Why would the numbers not justify the warnings? The warnings cost absolutely nothing. Putting a trigger warning on something takes really no time and costs nothing. Even if it only affect 1% of the people who engage with the material, is no cost worth that 1%? I would say yes. Now the flipside, are the people constantly complaining about trigger warnings worth it? If you see a trigger warning and it doesn't affect you, what exactly have you lost that you feel the need to tell everyone how you feel about the warnings?

I'd love to know how many of the 320M users are forced to use it because the bean counters saw "Teams messaging" as a free line item with their Office360 subscriptions and decided to make everyone use it instead of practically any other team messaging/interactive platform on the planet.

Ant bets that the deal specifies WHICH US data it is trained on? None of the liberal stuff, just right wing data. I think TikTok is going to end up being the video version of twitter really quickly.

They say it will price them out, but that depends on the break point. The reason they like H-1Bs is they can get workers who will work for less and work more hours because they are trapped in the H-1B structure and are terrified to lose their job, because then they will be deported. So if they truly make $15-20k in profit for the company, will changing to a US based worker who likely will want a higher salary and not work crazy hours be worth it? My guess is they just lock in the H-1Bs for more years and pay them less to keep their profits up. Or they try outsourcing straight to India again and skip bringing them to the US at all.

"EVs can lose almost half their driving distance when temperatures drop"
"In January, Seattle-based Recurrent, a company that tests and analyzes EVs, found an average range loss of 20% in extreme cold"

No one would say 20% is almost half. That is not how numbers work.

I'm seeing a lot of people with kneejerk reactions, so I want to highlight a points: ADHD is very easy to diagnose. Unlike autism, which requires a whole day of screening and thousands of dollars, ADHD can be diagnosed in an hour. However, when this happens, parents are usually very receptive to medication because it's both an easy fix and they're probably struggling at home for any number of reasons. If you're slammed, working two jobs, stressed out, barely able to pay the bills, and a pill that promises to make your kid be able to get through their math homework without crying comes along, you'll take it. The alternatives like therapy and parent coaching and stuff are difficult to get, unfortunately, and while schools are technically supposed to provide support, that's an issue. The other issue is that a lot of kids that may be autistic are getting ADHD labels- you've got a kid that gets distracted in class? It's entirely possible that they are autistic and struggling with sensory overwhelm so it's hard for them to think clearly, but ADHD is a convenient dx. Finally, there's long been a real push for pharmaceuticals to be prescribed at a young age, with drug reps targeting both teachers and pediatricians. While providing meds to help, unfortunately for them to work out in the long term it's critical that kids get therapy to help them manage their ADHD, and more and more, that's just not available, so it just becomes a band aid the kids become dependent on, then as their bodies and brains acclimate to it, they have less and less ability to function, so you end up with serious issues in young adulthood. So, unfortunately, a lot of kids get screwed because they aren't getting the essential therapies they need to be able to balance meds with an ADHD toolkit.

At the end of the day, most people can get a lot of their work done far more efficiently from home, and have time to rest, take care of chores/kids, and also explore things that might actually make them even more productive. Flexible schedules help even more- Being able to take a morning off, but log on to check in with a team on the other side of the planet at 11pm can make you way more effective, rather than having to do daily emails. It's also helpful for disabled or neurodivergent folks who struggle with social situations, AND not commuting lowers your stress and is better for the planet. But, middle managers are feeling sad that they have nothing to do, so there's these stupid think pieces like this, when it's abundantly clear that WFH is just good. But it reeks of ableism and pushing out parents.

Bots and people who accidentally clicked out of Instagram.

Been putting this off for too long, but tbh Google has completely wrecked the Android experience. I'll be switching to linux for my desktop this year to avoid win 11, and I guess I'll be using custom roms for mobile.

I'm torn on this. I believe nuclear is an import part of clean energy and should be used. At the same time, I know in the US energy companies are generally private companies, meaning they care about profits more than anything else. Nuclear power plants can be run safely, but I have no faith the an American company WILL run them safely. When the choice is saving some money or raising risk by 1%, most companies will take the small amount of risk to save the money. With a nuclear plant, that should never happen.

It is because while they hate Jews, they love Israel. The biggest reason is the evangelicals think Israel has to take back all the land before the rapture can happen. So they are big Israel supporters. Mind you when the rapture happens, all the jews die and go to hell, and they are 100% OK with that.

This is what it has come to? We will scan for antisemitic activity, but nothing else? So if you post about supporting killing all Muslims, that is not a red flag they are looking for? I can understand wanting to look for anti-american sentiment (not agree with it, but at least understand it). But looking for anti-Israel sentiment and nothing else just says that Israel is running things for the US. How about any type of violence related activity toward anyone?

I use Notes with my Dovecot IMAP server. It works, but sync is oftentimes VERY slow. You can speed it up by going to the calendar app and refreshing the calendars (which is odd, because my calendars are on a totally separate CALDAV server).

It's been like this for many years. I realize I'm in the minority of notes users but reporting the bug doesn't seem to help much either.

This is absolutely reminiscent of when Wheatley got control of Aperture Science in Portal 2. Good job, AI companies, you're cracked the moron problem.

This is peak enshittification- ads for most people are annoying at best, absolutely jarring at worst, especially for people who are neurodivergent and just want to listen to an ambient soundscape or the same song on loop for 20 minutes. Hopefully adblocking tech keeps up, as otherwise, it's just unusable. (Or other video sharing platforms will start cropping up. Or, you know, we all go back to bittorrent for our media.)