Who in the fucking fuck is putting "extremely personal and sensitive" information into ChatGPT?
A number of people in support groups and self-help groups swear by ChatGPT.
I do my best to gently dissuade them, but it usually lands on deaf ears.
1). I've said nothing supporting opposing govt assistance.
You described benefits to people who are struggling as "hand out money and resources to an elite group". And then you tried to weasel your way out by claiming "everyone is elite". Benefits to SNAP recipients is very different than tax breaks for millionaires.
2). I've said nothing supporting your second statement.
Your literal next sentence was "No wonder I don't miss it". You dismissed the harm being done to 'those people', so you could make it about yourself.
You're not the victim. You're punching down, and then trying to play a DARVO card after being called out.
So, in other words, the primary purpose of our govt is to hand out money and resources to an elite group. No wonder I don't miss it.
Even the libertarian role-model Ayn Rand accepted government assistance for herself.
If you're truly taking delight in the harm of others, you should seek qualified mental help.
The govt has been "shut down" for over a month and I've not noticed anything different in my life. Let's keep it shut down for the rest of the year and see how it goes.
#Privileged or #Mom'sBasement?
People aren't getting paychecks, and some who are working without paychecks may not get back pay. SNAP ("food stamps") payments aren't going out, so people are going to go hungry.
Those missed payments have bigger impacts. People who don't have money or benefits can't make purchases*, which impacts grocery stores and other retailers.
Change the graph to "% of homes with SNAP" to understand the scale of hardship you're (gleefully?) advocating: https://databayou.com/communit...
* Paying interest on food and other necessities is a losing proposition.
Since we depend on nature, there's very little room for error.
Invasive species are a great example of consequences that are (often) unintended.
TIL!
Thank you internet stranger!
Sensible people want small, sturdy phones they can put in their back pockets *without a case* and that have enough internal padding to survive a 2m drop onto concrete.
Manufacturers won't make them any more because they want you to have to replace your broken thin, flimsy phablet as often as possible.
Your wish has been granted!
They're called "featurephones" and (many) resemble early 2000's cellphones.
For someone wanting a smartphone, a good case goes a long way. I've dropped my iPhone 14 onto pavement several times with zero damage.
The person I was responding to had a straw man of "let the market decide".
And do you recall how those practices changed with technology and the industry gradually moved towards a set of standards without any government intervention? The EU didn't get them to move to USB, why should anyone think the EU needs to tell people to move to USB-C?
Which standard? In 25 years, Apple had four different standards (Firewire, 40 pin, Lightning, and now USB-C)... the latter of which was only by EU rules.
Prior to that, the only standardization was the EU's micro-USB guidelines.
And let's not pretend that the motive had anything to do with making it convenient to find or keep a charger. This was sold as way to reduce waste. By how much do you think this rule will reduce the 2.3 billion metric tons of trash the EU produces every year?
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
There will be a successor. When cannot be predicted. What can be predicted is that having laws in place that dictate what has to be used will make a damn mess when that happens.
And for what benefit? We're talking about tiny marginal returns here. Trivial savings, trivial impacts, non-trivial costs to the exposed businesses and consumers, trivial costs to the people who thought up the regulations.
Let me tell you about the "old days" - the late 90's and early 2000's. Every brand of portable device (cellphone, MP3 player, etc) had a different charging port. Very often different devices within brands would require different chargers. Since USB was still catching on, all of the wall-warts and car chargers were specific to each device.
There were brands (iGo) that made changeable "tips" for their chargers... But for the most part, chargers weren't interchangeable. Buying a new device required a new charger, and disposing of the old one.
Is -that- what you're pining for?
I was going to reply to your points, but then I realized this is a Gish Gallop.
FYI: Erythritol doesn't cause that same level of stomach upset as other. It's not a perfect 1:1 substitute for sugar, but it's much less of a trigger for bathroom issues.
The methodology is a bit sketchy. It was a self-reporting questionnaire, which the researchers used for a calculation.
No control group is mentioned, so -by default- sugar, corn sugar (HFCS), and "natural" sweeteners are given a pass.
Reddit's internal search... infamously bad.
It's more useful to use Google with the "site:" parameter than stay within Reddit to search.
While they require less maintenance, EV ownership seems like hard-mode ICE ownership.
I'd love to have a PHEV, EREV, or pure BEV. Between high prices, plummeting resale values (in the US), and the logistics... it's not practical for me.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
