Thanks, I hate it.

Oh so they’re LLMs, got it.

…thay actually makes a lot of things nake a lot of sense.

Well shit, I’m dumb.

China limits social media because they repress free speech and political association. TikTok and other social media was a huge part of why there was such an outcry over the invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. They doubly limit what kids can see because students are often hugely influential in political activism - especially in China, where students were an integral part of both the revolution(s) and Tiananmen Square. China’s gov is pants-shittingly terrified of another student-led revolution/crisis/etc and keep a very close watch on what the kids are saying and seeing.

Stupid. Kids are more informed and hooked into current events than ever before, specifically because of phones and the Internet. Hell, half of most peoples’ jobs are looking up reference material online. You want kids to succeed, hand them a big list of the best places to look for the answers and let them use their phones on the test.

‘Conservative rapper’

the lyrics

‘appers’ being ‘rappers’ without the hard r

Not wrong. But I will point out that this will funnel a lot more money to China, which has been investing much more heavily in greentech than the US has. So overall it could actually be a plus - for climate change at least.

I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you’ve seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe’s guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They’re substantially more efficient.

Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

Wouldn’t even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it’s an ethanol blend.

After that, you’re down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.

Whole lotta minerals that will get a lot easier to exploite as the planet warms.

Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.

Enh, it’s at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.

Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just…a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it’s ‘normal’, after all? We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy’s Day shirts. Etc.

The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.

Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.

In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.

…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.

Just pointing out that your ‘handling your own response’ sure seems to include getting a lot of money from the feds.

I’ll be honest, Russia invading Israel would be a real, “Let them fight” moment.