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Technology amplifies this, greatly. In a non-digital era our field of view was narrow, expanding either to our immediate physical surroundings or, when we went beyond them, limited…

That's not really how that works. Certain crops are edible but we don't want them to spread too much because they easily overtake other, more fragile species. This applies to black…

Egan is one of those rare writers where reading his book made me realize just how much smarter he is than me. Not even in a negative way, it's simply like listening to a lecture by…

Don't want to praise scammers, but that is a very clever trick still. Especially since it preys on the mark being too happy about getting flowers for free to think straight. One co…

Couldn't they argue that these royalties don't apply if payments aren't routed through the core platform? Such as saying "oh, well, the user paid through the web version of Spotify…

I think it is but there's plenty of Irish characters in British shows.

I didn't realize "gobshite" is supposed to be rare, but I guess all the British shows I've seen are to blame. Thinking about it, I probably couldn't name a single person in real li…

At least Windows had the decency to make their ridiculous straight-to-LinkedIn keyboard shortcut obscure. Applications auto-launching should not be a thing unless the user set them…

All the discussion is rightfully around the art bits of this article, but I'm an absolute mess thanks to those paragraphs about the author's mom. So gutting to have this juxtaposit…

Seems like they will really push VisionOS, which is cool. Hopefully this leads to innovative ways to use it, because those initial videos of pasta timers and "smarter" vacuuming we…

Frankly, while it’s obviously terrible if you ever want people to actually use it, I’m glad it’s so convoluted because I’d be majorly pissed if some other shortcut I use in some so…

I think it’s both: climate change as the origin of the freak thunderstorm and their absolute lack of working sewers and drainage systems is the cause of all that water accumulating…

> banning foreign property ownership Don't you worry, a completely local conglomerate will gladly buy all those houses and that conglomerate may be owned by foreign citizens, but t…

To be fair, the article probably gives all the details it can, what do people expect? They can't share information that they don't have or that the police aren't willing to divulge…

Wow, I haven't heard of this one before. I'm no couch potato these days, but that's the kind of feat that makes me realize I am far from fit, it seems insanely difficult to even na…

Not to mention that we need to clearly define what we're talking about when we say "advertising". Do influencers flaunting new outfits every video count? People who post intentiona…

While there is usually some big case that then defines things like this, I'm worried whether any incidents of a person dying or developing life-threatening issues due their phone b…

I've used Seek and, yes, if this is what the current capabilities are like, we are not ready to use AI for new species discovery.

It's not exactly that simple, especially the part where AI would somehow differentiate extremely visually similar species from each other, while in near-complete darkness and on th…

> But how fortunate, a man raping a man isn't actually "rape". Its just "sexual assault". Why exactly are you making this statement in a thread based on an article that explicitly …

> Also, what beans and roast profile? Espresso? Crema? Filter? For what it's worth, and I know I'm playing right into the funny part here, every time I talked to people who deal wi…

I'm amused that people call ants doing pretty human behavioral quirks "scary". Obviously the implication is that they're smarter than we knew, but I'm giggling imagining some other…

Well, Chappelle's Show was a matter of him not wanting to do it due to compensation issues. Had no idea Deadwood was an actual hit, though, I assumed it was one of those "cult foll…

It's always amusing when I see an old show described as a hit only to run for 3 years. Today's hits (Grey's Anatomy, The Simpsons, any sufficiently popular show on Showtime) are mi…

> I also see a lot of tourist and noticed they look at me, a local, like I'm a (non-human) animal. How exactly is that expressed? I often gawk at things and people on the streets w…