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Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 122

Did you even look at your link? Here is a quote from your "source": Wales â" 75% of households have â" or could have â" off-street parking and EV charging

Or could have... interesting.

Maybe don't rely on watching rando YT videos of police chases of teens on e-bikes

I said EUCs and e-scooters. They are real people going real places. The videos are not AI, so I can see with my own eyes what it looks like there. I have spent less than 24 hours in the UK, but what I saw with my own eyes also covers what I saw through the camera lens. The cop chases and such are random videos, but are also "real", not AI.

We can focus on the fact that lots of people won't be able to benefit from home charging off-street, or we can focus on the fact that substantially more people *will*.

"Will"? Really? I am from the USA, promises are utterly fucking worthless and to be derided as the lies they are. Let me know when there is sufficient infrastructure and we can talk again.

Submission + - NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.

This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for decades, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers.

The space agency's satellites and spacecraft are particularly vulnerable to the weakened magnetic field within the anomaly, and the resulting exposure to charged particles from the Sun.

Submission + - Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: A new, small study suggests children with autism, ADHD, and anorexia

share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more in common with each other than with their healthy, neurotypical peers.

Led by researchers from Comenius University in Slovakia, the study used stool samples to assess the gut microbiomes of 117 children.

The exploratory study included 30 boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 21 girls with anorexia nervosa, and 14 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The remaining samples were from age- and sex-matched healthy and neurotypical children, providing a control group.

Submission + - AI-induced psychosis: The danger of humans and machines hallucinating together (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: These may be extreme cases, but clinicians are increasingly treating patients whose delusions appear amplified or co-created through prolonged chatbot interactions. Little wonder, when a recent report from ChatGPT-creator OpenAI revealed that many of us are turning to chatbots to think through problems, discuss our lives, plan futures and explore beliefs and feelings.

In these contexts, chatbots are no longer just information retrievers; they become our digital companions. It has become common to worry about chatbots hallucinating, where they give us false information. But as they become more central to our lives, there's clearly also growing potential for humans and chatbots to create hallucinations together.

Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 122

Ok, I understand again.

I would like for you to provide sources for the 70% off-street parking. I do not live in the UK; however, I have seen numerous videos of the UK: EUC riding and electric scooter riding has diminished a lot over the past year or two, but even still, police chases, etc provide lots of video evidence of what is going on in the UK... and I have to admit, almost every street with houses on it has cars parked on the side of the road. I guess that in the UK there are lots of people living in one house so all of the garages are filled and the streets are lined with parked cars. I get it... but, you have to provide a source for your claim because on its face, it is completely outrageous... which is why I misunderstood "off street parking".

Regardless of any of that, it is still true that many people can not charge "at home", which negates many of the benefits of having an electric vehicle.

Comment Re:It a guidebook... (Score 1) 243

So to demonstrate your sincerity in the discussion, list for us the specific skills you do want your tax dollars to teach in schools.

While I am not OP and probably not even in agreement with OP, I think this is a fantastic question: Reading, writing, arithmetic (of course the basics), unvarnished history, critical thinking, foundations of philosophy, advanced maths* (geometry, trigonometry, light calculus), English, a foreign language, athletics/gymnastics, art, music (with theory), and Civics/Government.

But; most important of all, none of this is based on age groups; rather, ability groups. Nobody should be artificially held back for the convenience of the System.

*advanced for children under 18

Submission + - Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests (sciencealert.com) 1

schwit1 writes: Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.

Psychiatrist John McGrath and colleagues at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research in Australia looked at papers published over the last 44 years in 11 countries, including the US and the UK.

Their 2023 review found "a significant positive association between broadly defined cat ownership and an increased risk of schizophrenia-related disorders."

T. gondii is a mostly harmless parasite that can be transmitted through undercooked meat or contaminated water. It can also be transmitted through an infected cat's feces.

Estimates suggest that T. gondii infects about 40 million people in the US, typically without any symptoms. Meanwhile, researchers keep finding more strange effects that infections may have.

Once inside our bodies, T. gondii can infiltrate the central nervous system and influence neurotransmitters. The parasite has been linked to personality changes, the emergence of psychotic symptoms, and some neurological disorders, including schizophrenia.

Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 122

I do not understand your anger. I, personally, can not charge at home. Your numbers indicate that 70% of UK vehicles are parked out in the street, which corroborates my statement.
I am glad that some areas are trying to take this seriously and installing street charging; however, where I live, there is zero indication that anyone is even considering it; therefore, my statement about realizing that many people's needs are not being met. So why the hostility? What fake facts did I spew? It sucks that you viewed straight text as pomposity; however, I have no control over how other people interpret things.

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