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ilostmyshoes··on Study links adoption of EV with less air pollution and improved health
Assuming you're talking about the Chinese cultural revolution, not sure what that has to to with the topic at hand?
ilostmyshoes··on Study links adoption of EV with less air pollution and improved health
My personal experience tells me that reactionaries literally are scared. Scared of change and things they don't understand. Probably a controversial opinion but oh well
ilostmyshoes··on MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia
Where insulting someone is causing harm to another, is taking a medication going to harm someone?
ilostmyshoes··on Why did The Beatles get so many bad reviews?
I've also personally seen a pattern in low score reviews on Amazon or other shopping sites where the person leaving the low score just simply didn't understand how to use the item properly, in some cases this is a majority of the bad reviews.

Another is when they had a problem with something external to the item itself such as shipping.

ilostmyshoes··on Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes
Flexibility to change things without massive costs maybe?
ilostmyshoes··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
Honestly it's the same in the US. But unfortunately the ones who fund the political campaigns are usually the ones with the lower tax rate, so that doesn't change.
ilostmyshoes··on The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023
But why did they try it
ilostmyshoes··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
Again, middle class is a concept invented by capital owners to keep the working class fighting amongst themselves. If you depend on a wage to survive, you are a worker

Working class is defined as those who must sell their labor in order to survive. If you cannot live off income of your investments alone and must work for a salary then you are a worker, you are working class

ilostmyshoes··on Zuckerberg Says Meta to Cut Some Middle-Management Layers
Save costs to protect profits
ilostmyshoes··on Australia approves medical magic mushrooms and ecstasy
Not to mention the lab testing. No longer do I wonder if I'm smoking mold
ilostmyshoes··on ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think
All that means is that it's better at stringing together words than you are
ilostmyshoes··on MDMA and psilocybin are approved as medicines in Australia
How could one possibly harm their reputation by using a legal medication
ilostmyshoes··on The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023
Or they've read up on anthropology, this is common knowledge in the field
ilostmyshoes··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
If you can quit your job and live purely off your investments then you are a capital owner, if you cannot do that without adjusting your lifestyle you're working class
ilostmyshoes··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
That was a story made up by capital owners to keep the working class fighting amongst itself. The reality is that anyone who works for a wage is being taken advantage of
ilostmyshoes··on Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
We are all workers, we are the working class whether we are educated or not.

The capital owners want the working class to fight amongst themselves because it allows them to continue enriching themselves off the backs of the working class.

Even if you own some stocks or have a 401k, if you depend on a salary to pay your bills then you are a worker

ilostmyshoes··on Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
I do the same and even then you need to be careful about the astroturfing on reddit

corporatism is everywhere and infecting the web to enrich a few at the expense of everyone else

ilostmyshoes··on The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023
What they don't seem to be talking about is learning from indigenous farming communities who use things like diversity in crops and rotation to keep soil quality high. These problems were solved decades ago, just not by the industrial farming community
ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
I don't agree that homicide is the best for comparison, the original claim was about crime in general
ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
Well I guess first do you have any sources for the more crime per capita claim?

Secondly, other countries seem to manage to do police work without killing a ridiculous number of citizens, so that's definitely kinda weird

ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
Police work = killing people?
ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
This is the answer. Someone may go in with the best of intentions but are quickly and easily molded by the president

The entire saying is "a few bad apples spoils the bunch"

ilostmyshoes··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
The "bad department" is the US when you compare it against the rest of the planet

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/

ilostmyshoes··on San Francisco is getting cold feet about self-driving car tests
We already have the highest prison population of any country on earth, why would you think the solution is building more prisons?
ilostmyshoes··on BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature
Humans are able to connect words to abstract ideas rather than simply what words go next to each other
ilostmyshoes··on Electrical stimulation can boost brain's willingness to engage in mental effort
It depends on the circuit being stimulated but yes there is usually some sort of adaptation with enough exposures to a stimulus over a period of time. Long enough breaks can prevent it though
ilostmyshoes··on BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature
Not linear but comparable

Language and understanding abstract ideas is a bit more complicated than chess

ilostmyshoes··on BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature
While it does give some accurate summaries I noticed that it uses terms incorrectly. I can see this being a decent tool for finding papers but definitely not for creating accurate summaries, especially for use without in depth review. It's basically a 50/50 shot
ilostmyshoes··on BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature
How long after the chess computers of the 60s did it take to beat a human?
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