@George-K said in Let the train hit them...: @Horace said in Let the train hit them...: Black Lives Killed On Viral Video By White People Matter. Musk goes there: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1654742285844635648?s=20 God bless him.

Hahaha. I don’t use a head lamp much. And if needed I prefer the resident have it on his head. It’s a pain.

@Jolly said in McCarthy: Trump can’t win: Way too early. I'm not convinced Biden will run. I think if his poll numbers are bad going into the fall, he'll have a sudden "health problem" that will preclude him from seeking reelection and the dems will have to come up with an emergency candidate...And it ain't gonna be Headboard Harris. I agree with this. I think it is harder and harder for an "unknown" to get the nomination, but who knows. Maybe someone from the Democrat side would emerge.

@taiwan_girl said in The Solar Panels to Nowhere: Something doesn't seem right with this statement "Nearly 1,300 gigawatts worth of green energy projects, for example, are waiting to be connected to power, according to a recent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report. The country's entire electric grid has an installed power capacity of just 1,250 gigawatts." So, that total of WAITING projects is greater than the current TOTAL electric capacity in the US? That seems hard to believe, but maybe I am reading it wrong. Why all of a sudden would the US need DOUBLE the electric capacity? It's probably a goof. The point that's interesting, is that there are panels on roofs, paid for with tax credits, that are generating nothing.

Headshots at 7 meters with a rifle? Ought to be able to do that with a pistol. Most zoomies can't shoot, though.

I've always been intrigued by Alastair Reynolds' Inhibitor theory. Also central to the Inhibitor project was the eradication of all species above a certain technological level until the crisis was over, as they believed no organic species would be capable of co-operating on such a large-scale project (an in-universe solution to the Fermi paradox). Whilst they were relatively successful, certain advanced species were able to hide from Inhibitor forces, or even fight back.

It rained a bit last night. Good. Haven’t googled how much these fires have spread west of me. This year the fires are early.

@Jolly @George-K 555

@Horace said in Rick Beato on AI: @Aqua-Letifer said in Rick Beato on AI: He's right. On the other side of it, though, more and more human-made things will fit into a fine art model. It'll be rare, impractical and not nearly as scalable, but still appreciated—sometimes for precisely those reasons. We've seen this already with the hipsters. They gave new life into textiles, vinyl albums, craft beers, film photography, etc. (About that last, film-only wedding photographers are becoming a thing in some circles. Because a negative is more special than a jpeg.) McDonald's took over the world, and now everybody wants to go to Elevation Burger and similar. We're going to see more of that in other disciplines, too. I have no idea how far that reverse trend will go. Probably not enough to make a living off of for most. But "AI-free" is going to be valued more, right alongside AI's convenience. AI-free is the new Organic? Eh, maybe more like the new "hand-made" but basically yeah.

@jon-nyc said in Homicide by gender: My guess: Violent predators killing people is far less in those countries so the murder rate is much lower and consists of highly personal things like killing your sibling or spouse for money, etc, and that’s more egalitarian. Japan rate per 100K woman = 0.3 Hong Kong = 0.2 Honduras = 6.6 US = 2.6 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.FE.P5

@Aqua-Letifer said in They're #1: @taiwan_girl said in They're #1: % employed (or in grad school) within 6 month of graduation in an area that relates to their major How do you expect to collect the data? Good question. I would say that some could be collected from career center at the college (feedback from companies that we hired X people from your college for example), and some would have to be self reported I guess. Not perfect system, and that is why I think college rankings are not perfect. I think that most people would agree that certain colleges are better than other, but I would put it into very wide categories - maybe by 25% increments rather than 1, 2, 3, etc.

$100. Six, two, and even.

@Jolly said in 5 days a week....: We are still trying to figure out how to work remotely in the hospital biz... Sure, but it still makes more sense for some industries.

Jeez. One of my favorite taverns got hit and run last night. Paxton’s in downtown Loveland had a drunk plow into their sidewalk patio are and take off. Luckily only minor injuries.