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br3don Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

I, too, am nervous of banning things, but we need to take a holistic evidence-based view. As part of this, we should be looking at the hidden subsidies that support UPF manufacturing and enable such products to be, in many cases, wildly cheaper than healthier alternatives

br3don Of Psion and Symbian

Your experience sounds eerily similar to mine, especially the hacky workarounds to preempt smartphones (I peaked when getting online by Bluetoothing a Clio to a Sony Ericsson). Your comment about the robustness of the 3c reminded me about when mine fell out of a pocket when I was cycling and a car drove over it. It emerged unscathed.

br3don Green's Dictionary of Slang

You seem to have linked just the thumbnail here. Got the full size?

br3don 'All of Us' genetics chart stirs unease over controversial depiction of race

Adam Rutherford's book "How to Argue with a Racist" is all about this.

br3don Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys

Hmm, I'm now struggling to remember basic developmental psych, but there's definitely a phase at which linguistic children struggle with things having two names (it can't be both "dog" and "Rex") but I think you're right - this phenomenon is subtly different to class inclusion. But either way, dogs can do something with language comprehension that speaking children can't, which is the bit I find really interesting

br3don Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys

I think what's way more interesting is that dogs can master class inclusion: they can understand that this toy is "Mr Shakey" and this toy is "Elephant" but they can also understand that there is a superordinate category of "toys" that includes both Mr Shakey and Elephant, and when asked "Go and get me a toy" can choose either. This is mind-blowing, as children normally have to reach 7 or 8 before they have a solid grasp of class inclusion [0]

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br3don Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model

In seriousness, this doesn't sound very different from some of the replies I got when I gave Google's Gemini a quick test yesterday. You should have seen the ticking-off it gave me for asking whether Joe Biden or Abraham Lincoln would win in a fight - the responses were exactly like this

br3don Goody-2, the world's most responsible AI model

br3don Astronomical Data Used for Litigation (FAQ)

Perhaps even more crudely, something like "You claimed you crashed your car because the sun was in your eyes, but it was morning and you were heading west...."

br3don Are electric cars too expensive to tempt motorists away from petrol vehicles?

OP meant "can't afford them" in the sense of "couldn't afford the full price of". There are lots of people here in the UK on medium incomes driving around in £80,000 cars using this finance

br3don Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

Sorry if this is obvious, but have you tried the options in Settings to avoid the OS killing certain apps? On my Pixel it's Settings > Apps > App Battery Usage > (choose app) > Unrestricted