They’re too busy letting the Border Patrol use anti-aircraft lasers to pop party balloons for that.

I don’t think it’s crazy to think that a fair bit of work, like driving, weeding, harvesting vegetables, and the likes can be replaced by automation today when it couldn’t a decade ago.

They think AI is going to replace the people beneath them

And some decide to take a few quarters of profit while helping to make the world burn

What happened is that the skill requied to manufacture a lower receiver out of metal dropped quite sharply, enabling a large number of people to make weapons without serial numbers

Printing isn’t enough, but it’s a piece of what needs to happen.

Wind. Solar on a seasonal basis. Small-scale hydroelectric.

The USGS hydrology data in them is lot worse than the lower 48, which makes it a lot harder to do. The whole Aleutian Islands chain is treated as a single hydrological unit for example.

The fire models are also specific to plant community, which means they wont apply to a lot of the situations in those states.

Intentional deescalation does more right now than having the people closest to ICE or Border Patrol agents carrying weapons.

The standard for now is that responders with guns stay back to deter massacres.

Anywhere in public is great. If you’re in a place where ICE is less active, you’ll want to package the whistles with instructions to alert the local rapid response hotline.

Its a gift link. Unless you’re doing something fairly uncommon, like removing the gift token, access is free. You can also use one of the various archive sites

There are huge cultural barriers to direct intentional human consumption of insects in the US and Europe. I will be very surprised if this can actually be achieved

Because we dont want or need videos of police pissing in urinals, and they’re human and deserve to not have that recorded

It is a significant simplification, but people usually dont have many short flights on a trip. Its usually 1 or 2. Can be a huge improvement to get people onto electrified rail.

People are avoiding flying at all over it, which is why airlines don’t want to disclose. Long trips by plane dominate yearly emissions for people who travel like that

They do buy a lot of electricity generated by wind and solar. They also buy a huge amount generated using fossil fuels. Amazon got kicked out of the Science Based Targets Initiative because they weren’t willing to actually go ahead with getting off of fossil fuels.

He fired a large chunk of the WaPo staff today. Not clear if what’s left is a viable newspaper

That’s often how this works. Spin up a fake group. Run ads and confuse people. Discard and repeat once people have forgotten

I don’t think the fusion effort is serious; it feels more like a pump and dump scam.

The bulk of fusion research today is happening in China