Epstein was almost entirely Democrats. As the Democrat victims have said, Trump was never involved. Pushing unsubstantiated conspiracy claims distracts from the actual crimes and disrespects the survivors by weaponizing their trauma.

Every time humanity invents a tool that fundamentally changes how we live, a wave of panic follows. When writing was invented Socrates warned it would ruin our memories. When the printing press arrived, critics claimed that an overload of books would make people foolish and immoral. steam trains were feared, with experts claiming that traveling at the high speed of 30 miles per hour would cause the human body to disintegrate or drive passengers insane. In every case, these technologies did not destroy us; they simply became normal parts of daily life. Todays fears about AI are being heavily pushed by the tech companies themselves, but for a very different reason. By keeping everyone focused on sci-fi scenarios about killer robots ending the world, these corporations divert attention from immediate & real-world lawsuits. They are actively lobbying governments for protection against copyright theft claims and suing for immunity when their systems cause real world harm. Calling for strict safety regulations allows them to create a "regulatory moat", making it too expensive and legally risky for smaller competitors or open-source projects to survive, while keeping the big players legally protected.

That's a point in favor of their humanity, technically.

Turn off anonymous cowardice before complaining that people won't debate you, you two.

Actually what he wrote was that seeing British and English flags flying high during Tommy Robinson's march was "both odd to see but also heartwarming". He comment was about the the flags not the person.

He has come out against men playing in women sports leagues and has come out against open borders.
Which right there placing he as a supporter of genocide.

However back to reality, he has not commented much but reading over his comments on global human rights, he looks to emphasizes minimizing civilian suffering and he focus on government oppression and that does line up with him being against open borders.

Propaganda is always easier when you're armed with a bloody good point. So try to not let the enemy have those.

The reason people go for less effective filters is that it takes less force to push air through them, which lets you put more air through it with the same force/noise. The filters have a similar particle profile, they are all very good at stopping tiny particles and very good at stopping larger particles, and comparatively worse at particles between 0.1 and 0.3 microns. It's just that a HEPA grade filter stops 99.7% or more of those hardest particles, whereas a MERV 13 filter (the most common furnace-grade throughput-optimized filter grade) stops 85%.

People who haven't looked into it probably imagine that there exists some small size of particle which HEPA stops but non-HEPA filters let through. But that isn't so. All particles which gets stopped by one gets stopped by the other, the difference is just at what rate - and the smallest particles are actually easier to stop (something to do with Brownian motion)

Not anything with "ionization". Ionized air is a cute name for ozone. Ozone causes all the problems to your lungs that you clean air to avoid (well, except COVID infection I guess).

I wouldn't go for UV either since it either produces ozone or is quite bad to get exposed to depending on frequency range.

Get an air filter with high throughput. HEPA is standard, but many people argue that lower grade filters with higher throughput can be more noise efficient.

Hard to have sympathy with Elsevier, but this reeks of a failed COVID snake oil get-rich-quick schemer blaming someone else for not succeeding.

There were such people on TV too, if you watched the right (wrong) channels. Often music show hosts. The director wasn't prescient, he just was in touch with a trashy culture which hadn't quite hit mainstream yet.

That's interesting, because the main thing I've heard about him is that he did turn into a dickhole, having a reputation for being extremely cynical in his pursuit of clicks and profit and abusive to his staff.

Also fighting among themselves. Don't see this mentioned yet, but "Round Hill Music" is a copyright troll, a private equity roll-up buying up music catalogs to "monetize them" in ways like this. Independent music publisher my ass. No creative endeavor whatever is served by money accumulating to this entity.

That was an infamously bad ruling, and a good reminder of how the court system actually works when a judge thinks you're some long-haired furriner freak.

It's cargo cult logic. The rules only matter when the outcome doesn't. Everyone has a good impression of the court system until they come in contact with it.

Tunng, "The Wind-up Bird" sampled two lines from the film. They were apparently forced to take them out.
Copyright estates do far more damage than any book scanning project.