Yeah, microplastics, too. And “pollution” being still broader than the list either of us have given so far. A car goes by smelling like gas? They are running their motor too rich and you’re literally inhaling unburnt gasoline. A car whose exhaust stinks but not like gas? Running too lean and now you’re inhaling various nitrogen compounds that aren’t great for inhaling. Ratio is correct? Still inhaling more CO and CO2 than normal, but everyone is doing it so there might not even be a control population to compare the effects against.

Oh also all the food additives that get tested for acute safety but not so much chronic (as in “will it kill you or make you obviously sick if you eat it once or a few times?” gets studied but “will eating it twice a week for 30 years have any long term effects?” is ignored).

Though even that is complicated by 50 or so years of nuclear weapons testing, which likely also increased cancer rates. Not to mention all that lead everywhere. Produce gradually losing nutrients because farming mostly just focuses on the big three with fertilizer and the others are being mined out of the ground and sent to landfills, septic tanks, waste processing facilities, cemetaries, and crematoriums also doesn’t help (though I’m not sure waste processing and crematoriums remove those nutrients from the cycle like the others, since the one could produce fertilizer and the other might be sending it out into the atmosphere where it could eventually end up back in the soil).

There’s so much chaos that it’s hard to isolate causes, which then makes all the causes kinda “hide in plain sight” because they can perpetually blame the others and shit only gets worse over time.

The point is that you can’t observe anything without some kind of interaction. Even just looking at something requires bouncing light off of it.

We’re used to our observations seeming passive because light is often hitting the things anyways, but the double slit experiment forces the point because the subjects of the experiment are so small that even just using ways of observing them affects the outcome of the experiment.

If propaganda worked on everyone, why is there anyone trying to counter it?

The RJ plugs are my least favourite. Still snags but the plastic bit that snags is feeble enough to break off easily, and then the plug doesn’t have anything holding it in to the port. And those covers usually make it harder to fit it through holes intended for ethernet cables as well as make it harder to unclip it from the port.

I haven’t regretted ignoring that nvidia even exists when I’m in the market for a new GPU.

Lmao, it was while reading this comment that I realized it wasn’t Semi-Charred Kind of Life, a mistake that ironically helped me see that it was darker than it seemed.

It makes the line “I want something else to get me through this semi-charred kinda life” pretty obvious that he has negative feelings about it and from that I could guess that there was some kind of pain between the lines, though younger me thought maybe infidelity or some kind of mania (which I guess isn’t too far off the mark).

That said, despite the hidden tone, that song always makes me feel good. The overt tone is just so upbeat!

You psy-oped all over their face!

Oh shit, it didn’t say to continue breathing. Dies.

Learning how to (sometimes) overcome this has lead to things like baking cookies at 2am because I noticed the half a carrot I had was starting to go bad but I happen to have all the ingredients to make carrot cake cookies. Just do it, it’s no big deal.

Just make sure you have everything you need before starting a job you must finish or you lose access to something important (eg fixing your only toilet).

And still somehow end up running late for it?

I don’t see any instructions to not discuss statements.

Guessing they are getting complaints from their AI trainer clients. And guessing the AI trainer clients are using “training on AI output” as an excuse to avoid admitting that there are fundamental issues that won’t be solved behind the “often makes shit up” problem.

You can see one of her nipples.

This isn’t a complaint, just advising anyone interested to zoom in a bit.

The reason that 25 number came up is that’s how old the cohort they were studying brain development got when their funding was cut. There’s no reason to not believe brains continue developing all our lives, or that even if that study did find a “cut off point” that it would be the same from person to person.

And not even logical. They have an issue with the “wear” on a woman who has slept once with each of 5 people but have no problem with the “wear” on a woman who has slept with them more than 5 times.

Nah it was Mr Bean.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTli1HU9axY

When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.

The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.

Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.

The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.

So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.

Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.

Background characters disappear at low settings, reappear but hotter^1 at higher settings. Nude at DLSS5 Premium setting.

1. “Hotter” as defined by Jensen Huang and hotness judging expert Mark Zuckerberg.

Pretty sure it was that Mr Bean movie where he goes to America. I think the premise was Bean was accompanying a painting from England (they sent him to get rid of him for a while) and at some point he gets something on the painting, tries to clean it, and paint comes off, too. Then he fixes it and his host either starts crying or trying to attack him.