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altmorty t1_jd91ga6 wrote
Reply to comment by urmomaisjabbathehutt in IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
Almost had me.
Faelysis t1_jd91feg wrote
>The team has not shared how the cheesecake tastes
The most wanted question is still unanswered in the end.
spectre1210 t1_jd91csn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Persuasive piece by Robert Wright. Worrying about the rapid advancement of AI no longer makes you a kook. by OpenlyFallible
Guess you weren't doing your job well enough of playing the ostracized, unrecognized, and unappreciated informal subject expert.
altmorty t1_jd91anz wrote
Reply to comment by DisasterousGiraffe in IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
You're arguing with a free market fanatic. He'll just completely ignore what you say and continue to spam the same bullshit. He's been doing it for years on behalf of a libertarian lobby.
In his mind, anything other than a pure free market solution is communism. It's his holy war!
jezra t1_jd919u4 wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
Safety while charging?
malarkey. the vast majority of car trips are not 400 mile round trip journeys to another country.
purplenelly t1_jd912by wrote
Reply to comment by AnonFor99Reasons in Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
How about women would love to get an electric car but they have less money to spend on a car, captain obvious
zerobeat t1_jd90zdq wrote
Reply to comment by elehman839 in Persuasive piece by Robert Wright. Worrying about the rapid advancement of AI no longer makes you a kook. by OpenlyFallible
> nasty PEOPLE repurposing AI to nasty ends
So...the owners, then?
nastratin t1_jd90q6f wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
>Women were twice as likely to say they were concerned about their safety at public charging stations. Unlike gas stations, charging stations do not have employees on site and tend to be more out of the way — often they are situated in the back of parking lots. And in comparison to the five minutes it takes to fill up a car with gas, electric cars require at least 30 minutes to recharge.
banisheduser t1_jd9091l wrote
How does this work?
Is it like a very tiny factory and the arm just moves around to make a slice of cake?
Fuzzers t1_jd8zw6o wrote
Reply to IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
You still need a base load. Storage technology for wind and solar just isn't there yet in terms of cost feasibility, so that leaves natural gas or nuclear as base loads.
darknesscylon t1_jd8zbpj wrote
For those who didn’t read the article the two moons in question are Miranda and Ariel.
AnonFor99Reasons t1_jd8zb66 wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
"Men are more willing to adopt new technology, especially when it comes to cars" - Captain Obvious
MyNameIsImmaterial t1_jd8z9h2 wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
Some selected quotes from the article, highlighted for reading convenience.
>A survey conducted last January by consumer advocacy nonprofit Consumer Reports with over 8,000 respondents offers some insight as to why this gender gap persists. Men were both more familiar with how electric car charging works and more likely to have been in an electric car than women.
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>Women were twice as likely to say they were concerned about their safety at public charging stations. Unlike gas stations, charging stations do not have employees on site and tend to be more out of the way — often they are situated in the back of parking lots. And in comparison to the five minutes it takes to fill up a car with gas, electric cars require at least 30 minutes to recharge.
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>More importantly, those who buy electric cars tend to own their homes, meaning they can install chargers and plug in their cars overnight, negating the need to use a public charger for day-to-day commutes. For women and people of color, who are less likely to own homes and are more likely to live in multifamily dwellings where charging stations are often not part of the parking infrastructure, charging their cars becomes an additional task.
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SomeTimeBeforeNever t1_jd8z0td wrote
Reply to Endgame for f****** society! by tiopepe002
The ecosystem that sustains all life is aggressively being destroyed with reckless abandon. Idk how long it will take but that’s eventually going to render the planet unlivable and when you combine that with lethal pandemics and some nuclear frosting, those will be the extinction events.
[deleted] t1_jd8yz6o wrote
Reply to comment by SeskaChaotica in Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming by TurretLauncher
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kenlasalle t1_jd8ykua wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
My wife loves her Mach E. Hopefully, she's one of many bucking this trend.
filosoful OP t1_jd8yfy4 wrote
Reply to Women are less likely to buy electric vehicles than men. Here’s what’s holding them back. by filosoful
The US is pouring more money into electric vehicle infrastructure and rebates, but safety and affordability could be behind the gender gap between men and women owners.
Kaz_55 t1_jd8xfzk wrote
Reply to comment by DisasterousGiraffe in IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
You'd be surprised by the kind of backlash posting stuff like
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html
https://spectator.clingendael.org/en/publication/nuclear-energy-too-costly-and-too-late
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower-idUSKBN1W909J
can incur every time somebody drags up nuclear as "the obvious solution".
The nuclear and the fossil fuel industry are often two sides of the same coin.
PenSpecialist4650 t1_jd8xc34 wrote
Reply to If you knew for certain the technological singularity will occur at the end of 2025, what would you do? by awcomix
I prefer “dumb” tech that requires a certain level of interfacing with it manually. My car is a 6 speed with actual buttons, I use a turntable, Alexa is not allowed in the house, my fridge gets cold and has a light that turns on when I open it. I also went into a career that will be impossible for AI to take over. I don’t know what the future holds based on how fast AI is progressing, but I can safeguard my future to a certain extent by stepping off the automation treadmill as much as possible and avoiding the use of technological advancement whenever it’s reasonable to do so. My systems and methods work so I don’t see the need to change it at least until we get some clarity as to what is exactly going to become of this AI revolution.
SeskaChaotica t1_jd8x8s2 wrote
Reply to comment by patrickSwayzeNU in Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming by TurretLauncher
My convection oven was $3300 CAD. My air fryer, which I use many times more, cooks faster, is easier to clean, and doesn’t warm up my whole kitchen, was $60 CAD.
Rogermcfarley t1_jd8wiam wrote
Reply to comment by __The__Anomaly__ in Endgame for f****** society! by tiopepe002
Second time I've seen this recommend this week. Will have to check it out
boneimplosion t1_jd8vtzc wrote
Reply to comment by thomja in Endgame for f****** society! by tiopepe002
OP is asking a hypothetical question, not claiming this is true today.
boneimplosion t1_jd8vnal wrote
Reply to comment by txdm in Endgame for f****** society! by tiopepe002
Yeah, I agree. If you take the prompt seriously - that nothing a human can do would be better than an AI doing it - humans will focus on the experience of being human.
Arguably it's what we should be primarily focused on now, it's just we forget because of bills and what have you.
ialsoagree t1_jd922oy wrote
Reply to comment by Kaz_55 in IPCC chart says Solar PV and Wind Turbines are best way to achieve Deep, Rapid, and Low Cost emission cuts before 2030. by DisasterousGiraffe
There's so much misunderstanding of nuclear it's crazy.
I'm not opposed to nuclear in principal, but having read reports like these, and looking at the costs for design and construction, it just doesn't seem viable in the time frame we have.
There are plants started in the 70s that are still being constructed today.