There's so much more they could have done, it's crazy that lying to the public is what they decided on. The media of course didn't help either, saying things like "Trump trying to fast-track vaccines could end up being worse than covid".
I forget where I read it, but the reasoning I heard for it is that your body still thinks the zero calorie sweeteners are sugar, so it will store more calories from the food you're eating because your body is compensating for the lack of calories in the "sugar". I've also heard that the causation is reversed though, and that obese people are more likely to drink diet soda because it's a low effort way to try and lose weight. I don't know which is true though, so I just try to stick to water or fruit/vegetable juice if I want some more flavor.
Stuff like this is why the place I work for decided not to use Rust as a replacement for future C projects. The devs evaluating it loved the language, and said they were more productive with it than they were with C, but being forced to either use no external dependencies, or audit tons of crates published by random people, made it a non-starter.
A friend's husband called one of the suicide lines and he wasn't committed or visited by the police, so it's not a 100% chance. I don't know the details of what the husband talked about, but it may have been because it wasn't a recurring problem. He'd just had an especially awful time at work for a few weeks, and eventually had a breakdown and called a hotline.
He quit his job a couple of days later and has been fine since, so maybe the person on the phone can make a judgement call on whether it's a recurring issue that needs professional help, or something that is an extreme response to an isolated incident and the person will be fine after they're "talked down from the ledge".
It wasn't "waaay out of his way" though, and he was also there helping provide first aid. It's also mindblowing that you think that him being threatened and chased by a convicted child rapist (the first person he shot), then running away and only shooting again when people were trying to kill him when he fell on the ground, aren't important details.
Yep, that's all that's required for it, no hoops to jump through. The only catch is if you don't have any debt, you can't build credit, but it's pretty simple to get a credit card and pay it off every month.
Electric versions of lawn tools are much quieter. I switched to a battery powered lawn mower this year, and it barely makes more noise than a box fan you'd put in a window. With my old gas mower that was a similar size, I had to wear hearing protection over top of ear buds just to be able to hear any music.
I think it was Supergiant Games who said that because Proton is good enough, they're don't plan to provide native Linux versions of their games in the future.
That was just one company though. Other devs have said it isn't worth supporting Linux because the majority of the bug reports they get are distro specific edge cases.
Could be to emphasize that they didn't "remove them" by just turning them off and collecting a re-imbursement from the government. The article says the removed devices must be taken to approved destruction facilities, so the govt really doesn't want the devices popping up on ebay or in internal networks.
I read that that's one of the reasons sites started making you fill out their online form, in addition to uploading your resume. I've also heard of students using that method when they have a teacher who is a stickler about wordcount for assignments, and they are maybe 1-2 sentences short of the cutoff.
Limit the amount of active users until they prove they can safely run a platform of a certain size. It's like how buildings have max occupancy levels in case of fires. If a club is super popular, they don't get to cram in as many people as they can then claim "it's really hard to safely run a club with this many people, so you can't hold us accountable" whenever people are trampled to death trying to get to the exits during an emergency.
I don't think it's a weapon, but it doesn't need high lethality to be an effective tool. Terrorist attacks and school shootings are rounding errors when it comes to overall deaths, but it doesn't stop them from dominating the news and being used to scare people into accepting more restrictive laws.
> Equivalently, does it mean that if we expose ourselves to macro-harms, we will be immunized against harms lower down the scale?
For the most part, yes, it's called building resilience[1]. The hard part is that people view adversity relative to their own experiences, and don't want to be told that they need to "suck it up" when their ride is a few minutes late, or the waiter got their meal wrong. A coddled person will truly believe that their minor inconveniences are very difficult events, and there isn't a way to force them to build resilience, so they might end up being coddled even more just so they'll be quite.
Every suburb I've lived in in the USA has had everything you've mentioned, except maybe a supermarket, and that's normally only been ~15 minutes by bike at the most. The only ones I've seen that didn't have parks and nearby shops were wealthy neighborhoods, and its because they didn't want poor people to have a reason to walk through the neighborhood. Even a local neighborhood that was off-limits to military personnel because of the high amount of violent crime still had free recreation areas and a locally owned convenience store.
They are doing stuff like that, but it doesn't make for sexy clickbait, so nobody posts it. For example, last week Microsoft released a patch for an exchange server exploit that NSA discovered and reported.
My biggest protip for Obsidian would be to never look at the connections graph. If you've got any kind of "completionist" mindset, it's easy to waste a bunch of time trying to perfectly format your notes so every node has a bunch of connections to other nodes. Once I got out of the habit trying to maximize the amount of backlinks in each note, it became a useful tool instead of a chore.
People don't even realize that trivializing it is doing real harm to people that actually have it. I was diagnosed with ADD as an adult, and it took about a month to find a psychiatrist willing to see me because most think that you probably just want drugs because "omg, I'm like, so ADHD sometimes". I've talked to other people with it, and it's a common issue.
It's probably subconcious. It's normal for people to pickup mannerisms of the people around them, so it doesn't seem far fetched for people to pick up fake tics and other behaviors if they spend all day watching videos of people that exhibit those behaviors.
It's kind of hyprocritical in the context of Mozilla's blog a couple of days ago where they said that the new opt-in idle detection API created by Google is enabling mass surveilance, meanwhile they're using dark patterns to get you to send your location to ad companies.
My wife's cousin certainly believes it. But even in the small southern town she lives in that is full of people who think covid is made up, everyone else else thinks she's crazy for thinking the vaccines have microchips in them.
I'm prescribed ritalin, and the best way I can describe it is that it makes me not get bored while doing something. It doesn't make me feel "focused", but I also don't feel the urge to do anything else. The main downside with it is that you still have to choose to pay attention to the correct thing, otherwise you can get less work done because you ended up spending 2 hours reading about Godzilla instead of doing what you were supposed to.
I haven't found it to be physically addictive, and don't experience any crash or withdrawal if there's a gap when getting my prescription filled. I think it can be mentally addictive though, because once I became able to study and communicate the same way my peers do, I definitely miss the benefits when I don't have it.
I'm guessing the downvotes are from Valve/Steam fanboys who don't like any criticism of their favorite company; I see it all the time on social media sites. Valve have said that they will have every Steam game running under Proton by the end of the year, so pointing out that it's misleading statement at best will draw the ire of people who worship Lord Gaben.
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.
If we've learned anything over the past year, it's that tech companies have no business deciding what is factual. "We're going to decide what's true, then make sure people only hear what we want them to hear" is just deplatforming with extra steps.
It makes sense, but people have always had kids that they couldn't afford. The statistic matches up with what I've experienced at work and with friends, where older people without children aren't as concerned with being responsible with their money because nobody depends on them for support, while the older people with kids are much more diligent about monitoring the amount of money they spend.