gammasfor @ gammasfor @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah also trying to stay FOSS on Android/iOS seems like a lost cause given the OS themselves.

Yeah this is why I find Keir's pushback on Khan over ULEZ odd. By the next GE the ULEZ expansion would have been in place for nearly a year and the residents would have gotten over it - based on previous evidence (especially since most of the pushback is based on misinformation about what the scheme will do anyway)

Yeah when I saw the title I assumed it was going to be about the sheer crassness of the quarantine room scenes.

Yeah at the end of the day the fact the Fediverse is decentralised doesn't grant some magic immunity to local laws. I'm surprised there are people who think this?

It mostly doesn't matter except for a couple of linking points:

• Strange New Worlds effectively directly follows events of Discovery Season 2 with a plot point introduced in season 2 being a bit of a focus of SNW S1
• It is probably advisable to watch Picard S1 before Discovery S3 and 4 as the first season of Picard introduces lore elements that have relevance.

Also to be honest, the Star Trek IP being taken away from Paramount's dumb decisions could be the best thing to happen to it.

Hmm I might need to try that with the front-page. I had noticed it seemed to just be the same topics daily.

Isn't that ChatGPT?

"Electric buses aren't safe because the batteries can catch on fire"

London here running hybrids for over half a decade with no issue.

In fairness, in the very early 2000s, before it became obvious Russia was just going to continue being a dick, Russia was on the path of becoming a NATO ally.

Though there is an extra exception on the weighing people thing. If it's a scientific or medical setting then the measurement is in kg (because official organisations are meant to use metric (though some of the weirder elements of our current government are trying to undo that for reasons)).

For those confused on the outside as to why we do this to ourselves there is sound reasoning. We switched to metric quite late having mostly done it to align with the EU. This means our largest demographic (boomers because of course) were brought up on an imperial measurement education. That means colloquially people use imperial as that's what they know. Officially most things are done in metric now but imperial measurements are included with items on sale to help the metric challenged generation. Metric is what is taught in schools with imperial only taught as a "if you encounter an imperial measurement this is what it is in metric". Though obviously there is a bit of a drag effect because when everyone else is using Imperial for measuring a particular thing, of course the kids are going to use that measure as well.

Road and speed signs stuck with imperial as the cost of replacing literally everything is greater than the value it would bring (especially given the demographic knowledge issue). And alcohol is measured in pints as the concept of a British pint is a cultural heritage (plus the extra 68ml compared to our European brethren is a bonus).

The aim was the eventually phase out imperial entirely as the people who weren't educated in metric gradually die out, though there as I said there are a bunch of government who decided for some reason to try and push officially switching back to Imperial for the sole reason of "let's diverge from the EU for the sole reason of being able to say brexit actually had a point to our boomer voters".

Yeah if anything when you're over 30 it's even worse, as then you have to dedicate some brain power in dealing with all the body ailments you suddenly start developing.

Whilst I don't follow US law, quick Google suggests one of the conditions is "the injury is not readily avoidable by consumers". In other words the business isn't liable for the customer not reading the documents they signed up to.

how we never got proper authorization

Why do I feel like this is a domestic abuse situation. Husband broke her laptop in order to reduce her attempts to communicate with others? She goes to get it repaired, he finds out.

I think it's the belief that the wife can't authorise the repair..

They would but that doesn'tv sound as sexy to investors.

That's what it all comes down to when businesses use words like AI, big data, blockchain etc. Its not about whether it's an accurate descriptor, its about tricking dumb millionaires into throwing money at them.

I think we can blame the education system. At some point it became solely about passing some arbitrary threshold of students with high exam scores rather than about teaching students how to get by in life.

End result was an education system that simply teaches kids how to pass exams rather than basic life skills like critical thinking.

Same. Though the trigger I find is being in a place with a lot of conversations going on at once (such as a busy bar). Its like my brain is trying to process every conversation and can't focus on the one that actually matters.

I get anxiety about this though as I have a bit of an audio processing disorder where in any room with a lot of background noise I struggle to process what the person right in front of me is saying.

I don't really know the best approach beyond pretending to know what the other person is saying.