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silverFork··on How to Conquer a Nation Without Fighting [video]
Is it specifically the you you or your country and the higher empire that your country is allied to. Everybody has a personal agenda but when a population elects people and allies with other nations then they select a leadership to do their bidding. When a coalition goes bombing and financing wars then their citizens have a hand in it. These countries may have critics from within but your view point is washing the wars to make yourself sound like a holy victim and the victims as the guilty party.

I am neither Russian or a Russian troll, the fact your rants show your own color and it is a smoke screen to hide your own agenda. Not only that, in our timeline it is the right wingers that pump that type stuff who are allies of Russian aka Trump aka Musk aka German rightwing aka EU centered rightwing coalition.

silverFork··on Less Popular Than Coal
It is obvious that is about fight for resources and supremacy between humans and the machine where the machine is also the capital that seeks the discount for human labor. How can the competition between capital and labor be resolved when capital has found a replacement for labor and competing for resources to serve its own needs? Will capitalists and technocrats give up? zero chance of that. Will labor and humans accept the machine and capital supremacy? zero chance of that.

So the conflict of interest will just escalate more and more.

silverFork··on A painting went missing 20 years ago. Police tracked it down with the help of AI
The thieves modified the painting and replaced the lamb with the scroll. It seems to have a fresh layer of paint on top of it; who on earth would do such a thing? The could have taken a picture and painted a copy.
silverFork··on Have I befriended a murderer?
Things like that happen all the time but a masked rubber killed the wife in her bed and waited to get unknown amount of money from the husband from the safe. I don't know how to say this, he should have done a better job with the story... He hadn't watch enough murder shows on TV.
silverFork··on Have I befriended a murderer?
The wife was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Do you think the rubber would do that? why in her room? not at the site of the safe. seriously?!
silverFork··on Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic
Never had heard of seaweed capsules.. neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvktnHozAj4&t=71s

silverFork··on Have I befriended a murderer?
It is probably was crime of passion that he had covered up. Apparently she was having affairs and he didn't. Robbers don't kill people for mere $50k. He maybe a nice guy but also a killer. It was not because of money I would guess. Anger management issues are likely and those are not visible now.
silverFork··on Accenture Contractor Linked Personal Claude AI Agent to Pentagon System
And now they are going to say that once it gets digested, it can't be removed.. LOL.
silverFork··on [dead]
Sorta clueless farmer, using broadleaf herbicide to kill weeds that killed his crop too. A farmer you would think would read the label or at least look it up. A complete solution to kill his own crop and the weeds... LOL.
silverFork··on A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines
They do when they are at work. People don't carry a tumbler when they go to the movies. There are starbuck's what do you call groupies and alike. The pods produce a lot of micro plastic too.

Years ago I looked for all stainless coffee maker and even the most expensive ones had plastic parts. The drip mechanism for all of them had plastic parts. I don't know if they have changed or not.

silverFork··on A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines
Typical paper cups that are used to serve coffee produce massively more plastic particles and they are more toxic. One cup per year exceeds what whole year of coffee maker plastic releases..

plastic coffee maker: 7-20 particles

paper cup : 25000 particles

https://getplasticproof.com/blog/does-coffee-have-microplast...

https://sifts.co/blogs/microplastics/microplastics-and-coffe...

https://sprudge.com/hot-to-go-which-type-of-coffee-has-the-m...

silverFork··on Whatever poverty line I choose, share of world population below it has declined
wow 36% of the world lives on less than $3 a day, 4% less than a $1 and 74% less than $10 ..

map of less than $10 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-living-with-less-th...

silverFork··on Nvidia CEO Hints at Annual GPU Subscription Fees, Software Licensing Growth
LOL.. it wants rent. Means that it may have hit a wall of growth and now wants to milk it with fake growth.
silverFork··on SpaceX Will Be the Biggest AI Cloud
The Ai in the sky is fiction for now; massive issues with heat and reach; He may try to transmit Ai stuff from the ground to the user from the satellites and claim it to be sourced from Ai in the sky. His ground based stuff that is avoiding the grid which is not going to be cheap or cheaper. The costs are the costs.
silverFork··on Critically endangered pygmy raccoons observed making their own paper toys
They are partly domesticated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdPOGXFGrc
silverFork··on Mcdonalds different prices in same state https://mymcdonaldsmenu.com/
Locations also don't have the same amount of sales.
silverFork··on Mcdonalds different prices in same state https://mymcdonaldsmenu.com/
That argument flawed because the higher foot traffic and sales rate are also material. You can have lower cost but also lower traffic. The whole idea of purchasing an awful burger from a franchise is price predictability and safety.
silverFork··on Writing was flagged as AI. What does that mean?
The volume of material submitted is goin up so they will use Ai themselves to trim it down. So I guess self publishing will take off for those who read and use Ai.
silverFork··on Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine
I agree with that view point.. yup
silverFork··on Schools that block Google’s A.I. will lose student access to its search engine
It depends if you ask it a question or simply specify an object I think.
silverFork··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
A lot of these schools use tablets though. The kids probably use their phones so more likely to be google. Higher grades though use laptops I think so more likely Microsoft then. So far internet explorer is not integrated with Ai but microsoft copilot though is 100% ai and can be used for search.
silverFork··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
Their search engine is now integrated with Ai. So either google would need to block the search engine or the school if they don't want Ai. Take your pick.
silverFork··on Bold new treatment may have just cracked how to reverse Alzheimer's
Plausible simple solution although they will charge a lot more in the west I suspect by factor of 10.
silverFork··on Fossil fuels played a negligible role in the rise of atmospheric CO₂
the author's claims are not peer reviewed. Also apparently at one time he was a member of climate change denial group...

""Cohler’s connection to the university is limited to being a clarinet instructor. Jonathan Cohler is an acclaimed clarinetist with an undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard, but to call him a “leading scientist” would, in my opinion, render those words meaningless.""

https://thebulletin.org/2026/03/a-clarinetist-a-high-school-...

silverFork··on Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones
If the paper is contaminated, then paper cups used for coffee will also have it. To single out the straw is political hacking.
silverFork··on Ask HN: Why is it so hard to promote/market even when the product seems right
I am not very wise but here is my rant. Are you yourself buying all the products that are 10x better than something that you are using already?. It takes time and effort and money to update the stuff. Comparing is difficult and hard to justify unless one is looking for a replacement.

So you have to focus on unhappy people who are looking to replace that functionality. Marketing it to general public may not work.

silverFork··on Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers
Its not a good idea. Technicians can't fix the problems and there is heat issues that are hard to solve in space.
silverFork··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
LOL..
silverFork··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
LOL.. It is that under the cover.
silverFork··on The Experience of Maxing Out One's Cognitive Horsepower (2025)
I think use of Ai can improve the brain ability to learn. Once you hit a wall, you can slowly break through it by iterative methods of asking and testing yourself to see if you can understand something. The main thing is to not give up if that is really what you want.

Not that it may matter to anyone other than yourself. We are hitting a timeline when acquiring knowledge may not be valuable as it use to be.

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