Exclusive: Documents show shift in transport policy influenced by unfounded fears about loss of freedom of movement in ‘15-minute cities’
People will rip off the headsets if the ads are too intrusive and annoying. Which is why they’ll either be dead subtle, or they’ll offer you paid ways to avoid them.
I don’t think there’ll be mass adoption of this either way, mainly because it’s an expensive gadget coming at a time when folks on median incomes are feeling the pinch.
It’s incredible. I went to a consultation forum regarding intruding 20mph speed limits and all these conspiracy nuts just came out of the crowd like some zombie apocalypse.
It’s conspiracies all the way down.
Predictably, it’s the 15-minute-city conspiracy crap.
The pure ChatGPT output would probably be garbage. The dataset will be full of all manner of sources (together with their inherent biases) together with spin, untruths and outright parody and it’s not apparent that there is any kind of curation or quality assurance on the dataset (please correct me if I’m wrong).
I don’t think it’s a good tool for extracting factual information from. It does seem to be good at synthesising prose and helping with writing ideas.
I am quite interested in things like this where the output from a “knowledge engine” is paired with something like ChatGPT - but it would be for eg writing a science paper rather than news.
Exactly. The data harvest has had years in the making.
“Doctor, there's nothin' wrong with me Doctor, doctor, can't you see? Doctor, I ain't gonna die Just write me an alibi” - Lemmy
Yes; my advice was going to be to get hold of one decent cooking pot and one decent chef’s knife and learn to cook.
Prepping my own food and being able to bulk cook meals for a few days to a few weeks ahead was a big advantage. Also helped me to get to know people and make friends.
You need a decent pot. And a knife you can maintain and sharpen. And to learn to cook.
“And he brought me into a vast farmland of our own Midwest And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them, it is the Holocaust" And I sprang from my slumber, drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!"”
Disgustipated - Tool
I thought Domino as depicted in Deadpool 2 was pretty cool. Just lucky enough.
Will you be able to get a seat at Dorsia’s?
I mean that sounds like a curse. Endless screaming. Where others may see a cute bunny munching on some grass, or a bee buzzing around a flower, all you will hear are shrieks of pain and abject terror.
It’s got that onomatopoeic quality; I think “yeet” stays.
Yup. One of the teachers (Director Clavel) masquerades as a pupil and asks your character for help understanding what the word means.
I didn’t know.
I had to look it up.
Remember hearing it the first time. There’s a recording here.
I’ve only come across this word once before; Pokémon Scarlet/Violet of all places.
Yes and no; for reasons that are beyond me the door has been left somewhat open on that one:
“Vitamin-E acetate (VEA) is found in counterfeit cartridges and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of EVALI patients. Other reports implicated the presence of aromatic/volatile hydrocarbons and oils consisting of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT oil), including terpenes and mineral oil in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) containing counterfeit vaping products. These compounds are involved in oxidative stress and inflammatory responses in the lung. Here, we provide the perspectives on the recent case reports on EVALI, etiology, and discuss pulmonary toxicity as well as the mechanisms underlying EVALI susceptibility and lung pathophysiology.”
But the cutting agent certainly seems to have been pretty bad.
Wikipedia has this article on vaping-associated lung injury.
Enshittification intensifies.
Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming
Abstract
As our planet warms, a critical research question is when and where temperatures will exceed the limits of what the human body can tolerate. Past modeling efforts have investigated the 35°C wet-bulb threshold, proposed as a theoretical upper limit to survivability taking into account physiological and behavioral adaptation. Here, we conduct an extreme value theory analysis of weather station observations and climate model projections to investigate the emergence of an empirically supported heat compensability limit. We show that the hottest parts of the world already experience these heat extremes on a limited basis and that under moderate continued warming parts of every continent, except Antarctica, will see a rapid increase in their extent and frequency. To conclude, we discuss the consequences of the emergence of this noncompensable heat and the need for incorporating different critical thermal limits into heat adaptation planning.
The Daytona is not my cup of tea but the story is cool. Are you still associated with the industry?
Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019
Zhao J, Xu L, Sun J, et al Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019 BMJ Oncology 2023;2:e000049. doi: 10.1136/bmjonc-2023-000049
Abstract
Objective This study aimed to explore the global burden of early-onset cancer based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 study for 29 cancers worldwid.
Methods and analysis Incidence, deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and risk factors for 29 early-onset cancer groups were obtained from GBD.
Results Global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1% and the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7% between 1990 and 2019. Early-onset breast, tracheal, bronchus and lung, stomach and colorectal cancers showed the highest mortality and DALYs in 2019. Globally, the incidence rates of early-onset nasopharyngeal and prostate cancer showed the fastest increasing trend, whereas early-onset liver cancer showed the sharpest decrease. Early-onset colorectal cancer
Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis host a fun, refreshing reboot of the classic show. Brace yourself for charm, dodgy sets and ludicrously difficult challenges
“Except that’s not the case. For the first time, British audiences get to see entire episodes of Takeshi’s Castle as it was designed to be seen by Japanese viewers. Not sneered at by Chris Tarrant, or packaged with a culturally insensitive “oriental riff” influenced theme tune. No, these are new episodes, in full, with graphics, in-studio analysis and actual rules. We even get to know the contestants, which is refreshing after decades of seeing them as, essentially, a procession of screaming crash test dummies.”
[…]
“But you know what might have been even better? Giving us the show just as it is. The success of Netflix’s Old Enough last year should be proof that global audiences are now sophisticated enough to enjoy non-scripted Japanese shows without having their hands held via the medium of jokey commentary. As fun as Romesh and Tom are, perhaps a better idea would have been a straight, subtitled version of Takeshi’s Castle. Clearly, our relationship to the show is still evolving.
Omega Seamaster Professional
This watch has basically ruined my collection; I no longer wear anything else - I just alternate between bracelet, rubber strap and various fabric straps.
How does the “Group” function for communities work?
A key draw for downloading Bean was the “group” function - some subject areas have good representation on more than one instance and I wanted to easily collect them all in a single view.
At the moment it seems that the group function does allow this, but with one big caveat - posts are seen effectively grouped by community (so sorting by new doesn’t mean you see all of the new posts from all of the communities in the group, all in chronological order - you see some posts from the first community in the group, then some from the second, then some from the third and so on).
Pictures of Matchstick Men (Type O Negative)
This is a fan-made version of a release that never existed; it essentially combines the following:
- Type O Negative demo material - https://youtu.be/3dl4VPw0mgI
- Type O Negative release with Ozzy doing the lyrics - https://youtu.be/EIdjuaTNFMA
The end result is essentially a polished and cleaned up version of the original demo.
The original Status Quo track is here - https://youtu.be/huybJRdzyNk
A Common Disaster - Cowboy Junkies
Wikipedia link to album:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_It_Down_(Cowboy_Junkies_album)
Perezcope - “A Rolex Bull-gauss and other shenanigans”
With over 100,000 meticulously recorded watches in my state of the art databases, few people have processed more data than yours truly. Naturally, the more watches are documented, the easier it get…
I love reading Perezcope articles; the detail is fascinating to me.
Sharing here in case folks here haven’t come across him yet.
Odd Incident - Memmy or a glitch in the Fediverse
I just tried to post something to a community on Feddit.UK; I managed to submit it to the wrong one (an unrelated Lemmy.ml community) twice via the Memmy app. In the end I logged into the website, whereupon it was possible to post in the right place after a number of error messages.
I’m quite certain that the correct community was selected in Memmy. The community that I inadvertently spammed was alphabetically before, but not the one immediately above, which is interesting.
Has anyone else experienced this?
It’s possibly a glitch.
I’m open to the possibility that I’ve been an idiot, but twice?
Thoughts please.
Portrait - Landscape - Portrait
Firstly, thank you for incorporating landscape mode - when charging a phone it’s so much more comfortable to use.
At the moment landscape mode doesn’t increase the width to fill the screen, but more importantly when coming back to portrait the UI takes a while to adjust - sometimes not all of the “buttons” make it to the right place.
Images - Zooming
Zooming in on an image always acts as if you are pinching in the centre; makes it difficult to eg read four-panel comics where you need to zoom in the text and move around easily.