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What do they need an AI for?

Well sort of. But pretty much all of the current emoji are Western inventions. Seriously we added like a bajillion things to it.

The original Japanese ones were only about 25 or something.

I think it’s more that people don’t appreciate the wall of text that you copy and pasted from an AI.

Seriously, you are demonstrating everything that’s wrong with AI. People use it instead of thinking.

It must be stamped out wherever we find it.

I want sloppily made mass produced crap, damn it.

Yeah the problem has always been that solar panels only really like to operate within a very narrow temperature band. It’s why you can’t just plate the Sahara desert in solar panels. In theory that would generate loads of power but the heat of the desert is way outside of their operating range.

There’s been loads of ideas to heat/cool solar panels, the problem up until now has always been to do that without cutting into the panel’s efficiency so much that it isn’t worth doing.

But there’s been videos on YouTube of people cooling solar panels with plasma cooling and phase change materials for a few years now.

So here’s a fun thing.

Northern power grid sent me a letter last week to tell me that on Wednesday they are going to cut off the power so they can perform essential maintenance. Because I work remotely in a call centre I won’t be able to get any work done. So I booked the day off.

Anyway they’ve just cut my power off today. On Tuesday. Lovely.

Why should Apple stop doing business in the EU that makes no sense. Why would they deliberately cut themselves off from a huge potential market.

How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?

What would be the point in doing that? There are lots of replicas in museums but they tend to get labelled as such and they serve a purpose beyond just looking at them. The truth is the British public don’t really care about the Marbles, so if they went back to Greece I don’t think the museum would really need to put up a replacement.

Look at York Museum practically everything in there is replica, it’s all for the purpose of demonstrating history.

I can already speak to my cat. It’s not really an enlightening conversation it’s basically him demanding food, or he wants to go outside, or he wants better food than the food provided.

That’s basically the extent of his conversation skills.

I mean he’s a cat, he’s not exactly going to talk about politics with me is it even if we could translate between our “languages”

Into volunteers it’s not standard practise to randomly put a chip in your head.

Yeah the reason the water levels in the reservoirs are so low is because people are watering their plants too much that’s definitely the problem. My 20 ft by 20 ft garden is definitely consuming all of the water.

No you don’t.

You get paid some money, you don’t get paid your normal salary. Is basically only an advantage if you work at McDonald’s, If you’re lucky your work will let you take it as holiday and still pay you themselves, but I don’t think they’re under any requirement to.

You assume an Antarctic research facility lacks funds?

Absolutely stupid example because that kind of assumes medical professionals have the same standard as Elon Musk.

No we don’t know. We are not AI researchers after all. Nonetheless I’m more inclined to defer to experts then you. No offence, (I mean there is some offence, because this is a stupid conversation) but you have no qualifications.

There’s loads of British stuff in the museum. All of Darwin’s collections for one thing, plenty of artwork, lots of mediaeval and Roman finds, the famous dinosaur fossil collection, there’s quite a bit of masonry in there from the Great fire of London.

Also a lot of stuff is from other countries but is on loan, such as all the Egyptian stuff.

There’s a lot of unfounded stupid conspiracy theories but the thing about stupid conspiracy theories, is that they’re stupid.

I love that they’ve concocted a conspiracy that literally only they can possibly care about.

If it were true, literally no one else would care. The average member of the public probably doesn’t even know what they’re talking about, has never seen them, and has no particularly strong opinions on them.

Negotiations between Athens and the British Museum began in 2021.

Ah, so it’s not a secret evil Labour plot then. This critical piece of information is several paragraphs down in the article, talk about burying the lead.

Not everyone can pull off a wig.

Maybe we could install a murder mode switch.

Perhaps an algorithm where its effectiveness is inversely proportionate to your bank account.