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  1. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    January... EDIT: More specifically, January according to NASA Gistemp...
  2. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Well I just meant to say that the difference between the graphs is not as large as it may first seem. I wouldn't know which one is "better" in any sense. Considering that there are slight differences in how the data is averaged and all that (and the differences seem to fluctuate), it is likely...
  3. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    It does start 1880, but below 0.0. Whereas the Berkeley Earth graph is a tiny bit above 0 in 1880. Splitting hairs this is.
  4. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    1.54C "above the 1850-1900 average". The NASA figure is "w.r.t. 1951 - 1980". I don't know what the normalized difference would be. (Personally I'm looking more at the dynamic than the numbers themselves.)
  5. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Just a few more pixels...
  6. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    What's wrong with this picture? (Hint: everything)
  7. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    Not getting any better...
  8. Norbert

    Coronavirus

    Is this the de-classification that was supposed to reveal any evidence behind the DoE's "low-confidence" and the FBI's moderate-confidence assessments of the lab-leak theory? Sounds like there wasn't much behind all that excitement...
  9. Norbert

    Coronavirus

    I haven't read the whole article but maybe in democratic counties the effect of mask mandates was smaller also because more of them were wearing masks anyway.
  10. Norbert

    Climate Change / Global Warming Discussion

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/climate/arctic-sea-ice-melting.html
  11. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Yes.
  12. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    We probably all agree that NACS is a good thing and that this partnership is great news for electric cars in general. With Farley being thankful for the Tesla cooperation, I'm wouldn't interpret this as anything else than that.
  13. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    The CNN author did know that, but the article seems to mention that as a possible part of the explanation for why the posts had such an impact in general.
  14. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Right, Elon has only the nicest of things to say about other billionaires... /s
  15. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    I don't know. In response to a quote saying it would feed extremists if he repeated conspiracy theories, he wrote: "In fairness, I must concede that Joel has a good point and I will endeavor to be more thoughtful in the future. Comic book analogies are obviously imperfect, to say the least. Just...
  16. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    In the movies, CEOs/owners sometimes have a penthouse on the top floor (with optional helipad), especially those that have a private jet, but maybe that wouldn't count as being in the same category.
  17. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Sure, once you pay for a security team, you wouldn't want to expose yourself to the possibility of someone who knows about this security weakness to be waiting in the darkness of the middle of the night. Completely reasonable. I'm just wondering if the security team gets paid extra for having to...
  18. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    So I guess instead of dicussing the political importance of VR, I could just mention that googling VR showed articles about him by title, from several major MSM, no older than 1 week (or 2 in the case of NYT). Seems relatively well represented, as opposed to "Vivek who?".
  19. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Are you trying to troll us into a political discussion and to get the thread closed?
  20. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    That's what he says a little bit earlier. Repeatedly.
  21. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Also in the clip of that scene (I didn't see the whole movie), he doesn't literally say "I don't care", but "I want my father back, you sob". It's not a moment of sacrifice or defeating his own corruption, but a moment of revenge for a murder. Probably in the context of the movie there was no...
  22. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Personally I'm more worried that an engagement with Twitter and its politics will lead to a lack of attention/resource allocation for environmental questions, as opposed to the bottom line of Tesla (by pushing FSD or so). So Tesla Solar or Tesla battery tech, for examle. (Though Tesla Lithium...
  23. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Probably applies to US climate scientists as well. At least Gavin Schmidt, one of NASA's top climate scientists, posted on April 29th: "The comments on this reasonable, helpful and explanatory post by Zeke are something to behold. Almost 100% nonsense, using the stupidest of stupidest...
  24. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    By the way, what does it mean for a thread to have the red label "Wiki" at the beginning of its title?
  25. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Look for an "advertisement efficiency index" appearing in "the algorithm". Under some more innocent name. /s
  26. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    "Head of advertising" as CEO, perhaps not unrelated to an increased and more direct focus on advertisements, see also: "Rewards means subscriptions and advertising revenue share (coming soon), which is a function of how many people subscribe and the advertising views associated with the content."
  27. Norbert

