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Something I think is fun to calculate: How much energy (or rather power) in total is absorbed by Earth from all the neutrinos from the Sun? From what I remember, the number is something ridiculously small. Neutrino energy is few % of the Sun's output, but very little of it gets absorbed by Earth.

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Selling bananas or any fruit by item instead of by weight seems very strange to me.

Of course, it can be understood as well-meaning satire and parody that doesn't actually think all those anti-intellectual things, but the American public isn't exactly well-known for understanding satire and parody.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Frasier became completely uninteresting to me when I found out that Kelsey Grammer is a huge Trump supporter. When you think about it, it isn't that surprising: Frasier leans at times heavily onto anti-intellectual "lol academics are incompetent, we need REAL men to do stuff" narratives.

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It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rome became "Commodus' colony" and he gave himself 12 names so he could name the months after them. Senate was "Commodian Fortunate Senate". He put up a lot of statues of himself, depicting himself as Hercules. He ended up assassinated a couple years later and all his renamings were reversed.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fun Roman history: Near the end of his reign, with Commodus' narcissism and delusions fully unshackled, he started renaming everything after himself. He named the months, various institutions like the senate, even the city of Rome itself. Romans sure were weird, imagine someone doing that today.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He has become a megalomaniac, making it increasingly clear that Zelensky did the right thing by removing him.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not sure of the context, but: Moomins, especially the 1990 tv series, were a major part of childhood in Nordic countries and especially Finland. Wholesome stories, beautiful animation, amazing music etc. Lovely Moomin books. (And comics which are more rough in their humour.) And mugs, merch etc.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Recent example of LLM use: I have many text files. I wanted to replace word in them with another word. I could have gone through each file one by one, find+replace the word. That would be a tedious effort taking 30> minutes. Asked a local LLM for a simple Python script to do it. Done in <5 minutes.

Or it cites some random redditor from 5 years ago who had very strong opinions but zero actual evidence to back them up. Always check what it actually cites. But often even such redditors at least suggest solutions that I can search more information about, often leading to the actual right solution.

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If I ask LLM information about some topic and ask it to cite sources, I can immediately check if the source exists and if it says what the LLM thought it said. It often finds sources I wouldn't have thought to look up. But I would never trust it without checking, because it does often make them up.

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In general, LLMs are okay for anything where you can immediately check if they are right. For example: A piece of code works or it doesn't and you can check it very fast. But wrong advice on, say, taxes won't bite you until the tax man comes knocking. So LLMs: Good for code, avoid using for taxes.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

LLMs are actually good for: 1. An enhanced typo checker. Most document programs can tell you if a word is misspelled, but an LLM can understand that you used the wrong word. 2. Writing a bit of code that you can immediately check. 3. Giving suggestions for where to get started. Suggest sources etc.

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You are a deeply evil, disgusting person, working to prop up and help deeply evil disgusting people. People like you are the cancer that is destroying human civilization.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But of course media (often owned by said rich people) will try to create these massive scare scenarios of rich people all leaving because of a small wealth tax or something, while completely ignoring all the actual evidence and even the basic logic of such scenarios. It is disgusting.

Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lazy or at least accustomed to having things exactly as they want it. And one of the most "not as I want it" things is having to move your whole life to a completely new place. Presumably, they live where they live because they like living there, not because of small differences in taxes etc.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The thing about rich people is that they tend to also be lazy people. So consider their options: 1) Move your whole life to another state/country. or 2) Pay a small tax that makes zero difference in your actual quality of life anyway. Most will choose 2. That is why "exodus" doesn't happen.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Turkey likes money, simple as that.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

More and more will keep dying pointlessly as long as they keep falling for obvious lies and misinformation.

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A lot of people, more of them every day, struggle with reading comprehension. But it is increasingly clear that they also struggle with listening comprehension, and indeed any and all comprehension in general. They hear what they imagine you are saying, not what you actually say.

Absolutely nonsensical stuff, like defending the Cybertruck and being ignorant of the actual history of EV development. Eternal shame on repulsive, deluded Musk idiots like you. Also, you should learn how to write. Writing... like... this... makes you seem genuinely mentally challenged.

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Go on, explain where you think he has talent. In the Hyperloop scam? His rockets that explode and are years behind his promises? The Cybertruck fiasco?

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Where did you get this insane delusion? It is completely untrue. He is entirely talentless when it comes to anything resembling engineering, physics, science, mathematics. His one and only talent is in scamming and deluding people, and evidently that has worked very well on you.

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It is hard to imagine a greater sign that Russia is losing and will lose the war, badly. Musk is one of the lowest pieces of repugnant cancer on this Earth. His predictions include brilliant insights such as him saying that there would be near-zero Covid cases in 2020.

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He has zero relevant engineering skills, zero vision beyond "hurr durr Mars", he bought Tesla and then pretended to be its co-founder while his ideas actively made the cars worse, and so on. Stop giving him credit for the fake engineer personality he has built, he has zero technical skills.

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Aarros @aarros.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Musk is absolutely not any sort of "outstanding systems engineer" or anything like that. He is a conman and a scammer, and always has been. Stop believing in his lies. The only thing he has achieved is having great marketing skills and not facing consequences of his constant scams and lies.

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The evolution of complex multicellular life. Life showed up on Earth basically the moment it was possible (once Earth was cool enough). Complex multicellular life took billions of years.