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What an unreasonably complex device to imply you’re going to make 50,000 copies of and ship out to every border agent in the nation after telling them every SINGLE flash drive crossing the border MUST be scanned. That’s so much wasted time, energy, and money. Are you building a similar device for SD cards? HDDs? SSDs? External drives? You’re going to build a database of exact charge draws for every device in existence which happens to have some form of storage on it?

Fucking up every single import and traveler on the off-chance one in seven billion scans detects one of these devices and, further, carries some data the US cares enough about to chase down to this degree?

No. Nope. Nuh uh. Insanely unreasonable. You will get ONE at a station, which you only bother to use if you can convince your $12/hr employee to even give a shit. Literally an insane proposition.

Doubt this will change the calculus much. Why would I care if GPT puts an ad for medicine in the bottom of a message during a medical conversation? I’d pay big bucks to get medicine without having to talk to a doctor anyways. It’s such a useless part of the process so often.

“Hey doc I need $antidepressentOrWhatever. Been on it for years. Works great.”

“You got it dude.”

Literally every single doctor I’ve ever talked to has this exact same waste of time conversation because they’re too lazy to make it go away.

And the alternative is… an ad for the thing in asking about? For a conversation I had at home, the instant I needed it? What a beautiful tradeoff.

Edit: and this is before even getting into the fact that I get better, more complete advice. Medicine I take, I’ve discovered, has a direct link to another problem I’ve brought up with doctors many times. Never once mentioned to me. Quick Google shows it’s most likely the actual issue. Can’t wait to spend $50 to have a doctor admit he had no idea because he was just prescribing what I told him to without actually applying any of his medical knowledge or training, as is tradition.

I would kill myself and the patent holder before considering paying for ads

lol, a big part of security is being smart enough to never challenge the bored…

It sucks you’re the only person on earth who is altruistic enough for this thing that would definitely work but you’re choosing not to enact it despite it being so easy it’s a simple choice.

Because your statement sure leaves exactly zero room for anything else. Kind of a stupid comment at the end of the day. Either that, or you’re such an incredible jerk that you’re specifically choosing not to make these very easy changes that would save the world.

Major political issue, I suppose

Can’t believe nobody noticed this was a joke

Why advertise you agree with something objectively wrong lmao

I’m not sure I understand your point. These things remain true regardless of whether or not you find ways to improve your process. Do we just… not try to improve because there is noise to sift through?

The care quality of all major healthcare providers in the US is some pretty available data, and I've never heard anyone of being suspicious of Kaiser, of all companies. They're specifically known for having really good outcomes. It's like asking for a source that McDonald's sells the most burgers in America. It might not be true - maybe technically it's someone selling sliders or whatever, but it's so close it's probably not worth arguing over anyways.

"You can't ask people because the experience is so universally terrible they'll just tell you it's terrible" isn't really an argument against surveys, it just means you need more specific questions they'll be fired up to answer

Yep. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but they'd be very rare overall.

I guess it just seems extremely obvious to me that people who live a predictable-enough life to sleep and wake at the same time every day are less likely to face mortality than people with schedules so chaotic they sleep at different times regularly. It’s still good science to do, but without a solid cause or two, I don’t think anything helpful is actually being revealed by this study, at least from a layman’s perspective.

I don’t think wax paper is the dividing line between climate change and a happy planet, if I’m being honest

I’m not sure that simply replacing one type of crude oil byproduct with something else does much on its own, since they still need all the other products produced before and after plastics are made.

This is true for almost every issue, for what it’s worth.

Almost.

Probably some legal question that won’t get answered until there is a strong pressure to do so.

Society flourished without lots of stuff we have today. It just flourished less.

And people aren’t failing to migrate away from plastic because “somebody would make less money”, they’re using plastic because everything else basically sucks in comparison. It’s tough, cheap, light, stable, easy to shape, doesn’t often break dangerously, can have all of its basic properties modified, and more. Nothing else is THAT good.

Edit: Not to mention, it’s not as simple as “don’t use plastic packaging anymore”. We pull oil into a machine and cook it off at various stages to produce various things. Turning cooking stage 8 of 12 into a worthless pile of garbage to be discarded doesn’t stop us from pulling in that oil for the other 11 uses.

Cavitation can be another “out” for that energy.

Yeah, I said "fun" not "good" :)

Our brains evolved in the former environment, and is very good at filtering it out. I've got pretty extreme ADHD, and if I'm in a room and something on the wall is flittering about, I absolutely must look at it. If I'm in a field and a tree is full of leaves billowing in the wind, it's a nice background thing. I guess my monkey brain is too busy looking for tiger faces to be distracted by flickering leaves, flowing grass, and flying bugs for more than a half second.

I dunno if I agree with their arguments in the paper (there seem to be some pretty big questions unanswered yet, which the authors acknowledge), but there's definitely something to the idea that natural environments aren't as stressful for us, even if they're objectively "busier".

You don't need to live a consumerist lifestyle to have a home that's properly outfitted (curtains), comfy (rugs, chairs), and quiet (walls/divisions).

Also for a fun large-scale argument: we're relatively sheltered from global depressions. All we really have to do is convince Americans to keep spending money and it kinda works out, because the whole economy is structured around that anyways.

That's also why the economy is in the dumper right now (not counting tech companies), and why the consumer confidence index is so important to our various economists.

There is significant pollution created while digging up the rare earth materials which are needed to make solar panels, and batteries are some of the dirtiest things we make.

There is virtually zero pollution in a generator which does not typically run. The only waste is the need to occasionally change out the fuel. It’s a rounding error at worst.

This is also ignoring how much safer nuclear is than any other form of power generation, and pollution concerns are ostensibly, at least in part, about improving health and lives of humans.

Bro come on lol.

oh dear, the stakes are so high

You should ask the person I replied to - they already posted soccer field sizes.

Oh, thought this was a noodle fight. A full-on slam down in flavor town. An absolute buffet brawl.

Barilla is fine and I will fight you

Those are crushing power, and while they use bad terms for it, they are referring to tensile strength specifically, which is totally different. I don’t know why the hell they chose a spaghetti strand though.

OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms.

In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.

Your question answers exactly how enforceable it is. It’s directly linked to your population size and how much it can hurt the wallet of the company.

Edit: but also, who cares? Literally no solution to anything on earth works for EVERYONE

How could you possibly know the cost and pollution levels of batteries not-yet invented? The pollution from a nuclear power plant is one 55-gallon barrel of waste per reactor per year, and ZERO batteries are that clean. Like, what are you even thinking here?