What does his affair have to do with selling GPUs to China? (Genuine question, I’m out of the loop.)

Why do you assume that he would intentionally sabatoge his company in the most embarrassing way possible?

Well I hope you’re right and people move offline

My students are in grade eight and can barely read Dr. Seuss. It’s not a “kids these days” things it’s a crisis

Gatekeeping only helps keep the big tech oligarchs strong. If we want to lessen big techs influence we will need to be more welcoming here.

My takeaway from this conversation is that I need to give more thought to microplastics. Thanks for the brochure I’ll check it out

That’s really too bad about sunscreen because I’m pale as they come so I feel like I need to pick between getting sunburnt or ingesting microplastics.

Thanks for the detailed response. I didn’t realize that canned food was a concern.

UV blocking chemicals

Does this include sunscreen?

besides shaving cream, what other sources of these chemicals should we watch out for?

Decomposition would likely be slower in this environment too. It would be harder for worms and maggots and so on to get a foothold. You’d have to rely mostly on bacterial means of decomposition

You ask it about the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Interesting, thanks for the explanation

Which is pretty par for the course so far as scientific classifications go.

Well yes I don’t necessarily disagree with you there. But there are some cases where it’s more obvious than others. A good example would be ring species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

I’d say planets are about the same level of arbitrariness as far as scientific categories go

I mean that these descriptions are somewhat arbitrary. Roughly round is not a very precise delineation, there will be edge cases where it’s not clear which category they fall into

It is convenient to classify it as a dwarf planet but that doesn’t mean that “dwarf planet” and “planet” are scientific categories in the purest sense of the term

Why are the colours different?

👍 if you say so

There’s a way to block posts with certain key words, if you go to your settings

but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it

I was talking to a guy on here who was comparing AI to nuclear bombs.

Yes the lack of subtly in the thinking here can be really jarring sometimes