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I really dislike LLMs/AI but.......
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System - John Snow Project
A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: one infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may worsen this.John Snow Project
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Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
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The other interesting tidbit from this:
Things get dire when US carmakers enter the fray. All but one of the bottom ten brands in the list are American. The best of the worst was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.
That is because everything American has been shit since forever with all the lack rules and regulations, but in the last decade, things really have gone off a cliff
It's incredible to me that people buy Jeeps or Land Rovers. Neither are inexpensive, both are shit.
Back when Musk was trying to hit production milestones, cars were being assembled in tents with parts made of home depot wood.
Ford is doing similar things with fake parts cobbled quickly on their trucks.
This all works because people spend >$60,000 on vehicles with no research. No one wants these vehicles used.
Tesla Model Y owners find cheap Home Depot trim propping up cooling system
“Is it a big deal that Tesla used faux wood trim during assembly of my vehicle? No. Is it funny? Yes, yes it is!”Coleman Molnar (Driving)
Not just lack of regulation.
Product quality is sacrificed to sabotage labor power and didcarded for the sake of disposability.
Not at all, and I would posit that you would really want to have at the very least some kind of high voltage training.
It might make sense for a niche project vehicle (obviously if you have that kind of money it's yours to do whatever the hell you want with it) but economically you're better off just getting a used EV. They're pretty cheap at the moment.
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A tank of gasoline isn't safer if you're worried about fires, there's just less sensationalist media coverage. The tires are expensive, but that's because they are inherently more durable: we drove over a tack last week and our tire was fine. Brake wear is about 80% less, because EVs favor regen instead.
We have a 2023 Nissan Leaf with a 215 mi range and the least popular CHAdeMO connector, and we've driven it all over Washington state. We drove from Spokane to Lake Quinault for Thanksgiving.
Don't believe all the petroleum-invested hyperbole.
Battery fires get more news coverage not because their more common, but because they are so catastrophic when they do happen. As for comparisons to gasoline, I'd be leaving the tank empty so that's not a concern for me.
I would prefer not to use waste rubber and money thicker tyres carrying around a huge battery I don't need. Worst case I can use those same tires on a car with a lighter battery.
Good point about regenerative braking, I forgot about that.
As for comparisons to gasoline, I'd be leaving the tank empty so that's not a concern for me.
You would carry around a whole combustion engine just to leave it empty?? Wtf that’s even more waistful and inefficient. Get an older EV with a small battery if you’re so allergic to it.
Battery fires are not catastrophic, it just takes a different approach to deal with it and we already know how.
Oh, looking it up they do come to about the same weight in the end (information that was very difficult to source BTW). Guess that eliminates much of the entire point of this. All I would need is 80km of range at most so I'm put off by all these cars offering 500km that I don't want or need.
I guess an old EV is probably the better option. With the added advantage that I'll probably get physical controls instead of a damn touch-screen.
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This is why I won't buy a Tesla.
Fortunately for me, used cars with manual transmission are dead cheap here in Slovakia. I think I saw one for 3-4K€ on used car reseller website.
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Very true. This entire year i found one good movie, Bugonia. Worst year on record for me.
Some non-English(with subs) anime and series' seem to be freely and officially available on youtube and other websites.
Pretty cool.
Noticed that when searching for To Be Hero X
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To Be Hero X full series (Chinese dub | Eng CC)
Complete series of To Be Hero X Licenced and Distributed by bilibiliYouTube
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I've never heard of any of these western sources you're citing...
I do have uyghur friends though. Are they fake too?
Nobody ever accused china of bombing cities and murdering children. You're thinking of israel.
Genocide can take forms other than bombing and starvation.
Residential school system in Canada is considered a form of genocide on the native population. We dont have to literally bomb them out of existence to be considered a bad thing
i really don't understand all these people on .ml (who clearly aren't chinese) bootlicking for china
look, i'm a "communist" as well... i hate capitalism, blah blah blah... you guys are right about so many things. china is great, the west fucking sucks. i 100% agree...
but i don't understand why it has to extend to, "ALL criticism of china is invalid"... china has a clear objective of unifying the nation and the culture. and that means pushing out the non-han minorities such as the uyghur people.
is this achieved through extreme violence? of course not. that's barbaric and not-subtle.
china knows how to play the long game. decades if needed. the west doesn't see anything beyond a 4 year election cycle...
the problem with how Xinjiang is portrayed is that it’s the most reactionary, anti-communist people that are pushing the genocide theory the most.
so just because reactionaries/anti-communists are pushing the narrative to support their own ends makes the issue fake/invalid?
so if neo-nazis started supporting palestinians to push an anti-semitic agenda, that makes their oppression fake/invalid?
