Kornblumenratte @ Kornblumenratte @feddit.de

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Autonomous driving isn't necessarily controlled by a corporation any more than your PC is.

That's just outright wrong.

Modern cars communicate with their manufacturer, and we don't have any means to control this communication.

I can disconnect my PC from the internet, I cannot disconnect my car. I can install whatever OS and apps pleases me on my PC, I cannot do anything about the software on my car's computer.

So, while I can take full control of my PC if it pleases me, I cannot take any control of my car.

Why? Driving on highways is the easiest kind of driving?

Fahrenheit based his scale on what he thought to be absolute zero (i.e. the coldest temperature he could produce in his lab with the tools of his time) and his body temperature, which he set to 12, because 12 was a convenient number and used in a lot of scales in his pre-metric time. He did realize though that this scale was impractical, and halved his degrees until they deemed sensible to him, resulting in the final degrees to be ⅛ of the first draft. 8 * 12 = 96, hence 96° F was his second fixed point.

Which is just senseless, as we know today, as the temperature of the human body fluctuates over time. If we took the original definition seriously, everybody would have their own Fahrenheit scale that would differ over time.

Fahrenheit is not based on body temperature, it is based on the temperature of a mixture of ice and salt and the body temperature of a certain individual, both in 1714. Who was, by the way, suffering from hypothermia.

It's definitely not Anglo–Saxon as in "inherited from the Germanic tribes of Angles and Saxons", afaik medieval and early modern English society was quite open about sex.

After the Reformation, England bred or harboured quite a few fundamentalist Christian sects which had a huge impact on English and especially American society.

In the 80s, not the 70s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program

As a non native speaker, I do not get the meaning of this post? And a lot of others. The word entitlement seems to have changed it's meaning. What does it mean today?

according to wiktionary:

entitlement (countable and uncountable, plural entitlements)

• The right to have something, whether actual or perceived.
• Power, authority to do something.
• Something that one is entitled to.
• (politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.

India had a purchase power parity compared to the US$ of > 24 in 2022, i.e., while you can exchange only ~400–500 US $ for ₹ 40,000, this amount of money will buy goods within India that would be worth $ 9,600–12,000 within the US. Exchange rates can be pretty misleading.

https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-ppp.htm

Lab grown meat is grown from cell cultures that were taken from animals that were not capable of consenting to donate these cells.

Hardcore vegans will likely still despise it, but for a lot of less hardcore vegan people it might become an option, especially if marketing hides the origin.

IMHO it's more important that the carbon footprint of growing cell cultures is bigger than that of growing animals. Unless this changes, lab grown meat is not an option to fight global warming.