LionArcher posted:

that’s not all true. I’ve seen some legit amazing AI art from artists who prompt well and tweak.

also, the energy isn’t terrible if you just buy a $6000 Mac Studio and run the models locally. super easy fix to make your AI art to create and push your drop shipping business of cute productive calendars and poo poo in a desperate attempt to save enough money to buy a good spot in a future heat dome and maybe make AI porn when porn is outlawed by the Christian fascists who will take over more and more as the empire dies faster.

Complications posted:

The banking system thinks 3.3C of climate change is lined up for 2050 or sooner, and large areas of the nominally first world are going to be effectively uninhabitable (that's what uninsurable means in finance speak for anybody wondering). Someone should tell these hopeless doom brained *checks notes* bank analysts and insurance actuaries that everything's gonna be fine and solar and AI are totally gonna save us.

The uninsurable world: what climate change is costing homeowners

Ihmemies posted:

bubble gum is made mostly of butyl, the material they use to make bicycle inner tyres etc. so basically you are chewing a piece of tyre rubber..

Karach posted:

Popoto posted:

mass consumption and individualism is just human nature!

unwantedplatypus posted:

The commons being a feudal institution that was destroyed during the initial stages of accumulation at the start of industrial capitalism.

Clearly, people's behavior can be described as a network of Rational Economic Actors

Dokapon Findom posted:

Mass anything is human nature if there's more than one

I'm not even going to address the detachment from actual society that would result in thinking individuality is not part of human nature

Lol

Popoto posted:

oh, you equate individuality and individualism?

Dokapon Findom posted:

They're inextricable from the perspective of consumption, there isn't a whole lot you can consume less of by "sharing" it

quote:

A silica sand mining project will move forward in a community east of Lake Winnipeg, led by a company that plans to create manufacturing jobs in the solar sector in the Interlake — but some opponents of the project say they're still not confident the work can be done safely.

Canadian Premium Sand was given approval to mine silica in Hollow Water First Nation and create a solar glass production facility in the city of Selkirk, the Manitoba government announced Wednesday.

"This is a hard-working community with a long and proud tradition and a blue-collar work ethic that also has an environmentally progressive leadership," Premier Wab Kinew said during a news conference in Selkirk, adding his government believes "in the power of good jobs to transform lives and to grow communities."

Kinew said the announcement is part of the NDP government's critical mineral strategy aimed at growing the low-carbon economy.

The mining and production facility are expected to bring in $2 billion in provincial taxes over a decade, or $200 million annually, according to a provincial news release.

Canadian Premium Sand has been pursuing the project for several years and received licensing approvals in 2019 and 2023, but faced delays and criticism over potential risks.

The company has indicated it plans to use silica sand extracted near Hollow Water in the production of solar glass at the Selkirk manufacturing plant, the province said.

Canadian Premium projects it will be able to make up to 800 tonnes of the glass — used in solar panels — daily at what the province says will be the only low-carbon solar patterned glass plant of its kind in North America.

Construction could bring between 600 and 700 temporary jobs, while the mining and production facility are expected to generate 30 jobs near Hollow Water and 250 in Selkirk, the province said.

unwantedplatypus posted:

Economy of scale doesn’t real

Stereotype posted:

chewing gum was always disgusting. worse than smoking probably.

Karach posted:

Crossposting from the Canada thread. For non-Canadians: NDP is the New Democratic Party, the so-called "socialist" party of Canada (at both the federal and provincial level); the Treaty areas are those which are governed by historical agreements between indigenous First Nations and the British crown; and everybody was very excited about Wab Kinew ascending to the throne in Manitoba because he is the first First Nations leader in the province's history and presented himself as a champion of "progressive" values.

Wab Kinew, the fearless Ojibwe NDP premier of Manitoba, has absolutely no issue greenlighting a silica sand mining operation on the east end of Lake Winnipeg, in Treaty 5 territory. The libs in my life Just Can't Believe that the NDP loves resource development as much as every other party, no matter the identity of the person leading that party. After all, how can we Save the Planet without solar panels? If we want to Save the Planet, we will have to sacrifice a few more chunks of it on the altar of Mammon.

Dokapon Findom posted:

"Mammon" is a little too inside baseball for most people, you can just say "Jobs" which is the god served by whichever party gains elected office

Salt Fish posted:

The bible? You mean chrono trigger.

4d3d3d posted:

https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1758071272943083594

LionArcher posted:

that’s not all true. I’ve seen some legit amazing AI art from artists who prompt well and tweak.

also, the energy isn’t terrible if you just buy a $6000 Mac Studio and run the models locally. super easy fix to make your AI art to create and push your drop shipping business of cute productive calendars and poo poo in a desperate attempt to save enough money to buy a good spot in a future heat dome and maybe make AI porn when porn is outlawed by the Christian fascists who will take over more and more as the empire dies faster.

The Oldest Man posted:

SixteenShells posted:

tag yourself, i'm the blue cheese cells harvested from the testicle mouse graft

Karach posted:

Yeah this is who I was thinking of. You're telling me there's an actual god I could have been worshipping this whole time?

Karach posted:

Yeah this is who I was thinking of. You're telling me there's an actual god I could have been worshipping this whole time?

Cup Runneth Over posted:

I love worshipping Mammon

The Oldest Man posted:

Dokapon Findom posted:

We are at least 2 decades past the Bible being a universal text in America

RadiRoot posted:

you know what, todays the day i stop using the recycling bin. throw garbage out the window? why not. gently caress it

4d3d3d posted:

https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1758071272943083594