one thing I’ve had success with is just buying some dried great northern beans and throwing them around. They grow like crazy and you can eat the bean pods as green beans.

I mean the top 100 and we’d be good to go honestly.

the us been trying this for decades and despite killing millions it hasnt fixed the climate

Honestly you could just go down to random underdeveloped areas and throw native berry bush seeds and stuff like that around. Then you know where it is if you need it. I’ve got quite a few areas where I’ve just found native edibles and know I can go to find them in a pinch.

See this is a normal response to this. It kinda weirds me out how common it is for people to be all “Heh heh, tell me Chinese AI… China bad, right? It won’t say it! Authoritarianism!”

Like maybe straighten out your priorities a bit? The country we live in killed like 300 little girls in Minab a few months ago. That seems a bit more important than the AI not letting you have your gotcha moment.

It doesn’t discuss anything Chinese politics related, and sometimes just wider politics too. It’s just a blanket filter on like any chinese politicians name or anything else the company decided it didn’t want to risk it talking about. It’s not about positive or negative the filter isn’t that advanced. It’ll just clam up the instant one of its filter words is hit.

I cracked up at I don’t understand the question lmao. I also read that and was thinking, “huh?”

Exactly. I try to tell this to my family and they all act like I’m crazy. Well my house is stocked atleast even if they don’t stock theirs. I’ve also been experimenting with growing my own food. Have potatoes, corn, blueberries, peaches, blackberries, mullberries, onions, and butternut squashes. Summer squashes and beans going in soon. Also have a few books on edible wild plants and stuff for foraging. Fishing gear too.

I honestly think this is the only logical stance someone in the US can take. Like wtf is China going to do to you? Is the CPC going to come across the pacific and try to arrest you? No. But ICE might come knocking if google figures out your not on board with Trumps new President for Life position.

It is not just possible. They do use domestic Huawei chips. The Ascend 950 specifically. Which is a big part of why they can operate so much more cheaply. No need to buy those insanely expensive NVIDIA chips.

I disagree. While most things are best measured per capita dividing it this way is kind of silly. China uses MUCH less energy per person than the US. As does every country. So it’s not really a useful comparison. It’s better to look at the percentage of total energy usage by country that is renewables. Dividing it by person ignores the fact that the average USian just uses an absolute metric fuckton of energy day to day. Like many times the global average. For China specifically, the average US person uses 2.5-3x more energy than the average Chinese person.

LOL right? Like does the other person not realize that unless your running a local LLM or using something like duck.ai ALL of the AIs are training on your convos. It reminds me of all the “Chinese Surveillance” fearmongering around TikTok as if Meta and Instagram don’t do the exact same thing.

Yes. GPS is a free to use and seperate thing run by the US Military. Any phone can use it that has the hardware for it. I’ve never used lineage os tho so can’t speak for that specifically. But it has nothing to do with google. Google does have its own location services but those use wifi and other means to make it more accurate. They’re entirely optional.

Hey! Comrade, leave those sharks alone!

you leave those sharks alone

And little fun fact the US might have spent BILLIONS building missile defences in Israel but they haven’t built a single missile defence system along the gulf coast or anywhere else in the continental united states. The only thing they have is ICBM defence they do not have the missile defences the gulf states, US bases, or Israel have. If Cuba launched drones or missiles then the only way they can defend is to sit destroyers in the sea and try to use those to intercept them. Or use fighters. Which are not very good at doing that.

If you get Organic Maps you can use GPS navigation. It works entirely offline so you can turn your phones cellular off and just use GPS which is passive and doesn’t send out signals. Best practice would be Graphene OS as the base and not having google services installed at all too.

HA! Not even. Florida has nothing worth hitting really. You know what I’d hit if I was Cuba? The LOOP. Offshore oil tanker loading and unloading facility in Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana. The LOOP handles roughly 10-13% of US crude oil imports and is crucial for exports. You think gas prices are bad now? Just wait.

There is a difference between what I was talking about and what these studies are talking about. They are studying the actual effects on users. Because electric toothbrushes are able to clean teeth more quickly and with less effort people generally have better outcomes with them overall. What I was pointing out is that this is not the same thing as a “better brush”. Clean teeth are clean teeth. Doesn’t matter how you get there, and a manual brush is perfectly capable of cleaning your teeth. It’s just that your supposed to actually brush for 2 whole minutes and use the proper technique which most people don’t do. An electric brush compensates for this which is what the improvements seen in those studies is showing. This is what I meant by the common misconception. People see that generally electric toothbrushes cause better outcomes and assume the overall ability to clean must be better, but if used properly a manual toothbrush gets the job done too.

It’s actually a common misconception that vibrating toothbrushes clean your mouth better than manual ones. Just takes a bit of extra effort and time to do it manually. Brushing twice daily for two minutes, covering all tooth surfaces with gentle, short strokes or a proper scrub/polish motion, and reaching along the gumline, is what matters most. Most people fall short on time and technique so that’s why dentists will reccomend the electric ones. They do make it easier to get the job done, but there’s nothing inherently worse about a manual brush.