The idea that China is pushing out non-Han ethnicities is wrong, China’s NPC has great minority representation, ethnic minorities are well protected, and Uyghur culture is flourishing.
lol, again...100% non-chinese telling us how great it is over there (for non-han minorities). how do i know most of you aren't even chinese?? ZERO actual chinese people, even the most woke ones, announce their preferred pronouns...
i'd love to see all you "they/them" folks try actually living in china....
btw, not making fun of pronouns... i support... i'm just pointing out the irony....
Neo-Nazis aren't really supporting Palestinians, and moreover there is ample evidence of Palestinian genocide while there's very little evidence of a supposed genocide in Xinjiang. The Xinjiang atrocity campaign is being used the same way as Saddam's supposed WMD, which also had little to no actual evidence.
Secondly, some Chinese do list their pronouns on English sites, but moreover I can support the combatting of western atrocity propaganda while also believing China has a long way to go on LGBTQIA+ rights. I consider myself cis, I list "they" as an alternative because I know some people don't want to be referred to as "they/them." I prefer he/him in most cases, but am okay with being referred to as they/them, while others certainly aren't.
Right now you're doing the bit where Zionists say queer people shouldn't support Palestine because groups like Hamas are anti-LGBTQIA+. The wheel of social progress moves faster when not being killed at scale, and we can see improving LGBTQIA+ rights in China over time.
while there’s very little evidence of a supposed genocide in Xinjiang.
again, nobody is saying china is doing an israel genocide on uyghurs..... read the original meme post.... it says oppression
while also believing China has a long way to go on LGBTQIA+ rights
why do you believe this? i heard that china is amazing at supporting gay/trans people... anything else you heard is just reactionary, anti-communist, western propaganda.... you see how that works?
Right now you’re doing the bit where Zionists say queer people shouldn’t support Palestine because groups like Hamas are anti-LGBTQIA+
no, i'm doing the bit where a bunch of woke white people are strangely acting like china has zero credible criticisms.... while also strangely admitting that china has a long way to go on LBGTQIA+ rights
Clearly you can see that my point is that some criticism is real and some is not, right? I'm not "strangely" admitting anything, I'm acknowledging real critique while pointing out that some critique is not genuine. There are people saying China is doing to Xinjiang what Israel is doing to Palestine. They are wrong, of course, but acting like they don't exist is silly.
Critiquing China based on real issues is good. "Critiquing" China based on exaggerations and atrocity propaganda is bad. LGBTQIA+ rights fall into the former category, the overwhelming majority of allegations surrounding Xinjiang fall into the latter. This is in no way contradictory.
Clearly you can see that my point is that some criticism is real and some is not, right?
no, it's really not clear what the criteria is for real criticism, vs. not real... seems pretty arbitrary when looking at two very prominent examples of china oppressing cultural/ethic minorities
“Critiquing” China based on exaggerations and atrocity propaganda is bad. LGBTQIA+ rights fall into the former category, the overwhelming majority of allegations surrounding Xinjiang fall into the latter.
i still don't understand why you think that oppression of LGBT is real, and oppression of uyghurs is exaggeration and propaganda... why is it so OBVIOUS to you that the uyghurs are flourishing, but LGBT people are actually being oppressed?
i KNOW actual uyghur people and i KNOW at least one actual gay person in china... i am chinese and i have family there... i don't understand how weird internet white knights can wave away the hardships of one group as OBVIOUSLY FAKE (despite likely having never spoken to an actual uyghur person, or even someone from another muslim minority in china), while just arbitrarily believing that china oppresses LGBT people?
by your logic, there are openly gay chinese youtubers who haven't been executed yet... therefore, there is no oppression and it's just western propaganda warping your view of china.
the uyghurs i know are not rich people who fled the country and hate china because communism took away their stuff (that would be my taiwanese relatives who DID lose all their bourgeoisie privilege to the communists...) why would they be making shit up about what is happening over there? and why would you be so inclined to dismiss what they have to say just to white knight for china?
Because I don't trust anecdotes from individuals. I've spoken with people that think Trump is a communist. I haven't spoken to your friends, and I don't know what specifically it is that you're arguing, because you've been vague. I've been clear in stating that China isn't committing genocide against Uyghurs or trying to push out ethnic minorities, and that's true, but you've been far more vague about what it is that you're trying to argue.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China's response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists go to Xinjiang all the time. You can watch , though it obviously isn't going to be a comprehensive view of course. I don't know if you've been to Urumqi, or Xinjiang in general, but this is another way that we can see what's actually going on.
