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Yeah, I was looking into this recently, and even games like Roblox are labelled Teen (even though I think it's obvious they target younger children).

It's because elections are won on emotions and vibes, not "boring" policies, unfortunately.

The power used by AC is responsible for ~3% of global emissions. I can't find data about the impact of refrigerants ATM, but I assume it's significant because of their extremely high "global-warming-potential." I'm guessing a significant amount of emissions come from the manufacture of refrigerants, and a significant amount of refrigerants leak out of systems when they fail (or are improperly disposed of).

I like the Turris Omnia and (highly configurable) Turris Mox. They come with OpenWrt installed.

A significant amount of greenhouse gasses are emitted because of air conditioning. It's a feedback loop.

Sea levels rising is only one of the concerns. I think the biggest concern is the reduction of ariable land due to climate change. I.e. the carrying capacity of the Earth will decrease (and I'm of the opinion that the human species has already greatly overshot Earth's carrying capacity; hence the current degradation of our environment).

I think the species will survive, but may experience a population crash (i.e. mass death), and severly reduced quality of life. I think having 1 or 2 kids is fine for now, and hope I'm wrong in my Malthusian-like thinking.

He praised Trump, Vance, and other anti-union politicians in his speech. So, yes?

This is actually a decent argument, but there has to be a threshold. For instance, if I take the average of all RGB values in an image, and distribute a pixel with the average, is that breaking copyright or somehow immoral?

I recently looked into the speculated model-size and speculated training set size of GPT and Stable Diffusion, and it does appear that if you thought of them as compression algorithms, they'd only be doing something like 1:7 compression. These ratios aren't outlandish for lossy compression.

Compression and redistribution isn't the (stated) goal of these models. Hypothetically, these models are learning patterns and associations of things like styles and how humans write text. And they appear to do things a little beyond just copying and pasting. So, hypothetically, a lot of the model size could mostly consist of learned styles and human preferences, rather than just a compressed database of the images it was trained on. I guess the real test is trying to prompt the models to reproduce an item in its training set, and evaluating how similar it is.

:) I think British woodworkers also use fractional units.

Fractions are easier to do calculations in your head or on paper than trying to do the same stuff in decimals. E.g. half of 1/2 is 1/4, half of 1/4 is 1/8, half of 1/8 is 1/16, half of 1/16 is 1/32 etc. In decimals this would be 0.5 -> 0.25 -> 0.125 -> 0.0625 -> 0.03125. When building stuff, I find it useful to be able to do that kind of stuff in my head easily.

A long time ago, I used Syncthing to do this. Sometimes there would be file conflicts, which was a pain to resolve, so I switched to BitWarden (using their server for syncing) and have been using it ever since.