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tim333 commented on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse   thatjoescott.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/rolph
shrubby · 4 hours ago
This scary, yet almost nothing on the news.

We're living in a fake world and pretending everything is fine.

Adam Curtis made a movie HyperNormalisation and we're living it also today.

Adam Curtis:

“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union. What he said, which I thought was absolutely fascinating, was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisation” to describe that feeling.

tim333 · 22 minutes ago
>almost nothing on the news

Maybe not that exact variant but there have been thousand of hours of climate change stuff in the news, including worrying about changing ocean currents.

tim333 commented on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse   thatjoescott.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/rolph
SupremumLimit · 2 hours ago
The ignorance of this comment is breathtaking. How are the crops going to grow if the temperature drops by 15 degrees Celsius? What marine and terrestrial ecosystems can survive a sudden catastrophic change like that? What’s going to happen to the weather patterns after this planet-scale shift? How do you “adjust” to the collapse of your food supply and entire ecosystems?
tim333 · 29 minutes ago
Grow the crops somewhere else? The earth's climate has always changed - the sea was 100m lower 20k years ago and much of Europe covered by ice. But it doesn't change so much over one human lifetime.
tim333 commented on Italy Railways Sabotaged   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/vedantnair
thefounder · 11 hours ago
Why would someone do this?
tim333 · an hour ago
The New Yorker article had:

>A source in the German security establishment told me, “It’s a show of force, a way of taking off the mask and saying, ‘So, Germany, what are you going to do about it?’ ” (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/to-build-a-fir...)

tim333 commented on Italy Railways Sabotaged   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/vedantnair
dataviz1000 · 10 hours ago
After 6 weeks in Taiwan, one thing became very evident, mainland China can take the island in 3 days without firing a single shot. The only thing that can stop mainland China taking from taking Taiwan is a US president like Bill Clinton who had the courage to put two United States aircraft carrier strike forces between the mainland and the island to defend democracy which gave us TMSC. I don't see the current snowflake leadership doing that. While I was there, mainland China told the people of Taiwan to shut their mouths and nobody said a word about China after.

The reason mainland China hasn't taken Taiwan is because they don't have to.

I do not like the government of China, however, they are building infrastructure around the world especially in Africa, Asia, and South America. They are not destroying things like Russia does every single day. Their approach to diplomacy now is building.

For the same reason, China isn't commit terrorist attacks on other countries. However, Russia is committing terrorist attacks on other countries so it easy to believe that they are responsible for terrorist attacks.

tim333 · 8 hours ago
The sea still makes quite a barrier to invasion. The Russians had to abandon Kherson because there was a river in the way and have had to abandon most of the black sea because Ukraine sinks their boats with missiles and drones.
tim333 commented on Italy Railways Sabotaged   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/vedantnair
antonymoose · 9 hours ago
Now I wouldn’t call myself a student of European terrorism per-se, but haven’t virtually all of the countries listed had some form of domestic terror groups in the post WW2 era? Why am I not to believe this is domestic?
tim333 · 8 hours ago
Possible but Russia seems the most active at the moment. There was some discussion of their activities the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866089

I wonder if this stuff actually help them much?

tim333 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
minifridge · 19 hours ago
How AI will cure neurodegenerative diseases and cancer?
tim333 · 8 hours ago
tim333 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
mitthrowaway2 · 14 hours ago
2% is a lot! There's only fifty things you can invest 2% of GDP in before you occupy the entire economy. But the list of services people need, from food, water, shelter, heating, transportation, education, healthcare, communications, entertainment, mining, materials, construction, research, maintenance, legal services... there's a lot of things on that list. To allocate each one 1% or 2% of the economy may seem small, but pretty quickly you hit 100%.
tim333 · 9 hours ago
AI is a big deal though.
tim333 commented on British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years   bbc.com/news/articles/c20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
tzs · 12 hours ago
> Drivers in the UK must be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away, according to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).

Unless I've botched the math and/or what the internet tells me about the size of the characters on a UK number plate is wrong this seems to be a bit overboard.

The internet is telling me that the characters are 79mm tall and 50mm wide (except for '1' and 'I') with a 14mm stroke.

My eyes right now are about 250mm from my monitor. Something that is 79mm tall and 20m away would have the same angular size as something 250mm away that is 79mm / 20m x 250mm = 0.9875mm tall.

If I set the size to 75% in Chrome that is the size of the numbers on this page in the timestamps and the submission points and comment counts. It is about 1/2 the size of the numbers in the text box that I'm writing this comment in.

I've just taken a photo of that and will include a link to it to show how small that is [1]. In that I'm holding a ruler next to the left side of the text. The "180" up where it says "180 points" is what you have to be able to read to pass the test. (If you can't see the photo because Imgur blocks your country just grab a ruler, hold it vertically 25cm in front of you, and the apparent size of the space between the mm marks is the size character you need to read).

I have no idea what road signs and markings are like in the UK, but in the US in ~50 years of driving I don't think I've ever needed to read anything anywhere near that small.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/NGuPdfF

tim333 · 10 hours ago
Someone with 20:20 vision can read a UK number plate from about 60m so the 20m standard allows for some eye imperfections. You're allowed to use glasses.

I have some experience because I got a macular hole in one eye which had surgery. With the good eye I can do about 60m, with the problem one about 20.

tim333 commented on Epstein arranged a meeting between highest-level Russian spy and Peter Thiel   bsky.app/profile/robertsc... · Posted by u/doener
Schmerika · a day ago
> Posts criticizing Musk or Trump or their friends like Thiel are suppressed.

Same here too, for the record. At least for the past year. Not all, but very many.

People complain about it all the time, but any posts about it get deleted almost immediately by express mod decree.

I do understand that this latest 24 hours is a different level, but would not be surprised if censorship has dramatically escalated here recently also. We've no way to know.

tim333 · 12 hours ago
I'm not sure the mods really censor. Users can flag for whatever, often being politics rather than tech.
tim333 commented on British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years   bbc.com/news/articles/c20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
cucumber3732842 · 13 hours ago
>The shift from male to female is fascinating

Is that like a dog whistle for "perfectly in line with stereotypes"?

What I wanna see is how it maps vs wealth. Because I have a theory...

tim333 · 12 hours ago
I don't think it fits with stereotypes. I would have thought older ladies would be relatively safe.

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