hot-air balloons before plastics were often made of silk (and rubber), since most other materials are either too heavy (at least for practical purposes) or too thermally sensitive, and that’s an expensive experiment to be undertaking if you haven’t the first clue how it works.

I have no idea how old “Chinese lanterns” (small hot air balloon carrying a candle) are, but I assume very old. Concept behind hot air balloon understood. and the most basic imagination would understand the scaling potential. That they also dominated silk supply would require a different explanation for why human basket sized balloons took so long to develop.

Willowdale, rn, at 474. 200 points higher than “official city reading”. Detroit has a 908 reading. I think that is 1/1000th smoke to air ratio.

Political lesson for the day:

Naziism is an establishment philosophy that is primarily/near exclusively devoted to anti-communism as a path to maximizing Oligarchist/Corporatist supremacism. Ethnic supremacist hate is just a populist veil to provide oligarchist power maximization. Nazis won ww2. Reagan shifted the US to open devotion to voodoo nazi economic theory. Trickle down economic theory as a “pro labour” facade to naziism, because giving everything to oligarchs will incentivize them to buy a blowjob from you plebs.

The Nazi extremism of current GOP is far higher than 1930s Germany. It mixes Zionazi supremacist rule over Americans, and instead of targetting non-existant Marxism (labour supremacism) political force, they demonize any restraint to their fascism.

Democracy permits the power to seize tratorous zionazi supremacist supporters assets (media, military, energy). Not under the pretext of marxism, but on the pretext of treasonous theft of prosperity and safety, in addition to national sustainability.

TGFM (Thank god for Mississipi) is what allowed Alabama to be 49th on most quality of life metrics for so long.

Clitoris is that girl who get’s raped on a pinball machine in Silence of the Lambs.

There is a lot of rich US colonies who export and import a lot, as the only viable path. KSA can go to red sea, but to deliver to asia, They would avoid “Houti controlled straight” and go suez then around Africa. Very long trip.

Vibe coder fanboi went live on youtube when fable came out. Spent $60 in tokens to make a GTA 0.1 clone.

This seemed more alarming news: AAI is tracking IPs/proxies/vpn, timezones on requests.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/articles/anthropic-caught-secretly-spying-users-204222066.html

While it is explained as “only to accuse China of evil”, its tracking everyone, and empowers US government crackdowns on anyone either AAI or US doesn’t like.

I don’t really get how the fig leaf of “due to data-centers” is even supposed to work.

It let’s them increase their extortionary price hike by more, and blame it on a different extortionist.

QxB KxR, Qf7

For last 5 quarters, Nvidia has sold much more GPUs than get installed. On 3 year depreciation schedule, 8xh200s are $1.50/hour per card just sitting there. B200s are $2/hr. (Nvidia changes network cable each generation). Very expensive to do what you are suggesting is happening, but only other explanation is smuggling into China, or secret sovereign/military purchases.

It’s also possible that they are lent to tier 2/3 datacenters in revenue share deals.

The fundamental lie behind the AI fraud is that compute is scarce relative to demand. OpenAI, Grok, Meta did overinvest in hoarding GPUs far ahead of their usage. Last 2 are now competing on hourly GPU market, and AI tokens/revenue has fallen 20% since spring peak, which is a bubble pop compared to 10x/year perpetual growth expectations behind the hoarding. While hourly gpu rental market is stable rather than declining, it is stable at very low prices, mostly for accounting reasons of not actually losing money intentionally. Deployed GPUs are abundant proven by accounting floor based pricing. A b300 can deliver 8x the tokens of an h200 but only rents for 2x more.

Hysteria 2.0 … I like a 2nd song from them now.

Cant pretend a gender cannot be paid to lie. Above having other motives to.

Bullshit. Allegations with political timing should always be dismissed. Anything said with a motive to lie, and to be paid to lie, is a problem. Dems want to lose again, and just get paid to lose.

Im no saxophologist, but doesnt the sound come out of the buthole?

, Carney’s MOU with Alberta calls for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), purportedly to ameliorate environmental damage. But this is still a very costly, unproven technology. In Saskatchewan it has only achieved 60 per cent efficiency

Ccs is a scam. Cheaper energy than coal can be achieved 10 months of the year, in canada, with coal plant as backup. Much lower emissions than 60% capture, and bigger negative of ccs is that it costs 10$ per watt. Ballpark of nuclear plants. Solar + batteries is $1 per watt.

The senior government official pointed to busy naval activity in the region around Greenland

This is an extreme lie. Pathetic europe deserves to be destroyed for tolerating it. There is no russian or chinese need to passage close to greenland, unless to deliver goods to us or canada.

Only reason usneeds greenland is to threaten europe.

Reality has a pro russia bias

Music exceptional… rap not so much. Is piano, music, original or sampled?