Oof, strange that this site didn’t appear when I searched “great Sorting theory” with quotes. I know the quality of Google has gone downhill, but that’s a miss.

Also, noting that brownstone is rated as having poorly checked facts, leans far right, and libertarian policy before I go in.

Having skimmed the article, I see that the great Sorting theory states that COVID denialists are victims of government trod on by rules intended to keep the hospitals from overflowing.

I see stated in the article that when we make large matters of policy, we should consider our feelings over reason and science, comparing lockdown to the atrocities of Nazi Germany and stalinist Russia.

My reply is that all decisions should be well educated and be both logically reasoned and ethically sound. Telling people that decisions should be made emotionally and that Nazis use reason sounds like emotional manipulation.

I can’t find any articles on it and am not going to watch a video. The fact that is is Tucker Carlson also detracts from the validity. I will say that you will not find great truth in a YouTube video.

I was using a pretty broad brush. Some of the figures were higher, some were lower, but it many were consistently around .3. Feel free to take it with a grain of salt. Even if I’m over by 50%, it is still a large number.

I’m not 100% down with these numbers. The verge has a breakdown of energy usage for generation and training, and you could argue that demand is responsible for training.

I would also argue that energy usage would be directly related to water usage. Unless there is passive cooling unrelated to the energy generation, the evaporation would be directly related to the energy cost.

I didn’t collect sources while I was coming this, but I found that it takes about .3 KWH to generate an AI image - about the same as fully charging a smartphone. 1kwh is ~860 kCal (one Calorie = kCal = 1000 calories) 1 image is ~282 Calories 1 Calorie heats 1 liter of water 1 degree It takes ~540 Calories to vaporise 1 liter 2 images vaporize a liter of water There are ~30k liters in an 18 foot above ground pool with 4ft of water. There were 15 billion images generated daily in May 2024 As of August 2023, people have generated almost 15.5 billion AI-generated images, and each day sees approximately 34 million new AI-generated images. 17 million liters vaporized daily, about 500 swimming pools This put my numbers at ~250k swimming pools vaporized so far.

That makes sense. It sounds helpful if you have a bunch of requests.

Nope. Is it for people to ask me to add stuff to sonarr?

Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.

It’s now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.

I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.

Do you guys not have cars?

And Demeter for the harvest

I haven’t tried this, but if you are required to run an exe then you could try it from a Windows preinstall environment.

Hiren’s is pretty well respected https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

Ymmv.

If you did all that the 90s you probably had very little evidence any of that took place.

I was going to argue that it would not matter since the robot is mowing, but mowing at the beginning of the evening would mean a whole night before you have to deal with it.

One could set it for when they leave for work.

Look, I worked at Taco Bell in the 90s for three years. I would have one heck of a time trying to prove it without finding someone to confirm it. If I had just been there for a couple seasons, nobody would have remembered me.

It make sense to do that and also to inspect your yard before a mow.

I would have thought that night is a prime time for automatic mowing, as there is less energy demand, but a timer on the mower charging station can solve that.

I was also originally thinking that people at night to reduce smog, but that is an issue more attributed to gas mowers.

America will hang out in the hopes an opportunity will come of it, as well as a show of force to China. That second part is why I referred to it as the far eastern sea.

Sadly, my fellow Americans are densely patriotic and aren’t aware of the difference between a french cut and French cuisine.

Oh boy, I’m taking heat for my intended sarcasm. Yes, they are international. Yes, China will see it as threatening their territory.

Ah yes, the American territory, far eastern sea. /s

You can easily dispute the charge for credit card purchases.

Ainz, huh huh huh, I know you’re in there. You don’t have any reason to be in there anyway. Why don’t you come on out and play a little. You CRUNCH know you CRUNCH need me CRUNCH. HERE’S ALBEDO!

Also, insurance doesn’t care if you are almost out and it will take three weeks to get there. Sorry, we can’t authorize payment for another ten days!