i was thinking of this specifically https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

it has bits of gambling thing, it has a bit pf psychic con, it has a bit of perpetual yes-man

Trains (electric) or pipelines generally won’t, but pipelines aren’t everywhere you need them and trains can’t be used for anything else in this case. Effect is the same: local shortages

this is just high-powered wankery and this article states so:

“I’ve been doing this for 10 years, and the number of times we’ve had to refer an issue to law enforcement—I have more fingers on one hand,” says James Diggans, vice president of policy and biosecurity at Twist Bioscience, a DNA synthesis company. “The real number of people who are trying to create misuse may be very close to zero.”

“oh no, look at my precious AI, it is so capable, but also i won’t show it to anyone”

tbf chatbots do unintentionally recreate some of the things that gets people hooked to gambling but it’s not enough apparently

so the way i understand it, at first refinery strikes had little impact because other refineries still had slack capacity. but even before that slack capacity was gone, it had a further effect that now fuel was not prepared in places it used to be, so it had to be hauled longer distances. meaning logistics is strained and some fuel is used to haul it, and also now fuel production is more concentrated

at some point that slack capacity was gone and fuel went from not where you need it to not existing at all. there already were shortages in some regions. that and still large demand for fuel for farming caused decrease in exports. there was a refinery that only produces products for export, and its output wouldn’t be directly usable as fuel (they only distilled crude into fractions, still high in sulfur etc) but it was also hit so exports from it don’t matter because these are none

at any rate these developments are on borrowed time because it only takes maybe half year to repair more advanced parts of refinery, so under certain droning intensity they can just roll on. everyone involved knows that, and looks like situation will get worse for russians

oh no, how come my own actions have consequences

aluminum bars, they won’t be able to work it into things like with iron. even if they do, they can’t make more

…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren’t built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don’t like second hand, in part because there’s no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it’s not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won’t exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions

this is an effect known for almost 60 years now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

that’s no news, that’s China’s final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning

landlord beige

one struggle https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests-a3617881.html

milei? bukele?

wouldn’t that add resistance to ground path (avoidably)

color-coded screws? wtf

Yea, but at this point multiple things are seriously wrong

Even worse. Orientation of pins like this is used in 240V circuit which means it has two antiphase live wires. This means that after shorting them, if one trips but not the other (if these two have independent breakers - idk if code requires otherwise) 120V is sent to device ground, and this one can be cut off by GFCI if used, but i hear it’s uncommon

If it was normal 120V circuit, breaker would cut off live and left neutral connected to device ground, which still can be some 20V depending on conditions

hot wire is in the socket, assuming it was wired correctly

this shorts live and neutral, ground pin is not even present (different shape) otoh if you need help wiring a plug, you probably shouldn’t

Radio transmission doesn’t require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don’t care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn’t require special equipment