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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • most people are too ignorant to understand the problems with AI or that the bill that will be coming due. they just like that the chatbot glazes them. It’s addictive.

    they don’t know that AI consumes shitloads of water and other energy, is driving the cost of computing (ram, GPUs, etc.) up, and is too stupid, that if you just keep pressing it will totally tell you that killing yourself is an insightful and brilliant solution to whatever problem you’re trying to solve.

    And then there’s the people that are making these things- scumbuckets. all of them are scumbuckets and most are fucking nazis.

    And then there’s the concerns about social manipulation and propaganda.

    Most people who know the potential future costs, and how shitty they are in the first place, and how not-actually-useful they are, hate them. the people that like them are some combination of stupid, ignorant or sold on the hype.











  • You have two observers, moving directly opposite each other.

    Each has a flashlight pointing back at the other.

    The speed of the light from those torched is the same for both observers.

    (Instead the light would be red-shifted.)

    Add a third observer, stationary to one and moving towards the other. As the third observer passes that observer, the speed of light from their flashlight never changes, and it’s the same speed as from the other two. (Instead it would go from being blue shifted to red shifted.)




  • part of the problem with that is that most of your ghost guns are “just” the AR 15 lower receiver- the part classified as the “firearm” because of some technicality only a lawyer can understand.

    It’s not a load bearing, nor is it exposed to any particularly high levels of heat, nor any sort of particularly nasty gasses. So that can be printed in just about anything if the printer’s resolution is good enough. (IIRC, they typically call for resin printers.)

    Then, the ghost gun peeps just buy the rest of the components retail and pay cash.

    for fully-printed firearms, you’re looking at things like DMLS or other kinds of precision metalwork. It’s the kind of work that would be more expensive than roadtripping to arizona and getting loophole-gun.