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Cake day: July 9th, 2026

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  • Agriculture may use AI to inform how they do things, and eventually, machines could then take that knowledge and run the farm for you.

    Given how straight tractors drive, the way you can programme the topend to self plant/harvest a field. The driving itself isn’t AI, but there’s a ton of image recognition software popping up that can limit the amount of pesticides used. As they’re able to recognise the exact areas in need of them.

    Then we have drones able to capture soil efficiency and there’s probably a ton of other cases. AI is definitely altering farming and in theory could also reduce the needed amount of manpower - As more and more specialised machinery, can be used more or less autonomously. There’s legitimately farms in the Netherlands marked as airports, so they’re allowed to fly drones of a certain size. And all the imagery processing is also depending on a kind of AI



  • Considering our current energy consumption, we need to capture about an hour of the Sun’s energy being intercepted by Earth.

    There’s 8760 hours in a year, so if we can intercept one 8760th part (~0.0114%) of the energy thrown our way. We can power our current demand levels, sure it would require some massive batteries

    But it’s not impossible to think the tech being able to develop into energy mining from the surface of the ocean. Which covers 70% of the entire surface and only experiences shade through clouds. Assuming solar could capture 10% of the energy concentrated at their location, we’d basically have energy covered for decades if we plastered 1% of our surface with it. Or 1.43% of the surface of our oceans.

    That would allow us to consume 8.7 times more energy than today.

    For reference, the silicon cells we use today capture in the ballpark of 15-22% of the sunlight they receive. So getting to an average of 10% is possible.




  • You’re ending up with a larger group of pupils “mastering” basic calculations through counting, when you remove the calculator as a tool for learning. Using the strategy of “counting all”, is one of the clearest signs a 1st grade pupil will be behind their peers in 4th grade.

    Broken calculator (just search for it), is one way to include calculators in a didactic way. But using calculators in general, improves a kids ability to estimate results - Which is an ability that helps anyone out tremendously, as it’s giving you a clear idea if something went completely wrong in a calculation


  • This is kind of like the “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” argument by your 8th grade math teacher in 2003

    Which is grand, given we’ve had researchers agreeing effectively incorporating calculators into math education improves everyone’s ability to do math without calculators - Since the 90s

    There’s pretty good arguments to include calculators from a really young age, to improve the understanding of numbers






  • a big part is the perception of what you’re used to, I rarely eat meat nowadays and when I do it tends to be game.

    My burger patties have gotten to a point where I prefer them to any meat alternative, I’m not saying they’re the same. Outside of serving the same purpose in a burger, but it’s pretty wild I scoff at minced red deer meat now - It just doesn’t carry the same umfph


  • Hating a minority is a theme showing up in politics, every time a society had a downturn.

    Jews were scapegoats, they were generally seen as greedy and thrifty. So when the economy went to shit, the workers blamed an ethnic group associated with being successful business people.

    The hate for Muslims went up a lot in the aftermath of the 08 crisis. Although the reasons for problems tends to be greed among the elites, they also tend to control the narrative. And will throw a minority under the bus to save themselves