudgingly. Unfortunately, I rewatched ep 1-3 recently.

I work with someone who never closes a tab. They’ll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn’t bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.

Fun fact, in the US, we have 3 train derailments per day.

It’s good to hear others express this perspective; I wasn’t sure if it was just my faulty memory. I was also initially impressed with Lemmy’s community around the time of the API exodus. I took a long break around some instance drama noise, just joined back up a month ago, and I’m already considering bailing again. Maybe social media is doomed by its nature, I dunno. I wish you all the best.

Wow, you pivot a lot. The power consumption of data centers as a whole in the US was ~5% of total in 2024. But they are definitely guzzling water, no doubt about that. It’d be nice if we still had environmental regulatory agencies with teeth to force better cooling methods. Doug Forcett comes to mind.

I don’t input anything that I care about them spying on. As for brain rot, we’re on social media, aren’t we?

If you’re using one of the LLMs to search, you can just twirl out the source list and click through to the pages it found relevant to your prompt. In my experience, it pulls a better list of links than DDG or Google. You can just ignore the summary it writes.

From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.

Obligatory Schizopolis Scene Link

Vibe coding in assembly.