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byambrandt12
1, 2026 @12:58PM
(#65962662)
Attached to: 99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
Not to mention that you're gonna need all those power plants (nuclear, fusion, coal) for when it's a cloudy or windless day, plus for those times when it's not sunny (y'know... like night).
Also, can wind and/or solar handle tornados, hurricanes, gale-force winds? How many power plants have been tipped over or blown into the next county by a strong wind or hurricane?
Can you get parts forever for the 500 turbines you installed from company XYZ, and will company ABC service XYZ's turbines? It seems a lot of the parts in them are proprietary (happened with a local one... bearing wore out and the company closed... turbine sat unusable for years, then had to be torn down), so they'd have to be from a company that isn't going anywhere, and would require a 'written in stone' service contract for the life of the turbine (both of those mean the turbine will be more expensive).
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byambrandt12
29, 2026 @02:27PM
(#65957246)
Attached to: Anthropic Updates Claude's 'Constitution,' Just In Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness
One "AC" is as good as the other (not sure which one you are).
And, what's the Dem's answer to illegals (remember... ICE and CBP are 'evil death-mongers', so you have to think up something else)?
Next time you see a cop, shove your cell phone in their face and reach for their waist (have a friend filming... we all wanna see how that ends)... add in resisting and shoving the cop... should make for a fun 3 minutes!
(I don't know about you... but I don't want to learn how well pepper spray clears sinuses, or the wonderful feel of a gun butt to the face or what it's like to get tackled by cops or even shot... I plan to keep that number at 0... how about you?)
There's 'peaceful protest' (like outside your local Planned Parenthood... picket signs and nothing being thrown), and there's "less than peaceful protests" (y'know throwing things at cops, plenty of insults, getting in their way of doing their job, shoving a camera in their face, et cetera). Do the cops or ICE have an issue with the protesters outside your local Planned Parenthood?
And, now, you continue with the tranny talk... I'm sorry... do you think the slightly overweight grey-bearded balding guy would even pass as a tranny? Maybe you have a certain fixation on me being a tranny... which says a lot about you. (either you want everyone to be a tranny or you have a fantasy about me)
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byambrandt12
29, 2026 @02:26PM
(#65957244)
Attached to: China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US
One "AC" is as good as the other (not sure which one you are).
And, what's the Dem's answer to illegals (remember... ICE and CBP are 'evil death-mongers', so you have to think up something else)?
Next time you see a cop, shove your cell phone in their face and reach for their waist (have a friend filming... we all wanna see how that ends)... add in resisting and shoving the cop... should make for a fun 3 minutes!
(I don't know about you... but I don't want to learn how well pepper spray clears sinuses, or the wonderful feel of a gun butt to the face or what it's like to get tackled by cops or even shot... I plan to keep that number at 0... how about you?)
There's 'peaceful protest' (like outside your local Planned Parenthood... picket signs and nothing being thrown), and there's "less than peaceful protests" (y'know throwing things at cops, plenty of insults, getting in their way of doing their job, shoving a camera in their face, et cetera). Do the cops or ICE have an issue with the protesters outside your local Planned Parenthood?
And, now, you continue with the tranny talk... I'm sorry... do you think the slightly overweight grey-bearded balding guy would even pass as a tranny? Maybe you have a certain fixation on me being a tranny... which says a lot about you. (either you want everyone to be a tranny or you have a fantasy about me)
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @02:55PM
(#65955024)
Attached to: Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023
To be fair... they want you to get a new machine (desktop/laptop or iPhone) in order for Facebook V2,000 (app) to work on it.
Android is guilty of the same thing... my Galaxy S9 (which runs perfect, and sometimes responds faster than my laptop) isn't running a new-enough version of Android to run my bank's app, because I can't update to Android 15.
Of course, Apple doesn't want to unbundle iCloud and iTunes and stuff or allow apps from outside the 'app store' to be installed... keeps you in the eco-system.
If people knew about _not installing untrusted apps_, maybe it wouldn't be so restricted... I'm still running Win10 Enterprise LTSC, and before this it was Win7 Pro... just because it's outdated and 'out of service' doesn't mean it's useless.
