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Cake day: April 4th, 2025

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  • I’ve been saying this the whole time. I have friends who voted for Trump and when all of this started they just kept talking about how the tariffs were a great negotiation tactic and even if they would destroy the economy if allowed to go into effect, that would never happen. They seemed shocked when I said I believed Trump is actually stupid and thinks they’ll magically fix everything on their own. I think this is the most fascinating part of the psychology of people who vote for Trump- everyone is a Trump whisperer, an expert in deciphering exactly what he means literally and what is a joke or boast such that somehow Trump agrees 100% with each and every person who votes for him even when he says and does things that suggest otherwise. And none of them seem to realize that they all believe in a Trump with wildly different views than each other’s perception of Trump. It’s maddening.









  • I work in the chemical industry and the answer is black platics and coatings can be made way cheaper than light ones because they don’t have to be as pure and can be made from lower quality feedstocks and such. Light or clear plastics must be of a higher purity because impurities will usually show up as colored specks that look ugly. For an application like this, impurities aren’t a big deal and won’t really be hazardous, so it’s a win win since it’s cheaper for everyone. It would be a waste to make dark coatings from the same base as light coatings in an application like this because you’d need to remove colored impurities only to just add in a dark pigment anyway. If you don’t offer the lighter colored coatings or white coatings, you can manufacture your dark coatings cheaper by not having production lines with the extra purification and cleaning steps that would be required to offer those. That’s why they only sell dark materials.






  • DACC is such a scam I’m legitimately upset that engineers fall for it and work on these technologies trying to help. Chemically speaking most carbon sequestration schemes are essentially burning something but in reverse. Now this should automatically set off alarm bells in terms of thermodynamics because enthalpy is a state function and if you have a net release of energy burning something, there is no possible way to do that reaction in reverse without adding that energy back in. So you have to have renewable energy to make it work. But then, I ask, why not just use the renewable energy to replace a carbon source? It’s not big enough? Then it’s not big enough to offset that carbon source either.

    If you had a magical piece of technology that rapidly converted CO2 into long chain molecules using sunlight andv rain water that would be pretty cool. Oh wait? That tech already exists and it’s been in existence for millions of years? Yeah that’s right it’s a fucking tree. Carbon sequestration is a fucking scam to make you feel better about not decarbonizing






  • These have been a thing for a while but it wasn’t an LLM it was a video analyzer. I did exactly one interview like that 5 years ago and gave up halfway through the second video they wanted me to send in because the job sucked ass anyway in a shitty part of the country and I realized I was going to be miserable working there even if I got the job degrading myself like that. I ask terrified of getting laid off and having to enter the job market right now and deal with all these new ways companies are coming up with to degrade potential hires and waste their time





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