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GeoAtreides··on Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
Can you provide a credible source for your incredible claim?
GeoAtreides··on The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
you:

>It’s basically insinuating that we, the regular people, are the responsible.

the article:

>Like all grand lies, “we have more time” takes many different forms, often focus-grouped. [...] There are the queries of “What’s your carbon footprint?,” as if individual people with plastic bags or straws were the problem and not gigantic multinational corporations.

GeoAtreides··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
At least for food, we went from 80% 500 years ago to about 1-5% now. Maybe less, soon, when fruit picking robots come online. Work is not destiny.
GeoAtreides··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
>Long story short, I think narrative of job loss is way overblown.

Long story short, I ate dinner so I think the narrative of people over the world being hungry is way overblown.

GeoAtreides··on The Beam Engine
why are you badly summarizing the post?

It wasn't a vacuum engine, as per post the water just cooled the cylinder. And it wasn't half of the coal, it was a third.

GeoAtreides··on Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose
>Walmart has larger boxes, and less contents

in EU labels must show prices per kilogram of product, to make this kind of fuckery harder

GeoAtreides··on Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
>Participants were asked how frequently, on a scale ranging from “never/seldom” to “very often,” they watched television during their leisure time and how much of their workday they spent sitting.
GeoAtreides··on Count Binface
Not only do they get elected, sometimes they become heroes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

GeoAtreides··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
is OP addicted to checking out maps and the parents group on whatsapp?
GeoAtreides··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
not sure where the problem is?

look at maps only in the car, mute whatsapp and then check it from time to time.

seems pretty straightforward.

GeoAtreides··on Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal
oh, i would say it went quite well:

>The main source for the events of the battle is Herodotus. According to his account, the Spartans held Thermopylae for three days, and although ultimately defeated, they inflicted serious damage on the Persian army. Most importantly, this delayed the Persians' progress to Athens, providing sufficient time for the city's evacuation to the island of Salamis.

>Though a tactical defeat, Thermopylae served as a strategic and moral victory, inspiring the Greek forces to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis later the same year and the Battle of Plataea one year later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe

GeoAtreides··on 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
there is a point where the analogy breaks.

Yes, when it comes to irl mountains you could have a lift that stops along the way. And when it comes to irl books, there is no way to bypass the journey, so to speak.

Also, just a note: it's usually not fun, nor interesting, to quibble and nitpick analogies, that's not what they're there for.

GeoAtreides··on 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
would I read the summary of a book expecting the same thing as reading the book?

no

GeoAtreides··on 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
I climb mountains to see the views; the views are there independent of how much effort I put on the path (or how much satisfaction I draw at the end of trek), but I do have to put in the effort to see the views.
GeoAtreides··on 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
That's not what high literature is. That's like looking at some clever linux kernel code and dismissing it in favor of a small nodejs backend.

Good literature is difficult (not always, of course). Just like you can't go from a couch potato to running a marathon in one day, you can't jump from Brandon Sanderson to enjoying Gormenghast (or something like the The Worm Ouroboros). It's impossible. It takes effort, it takes time and it takes a lot of reading to appreciate what the real masters can do with mere words.

GeoAtreides··on This blog is written in en-GB
>Speaking is even worse: a diarrhea of filler words, like 'like', 'I mean', and 'you know'.

and the british have: obviously, innit, fam, right, know what I mean, etc

GeoAtreides··on Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
cute easter egg on the story points showcase :)
GeoAtreides··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
name the fibers, the meal and the quantity

if you one broccoli head with one pound of icecream then sure, you will feel hungry again quite soon

GeoAtreides··on No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
> AI will go no differently than the Industrial Revolution.

the children will rejoice, they were yearning for the mines after all. and being maimed by mechanical looms and being burned alive in sweatshops[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

GeoAtreides··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Aristotle's second book of Poetics, of course.
GeoAtreides··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
that's the license for the API, not the content/data the API serves
GeoAtreides··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
yes, and per HN terms and conditions only YC and YC affiliated (as you quoted) can use the api legally. I don't license my content to anyone else and so it shouldn't be use by anyone else, even if it's available on a free-for-all API (nice move HN, btw).
GeoAtreides··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
>Y Combinator and its affiliated companies

is zX41ZdbW either?

GeoAtreides··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
oh hey, per HN terms and conditions I license my HN data only to HN. Can you please remove my data from the set? Thank you!
GeoAtreides··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
does the UI have a compact mode?
GeoAtreides··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
"not a spurious (false) heatwave" is a funny way to say it...
GeoAtreides··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
>It’s just summer, not a spurious heat wave.

what are you implying here

GeoAtreides··on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
are you learning new things or are you just reading LLMs output? there might be some overlap, but those are very distinct activities
GeoAtreides··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
I'm not sure PHP deserved that...
GeoAtreides··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
no no,i agree with torlok, OP's comment stinks of AI
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