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bamboozledon Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

I've experienced the opposite so YMMV.

bamboozledon Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

Sounds like a great application for drone tech.

bamboozledon U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Not sure if you're serious but maybe checkout some YT videos on farming to see what's involved...

Tractors are crazy slow, and it's obviously stupidly inefficient to have trains running into every rural area just for the off chance a farmer needs to go pickup some hay, which by the way would usually go onto the back of a lorry.

bamboozledon The turbulent AI era is here

Yet the AI boom relies on global shipping to be produced , so “AI” is “additive”.

bamboozledon Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

It sounds like there may have been some opportunity for warning then? If the thing was more of a "build up" ?

bamboozledon U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Back to the original objection from me, it's fine to object to data centers of being concerned for the environment. You can even like AI and still realize that we need to make sure the data centers are being powered by low / zero emission technologies.

Because as you obviously can tell, it's totally ridiculous to suggest people give up their primary mode of transport so people can have data centers instead.

The people who grow your food aren't going to be doing that on a bus. The people who build and run data centers need cars to do it.

bamboozledon Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

I read this wasn't due to rain but a glacial collapse. It sounds to me like the additional advice would be that due to a warming climate, avoid being under a glacier at all costs?

bamboozledon Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

Wrong link

bamboozledon U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

I guess you’ve never heard of electric cars and rooftop solar ?

bamboozledon GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

No, we don’t.

bamboozledon U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

It’s wild to accuse people who are anti pollution of being anti ai, look how fucked the climate is, people don’t want to see it more fucked , is that hard to understand ?

bamboozledon Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

I cycle a lot and you get a very good feel for what 20kms feels like guess, so maybe you’re right.

bamboozledon Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

It’s wild that people are this dumb.

I’m sure if you told an indigenous tribe you were planning to do this they’d agree that it’s stupid, yet here we are.

bamboozledon Humanoid robots beat human records in the 100m, half-marathon, and high jump

It’s a scare tactic / propaganda thing. China is saying to the world, Comply or robot armies are coming for you. It designed to invoke fear and awe.

bamboozledon Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

What is good about metric is that once you have a good feel for different lengths of mm, cm,meters and kilometres you don’t need to worry about things like “10 Super Bowl stadiums”. You can easily extrapolate what 27km2 means, it doesn’t have to “look like” anything.

bamboozledon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

It was mostly Youtube but yes, it's social media, I just couldn't imagine quitting YT!

bamboozledon Where did all the public bathrooms go?

I took my son to Sydney, Australia and we used a public toilet at the main train station and I turned around for 10 seconds and my son had located a syringe and was about to grab it. Some scumbag just left it on top of the syringe bin, probably too stoned to put it in. It was truly horrifying.

The only place I’ve seen worse toilets is USA and Europe. Toilets in Japan are a dream.

bamboozledon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Last night I had insomnia due to stress, and I was compulsively scrolling social media. The comments section of most videos just made me realize how actually fucked we are.

It might just be a context thing and people are on average smarter than what the comment section makes out but yeah, wasn't filling me with confidence what I saw.

bamboozledon Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

You just realised people pay for advertising ?

bamboozledon Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

The robots would have to be intelligent enough to be fully self sufficient, at which point they don’t care about people.

bamboozledon The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

I found this under the same domain: https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19..., weird.

bamboozledon The Sloppification of Peptides

I mean both things sound like hell, has the USA ran out of ideas?

bamboozledon The Sloppification of Peptides

I'm not sure I'd agree that a "bay area peptide party" has any real, useful social benefit. Sounds like hell.

bamboozledon The Sloppification of Peptides

I guess "feeling like", sounds like a placebo.

From what I've read there is some real risks associated with using them. Sounds a bit like the marketing of steroids in the 70s.

bamboozledon The Sloppification of Peptides

But, what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ? Does it replace, Good Food, Sleep and an exercise ?

bamboozledon Canada now 'at war' with United States over trade, Prime Minister says

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Let’s be honest, everyone who tried appeasement is in a much worse position with the man child.

bamboozledon Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

It was already at 45% due to previous art of the deal moves.

bamboozledon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

The new duties are in addition to existing tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and lumber.

According to your own article lumber is included already You’re wrong. It was already 45%!

bamboozledon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Trump supporter ?

bamboozledon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

If China is backed by Russia then they are properly fucked.