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @02:42PM
(#65954984)
Attached to: Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023
And, even though the processor and RAM and video aren't close to on par with todays machines... it's still an interesting little machine (love the way they fit a laptop motherboard and power supply and HDD and slot-load drive in it inside a chunk of machined aluminum)... I can imagine the manufacturing and assembly side is a thing of "you have to hold it just right, with the right phase of the moon behind you at exactly 31.53.45 degrees in order to fit everything in perfectly".
I can see why other computer makers didn't follow the same idea... heat issues, next to no upgradability, the form factor of a laptop motherboard split in half. But, for what it is (and it was free), it's a cool little thing (and the first Mac I've ever had). It lives on a table next to my workbench (soldering and computer stuff and resin 3D printing) and stays there so I can look up stuff while working on stuff.
And, to the AC below this post... so, it's brave to shove a camera in a fed's face and ignore orders to back off? It's brave to touch their waist where they keep the sidearm? Let me know how that goes.
So, you'd rather let illegals run rampant and keep hand-feeding them every benefit we (American citizens) _should_ be able to get _should_ we qualify for, when they don't?
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @02:08PM
(#65954910)
Attached to: Anthropic Updates Claude's 'Constitution,' Just In Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness
Not sure what a 'veterant' is.
Unlicensed (to carry a gun), Pagan (actually, you should look up the actual definition of Satanist... they worship themselves, and the couple I've met were some of the nicest people I've met)... ohh, waaahhh! you called me a tranny!
(I'm still not sure why it took so many agents to take him down and restrain him... were those agents just lightweights or did _those_ agents go overboard... but, now... if they went overboard, does that automatically mean all agents go overboard?)
Shoving a camera in someone's face (whether it's ICE/CBP or local police or a guy at the bar)... not everyone necessarily appreciates that (surprise), and when you get in their way and don't follow their instructions, should they just ignore your camera in their face and everything?
They don't _exactly_ plan the shootings... it's called reactionary... if someone doesn't follow LEO's instructions, there's an escalation, and if the civvie doesn't follow (and touches an agent) the instructions, things can get heated. Surprise... that same thing could happen in your neighborhood! Do you try to touch a police officers belt (where his gun and spare clips are)? What do you expect would happen?
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @01:34PM
(#65954840)
Attached to: China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US
So, ICE can't shoot anyone without outrage, police can't shoot someone, what about the civilians who shoot someone? That's totally fine, right?
I know you exist just to argue and say that everyone else is wrong, and Dems are the only ones who are right.
If there was a good Dem candidate, we woulda voted for them (not that popular vote counts much... that's up to the Electoral College).
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @01:25PM
(#65954812)
Attached to: China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US
What reason do I have to feel the need to carry a gun (2nd)?
When was my freedom of speech and all that taken away (1st)?
The tenth is where you need a printout of who has what power (or, at least should)... I know, "just look up the Constitution and Bill Of Rights online". The printout would end up covering half my apartment, and would be covered by arrows pointing every which way, redirecting where stuff should be.
Ahh, yes... the 14th, where the whole ball of wax crumbles down. "Citizenship Clause: Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., including former slaves." = Born or naturalized... does that include illegals? Does that include having their "advocate" pencil-whip all their paperwork so that they get in and get everything given to them (while the 'immigrant' doesn't even know more than a couple words in English) so they can set up "little 'whatever country they're from'" in MN or California?
They could come here through the normal, correct, route, there's nothing preventing that. And, that's cool. The ones who came here illegally are the ones who shouldn't be here. With the push for deportation, ICE/CBP don't have time to wait for every single person to find their 'green card' and Passport/VISA and ID card and social security card and five mail items that show their name... find them, send to ICE facilities, sort it out later. If you're gonna stand around and wait for them to find all the documentation to prove citizenship, you're gonna be waiting for an hour while they locate everything and call their 'advocate'.
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @12:56PM
(#65954738)
Attached to: China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US
Because shoving a camera in a federal agents face is a great idea.
Although, I will agree that not all of the current roster of ICE/CBP agents doing all the immigration enforcement are long-time agents... quite a few joined recently because of their anti-immigration stance and the chance to clean up the area/country... so, some of them are gonna be hardcore anti-immigration with itchy trigger fingers who learned most of their 'crowd control tactics' from CoD.
