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silence7 OP ,

There’s a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.

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silence7 OP ,

The current position of the NYPD is that some random black guy wandering past a crime scene after the cops shot up a crowd decided to steal the knife that the cops considered to be key evidence. This is, to put it mildly, somewhat less credible than the claim that a crow tried to steal a murder weapon.

silence7 OP ,

There is video of them in a USPS parking lot in Athens Georgia

silence7 OP ,

It’s not as fast as I’d like either, but it’s a lot better than the original USPS plan to replace them with diesel trucks.

silence7 OP ,
  • Big batteries need cooling during charging.
  • A/C units need to do heat exchange.
  • Aesthetics
silence7 OP ,

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

silence7 OP ,

Context for those who might need it

silence7 OP ,

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

silence7 OP ,

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

silence7 OP ,

I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

silence7 OP ,

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It’s small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

silence7 OP ,

The big reason somebody might want air to water is that it enables a low-cost retrofit of an existing heating system which uses water to distribute heat. Definitely not what I’d choose if designing from scratch, but I can see how it makes financial sense in a lot of homes.

And yes, induction is amazing, but there are a whole bunch of people who have been marketed into treating gas stoves as their personal identity.

silence7 OP ,

I can see how that could happen for some homes. Worth doing the calculation though, since it can be cheaper if the pipes are adequate.

silence7 OP ,

However heat pumps just don’t seem to make any sense, and the more marketing materials I read critically, the less convinced I am of their practicality, nor the integrity of the vendors - if they work similarly to air conditioning units or refrigerators why do they cost 20x as much as those devices?

A refrigerator cools a fairly small volume with excellent insulation, which allows it to use a fairly small compressor running at a single speed. This is cheap.

The big differences between typical air conditioning units and heat pumps are:

  • they’re set up to move heat both ways (eg: both heating and cooling) which requires a tiny bit of additional hardware
  • They often have a more substantial compressor to handle the larger temperature difference associated with colder temperatures
  • They’re a lot more likely to be a system intended to support the whole home instead of a single room
  • People care about efficiency, which has variable-speed systems getting installed
  • There’s a lot of demand for them right now, and limited supply
silence7 ,

The NYT really does take Musk at his word even when he’s got a real history of banning accounts for saying true-but-left-wing things.

silence7 ,

There has been a huge spike in BlueSky use, and Lula is now active there.

silence7 OP ,

The bots are not reliable summarizes like that. They often can’t tell the difference between the author and the subject of a piece of writing.

silence7 OP ,

It doesn’t take people on the internet saying it though; just an association with people saying something and the name, which happens to people who write news articles about something.

silence7 OP ,

Or from your ISP. The Washington Post ran an article about that today, but links to them get blocked by some sort of filter on lemmy.world

silence7 OP ,

All of them. I can post other sites just fine; it’s only washingtonpost.com and wapo.st links that are blocked.

silence7 OP ,

I was surprised by that too.

silence7 OP ,

We all know what that means.

silence7 OP ,

“filter out” is an arms race, and watermarking has very real limitations when it comes to textual content.

silence7 OP ,

Yes — also non-native speakers of a language tend to follow similar word choice patterns as LLMs, which creates a whole set of false positives on detection.

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