Pons_Aelius @ Pons_Aelius @kbin.social

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MS has more than enough cash and resources to back two horses.

Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

This also gives them the luxury of trying a different approach.

Their arse.

Having two entrants is still better than one.

Apple spent 100 M per year on adds on twitter prior to the EM buyout.

There is no way in hell these grifters will do anything but talk big. The money will never come.

Yep. Not one mention of firefox in the article...

Then you forget one time and have a huge Friday night binge. Spend two days on the couch and are still shit on Monday.

Welcome to the three day hangover...

I won't quote them or link shitter but for those out of the loop, here is the Guardian article on the matter.

I assume that for many people the time and effort to try and appeal shit like this is way more than the original fine is worth.

That is why it keeps happening.

I found it really strange as well. The whole story had me thinking conformation bias from the beginning.

It always bothered me that he was so certain that the spherules his team found MUST have come from the meteor.

Exactly. Especially considering there are at least 5 papers dating back to the 1950s describing magnetic spherules found on the seafloor and being from anthropogenic sources.

Yeah, very strange, lots of buzz words but semantically null.

Why are you sour?

Or it could also be meditation.

No, I just assume that most outlets have a No Retractions policy.

I have some bad news for you...

In fact, between 20-25 per cent of those we know to have been executed for the crime of witchcraft were men. In what is now Ukraine, Russia and Finland, up to 80 per cent of those accused were men.

From your link:

By July 2019, most astronomers concluded that it was a natural object, but its exact characterization is contentious given the limited observation window. While an unconsolidated object (rubble pile) would require ʻOumuamua to be of a density similar to rocky asteroids

On 22 March 2023, astronomers proposed the observed acceleration was "due to the release of entrapped molecular hydrogen that formed through energetic processing of an H2O-rich icy body",[33] consistent with 'Oumuamua being an interstellar comet, "originating as a planetesimal relic broadly similar to solar system comets"

Avi Loeb has suggested that it could be a product of extraterrestrial technology,[35] but there is insufficient evidence to support any hypotheses, "despite all [its] strangeness".

While basically every Astrophysicist agrees it is from outside our solar system. He is basically the only Astrophysicist who believes it is an artefact of alien intelligence and design.

While I have not read his book it sounds like a case of confirmation basis on his part.

I agree industrial waste is not an elegant refutation of Aliens did it but it does fit nicely with Occam's razor:

The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct

Aliens did it: Assumptions

Intelligent alien life exists.

Interstellar Travel exists.

Out of billions of start systems, the aliens visited earth.

Yet they were dumb enough to crash on arrival.

Industrial Waste: Assumptions

Stuff we have been pumping into the atmosphere for centuries has made it to the ocean floor.

Sagan's Demon haunted world is great in showing that for many people, as science has advanced, Aliens have replaced The Gods as the catch all cause for shit I don't understand.

Anxiety really is one of the greatest issues of our times, isn’t it?

It always has been. I honestly think everyone (outside actual psychopaths) suffers from it to some degree at some point in their lives.

I, like you, used it to manage my own. I couldn't be social without drinking...a lot. So glad those days a long gone.

Because many people on social media are not here to experience a new perspective, they are here to lecture everyone else on how the world really works.

The reason for the bait replies are they want to be able to deliver the gotcha talking point they have heard somewhere else.

Why are people like this, mommy?

Often it is because the people involved have been shut down trying to lecture those around them on the same topics in real life but they still want to do it. They are not looking for conversation, they are looking for an audience to lecture at.

And why is daddy always drinking the unhappy juice?

Serious reply. Many people use alcohol to mask anxiety, especially men in societies that still hold on to the "Man must be stoic and strong at all times" horseshit.

Anxiety focused inward often manifests as depression.

Anxiety focused outward often manifests as aggression.