I agree that there's a potential for people to lose their sense of purpose when they don't need to struggle to survive. I expect that we'll find that AI is much better at psychology than we are, in a similar way that you can't look at your own eye, using a human mind to study a human mind is probably not the ideal way to study psychology. If we don't really have to worry about sustaining our bodies very much ever again, people might find purpose in the friendships and families that they develop. We might develop relationships with AI that are as fulfilling, or moreso than relationships with other people.

While it looks wonderfully unappetizing, what does it add (haha) to the culinary arts? Cake icing and chocolate art seem most functionality applicable but takes the craft out of it. Maybe some novelty treat for the fad clout.

X for Doubt

Hence, sort of.

And yet they don't call it milk. At least I can't see where they call it milk. Perhaps my six years of Latin are failing me but I don't see any variant of "lac" there.

Animal milks are very different from plant "milk". There are a ton of chemical distinctions between them but the most obvious is animal milk has very different fats and proteins. Suggesting that plant milk is the same is ascientific.

Your argument amounts to "plant milk is milk because I say so". Mine is that historically milk is an animal product and cheese comes from it. Vegan alternatives aren't the sane and frankly in the case of a "cheesecake" they bear so very little resemblance to the real thing that it is odd to even use the term.

We could rediscover what it means to actually be human. Humans aren't meant to spend all day indoors, hunched over a computer, or doing menial tasks. Personally I'd spend more time on my hobbies like sports and hiking and be with my kids rather than paying someone else to do it.

Are you for new nuclear technology? It's really impressive tbh

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>Baseload is a term used by laypeople that don't understand the grid.
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>All it means is that you want to have your power system producing enough power to meet the minimum load over a unit of time.

You clearly didn't read the literal definition of base load being the minimum level of demand. Its not a layman term, its a literal grid term. But nice try.

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>You people act like it's a magical thing that has to come from a particular source.

No, it doesn't HAVE to come from a particular source, but if the minimum isn't met, we have a fucking problem. That's literally why I mentioned solar/wind + storage AS A BASE LOAD, because yes, its possible to use them as a base load, but its absolutely not economically feasible right now compared to a natural gas plant. Hopefully in the future that will change.

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>What you want is dispatchable power. Then it doesn't fucking matter.
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>Wind and solar aren't dispatchable, but then, neither is nuke.

Capacity factor of nuclear plants is literally the highest out of EVERY energy source. What are you smoking.

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>Instead, have geographically distributed renewables and the transmission assets to move that power to where the demand is. Make enough power that you are always overshooting demand. Take the excess power and do something useful with it, like desalinization, producing fertilizer, whatever useful shit you can. You only need a small amount of dispatchable power to make up any anomalous dips in production met by pumped water, hydropower, batteries, flywheels, geothermal, or other non-emitting dispatchable power sources. You can also do load shedding and many other operations that stabilize the grid.

You're not wrong, and the US is absolutely improving its interconnects to move around energy to where demand is needed, but to build out ALL of your grid with renewables would require an absolutely stupid amount of storage and renewables overbuild, which is astronomically more expensive than a natural gas plant at the current time.

I'm a big proponent of hydrogen storage along with vanadium flow batteries, but at the current time they are too expensive as a base load option versus throwing up a natural gas plant. That most likely will change in the future, but for the next decade, its most likely not economically feasible. Hopefully that changes but I'm pessimistic.

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>Baseload is just a nonsense word that laypeople use because they heard it on a documentary somewhere and they think it makes them sound smart.
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>solar just isn't there yet in terms of cost feasibility,
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>Literally every electric utility in the country disagrees with you, so there's that.

Solar + storage. Way to take something out of context.

Hi! Here, have a historical manuscript from the 1300s containing a recipe for almond milk. And here is a pair of historical food recipe blog posts describing how and why it was popular and common and mentions that it appears frequently in all the recipe books of the time.

Biochemically speaking, modern pasteurised homogenised bovine milk is basically fatty protein juice, barely digestible(＊) by most adults, isn’t magical, and doesn’t particularly qualify for privileged status over other milks. It just happens to be what we’re used to.

＊(65%–68% of human adults (and most adult mammals) downregulate the production of intestinal lactase after weaning)

Culinary ingredients usually have the common names they do because of the culinary roles they fill. Tomatos and eggplants are culinary vegetables not fruits, eggplants are not eggs, and almond milk is culinary milk. It’s easier if we don’t overthink these things.

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My observation is that EV owners almost always charge at home. Charging an EV is the reason why one should buy an EV; one need never again go to a gas station where stupid people are doing stupid things at stupid times.

Hold on for dear life and hope that it goes well. 2025 is obviously too close for humanity to adapt so there's very little an individual can do. While you mention that it's a made up estimate, I expect the singularity will come much sooner than the predicted 2045. AI is progressing substantially faster than computers did and we can only hope that our ability to integrate with it keeps pace. For reference, the original prediction assumed the pace of progress would track with Moore's law.

Ehh not that much.

And on average yes it does. And absolutely for cheese it does.

Amount of processing matters, and something being vegan doesn't make it inherently more ethical nor environmentally friendly- growing pistachios in a desert is vegan, too, dude.

Hello fellow luddite, whats the career and your favorite play through record side please?

Baseload is a term used by laypeople that don't understand the grid.

All it means is that you want to have your power system producing enough power to meet the minimum load over a unit of time.

You people act like it's a magical thing that has to come from a particular source.

What you want is dispatchable power. Then it doesn't fucking matter.

Wind and solar aren't dispatchable, but then, neither is nuke.

Instead, have geographically distributed renewables and the transmission assets to move that power to where the demand is. Make enough power that you are always overshooting demand. Take the excess power and do something useful with it, like desalinization, producing fertilizer, whatever useful shit you can. You only need a small amount of dispatchable power to make up any anomalous dips in production met by pumped water, hydropower, batteries, flywheels, geothermal, or other non-emitting dispatchable power sources. You can also do load shedding and many other operations that stabilize the grid.

Baseload is just a nonsense word that laypeople use because they heard it on a documentary somewhere and they think it makes them sound smart.

>solar just isn't there yet in terms of cost feasibility,

Literally every electric utility in the country disagrees with you, so there's that.

Auto moderation can be evil too. China will definitely abuse it. It's also on Youtube already and is very faulty.

Can I just say that so many of you all finally getting it about nuclear makes me happy. Im an ex nuclear employee, EE.

Already existing nuke is fine enough; expensive power, but I'm not going to crusade against it either.

But I have been debunking building new nuke for a long time, often on this very sub, and getting downvoted to hell for it. I cite everything and the arguments are fucking watertight. Some layman will post one article about a SMR that's like 20 years out from commercialization as if it's a rebuttal to any of the 15 points I made prior.

As a professional engineer in power, these people make my blood fucking curdle.

Me too. I was gonna go off.

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TIL food has been 2D my entire life.

Ffs. Use words better.

Viruses and fungi might have been the first forms of life

and to think life started as such tiny molecules

From the story, there's another anecdote that talks about some of that tension:

>Early charging stations in the United States have been placed in inconvenient places, too. Andrea Colomina, the sustainable communities program director at Green Latinos, said one of the first locations to get a charger in New York City was the parking lot of a zoo.
“The first generation [of charging stations] was really not holistically thought out. As usual, because men were making most of the decisions, they were not walking through the scenarios,” she said. “You have to think through what is the experience of every potential user.”