plus it can lift off all by itself. so if it wants to go on a multi-day journey, it doesn’t have to ask a passer-by to lift it up and throw it into the air to get it going.

that’s what a bot would say 🧐️

for the uninitiated

i want this to be false.

it would be animal abuse

you know, we had a way of transporting horses way back in time; it was called “riding”. basically the horses have legs and they can walk … (/s)

:o yeah indeed

because people seem to think that you need to have big areas to generate meaningful amounts of energy. this proves that’s not the case.

yeah it’s really really fragile. they show it in the video, one of the panels broke because a cat stepped on it. obviously not very suited for real-world deployment.

however i do wonder why they use polycrystalline silicon and not just amorphous silicon? I mean 20% efficiency instead of 8% makes a difference but i did some rough maths and it could still work with amorphous silicon if you use the area on the drone better. But amorphous silicon has the advantage of making a very thin and flexible layer that doesn’t break easily. It’s essentially more like a flexible piece of cloth instead of a solid object. Maybe worth a consideration.

the thing is that the amount of power on that little patch of area is actually a lot; we just continue to underestimate it because it doesn’t feel like much. i mean, we stand under direct sunlight all day long and never feel like a train hits us. however, the amount of energy in the sunlight is quite a lot, we’re just very good at ignoring it.

What’s crazy to me is that the zebra seems to display no emotion at all while the crocodile literally rips its leg off.

I don’t really do drugs either, well maybe the occasional coffee 2x a week and weed and shrooms once every month/year but i don’t like having my senses blurred in any way. I also don’t live in the US today so that’s significant.

i would prefer SiO2 personally, also known as silicate. It has the most straightforward and boring mineral composition but a nice sheen and it clearly shows the other person values efficiency as much as i do.

They designate you as a “loyal dog of the company”. They symbolize a leash

yeah having the bread be mold-resistant is obviously kinda important. i wonder why it doesn’t spoil immediately when it’s laying around when it’s moist. idk i’m only guessing here but might it have to do with the baking process adding a kind of “coating” layer of dust around the bread? Like, we smoke meat to make it durable for a year, might be the baking doing something similar to the bread?

No, on the contrary,

how so?

it might be, but it still fits into the context. especially considering how peasants unintentionally might have been healthier simply due to their poverty, which might seem paradoxical.

a friend of mine brought me some self-made bread yesterday, and it was indeed moist, and i instantly loved it. i wish there’s more bread like that one. idk why industrial bread tastes differently.

might be that they intentionally dessicate it for hygienic reasons? i.e. i imagine a higher water content might make it spoil faster.

The tone of the ads this year felt almost like lampshading. Like if we acknowledge the problem, we’re wise to what the audience is feeling, but we’re not going to do a damn thing to address it.

like, i heavily disagree with you there. i tend to think today that the only thing to actually improve the world is to spread information and with it awareness about the situation.

action doesn’t even matter. once the information is obvious enough, the action will carry through with itself.

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the PNC Bank ads where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them

oida wos

has anybody footage of these videos? i’d be very curious