Yeah, worst case scenario stock prices for probiotic yoghurt would increase.
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This is a common misconception with "charity shops" in the UK and "opportunity (op) shops" in Australia.
The assumption is that the charity/opportunity is for people doing it tough to be able to buy cheap clothes and home goods.
But the "charity" is because many shops like this are partner retailers of larger charity organisations, eg: the "profit" from Salvos stores helps indirectly fund Salvation Army Housing and food relief programs.
The opportunity comes from who they hire, if you're disabled or elderly, these shops are more likely to hire you than other retail providers.
But of course, a large number of charity and op shops abuse their staff as much as Amazon and Walmart do. Wage theft and unethical labour practices galore
Yuuuup, found out the hard way that tiktok shows you when someone watches a link you sent them.
My dad loves sending me cat videos on the tiktok, he sends me the links on Facebook.
I have two tiktok accounts because I knew there was a risk that my dad would be able to find me on tiktok through contacts. My dad is a transphobe, so in order to not poke the bear I maintain a cis persona when dealing with him.
But it took him 0.3 seconds to realise that he sent his daughter a link, and then an openly transmasc account user with a similar name opened that link, and then his daughter replied to his message reacting to the link...my ears are still bringing from the phone call he made to me.
So thats how my misunderstanding of tiktok trackers outted me to my transphobic father.
(fortunately I'm a fully grown adult and can cut him out of my life if he doesn't calm down)
I quit caffeine a month ago (my neurologist is convinced my redbull "addiction" was causing the migraines I've been having since I was 6) and it's no skin off my back to quit for 6 months to prove him wrong.
Only the insomnia!
I used to have a red bull right before bed to help me relax and sleep soundly, now I've got nothing (weed makes me want to clean my house then throw up)
I haven't had any caffeine cravings, but I have started hallucinating from the sleep deprivation. I was told caffeine withdrawals usually only last 2 weeks so I'm wondering if this is just my natural sleep cycle shining through.
I've got a sublingual melatonin tincture that I need to remember to use because it helps somewhat, but despite multiple alarms and post it notes near my bed I completely forget I have it as an option.
My neurologist told me to give up caffeine, been 1 month so far. Genuinely haven't noticed a difference in my life yet, turns out in the short term I was addicted to the taste of redbull, not the caffeine.
I'm thinking I'll have to give up weed too since I've started getting hyperemesis every other time I smoke. (I'm prescribed a thc oil but I genuinely feel nothing when I take it, even if I take 10x the dose, so 🤷 )
And if I'm giving up weed I might as well give up cigarettes too...
Not nicotine though, you'll pry nicotine from my cold, stroke induce dead hands. I'll be chewing on this gum till the noise in my head stops.
Where does this this linguistically phenomenon come from?
Is it a mistaken use of "an accident" with the preposition to reflect the personal involvement?
Mistakes like "Could of" make sense to me because in my accent "could of" and "could've" are identically voiced.
I can also completly understand where we get "alot" because alot is just the beginning of an acorn, minus a few hundred years of lazy pronunciation behind it (an oak corn =acorn)
Google is telling me it's because younger people will use "on accident" as an antonym for "on purpose". That sounds feesible as an origin. Now I'm questioning if "by intent" is grammatically correct, I've been staring at words too long.
I managed to go all of 22-28 never once being carded for anything.
When I hit 30 I started getting carded for things I'd never been carded for before, even the milk bar I'd bought smokes at for 10 years, same guy and his son running it, suddenly started carding me.
That's how I learned the ID that I'd been carrying around for 10-11 years since getting my photo ID in highschool was functionally useless, because hardly anywhere would accept it as legal ID despite it being legal ID.
I had to keep the website for the government list of ID boolmarkef so I could show doubtful cashiers that my ID was indeed federally accepted, legal and valid ID.
I went to try and get a different type of ID last year which is how it found out that despite being born in my country to a citizen of my country, and having my birth recorded and receiving my birth certificate. Somehow I'm not actually a citizen of my own country and I can't get a passport...so I'm trying to navigate that system but that's extra fun and confusing because I have neurodevelopmental issues and no one to help me understand what I need to to do.
I just want to be able to buy alcohol as a person in their 30s, without having to jump through impossible hoops to prove that I'm not not 17.
I've got smile lines and the beginnings of crows feet, I am weathered! Why am it getting carded now
Pretty sure I still catch myself smiling over the girl in highschool 18 years ago that said she was jealous because I had really long and pretty eyelashes.
