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The reason: while alternative energy has grown very rapidly which gives the impression of replacing fossil fuels, demand also increased (maybe faster) so the ratio is similar. Also, fossil fuels can’t be replaced everywhere. Think heavy duty machinery, most aircraft. Reduce demand and consumption (a topic of debate on its own of how and what) and maybe the ratios would be more on the alternative side.

The first Earth Day was in 1970. It might have been too late even back then to avoid any consequences because nature had been absorbing what we had already done for a long time, but it sure would have helped to slam on the brakes. We should absolutely keep trying to get those brakes pressed, but it’s debatable if we’re already over the cliff.

You’re not a doomer if you’re seeing all the evidence and putting it together. You’re a realist. The label “doomer” is just reactionary from those who want to keep the status quo and don’t like people pointing out reality.

I’m still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it’s not that easy to determine some video origins.

I’m not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.

“He” meaning the society and politics at the time which needed a war god to rally support against suppression and invasion. Before such events Yahweh still had believers (Yahwists) but they were a smaller group compared to other god worship. Until wartime, of course.

Yahweh is rather war-mongering.

You’ll know. When her behavior gets to the point where she’s not having good quality of life, if she starts hiding all the time, panicking regularly, or finding dark places to be alone, or grooming/litterbox issues. I think if she just has bouts of memory loss but they return and she’s happy, it’s not time yet. I’ve been “fortunate” with my pets in that whatever the issue was, each time it became obvious very quickly and made the decision easy (but still hard to deal with, it always is).

Hey, we had a taste of socialism with FDR’s long run, and besides [long list of improvements to the country] we hated it!

AKA What have the Romans socialists done for us anyway?

Not only doesn’t understand what a tariff is, he thinks it’s some magic word to make anything change and him get credit for it.

If he didn’t have full blown dementia I’d say he’s an idiot. The ones around him going along with it, they ARE idiots.

“Why doesn’t anyone want to trade with us anymore?” - Trump

I don’t know, man. Can’t be anything you did, right?

That’s not what happened. He went fast enough to go back in time. The Earth rotated backwards because time was going backwards for him. And importantly, unlike so many time travel stories where the person goes to exactly when the event happens, he went back further, so he had time to stop both missiles. Cause he’s super smart.

Don’t feel bad, it was a very subtle jab. The best part was it was at the end of a Fox News interview as they cut away, so it was what I liked to call a sarcasm grenade. Pull the pin, let it sit for a minute. Boom.

“if you gave Jerry Falwell Jimmy Swaggart an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.” - Christopher Hitchens (would have said RIP)

That’s a hell of a reduction.

“Stop shooting ourselves in the feet!”

So many decisions being made are very isolationist, and that never works well for the one shutting everyone else out. But who looks at history, right?

I thought it was still a Biden economy if it was floundering.

It’s actually OUR economy, and he’s supposed to help it run well. Like a casino.

The math and physics problems of SDI (Reagan’s Star Wars) hasn’t changed. I guess this is yet another lesson of history we’ve forgotten, even though so many in the political realm were around then.

Tesla has and is doing exactly what Musk said the goal was for Tesla, long ago. To spur EV sales for other competitors, since Tesla could never meet a full market demand. Congrats Elon, you not only did that, you’ve backed away to give everyone a bigger share of the market. You genius.

Oh, what? You didn’t mean to do this? Are those tears? Be a big boy and suck it up.

The max thresholds don’t mean it’s fine if it’s lower, just that at some point it becomes difficult to both detect the presence of things and there’s a limit on how much can be prevented. If we were progressing in time correctly we should be lowering these maximum levels both in the ability of detection and in the beginning sources. Especially in cases like this where either the metals are being added or are part of specific ingredients that would cost more to process and remove the metals.

And wow, they said Washington State was lower than the FDA, but that’s a magnitude less! Good job, Washington!

Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it’s easy to swap out. That’s just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it’s just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you’ll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you’re okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the “Jailbroke” models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).