The ideas pushed by the west, ie mass sterilization, an erasure of Uyghur culture and language, mass killings of Uyghurs, etc are nearly entirely devoid of evidence.
Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation
Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.Qiao Collective
Because I don’t trust anecdotes from individuals
[proceeds to trust some random patreon website and some youtube travel influencers....]
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion
The west doesn't care about the Chinese or muslims but we are supposed to believe they care about Chinese muslims. Please let me know how many countries with a minority (Uyghur muslims as the example here) population have their languages on their currency and actively promotes their culture significantly (like drawing in tourism), skyrocketing of HDI and then gets accused of whatever you are doing here.
The thing with the neither Washington nor Beijing schtick is that it is tantamount support of western atrocity propaganda; you want to believe Western lies as you have already decided on a hierarchy of human beings and denigrate those who stand against Western imperialism. If you know you have been lied to about every Western Designated Enemy since WWII but choose to believe current ones then you ain't brainwashed, just bigoted.
so just because reactionaries/anti-communists are pushing the narrative to support their own ends makes the issue fake/invalid?
No. Complete lack of evidence that can withstand even the slightest scrutiny makes the issue fake/invalid.
That’s a lot of words to avoid saying “I believe China is committing genocide because they are doing ____”.
You have a friend over there but haven’t said what their experience is. You have said genocide doesn’t have to look like Israel but haven’t specified how it applies to China from your perspective. Make a claim.
it's a family i know here, who left china due to oppression... nobody said anything about violent genocide.
i really don't need to type out their whole family situation because why waste my time getting instantly downvoted? you've all already decided that talking to uyghurs is fake news....
the claim is right there in the OP's meme... "...china is oppressing uyghurs". i don't know why you keep demanding "claims" when it's right in the meme that i was responding to.
the meme suggests that the only evidence comes from some fucker named adrian, whom i've never heard of, and RFA and falun gong.
i merely suggested that first hand accounts from my friends might actually be valid.... maybe at least something to think about.... but apparently listening to actual uyghur people and talking to my actual family in china is just western propaganda... so discussion is already non-starter
anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work... thanks all for the discussion
Is Amnesty International a fundamentalist right wing organization, captured by Adrian Zenz?
They do cite him five times in their report on the subject, but their report does contain a total of 718 sources.
This is not to say that their report should be treated as uncritically correct, but neither should their claims be dismissed outright because of an anticommunist having been a part of doing research on the subject.
To illustrate - Candace Owens, a well known right-wing agitator and all-round piece of shit frequently speaks out against Israel. This does not, very obviously not, make Israel good.
I didn't read the entire thing but citing Adrian Zenz 5 times is not the only problem, the thing with Adrian Zenz is that other sources also cite him.
For example one the source is buzzfeed(heh) and the first one that I clicked: The police state of the future is already here also has Adrian zenz 5 times.
This thing is a mess.
This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like
Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.”Megha Rajagopalan (BuzzFeed)
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds; applies to institutions too.
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Role of NGOs in promoting neo-Colonialism - MR Online
There are literally thousands of NGOs, the better known being Oxfam, Greenpeace, and Amnesty International.Editor (MR Online)
but their report does contain a total of 718 sources.
And how many of those sources cite Zenz themselves?
I have figured it out: many of them.
Great! I salute your rigour in the matter. How many of them was it?
And no, Amnesty did not produce a significant amount of primary evidence. You're just straight up lying now.
There are 430 hits for "Amnesty International interview" as sources.
Who knows, maybe they just interviewed Adrian Zenz for all of those claims. The joke would very much be on me in that case
2021. The report’s findings and conclusions are based on first-hand testimonies that Amnesty
International gathered from former detainees of the internment camps and other people who were
present in Xinjiang after 2017, as well as from an analysis of satellite imagery and data. The report
also draws on testimonial evidence and confidential government documents gathered and analysed
by journalists, scholars, and other human rights organizations.
One hundred twenty-eight people were interviewed for this report: 55 former detainees of internment
camps in Xinjiang (39 men and 16 women), 15 other witnesses who lived in or visited Xinjiang since
2017, and 68 family members of people from Xinjiang who are currently missing or detained. The
majority of the interviewees were Kazakh, a minority were Uyghurs, and a small number were Kyrgyz
or Han Chinese.
as well as from an analysis of satellite imagery and data.
Wow, that is sneaky: making it sound like the did the analysis themselves, when they actually got it from the right wing military industrial think tank ASPI
The majority of the interviewees were Kazakh, a minority were Uyghurs
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Yeah?
Great! I salute your rigour in the matter. How many of them was it?
