Definitely a bullshit question. Yes, “Electricity” is not a service without context like you said. But if I said what services does your house have? You could say “electricity” if you’re connected to an electricity service

No argument there. If you’re off the grid you’re not getting electricity service to your house by a utility. Same if you buy your own milk at the store.

What’s wrong will tall buildings?

I thought they were lawyers?

Is the controversy because they’re having sex in the hospital?

I did this once too I was using half drops with a DI water squirter to rinse them into solution

We watched an educational movie from the 1950s by Frank Capra, which my 8th grade science teacher had liked as a kid. He admitted they were somewhat dated, but still basically accurate.

In it, the scientist explained that they still don’t understand how chloroplasts transform sunlight into energy. The cartoon chloroplast hid what she was doing and said something like, “The Russians don’t know either.”

I was pretty blown away by a scientist admitting they didn’t know something, at that age, but when I looked it up, I discovered that scientists had pretty much figured it out, but it’s very complicated.

Clip if you’re interested: https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun around 36:09

Or yt: https://youtu.be/VEfomqnif34?t=36m09s

Whoa, til

I was in college when I learned Columbus thought it was pear shaped, as opposed to the globe idea that was most popular (and true). He though the northern hemisphere was smaller than the southern which is why he expected to sail to India in a relatively short distance.

There have been some very long lived hoaxes on Wikipedia, but they’re basically the exception that proves the rule. Nothing is infallible.

This is just semantics. Companies are often called services because they operate and maintain the network of service to your house, whether it’s electric fields moving around, gas particles, laundry pick up and delivery, trash and recycling, milk, newspaper delivery, Internet service, cable subscription, whatever else. Perfectly reasonable to call home electricity a service operated by your utility.

I used to like kexp song of the day but they changed the format.

Now I like https://kutkutx.studio/category/song-of-the-day/feed

Also many good shows on WFMU, some music, some talk. https://wfmu.org/podcast

My favorites are:

• Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
• Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky
• Techtonic with Mark Hurst
• Bucci (warning this one is weird but in a good way

Other good ad free ones:

• Birdnote. https://feeds.simplecast.com/OB7SrYSf
• Derrière le son (French language) https://feeds.podcastics.com/podcastics/podcasts/rss/5423_17676b1841af819ae181d6abb1a2e320.rss
• Molly White’s Citation Needed (interesting but lower production value) https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed

Let me know if any of these have ads I’m pretty sure they all don’t.

It doesn’t seem likely that it will happen overnight, if at all, that’s why.

Some species don’t grow very well in agricultural settings – especially forest products.

If you harvest too much from public property, then you’re breaking the law.

Maybe people will figure out how to farm it, which would probably lower the price enough so that people stop poaching it.

Why overnight? I would just switch to radio then. If average people switch to Spotify then there’s nothing I can do about that. But I don’t have to listen to it.

Does Spotify have video podcasts? I thought it was audio only

They would lose a lot of listeners doing that. I’ve stopped listening to plenty of podcasts that moved to Spotify – and I already subscribe to Spotify. Just out of principle. I will never listen to a podcast on Spotify.

I’m not that smart and Lemmy is pretty easy. The problem is it’s federated and I did have to hop servers once and most people really don’t want to bother with that added complexity.

But give it time. Mastodon was small for years and never grew quickly, but because it’s federated, it is not going away.

It’s true they really don’t cross the Atlantic all that well but they’re great fresh

The problem using AI like you would try to use a search engine. When people write books or make videos or art, you as a consumer can evaluate them critically – what is their point of view? What are their biases? Can they be trusted?

Gen AI is a tool that always answers with confidence, and the makers and/or hosters of the tool have a responsibility to keep people from using it to do harm. 404 media has written all kinds of articles about how people have used it in harmful ways – making abusive images of people, or impersonating stalking victims, or filtering out resumes that don’t match the pattern of a college-educated white boy without explicitly saying it, and all kinds of stuff like that. As a society we have to protect the most vulnerable and hold these companies accountable for what they enable people to do with their products.

If you self-host an open tool and have control over it, you assume that responsibility.