Tlaloc_Temporal

Recycling paper (or not recycling) is far better than plastic is every respect. It’s not so much futility in this case so much as inefficiency.

Paper also is rarely, if ever, fully recycled, usually being downcycled into rougher and rougher materials like cardboard and egg cartons. No matter how well it gets recycled, it’s not going to displace primary production.

If you want to talk about futility here, the problem is way bigger than recycling. It’s consumerism, unrestrained capitalism, and ROI of power now vs power later. No amount of recycling of any quality will fix the world alonge but it is one step of many.

The manufacture of straws on that scale can’t be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?

Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.

Paper can be composted or burnt, and will decompose relatively quickly if dumped. I can’t see any post-use situation where paper is anywhere nearly as bad as plastic.

It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren’t planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.

It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it’s just a single step, we won’t get anywhere if we stop taking them.

Some kind of drama, probably of the affair kind, but who knows? Maybe it was just a great reaction to a jump scare out of a loving couple. Maybe it was people at a zoo getting manured by a rhino.

These two stills are the only context I have. I’ve seen them twice in the same day, so it’s probably topical, but it could be from the 90s and made relevant by a certain list or something.

My first thought was certain politicians getting freaky in a puplic theatre on security cams though, so not too far off.

I couldn’t figure out that it was a kisscam at all. I was thinking a photo booth or theatre.

When we’re stereotyping massive swaths of the population with crying meme faces, I think IQ is more than enough to get the idea across.

That’s a pretty good beginner project. More characters, more stages, and more gimmiks leaves plenty of room grow, but still something to be proud of early.

Plasma lets you pin any window to be always on top (short of fullscreen apps), and you can set up rules to automatically set that behavior for any pip window.

The original idea was taking a walk before a meal, so maybe if you were a really fast walker…

Apollo 1 says hi.

I wouldn’t say a normal CPU is inefficient at graphics or cryptography, rather that a specialized GPU is particularly efficient at those tasks.

We only consider a CPU slow at these tasks because of how much faster a GPU is with them, but we never see how much worse a GPU is at general conputation tasks, because of how stupendously bad it is.

As soon as operations need to share info, the GPU speed advantage is gone. Branching paths bog a GPU down with redundant execution. Latency is quite poor too. And exceptions & interrupts are basically impossible at the system level. Trying to run normal programs on the GPU would be a disaster.

And adding more fuel to a fire make it burn hotter and faster. Largers stars die faster, so more fuel will reduce the lifespan.

I don’t mind onions when they’re used as a real ingredient. French onion soup, stir-fry, onion rings, all good. Onions also make decent filler in soup and curry, but I think the only soup I’ve had without onion is cheese & broccoli. Every ground meat I’ve seen uses onions as filler, so every burger, nearly every taco, most sausages, every lasagna, every spring roll, all have that onion taste.

If leeks were used like this, I’d probably hate them too.

That suggests we can change the superposition collapse distance by changing how much were observing. By measuring the proportion of change as we turn on or off large-scale observation systems, we can calculate how much of the universe is being loaded by other users. We can finally start solving the drake equation!

Genes aren’t the only inherited trait. Environment, wealth, culture, and ideas are also roughly passed down to offspring, but these can’t modify the genome, only the gene expression.

Of course it gets way more complex as these things do change fitness which does apply evolutionary pressure to the genome, but you can’t get bigger muscle genes by working out.

That is to say, there are some Lamarckian effects, but it’s all by Darwinian mechanics.

Disagree, one of the reasons I’m an onion hater is precisely because they’re in flipping everything. Anything savoury is likely to have that pervasive thickness that chases any other flavour out.

Quick, someone make a heavier Honda Accord and destroy the universe!

Most “untoward” things become more well known from their euphemisms. This is just a rare non-sex case.

“You like pets? Name every pet!”

“Eukaryota”