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@WheredJasonGo The Dutch invented orange carrots, are a big exporter of agricultural products & flowers/ bulbs. Anduse tunnels and 1/3 of the country is also built on swamp & floodplanes below sea level
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Do yourself a favor and read up on two topics:
1. Why the cemeteries of New Orleans bury people above ground
2. Why the “Trinity” of New Orleans cooking uses bell peppers in contrast to traditional mirepoix, which uses carrots.
Same answer.
NOLA.com@NOLAnews
Elon Musk's Boring Company picks New Orleans as possible site for underground tunnel loop nola.com/news/business/…
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And again, the contrast is beautiful. 😍
A 41-year-old, 8-time WDC Lewis Hamilton still delivering, while the FIA-helped “gEnErAtIoNaL tALEnT” is exposed. 😭😭😭
The Belgian kid is MASSIVELY OVERRATED!!!
#F1 #LewisHamilton #MaxVerstappen #ChineseGP
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@WWesterveld1 Stabiel, waarschijnlijk een illegale kopie / verlopen licentie, werkt offline.
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There is a number attached to beef that gets cited at dinner parties. 15,000 litres per kilogram.
Almonds: 3,500. Avocados: 2,000. Pistachios: 11,400. Beef, the headline says, uses more than all of them.
Here is the thing nobody mentions at the dinner party. Water has categories.
Green water: rainfall. Falls on a field, absorbed by vegetation, returned to the atmosphere. Recycled. Continuous. Not extracted from anything. The rain was going to fall on that land whether Gerald was on it or not. Attributing it to the animal standing in it is an accounting choice, not a physical reality.
Blue water: groundwater and surface water. Pumped from rivers, drawn from aquifers. The water that, when it's gone, is gone. The water that is sinking the San Joaquin Valley. The number that matters.
Gerald's blue water per kilogram of beef: approximately 50 litres. Californian almonds: 3,785 litres. Per kilogram. From an aquifer that took centuries to accumulate.
The 15,000 litre figure is almost entirely green water. British rainfall, on British fields, falling regardless of Gerald. The dinner party number is the wrong number. The right number is 50 litres, and the almonds aren't close.

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@DavidLeavitt I’d play the Cheers MTG set. “Norm!” As commander will be tons of fun. Same for the “Cliff Clavin, all-knowing”. Can’t wait tbh
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@JoeConchaTV Star Wars. Tried the first one (or third or whatever came out first) and quit midway through. Never seen the rest either
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Only about one in ten people knows what decimate means.
Uncle Bob Martin@unclebobmartin
Why doesn’t anyone know what decimate means?
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@markgadala They should have gone Farmville or something. This may not be the best idea
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800,000 human brain cells, floating in a dish, have never had a body. Never seen light. Never felt anything. And they just learned to play a video game.
That's not a metaphor. That's literally what happened.
These neurons are alive. They fire. They adapt. They get better at DOOM over time, which means something inside that petri dish is changing in response to failure. Scientists call it "goal-directed learning." There is no cleaner definition of that phrase than "it kept trying until it got better." The cells have no survival instinct, no reward system, no reason to improve. They just do.
The part nobody's talking about: researchers have to convert the game's visuals into electrical pulses the neurons can interpret. Which means those cells are perceiving something. Not seeing it the way you do. But processing a version of a world that doesn't exist, inside a container that was never meant to think.
The Turing Test was about machines fooling humans. Nobody wrote the test for this.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM
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Ze lopen op de markt langs 4 jokers met z’n tweeën 🙄 bij wie is de mol #widm
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Het is een eliminatie spel. Waarom ga je fakking helpen iemand helpen terug komen 🤷♂️ #wieisdemol en intussen tijd verspelen
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