No Idea what I’m Doing Here

dont get me wrong climate change is an absolutely real thing but isn't it kind of odd that Canada had a handle on wildfires up until like ten years ago when they decided to be Reddit: The Country

there seems to be a fundamental disagreement between microwave oven manufacturers and the producers of microwave meals over whether the customer should know the wattage of their microwave or if such details should be abstracted away from them

the microwave rice demands 800 watts of power for 2 minutes, but all the microwave can offer me three settings: one low, one high, and one somewhere in the middle. I turn it to the one in the middle as I happen to know 800W is the average power of most microwaves. the light comes on and the bag of rice starts slowly turning, but rather than hearing the usual rumble of the microwave, I instead start hearing short snippets of conversation - words snatched from the ether. the lights flicker and a chill runs up my spine. the voices remind me of those "spirit boxes" ghost hunters use. I double check the setting on the microwave. "ah," I say, remembering that I had set it to medium,

Cat actors were so vanishingly rare you didn’t need to worry

rent-lowering gunshot time. i think a reflexive anti-AI stance can be reactionary because there are legitimately good use cases for the technology in scientific research, although it is often overhyped. i also think most people use AI in incredibly stupid ways

he's also greatly overestimating how much design work actually goes into most products like that

The natural consequence of framing consumer purchases as part of your moral activism. No one goes after Hyundai drivers after they found immigrant children working for pennies in their autoparts factories, because no one ever tried to elevate driving a Hyundai to a virtue signal. But some Tesla people watched the South Park episode about electric cars from like 20 years ago, said, "I can be more smug than that!!", and now they're having ethical crises about their cars because they're terrified of the socially acceptable predator leopards who have turned on them and are now ready to eat their faces.