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Why are there no "dark mode" books? (e-books don't count)
  • In a physical medium, it's way cheaper and easier to make light color thing dark than make a dark colored thing light. "Dark mode" books would require dyeing each sheet black, then painting the text on top of each sheet, rather than what is currently done, where we bleach each sheet white, then dye the text into each sheet.

    Somewhat related - this is why printers use CMYK, rather than RGB. Computer screens use pure light, so they simply emit whatever combination of light they need to, and your eyes add them together. In a physical medium, however, what we see is based on what is reflected, i.e. not absorbed. Hence, each color of ink, in additive terms, is two colors together (cyan is green+blue, magenta is red+blue, etc). When you combine CMYK colors, you can precisely control what wavelengths of light are being absorbed in order to reflect the correct color.

  • What explains "the Left's" rightward shift on copyright?
  • If AI was solely being used to advance scientific progress in exponential steps as it has for things like protein folding, I suspect these outlets would be all for it.

    This isn't the primary driver of capital investment in AI, though. AI is booming mostly because corporate executives see it as a way they can get the fruits of skilled labor without paying for it. I don't have any more way of knowing these particular leftist organizations' reasons than you do, but my assumption would be that their perspective is that AI in this context is literally the most powerful tool the bourgeoisie have ever had to exploit workers - one where the end goal is to not even need the workers anymore. You couldn't design something more perfectly antithetical to leftist values than this application for generative AI, as it is created by using the owned products of others' skilled labor to make it possible for the owner to remove the worker from the equation. Copyright and IP law is a weapon to combat that.

    Edit - typos

  • Canada, Mexico steelmakers refuse new U.S. orders
  • Boring Company tunnels just doesn't have the same alliterative ring to it

  • Dice Bags
  • I've been very pleased as a dice goblin with this bag by CardKingPro

  • Are men as intimate with there friends as girls are?
  • There was a ~1.5 year old reddit thread that talked about this

  • Why do different ethnicities/races look different?
  • Skin color is directly related to latitude. Darker skin means more melanin, which absorbs more light and protects against sunburns and thus skin cancer.

    Eye color factors are less confidently known, but darker eyes generally have a better time in bright daylight.

    Regarding those two, it's also worth mentioning that the Inuit people don't follow those patterns, as while they have less sunlight, they also have to deal with reflected light off the snow.

    Hair texture is like eye color in that we're only mostly confident, but tight curls also probably protect from the sun.

    It's also been posited that epicanthic folds might help against freezing winds, but there's no real evidence for that.

  • It appears that my email has gotten in the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?
  • I've found that 99.99% of my spam comes from emails with weird extensions - .xyz, .world, .shop, .best, etc. - so I've gotten a significant amount of relief in getting a mail client that lets me block entire domain extensions (BlueMail mobile).

  • [USA] Presidential Debate Mega Thread
  • We will improve private insurance

    Am I hearing Trump promise to infringe on the rights of private businesses???

    /s

  • [USA] Presidential Debate Mega Thread
  • Am I the only one who saw her almost call him a bastard

  • Game Science Is Reportedly Making Content Creators Promise Not To Discuss Feminism, Politics For Black Myth: Wukong Codes
  • Others have already pointed out important things about what the dev has said; I would like to add that the book the game is based on has a number of female characters which are simply not in the game.