They will remain there until content creators they regularly watch and enjoy start moving. Mamdani is not that. No one is going to be creating a twitch account just to watch this, nor would they do it for some much smaller platform they’ve never heard of. Mamdani is not the one that will get people to move to new platforms, at least, not before he gets them more interested in the first place. Young people like him specifically because he reaches out to them on a personal level on platforms they actually use.

If you’re trying to reach people, you need to go where they are.

That’s not really how energy works. If you want to be that pedantic then all energy comes from gravity, because gravity is required for stars to fuse hydrogen.

Geothermal energy is not nuclear power, tidal energy isn’t either.

It does give some perspective. Is this data center so important that we need to emit as much pollution as a country with a population of 3 million people?

Ah, so I just shouldn’t vote. That’ll fix this.

So, we shouldn’t vote is what you’re saying?

The problem with people saying they are useful, is that it is nearly impossible to tell if that is actually true. If someone is mentally unhealthy there are many ways to make them feel better, but not all of those will actually help the underlying issue, they could even make it worse. A lot of people seem to equate happiness and mental health, when it is very possible to be happy and mentally ill at the same time.

This is especially worrisome with AI because it is literally designed to say what it “thinks” it wants you to hear. It has no real training in any of the disciplines a psychologist or therapist needs to be effective. You can’t just apply a cut and paste answer to a patient, you need to understand their personality, their history, and a multitude of other things to be a really effective therapist. The answer to this issue is increasing access to real mental health treatment, not giving snake oil to millions of people.

If they can hold your healthcare over you, you will do a lot more to make sure you don’t get fired, giving them more power over you. I guess they all assume that is more valuable than what they currently pay for health insurance.

Why don’t we just invent an entropy reversing machine?

There is legal obligation to honor the shelf tag if it says a product should be lower than what it rang up for. Otherwise it’s essentially a bait and switch, and can usually get a store in trouble if a customer complains to the right people.

Uhhh, have you looked at pc prices recently?

Voting will be harder mostly for people who vote left. So even if some Republican voters are disenfranchised it will still be a positive swing for the GOP

That’s a very hard question to answer because each state runs elections differently. In my state we just get our ballot by mail and you send that in with your signature. If you don’t have an address there are polling places available, but it’s been so long I’m not certain how they check ID.

Even if electricity costs doubled, it would still only cost me 20 bucks a month to run my EV.

And I don’t think we have missiles in our arsenal that are bad enough that they would miss a target by 60m. Maybe I’m wrong about that though.

Yes. I do mean to tell you all those things.

Because I’ve never uploaded my face or a picture or my ID before? They don’t just magically pull that from the ether.

That is still very different than giving them access to my facial data or government id

I also wish I could just tell my ISP " I don’t have kids and have never once had anyone younger than 18 even connect to my wifi" and then they could just mark it to bypass these age checks.