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  • tell me the last time a regular person had platinum-iridium ingot

    What, you don't?

    But yeah, I agree, units are made up. I mean, why is the boiling point at 100C and not any other number? Someone made it up.
    I'm just saying the argument "0F is really cold" is just as true as -10F is really cold or +10F is really cold.

  • Is there a difference between 19, 20, and 21 Celsius?

    First off, nobody claimed that Celsius is based on human perception so humans not being able to differentiate between these is simply irrelevant to the argument.
    Second, the bounds of 0 and 100 are based on the freezing temp of water which are specific, non-arbitrary temperatures.

    I'm not arguing one system over the other, I just think the "human scale" argument has been made up just to have an argument.

  • “human scale” is dismissed as even existing by the Celsius users

    Celsius user here.
    I find "I'm more used to it, therefore it makes more intuitive sense to me" is a perfectly understandable argument.

    The problem with the human scale argument is that it makes it sound completely arbitrary.
    To a human there is no objective difference between -1F, 0F or +1F. They are all about the same degree of "cold".

  • an ultra-light laptop, or a raspberry pi consume WAY less power than a full on gaming rig, and the same can be said between a data server that is used for e-commerce and a server running AI

    And if external costs are priced into the cost of electricity then that will be reflected in the cost of operating these devices.
    Also there are far more data servers than servers running AI which increases the total effect they have.

  • Tbf, talking about the environmental costs of generative AI is just framing.
    The issue is the environmental cost of electricity, no matter what it is used for.
    If we want this to be considered in consumption then it needs to be part of the electricity price. And of course all other power sources, like combustion motors, need to also price in external costs.

  • Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can’t be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense.

    Ripley was originally not even written as a woman.
    There is not a single scene in the original Alien where her being a woman is in any way relevant.

  • “we’re OK with what you’re doing with messaging right now, but only just barely”. If Apple does something the EU doesn’t like, new legislation can be written.

    Because of the "only just barely" part, new legislation might not even be necessary.
    If Apple only narrowly avoided falling under the core platform definition, just a change in market share might be enough for that to change under the existing rules.

  • attempting to cancel them?

    Just how many people did firing her prevent her from reaching?

    Disney doesn't want to 'cancel' her, they just don't want to be associated with her.
    They don't care whom she reaches as long as people don't think they endorse her views.