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Comment Re:Regulatory agencies gutted (Score 2) 83

Right.

It takes both money and asserts power and control against states specifically. The compliance policy, the nanosecond it's enforced, breaches the 10th. The conspiracy to breach the 10th would be mooted.

And yes, it's mob boss shit. And what he's done to universities also breaches numerous US Constitutional Amendments, but because universities are at the nipple of federal dollars, they dare not move. This is the universities' problem, the subservience and fealty to new royalty. That they don't litigate effectively shows the strength of their spine.

The MAGA governors in lockstep with The Executive are now losing battles, viz Indiana's rejection of redistricting for gerrymandering purposes.

Look where DOGE is today, disbanded and debunked, leaving only damage and disservice in its wake, many battles in the courts lost, and no happiness left behind.

There are ways to prevent a race to the bottom. Law with spine, rather law with genuflection will turn the tide, as it has in the past.

Comment Re:People that are otherwise rational (Score 1) 118

I wouldn't call plant-based meat alternatives "healthy" unless your idea of healthy is dying of salt poisoning.

Meat is delicious, but a vegan diet is perfectly healthy.

I'm talking specifically about the meat substitutes that try to taste like meat. There are ways to have a healthy vegan diet, but a lot of the plant-based burgers and fake meat tend to be loaded up with large amounts of sodium salt. So switching to those because you think they are healthier may actually be way worse than not doing so.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 192

Typically, for people with low vision, the serifs significantly degrade legibility.

This isn't actually true. For screens with low resolution, because of the way scaling works, serifs can degrade legibility, but because of the way human brains and eyes do superresolution with micro-eye movements to compensate for poor visual acuity, serifs should not degrade readability even if your vision is blurry.

More to the point, I have to scale up sans-serif fonts a lot more than serif fonts to work well with my eyesight. So I'm saying this from personal experience.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 192

Serifs are _only_ for ease of reading if your printing technology is not very good. As soon as you do not have that problem, sans-serif fonts are significantly superior.

You actually have it entirely backwards. Serifs require a higher resolution to render, or else thin lines can disappear entirely. That's why some people incorrectly think that sans-serif fonts are more readable on screen; their screens simply aren't good enough to render serifs properly. (Pedantically, this means that sans-serif fonts are more readable on crappy screens.)

But if you have a screen with a high enough resolution to render them properly, fonts with serifs significantly increase reading comprehension and speed of reading for large blocks of normal-sized text. (citation, original book) And while it is possible to reduce the difficulty of reading sans-serif fonts through careful design, IMO, there's no good reason to believe that a version of Calibri with serifs would not still be more readable.

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 192

To be fair, some serif fonts sometimes need 600 DPI to prevent lines from disappearing entirely because of poor font scaling software.

But the flip side is that assuming the serifs don't disappear because of scaling deficiencies, they are way more readable at small font sizes, particularly for people whose vision is not perfect. It is dramatically more legible to me than Calibri.

Submission + - 97% Of Buildings On Earth 3D Mapped (nature.com)

Gilmoure writes: Imagine a video game with the world's buildings already mapped in basic spatial dimensions!

"Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world . The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for 97% of buildings on Earth.

The data set, published in the open-access journal Earth System Science Data on 1 December1, covers 2.75 billion buildings, each mapped with footprints and heights at a spatial resolution of 3 metres by 3 metres.

The 3D map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning, according to study co-author Xiaoxiang Zhu, an Earth observation data scientist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany."

– nature.com

Comment Re:“Country” (Score 4, Insightful) 229

I lived in the US in the past, and I still come for vacation and to climb in Yosemite and Utah every once in a while, but you can bet your ass I won't show up if I have to give my passwords and prove I did not disparage 'Dear Leader'. Indeed, I'll even say it here for the record: Trump is a piece of shit, a pedo, a conman, a rapist, a felon; and his entire administration is corrupt to the bone. Here.

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