In the USA? It won't, your voting system is fundamentally broken.
It helps that I'd had several previous surgeries, so I'd had practice at keeping my cool. Plus my surgeon was in discussion with me for months with multiple consultations to really understand the issue, I don't think I could have possibly been in safer hands.
Well either it's 1 in 10,0000 in my country, or the department of health, my surgeon and GP are all missing a zero... which isn't more likely because there's no way our risk would be that much higher than the UK, and the NHS public health resources is 100,000.
I genuinely can't tell if you're being facetious.
I thought you were fully serious, but then I hit the line
Even if prices in reality do not need to compensate, because margin is already big enough, it gives retail a free card to jack prices,
And assumed you were just poking fun and the poor widdle corporations and their giant profit margins, but then you continued with your paragrap, and now I'm not sure again....
Hence why star wars is a chosen one, hero's quest, prophetised fantasy. Not a Sci fi.
When you and your kin are all prophetised to do important shit, there is no coincidence. it's all part of a bigger divine plan of fate. Or it's the midi-chlorians or something I dunno, I slept through the prequels.
Depending on what you're treating, 50% sounds pretty good.
I remember when I went for my last surgery and I was signing all the consent forms, my doctor was emphasising the 17% chance of this known lifelong complication, and the increased 4% chance of general anaesthesia fatality (compared to 1 in 10,000 for general public).
My mum was freaking out because when she had the same surgery she'd been seen much earlier in the disease process, she wasn't expecting such a "high" risk of complications in my care.
But all I was hearing is that there's an over 80% chance it will be a success. Considering how limited and painful my life was by the thing we were treating, it was all no brainier, I liked those odds. Plus my condition is diagnosed 1 in 100,000 people, so how much data could my surgeon really have on the rate of risk, the sample size would be laughable.
Still the best decision of my life, my surgeon rolled his skilled dice, I had zero complications (other than slow wound healing but we expected and prepared for that). I threw my crutches in the trash 2 years later, and ran for the first time in my life at 27 years old after being told at 6 years old that I'd be a full time wheelchair user by 30.
Unfortunately the models are have trained on biased data.
I've run some of my own photos through various "lens" style description generators as an experiment and knowing the full context of the image makes the generated description more hilarious.
Sometimes the model tries to extrapolate context, for example it will randomly decide to describe an older woman as a "mother" if there is also a child in the photo. Even if a human eye could tell you from context it's more likely a teacher and a student, but there's a lot a human can do that a bot can't, including having common sense to use appropriate language when describing people.
Image descriptions will always be flawed because the focus of the image is always filtered through the description writer. It's impossible to remove all bias. For example, because of who I am as a person, it would never occur to me to even look at someone's eyes in a portrait, let alone write what colour they are in the image description. But for someone else, eyes may be super important to them, they always notice eyes, even subconsciously, so they make sure to note the eyes in their description.
I guess my question would be, why do you need the picture as a visual aid, is the accompanying body text confusing without that visual aid? and if so, by having no alt text, you accept that you will leave VI people confused and only sighted people will have the clarification needed.
If your including a picture of a table with nothing on it, there's a reason, so yes, that alt text is perfectly reasonable.
Personally I wish there was a way to enable two types of alt text on images, for long and quick context.
Because I understand your concern about unnecessary detail, if I'm in a rush "a table with nothing on it" will do for quicker context, but there are times when it's appropriate to go much deeper, "a picture of a hard wood rustic coffee table, taken from a high angle, natural sunlight, there are no objects on the table."
I think so, but I don't have the mental energy at the moment to sit down and figure out if the AI detection software is accessible either. I know some of my colleagues use programs to check student work for LLM plagerism, but I don't assign work that can be done via an LLM so I haven't looked into that, and that's different from the AI images.
I can't imagine they'd prescribe oil that needs to be further processed by the patient. The printed dosage instructions from my doctor just say to take 0.5ml sublingual, and the pharmacist didn't say anything otherwise. It was topaz t25 oil, my friends tried some because I was convinced it was the wrong product or something, and it worked for them.
I have issues with other drugs too, like I still puke when dosed up on ondansatron, and the reason Im prescribed cannabis is because I can't take opiods for my chronic pain condition, even 8mg of codeine causes my respiratory rate to drop dangerously low. My chronic pain is the result of a genetic disorder, so I've just assumed I metabolised things badly, though Ive asked several doctor about it and because I'm in the public healthcare system I can't access CYP2D6 testing to know for sure.