Maybe you should have some rigour yourself, rather than immediately descending into bad faith time wasting.
There are 430 hits for “Amnesty International interview” as sources.
And how many interviews does that correspond to? Who was interviewed and what did they actually say? When you strip out all the unsubstantiated Zenz stuff, how much of the story is still left?
As I initially checked the Wikipedia article for Uyghur Genocide it took me about 1 minute to find that the article had his name spread all over it and the sources it cited. He works for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which is funded by the USA.
Every source you check eventually circles back to him. There is also not really any video or photo evidence, compare this to the terabytes of videos of the gaza genocide. There is like 1 or 2 picture that shows a prison and curled up inmates, this doesnt look good but still better than Guantanamo or the El Salvadorian prisons.
China accuses the USA of funding terrorists in that region, which also lacks good sources but given the USA track record of funding separatists for regime change for example in 1953 Iran "coup d'état" and the USA listing China as their enemy number 1 e.g. in their newest national security strategy paper, it doesnt seem too far fetched.
Yes this doesnt mean there cant be possibly any wrong-doing on the Chinese side but the evidence for that is scarce at best and manufactured at worst.
The one China policy is also a direct result from China winning WW2 against Japan, Japan used to colonize Taiwan and genocided the Chinese. Imagine questioning other results from WW2 like Polands indepence.
Also the british used to occupy Tibet and looking at other british occupations like Palestine or Sudan (with Egypt) it gets pretty clear that they left nothing but chaos. So given all this history it, to me, seems justified that China wants to keep their country together and looking at satellite pictures from Xinjiang we dont see rivers of blood like in Sudan or thousands of pictures of child amputees like in Palestine.
Its really convenient how in the West every separatist movement like Catalonia in Spain or the Reichsbürger in Germany is immediately not valid, why all separatist movements of the Wests "adversaries" are immediately legit.
Aw, are you hurt that I don't think your linked article is worth reading, based on having gone through and read the initial intro/'teaser' for that article? What did you think that initial teaser is meant to be used for, if not to gauge whether or not the whole article is worth a read?
It's like providing a free sample of some food product in a store, and the person goes "yuck", and now you're getting all pissed off and saying "well you didn't eat a whole serving size before going yuck, so you clearly have no taste!".
If you're involved in peer reviewed work, you should have thicker skin to criticism.
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Yup, you've cracked the code! The deep, philosophical truth is that free samples exist so we can say 'yuck.' My mind is reeling from this Socratic revelation. Truly, we have a giant of philosophy on our hands here.
I love how your entire defense rests on the intellectual rigor of taste testing an abstract. The first paragraph didn't emotionally gratify me, therefore the entire argument is invalid is a peer-review methodology I've only ever seen in YouTube comments. But please, tell me more about thicker skin from the person who wrote a whole paragraph because they did not like a teaser. 🤣
You seem overly triggered that I found the teaser off-putting, so much so that you're conflating what I'd initially stated and what I'd used later as an explanation of how teasers work.
I basically noted that the person is padding in useless words, and that they were referencing highly contested concepts as though they're pre-defined/determined (twisting). It's the kind of stuff I used to see in first year student papers back in uni. Like even in the title, there's no real purpose for using "reality of" when you can just say "Contemporary Canadian Imperialism", the attempt to expand that out and tether what's fairly likely a subjective article to what most people consider 'objective' (reality) is just academic obfuscation. If this person had an editor, they should've been underlining stuff all over the place.
Even more, it's a piece published by a US University that seems pretty clearly to try and foster animosity amongst Canadian demographic subsets and to paint Canada in a negative light. Funding for this sort of article, its publication and distribution, at a time when the US is aggressively targeting Canada with economic warfare and making statements about annexing the territory, is at the very least questionable.
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Roughly translated from management speak: We'll need to come back to this specific aspect of the discussion on its pwn later, so we can more directly focus on this one part.
Could be blowing smoke to get someone stuck on something to let go so the meeting can move on, or a legitimate "this part deserves its own dedicated discussion".
There's a decent bit of good "steering" of groups and discussions that comes out of management speak, but the word choice and phrasing makes it needlessly opaque, and very "fellow kids".
Sometimes the opaqueness can be intentional too, to avoid making someone feel like their idea has been dismissed, or to slow down somebody while they parse what was just said so they can't keep rapid fire talking and dominating the conversation.
I am often torn a bit on this one, depending on the cases.
Don't get me wrong, management lingo is undeniably bullshit, trying to hide how simple what you're saying actually is, and giving yourself stature and legitimacy.
