Super_Jambo

What on earth makes you think you could know what's going on in someone else's brain with such confidence.

Wild.

Once you're an adult some of the best lessons come from having bad teachers.

For the same reason weights and measures legislation is of course impossible.

This is why every time you go to the shops you have to carry your own standard weights and balance scale! The idea that society could regulate the weight and volume of every product in every shop is simply preposterous!

I think what's most worrying here is Trump & co publicly exerting influence over these huge companies.

So the concentration of economic power has made the number of oligarchs he needs to capture quite manageable.

More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...

I think the point they are making is that google will let the fraudsters pay to place higher than the warnings because it's profitable to do so.

No embedding endpoints?

Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't?

At some point the courts should be able to say "ok fine you were the directors responsible for the company you're going to prison n years, sorry."

Bet we'd see a lot more documentation suddenly appear.

I'm having a crack at making feeds that filter by topic and location using LLM. The current test feed is here: https://bsky.app/profile/super-james.bsky.social/feed/uk-pol...

But I'm in the middle of a big re-work so it'll get a lot better when I finish that.

I have been very impressed with what you can build on it.

I built this little service to add UK specific political location data to Action Network CRM. 300 lines for the actual service!

code here: https://github.com/jms301/ANUpdaterUK/blob/main/src/index.js

Sure it's only taking a webhook, reading an API, looking up a db entry and then updating via API.

But just knowing it's running on someone else's infra and there's so little code to validate is very comforting.

Prior to this I had a version running on a VPS and yeah I can do it. But you end up with a LOT of code / config to run the web server, the queue, the database... And any of that could be introducing bugs and security problems.

I assume the intention is you store actual data in R2 objects and just hold references to them in D1.

I'd have thought the SQLite database (D1) would be a more obvious fit for a blog?

This is why the greatest art is only made by people who grow the plants to create their own paint from scratch...

I think the assumption is more that someone who's offended that the Guardian didn't explain a mainstay British playground game to their readers...

Is probably from the USA.

Consider Phlebas?

Capitalists abhor the market. But they captured the political class and well here we are.

We had:

https://stopthetories.vote/for/greens

https://stopthetories.vote/for/labour

https://stopthetories.vote/for/libdems

https://stopthetories.vote/for/heart

Pay them from general taxation to dig holes and fill them in again with spoons?

If you can only succeed because you're government is holding back others at the barrel of a gun do you really deserve to?

Look into Bletchley park & the cracking of Enigma...

As I understand it (and I would like to know if this is wrong). Carbon dioxide emissions take 5-10 years for their heating impact to work through into warming.

So even if we could get to net zero today we'd still be in for 5-10 years of worsening impacts.

And we're not even talking about getting to net zero today. Even in the UK where we've exported and reduced emissions a long way net zero by 2035 is seen as a wildly optimistic scenario.

So it seems to me inevitable that we're going to need to do geoengineering. We mustn't let this delay emission reduction but I think at this point we should get to where we're going asap so we can research it properly.

Huh I enjoyed some of is books but they were generally quite meh and the pricing model on Amazon started to seem a bit much.

Guess now I know why.

The user was asked to pay 20% then 5k on a service that's called "free" but has some extras which actually cost money.

After this the CEO comes along and says that the policy is actually not to bill for this kind of event... But the company actually tried to bill this user 3 times... soo it all stinks really.

If you didn't have copyright people could remix stuff I guess?

We're pretty obviously going to do geoengineering at this point. But we're still need to decarbonise our economies.

Individual actions to fix this kind of problem are pretty ineffective. That isn't to say it's not worth doing. In the US / UK with FPTP it's basically all you _can_ do voting and activism under FPTP is also pretty ineffective again worth doing but insufficient for this large a crisis.

The basic reason for this is down to markets being very very good at resource allocation. Lets imagine you're a huge beef eater and previously ate 2 cows worth per year. You reduce to zero cows. What happens?

The price of beef drops a tiny tiny bit. Other people who previously couldn't afford beef quite so often now can and increase their consumption. If a large number of people switch away from beef eventually the price reductions feed through and some farmers go bust or else reduce their production. But since the externality isn't priced in chances are _someone_ out there will consume it.

To tackle this kind of thing you need the externality brought into the pricing system. Add taxes somewhere on the chain of green house gas production. It doesn't actually matter where you tax it, could be a sales tax, could be a production tax. You can even make the tax revenue neutral and pay it out to everyone. You can tax imports to keep a level playing field...

Of course doing that would massively hit the profits of fossil fuel companies and their share holders so they're lobbying like crazy & paying millions to promote bullshit like the idea of 'carbon footprint' to stop it happening.

I guess power output will basically be the derivative of this tidal height chart: https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Gamlagatt-Faroe-Isla...

The steeper the slope the higher the power output.

I think the real question on tidal generation is how costly is maintenance. The sea is just a very unforgiving environment. Salt water and marine life fouling everything are difficult engineering problems that just add more expense than I can imagine wind turbines having.

If they can make tidal work I guess we'll end up in a world where most of their profit comes from keeping the grid alive when it's a calm and there's no sun.

I guess this may mean these technologies aren't going to really take off until we stop using hydrocarbons to make up the shortfalls...

And of course some lunatics will go and find a way to have fun in them! Here's a sea kayaker at Penrhyn Mawr off Anglesey in Wales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5o7qV1Gy04

Buying shares in the secondary market isn't directly giving money to the oil company in question.

A better question is:

"How do you get legislation passed to regulate advertising when it controls almost every media and social media platform through which voters can get informed on the topic?"

And if you have an answer to that I'd dearly love to hear it - I work at a campaign for electoral reform in the UK and we have near enough the exact same problem.

Same way you prevent any anti-social activity which is highly profitable?!?

How do developed countries stop people cutting their products with cheaper alternatives?

How do we enforce weights and measures legislation so every shop visit doesn't require you to lug along your own standard weights and scales?

How do we stop investments being all scams (ok so this one has failed a bit in the US.)

The answer is competent regulation with active enforcement. Tie reviews to a government issued ID. Enforce stiff penalties for any company found to be pissing in the communal data pool.