Thank you for a well-timed reminder. That was my example of “never stick your dick in crazy” but I somehow never got over it.

While things are much less stressful since I’ve got divorced (from someone else) it can be a bit lonely and my mind keeps going back to the one that I was too afraid to touch. The absolutely toxic one with BPD I knew in college and could never stop thinking of )no, I did not care while I was married to someone sane). I most certainly do not need that in my life.

She had “left” years ago but was hanging on for the money and the kids. Constantly yelled at me, refused to do any family activities together. I even funded her savings to escape ( all of our money was ours except what was hers) on the claim that it would reduce her anxiety. Eventually she filed, blames me for “not fighting for her”.

So much stress gone. So much more peace in my life.

My biggest regret really was not fighting for full custody. We have equal custody but for the first few years I was able to get the kids most of the time

I was just watching a video on that jet …… I knew it was a scam that the government was paying for so the orange clown can take it with him, but …… apparently he just want to use it as decoration to build a hotel around

Which is another scam …… typical donors pay for a presidential library or museum but he doesn’t want those. He expects donors to pay to build him a hotel to keep enriching himself through politics

I mean there’s a lot of truth to that. I was always skeptical that Bernie could work well with others enough to be productive, since he’s spent so much of his long career standing against every politician

Then the weird part is there was a surprisingly large overlap of people who supported both Bernie and the orange clown. So strange when you’re thinking opposite gaols, but perhaps it’s just that both were outside the establishment

I feel like 2024 was such a pivotal year. Economy going well inflation getting under control, interest rates falling. We were finally investing a little in our infrastructure, our future. Progress toward getting college costs under controlEV sales and renewable energy were gangbusters, record amounts of public land protected from drilling. The 2035 goal for many states to phase out new combustion vehicles looked achievable. Federal state and local incentives were helping more homeowners switch away from fossil fuels, to even free solar for low income. More locally we had passed a millionaires tax going toward transit improvements and free school lunch. Some amount of free public university…… it was a great time to be alive!

We had made so much progress that 2024 was the first time in my life I thought America was ready for a progressive

I was so very very wrong

why did we break fossil fuel production records under Biden after trump broke them?

Trump 1 had record leases and all that new drilling came through while Biden was president, but Biden tried to cut back

the problem is we’re talking about two different things

It may have ramped up on Biden’s watch, but this is a Trump thing

Global Warming isn’t just a nimby issue

Sure, but I had responded to your question political statement and you changed the thread so we ended up in different places

No one here will disagree with the global warming part. The us is both the largest historical emitters of carbon and one of those most resisting change. Yes in this case global warming is very much us centric. In this case the world really can’t do it without us

Yeah but then they were defending themselves from …. Flowers and stuff

Now they’re going on offense

I mean trains …… should I change my vote for good transit? /s

Surely assault is a police concern, not national guard.

Even if this were justified and they used proper procedure, since when can national guard legally arrest anyone for any reason?

The world is indeed consuming more meat but I was understanding this as a us-centric story and beef consumption has actually been trending down. We still eat too much meat but at least are choosing chicken over beef

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-usa

You may be missing my point.

Yes, production is up

But usage is down and that extra production goes toward exports (not that export is any different for the climate)

And while this might be more tenuous, it follows record drilling leases by the first Trump administration. It may have ramped up on Biden’s watch, but this is a Trump thing.

Biden cut way back on leases for drilling

Here’s a graph showing overall fossil fuel USAGE in the US peaked about 2008. The Biden years do show an upward trend but it looks more like COVID recovery and flattens out well under 2008

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244429/us-fossil-fuel-energy-consumption-by-sector/

But this probably explains what you see. Check out this graph of petroleum exports sky rocketing in recent years, including during Biden years as new drilling technology like fracking and horizontal drilling quickly turned us into the biggest oil producing country. Oil companies have been getting rich

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191320/total-us-petroleum-exports/

And here’s one that explains the different. Look at drilling leases by president and you’ll see far less under Biden. Trump 1 had record leases and all that new drilling came through while Biden was president, but Biden tried to cut back. Remember, oil wells don’t magically produce on day 1

https://www.voronoiapp.com/natural-resources/Oil--Gas-Leases-on-Public-Lands-Under-Obama-Trump-and-Biden-3282

It’s not even power consumption but the sudden change in power consumption, faster than infrastructure can respond. And more importantly it’s datacenters just bypassing rules for everyone else, such as by running on generators

There was a video that put it in interesting perspective …… ai datacenters are only increasing our power usage by like 1%/year and we used to grow energy consumption by multiples of that. It’s not a big deal …… except that now our infrastructure planning and investment is geared toward zero growth.

In recent years our energy consumption has been flat, so that’s what the industry can support

Spending all day in the smoker would melt some of that richness out and make it nice and tender

Without an as-of date, there’s no way I’d trust it. AI data centers are pretty new so it wouldn’t need to go very far back for it to be negligible.

Even if the graph is true, it’s misleading . Whatever water beef is using hasn’t really changed, but AI data Centers are a recent significant change much more likely to affect me. Depending on what you’re trying to show that is probably the wrong type of graph

I can’t speak for all LLMs but the ones I use

• web based LLM cites its sources. You can just click
• coding LLM tends to have obvious sources (for example if I tell it to use a vendor API to do something, I know there’s API documentation as the source of truth and the script is just like the example I would previously have found on StackOverflow.com).

And yes, I frequently check its work and iterate through telling it to

A significant counter example is click wrap. You can’t see the terms before you buy and you can’t reject it and get your money back.

Every instance of trying to set terms after purchase should be unenforceable in any just society

That’s the argument that it shouldn’t be an enforceable contract. The company is unilaterally establishing terms with no opportunity to negotiate, which is not a valid contract. Unfortunately it seems to be treated as one in our dystopia

I’m currently watching a video about the Qatari bribe of a private 747 (“free” will cost twice as much as the new Air Force one initiated by Obama and will leave with Trump) ……

Apparently Trump’s plan for his library is to build a huge hotel with his Qatari jet bribe in the lobby on a prime lot in downtown Miami that somehow was sold to him for $10 (where’s that bribe investigation ?)

Finally getting to my point …. The way to control Drump for those of us unable to pay massive bribes is to use flattery, play to his vanity and narcissism. We could sidetrack him into paying attention to that hotel and he might just forget about minor things like being president. He’ll, let’s hire some British royal guards to really treat him like royalty, keep his focus on himself

But why? If you try to be objective, how is this any different from an op Ed or other published article? Those are good starting points as well, but also shouldn’t be published as your work or trusted as is.

The problem with LLMs is not when people use them as a tool, but when they use inappropriately, blindly trust them or treat them as a final result instead of thinking, reviewing, or adding value.