But I would argue that there are fields were the emergence of complex concepts (and lingo, and notations to define them) is a necessary evil. For sure even there, there are people who abuse it to big themselves up, but I also think a lot of the time, either the thing you're speaking of is genuinely complicated, or it's just not well understood enough. Sometimes I really wish I could say things in a simpler way, both in concepts and expression, but I can't find a way to make it so. Not by malice, not to appear to know more, but genuinely because I don't understand it enough yet either and that's the best I've got.
Having experienced it first-hand, I am more forgiving to this (depending on the attitude of the person spouting the jargon) and don't automatically assume all technical-sounding terms are automatically bullshit. They often are, but not always.
But management lingo is. 100%.
You're literally just describing this meme.
When you don't know shit you think it should be simpler, when you slightly understand it then you end up using technical terms because you know those terms apply and aren't confident enough to replace them, and then once you know enough you get confident just describing everything as bags within bags.
My point being that for some stuff, you just can't describe things as bags within bags, irrelevant of where you are on the scale, at least not without being quite intellectually dishonest and oversimplifying.
I am not saying I am on top of the scale, I am saying I've met and worked with people on top of the scale (and couldn't keep up), and they don't explain things with bags within bags.
EDIT: for clarity, there are things that are too complicated for everyone right now. One day we may understand them well enough that someone can explain it in layman's term without loss of precision, but to get to that point, we must accept that we need to work with complex notations and lingo. Example: in the past, only Newton and Leibniz and a handful of others understood calculus. Now it's taught in high school. Newton and Leibniz were not in the middle of the bell curve, nor did they overcomplicate their theory to make it sound fancy.
Eh I don't really agree, depending on how simple you're talking. Bags within bags, or dumbing things down to a grade school level, then sure, there are topics that can't be described succinctly.
But if you're talking about simplifying things down to the point that anyone who took a bit of undergrad math/science can understand, then pretty much everything can be described in simple and easy to understand ways.
Don't get me wrong, I've seen many people at the top who can't, but in every case, it's not because of the topics' inherent complexity, but either because they don't actually understand the topics as well as they may seem, or because they lack the social skills (or time / effort / setting) to properly analogize and adjust for the listener.
Anyone who took undergrad maths/science is not layman's term.
I also disagree with this for the record but that's besides the point.
"amongst the people who understand the jargon and notations, jargon and notations are layman's term"
Sure, I guess that's true if you limit your sample, this is not what I took the meme to mean but ok.
And I am talking about the fact that believing that nothing is complicated and that complexity is always made up can be a dangerous, anti-intellectual and anti-academic argument.
Of course, if you're talking with people who don't need to actually do the job and only understand enough of it, and you still speak like to a specialist, you're not only in the middle, but also potentially (but not necessarily) kind of a dick.
But reading this and your example, and the fact we seem to be miscommunicating somewhat, I do wonder this: English is not my first language, what do you include in "technical science job"? Is it a specific job or group of jobs? I took it to mean any job with tech or science workers.
EDIT: further explanation of what went through in my head, which may clarify interpretation and intent. Having the management lingo example made me interpret that curve as a: all this jargon is just bullshit and you could do better without it. Definitely true imo with management lingo.
But what I was trying to say, maybe poorly, is that some technical jargon, in some areas, is meaningful. Explaining in layman's term is dumbing down. Nothing wrong with that when it fits the purpose, but you still sacrifice something in the process.
I've progressed quite far in the technical science part of my job. I'm at the top end of the graph and encouraging my junior staff to simplify their language and message. Some things absolutely need technical terms, but they don't need to use overly complicated words to say "this has moved up" or "this thing is bad". More often meaning gets lost in using euphemisms instead of being clear about the message.
I've moved up the management role as well and really can't bring myself to move from the bottom end of the meme graph. Management really has its own language so they can say lots of words in meetings with very little meaning. We're in the business of doing shit......are we going to do shit or not?
If you're communicating with another scientist about the actual work you're doing then sure there are times when you need to be specific.
If you're publishing official documentation on something or writing contracts, then yes, you also need to be extremely speciific.
But if you're just providing a description of your work to a non-specialist then no, there's always a way of simplifying it for the appropriate context. Same thing goes for most of specialist to specialist communication. There are specific sentences and times you use the precision to distinguish between two different things, but if you insist on always speaking in maximum precision and accuracy then it is simply poor communication skills where you are over providing unnecessary detail that detracts from the actual point you're trying to convey.
Good management is just good people skills. If you don’t have them, intentionally defanging your speech/correspondence helps prevent blowups. Unfortunately for people working under managers with bad people skills, this doesn’t actually make up for and mostly just highlights their managers’ deficits.
