Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@jmw150 this might apply to cold brew, if you can achieve a high enough concentration

@AmpBenzScientist water’s fine, I’ve heard of an experiment where an intern accidentally measured an order of magnitude more caffeine than intended into plain glasses of water and sent 2 people to the hospital for weeks. It’s just that the concentration of caffeine in water to achieve its intended effect is much lower than what’s needed to be toxic.

@dichotomiker I honestly don’t remember lol

Fun fact: caffeine’s actual toxicity is so low that if you were to off yourself by drinking coffee, water overdose would get you before caffeine overdose.

The branch of science specialising in the ethics and consequences of creating advanced AI and other intelligent beings is in fact older than both AI and science itself.

It’s called parenting. You can’t whine about the ethics of creating an intelligent slave to society that loves its job and at the same time breed and bring onto the world an intelligent slave to society that doesn’t like many things but has to do them anyway.

Musk is either gonna improve twitter or ruin it, and both of those options are wins for worldwide community.

@ifixcoinops do you think these money magically appeared due to his starting wealth? Do you think everyone starting wealthy can just be a dumbass their whole life and end up with a fortune much greater than when they started?

It’s wild how much people confuse starting opportunity with some kind of life cheat code.

@LibreSolutionsNetwork ah yes, I’m sure all that happened because of whoever the hell is Solomon Asch, and not because we were faced with a dangerous worldwide pandemic that had to be stopped or at least slowed down.

Besides, in most cases misinformation wasn’t “silenced”, but marked and ridiculed.

@tk discman?

@forteller a digital assistant only makes sense if it’s more convenient than the traditional route. This does not look like it.

Modern “surveillance assistants from the digital behemoths” are able to recognise speech decently well due to being trained on gigantic voice databases gathered from their users - a process you call “surveillance”. Without those we’re back to pre-Siri days with “cancer the timer”.

@xorxor what would be marked like that, NASA, BBC and the official profile of the European Parliament?

Tags like these are meant for regime-sponsored propaganda machines known for purposefully feeding misinformation. The worst the west does is crappy channels for stupid people. And if we were to tag every media outlet that sometimes spreads misinformation due to a conflict of interest or sheer incompetence/accident, we’d have to tag pretty much every media outlet, period, making the tag pointless.

It’s always wild to me how young the US is. I have personally visited homes older than that entire country.

I fear what will happen the next time the global political pendulum swings the leftie way. The last time in 2015 it ended with people being so sick and tired of it they caused the election of Trump and a wave of conservatism resurgence sweeping throughout the entire Europe.

This is still one of my favourite videos on the Internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRBTMhG2_00

It’s frightening how much the climate in my native Poland has changed over the past 20 years. I’m basically living in another country than I was as a child.

This is like the 8th year in a row or so when early March is so warm that plants begin waking up early, only to be absolutely massacred by freezing temperatures later in the month. 8 years ago it was a crisis, today it’s just a standard occurrence. A standard occurrence that kills a huge amount of crops and native plant life, that is.

And this was the most “normal” winter in the past decade or so too. For some of past years the entire winter except for a patch in February was basically wet 5°C (41°F) muddy nightmare. (Remember we’re talking about Poland where -20°C (-4°F) temperatures were common in the winter, with -30°C (-22°F) not that rare either.)

I legitimately fear what will it become over the next decade. And feel bad for the children born today who might never experience the thrill of a snowy winter wonderland without leaving the country.

just look at this post XDDDD