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Comment Re: Houses (Score 1) 266

The reason houses are more expensive is that prices are now predicated on two incomes.
A generation or so ago, when women by and large created the communities and support structures of the first world, the price of a house was predicated on one income. Childcare was also communal (where you could leave a child with a friend if you both needed to be doing something).
The actual cost of the job that women were doing (and yes, I do consider making a home and community as a job) is now being seen, and unless you have a well paid job, childcare will easily eat one salary if you have two or more kids.

So now, people are leaving it later to try and have kids, in order to be financially viable in the new market conditions. Sadly, quite a few are realising they've left it a little late.

Comment Gemini is far more transparent on this vs ChatGPT (Score 1) 74

The controls you have over your personal data in ChatGPT are far, far, *FAR* less than Google gives you with Gemini.

With Gemini, I can browse through all of the records, see whats there, choose what to delete. I can't do any of this with ChatGPT, it is a total black box.

Comment Not surprising it's more toxic (Score 5, Insightful) 85

As Glyphosate is not toxic (apart from repeatedly swimming in it and guzzling it by the pints daily) to mammals.
The whole reason it's frowned on is because Lawyers got involved, and because scientists couldn't say "Without a doubt, Glyphosate does not cause cancer" it got marked as a carcinogen. There again, scientists will never say "without a doubt", as there is always room for doubt in anything but the most settled of science, after decades or centuries of analysis. The data shows Glyphosate as being safe, and it being "extremely unlikely" that there is any connection between normal exposure to Glyphosate and cancer. It's one of the safest herbicides around, if not the safest for mammals. So it's no surprise that anything that is used instead is more toxic.

Comment Who asked for any of this? (Score 2) 43

I don't know of anyone who said "I would really like to buy an iPhone, but the look of the buttons is holding it back"

There are far more core usability challenges in iOS. Apple to this day can't even figure out how to make a consistent back or menu function in their apps, and this is what they are focused on?.

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