Still from the first Lord of the Rings movie showing Saruman speaking to Gandalf with text that reads "Your love of the halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind."

fuck you man

Sophia

Apple Home Server, a NAS with 4 bays

The frolicking took me out 😂😂😂

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

In this house, we believe:
gas should be more expensive
parking should be more expensive
plastic should be more expensive
hamburgers should be more expensive
kindness is everything

If this isn't just 90 minutes of a man being tormented by various animals and acts of God, it's 2 thumbs down

In terms of threats to civilization, creating a virtual panopticon pales in comparison to people calling me "alex trout" online

"Fascinating and important." —Walter Isaacson, # New York Times bestselling author The Technological Republic Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

Next on the reading list.

(…Why do I do this to myself?)

Leonidas, a muscular man with a spear played by gerard butler, telling ephialtes, inexplicably cast as a deformed mutant man, that he sucks and can't fight with them

Leonidas fighting alone with his whole back toward the enemy line, who are also not in any kind of formation

It's so funny thinking about leonidas in 300 rejecting ephialtes because he would compromise the shield wall, and 5 minutes later the spartans are breaking formation to do sick 360 no scopes

Just think about ephialtes watching all this lmao

From the BookshelvesDetective community on Reddit: What do we think of my boyfriends bookshelf? 😬 Explore this post and more from the BookshelvesDetective community

I enjoy this subreddit, mostly because I like looking at people's books, except that all the posts are framed as "bookshelf of a guy I'm seeing" and it's a contest to maximize Hitler density

Take the wrong lesson from a movie

Return of the King: we need strong men to defend western civilization from the decadent east

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I wish more IC folks were aware of Palantir's leadership and adjusted appropriately when choosing which dashboard to use

The best anime is not just ambivalent toward fans, it's openly hostile

Don't forget the sheer hubris in thinking 40 years worth of American presidents were simply too cowardly to do this

"Those pussies never even TRIED touching to stove"

My goal is to retire somewhere I don't need a car

A pint of Rivo brand protein ice cream. 30g protein per serving This is honey cinnamon flavor

Incredible things are happening. I can confirm this tastes like ice cream, on account of it is. It just has added milk protein concentrate

People who can thoughtlessly cut down trees like this just feel like a different species of person to me. Like... How can you NOT feel the inherent value of trees in your bones?

Sometimes I hate read /r/treelaw which is surprisingly big

This stuff infuriates me. Trees are worth DECADES! They're beautiful, they shelter wildlife, they cool your home and cut down the wind.

Even ignoring the environmental value, they add thousands to your property value

The Jones Girl (alt) - The Five Satins YouTube video by Bob Marvin

I was just reminded of the worst solo of all time 🪿🪿 🪿

Jesus Christ these people just want to say slurs and not feel bad about it

LinkedIn post: How to start analog prompt engineering

Compare that to solar panels, which can store ~20% of the sun's energy, which we can then freely use with minimal loss.

Yes there's some transmission loss, but it's nothing like losing 60% of chemical energy when using fuel for locomotion

Biofuels are very dumb. Photosynthesis is like 5% efficient at converting sun to energy stored within the plant

then we use energy to harvest and process plant matter, inevitably losing more energy

Finally, internal combustion loses another 60% of the available energy

Doctors hate this trick