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bluealienpieon The Fall of Scientific American

Reading the comments I hear about disagreements with science. Headline and articles. I don’t hear any objections the facts or refutations. You don’t have to like Science, but stop claiming that Scientific America isn’t using it unless you have proof.

bluealienpieon The Fall of Scientific American

My first computer science professor claimed women could not have been the first programmers because they were physically incapable of learning something this complex. Sadly this is exactly what I expect here.

bluealienpieon The Fall of Scientific American

You are quoting it out of context. The article made reference to endurance events prior to this as well. Also, it’s extremely relevant to idea that Neanderthal have similar wear patterns on the bones. This article is in reference to hunter gatherer theory. Our modern concepts of male/female physical characteristics may make our judgments of prior humans inaccurate.

“ Inequity between male and female athletes is a result not of inherent biological differences between the sexes but of biases in how they are treated in sports. As an example, some endurance-running events allow the use of professional runners called pacesetters to help competitors perform their best. Men are not permitted to act as pacesetters in many women's events because of the belief that they will make the women "artificially faster," as though women were not actually doing the running themselves.”

bluealienpieon Lula wins election after final votes tallied

This far less popular than United 24 which is a propaganda outlet disguised as a news site. People believe what they want to hear.

bluealienpieon 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

And do most Americans who leave the US condemn American soldiers for murdering a million Iraqis and continuing to colonize their country? At a certain point just not engaging in these pointless wars should be enough.

bluealienpieon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

It’s not high security if everyone is mandated to do it. Power consumption, energy sources, water usage for coolant, waste water treatment plan, etc.

I think the disinformation is people thinking that data centers directly use vast quantities of water. What happens is the power use stresses water supplies in local areas.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-a...

bluealienpieon OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

My lobster is too buttery and delicious as well.

bluealienpieon Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

He also promotes transphobia. Chomsky was friends with Epstein and acquaintance of Steve Bannon. I don’t think that discredits his entire body of work, but I think we should stop promoting him when there are sources that are less problematic.

bluealienpieon What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

Like bombing innocent people in boats for a crime that would require a trial and not be illegible for death sentence?

bluealienpieon In Sweden, Organized Election Fraud, "Clan Voting"

Is strategic voting illegal? This is exactly what happened in Canadas federal election that decimated the NDP (left) party. Social media was pretty threatening if you said you were going to vote NDP, friends and family would say it’s too important to lose to Conservative party.

bluealienpieon What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

The issue is that the US perceives poverty as personal issue rather than public issue. If my neighbor has no housing their likelihood of becoming addicted is way higher than if we simply gave them a house to live in, and far cheaper than constantly policing them.

bluealienpieon The Death of Physical Media

I think might more accurately reflect the current situation, definitely more slanted towards archivist

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2SPQEPlk8&ra=m

bluealienpieon Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

They had the laws to stop him but since congress stopped legislating, it gave the supreme courts wide discretion to approve executive actions. Strong executive isn’t a flaw of the system, it’s the inevitable consequence of years of media illiteracy and vast sums of money in politics enabled by citizens united.

bluealienpieon How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

I was awed by the future he promised, especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte

Looking back, he’s great at selling a future of possibility as long as you don’t track all the errors.

bluealienpieon The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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

I’m neither aroused nor enraged. Good job.

bluealienpieon US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

Eliminating all rights in the name that one person may be bad seems like a slippery slope especially one filled with anecdotes instead of sources.

bluealienpieon Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany

In the current phase it just displaces the need for taxi labor. In the long term, you could technically remove all signage and have V2V communication to define vehicle movement without ever stopping. Example you could make an intersection where cars zigzag through each other instead of stopping.

All this being said, it’s no replacement for competent mass transit.

bluealienpieon How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

I think the main issue that the NHS model of 10+ years ago worked when fully funded. The Canadian model is a mix match of US healthcare and Medicare. Some drugs aren’t covered, some procedures take forever, and you don’t get guaranteed doctor. Many European healthcare system have solved the issues we have, but Canada has refused to adopt any sensible system.

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

I want them to be negatively impacted. Maybe a couple family members spoke publicly about what’s happening, and the rest remain silent or indifferent. My cousins are too busy with their multi million dollar AI roles to even see us non-millionaires as human.

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

But the Canadian government wants to be the 51st state. They have rapidly defunded social services, expanded fossil fuels and will adopt US style militarization. In fact, purchasing those munitions from the only country that has threatened to take it over.

bluealienpieon Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

Patagonia as it’s referred to today was never unpopulated, it still has an indigenous population. This narrative is used everywhere for vast untamed wilderness that just ignores the many people still living there.

bluealienpieon AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

X is terrible, so don’t address Y is an awful way of framing any issue.

bluealienpieon Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide

Exactly, the abuse of power and the everyone going along with it is the issue. The supreme court and executive now function as a complete governing body without any input from congress. Every spending bill gets passed with bipartisan support, even if the Democrats need to sacrifice a few members. Meanwhile I hear very few people complaining about colonizing Venezuela.

bluealienpieon US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Shoot and cry

bluealienpieon Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

So no candidate ran on tax cuts? Explicitly for high income earners?

bluealienpieon IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

Israel has densely populated urban neighborhoods that would be completely wiped out in a conventional attack. Tehran would be destroyed with nukes but so would every major Israeli city. The scale of country size is immense. If Israel thought that nuclear weapons were a viable option, they would use them already. That’s the reason for the tit for tat. They both have capacity to attacks that would devastate each other countries. Smotrich would rather the US take the brunt of attack and losses their ME bases.

bluealienpieon Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

AI rating AI? Am I missing something.

bluealienpieon Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI

I know people honestly working to make government taxation efficient to help people, but they then take those profits and buy 3-4 houses in lower income communities and rent them out at exorbitant rates once renovated. None of this would be an issues except regulation prevents affordable and non market housing.

bluealienpieon 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

*Murderer

bluealienpieon Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

This is the media equivalent of showing a family swimming on the lake when discussing heatwave death. You have valid life experience but it’s not relevant to the topic at hand.