Yeah people take the name literally and it doesn’t turn out well. I find using it to replace noddies in a heavy noodles casserole actually works, cause it’s baked and soaks in the flavor for a long time and you can make them extra saucy to make up for it too. There’s good recipes for it, but as a literal substitute for spaghetti noodles in sauce plopped on top spaghetti? That’s not a good recipe
Caral is so old it’s considered a mother city. It’s the oldest known city in the western hemisphere. Caral-Supe is a big deal and I feel like that’s very glossed over here
Power usage is actually going to be one of the big things that stands in the way of AI advances because AI requires obscene amounts of power. I’ve heard numbers like every query on an AI is equally to gallons and gallons of CO2 just being poured into the atmosphere. It’s extremely inefficient. If you’ve seen claims about EVs messing up the power grid understand it’s actually AI doing that and they’re trying to put the burden on consumers as always, same as all other green initiatives, it’s not the companies that are polluting that’s the problem but individuals, which is obviously not true
I’ve tried to severely limit my intake since the election and just taken in enough info to have a foundation for context, I don’t need to see 400 alliterations of some doom and gloom headline, but yes, even in this fairly limited scope I’m WELL aware of the tariffs. It’s absolutely willful to be this tuned out