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@20regularcash @Brittymigs youtube.com/watch?v=8bQ2TP…

@20regularcash @Brittymigs Nah it's clearly just a joke. It's being deliberately a bit ridiculous, which seems to be popular when targeting guys. See beer ads.

masculinity is a prison

@KarlM29171 @alc_anthro @mattyglesias Yes. The absolute strongest woman, who presumably works out etc, is still far below average guy on the chart?

@alc_anthro @mattyglesias I think it's actually less overlap than most people would expect lol

The jar-opening gap

@savage_acro @Aella_Girl It's an interesting trade off. The mandatory voting means that you get less extremism because it's not just the "most committed" people voting

@Aella_Girl Australia *forces* them to vote, and ... has higher median wealth than the US.

it's a real high bar to rescind someone's right to vote but i sorta think people who don't understand supply and demand or economic incentives should be barred from having their voice heard

@masonjames @cbjones1943 @tylercowen @grok He means the search bar

@cbjones1943 @tylercowen by "X search tool" you mean @grok?

.upon the laudatory comments by @tylercowen about the utility to him of the X "search" tool, I decided to follow his advice; quite literally it took me about 2 years to learn how to use it to my benefit, but it finally clicked, & now it is indispensable to me, especially for accessing expertise on a broad range of topics; I use it more per day than I use a chatbot; highly recommended; 👀👍🏾

@nibnub47 @White_Janissary Is that still the case, though? I believe most countries now share in similar dramas these days

@White_Janissary It was a very American thing outside the English speaking world no one gave a shit

I firmly believe that Gamergate is one of most impactful events of the last 20 years. Not for feminist, misogynist or gamer reasons, but because it demonstrated to media companies how insanely profitable covering meaningless internet drama could be compared to actual journalism.

@AffableEffable @gutflora__ @wonderseabreeze Ok,so you made it up?

@jomdont @gutflora__ @wonderseabreeze Gank Green said he didn't like you and I told him I wouldn't tell but he said "no, tell that piece of shit when they're at their lowest moment" so here I am.

hank green being super misogynistic about knitting

@AffableEffable @gutflora__ @wonderseabreeze Would love to see a source for any of those. He implies the complete opposite of this in his videos repeatedly

@jomdont @gutflora__ @wonderseabreeze 1. Hank Green has said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote 2. Hank Geen has said that women are "men minus" (science term) 3. Hank Hreen has said that he is not attracted to "any woman there is" 4. Hank Greem has been said to have said that knitting is genocidal to white men

@gutflora__ @wonderseabreeze like what?

@wonderseabreeze he is indeed and its been constantly undermined with jokes, he has many problematic takes not just this

@sivori I'm curious how much this is from lack of practice. I found myself getting significantly better at walking along a beam in my neighbourhood, doing it casually when walking to coffee in the mornings. I had clearly regressed since childhood.

Your vestibular system, what provides your sense of balance, ages fairly early. One of the causes of vertigo but also it’s just dangerous to get on a ladder. Knew a guy who fell off a ladder at home hanging Christmas stuff and he really scrambled his eggs. He was only four feet off the ground. It doesn’t take much for gravity to wreck you.

@mganj79 @Romy_Holland @Coscorrodrift It has proliferated population because.... fewer people starve to death?

@Romy_Holland @Coscorrodrift No, this is not correct, it has absolutely proliferated population, urbanity, and homelessness. And obviously property relations were entirely different under feudalism in the first place, there was not even the same concept of "homelessness" as it means now in modernity.

why does everyone use the term “late stage capitalism” all the time? how do they know which stage it is? we might still be early.

@max_spero_ @willdepue The funny thing is that "ecoGPT" wouldn't even need to lie in their marketing, they could just use the figures people don't know. "EcoGPT is so efficient that ~1,600 queries use as much water as growing a single almond!"

@willdepue it's so bad that there's a company called ecogpt that's just a gpt wrapper running tiktok ads about how they use less water

really pisses me off how much i yelled about how this becoming a major issue at openai and nothing happened ai labs don’t use much water, we could’ve wrote one blog or thrown a green leaf info icon at the bottom of gpt just so avoidable

@n8tomei @LoganDobson @Devon_Eriksen_ They still cost money as investments when not running

@LoganDobson @Devon_Eriksen_ Such a bad analogy. 🤦🏻‍♂️ When demand is low, peaker plants shut down (operating at a fraction of normal cost), versus your employees "sitting around" (still getting paid). No down time = no maintenance windows either.

