Yeah but Faker's Disease was called that because it was first described by John William Faker.
Must be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.
Readit NewsPerformative environmentalism, standard operating procedure for every big company. Shift the blame onto the consumer, make them feel guilty because they set their screen timeout to to more than 5 minutes. Gamification is a great tool for making people feel pressured and guilty but with plausible deniability for the company.
Meanwhile, build database centers at incredible scale to run AI and force it into those same consumers in every way possible, but never tell them how much power that wastes.
Coin mining and AI database centers consumer huge amounts of power. I’m not really exited about either. Both enterprises seems like scams to centralize wealth and power to a few actors.
You get unreliable weather patterns . monsoon in dry places, and monsoon dependent countries falling dry..
And thus unreliable investment, a house or factory might be flood prone in a dessert valley, a dam with power stations might fail to provide.
So you have uninsureable riches, that might aswell no longer be there.
And as a consequence, massive migration from inhabitable regions. Hard to imagine the implication when there are billions of people affected
David Suzuki had some real talk yesterday:
https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuk...
We are now in the "hunker down" phase of global warming.
The five stages of grief, often referred to as the Kübler-Ross model, are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
> Some large carnivorous plants are alive out there, but none is big enough to make a meal out of you.
Clearly these researchers have never been to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Mushrooms technically are not plants
If plants moved faster we would be absolutely terrified of them.
The Day of the Triffids
signalToNose commented on How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam phys.org/news/2025-06-unc... · Posted by u/samizdis
Like the ancient Romans I couldn't care less about the authenticity of any wine so long as it tasted reasonably well. Anyone making a fuss over provence outside of whether or not it's safe to drink, tastes good and a few basic criteria is just a snob.
"Oh dear boy, how can you drink that Burgundy, it's not even from Chateaux le Snob".
Ancient people certainly cared about quality. (1)
But as the article concludes, it seem they were not to concerned in this case
(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir
signalToNose commented on The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/rmason
> It's only when you start refining and enriching natural things that they become really risky.
It’s a big factor, but not only. You don’t need to refine or enrich anything to have radon poisoning, for example.
Xkcd radiatorn chart:
signalToNose commented on Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle? academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/toss1
Or an axis.
And my ax
But plenty of people will find complaints when they try to drive their car beyond its design specs and more or less everything starts failing at once.