guidedlight 52 minutes ago

The population of the Faroe Islands is just 56,210, how can they possibly afford this massive network of tunnels.

The website suggests the tunnel will cost 260m euros, how can that possibly be true?

  • Taniwha 19 minutes ago

    Like Greenland,the Faroe Islands are a self-governing, autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. I'm sure this is highway funding from the mainland.

zeafoamrun 41 minutes ago

I never once thought of the Faroe Islands and now I want to visit!

elcritch 1 hour ago

The underground roundabout is cool, but that art work sits somewhere between "meh" and slightly disturbing.

rendaw 5 hours ago

Notably, nothing to do with jellyfish.

  • fwipsy 4 hours ago

    I think certain titles do well because they become a sort of unintentional clickbait. I absolutely expected this to be about marine biology. The original title, "World's First Undersea Roundabout," is much clearer.

    </crotchety_old_man>

    • Razengan 2 hours ago

      This is actually where LLMs save us from scummy human clickbait and shit, I can just ask ChatGPT etc to summarize an article and go on with my life while the AI suffers :')

      • unkeen 2 hours ago

        Whilst the world suffers because more and more let's say "not entirely climate-neutral" data centres are being built beause you were to lazy to read an article you mean.

        • vixen99 1 hour ago

          Nothing to stop you making assumptions if you feel you have to.

        • paulluuk 1 hour ago

          It depends on so many factors. Reading a long article on your laptop is likely less efficient than letting an LLM summarize it for you and then only reading the summary, while reading the article on your phone would be even more efficient. There are a lot of very contradictory estimations of just how much power, CO2e and water a single prompt consumes, and everyone (myself included) seems to just pick what fits their narrative best.

        • Razengan 48 minutes ago

          You think "dAtA cEnTeRs" exist only because of AI?

          And f off with your assumption of laziness: I have better shit to do than wasting time on low effort clickbait. If something genuinely interests me, I'll read it and enjoy reading it. If there's something with a weird title like this one and comments saying it's nothing about that, I'll only want to know wtf it is and just ask AI, because I don't care any more than that.

          Just the other day, I fell into a rabbit hole of Warhammer 40K lore.

          Most of the articles were on Fandom.

          That place is so frickin crammed with ADs and intrusive crap like banners covering the content. Goddamn.

          Fans voluntarily wrote those articles back when it was still called Wikia before its enshitification.

          Those people did it for free. Why should Fandom make money for their work? Hosting costs? Do they share it with the fans if Fandom earns more than the hosting costs?

          Should we not be able to read the content without wading through ads for questionable shit?

          I just ended up asking ChatGPT "wtf are C'tan" and went on to make better use of my life, like watching anime and playing video games.