

Cue 8 paragraphs of “I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in…” and every reader screaming “Oh my god just get to the recipe…”


Cue 8 paragraphs of “I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in…” and every reader screaming “Oh my god just get to the recipe…”


The Spectator is a terrible news source, and this article is a good example of why. What domestic car industry do they think we have in the UK that is threatened by Byd selling EVs here? Indian-owned Land Rover (who don’t make EVs anyway)? German-owned Mini?


Causation. Pollution causes inflammation, plus particulate matter in the cells


While I agree we should also be putting in place effective structural interventions, this is a good example of how people are held to a completely different standard of behaviour once they get into a car. Speeding is illegal. Feel free to lobby for that to change, but right now it’s against the law. We wouldn’t suggest the enforcement of any other crime should be avoided in case it “infuriates” the perpetrators, and speeding should be the same. Motor crime is crime.


It also inadvertently reveals that practically anything is faster than driving in the city too


Reform UK seem to be funded by fossil fuel interests, so they’ll always promote more driving and less alternatives to driving


You’re right. I could believe these data might be explained by a lot of businesses being in a “wait and see” phase, hiring conservatively while they see how the AI thing shakes out


Air travel is heavily subsidised, especially through very very very favourable tax rates on aviation fuel


I’ve only skimmed the abstract, but it makes me think antibiotics aren’t effective. I’m basing that on combining two findings that are explicitly stated there: cranberries don’t work, and cranberries are no different to antibiotics. Transitive inference would imply that this means antibiotics don’t work, although I’m surprised the authors haven’t been more explicit about this, given they’ve left it ambiguous and it seems like an obvious question
Edit: there’s slightly more detail at the bottom where it says “Cranberry products were not significantly different to antibiotics for preventing UTIs in three small studies.” It looks like cranberries and antibiotics were only compared in a very limited set of studies, so perhaps take the comparison with a pinch of salt


TBF other country’s politicians* don’t tend to go around pushing the interests of the car industry quite so much
*except America, obvs


This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft


By walking, that kid was stealing money from oil and car corporations


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For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).
Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile


A possible protection for OP and anyone else reading this could be to upload a draft of a report to a repository at osf.io (Open Science Foundation). You can keep the repository hidden for now, but it’ll be there with a date stamp on it should the worst happen and somebody rip off the work


Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream


Hi-viz, you say?

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”
Motion is also really useful for capturing security camera footage. It’s more specialised for this task than ffmpeg so could work here