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erg0s4m··on Allow Carriers on Planes
Last time I flew internationally the stewardess gave us a loop shaped harness that hooked onto our seatbelt and went around the babies lap. Doesn't this provide a middle ground between needing to hold the baby with your arm and a car seat?
erg0s4m··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Right this is exactly what happened with the new sesame laws. The government declared sesame as an allergen and enacted heavy fines if it was undisclosed. This lead to manufacturers adding sesame because they couldn't guarantee they were sesame free.
erg0s4m··on Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)
Meanwhile the Jewish world has a project that shows Bible passages and if you click on them, it does connect you to a world of translations, commentary, references in other books. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.1?lang=bi&with=Commentary%.... Comparing this to the famous Xanadu demo mentioned in the article, makes you think that Xanadu could have worked. (Except for the micropayments thing).
erg0s4m··on Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
If unions are so great, just make them voluntary and give workers a choice. For some reason Union advocates always want them to be mandatory, because if workers are not forced to join them, most wont.
erg0s4m··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
If you read it consistently you soon realize that every article has a short form summary in the front and long form article in the back, and sometimes a mid size as well, in the same edition.
erg0s4m··on Is The Economist Always Wrong?
The economist is the only paper I read where articles on topics I know about are fair, balanced and grounded in science. The opposite of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
erg0s4m··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
Congrats you win?
erg0s4m··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
What about the death of the bibas children who were tortured to death by Hamas? There is plenty of bad on both sides.
erg0s4m··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
This dinosaur one is the only one that appears really 3d to me. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/267/743/48d...

Plus its as old as time.

erg0s4m··on The Causes of Long Covid
Religious Jews have a couple of 25 hour complete fasts per year.
erg0s4m··on They’re made out of weights
The article ends with this disclaimer "Weights helped me draft and proof this story.". So it is at least partially written by LLM.
erg0s4m··on Data has weight but only on SSDs
So it has negative weight in this case.
erg0s4m··on This Image Does Not Exist
We are all blade runners now