rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

A potential way to reduce the destruction that cats do to local ecosystems due to the hunting of small animals and birds is to legally require all cats to wear a bell collar. Thus alerting local wildlife to their presence.

If I had to give a physical analogy to why I hate "vibe coding", I'd say it's someone designing a bridge, but they know nothing about the actual physics involved or the materials or anything else. Sure the LLM has the schematics and design specs of thousands of other bridges in it, and the user can probably keep fucking with the prompt until the bridge LOOKS good, and maybe for simple bridges it can even take normal loads of traffic. Like a regular freeway overpass? There's a million of those and they're not all that complicated. But once it gets bigger and more complicated or you want to make it unique and pretty and such, it can no longer be trivially copypasta, and who the fuck knows what horrors lie inside.

The majority of TV series on streaming services are based on an idea or book that makes a really great single series - with a structured storyline and conclusion. After that it's just diminishing returns and a waste of everyone's time and effort.

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

The singular of data is not anecdote.

Consider, if LLMs existed in the 1820s trained on all the knowledge of that time they would be enthusiastically recommending leeches and bloodletting as medical procedures.

First past the post might not be ideal, but proportional representation isn't the utopia people think it it. Just take Israel for example. Far right nut jobs never get enough votes to rule, but just enough to threaten to collapse the government unless they get what they want.

Nettles are lovely green leaves that are healthy to eat, easy to grow, but hard to process. Supermarkets should sell frozen nettles to include in curries and stews, just like they sell bags full of blocks of frozen spinach.

I have zero sympathy for people who lost their homes due to cliff erosion or are about to soon. You knew perfectly well what you were risking when you bought a house teetering on the edge of a cliff. You have only yourself and your stupid decision-making "skills" to blame.

London doesn't have much in common with the rest of the UK so it should be split off in to its own country and added as a 5th UK country

JSON implies the existence of JDÓTTIR

Referendums are abdication of duty and responsibility of elected representatives and should never be used.

Just thinking about better ways to penalize corporations that break the law.

Fines are trivial and never keep pace with reality. Instead, what if companies had to give back a chunk of shares to the government? Issuing new shares that dilute existing shareholder value, and making the govt part owners. Effectively, nationalize the company in degrees with every breach of trust.