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Penile cancer: 6,500 amputations in Brazil in a decade
  • Yeah, but you still have a 99.999....% chance of not getting your dick amputated on any given day as a Brazilian.

    It's still a minuscule chance of getting your dick amputated due to penile cancer. Penile cancer itself is extremely rare. Less than 0.01% chance.

  • RFK Jr.’s bump in polling fails to materialize after VP pick
  • She "made it" by marrying a billionaire co-founder of Google. Then cheated on him with Elon Musk. Her husband then divorced her because of it and...

    Shanahan and Brin had signed a prenuptial agreement. During the divorce proceedings, Shanahan's attorneys argued that she had signed the prenuptial agreement under duress, and in mediation sought more than $1 billion of Brin's $95 billion fortune. The divorce was finalized in 2023 in a confidential arbitration. Forbes reported that Shanahan likely received around 2.6 million Alphabet Class B shares from Brin, worth $390 million in March 2024, and possibly received an additional, equal amount of Class C shares.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan

    Yeah, she really represents the American Dream.

  • Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can?
  • Meh. Your value as a human isn't tied to your accomplishments (be it having a family or getting a high paying job) or productivity.

    This whole thing of "striving as a honed skill" sounds like hustling culture and capitalist brainwashing. In fact, I would say it takes more skill to actually be content with your life and not feel the constant need to strive to be someone better or do something more.

    You seem to think that unless you've done something, you're worthless.

    It seems that according to your view, a homeless person without a family is completely worthless.

  • things dogs should not have eaten
  • But she didn't say, "I hope she beats the fuck out of him". You're changing the words to make your point. If she had said that, it would also sound pretty vile.

    Imagine she actually said the same thing in your hypothetical situation, "I hope he killed her."

    That would sound much more nefarious because men actually do kill women to a disproportionate degree. So when she says I hope she kills him, everyone pretty much assumes it's hyperbole.

    Your point is still taken, and it'd be better if neither sex promoted violence in any way.

  • Crunchyroll CEO Says A.I. Generated Subtitles Are "Definitely an Area We're Focused On"
  • As long as they're working on it and not implementing it anytime soon, because the tech is definitely not there yet.

    I honestly feel bad for deaf people who have to put up with the state of subtitles in all media. There should be some universal standards that all studios should be forced to adhere to.

    It's amazing that there isn't. Where are the disability rights?

    And of course, translated material just adds another layer of complexity. So imagine, an AI has to first capture the proper words being said, then translate it in context and understand obscure references the author might have made, etc... Yeah right... When AI can do that, then we'll really have artificial "intelligence".

  • Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
  • one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.

    And it’s not just energy. Generative AI systems need enormous amounts of fresh water to cool their processors and generate electricity. In West Des Moines, Iowa, a giant data-centre cluster serves OpenAI’s most advanced model, GPT-4. A lawsuit by local residents revealed that in July 2022, the month before OpenAI finished training the model, the cluster used about 6% of the district’s water. As Google and Microsoft prepared their Bard and Bing large language models, both had major spikes in water use — increases of 20% and 34%, respectively, in one year, according to the companies’ environmental reports. One preprint suggests that, globally, the demand for water for AI could be half that of the United Kingdom by 2027.

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    www.cnn.com One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection | CNN

    One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.

    One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection | CNN

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