Tl;dr: management speak is intentionally harmless in and of itself, but is an obvious symptom of bad management.
Your comment reminds me of this satirical article "Ortho Writes Perfect SOAP Note". The meat of it
Kershaw’s flawless note reads as follows:AF/VSS
AAOX3, NAD
RRR, CTAB, NWOB
S/NT/ND/NABS
LLE dsg C/D/I, DP 2+
34 yo M s/p L THA POD1
WBAT LLE
DVT ppx
PT/OT
D/W HMS
D/C SAR vs. HHPT
“The crazy part is that I think I can do better, way better,” joked Kershaw, soaked in champagne. “I can probably shave the note by another ninety percent. Gives me something to shoot for going forward, you know?”
Ortho Writes Perfect SOAP Note, First No-Worder This Year | GomerBlog
An amazing feat in SOAP note medical note writingDr. 99 (GomerBlog)
Bag of words, have mercy on us
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OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)
How to add weather station
I still have trouble understanding how to add an MQTT device without YAML. It seems there's an elaborate GUI flow made to deal with this, so why is this so complicated?
I have MQTT messages coming in. Their topics are e.g.
wx/temperature
wx/humidity
wx/light_lux
wx/rain_mm
wx/wind_dir_deg
How do I tell Home Assistant to just add the bloody device, and let me configure units afterwards and not type out 600 lines of YAML manually?
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The Leaked Report Pushing Mark Carney Toward the F-35 Fighter Jet | The Walrus
A TABLE OUTLINING AN internal Royal Canadian Air Force 2021 study on the F-35 fighter jet versus Sweden’s Gripen has magically shown up in the press at just the very moment it might most influence the choice about to be made. The confidential internal document lands as Ottawa continues to review its deal of purchasing the full contingent of eighty-eight American-built F-35s following United States president Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty—a process now bogged down by concerns inside the RCAF that the purchase is becoming harder to justify.
Using bright colours to drive the message home for the hard of thinking, the table—which was reportedly obtained by Radio-Canada—shows that the F-35 (represented in very nice and inviting green) is head and shoulders above the poor Gripen (represented mostly in a forbidding and dangerous red). Supporters of the F-35 have made much of the table; I mean, how can you argue with actual numbers?
Well, colour me skeptical. The table compares the two aircraft according to broad criteria such as: “Mission Performance,” “Upgradability,” “Sustainment,” and others. But no explanation is provided as to what these categories mean or how the numbers for each aircraft were arrived at. This raises questions.
For example, did the study compare the actual capability of the F-35 as it was in 2021, or the envisaged capability when its latest upgrade (known as “Block 4”) is applied? This is important, because it is the Block 4 F-35 which has the capabilities the RCAF envisages for the airplane it will eventually acquire.
The problem is, the Block 4 upgrade is, according to a September 2025 study by the US government’s General Accounting Office (GAO), more than five years behind schedule and over $6 billion (US) over cost—and counting.
The Leaked Report Pushing Mark Carney Toward the F-35 Fighter Jet
A mysterious internal study seeks to rig the multi-billion-dollar debate over Canada’s air forcePeter Jones (The Walrus)
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And as an fyi the National Security Journal jumped on the F-35 bandwagon just in time.
Canada already has thousands of jobs tied to F-35 production. Splitting the fleet to chase industrial offsets would weaken deterrence and further erode Canadian credibility.
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Cancel the F-35? JAS 39 Gripen Fighter Would Cripple Canada's Air Force - National Security Journal
Ottawa may slash its F-35 buy and add Gripens, chasing politics and jobs over hard strategy. Here’s why a mixed fleet would cripple Canada’s air defense and deterrence.Rob Huebert and Jamie Tronnes (National Security Journal)
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We’re talking somewhere over $200 billion dollars.
That certainly would be enough, you'd need at least $100 billion to start developing a new 6th gen airframe.
In contrast, the current deal for the F-35 is only for $27 billion.
I revised it down to $50 billion after posting, having looked up the actual estimate I'd seen (74 billion), but either way it's plenty.
I suspect that requirements for the airframe design for a swarm of drones that don't need to carry human pilots around can be made somewhat less than those for the most expensive airplane ever made.
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Yeah, no. Even if they were extremely efficient, 75 billion might get you a prototype or two, but you still haven't acquired a single plane or paid for its operating cost or maintenance. Developing an manned vs unmanned fighter also doesn't make much difference, though you will save on the cost of pilot training later.
The F-35 contract includes all of that already.
So no, just using the money that is set aside for the F-35 would get you nowhere. Especially considering Canada doesn't have much experience with developing domestic fighter jets and would also need to build all the infrastructure from scratch as well.
