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@nerdstakeover Maybe if you swapped the sfx with a sharper, more crashy one it would be more natural. Right now it sounds like the rocks are jumping around on springs imo.

Getting the rocks fall movement to look natural took me a bit more time than I've liked but happy with the results

@rowanfornow Item: butterscotch pie - throw

I will be meeting Mike Lee tomorrow

@username3675895 @AdiSirkes @ukrcherished @Noahpinion @USMNTFAN1020880

One lesson Taiwan should be learning from both Ukraine and Israel is that if a smaller country is determined to fight hard, it can bloody the nose of a much bigger country.

@BayAreaREMatt @aaron_lubeck ww2 plane damage diagram

@aaron_lubeck funny how some older homes have so little dry rot and some 20 year old homes have a ton

Enshiitification of product. Over time, everything is lower quality.

@JYFboy @captgouda24 What a strange thing to say

@captgouda24 As a fully grown man, if you are weak enough to get raped by a woman, you deserve to lose everything. While this is repugnant written out, you know it in your DNA to not just be true but self-evident.

Did you know that if a child is conceived by rape, the father is still required to pay child support to the mother?

@nim_chimpsky_ @s8mb My guess is they’re assuming a higher proportion of wind compared to solar, and that they’re counting the clear area between wind turbines as used land too, not just their foundations.

@s8mb I'm curious why this number is so high, because 590,000 square kilometers is 146 million acres, which would provide something like 30,000 GW of solar, which over the course of the year would provide 50,000+ TWh of energy -- 10x our current electricity usage

Startling statistic in “Abundance” here on the land needed to decarbonise America with wind and solar. If you assumed the UK would need 1/5 as much land, for its 1/5 as many people, you’d need 118k sq km, which is half of Britain’s landmass.

@Not__Eris *new east wales

@Sixth_Castle @esjesjesj @BobDobbs656 Must’ve been a German joke, since it was so unfunny

@esjesjesj @BobDobbs656 That’s the joke

I don’t know how this was even controversial. Here Adrian Dittman whips out some German talking to Elon’s mom. Elon can’t speak fucking German.

Dont you people ever get tired

@Mick71831452 @simonahac Are the rolling blackouts in the room with us right now?

@simonahac So why are there rolling blackouts

🤓 in just 6 years, australia's two main grids added 51 TWh/yr of wind+solar generation. …from 19.9% → 38.8% renewables. …equivalent to 6.6 large nuclear reactors, but much lower cost & much faster. even more impressive given there's no chance of nuclear here for 20+ years.

@GorillaOSINT Putin:

Ukrainians who speak English watching Americans use Russian words that easily translate into English for no reason

@Larryjamieson_ Dont you remember the capitalist revolution in 2021?

This is not a serious person

@ElijaWinter @BenPielstick @robinhanson Good point, but I think that eventually AI will develop some sort of human brain augmentation that will make us as smart as it. After that, we'll be on the same level as it.

@gesundguy @BenPielstick @robinhanson The point is AI will work on the next thing and all the things without us. It won't just be a more powerful tool to better make new things. It's a full on replacement of humanities entire brainpower. Factoring in robots, our labor too.

This is actually the right question to ask.

@BenPielstick @robinhanson The things steam engines or computers could do were unfathomable to people before they were invented. Things like AI have happened dozens of times before, we will simply adjust, and keep working on the next thing.

@robinhanson There is no next big thing because AI is the last thing. The final invention of humanity. The things superintelligence will be capable of are unfathomable to humans. We can't see beyond the event horizon of the singularity.

@SmokeAwayyy @zhou_xian_ At least some 3d models are human made, because there’s no way they generated the beer bottle, its label is way too similar to the real label.

@zhou_xian_ I don't get it. Is everything generated? Or what?

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@MattonioMaximus @ludicrousdefect @Noahpinion What do you mean by the US banning them? All I’ve seen about it is a proposed ban by Biden. Considering that trump is against the TikTok ban, I find it unlikely that it’d be implemented.

No I've never said the Chinese auto industry is collapsing. I dont think it has competitive advantages beyond their government subsidizing more then other countries, and supporting intellectual theft. As well as still a large labor pool to use. Industrial base and so on. But those advantages will only last so long, due to their massive demographic changes within the next 10 years and beyond. I said the chinese governments goal is to out compete the world, in this case its home grown EV companies. I never said it was or will. Large numbers of producing subpar vehicles was an alarm. But it doesnt seem like its going to matter that much to markets that are banning Chinese EVs. Which the US being the largest, has banned them.

The Japanese auto industry is collapsing. This merger will not work.

@MattonioMaximus @ludicrousdefect @Noahpinion Sorry about the paywall, must be a regional thing 🤷

Well by definition less competitors is less competition. But what the Chinese governments goal for its EV industry is to remove any chance of competition in markets globally. By heavily HEAVILY subsidizing Chinese brands, and helping them steal intellectual property, they hope to overwhelm other markets with sheer numbers. This is a long term play, and blindly looking at China in a positive way hurts the industry. BTW that was also a pay walled article.

@MattonioMaximus @ludicrousdefect @Noahpinion Also, I’m not looking at this positively lmao, I’m obviously concerned about chinas affect on today’s market, and want western governments to subsidize industries to compete. But I don’t pretend that it’ll be fine and china will just collapse before anything happens

@MattonioMaximus @ludicrousdefect @Noahpinion You were talking about how the Chinese auto industry is collapsing and doesnt have any competitive advantage, now you’re saying they’ll outcompete every other manufacturer on earth and create a global monopoly?

@MattonioMaximus @ludicrousdefect @Noahpinion If you also want to read about it here’s a non paywall article. And no, it’s a completely different, much more uncompetitive market without china. afr.com/world/asia/con…

Are you telling me you paid for the subscription and read the whole article? Dont tell me you read the first paragraph and going off only that haha. Yes, Honda wants to compete against US and Chinese rivals in the automobile space. That was true before Nissan merger, and will continue for years and years. But its also happening for other reasons. The one who owns the controlling share of Nissan, Renault, has to make the decision first to sell part of its ownership share. Why is it doing that? First to get cash, better investment rating to get more loans, to then compete against its US, EU, and Asian competitors. Its a competitive market regardless of China haha. Your focusing entirely on the china story, and missing out many other variables. I'll be charitbable and say you are talking only about 1 variable somewhat correctly, in a sea of many variables contributing to the subject.