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Cake day: January 4th, 2024

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  • If they devoted billions of dollars per year to it and nothing else, maybe.

    Keep in mind that OpenAI still hasn’t made any profit, their entire valuation is based on hype that will be exploited to steal money via the ipo, and then the Altar will beg Trump for a bailout to prevent a bankruptcy.

    Altman and Musk both tried to get their companies into Nasdaq and the S&P 500

    They really pushed, because retirement funds are required to buy shares of the the entire index, and if any of the companies in that fund have sudden bankruptcy issues, the government is more likely to step in to save the company. Theoretically, this saves the retirement funds. It never has, but that’s how saving the company is sold.

    Anyway the Indexes refused to change their rules so the bailout will have to come from bribing Trump.


  • A single solar panel is basically useless. You need a huge field of them per small city, and by the time you do have your huge fields of wind and solar, you then need giant grid batteries, and you still often fall short, which means that to be safe you need to double or triple your solar and wind build out.

    Which is why most solar and wind projects are backed up with methane burning generators.

    Nuclear on the other hand, takes up a tiny fraction of the space and outputs orders of magnitude more power, safer and cleaner than any other form of energy.

    South Korea doesn’t have a lot of land mass for solar, they do however have competent engineers and scientists.

    Fun fact, most of the fearmongering around nuclear has been paid for by oil companies, starting with Hermann J. Muller working for the Rockefeller Foundation, to Robert O. Anderson, CEO of ARCO giving $200K to a man to start an anti-nuclear environmentalist organization called Friends of the Earth. The Rockefeller Foundation directly funded Greenpeace up until just a few years ago.

    As for Fusion, yeah, we can sustain a reaction by feeding energy in, and sometimes, we can observe more energy out than in, but we have absolutely zero ways to capture that energy.


  • Fun history lesson, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in the Mexican communities of California. It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It was widely popularized by the Chicano movement in the 1950s.

    Battle of Puebla Day was and sort of still is a holiday in Mexico, but it’s not on any official observances list, but school children do get the day off nationwide, and there’s reenactments and parades in Puebla. Widespread celebration fell off after the dictator who was fond of the holiday was deposed in 1911.

    More fun history, the French won the Second Battle of Puebla a year later and then occupied Mexico City in their attempt to found a new Empire out of Mexico, because Napoleon the 3rd wanted one, but was way too incompetent to war with the rest of Europe. (He did some fighting in the Crimean War, but forgot to bring the artillery, the first Napoleon was an Artillery commander)








  • Processing them for the same crime twice is double jeopardy, and is explicitly banned by the constitution.

    This is just letting them off basically unscathed.

    These were not date rape situations where a judge with a bias could hide behind the classic misogyny of “she was asking for it”.

    Here’s a section describing it from an earlier article,

    In the first attack a 15-year-old girl was raped by two of the defendants, both aged 14 at the time.

    In the second assault, the three boys threatened a 14-year-old girl with a knife and two of them took it in turns to rape her while the others encouraged the offending and filmed the assaults.

    On Thursday, at Southampton crown court, two boys, both 15, were each sentenced to a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS). The third boy, 14, was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.

    Seems to me, that sort of organized violence needs some sort of custodial sentence, if only to protect the public.