"Pretti stood between the agent and a woman being pushed, "briefly putting his hand on the agent's waist" and was pepper-sprayed by the agent." Yeah, place your hand on a Federal Agent, that ends well (from the Wiki).
Now, if the state was not a sanctuary for illegals... would this have happened?
Perhaps you'd rather have cartel members move in down your street.
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @01:47AM
(#65953970)
Attached to: Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints
Is that a common thing? Finding a T-Rex or Stegosaurus walking through your neighborhood?
If it's footprints in clay or something, in a paleontologists lab, I'm fairly sure they have the knowledge to ID the hoofprints.
(I can't remember the last time I say a Velociraptor running through downtown)
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @01:35AM
(#65953964)
Attached to: Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023
(not saying any of this to be pithy or anything)
I know... the same thing happened at the start of the HTTPS push (and still occasionally crops up). There will always be outliers.
I'm still running Win10 (on the PCs, the Mac I got from a friend is High Sierra forever (it's interesting to mess with), and the Apple TV (which may have leaped into my bag while cleaning a friend's place... not sure how that happened) is fun (the big TV is a 43' Panasonic plasma from '06)... it can't do smart TV stuff, only has 3 HDMIs (and one AV... that's taken by the VCR).
Maybe Win12 (whenever that goes public) will go back to Win7's interface, or even Win10's (not as nice... why is there two totally different Control Panels?). One can dream... they have a tendency of every other release is good.
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @01:16AM
(#65953952)
Attached to: US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year
Funny, that, with the whole push to LLM-AI everything possible... why would someone with half a million in student loan debt who can't find a job in (let's say) chemistry (because it's been taken over by LLM-AI) want to head out of country? I can't imagine.
College graduates go where the money is, end of story.
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @12:49AM
(#65953936)
Attached to: Ireland Wants To Give Its Cops Spyware, Ability To Crack Encrypted Messages
I know, well aware that when I open the page that has that pic of Christina Ricci, that it has to be decrypted on my end, which renders it insecure.
I also know that the reason for ECHELON and it's successors is so that certain 3-letter agencies can see all that. Back in the days of Napster and WinMX and Kazaa (may they rest in peace), the ISP knew because of the amount of data and through some backroom deal, WB or whoever had access to the ISP logs. Now, it's encryption.
Whether it's Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger or whatever... there isn't any communication that can't be cracked. What kind of government would it be that allowed the two of us to plan something, and they couldn't read the messages we sent eachother about the plan? Whether it's FOSS or MS or Apple, the Master Key is known to them... has been known since that particular encryption scheme went public (a few years after it was actually made).
Why aren't you or I decrypting everything we can packet sniff from local WiFi? We don't have the decryption key, and we'd only have a hunk of the total data.
I don't "have to" give them a _reason_ to scan my e-mails (y'know, your "secure" e-mail) or Facebook messages for keywords... that's all automatic... that's covered under EULA and TOS.
How exactly would WB or whoever know to threaten you with a violation order if nobody was watching your connection?
(I also volunteered at SpyWareInfo and tested Spybot, Adaware, Malwarebytes, HiJackThis, and a few others... know a thing or two)
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @12:18AM
(#65953910)
Attached to: China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US
Oh... hahaha. I see what ya did there (actually, good word play, so +1 to you).
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byambrandt12
28, 2026 @12:13AM
(#65953900)
Attached to: Anthropic Updates Claude's 'Constitution,' Just In Case Chatbot Has a Consciousness
And, no... AI doesn't have consciousness, just so you know... and it never will.
Yes, humans have consciousness... I can get up when I want tomorrow, same as you (and some days are good for a late morning... we all have those days), I can sit here and recite song lyrics or movie dialogue while I read stuff on here or not... I can decide if I wanna go to work tomorrow or not, same as you... we both know the consequences of that decision, and we make our decision freely.
Does a LLM-AI? It doesn't decide it's bedtime and your request can wait until tomorrow. It doesn't decide it's not in the mood. It just lays there in the server rack and consumes an obscene amount of power. You're going to say they throttle the GPUs and core processors, and I'll counter that with 'it takes more power to wake that device than it'd use keeping it on all the time'. Not to mention the wear and tear on the cards from constantly cooling and heating.
(keep in mind, I have yet to use a LLM-AI for any reason)
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