CrankyStinkman
CrankyStinkman t1_j5q7peo wrote
Reply to comment by MrMissus in The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. by Sariel007
Yeah, I don’t think that those canals were maintained and expanded across multiple regime changes.
CrankyStinkman t1_j5pmqc9 wrote
Reply to comment by Fluxmuster in The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. by Sariel007
China figured it out 1500 years ago with their monsoon flooding. Fuck tons of canals.
CrankyStinkman t1_j0a0etz wrote
Reply to The world needs more characters like Mike Leach -- Washington, especially its sports fans, has lost one of the most innovative and entertaining figures of our time. by guanaco55
Man I can’t wait for this exact same article but with Mike Leach replaced with Kanye.
Turns out being good at shit and kind of funny absolves all sins.
CrankyStinkman t1_j0a068h wrote
Reply to comment by RolosHat in The world needs more characters like Mike Leach -- Washington, especially its sports fans, has lost one of the most innovative and entertaining figures of our time. by guanaco55
Almost everyone, he didn’t have time for the guy in the shed.
CrankyStinkman t1_ixnghp3 wrote
Reply to comment by Kaarssteun in Imagine An AGI is made today and is run on a quantum computer. by Particular_Leader_16
Idk, I think that lives would be hugely improved if you take away the logistics of pooping (and peeing I guess, eliminating one without the other doesn’t enable meaningful change).
Bathrooms are just bath & brushing rooms.
Camping/remote logistics are halved, plumbing basically becomes a nice to have.
Fear of street food is gone, you can eat anything.
And, most importantly, no stinky surprises during butt stuff.
Would be a total game changer.
CrankyStinkman t1_ixnfqy0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Imagine An AGI is made today and is run on a quantum computer. by Particular_Leader_16
I don’t think that they are the same. IMO its most likely that the first AGI is low fidelity and will lack depth. Like kindergarten level intelligence, similar to the early text to image models that preceded Dalle1.
CrankyStinkman t1_ixmw49v wrote
It would reach ASI in seconds. And cook. And clean. And solve world hunger. And figure out how to make it so humans never have to poop again.
And it would be totally rad.
Nobody would poop, everyone would be happy.
Unfortunately neither techs have even proven to be feasible, let alone mature and stackable. Let’s hold off until a POC
CrankyStinkman t1_ivs7ksh wrote
Reply to TIL In 1983, Air Force One (with Reagan aboard) landed six minutes before a microburst slammed into the ground at Andrews Air Force Base, causing wind speeds to hit 149 mph. At the time, that was the fastest wind speed ever measured by an anemometer. by theotherbogart
With this and Greg Abbot getting almost killed by lightning, you gotta wonder whose protecting these Republicans from acts of god.
CrankyStinkman t1_iu0fntb wrote
Reply to comment by RavenWolf1 in The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77
Yeah, this is actually great news. Those jobs are leaving no matter what…
CrankyStinkman t1_isw0tuj wrote
Reply to Espresso with a view of Bear Creek by n60storm4
Pacific Domes?
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CrankyStinkman t1_ismfjb3 wrote
Reply to comment by nyc-will in CGI-powered ads are coming to Prime Video and Peacock. Both companies demonstrated new ad formats for Virtual Product Placements (VPP), a post-production technique to insert a brand into a show or movie after it's been filmed. by cartoonzi
Yes, and I disagree with OPs stance that ads are the worst part of modern society.
Articles are important, you know.
CrankyStinkman t1_ismf5na wrote
Reply to comment by glumjonsnow in CGI-powered ads are coming to Prime Video and Peacock. Both companies demonstrated new ad formats for Virtual Product Placements (VPP), a post-production technique to insert a brand into a show or movie after it's been filmed. by cartoonzi
I don’t agree that ads are the worst thing in the modern world and I’m entitled to my own opinion. Fucking chill dude.
CrankyStinkman t1_ism9gc2 wrote
Reply to comment by omnichronos in CGI-powered ads are coming to Prime Video and Peacock. Both companies demonstrated new ad formats for Virtual Product Placements (VPP), a post-production technique to insert a brand into a show or movie after it's been filmed. by cartoonzi
Yeah, ads are easily the worst part of modern society. If I could get rid of any thing it would be ads, climate change and polarization are whatever.
CrankyStinkman t1_iqptl9r wrote
Reply to comment by capt_yellowbeard in Development of social robots can take cues from dog-human bonds by WallStreetDoesntBet
Robot arbitrarily decides it no longer wants to play with you. It throws you through a wall then sits on you to try to get you to play again.
CrankyStinkman t1_j5qbmdl wrote
Reply to comment by tankerdudeucsc in The Key to California’s Survival Is Hidden Underground The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. by Sariel007
The canals were built during the Warring States period, somewhat ironically the footprint of the canal system overlaps with the 3 gorges dam.
The Chinese have been with flooding for a long time, many historians believe that dealing with flooding was the key driver that led to the development of centralized governmental bodies in ancient China.