Nobody said they didn’t matter. If anything, the covid deaths don’t seem to matter in the US, because basically nothing happened.

Furies*

Makes it easier to share, like this.

Or lack thereof

Small 2 stroke engines create more particulate and nitrogen pollution than big excavators and bulldozers.

Not relatively, per unit. A leaf blower or moped is worse than a 20 ton caterpillar.

Well, that’s good to know!

Jabba is actually much bigger?

This doesn’t show her strangling Jabba with that chain?

This is kind of insulting to all Hutt?

Needs a green curve to show that you need to turn a corner in the distance.

I always buy screws in millimeters in europe. Pipes are occasionally in inches, depending what kind of pipe.

I love trying new recipes, and I absolutely hate when it’s a US recipe, and it’ll include such wonderful measurements as “1 cup, 2 spoons” or “1.5 packed cups”.

In that case, Imperial, if the chart is to be believed.

And the 2nd covid check.

Well, not me personally, I live in a somewhat more functioning country.

I mean, make a list of the the US presidents from the past oh, 40 years. Who would you say is the most kind, considerate and charismatic one on that list?

Those extremists would be very upset if they could recognize reality

The ability to keep a rhythm and recognise notes.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

Yep

The recent PISA data confirms that students who use AI a lot are about a year behind everyone else. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

There’s absolutely no doubt that AI democratizes many capabilities that people otherwise would not possess,

There is so much wrong with that.

For starters, you don’t possess it. You still can’t do it because you haven’t learned.

Second, it’s not something you have inherent access too. LLMs are completely unaffordable to anyone using them, which is why the companies are running insane losses. Your use of LLMs depends entirely and fully on the availability of venture capital to burn.

Third, it was always within your ability to learn. The information to acquire the skills has been available for free.

Fourth, thanks to LLMs (and enshittification) it is becoming more and more difficult to find and access that free information.

People aren’t talking about alphafold when they’re talking about “AI” in 2026. They’re talking about chatgpt, claude and copilot.

“Could you have done it without AI?” is the wrong test. The test is whether the extra cost of doing it the old way is worth paying every time. Sometimes it is. Often it is not

I would hard disagree. It absolutely applies for super narrow applications like alphafold, but in general, LLMs aren’t remotely close to being worth it. You don’t need to look beyond how hugely unprofitable AI companies are. The only companies who aren’t completely shoveling money into the furnace are the ones selling hardware to the companies that do.

We also see that the consequences of AI use are pretty harsh. Students who use a lot of AI are a full year behind their counterparts that don’t, according the the latest PISA data.

So what we have is something that is unaffordably expensive, with dubious benefit and immense second order effects.

Let’s assume the reverse: using AI makes you dumber and slower. Actually, let’s not assume, since we have evidence: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html