It's almost like correlation studies look at multiple different correlations in an attempt to determine the cause. But I like the stupidity of your point. Are you suggesting Parkinson's people cause noise? I mean sure if they have a rock guitar in their hands...

Ubiquitous and not-encouraged are not mutually exclusive. Yeah everyone owns cars here (though typically less than 2/3s the number of America, and even some countries below half) but ownership is well and truly being discouraged in *many* major cities. From increasing parking permit costs to making whole neighbourhoods car free zones, to increasingly insane registration fees, there is definitely a downward pressure on ownership.

Noise does not correlate well to pollution especially since a lot of noise is generated in roadways in a localised way. You can see this by looking at any city with decent air quality monitoring and looking how the air quality is highly localised at highways, while road noise very much isn't.

Oh and the study literally says "Having a quiet facade mitigated this association." Which is uncorrelated at all to pollution.

Did you even read your link? Scroll to the bottom, the claim is made there.

What do you mean "will be"? Cult is a good word to scream. It perfectly describes people who ignore the realities around them. Congratulations on being worse off than before, and yet not realising it because you're too busy kneeling at the altar.

Personally I would not want to live within 3 miles of the perimeter of a data center, but the summary really mixes up issues. On-site generation, presumably around a >300MW scale, should be regulated as a power plant from an environmental perspective. Diesel generators are hopefully just a backup, and at 80 hours of operation per year I would not stress about them myself. It really sounds like they shopped regulators in this case.

Was it though? The coins they got actually looked like what they bought, the only caveat being AI generated a much larger looking coin in one of the images. Yes people actually do fall for this stuff. You can see angry reviews on the product.

But the problem runs deeper, some of us occasionally are in the market for some cheap Chinese crap trinket, and at least int he past someone has poorly photoshopped the product into a picture, but at least you still had a picture of the actual product.

They are amusing to see and belong in a picture gallery, not an image depicting the product you're about to spend money on. The problem is most of they are woefully dishonest.

Are they? Can you point to specific law or rule that says that? As far as I can tell it's only ever been an excuse or optics. Note this isn't a bad thing. Selective screening is far more effective than random screening which is why most countries don't even pretend they are doing the latter.

Well their product evidently works very well, so well that it's enabling jerks to be a whole new level of jerk.

I think you underestimate how big that market segment is.

Maybe not. We're well and truly in the age of agents generating prompts for AI generating prompts for other AI. The hallucination could very much have happened at the top, it could also have been an automated action.

I have an AI agent that runs periodically doing automated crap at work, and every so often it generates absolutely baffling rubbish outputs. If this is feeding another AI input it could very well have been doing exactly what was asked of it, even if not asked by a human.

You never did own anything, you just thought you did, and breached the license terms because no one could stop you.

You've never owned a game. Not in the 90s, not now. But back then the tech wasn't available to control you or force you to obey the license terms you agreed to.

Well technically none of the EU related benefits have really been seen outside the EU. Tech companies do geofence compliance. That is both good and bad. On the one side you don't really benefit from e.g. changes in App store rules in the USA without winning an American court case, but on the other at least you're not getting cookie popups.

No. Toggles for default plug and play capability should not be disabled. I will buy that there should be a popup asking if the software be installed, but defaulting useful features for general consumers to "off" is just toxic towards users.