Notices by Sir ReadyKilowatt (readykilowatt@noauthority.social)

@PNS The Villages, FL is a hotbed of STDs and black market Viagra

https://www.insidethebubble.net/sex-lies-and-the-villages/

@PNS The experts can't believe anyone would voluntarily study their profession's sacred books and literature without compensation or future reward.

Anyone can study history
Anyone can study medical journals
Anyone can study law

It's just reading material, most of it available online.

@PNS Jimmy, do you ever watch gladiator movies?

@PNS organists do it all the time. Just not laying on their backs.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pzehj_UCQBM

@PNS She went back and picked it up.

@PNS saw his band at a high school fundraiser next town over. The 1980s were a strange time for big jazz bands.

@PNS Pittsburgh?

@yukiame you’re still going to eat it.

@cjd Thank Google and Apple. Google because they turned our computers into terminals, Apple because of their obsession with thin.

Meanwhile Moore's law is basically played out so the only way to get computing gains is to ramp up the power.

Apple's in-house processors are amazing, but they spend most of their time idle. When they do kick in it's to make pretty UI, not do work.

The answer is local and distributed processing. Incremental additional power consumption is easier to manage.

@cjd I know much of the current wave is the whole "if you build it..." game, but it didn't have to be all put in a big data warehouse. Sell hardware to end users and make them pay the electric bill. Worked great for old Bill Gates and Steve Balmer.

Good news for telecom companies though. More dependence on the network is always a good thing for Comcast and AT&T.

Is it food waste or food security? Having more supply than demand is generally a good thing, especially when the supply is disrupted and there's slop in the system to make up for the shortfall.

Start screaming about waste and you'll end up with starvation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belgium-tops-us-most-calorific-country-world

@wowaname @cjd The problem is that scarcity in other areas will drive products away because they'll demand a premium. Cattle ranching in Texas has lower overhead than in New York, so it is worth it to the Texan to ship beef away from the hometown market. Eventually the producers and buyers settle into a sort of stasis where prices reflect good margins and what the market will bear. Eventually what was once NY ranch land will be repurposed for something else, and no one will remember NY cattle.

@cjd @wowaname For sure more producers is better than fewer.

Probably a little better to know the people involved, even if only because you handed them a sack of food in exchange for money. Tends to make one concerned for people in more than one dimension (how much wealth can I extract from them?).

@dcc Damn climate activists!

https://youtu.be/Yyl9QgYs_o4

@cjd @TikToc Oh and where's the harm? If there's no damage done how can moving faster than someone else be a crime? It's not like you're causing sonic booms or something.

@cjd @TikToc I object on the grounds that somehow there’s only one perfect speed for every sort of vehicle for every kind of weather.

Not to mention driver skill.

Besides that, in the US they typically set the PSL far lower than necessary (I've heard 80% of design) which smells like a trap.

@cjd @TikToc Risk is in the eye of the risk taker though. And sure, young and inexperienced need guidance. But why penalize the 80% because the 20% who can't effectively assess the risk?

I've seen (and driven) vehicles that were capable of exceeding 80 MPH that had no business ever going that fast (I'm thinking of a 1953 Buick). I've also seen vehicles that are capable of speeds in excess of 150 MPH safely, with a trained driver. And technology marches on, raising the bar on safe speeds.

@cjd @TikToc Because of this, Europe and Asia (well, Japan) can be far more demanding of driver training. If you don't pass the test you don't drive. No big deal because there's good alternatives. In the US, not so much outside of NYC and Boston. So you have to allow for drivers who aren't very good. The answer has been to slow down, but that's really just a knee-jerk reaction, not a real solution.

Self-driving cars for the bad driver are a tech solution but acceptance has been dismal so far.

@cjd @TikToc There's a major difference WRT automobiles in Europe and Asia vs the Americas. In Europe cars came after public transportation was well established. Rail networks that are over 100 years old are still in use today with enough riders to make passenger travel profitable/self-supporting.

The US was far less developed prior to the invention of automobiles due to the proliferation of farming. It was easy to keep horses so many had them. The auto replaced horses not public transport.

It begins…

https://www.postindependent.com/news/colorado-interstate-highway-speed-cameras-boulder/