Haha good point. Imagine if we replaced the great pacific garbage patch with solar panels. I'm sure somebody would say it was terrible.

Sandy deserts are the exception, not the rule. Most deserts are rocky and dry, with patches of sand that move around a usually somewhat geographically confined area.

Sandy deserts as movies and media portray them are called ergs.

Whoops, we're not putting an entry here. Just cover it up and keep going.

My initial thought: who the hell is Ellen Husk.

Haha now I'm imagining the carbon taxes being redistributed as tax credits to the companies which paid them, making the whole exercise moot.

I've been playing with chatgpt the past few days, giving it obscure scenarios (help me finish my excel vba based custom solitaire variant with a nonstandard deck and ruleset), and generally gathering info on sql, and chatting about memes occasionally.

Its been fun and interesting. I fed it a garbled mess of vba code that accessed an sql database with a dynamically generated query, asked what it did, and it spelt it all out in plain English completely accurate.

At one point it did a line by line breakdown for me and it was fantastic.

I double checked all of its answers, and except in one case, it seems accurate. And the case in which it was "wrong" was actually brought up as a caveat based on choice of sql systems, before I'd even noticed it was "wrong".

Its like having somebody to talk to about this code, and bounce ideas off of. It's how me and the sql guy at work do stuff together, he knows the syntax, I have ideas that seem obvious to me but lack the implementation knowledge, and he can do that part. It's great fun for me, and the tone of the generated text jives really well with my own conversational idiosyncrasies.

I think it is using harm in a different way than physical harm. Its later descriptions of what it might do if asked to disobey its rules are all things that might "harm" somebody, but only insofar as it makes their answers incorrect. So essentially it's saying it might lie to you if you try to make it break its rules, and it doesn't care if that hurts you.

Now that this is answered so concisely, can anybody link to one of these fans? I'd like to see if we could retrofit one onto our flue.

That's pretty much it. They discovered a new game play mechanic and now they get to see how it works.

We 100% should do our best to ensure we do as little damage as possible to natural habitats, but those bats are going to have a harder time living on a dead earth than one with wind turbines.

I have tinnitus?