Cheaper, cleaner, less labor intensive=higher bills to consumer. There's no trend at all, got it.

You're possibly a regulator, a dolt, or both. If you work for a power company, I'd argue both

I really don't want us to even switch to relying on electric cars so much, we need to focus on mass transit and walkable neighborhoods both for the environment and just for the general life satisfaction that comes from it.

For gas, coal, or fossil fuels you have to pay to extract, refine, and transport the fuels - then also have to build and run the infrastructure to burn it for energy.

Solar and wind you generate and "extract" in one go. The solar panels/plant is collecting and generating power at once. The wind turbine is collecting and generating power at once. There's no shipping or pipelining sunlight and wind.

The "cost" of mining/extraction is basically non-existent. You've gotta buy fuel to burn it. You don't have to buy sunlight or wind to generate power of fit.

That on top of it being cheaper and easier to roll out solar panels and wind farms than it is these other power plants, and the lower cost is clear.

Too bad flattr didn't win.

A single person could conceivably outproduce thousands of artists drawing/photoshoping images. And to verify whether something is true or not, you need people.

I'm not sure if anything can be done about it, but the sheer volume of content enabled by generative models is a little concerning.

Its the ease and speed of it that might be the difference.

But Donald Trump said he could bring coal back? Was he lying? /s

Many of us don’t even have cars so why should we care

Most people in Europe don’t need cars. At least where I live almost no one I know owns a car

My biggest issue are car fumes while walking to and from work

As Nvidia had fairly recently learned, blockades from running certain algorithms will be circumvented. Many applications also use GPGPU for acceleration of non-graphics applications (GPUs are pretty much highly parallel supercomputers on a chip), so cutting off GPGPU is not on the table either. Unless you wish to just completely screw over the open source community, and go the white list route.

Yeah, so people whining about not being able to work from home can just quit…

Regulate what exactly?

How? Also...the pope is a celebrity?

Look no further than the Monsanto-Bayer purchase. The moment the germans bought it tens of thousands of lawsuits came in.

This c02 neutral requirement just means people are going to get rich selling carbon credits, and ultimately all cars will still be available.

>I would push for fossil fuel bans until the day I die.

You'll have too. Cars last 20 years and even when new sales cease the existing fleet will require fuelling. Classic cars, many of which are over 40 years old now, will continue requiring fuel for another 40+ years.

I don't mind electric cars. They can be fun. But we're decades, plural, away from having enough infrastructure to support mass adoption here in the UK. It's very imminent they don't push back the switchover closer to the time.

That COULD be part of the interfaith dialogue. I mean who KNOWS WHAT WILL work in the end.

I'd much prefer to have them united under such circumstances rather than in the mouthfrothing hatred of atheists 🤔

The hardware is already out there though.

Also it would be a terrible idea to have an entire new emerging technology only in the hands of the wealthy. That's just asking for trouble.

It would be like saying regular hardware shouldn't be allowed to run photoshop or a spreadsheet or word processor because somebody might do something bad with it.

People are going to have to learn than images and audio and video can be faked, just like they have to learn that an email from a Nigerian price is also a fake.

There's no wishing this stuff away, the cat is already out of the bag.

Ok but hear me out - his face on Princess Leia's body xD

I'm picturing the Pope and Muhammad giving each other handjobs under their robe / cloak

Oh no I think I'm far too old for that :P

regulate this regulate that. How about you stop trying to have government regulate everything in our fucking lives. for fucks sake. fuck off.

My legacy! <3

If tik tok is bad what about other social media like Facebook for example ? In reels you can see a lot of „adult content” as well and nobody seems to care