I was replying to person concerned about rodents used in lab testing, mice.

but there you go, getting triggered about your phobias and going apeshit.

AFAICT, people with ink generally have more kids than those who don't.

It's worth noting that the way you remove them is by making them stop just sitting there, to the degree they do. The various approaches ultimately just try to break the ink up into smaller pieces that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and carried throughout the body... hopefully to get filtered out by the kidneys and liver and then excreted, but who knows? It seems likely to me that tattoo removal may create exactly the same effects as tattoo application, but moreso.

it means samsung's phone spell correction wins over English, sperg-boy.

Linguists call them "radicals". bÃjiÃn is what the Chinese call them, and I can't wait to see what Slashdot's ancient code does with that when I hit "submit"

lolz, good luck getting the code that runs the site now. Slashcode's last commit was 17 years ago

At work copilot spies on all the the work the PC and laptop do, bogging them down and offering bizzare avant garde prose.

"Use ai for everything" said the new CIO, and within two months the email, documentation, meeting agendas, plans became vague AI spew without meaning. The over a million customers started complaining about the ai hallucinations offered up by the helpdesk.

Good times. I'll probably leave.

Have you ever been rear-ended? I have, twice. Both times while I was stopped at a red light, so fault was absolutely incontestable. It's their fault, but you end up without a car. Sure, their insurance has to pay, but they only have to give you what it's worth, not what it will cost you to replace it, and the difference is significant. Not to mention that you could be injured. Your hospital bills will be covered, but you were still injured and have to deal with pain, the recovery, and maybe even some amount of permanent damage. My neck has never been quite right after the second time I was rear-ended.

They would have done that after slamming on the brakes in a vain attempt to avoid hitting the dog, possibly losing control of their vehicle, and possibly causing a collision with other cars or objects. If their reaction failed to cause a serious accident, then maybe they'd have sped away.

Until last month, Waymo only allowed their cars to drive on city streets, no freeway driving. Even now, freeway usage is limited, only for selected riders (I'm not sure what the selection criteria is).

So, basically all of Waymo's millions of miles are on streets that often have animals on them.

Sure, there would be concern, but unless you're dumb you will still pick the option with the 90% lower mortality/harm rate. Yeah, it's good to investigate and fix the problem (assuming fixing the problem doesn't increase the mortality rate), but you should still use the provably better option.

Also, why it didn't attempt to stop (if it didn't). If it didn't attempt to stop because it correctly determined that attempting to stop would risk causing a more serious accident with other vehicles on the road, that's not only good, it's better than the vast majority of human drivers.

Only 600 or so primatives make up the written languages derived from the Chinese "bone script", and only a few primatives make up 99% the characters. A rule based system could make quick work of rendering the five thousand or so logographics in common use from the primatives. We have the cpu cycles for it now.

Japanese can be written using Romanji, already a solved problem.

All Japanese high school students study English anyway.

So, we already live in that world.

Why do well fed and comfortable people care about vermin so much?

You're funny, most people don't have tattoos. somewhat less than a third.

Generally people with poor self-image graffiti their body permanently.