Climate change "I'll provide the tinder you provide the spark!"

I was gearing up to smugly quote the HN guidelines to you but I find myself surprised to see that there is no clear messaging against supporting acts of violence.

Allow me to violate the guidelines and note how this is in stark contrast to Reddit. For better or worse.

> the cause wasn't climate change, like all the media worldwide boasted.

That was not the typical claim of news outlets.

The actual headlines were more like "How climate change affected the LA fires".

Media outlets linking small regional problems to big global issues is to be expected because that drives engagement.

There is no need for retractions/corrections because what those articles typically said was something like "climate change can facilitate extended droughts making such fires more likely", not that climate change was the cause for the fire.

You could argue that articles like that are trying to mislead the reader, and you would not be wrong. The main purpose of a lot of modern reporting is not to inform, but to bait for clicks/ads.

edit: You can see the exact same issue in this article: It kinda baits the reader into thinking that ChatGPT is monitoring chats and snitching on you to the police preemptively, but doesn't actually say that.

Forests burn more easily when they are dry. Climate change in sun-bathed regions is increasing this dryness, which in turn raises the risk, speed, and spread of wildfires.

The initial fire is intentional but as stated in the article it spreads silently and exploded because of extreme weather condition.

Climate change can create factors that make wildfires much larger or more dangerous.

I'm dubious of your claim that climate change was cited as a cause in any serious publication. Can you provide any sources?

Every fire has an ignition, and climate change is not an ignition like a lit cigarette or a lightning strike. It merely creates conditions.

if you have a server that's overloaded, then a request comes in that requires fractionally more memory use than the average request, do you blame the single request for crashing your servers or do you acknowledge that the load on the server is probably contributing to the issue?

you will get a million other reasons why you are wrong, but you will never get "you're right". people here literally cannot have a conversation about themselves being on the receiving end of a scam, they are much too high-brow for that to happen.

The article states that OpenAI only discloses user content with a search warrant. How did that lead you to believe that it's not subject to the fourth amendment?

I don't have a personal relationship with AI, and strongly suggest that people stay away from AI for personal matters.

Third-party doctrine pretty much excludes anything in the cloud from the 4th amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

Hasn't happened yet. Why would it change now?