As someone doing my PhD on this topic, there aren’t even any theories really competing with dark matter, and dark matter fits what we see in the universe quite well.

That being said, we’re still quite in the dark on what dark matter is, but we’re pretty sure its there.

Yeah your just missing two key facts here. One, yeah europe is still getting warmer, AMOC hasn’t collapsed. Two, the conditions for maintaining a convective current are significantly easier than starting one. So if AMOC collapses and Greenland ice stops melting, there’s no guarantee AMOC will restart. And even if it does, it could take centuries.

AMOC is weakening because of salinity changes, not temperature. There’s still a lot of glacier ice on Greenland that melt and disrupt the current.

AMOC carries a lot of heat that is not likely to be replaced if it fails. Atmosphere convection doesn’t have the heat capacity, so only logical conclusion is that temperatures in europe must drop. And based on research people have done, it’s not gonna be a small amount.

If you want a fun math (and a little physics) exercise, we can estimate how much heat AMOC carries from the equator to northern europe, and also try to see how much air it’s heating in the atmosphere. From here it gets a bit more complicated as we have to estimate the the incoming solar radiation and earths radiative cooling. But from there you could compare estimated temperatures with and without AMOC heating.

Yes, but the smaller the ship, the worse the Coriolis force will be. Imagine a 10m corridor with opposing gravity on each end, and no gravity in the middle. Travelling across would be extremely disorienting.

It’s bad wording, but I interpret the headline as “escalation of Iran war”. Not blaming Iran for escalating.

I love this bit especially

Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. “That kills the whole system,” Deeks said. Smiley added: “The question here is if it’s all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They’re generally pretty good at risk profiling.”

It matters to me because the sheer number of these morons who are being exploited by the rich are actively making my life and the lives the people I care about worse. To do nothing about it is to admit defeat and accept this as the way of the world. I don’t want to do that, I’d rather at least try something, even knowing the likelyhood is low.

And I don’t think pure doomerism is helpful either. By encouraging against any kind of deprogramming, you tacitly make it easier for the morons to spread without resistance.

We’re still doing it too. Pretty much all of our modern telescopes, like JWST, are built by defense contractors who then use the expertise and technologies they develop for military applications.

In the current age of the Internet that doesn’t work. It used to be people were afraid of being shunned by their community as then they would have nothing. Now with social media there are echo chambers that amplify views deserving of shunning and give refuge to those who would otherwise be shunned.

But deprogramming people like this is hard, and won’t always work. So I won’t blame anyone for shunning people like this, but just know it’s not really solving anything.

Instead of trying to stop sweating, work at making it more effective, and dry faster.

A powerful highspeed fan will do the most, and if your house is humid, maybe a dehumidifier to help your sweat evaporate.

Counterintuitively, lowering your excerise temperature may make your sweat accumulation worse. You’ll sweat less, but it won’t evaporate as quickly leaving you more drenched.

Similarly, drinking cold water doesn’t cool you as much as you think it would.

An astonishingly easy fix would be to just add a tax like a property tax based on vehicle weight. Make it scale enough to be prohibitive, but anyone who needs it will be willing to pay.

Soap changes the surface tension of water and will be able to penetrate the phone when otherwise it wouldn’t be able to.

No, don’t use soap! It changes the surface tension of water and can allow to enter your phone when it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Honestly if I value your own life and survival, which most people do, your best bet is to be docile and comply.

Actual resistance is better done planned in advance, the US even helpfully write its own guide during WW2

It’s certainly not going to dry very much in 30 seconds though

Don’t forget the fundamental scaling properties of llms, that openai even used as the basis for strategy to make chat gpt 3.5.

But basically llm performance is logarithmic. It’s easier to get rapid improvements early on. But at later points like we are now require exponentially more compute, training data, and model sizes to get now small level of improvements.

Even if we get a 10x in compute, model size, and training data (which is fundamentally finite), the improvements aren’t going to be groundbreaking or solve any of the inherent limitations of the technology.

Even accounting for inflation arcades should be cheaper.

The compute hardware costs much less and is much more power efficient.

Other power hungry features like lights and displays are both cheaper and more power efficient.

The argument that they still need to be expensive makes so little sense, other than the physical space they occupy.

As someone who learned way more about pans than I really want to know, let me say that a good cook can make good food in any pan, however some pans are more suited to tasks than others.

First off, searing meat in a non-stick pan (traditionally Teflon) is a bad idea, the pan can reach temperatures that produce toxic gases, and are known to kill birds that are more sensitive to them than we are. The coating that makes them nonstick isn’t very durable and will at most last a few years before being useless. While other kinds of pans are likely to outlive you.

Other common pans include cast iron, stainless steel, carbon steel, and ceramic non-stick (non-toxic, but are delicate)

Specifically for searing meets, my favorite is stainless steel. It holds heat similar to cast iron, but is slightly more conductive and can transfer a lot of heat to sear meat. Meat also literally bonds to pan and can be used to make great flavorful sauces with deglazing. Cleanup is easy, if anything is really stuck just boil water in it to loosen. Alternatively stainless steel holds up decent in a dishwasher. Cleanup can’t be easier than automatic. However, stainless steel is still quite heavy.

For general purpose cooking my personal favorite is carbon steel. It’s seasoned like cast iron and can be quite nonstick, but is much lighter making it feel very similar to nonstick pans, which are made with aluminum.
I won’t lie, seasoning has a learning curve. Seasoning is very tough under some circumstances, and very delicate under others. Notably acid will eat the seasoning away.

Cast iron is great, but it is so heavy that it is inconvenient to use.

All will work with induction, except for cheap aluminum nonstick pans

Alternatively, if you can’t remove the modem, find and remove the antenna. And if you can’t remove the antenna try and surround it with a metal, like aluminum foil.

I think i would love this phone, but unfortunately for me does not support many US phone bands