No, they do.

Precipitate pollution from coal use in India and China is making it to the northern glaciars.

It doesn’t need to be a lot, a small speck on a glacier can “snowball” into a substantial melt because black soot gets hotter than white snow.

When soot settles on snow in large enough quantities, it creates a dark, heat-absorbent film on the otherwise reflective white surface of the snow. This causes the surface to absorb significantly more heat than it otherwise would, which eventually thins the snow down to the glacial ice that sits below the surface layer, causing further retreat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/coal-soot-darkened-melted-glaciers-during-industrial-revolution-8C11069699

It’s not like the soot has to blanket it, especially when they’re already melting.

And zero moderation!

It’s basically 4chan and OP keeps begging people to join it

Just saying “watts staying underground” is a poor explanation

Which is why I clarified for someone what someone else likely meant…

I’m not sure what you’re doing here, do you want me to go complain to the person who first used that phrasing on your behalf?

Participate pollution melts glaciers which increases the temperature long after it fucks shit up by trapping heat in the atmosphere and blocking photosynthesis.

But that’s fine, I see what OP was going for.

Weird choice to downvote the person who helped you understand, but you do you I guess.

It’s definitely convinced me not to spend anytime helping you in the future though. So maybe don’t be like this to the next person, Lemmy is small and there’s only so many people to help you, eventually you’ll run out.

Maybe just because I remember geeking out at the VirtualBoy display at Toys R Us…

But after 30+ years of expecting VR, it’s hard to think it’s right around the corner.

Every generation feels like it’ll be the one, but the truth is the novelty wears off quickly and flaws become obvious. Even when it’s “as good” as a great flatscreen display, it’s gonna take 2x the graphics power to get there.

Look at steam surveys, the vast majority of people run decade (or more) old hardware. So once the tech to support “good enough” VR is really out, it’ll take a decade before it’s prevelant enough for developers to really focus on VR as anything more than a gimmicky cash grab.

There just isn’t a big enough base of consumers for VR games to be more than that or hastily slapped together adaptions of flat screen games.

This?

if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet.

The “watt of energy” is a watt from the coal… And they’re saying to leave the coal buried and sequestered.

I assumed that was understood, so I explained how burning coal heats up the planet…

You may have not realized what you highlighted had to do with fossil fuels, but that’s just because you didn’t understand.

Which is fine, you did the right thing and asked questions.

Fossil fuels are carbon.

That carbon was sequestered from the atmosphere millions of years ago.

Burning fossil fuels releases that carbon into the atmosphere, which then makes the earth hotter

Think of oil as dead dinosaurs and coal as dead trees, that’s basically what it is.

All that stuff was taken out of circulation over an insanely long timeline, and now on a very short timeline we’re digging it up and putting it back into circulation. So fast that species can’t adapt to the change and die out before they can evolve.

Apply…

Worst case scenario it’s the same result as not applying, so why not apply?

Human brains are wired to never be satisfied…

So when people can get anything they want without any work, they start wanting crazier and crazier shit they need to work for. Just to get the same dopamine rush an average guy would have bringing a 7/10 home from the bar for a vanilla hookup.

Is it fucking horrible and we should shun people like this?

Abso-fucking-lutely.

But we also need to understand why wealthy and powerful people keep acting like this so we can stop them from doing it.

In this case it’s not letting generational wealth accrue like this. Our current economic system produces these monsters and they have the wealth and power to avoid consequences

I remember this from the other 99 times you posted this and got massively down voted after everyone pointed out all the issues…

You never address those issues, you just keep spamming ads to it

Fuck Armie Hammer

https://people.com/movies/armie-hammer-controversy-timeline/

And fuck Uwe Boll too, knowing him and WB this is just a tax write off and probably won’t even be released, but fuck him for a bunch of other reasons too

Quick edit:

Before anyone claims he’s innocent because charges were dropped…

That likely had more to do with his families insane wealth and connections from their Cali based fossil fuel company and the billions it’s made the family:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occidental_Petroleum

The American government sends the Cuban government a check every year for the “rent”.

Unless something has changed, Cuba has never cashed a rent check, because they don’t want an American base.

It’s incredibly fucked up, but it’s the only A&W combination Taco Bell in Cuba

it’s not just pure numerical IQ,

We talk about IQ like it’s a single number, but it’s like SAT/ACT, a bunch of different specific scores averaged into one number. So yeah it’s not as simple as a single number. I was thinking mostly processing speed and associative memory, but obviously you need the general knowledge as well.

The more variety of life you experience, the more you know of human history, different cultures, ways of thinking and seeing the world - the harder it is for you to get impressed by something as shallow as AI.

This is a very specific and easily fixable problem. It’s trained by a certain class of people, so it’s going to regurgitate stuff from that class and ignore everyone who hadn’t trained it.

Tech bros live in a bubble of their own creation and don’t understand the true richness of the human condition.

Nobody is gonna argue with that tho

To be clear it will “require” a new cable to push at that max (8k/120fps?)

It’s not like you need a new cable just because a new TV supports it.

Everyone’s frame of reference is their own IQ…

So for some people AI seems as smart as their frame of reference, or even better.

They assume their frame of reference is everyone’s, so we’re in that weird period where dumb people are super excited about AI, and smart people still think it’s a gimmick.

Those people who find AI impressive, see it as a means to level the playing field, and it will eventually.

It just means the smarter you are, the longer it’s going to take to be impressive. Because your frame of reference is just a higher standard.

They’d never be as creative as a creative person, so to them it’s switching from relying on a person they have no control over or influence on, to a computer program that will do whatever is asked. To them it generates the same quality as a person, don’t forget the most popular media caters to the lowest common denominator, this is the same thing.

Like, it makes sense from their perspective. You just need to realize everyone has a different perspective.

It’s human variation

Maybe you should take up the Seussaphone like young Samson has…

It can only tell quality by community engagement and mod pruning.

What a community finds high quality tho is always going to be the lowest common denominator.

So the general path is small communities that have members in sync with each other.

But their quality of content attracts more people, which lowers the bar of the community.

Like, the lowest common denominator is the natural state of a community. To raise it you need to hold higher standards for the members of the community, which is going to get everyone excluded talking about elitism.

And they’d have a valid point.

For profit companies will always choose the one that comes with the most eyeballs. So unless you’re charging people a membership fee, you’ll never see a publicly traded company choose that, and when they do it’s not about quality, it’s about who’s willing to pay the entrance fee to the walled garden.

https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/result/0NY175/1/general-tasks/3840x2160/

Effectively no gain, it’s a pretty balanced system so if you upgrade one then the other is gonna be bottlenecked.