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Trump Promises 'Very Large Faucet' Will Funnel Water from Oregon to Los Angeles
  • The ag lobby told him there's an ocean of fresh water

    I'd say that he just says whatever. If it'll get him more popular and/or more money then there's no need to figure out if he actually believes something or not. It usually is self serving in some way, truth doesn't matter.

  • The massive U.S. port strike has begun
  • A salary maximum (as per the article) of 79k USD per year seems low. This as the accident rate amongst longshoremen can be significantly higher than average. It's often not reported on enough (at least in Europe) but significant injuries and deaths happen often enough. This partly because (obviously) a mistake has way more consequences on a terminal vs e.g. working in an office.

  • The massive U.S. port strike has begun
  • That's a stupid way to eliminate efficiency

    In case of port/terminal automation the workers usually do not benefit. So it seems pretty understandable that they're against it.

    In Europe there's way more automation. Still, workers often tried to prevent it.

  • Europe’s Heat Pumps Put America’s to Shame | If switching one home to a heat pump improves energy efficiency, why not whole cities?
  • In Netherlands the fixed cost for city based heating is paid by the people who make use of it. That seems fair, but practically it means that it'll be cheaper for people to arrange their own heating system and rely on electric heating. This because the fixed cost is high. However, if everyone switches to using electricity the city based heating would overall be much cheaper solution than relying on electricity. This as currently loads use a gas solution and there's a huge cost involved to upgrade the electricity network.

    The city based heating variable price is connected to the gas price. So even if city based heating per kWh equivalent would be cheaper, people wouldn't notice or get the advantage.

    As a result, city based heating is very unpopular. Planned projects to switch entire neighbourhoods have been cancelled. Again, logical because people were really upset to pay significantly more despite insulating their entire home.

    Seems that in Netherlands they'll ignore the problem and have the country be less cost effective and upgrade the electricity network for significantly more money.

    The Dutch Financial Times did a few articles on above in the last 12 months or so.

  • My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves
  • oh you watch videos and it's hard to concentrate after a while? Welcome to actual driving jobs

    Watching videos is comparable to e.g. ATC work. I don't see driving as comparable. In one you're actively doing something. In the others you're only checking for stuff that might go wrong but usually goes ok.

    There's a significant difference in ATC vs the training AI: in ATC work people are swapped out after a few hours and they have regular breaks. While here for that AI the company is pretending it can be done for an 8 hour shift.

    I have no doubt that we will likewise see the mental and physical effort of driving as well as the danger of it become as unconscionable as threshing or machine operator work is to us now.

    Meh, that's been said for ages. Currently the reliability of automated driving is often crazily overestimated. Human driving is pretty reliable, especially on highways.

    Change for the better is good. But just because there's a computer involved doesn't mean it's already better or that'll be foolproof.

  • Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results
  • People are paying way too little attention to this.

    The media conveniently ignores it. Loads of media companies are for profit instead of reporting what's going on. Media is needed in a democracy. Unfortunately media being a business makes them easy to be bought.

  • Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app
  • There are different type of smoke alarms. Some detect smoke. There are two ways of doing that. Near a kitchen area it's usually best to get a completely different one that just uses changes in temperature. Though they will only notify you way matter. So highly recommend keeping the existing one and moving that one somewhere else.

  • Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues
  • That said, the amount of troubleshooting and wasted time that it took to figure out that the CPU was responsible for months of random crashes

    I went through something similar, so I understand.

    My (AMD) CPU was defective. But if was only noticeable that it would never be able to wake up from suspend. I didn't really notice crashes. Just broken suspend. I thought it was a Linux kernel bug, though couldn't figure out any details. Only after almost a year of pain (no suspend) the CPU just didn't boot at all anymore.

    It was sort of replaced under warranty by the store. They took ages to investigate, then gave a store gift card. Likely because the CPU was temporarily out of stock. I had to wait for the CPU to be in stock to be able to buy it again. Fortunately still had the previous AM4 CPU.

    The new CPU suspends without any issues. Took months to be able to not doubt suspend. E.g. if it was suspended I usually thought it had crashed.

    An unreliable CPU is a terrible experience.

  • Why were Republicans freaking out over a drag performance at the Olympics?
  • Read what you wrote again. It is full of contradictions. If it's for everybody, then why do you want to exclude people? If it is niche, then why suddenly is it full of rich people?

    Suggest to lay off following whatever right wing media you're following. Especially those who blame everything on a small group, trans, drag, women, race, etc.

  • Wind and solar energy overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity
  • Renewables are cheaper than coal. And the replacement wasn't limited to gas and coal. There are articles which explained that there wasn't a massive increase in e.g. coal usage.

    The CNN article article also briefly puts a high figure for coal on energy, which could lead to confusion.

  • Verstappen will stop competing in simracing late at nights before Grands Prix, says Marko
  • Sky mentioned it over and over during the race. Easier to pretend it's only this instead of listening to the complaints Max has been making for multiple races.

    There's usually multiple causes of why something happens. But it's often pretended it's a singular thing. So the sleeping is pointed to, and then the other causes can be ignored.