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  • It happens so fast

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  • You could also look into community gardens. Not as convenient or simple as a home garden, but still pretty nice.

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  • Depends on if you have a healthy wild source that can seed itself in. My woodline is almost entirely invasives so it took more legwork to balance it out. I ended up mostly planting small trees/shrubs to shade out the weeds and letting Virginia Creeper spread (love that stuff).

    Barring that it probably depends on yard size and local climate. Might be more economical to clear with a sod cutter or spot weed + replace.

    Check for local native plant orgs, they can get you plants in bulk. They might also have specific advice, for example if you need to avoid seeding certain plants to protect a vulnerable local species.

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  • While it's better than keeping a barren monoculture lawn, keep in mind that letting things grow with no intervention will get you a lot of invasive species. If you want healthier habitat for your critters try to keep an eye on what's growing and replace the bad stuff with native options.

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand

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  • I understand from your comment that you've read too many sci-fi books to understand what a massive resource sink that would be with negligible benefit. It's pretty basic physics.

    We've already got cheap transportation, look how that's turning out for the planet. But I'm sure burning God knows how much energy to launch more junk into space will save the world.

    We're already approaching a critical mass of private equity space trash in orbit, what's a few more lowest-bidder megastructures? At least the ultra rich will get their life rafts while we burn.

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand

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  • Because the world has actual things in it like people, wildlife, culture and history. Space has none of those things. Unless you're there working as a scientist to study things that can't be studied on earth, it's pointless.

    As of now it's a glorified roller coaster. At its best private space travel could be Disneyland in space. At worst it's just rich people paying to be carried up mount everest for clout but with exponentially more resources wasted.

  • Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand

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  • ... And we need 25k space tickets why? For a cool selfie?

  • Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?

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  • Fascinating is not the word I would use to describe that

  • Another productive meeting

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  • Plenty of places to hang a catheter

  • Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer

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  • Someone please make a Bluetooth equivalent for smart devices. My thermostat doesn't need internet access but standardized wireless control is still a good feature

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    When and why did the US switch to these voting machines that are the subject of ongoing lawsuits and reports of unlawful "updates"?

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  • A lot of this hinges on partisan officials choosing (often) black box software and private verification companies. But that's not even the main problem.

    If your Ballot System contains source code, the source code is researched and code reviewed, and then complied by the company and the verification agency. Both checksums must match.

    It all falls apart exactly here. With digital voting, all other security is as performative as the TSA. It doesn't even matter if either party in this step is malicious or if the source is open/closed.

    A code review can never make any guarantees. And if there is a bad actor, checksums are not bullet proof. Especially when we're talking about state actors, who have access to supply chain attacks and unknowable cryptographic abilities.

    And all of this uncertainty extends just as far with the hardware. Even if a voter knew what a machine should have in it, they'll never get the access to verify it themselves.

    Even checking a ballot print isn't foolproof. In a secret ballot system there's nothing tying a print to your actual tallied vote other than your faith in the process.

    Stealing an election isn't as easy as one might imagine.

    Stealing an election doesn't have to be easy, it has to be possible with a minimal circle of secrecy. And digital voting/tallying makes that possible.

    As others have said in this thread, the most important thing is the ability for any voter to understand and personally audit the process. That's just not possible without paper ballots and simple counting.

  • The future sucks

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  • The paprika app does this

  • That's basically torture

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  • Depends which table

  • It's those damn coding gremlins I tell ya

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  • Isn't it the inverse of that? And Hemingway always struck me as more of a "write drunk, edit buzzed" guy

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • As for middle school, exactly what did you learn that you think is so useful for daily life?

    Off the top of my head: basic biology so I'm not dumb enough to be antivax. History subjects that require more than elementary maturity so maybe we can avoid another Holocaust. Enough physics, ecology and chemistry that I can comprehend how climate change is happening. How basic statistics work so I'm not completely lost when someone throws around misleading data.

    None of that is automatic from a 4th grade education and is crucial to be a functioning citizen. Learning to take unquestioned GPT answers is not a substitute for actually learning any of those.

    You either went to a painfully bad pipeline of schools or were too dumb to recognize the important parts.

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • Good god, if you went through an entire education and don't realize how fucked of a take that is I don't know what to say. Go try again at a different school maybe?

  • It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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  • The problem is offloading critical thinking to a blackbox of questionably motivated design. Did you use it to solve problems or did you use it to find a sufficient approximation of a solution? If you can't deduce why the given solution works then it is literally unknowable if your problem is solved, you're just putting faith in an algorithm.

    There are also political reasons we'll never get luxury gay space communism from it. General Ai is the wet dream of every authoritarian: an unverifiable, omnipresent, first line source of truth that will shift the narrative to whatever you need.

    The brain is a muscle and critical thinking is trained through practice; not thinking will never be a shortcut for thinking.

  • Science

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  • Nothing catches cigarette tar better than an asbestos filter 🚬👄

  • Einstein-Landauer culinary units

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  • I know it's 1/48 cup but that's a stupid fraction and doesn't follow any logic, one of the main reasons it should be thrown out

  • Einstein-Landauer culinary units

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  • Well, it could be sarcasm but:

    1. It doesn't make sense, what is the witty commentary?
    2. Their post history is abrasive and aggressive about silly stuff like this