Kobo only. I'll convert long articles to epub and throw them on the Kobo before I'll read them on the phone. Usually, I send them to the desktop, though, b/c it's easier.
Long form reading on a phone sucks; I don't know how people can do it. Oh, great! 7 words per line. That's super comfortable.
The main character in the movie Croupier has a really great philosophy: "Hang on tightly, let go lightly." It took me longer to wrap my head around, but ultimately I realized it's a rephrasing of a core stoicism concept, and I love especially memorable quotes like this.
You have ultimately no control over events. A loved one could be struck by a fatal aneurysm tomorrow and you could't prevent it. All you can do is cherish what you have, always knowing that you could lose it at any moment.
It's easy to read Epictitus and hear, "don't care about your wife, because she is already dead,” and I think Epictitus really was kind of a dick. Aurelius was either a better or not compassionate author, though, and phrased it around cultivating an awareness that we are powerless against much of the universe, so hang on tightly to what you have, while you have it, but let go lightly when it is time, and don't carry unnecessary grief and things you can't control.
Stoicism seems, to me, to focus much on answering your specific question.
This content really enhances Lemmy. I, too, want to know the answer to the wing question. It's been long enough to grow wings, surely?
Perhaps "just entering" was an overstatement.
Wikipedia has the Gen-Z range from 1997-2012, so they're 13-28. This year, about 68% are eligible to vote; something over 50% were eligible to vote in the last presidential election, and one statistic I saw claimed they made up only about 8% of the total vote. They are, however, the biggest generation in history, ever. Given that the birth rates in the US stopped climbing and started falling in 2007, it's conceivable that they may be the biggest generation ever, forever.
In any case, statistically, young people vote at far lower rates than older; 18-29 (GenZ, at the moment) vote around 50%. At around 30 it's 60%, and by 65 it's over 70%.
So, given that some 65% of Gen Z are eligible to vote, and statistically about half of them will at this age bracket, that's only about 35% of Gen Z voting. That number will grow over three next decade and become the dominant number, but right now it's fairly small... hence "just entering voting age."
You're right, my wording wasn't accurate; the meaning was.
Ancillarily, births in the US peaked at 4.3M births in 2007 and have been declining since; they haven't hit 4M again since, and are down to 3.6M in 2025, below 1994 (3.9M) levels.
I'm afraid to vote for who I want to, like I'm afraid to not pay my taxes, or afraid to dive 60mph in a residential neighborhood. Does make it a dictatorship? I think the paramilitary abducting people off the streets and deporting them without due process is more of a bellwether for dictatorship than the fact that our system of voting - FPTP - means that you have to vote strategically if you don't want the worst outcome.
My numbers were mixed in the previous post; I was mixing total global and total annual use. I'm sorry about that; the numbers looked off but I didn't catch the time scale difference.
AI companies are projected to use 1kTWh in 2025. Transportation is projected to use 1.2TWh, industry, 1.1TWh. Bitcoin, everyone's favorite whipping-boy, is estimated to use only 173TWh globally, a mere 17% of AI. Residential is only 800TWh, 4.5x Bitcoin, but 80% of AI. Commercial is less, at 600TWh.
These all come from different sources: homeinst.org and Deloitte are the main ones, but the Bitcoin stat comes from Cambridge and the EIA (eia.gov), and the AI industry number comes from an MIT and backed by a different Deloitte report.
The industrial sector is the largest energy user, but AI is a close third just below transportation.
I was surprised that cryptocurrency energy use was so relatively small, given the hysteria. Bitcoin alone is 173TWh, far smaller than all of the sectors, and a fraction of AI; but even adding all of the other cryptocurrencies, the estimated consumption rises only to 215TWh. That pushes it past the smallest user, the agriculture sector sitting at 200TWh, but still well below everything else.
AI is the third largest energy consumer, annually, globally.
Yet Democrats for some mythical reason refuse to change their stance. (corruption)
This strategy worked pretty well for Republicans.
Things are fucked up. I see progress; I fear it's too slow, and we'll be in a dictatorship before we can repair our democracy.
Sam Altman (OpenAI) is a Millennial. So is Zuckerberg. LLMs are one of the big energy sinks right now, reaching 1,000 terawatt-hours by 2026 and the current rate of use is doubling every year. For comparison, total global commercial (excluding industrial and transportation, so, office buildings - lights, AC, computers) energy use is 50,000 TWh.
It's still being ignored. Boomers are out of the work force (if not politics), and Gen X is just starting to retire. Between Millenials and Gen Z, they hold 32% of the voting power in the US, the same as Boomers. And Gen Z is only just entering voting age, at 8%.
Half the voting population is under 50 and global temperatures keep increasing. There's every indication sticking your head in the sand is a cross-generational behavior.
Love a leader who listens to his constituents.
I didn't know, so I looked it up. Apparently, the interpretation is debated:
In the 1960s, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) used it to call for what they saw as a "decolonized" state encompassing the entirety of Mandatory Palestine. By 1969, after several revisions, the PLO used the phrase to call for one-state solution, that would mean "one democratic secular state that would supersede the ethno-religious state of Israel".
Many pro-Palestinian activists consider it "a call for peace and equality" after decades of military rule over Palestinians, while for many Jews it is seen as a call for the destruction of Israel. Hamas used the phrase in its 2017 charter. Usage of the phrase by such Palestinian militant groups has led critics to say that it advocates for the dismantling of Israel, and the removal or extermination of its Jewish population.
It's pretty clear that once a symbol has been successfully co-opted, and that original meanings have not been vigorously defended, the best option is to cede the use and find a different slogan. That term, originally secular and peaceful, has been co-opted, and even if Pro-Palestine, non-antisemitic groups would like it to adhere to the original meaning, the cause is lost and they can only harm their cause by continuing to use it.
The Swastika may be the best example of this. You can only carefully use it, despite the origins having nothing to do with Nazis, and it being an important symbol to many religions around the world. The Nazis fucked up the symbol for everyone and railing against that and insisting on using it only causes trouble.
I agree with you: it seems that, despite the benign origins of the phrase, it's been successfully co-opted by extremists and is now only divisive.
TIL
Maybe there was no one on the bridge then. Maybe Uhura is always the last off the bridge, except for one shift every 3 years.
But, that's not true, because she's on the occasional away team in TOS. I just don't recall many scenes where she's not at her post. Now I'll have to go back and find an episode where she's with the away team, and see if they show anyone else at her console. I know she's with the away team in "City on the Edge of Forever." I don't recall that they ever show the bridge after they beam down, though.
I had to. We should have Prague Fridays, or something.
So, the (c) on the scan is 2012, but I took the photo on BW film in late December, 1990. It's one of my favorites - probably the favorite - of my own pictures. Although, it's not the one I get the most print requests for from friends & family. It's funny how your own memories influence your artistic impressions.
Maybe that's the risk. That we design it to be benevolent, but it destroys us through sheer stupidity.
It's one way to get monkey paw wishes. "AI, solve climate change!" "Ok! Eliminating all humans now!"