Which sounds reasonable until you think about what costs we refuse to externalize (road repair) and which costs we happily externalize (pollution).

It’s an interesting discussion I’ve had with coworkers recently where there’s a strong sentiment with some people that renewable energy needs to stand on its own, but the same argument could be made for fossil fuels and needing to account for environmental damage in pricing. Subsidizing renewable energy (tax credits, avoiding gasoline tax, etc) is an indirect way to compensate for the externalized costs of fossil fuels, which wouldn’t be palatable or popular if done directly.

Money needs to come from somewhere for roads, but it’s very hard to decouple infrastructure funding concerns from environmental concerns since no one is willing to tackle the problem head on with something like a carbon tax.

Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?

I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.

Not that this makes the story any more sensical, but they sold the allbirds branding and shoe business to private equity in the last month or so for $39m, so allbirds the shoes will still be around (although I’m sure become shitty) and the allbirds company doesn’t seem to have a business model at all right now.

“You can’t quit, you’re fired!”

Don’t worry guys, Schumer has a proven ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, no chance this doesn’t end in some kind of capitulation that fails to get any concessions.

I take issue with “Yet”, as if this is a surprise or was contrary to the intent of unleashing ICE in the first place. Very similar to the latest act of ICE in airports.

Headline writers torch headlines with the word “slammed”

Makes me wonder what that 27% is smoking and even that 29%.

But I will say for once this number is less than the 30-something percent of true believers, maybe some cracks in the MAGA faithcism? One can hope that there is a line… I’d would’ve hoped the Epstein files would have been that but here we are.

Lies, no cat has ever waited until after dinner time to make demands, always before.

But don’t worry, they will be exactly 50ft outside those polling places surrounding major entrance points.

I’m sure the Gates named helped, but AI anything has venture capitalists punching the Fry meme. It feels very similar to the dot com era bubble in a macro sense, except without a large number jobs being created.

My gut response is that everyone understands that the models aren’t sentient and hallucination is short hand for the false information that llms inevitably and apparently inescapably produce. But taking a step back you’re probably right, for anyone who doesn’t understand the technology it’s a very anthropomorphic term which adds to the veneer of sentience.

The thing I find amusing here is the direct quoting of Gemini’s analysis of its interactions as if it is actually able to give real insight into its behaviors, as well as the assertion that there’s a simple fix to the hallucination problem which, sycophantic or otherwise, is a perennial problem.

I read it more as no one is safe, not even people ostensibly from the in-group.

I predict the administration will take this feedback and examine ways to… just kidding, there will be deranged posts, threats, and some kind of ham handed attempt to take over or disband the CBO.

Not a super helpful response, but honestly I’d be glad they only opened it. At our old condo people repeatedly broke into my wife’s car by smashing the window to steal random shit worth nothing, especially compared to the cost of replacing the window.