It wasn't that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative, sarcastic...I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)

E.g. Wikipedia is community-driven because people contribute individually without a lot of coordination and without anybody telling contributors what to do, same for game mods. I guess by "corporate-driven" you mean there is a hierarchy and people whose job it is to do what management says e.g. Wikipedia foundation runs the infrastructure that hosts the community content and the same for most games. I'm not sure I'd call it "corporate driven" unless it has board members and investors demanding a profit such that they influence the decisions downstream, like reddit.

You don't sound like somebody who's ever stepped inside a bus. What safety features are there in place to stop somebody walking/driving to burgle a house? You can get robbed anywhere, in a bus, in the street, anyway, what safety features do you have for that? This is such a shit take and I'm surprised it would be any honest person's first reaction. I hope you're a bot.

PS: you may want to get off the internet, criminals may use it to rob you.

And nobody should be driving cars, because criminals will use them to run you over or worse: rob you.

Don't inspire fear or disgust, that's the basics.

It still may be possible for you to work around their bullshit minterpretations of ethics, but you'll have to write a 5000 word essay on what ethics is, how it is applied, provide examples. At least in ChatGPT.

Can anybody explain to me why it is so hard to make a proper transparent display instead of these monstrosities? We already have LCDs, polarizers, faraday rotators, optic fibre multiplexing, piezoelectric materials...what's the catch?

Clumsy. Did they at least pick them up on the way out?

Thought experiment: burn a fuel, now how much energy do you think you have to use to go capture all the CO2 molecules from the air and turn them into a material? At best, you're going to need twice as much energy to recapture the fuel as what you got from burning it.

But you say: "the energy to power CO2 capture will come from green sources". Yes, but these require energy to be produced and you're encumbering already lower density energy sources than fuel with reversing CO2 debt, when we need those energy sources to power everything else.

It's a good way to kick the can down the road and say "we'll fix it later, when we have lots of cheap energy that we can afford to waste."

The answer is, broadly in this order:

• Don't cut old forests, these are the best at absorbing CO2 and keeping it in the ground.
• Minimize forest fires with strategic multi-species tiling, spacing, having grazers eat biofuel
• Reduce energy consumption through mass transit, home, agricultural and industrial innovation to improve efficiency and reduce waste
• If you are already not cutting forests, plant trees (takes them centuries to become efficient), grasses and seaweed where adequate (e.g. Scottish highlands) and try to sequester them in swamps, mines or furniture.
• Move to 100% green energy sources
• Use emission-neutral vehicles
• Invent batteries that can store surplus energy for baseload power and shut down nuclear powerplants (if you must..).
• If there is any surplus green energy left, capture as much concentrated CO2 with algae at CO2-intensive exhausts like natural gas plants and test with artificial methods to see how they compare with plant-based capture.
• Artificial direct-from air capture with whatever unused energy we have left after all these steps <-------this is this article is right here at the end, once all the other mammoth problems have been solved

Nah, Elon's mum called off the match. Literally: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/06/27/musks-mother-pulls-mom-card-says-cage-fight-with-zuck-has-been-canceled-1372180/ 🤣

If that is true, that is not something to look forward to. It means that ... oh ok this is c/singularity, carry on, lol

I only disagree with one thing on that: youtube is not a social media platform. It is horrible for discussions, topic discovery and organization, the comment sections and chat are worse than 4chan. It is a video diffusion platform, but not truly social media.

Too late, new word created:

corgial: adjective

showing or marked by warm and often hearty instinctive friendliness, favor, or approval, as if welcomed by a pack of corgis.https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b1/c0/d4/b1c0d463c0839198b83dc63151d7c4f6--crazy-animals-welsh.jpg