    Coronavirus

    In all that mess, I found Angela Rasmussen to be the most credible (having the overall picture). But I'm not following the details of that discussion anymore, considering how much half-true agenda-driven info there is.
  28. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    It's on topic only at the very end. He thinks an Elon-Carlson partnership would be the greatest thing in media history and something that pushes for truth and the center. Yes, the middle, politically. He acknowledges that it could alienate people on the left, but thinks that people on the left...
  29. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Uhhmm...I feel like stating the obvious: Suppression and discrimination of minorities and women has existed since ancient times, long before Columbus reached the new world. It's a fact globally and historically in all hemispheres and continents. It's not an invention of cable news, the media...
  30. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Especially since CNN received that info directly from a law enforcement source. That would have been difficult even in the time from when CNN announced the article on Twitter, which was less than an hour before.
  31. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    The CNN article does contain this: "Neely also had a series of run-ins with New York police, a law enforcement source told CNN’s John Miller, including 42 arrests on charges including petty larceny, jumping subway turnstiles, theft, and three unprovoked assaults on women in the subway between...
  32. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Some have been looking for confirmation of the expectation that certain political actionism has a negative effect on Tesla sales (or on Twitter's success), but that is not the same as rooting for failure. Even hoping for such confirmation is not the same.
  33. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Also Elon stated he values negative feedback, so...
  34. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    And Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for misinformation.
  35. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    The study is from around 2020. Not that I have statistics to back that up, but I wouldn't blame republicans in general, just Tump(ism), Qanon, and the Qanon-leaning side of MAGA. Sometimes it seemed like a sport to propagate stuff with too little or no evidence (like climate denial and election...
  36. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Actual quote: "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally." And a little later on the same day (April 27, 2022) : "Attacks are coming thick and fast, primarily from the left, which is no surprise...
  37. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Not sure, but it looks a bit like the cartoonist has a new account and the old account is still suspended from old times. Which that poster didn't know.
  38. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    As I just added to my previous post, independent statehood is also how the DC Republican Party thinks: https://dcgop.com/projects/
  39. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    As my quote states, the Consitution intended in Article I, Section 8 "the creation of a federal district to be the seat of government". As @STS-134 stated as well, this can also be achieved by carving out that same small fraction (that includes the White House and Capitol Hill), and creating a...
  40. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    I'm glad to hear you would support Puerto Rico statehood. (Hawaii became a state in 1959.) However, why "never" to DC statehood? It has a larger population than 2 other states. The position that it requires a change in the Constitution (and 67 votes in the Senate instead of 60 or 51 with the...
  41. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    It's part of your link. I'm referring to the part where he says "dedicated to the proposition that we are all equal".
  42. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Where is the Community Note on Kevin McCarthy's post pointing out that the people in Washington DC and Puerto Rico still have no equal representation in Congress?
  43. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Maybe I shouldn't comment without reading the mentioned articles in depth, but it seems they have almost the same percentages: 94%, 95% for continue to identify as binary trans, and 2.5%, 2.5%, 2% for detransition back to binary cis. But it seems more complex because of binary/nonbinary and even...
  44. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Regarding Twitter, that would be Elon. Twitter is not without rules. At the legal level, there are laws such as for wire fraud and defamation. Not "misgivings", but asking for the death penalty doesn't sound very tolerant. (Although I wouldn't want that opinion banned in general.) Not...
  45. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Jack Dorsey avoided going deeper into the original question. Regarding the transcation, for Elon it seems a regret just insofar as he could have gotten it for less.
  46. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    With the effect that the freedom of speech will become as meaningless as the freedom to buy an AR-15.
  47. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    How Twitter is effectively a subsidiary of SpaceX: "woke is a lie" + "The goal is to make this platform maximum truth-seeking" + "Unless it is stopped, the woke mind virus will destroy civilization and humanity will never reached Mars" -> The goal is to make this platform maximum anti-woke, so...
  48. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    This. In so far as that little story actually happened (and it wasn't just a teenager reply to a right-wing father), might as well claim that happened as a result of anti-woke-ism turning racial issues into a divisive hotly debated topic. Otherwise it would be just an obvious part of history. Is...
  49. Norbert

    Elon & Twitter

    Trump calls it "playing golf" and takes the W.