Imagine you run a 24 hour hamburger joint. You do pretty well. You sell 1000 burgers a week for $10 each, netting $5 on each. But almost all your money is made during “peak” hours when demand is highest — lunch, dinner. You net $5000 a week. Then a big change. A 24 hour factory opens across the street. The workers at the factory don’t have a set lunch hour, so they just run out for burgers whenever they feel hungry, roughly evenly distributed throughout the day and night. Burger demand surges — a little bit during those peak hours, but also at all hours of the night, mid-afternoon, early morning, all times you previously weren’t selling many burgers and your staff was mostly sitting around. With the surge in demand, you’re now selling 2000 burgers a week. You cut the price to $8 per burger (to encourage more factory customers), so you now net $6000 per week. Demand went way up, but you cut prices and are making more revenue and profit. At this point you might think I’ve told you a story about hamburgers. I’ve actually told you a story about data centers and electricity prices.

@SeanMMead @LoganDobson How? Having a large user of the power helps pay for fixed costs. And their stability of usage means they can raise the base power generation with a lower peak percentage increase

@LoganDobson That's not how electricity prices work in most of the country. They tend to be regulated to be based on a cost plus basis; data centers drive up the costs for both production and distribution, which causes rates to rise.

@KeithHorst @LoganDobson You don't think they want to lower their electricity costs?

@LoganDobson Its extremely stupid that people don't imagine that the biggest consumers of a product would also not be interested in it being as affordable as possible.

1996 kids were ~13 when instagram launched and the iPhone went mainstream. It's not "a few random things". Smartphones and Instagram(etc) transformed the school experience: you now had a social ranking outside of school and a vastly different social experience for many reasons. Socialisation shapes people and what they value.

@jomdont @georgemillo @SydSteyerhart Nope. That's not true. Smart phones became popular early to mid 2010s. Maybe 2000s kids, but a few random things don't separate a generation. Early 80s upto early 2000s are bi-digital-lingual, experience monoculture. And helicopter parenting. Post 2000 is when Gen z really starts

It's weird group people born in 1981 and 1996 together as the same generation. They have virtually nothing in common. The technological and cultural gap between 1981 and 1996 is wider than the gap between 1900 and 1965.

@georgemillo @SydSteyerhart Or was that gap precisely caused by tech? Those born ~1996 were the first to spend all of highschool with smartphone social networks

@SydSteyerhart I was born in 1990 and I find it much easier to relate to people born nine years before me (i.e. 1981) than nine years after. The generation gap is not about technology.

I'm not sure I agree that it's a bigger divide. Generation gaps come from lifestyle and social changes (communication, media). Millenial era was the first generation of VHS, Cable/kids channels, marketing-to-kids, all of which started in the 80s. Internet existed but not mainstream until 2000s. Gen Z socialised internet-first and it changed dramatically year-to-year through multiple eras of smartphone, apps and algorithms affecting social structure in school.

@SydSteyerhart It’s actually a bigger divide than 1996-2020. I think 2020 is a hard divide though. Totally different generation from anything that came before.

@themoyoursalau @grrreaze @leyeConnect I agree, just playing around. Would love to see your attempts.

@jomdont @grrreaze @leyeConnect Go and learn how to prompt properly.

There is a human process in creativity that cannot be prompted away.

@mrreebo1 @TheAcidBurns3 They often do! Every time inflation happens they can choose to either increase price or decrease size. American serving sizes are quite big so I'm not personal against them sometimes choosing size.

@TheAcidBurns3 It pisses me off so much that they don't just charge more money for the same product. idgaf if I have to pay an extra 0.15 cents so my cheese stays the same size. But they're doing both, charging you an extra 10 cents and making it significantly smaller

Shrinkflation pisses me off so bad because not only are you ripping me off but you're gaslighting me. I go talking about how there's less crackers in each sleeve and people treat me like I'm crazy. What's actually crazy is what we're putting up with from these corpos.