knightly

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Since you are all knowing, explain to me exactly how deep earth mining is less costly and better for the environment than deep earth drilling.

Easy, just compare the amount of pollution required to make a battery and a solar panel with the amount of pollution required to extract and burn fossil fuels for the equivalent power output over the duration of the renewable's working lifetime.

Oh, and don't forget. Fossil fuels are useless without an engine to burn them, so you need to account for those infrastructure costs as well.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do you want the math or would you prefer less reading and more pictures?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Voting is the least important part of the political process. America is not a democracy, voting merely serves to legitimize the state with an illusion of choice.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

They're all dressed as politicians.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Patreon deserves to die, their cut of the subscription income is extortionate for what amounts to a very limited web hosting platform.

Open-source alternatives like Mirlo or Cloud Patron will take its place, it's only a matter of time.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 26 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You're joking, but you're right.

Once the content has been created, the near-zero marginal cost of online distribution makes the concept of charging for copies wholly untenable.

The furry community figured this out years ago, our creators work on commission or paid subscription through Patreon or one of its ilk. They (mostly) don't care where you freely share their work because they already got paid.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

XP was acceptable and 7 was decent, but just seeing the previews of 8 was the last straw for me.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your screens are showing you ads then they aren't your screens..

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But you have to check to make sure the chatbot isn't hallucinating the answers it gives you, so you could be even more efficient by just looking it up in the first place and skipping the extra step.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I am an expert in this and cryptographic chaining of a public ledger is like large language models, interesting but ultimately useless.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

Giving your cryptographic chaining a pointless acronym doesn't make it useful.

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