Ah yes, the "independent" news outlet that was totally not set up by the European version of the National Endowment for Democracy, i.e. the CIA's public propaganda arm. Also totally not funded by the Canadian government, also totally not aggressively pushed right from its inception just a few months before the Ukraine war by Twitter's algorithms to people who never chose to subscribe to it.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/people-overestimate-the-us...
Nope, just honest grassroots journalism funded by regular people and not pushing any government's agenda.
> There was nothing inherent in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which called for this specific response from all the specific nations who have chosen to participate in it
Really. I think she meant there were many possible ways to respond to the invasion, some of which may not have needed to involve a grave boomerang hit against the Western population's purchasing power and living standard - especially in the EU - but since that's what Washington/Langley wanted done, and since they have the overwhelming propaganda power to make everyone believe that was the only right choice, that's what got done, end of story. And most people still today see no problem with that having been presented as the "only option", not even in the face of it having utterly failed to produce the intended changes in Moscow and in the course of the conflict.
Like running out of unskilled people to import, especially in these times of rapid emancipation of countries that used to be forcefully held down in an undeveloped state so they could be used precisely as reservoirs of natural resources and cheap labor, to be tapped at will. Witness the collapse of 200 years of "economic theory" in the White Racist West that was basically just some shiny wrapping over the doctrine of "well we will just rob all those other countries that can't defend themselves".
*leading orchestrator of propaganda alongside the US, which has the most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world, more effective even than its actual military
All you need is to check the miles-long list of antidemocratic coups d'etat organized by - or with the critical support of - the US, and what the press or the public thought at the time if you asked them if the US was doing that.
You seem to be indicating that the US actions were bad.
But after those actions, that's what many people wanted after simply reading/listening to some words.
Even if you say what the US is disseminating is not "true" (or misleading), it is debatable that truth matters more than the people's "preferences".
And it's debatable that other country's preferences matter more than the US people's. What's wrong with the US spreading it's view of morality (such as human rights)?
The US is the greatest country in the world. I learned that in school and don't need to worry about whether it's true. Now and when the time comes, I will be a good citizen.
"The demand for more Innovation (and sometimes even the request for more research) has become a way to legitimize not doing anything. A way to say “the unpleasant solutions we have are not perfect but in the future there might be a magic solution that doesn’t bother us and everyone gets a fucking unicorn”."
I for one am sticking to this view that there's a U-shaped benefit/risk curve and for healthy people eating salt according to taste lands us just where we need to be. I'll change my opinion when I see this theory debunked: https://necsi.edu/how-much-sodium-should-we-eat
Extra anecdotal info: when I had to take IV antibiotics 2/day for 10 days for an ugly pneumonia they were preparing those in a big syringe of isotonic salt solution aka. physiological serum. During that time of getting daily salt water injections I noticed many foods I was very familiar with and eating regularly suddenly started to taste waaay too salty to me, and it all returned to normal after stopping the injections. So I know for a fact that my body adapts its taste for salt depending on how much salt it already has available.
It's possible that people with underlying health conditions (that might make them more sensitive to salt) naturally tend to consume less salt because of their health issues. Similarly, those with certain health issues might be advised by doctors to restrict their salt intake, leading to the "low salt = poor health" part of the U shape.
It's reverse causality for the low end. Almost nobody is on a low sodium diet.
OK, interesting to think about, but it seems a pretty wild hypothesis - not only do we have to assume these studies that revealed the U shape were so bad they failed to control for some massive health issues of some participants, the intervention itself of severely restricting salt intake failed to do what was advertised and still put these people on a rising slope of negative outcomes.
Just as I thought, half the use-cases are for 'arts people', whether writers or critics, so I would never ask an LLM those questions myself, nor would - I estimate - the majority of humanity. Then some of the things in there could be simple web searches on some keywords that are already so far outside everyday vocabulary that they'd likely give you very relevant pages in the first 10 results (like the "base load in energy systems" one). Overall this kind of article does nothing to prove LLMs are not a gigantic waste of energy doing mostly things for which this isn't necessarily the best solution. It's just getting used because it's out there and it's new, and we're addicted to novelty, especially technological novelty.
Never cared about Pebble's fitness/health tracking and never used it. I don't need my health reported to me in numbers every day, I'm not a performance athlete nor a hospital patient. Living my personal life trying to hit some numbers dictated to me by some app sounds like a horrifying idea, like a second work life at home.
Still rocking my Time Steel since 2015, still running the same official version of the software on both watch and phone - as far as my Pebble is concerned nothing much has changed in the last decade except the app store mysteriously went offline, and the battery no longer lasts two weeks (shutting it down every time I get home).
Really awesome to hear by the time this little guy gives up the ghost there might already be a legitimate/official successor available to switch to.
Huge bezel though. Would've got it if not for the bezel, I really wanted to make a custom 24h watchface for a Round. Went for the Time Steel instead. Hope in this new leg of the journey they can get a Round to have bezel coverage more on par with the rectangular models.
Agreed, the bezel was too big! I had a time steel as well, but it had a huge bezel too. I'm partial to the round designs anyway and let's hope the technology has improved so much that the bezel can be removed completely
Ehh, I don't even think super-miniaturized components are needed to improve that ratio - it was already the thinnest smartwatch ever, I imagine some clever component rearranging and accepting a bit more thickness could get us some visible bezel reduction.
Huh. I appreciate what they did with the tech there, but looking at this Bangle.js the first thing that comes to mind is I hope NuPebble(?) doesn't adopt that excessively-curvy-rectangle shape that screams Apple Watch, I've learned to recoil in disgust even seeing that shape.
Nope, just honest grassroots journalism funded by regular people and not pushing any government's agenda.