A Wild Mimic appears!

Sorry, but I don’t believe that more than 70 million people in the US eat quality food on a regular basis. Too many people there are just scraping by, are in prison or are not educated enough to allow for that number.

Mustard and pickle slices for me!

The article mentions the reputational damage with a half-sentence, but we all know the main reason no one wants to buy a swasticar is. Europeans have quite the attention span, and as long as Elon is associated with Tesla - which is pretty forever - their brand is poison. Not very truthful journalism, this is.

i currently own 3 shoulder cats, 2 of them just lay down like a stola and stay there (i can walk around and do the dishes with them), and the other are 2 cats - one half is a cat that sits on the back of my head (shes a little bit stupid, but a very cute princess), and the other half only stays if i bend over so he can lay down on my back.

I’m pretty sure that most people know that only the kind of people who haven’t seen much more than their home state in the US agree with Trump, you’ll be fine :-)

to their credit, infiltratiing a population of 57000 people which are 90% Inuit isn’t that easy, anyone new stands out like a sore thumb, and there aren’t so many ways to get there either; i’d say the covert approach isn’t gonna fly.

Especially finding allies in the population is pretty senseless. Whoever lives there does so because it’s his home and he loves it as it is, i’d wager that there aren’t so many people who WANT to live in Greenland when you aren’t born there.

there’s still enough light for cats, believe me; and they use their whiskers as navigational aid too btw

LOL the russian economy is fucked up beyond recognition, they can’t stop the war or else their country snaps back into a fucking barter system - and even the russian economists say that.

and russia started that war, you lying piece of shit. also, they are not in war with NATO or else we would already have held a parade on the red square just to piss you off.

every cat plays differently. you might try “hiding” the toy - i have felt mice on a “fishing rod”, and for one of my cats i have to let the toy slide along the floor and disappear slowly behind a corner and then wait for her to hunt it - making small movements so she can hear the target. took a while for me to find out, try it.

There are analog clocks that move the minute hand only when the next minute starts. But to be honest, you might profit from a little less rigidity in your “time usage” - it’s good for your mental health to not plan everything down to the minute. If i make a private appointment, i try to set time windows of 10-15 minutes for meetups; i aim for the beginning of the window, and if i get delayed it’s of no consequence, and for longer delays i would message anyways.

Can you imagine that it’s not so long ago that people called a phone number that told you what time it will be at the next signal tone so you can set your clock?

Since “chaotic neutral” includes the mentally deranged and insane, your description is apt. But for once I agree with 4chan - if the UK don’t want to see it, they will have to close their eyes.

Therapy while being on ketamine i think. Seems to work pretty well in particularly stubborn depression.

edit: DONT just jump into the k-hole before you head to your therapist. Find a therapist who is willing to do that before.

Hope that shuts Orban up for a bit

Sorry, there is no nobel prize for the most stupid individual ever elected president. But maybe the Guiness Book of Records might be interested

Die Daten zu den Parteipräferenzen, zur politischen Kompetenz und zu den Wirtschaftserwartungen wurden vom Markt- und Meinungsforschungsinstitut forsa im Auftrag von RTL Deutschland im Zeitraum vom 5. bis 11. August 2025 erhoben. Datenbasis: 2.505 Befragte. Statistische Fehlertoleranz: +/- 2,5 Prozentpunkte.

Die Daten zur Zufriedenheit mit Friedrich Merz sowie zum Fortbestand der Regierungskoalition wurden im selben Zeitraum (bzw. vom 8. bis 11. August 2025) erhoben. Datenbasis: 1.001 Befragte. Statistische Fehlertoleranz: +/- 3 Prozentpunkte.

(rough) Translation:

Data for party preference, political competence and the expectations for market development were collected by market- and opinion research institute forsa for RTL Germany in the time frame from 5. to 11. August 2025. Basis for analysis: n=2505, error tolerance +/- 2,5 percent points.

Data for approval of Friedrich Merz and about the continuation of the coalition in power were collected in the same time frame (or rather from 8. to 11. August 2025). Basis for analysis: n=1001, error tolerance +/- 3 percent points.

I looked up the current ownership structure of RTL, which is owned mainly by the Bertelsmann Group; It doesn’t look like there was much bias at play here on a cursory glance.

a) many people swear by it - is it so useless then? it’s a personal question, and the answer is not the same for everyone. ChatGPT is one of the most downloaded apps worldwide, so to assume that all of those people do not gain something from it cannot be right. b) people do a lot of useless things that all have a climate cost, but noone bats an eye when someone says they watched 2 hours of 4k video, which uses a lot more ressources than Chatbots. c) chatbots that noone interacts with do not consume resources in a meaningful way, since you have to make a request for that - the greeting will be hardcoded in 99% of cases. d) i agree that the amount of VC money inflates AI usage, but VC money does this with everything: dotcom bubble, 2008 crash (housing bubble), crypto bubble, nft bubble… the difference here is that people actually have personal use scenarios, regardless of VC money. e) I agree that opt-in should be the default, i’m no fan of google’s bot, but i actually just don’t use google, i use mullvad leta for most things, and i’m waiting for the rollout of the european search index that qwant and ecosia created - it went live in france recently and i’m excited to try it out when it starts here!

You know what’s funny? i don’t even use ChatGPT, i rely on locally running models - and i’m pretty sure my GPU is less efficient than the setup in a data center.

its more like 0.0017% of 4.32grams of weed, see my response above

you got an error in magnitude there: its 5.32*10¹⁴ requests, so 532 407 407 407 407 requests

(2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams) 2.3 billion tonnes = 2.3 trillion kilos = 2.3 quadrillion grams ≈ 532 407 000 000 000 requests needed for equivalence to Covid CO2 drop ≈ 912 500 000 000 requests made per year calculator output below:

912 500 000 000/532 407 407 407 407
≈ 0.001 7%
(2.5 × billion) × 365
= 912 500 000 000
(2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams)
≈ 532 407 407 407 407

See what i mean? Stop ChatGPT, achieve 0,0017% of the reduction that Covid brought.

i had no car my entire life and have flown 4 times (i like trains lol).

Ok, something nearly everyone does - washing clothes.

A 500W washing machine uses this amount of energy in 10.8 seconds during the spin cycle.

Using a dryer? 4.3 seconds@3000W.

If we look at the equivalent mechanical energy, lets look at your bike (you gotta eat to offset the energy loss, causing emissions through agriculture and cooking!)

You can generate a Chatbot response by pedaling ~2 minutes@100W power!

The chips are already pretty optimized, since they are in principle not different to high-end gaming GPU’s. I have a 3070 TI, and i can generate a complex response locally in under a minute @ 290W TDP, 30-40 seconds if i use something like qwen 2.5, which aligns pretty well with what i’ve said before. Playing a video game uses a lot more power.

But even with a loss leader you cannot crank up the price stupidly high if the costs per request were prohibitive; ChatGPT subscriptions cost 20$/month. API pricing for the most expensive option is 10k$/1Million Tokens, so it’s a buck per 100 tokens.