I live in Finland, I’d be alright.

So the first thing I’d do is have a deep sigh of relief, probably.

Could demonstrate energy extraction from **spacetime itself

Please, don’t tell the capitalists.

I wonder if there’s like even a single gen-Z or younger who does NOT hear the words “land of the free” as being the most sarcastic hypocritical bullshit this world ever saw.

Monolingual people should be reminded that machine translation is still for rather basic conversation.

Until they manage to autogenerate even correct English subs on YouTube on English speaking videos, theres really not much trust I will have in it.

So yeah, cool function, definitely helpful, but machine translation isn’t dependable if you need to accurate with your language.

I have a few problems with this episode, but also it’s one of my favourites, because it’s trying to actually process the problems tech like that would have, languages is sometimes incredibly contextual.

For one AI is shit with idioms.

For things like the UN, you just must have an actual person — who’s proficient at a native-level — translating.

I jant one.

Nice

So is lead.

Using historical data on U.S. childhood blood-lead levels, leaded-gas use, and population statistics, they determined the likely lifelong burden of lead exposure carried by every American alive in 2015.

https://today.duke.edu/2024/12/20th-century-lead-exposure-damaged-american-mental-health

She looks pretty young, but still.

Also, just schooling, lol. US education sucks donkey dick

What’s the benefit to the nation?

Why do you even jokingly use a framework in which you’re assuming the current US government does anything “for the nation” instead of themselves?

And also, they’re just gonna ward off attacks with, uhm… gilded smoothie machines and massaging chairs.

As always, the ancient Romans had that.

A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.

Delusion

It’s not even that much work, to be honest.

I wouldn’t run 6 fireplaces at once, maybe two or three at most, and aside from chopping and carrying the wood inside, there’s not that much work in it. Just set a few pieces nicely with a piece of paper (think jenga style more than a cartoon bonfire), se it alight. Let it breathe for a while, get a good flame, then fill 'er up once it’s going nicely. I mean, depending on how hot you want the room. I’d never actually shove them full, about halfway at most maybe. Then let it burn. Then fill it up a second and maybe third time in the winter, then just let it cool while stoking the coals.

It really doesn’t feel like work.

And now I’m nostalgic.

But yeah temperature would be the least of your worries as king imo. Perhaps not the least, but a small one anyway.

People don’t even need AC on the latitude I live in.

It’s basically two winters and August.

Literally for most of the year I wear the same amount of outdoor clothing, which is a lot.

Dc++ as well

Fireplaces create a wonderful soft warmth. Unless you live in some huge castle or it’s completely blowing through your house, warming the house with fireplaces is great. Even when there are some small drafts here and there in the house. Just wear warm socks as the floors are usually quite cool despite the room being toasty from the heat.

Then you tend the fire for some time, long enough for the fire to properly warm all the stone around it. (Even in wooden houses, the central chimney would be rather thick at the bottom where the fireplaces are, so the stones store heat during the night.)

You stoke the coals and then when it’s just red coals and no more burning, you can shut down the chimney, so the rest of the heat stays in.

It slowly dissipates through the night. (But you won’t get carbon monoxide poisoning, which is why it’s important to have the chimney open while there’s actual fire.) It might get a bit cool around the morning hours, but sleeping in the cool is actually pretty decent.

Waking up in the cold is a bitch though.

We had uhm… two chimneys and six fireplaces in the house I (mostly) grew up in. Was built in the 30’s.

You could’ve probably purchased bottom surgery, sort of.

But the quality would’ve been, eh, less satisfactory, I would presume, and you’d have died of infection in like two weeks.

My point here being you’d surely have been able to persuade some quack to take sharp implements to you with enough gold. Royalty did crazy shit back then.

But yah I’m on your side on this. Being in power in an age we romanticise might seem. Until you remember that if you fall down and scratch your knee, you could die of that with bad luck.

Healthcare systems and governments might be shit nowadays but the level of medical technology is so vastly superior that it’s the obvious choice.

Congrats on what I gather was probably a lot of work, of all sorts. Enjoy.

I’ve been fantasising about an AA grade movie, depicting early homo sapiens, but with culture. Just with very different culture than we’re used to.

Two very short sentences that I’m sure anyone can feed to AI, but they won’t have my ideas on what it’s like.

thank you, honestly. Most support I’ve gotten. Lol. My family sucks.