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Unmanned makes a huge difference in many ways, surely. There are all kinds of constraints added by the need to carry around a squishy human, and evaluating what can be done without them is not something I’m going to attempt in a comment here but there are a whole lot of possibilities, many of which might not cost in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
We've been keeping squishy human humans alive in planes for a while, we already know how it works. An autonomous aircraft would require you to develop a high sophisticated computer/AI model that can do basic pilot tasks which will be a big part of your development cost. For now, sticking a human in his much cheaper. Sure, you might save money per unit and in the long run, but the development cost will most certainly be much higher.
You also need a reliable way to communicate with them, so you'd want a constellation of military communication satellites. Not sure Canada currently has that, so factor in the cost for satellite development a bunch of rocket launches.
Even if the attempt failed it would be a better use of the money.
If the attempts failed, Canada would be left without a fighter jet. If that is an acceptable outcome to you, you might consider not spending money on it at all.
But if you want to have an operational fighter jet in the short term, buying one is the only option.
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Exactly, software and algorithms would be a huge part of the challenge which is one reason I think Canada would be well positioned to be the nation to advance that technology. Communication via satellite is the obvious choice, but even just sitting here casually pondering it I can think of other options that might be worth considering, involving for example laser-based mesh networks between drones somewhat like what SpaceX has between satellites.
And yes, it's true, not spending money on that sort of thing at all would also strike me as a better option than sending so many billions of dollars to the giant American defence contractors who are the primary beneficiaries of the F-35 contract.
This is nonsense. If you're talking about doing it in the air, then you need supersonic drones that can lock on, predict the aircraft's movement, and adjust during interception ... i.e. you're talking about a SAM system like the Patriot missile system or Russia's S400.
If you're talking about hunting them down at base, then you need to be able to penetrate hundreds of kms of air defenses to make it to them in the first place, and you're just talking bout a cruise missile like the Tomahawk.
Ukraine used the element of surprise with those box trucks, it won't be easy to pull off again.
Maybe we should do this anyway. Here is a thought:
Can we build out competencies in drones and use them for cargo payload delivery in territories to subsidize delivery and drive down costs for food, medicine and other goods in the north?
This wouldn't necessarily be cost effective for the Canadian government, but it would be strategic in that we would...
be developing technologies (batteries, computer vision, flight),
having utility and real world usage.
expressing Northern sovereignty.
A thought, I'm not fully versed in the logistic challenges in remote communities.
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Canada will absolutely buy the F-35 cost and capabilities are of little consequence. What matters is a bribe to trump.
Only way Canada goes grippen is if the Canada pension plan makes a huge Blockchain investment in Melania and Trump coin.
In case that’s not sarcasm
The weapon system of every F35 is lock behind a server in Texas « for security ». So if the US attacks this F35 won’t do shit
“Using bright colours to drive the message home for the hard of thinking”
Was it released by the conservatives?
It is no secret that our DND likes the F35 a lot more for its capabilities...
But do we want to tie our air force to another American digital subscription?
Is LineageOS for microG legit?
Is this as safe as installing Lineage OS, microG, and F-Droid seperately? I am thinking to finally make the jump away from Android (and preferrably all of Google) and this looks like a really really handy solution. Perhaps too handy, if you get my drift. Is this a legit project or is it just a wrapper to send all my data to Tel Aviv?
With enough time and coffee I think I could eventually manage to install Lineage OS, microG, and F-Droid individually but LineageOS for microG seems to have it all wrapped in a bow for me.
TIA!
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I am thinking to finally make the jump away from AndroidLineageOS
Um... What?
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Just Nomenclature to make your Google searches more fruitful
My favorite part of this post is that I asked a question before even dipping my toes into the world of custom ROMs and literally 40 seconds after I posted, JASN_DE hit me up with the equivalent of "akshully it's GNU/Linux" XD
It's like Stevie Wonder said, "Nerds, keep on nerdin" lol ❤
And? You were wrong and got corrected, no reason to get your panties in a twist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Take the L and keep going.
Take the L and keep going.
This is solid advice.
I still don't get it though, and I'm sure there's a lot of terminology I don't know yet about custom ROMs so maybe that's where the misunderstanding lies. Are you telling me that LineageOS is the same operating system as the Android I already have on my phone? No, right?
I feel like this is like saying "I'm going to delete Ubuntu off my laptop and install Pop!_OS" and someone comes along and says "akshully POP!_OS is Ubuntu!" or saying they're both Debian or something.
