I don’t give a shit about assigning blame. There’s too much of that crap around here. It’s completely unproductive.

And political movements can undo government reforms, as we’re seeing right now.

Unfortunately, convincing corporations to not pollute isn’t any easier. Using the tools of government to regulate them even harder still. It all comes down to people and what they want. Try to circumvent them and they’ll fight back.

Just look at what’s happening right now. Trump is rolling back tons of environmental and agricultural (anti- animal cruelty) regulations all the time. What activists had counted as previous wins are now going away.

Only if you ignore all the stuff people consume. If a corporation pollutes and you buy their stuff, you’re on the hook for that pollution. We all are. We should be buying stuff that doesn’t pollute, and finding ways to save energy, water, and packaging.

Or you could just bank from a web browser on a cheap laptop. Or use a cheap burner phone for banking only, separate from your everyday phone.

I have a few bank accounts and none of them force the app for 2FA. They can also use text or even an email address.

Why is online banking the only option?

That would be great if they could handle the traffic. For a lot of smaller sites, the AI scrapers are effectively a DDOS. It’s pushing these folks into the arms of Cloudflare.

I think it’s one of the worst aspects of the AI bubble. I’m worried about Cloudflare’s outsized market power.

Not at all. We had a company wide town hall at my office recently and there was a huge debate about AI in the chat during a talk from one of the execs about AI strategy. Most people in the debate were staunchly anti-AI, with only a few developers in favour.

Generally the wear on tires is proportional to the wear on roads, since both are effectively grinding against each other with grit as the grinding medium in between. It would be harder to find a more accurate way to measure an individual vehicle’s contribution to road wear, given that weight is such a large factor.

If you used mass surveillance to record exactly how many miles everyone drove and record exactly which vehicle model they were driving for each mile (to know the vehicle weight), you’d still miss out on the cargo factor. For transport trucks that’s the biggest factor, since an empty trailer weighs far less than a full one (and different types of goods have radically different densities).

Of course we already know how much transport trucks weigh and how many miles they drive, since transport trucks are required to go through weigh stations and drivers have to keep detailed logs of how many miles they drive (and hours they drive consecutively). The issue then comes down to consumers and other business vehicles (pickup trucks etc).

Where’s the Nu trek equivalent to Code of Honour?

People keep mixing up empathy and sympathy and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

Empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another person and understand their emotional state. To put yourself into their shoes.

Sympathy is a feeling of compassion you have when you see someone else’s suffering.

Empathy can be part of sympathy but it can also have nothing to do with sympathy. Scammers, for example, use empathy to manipulate their victims by predicting how they will respond, based on their emotional state. Empathy is a skill with no moral content. How you use empathy determines whether it’s a good or bad act.

Dime is a pretty common word among basketball commentators and fans. It means assist!

A point guard who’s dropping dimes all over the place is playing really well and helping facilitate the team’s scoring.

No, 100 is the median IQ, but that doesn’t preclude there being a lot of people with exactly 100 IQ. Thus there would be less than half of the population below 100 (and also less than half above 100).

The guy’s a Trump wannabe who’d sell out Canada for a nickel.

There’s also ECAD software for electronics. I believe a lot of product teams use both ECAD and MCAD. The former for designing the circuit board, the latter for designing the case and any moving parts.

CAD software for Mechanical design (mechanical engineers use it to design motors and transmissions and other machinery).

Try going to the bathroom before you’re at the point where your bladder feels like it’s going to explode!

Right, but gas prices are one that Republican voters actually care about.

After Trump is gone they may admit it.

Dunno why people don’t realize that Trump never admits he’s wrong about anything. He’s an extreme narcissist who throws tantrums like an overgrown toddler. His ego is inflated to such an extreme degree that any hint of any kind of fault on his part drives him into rage spirals from the cognitive dissonance.

He’s all too aware. As powerful as he is, he doesn’t have the ability to solve everyone’s problems everywhere all the time. This is a source of tremendous grief for him. That’s the whole reason he’s a compelling character and not just wish fulfillment.