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Submission + - Young People's Mental Health Is Improving. Tech Alarmists Take Note. (reason.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: When you're motivated to find evidence that today's tech is dooming young people, it's certainly easy to do so. But when you consider the totality of the data, the picture becomes much, much more complicated. Suddenly we see evidence that tech may have both negative and positive effects on young people—sometimes simultaneously; that its effects may differ greatly based on individuals' pre-existing circumstances and psychological makeups; that there are at least other plausible explanations for negative developments that many attribute only to technology; and that even where tech usage could credibly be causing damage, the effect sizes are often much smaller than folks make it seem.

Submission + - US Researcher Proposes Detonating Massive Nuclear Bomb Under Ocean To Save Earth (ndtv.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: The study claimed that every year, 36 gigatons of carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere every year. Using a nuclear explosion yield of 81 gigatons, scientists can sequester 30 years' worth of carbon dioxide emissions, the study claimed. The explosion would be well over a thousand times bigger than the 50-megaton 'Tsar Bomba' test, conducted in 1961 by the Soviet Union in 1961.

Comment I was affected (Score 2) 52

by fjo3 (#65812307) Attached to: Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento
I was working for a large grower, and (legally) growing with 6 lights myself in an ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) on my property. My boss got a letter in the mail while my coworkers and I were trimming flower, and everybody disappeared within the hour, except for a guy who lived there. I had shut down my grow a few months before for two reasons: the law was going to change that summer, and I caught the city going through my trash cans one morning. Never seen anything like that before, or since, and that was enough to scare me off. So regardless of legality/morality, it was certainly an effective strategy.

Comment Re: Legacy Media BEFORE the war. "Ukraine are Nazi (Score 2) 139

by fjo3 (#65812283) Attached to: Ukraine Is Jamming Russia's 'Superweapon' With a Song

"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.

Aye. The actual socialists who fell for the Nazi lies about being socialist were assassinated in the Night of Long Knives in 1934. It was a useful ploy early on for the Nazis to gain support, but by 1934 they no longer needed it.

Submission + - The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming (politico.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: If what Stardust was claiming on the Zoom with Pasztor was true, then a key threshold had already been crossed. Humanity had gained the power to turn down the sun, and barely anyone on the planet even knew. What’s more, that untested power was now effectively for sale. In a world of rising chaos, sci-fi-pilled billionaires and nationalist leaders, a private company offering the means to control the world’s temperature — with almost no international laws regarding the deployment of such technology — was a disturbing prospect, thought Pasztor.

Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.

Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.

The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.

Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.

When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.

Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.

“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”

Submission + - Elon Musk's Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire's Pee-Drinking Skills (mediaite.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: After the AI assistant praised Musk’s physique and claimed he ranked “among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” social media users quickly discovered that Grok was programmed to say positive things about Musk, no matter the topic.

But according to 404 Media, in a series of deleted X posts, Grok boasted that Musk had the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” that he was “the ultimate throat goat” whose “blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s,” and that he should have won a 2016 porn industry award instead of porn star Riley Reid.

Comment Re:So How Does It All Work? (Score 2) 259

by fjo3 (#65807631) Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
Rampant grade inflation, and the removal of standardized testing as a requirement on applications. What do they care if students are unqualified for university, as long as they get their federal money! If they flunk out, or never use their degree - that's their problem!

Comment Re:It's over. (Score 3, Informative) 259

by fjo3 (#65807623) Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
Keep in mind that only half (usually less) of the US population votes. So it's more like "more than one quarter of the adult population voted for the orange one." The fact that half the population doesn't vote is not great, but I try to keep that in mind when I think that Trump got elected twice. Then I remember who his opponents were: two very, very unlikeable politicians. So really, the Democratic establishment and Democratic primary voters elected Trump more than anyone else.

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