it is apparently D-segment, yeah. i have a C-seg car and have found the model 3 to be very similar in size, but maybe that’s just a matter of the height making it look smaller.

“slightly lower” == 2/3rds, apparently. the model 3’s pack is 250Wh/kg. also, 500km range in what? the only way you could fit an equal-range battery in a contemporary compact vehicle like the model 3 would be if it had almost double the density of Li-ion.

i’m usually not very aware of my own mental state but there have been at least two times where my brain has just clicked into “we need to go home” mode and i’ve stood up and left in the middle of a conversation. makes me wonder how many times i’ve missed that queue and become grumpy as a result. i know at least one time where i basically just couldn’t muster the effort to emote anymore and basically shut down.

i think this misses a pretty big part of it, which is finding new people. i used to go on forums for things i was interested in, that’s how i found interesting people to talk to. now, i read conversations on mastodon to find interesting people.

in the comment i replied to you only mention that there’s no benefit, and you replied to me talking about carbon footprint.

we do a lot of things for no benefit. video games, golf, horse racing, grilling… all those have far larger carbon footprints. as someone else said, focus on the actual negatives of generative ai, like the proven cognitive decline and loneliness.

they list the others in the article.

“using” water tends to mean that it needs to be processed to be usable again. you “use” water by drinking it, or showering, or boiling pasta too.

idk if that’s the intended takeaway from those numbers.

According to AllAboutAI analysis, global AI processing generates over 260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone, equivalent to 260 transatlantic flights, with 1 billion daily queries consuming 300 MWh of electricity.

according to the faa there are on average 5500 planes in the air every day, and while i couldn’t find an exact number there seem to be between 350 and 1 200 transatlantic flights every day, depending on season.

260 tons is still massive, but let’s not kid ourselves. it’s about equivalent to producing 12 new american-size cars.

the roslagsbanan commuter rail is the only actively used 2 ft 11 ³⁄₃₂ in railway in the world.

…honestly, with a wikipedia article that extensive it hardly qualifies as “obscure”.

it’s a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.

…he didn’t write down the amounts he used though.

oh hey it’s graham annable! i recognise the noses from “nelson tethers - puzzle agent”

yeah i also find him lovable, but the point is it’s the same sort of gag ttat tbbt does. and they’re all over the show. so why do we feel so differently about them?

being able to deny involvement is sorta the point of stochastic terror

the name is widespread enough to have a wikipedia article

idk man. s3e2 (the “ludicrous display” ep) has an extended bit about moss being anal about staples. it’s still laughing at him. and there’s no foil for him there, the gag is just that he wants to know how many staples have been used.

the one scene that really got me to pause was when moss laughs at a circuit board. i’ve been that guy. i’ve laughed with colleagues about bad hardware design. but… the audience is not consisting solely of electronics engineers. they’re laughing at him. more exactly, they identify with jen in that scene, and joins her in thinking moss is weird.

i agree, but why?

go to regular jail

interestingly it crowd was apparently filmed with an audience.