A Wild Mimic appears!

lol 12 weeks unpaid

you know we europeans get money while sick based on our salary, so we don’t have to use up our financial reserves if we get sick. and this pretty long - after a few months sick pay gets reduced to about 70% of your income, but i was nearly a year on sick leave when my back crapped out hard and needed multiple surgeries. i never had to fear that i lose my living arrangement or even a lot of living standard - i didn’t even lose my job.

your FMLA sounds like “you are allowed to die homeless if you are sick and don’t have reserves”

ah, i was a kid at the time and have only a dim memory of a few scenes, maybe i should rewatch all of it

I can remember an episode where people get dehydrated into a powder - and later get rehydrated lol

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.

to the two downvoters, i cite a news article i read yesterday:

“He said that the first Ukrainian soldiers from reconnaissance who fell into Russian hands were tortured particularly brutally – their eyes were gouged out, their lips, ears, and noses were cut off, and their bodies were mutilated,”

This is from a guy who had his throat slit and was left for dead, but survived.

Fuck you two. It’s an open secret that the russians give no quarters.

If the russians behaved like civilized people and not cultureless barbarians who fucking torture POWs and civilians before killing them, then their public image MIGHT be better.

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.

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.

Hope that shuts Orban up for a bit

I had the discussion regarding generated CO2 a while ago here, and with the numbers my discussion partner gave me, the calculation said that the yearly usage of ChatGPT is appr. 0.0017% of our CO2 reduction during the covid lockdowns - chatbots are not what is kiling the climate. What IS killing the climate has not changed since the green movement started: cars, planes, construction (mainly concrete production) and meat.

The exact energy costs are not published, but 3Wh / request for ChatGPT-4 is the upper limit from what we know (and thats in line with the appr. power consumption on my graphics card when running an LLM). Since Google uses it for every search, they will probably have optimized for their use case, and some sources cite 0.3Wh/request for chatbots - it depends on what model you use. The training is a one-time cost, and for ChatGPT-4 it raises the maximum cost/request to 4Wh. That’s nothing. The combined worldwide energy usage of ChatGPT is equivalent to about 20k American households. This is for one of the most downloaded apps on iPhone and Android - setting this in comparison with the massive usage makes clear that saving here is not effective for anyone interested in reducing climate impact, or you have to start scolding everyone who runs their microwave 10 seconds too long.

Even compared to other online activities that use data centers ChatGPT’s power usage is small change. If you use ChatGPT instead of watching Netflix you actually safe energy!

Water is about the same, although the positioning of data centers in the US sucks. The used water doesn’t disappear tho - it’s mostly returned to the rivers or is evaporated. The water usage in the US is 58,000,000,000,000 gallons (220 Trillion Liters) of water per year. A ChatGPT request uses between 10-25ml of water for cooling. A Hamburger uses about 600 galleons of water. 2 Trillion Liters are lost due to aging infrastructure. If you want to reduce water usage, go vegan or fix water pipes.

Read up here!

That was the stack my dad had in the 80s! I can distinctively remember the dial layout on the amp, the feeling of the switches when they changed position on my fingers and the heft of the volume dial in the middle.

I don’t know what happened to them; i’m a little bit sad about that now.

Later on he built his own amp. He never had a formal education in electronics, but he taught himself quite a lot, including fixing TV’s with bad solder spots.

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.

i pronounced “Ascendancy” with a dance in the middle and “Achievement” with a sound like a hissing cat instead of “chief”.

I know better now, but i caused some laughs.

public humiliation chair lol

I’m already reading the first one, gonna do this chronological 😁

Thanks, i was one of the lucky ten thousand and am now a David Thorne fan.

Mine too. maybe we can use a scanner, mail it and destroy the now worthless cash!

you put it in the retractable cup holder, of course.