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  • If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they’re going to patch it, I’d like to read about it :)

    Not a direct answer to your question, but: the sun (like the earth) has areas that are more “geologically” active; those areas tend to throw out solar flares. As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.

    Currently, we’re just slightly past solar maximum. For the past year or so, the “more active” part of the sun has been roughly facing earth and intermittently spitting out solar flares. When these flares hit the earth’s atmosphere, they cause auroras (which is why we’ve had so many auroras these past couple years) and can interfere with electronic and electrical equipment (see: the Carrington event).

    I have no details on what l the exact damage that was caused by the interference the plane suffered, nor any knowledge of how they plan to address the issue. But whatever they come up with is going to take some time to develop - and we’re moving away from solar maximum so being hit with a massive flare is increasingly less likely - at least for another decade. My suspicion is that they’ll come up with a “solution” that actually may not work very well, but it works well enough to give the impression that they’re doing something - and it’ll look like it’s working to some extent, simply because the active side of the sun is rotating away from us.






  • If I may ask, without being rude: are you sure you’re asexual and not demisexual? For me, there would be a difference between someone who’s really not interested in sex at all vs someone who’s really only interested in sex once they’ve emotionally bonded with a person.

    If you are asexual, there are definitely other asexuals out there who would still be interested in having nonsexual partners.

    In your original post, you mentioned male partners; I’d also suggest you consider whether you’d be okay with a nonsexual female partner. Again, not trying to be rude, you just seem to be trying to figure out how you can fit, and I’m not sure what options you’ve considered.

    You should also know that your preferences can change over time, and that’s okay as well; it doesn’t necessarily mean that you were “wrong” about who you were, it may simply mean something is different about either you or your situation.


  • [he] addressed the “immense” energy needs of AI, acknowledging that the intensive energy requirements of expanding AI ventures have caused slippage on Alphabet’s climate targets. However, Pichai insisted that the company still wants to achieve net zero by 2030 through investments in new energy technologies. “The rate at which we were hoping to make progress will be impacted,” Pichai said, warning that constraining an economy based on energy “will have consequences.”

    We need “line go up” so badly, we’re willing to bake the planet.

    “We will have to work through societal disruptions,” he said, adding that the technology would “create new opportunities” and “evolve and transition certain jobs.”

    Someone once described AI as “a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth”.