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@BEdwards_Star @hancockdavid @jamesawhiite We still wake up in the dark for school almost half the year. If it's that big of an issue, start school 1 hour later. Everyone else can cope just fine.

@hancockdavid @jamesawhiite I remember it. At the eastern edge of the Central time zone, we woke up in the dark to get ready for school, and as we arrived the sky was just beginning to show some light. Opponents felt it wasn't safe for millions of kids to be headed to class in the darkness.

It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.

@jamesawhiite >an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. I don't want this. I actively want more hours after noon. >TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time Still don't understand why I should care or not want this.

@JarvisAeneas The climate warms and cools over long periods of time (ice ages, warm periods, etc.). Humans have caused a small amount of extra warmness in this inter-glacial period due to CO2 output. At the same time, one day's outlier temperatures are just that: outliers.

I’m starting to think that I’m the only right-winger on this platform who believes that climate change is a real phenomenon. Not saying it hasn’t been exaggerated in the media, but I just don’t see how you can wholesale reject it.

@Hitchslap1 It is, though. If you're talking about "choosing which words to use", that's just looking up the best word in a bunch of tables. The act of responding, of interpreting meaning, and then saying a thing back that the person will find useful. THAT's intelligence.

@Scopuli This is false. Vocabulary is not just about memorisation.

Vocabulary is way better at measuring intelligence. It is not even close.

@ArmyKey4 @TheLaurenChen Why DO* people like you decide... FTFY

@TheLaurenChen And why does people like you decided to be stupid, when it comes to Euphoria? People suddenly have a brain when it comes to any other X rated tv show, that has the same type of X rated content. This show isn’t meant for kids at all.

I don't watch Euphoria. But from all the scenes I've seen shared online, the show seems to revolve around torturing the pretty blonde character for the writers' enjoyment, yes?

@Coffeeandsewing @Jack_Schmidt_TM You prefer the results of more housework, whereas men don't make the same trade-off.

@Jack_Schmidt_TM No woman likes house work. We like the spa. We like coffee. We like a nice quiet peaceful meal alone on occasion. We do not like doing laundry and dishes and yelling at everyone to throw their dang trash away for the ten millionth time.

Women do more housework. 200% more. Living alone, compared to men living alone. Women do more housework not because they're oppressed or because it makes them healthier or happier (they're the most medicated for depression). The do it because they like it. They do it because they're driven to because of their biological role. The only people oppressed by housework are the men that are forced to do it by the women that are so egocentric they can't imagine anyone else being any different than them.

@justalexoki No. And every state should secede from the US, as well.

dumb question maybe but wouldn't it be better to actually try to change the European Union rather than just leaving it?

@gore162172 @thunderf00t

@thunderf00t The level of SpaceX failure to contribute anything to humanity is alarming. Even Starlink is potentially a failure due to its high maintenance nature.

your friendly reminder that spacex has failed to achieve in 12 flights what the shuttle achieved in 1....45 YEARS AGO. A reusable heatshield! Yup starship uses exactly the same tiles as this thing!

AI filmmaking has crossed a threshold.

@Ginger_xe @J_Toine This is a one-sided perspective made to induce a sense of righteous indignation. It doesn't help fix the issue, only divide people further by increasing bias.

@J_Toine It's not a false narrative, a lot of people are experiencing this...

The exhaustion of being a mom and a wife🥲🤧 it's two different responsibilities

@DrunkRepub Blocked for obvious rage baiting. You'll get my interaction this one time, them it's done. Hope it was worth it. For those ignorant, he has to do it on the House floor and they are not in session until June.

Why not do it now?

@Hitchslap1 That's just accessing information. Memorizing. Not intelligence. By your definition, LLMs are already super intelligent, but almost no one would agree.

@iamvarunguru @XFreeze We're still meming about that?

@XFreeze This is the real turing test for AGI. And I am happy to report that Grok has achieved it.

Grok’s mission is actually very clear: Help humanity understand the universe and pursue the truth, even when it’s inconvenient

@XFreeze That's what an evil AI would say.

@CoachDanGo Because you don't have disgusting plaque on your teeth when you don't work out.

When I go on vacation I don’t stop brushing my teeth. So why would I stop working out?

An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane!🤣

@jeremykauffman Is there a recording somewhere?

Chase Oliver blocked me rather than reply. All of the left "libertarians" are like this. They are a hive mind, with no ability to engage in reason with anyone who doesn't share their beliefs. (Feel free to jump in and leave a reply)

@robinhanson Even ignoring second-hand effects, the purpose of worrying about a thing is to cause you to be more careful so that it doesn't go poorly. If you don't use the worrying properly, only then have you suffered for nothing.

The usual argument is that if you suffer more via worry, you lower the chances of suffering in other ways.

@DeanTTraining Way easier to overload. Just move the pin down.

Pull-Ups vs. Lat Pull-Down: For muscle growth in the Lats, give me a well-built Lat Pull-Down over a Pull-Up Bar any day of the week There are 2 key reasons for this: 1) Greater stability….obviously this has become a bit of a meme but it does matter for hypertrophy 2) The Lat Pull-Down setup will afford you the ability to manipulate body position to better bias the Lats FWIW, I don’t think the gap in terms of effect size/outcome is all that large here but I do think it exists

@tusd1964 @Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX Give us a falsifiable claim or prediction about SpaceX that we can hold you to. Something like "Starship, or Starship's booster, will never be used more than once".

@Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX This is so stupid. It's so fucking stupid I can't find words for it. Elon is SCAMMING YOU with his stupid SpaceX bullshit. He just wants the cash and to blow shit up. He's a thief and a liar.

We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth. From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F. For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access. image compilation: @niccruzpatane