But others have said she does little more than produce rage bait, with what one Times staffer referred to as “intellectually lazy” positions. “It is a rarity inside the Times for someone to manage to make enemies on every desk they touch; Pamela is indeed a rarity,” one newsroom employee said.
Overall, the review paper found that fluoride exposure for kids was associated with lower IQs. But don’t get on board with the talk of banning fluoride just yet: These results come with some major caveats that are pretty obvious once you start reading the research included in the meta-analysis.
Even adjusted for inflation those hot cross buns would have only cost 84p each (or 42p for the buy one get one free)
What’s with the car alarms that like, rotate through every possible car alarm sound sequentially? Is the idea that eventually one of them is good enough to get the thief to stop trying to steal your car?
New pet peeve: people finding out that certain English words were borrowed from another language and immediately concluding that they’ve been pronouncing them “wrong” their entire life.
Shrugging off driver misconduct is the wrong prescription for racial and economic inequities—Black pedestrians face a mortality rate more than double that of white ones. More than anyone, vulnerable people need the vigorous protection of the law, not an abdication of that paramount public service.
Pointing at climate change seems relevant, as does wonkier stuff like talking about failed NEPA review policies and forest mismanagement. Then there’s the other folks, who know that a big disaster is really just an opportunity to post about whatever you were already planning to talk about.
In the desire to always side with the oppressed and vulnerable, certain folks have decided that public spaces, especially public transportation, should be a free-for-all for chaos and anti-social behavior—and children, not violent adults, should be excluded from public spaces.
It brings me no pleasure that in fifty years all the “During the pandemic? You mean now?” people are going to turn into “During the pandemic? You mean during one of seven pandemics?” people.
Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that people seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights.
More and more the experience of using Apple Intelligence notification summaries is subconsciously figuring out what the awkward phrasing is supposed to mean, looking at the actual notification, reading it to see what it actually meant, and then trying to justify why the AI summarized it that way.
When we lost visual richness in software, we lost a requirement to think about design with regards to how it looks. That’s not just making it look nice, that’s making sure that we visually communicate the UI successfully. It’s very unfortunate that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater.
Hopefully, if we can isolate the specific parts of the ’90s that we miss (or, for people too young to remember, the things we think we miss based on our memory of TV shows) we can make those things a reality. Because the more of us participate, the easier it is.
Most people who agree with the slogan interpret it to express a moderate position, while most people who disagree take it to describe a more extreme position (endorsed by a minority of those who agree). These results show that online discourse can foment both false controversy and false consensus.
Too often, we focus on mental health and substance abuse challenges at the expense of recognizing the economic forces that drive homelessness. The crucial reason most people experience homelessness is a shortage of affordable housing.
The truth is that wealthier couples can at least in part avoid or decrease these conflicts by outsourcing some of the more fundamental tasks (some of the cleaning, some of the childcare), which may be one reason why better-educated couples are more likely to get and stay married.
When we think of Tesla as a half-mad genius whose work was driven by flashes of profound inspiration and of Edison as a dogged but ordinary man slow plugging away at problems with a systematic method, we must accept that the latter is what most science is actually like.
Ideally we should be taking reasonable actions to reduce the likelihood of kids getting any diseases at all. However, I’m personally no more concerned by COVID-19 than anything else that she’s likely to pick up at daycare. Because of this opinion, someone implied that I was a murderer.
Like many of the migrants I spoke with in New York, María and Mercedes said that their decision to leave Colta was at least partly influenced by TikToks they’d seen—videos very similar to the ones they were making now.
Society has become more aware of the first group and more accepting of the first group over time, but this has also led to explosive growth in the second, who are now empowered to be pricks about anything they want and claim ‘autism’. Once you see this pattern once, you start to see it everywhere.
The framing of such a prompt can be something like this for users on Apple devices: Want to avoid having to check your email next time? Set up a passkey to use Face ID or Touch ID to sign in quickly and securely.
That means making the experience worse for many people, and they are entitled to be upset about that and even call it “enshittification” if they want. But Doctorow and those who cite him want to draw sweeping ideological or public policy conclusions from this, when the point seems kind of banal.