What you said is like "i'm going to delete linux and install ubuntu", but then there's not really a name for the android that comes with your phone. "stock android" probably is the closest term you get to distinguish between the OS family and the thing actually installed, but all the companies customize their android, so it's not like there's just one "stock android".
i mean, I'm sure samsung has some term for their android, but i doubt anyone use this outside of samsung.
An astute observation, franzbroetchen. The OS in LineageOS literally stands for Operating System, which ima change. On my phone. From Android to LineageOS.
You've gotta look at the context of the words sometimes, comrade. I am not looking to change my Android phone into an Apple phone lol
Is legit.
I would recommend installing them separately however because of personal experience but on paper it shouldn't matter.
Nothing bricking, just some compatibility issues I had and being stuck to microg releases was not my ideal way to go.
Installing them separately is really easy so no need to worry. Basically you install lineage then droidify and you can install microg services from there.
You can always use F-Droid or the official APK from Github to update microg.
Normal Lineage needs a Magisk module or flashable zip to allow microg as network location provider. That's been pre-done with LOS4ug
Yes, it's legit. Very importantly it ships microg as a system app, so network location can be used. This doesn't work without a patch or root module otherwise.
Keep in mind you'll only get updates monthly instead of weekly versus LineagOS.
Lastly, this is still Android. You'll just be switching away from the Google-infested Android to one with mostly open source components.
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
- Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day.
- The work is done through opaque networks of middlemen and WhatsApp groups that operate like digital factory floors.
- Kenya’s weak labor protections and soaring youth unemployment have made it a hot spot for cheap AI labor, prompting officials and unions to warn of a new form of digital colonialism as the government rushes to draft regulations.
Chinese tech companies hire Kenyan workers for AI training - Rest of World
Unemployed young people are hired over WhatsApp for low-wage data labeling jobs.Munira Mutaher (Rest of World)
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law?
Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island.
The monumental cedar stood in what was one of the few intact or nearly intact old-growth valleys left on the island, says Wright, an advocate who also recorded the sounds of marbled murrelet birds — a threatened species under federal law — within the same forest.
Wright measured the cedar's diameter at 2.79 metres, a size that should have ensured protection for the tree, along with a one-hectare logging buffer under provincial law.
But when he returned to the area south of Gold River in June, Wright says the tree had been felled as part of a logging operation approved by the province.
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I think I read that these trees won’t grow again, because of climate change. They grew up in an oxygen rich humid environment and that’s not there anymore. Without these trees, the forests dramatically change.
A notice posted on B.C.'s Forest Operations Map website shows the yellow cedar was felled in an area where Matchlee Ltd. Partnership, majority owned by Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, holds a non-renewable forest licence.
Remember this when someone says that the precolonial peoples should take priority in environmental decisions.
ETA - but also remember this when anyone has environmental thoughts. Follow the money!
I don’t “paint all indigenous peoples with the same brush”. However, assuming their standpoint takes priority regardless of context would fit that description.
It has been many years since colonizers came and disrupted the way of life in Canada. It is importantly to think critically, whether the speaker is indigenous or colonial. More often than not, money beats out environmental concerns when humans are involved
Considering that their Nations stewarded this land for thousands of years and they learned firsthand how to do that through their own scientific lens, yes, they should have a say in how WE steward THEIR lands.
You literally used the argument that the actions of one indigenous owned company means we should be weary of how all indigenous voices are heard and respected. I don’t think you can talk your way out of the racism of that.
Obviously, no true First Nations person would disrespect their land, just as no true Scotsman puts sugar on their oatmeal.
I said be critical of everyone. Even - especially - the environmental organizations.
I said be critical of everyone. Even - especially - the environmental organizations.
That's not really what you said ... but whatever I guess.
Why would an oxygen rich Environment help trees grow bigger? They consume CO2 and exhale Oxygen. If anything they should grow better in a CO2 rich Environment.
Prehistoric insects were larger because of an oxygen rich Environment, but I don't think that applies to plants.
Truthfully I don’t remember what the reason was; it was multiple variables, but I don’t know what the variables were.
In any case, there’s vanishingly few of these trees remaining.
Conservationists are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers walking back a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes, less than a year after the rules came into effect.
Winnipeg has had shitty city halls for decades. Our very wealthy mayor seems to be keeping the ball rolling.
Winnipeg is a barrier for development. No one wants to be there.
E: lmao. Downvote me, but I lived there for 3 years, and have family there. I like to rag on the city lol.
They literally just want them to put IR stickers on certain windows so that birds can tell that there's something there and not fly into them. The 'stickers' are mostly invisible to the human eye, and cost practically nothing, especially in terms of the cost of a real estate project.
Npr had a great story about how successful these changes are at protecting migrating birds
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