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Some newer Lemmy users thru some third-party reader apps may need to click HD to get enough pixels to make the image readable before zooming.

I'm here via Boost, for example, and unless I were to set it to always pre-request HD images (and thereby consume far more bandwidth, unwanted) I have to manually click HD.

I mean... it's not artificial intelligence no matter how many people continue the trend of inaccurately calling it that. It's a large language model. It has the ability to write things that look disturbingly close, even sometimes indistinguishable, to actual human writing. There's no good reason to mistake that for actual intelligence or rationality.

I think you missed Maeve's sarcasm, which was supposed to be obvious from the up- and down-casing of the letters in her words. When someone writes in that way deliberately, they're making fun of people who would write the same sentence with a straight face.

Baraka -- I've seen it at least a dozen times, most of them in movie theaters.

A great many people, including even some of the most well-intentioned friends and family, and including many people who are in most ways intelligent, educated, and caring -- will still find it impossible to prevent themselves from changing their image of you. And their expectations and guesses about you will follow to some degree. You may find people forming unspoken predictions that you will not listen well, that you will interrupt, or that you will only talk about your own stuff at any length.

And it won't be everybody, thankfully; just many. There will also be some people you may grow closer to because they already understand and now they'll find it easier to interact with you directly about ADHD-related things.

Even just the small part of the disaster that falls under the heading of sea level rise would be just a little bad for trillions in current real estate valuation. And then there's what true risk valuation in river flood plains and wildfire risk zones would do. And then...

They're also very likely underestimating or only looking at a fairly short time window. Worse yet, climate change and its results are only effects of a still deeper cause: using a very temporary surplus of non-replaceable resources, we overshot the planet's ability to indefinitely support human life, culture, economy, technology, everything human -- by nearly an order of magnitude. As we continue to refuse to reduce unsustainable rates of non-renewable resource consumption, we will cross scarcity thresholds that are expected to result in about 90 percent (or more) population attrition; not in a short time but still within just a couple of generations. It's nearly impossible to imagine any economy beyond very local economies surviving the transition.

Edited to add: It's unfortunate that the vast majority of coverage of our modern predicament in widespread sources of news and commentary focuses only on the climate change part of the situation. Because that strongly implies to most people that there could be solutions which would avert or greatly mitigate the coming (and ongoing) disaster, if only we can reduce or even reverse human contribution to climate change quickly enough. But in fact that is a luxury we do not have, not even nearly. We are so far into overshoot that nothing we can do -- even if everyone were on board and like-minded -- can now prevent the attrition that lies ahead, coming at us through any combination of low birth rates, starvation, war, disease, weather events and 'disasters', and failure of infrastructure including health care.

For those who believe it's as simple as accomplishing a green energy transition, there's ample information online from reputable sources that explains how we don't actually have that outlet, as much as we certainly wish we did. The current population is essentially 90 percent made out of and enabled by cheap fossil fuels in ways that go far beyond just energy. Even waking up tomorrow with a perfect solution to fusion energy would not save us from the coming nitrogen shortage and a long list of other irreplaceable current materials and practices.

Jumpin' Jiminy! Thank you, I stand corrected. Take my vote.

“I will not seek to run again for Speaker of the House,” McCarthy wrote on X. “I may have lost a vote today, but I fought for what I believe in—and I believe in ~~America~~Kevin McCarthy. It has been an honor to serve myself.”

fixed that for him

I'd like to thank you for spelling shoe-in correctly.

edit: except I was wrong! see below.