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Meron35

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  • Surgeons remove up to 100 magnets - which have been banned in the country but bought online on Temu - from New Zealand teen’s gut

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  • Denatonoum Benzoate.

    Intensely bitter compound used to prevent people from putting them into their mouths. Examples include nail polishes (to help nail biting habits), button cell batteries, and even Nintendo switch cartridges.

    Denatonium - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium

  • A hypothesis

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  • Hot take: macOS, being Unix like, fosters more tech literacy than Windows.

    It's much better now with windows terminal and winget, but a decade or so ago even basic things like installing python and adding it to PATH were infinitely easier on Unix-like environments.

    For those privileged to have programming classes, the first 2-3 sessions were the teachers going round doing tech support just to install python on shitty locked down Windows laptops.

    Windows being terrible makes you learn a lot of stuff, but so much of it is untransferrable.

  • Americans Are Defaulting on Car Loans at an Alarming Rate

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  • Post purchase monetisation go brr

  • TIL: Only four countries in the world have no government mandated minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays: Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States of America.

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  • Actually, the term 3rd world is outdated and referred to countries that couldn't decide whether to align themselves with the US or Russia - oh wait

  • How Big Oil says carbon capture works" vs "how carbon capture actually works

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  • Any kind of carbon neutral scenario will almost definitely require carbon capture, simply because many processes are extremely difficult to decarbonise, e.g. heavy industry such as cement and steel manufacturing. Even beyond niche industries, fossil fuels still remain a crucial input to so many things; oil for example is required for aviation, road bitumen, and polymers in plastics, resins, and fibers.

    As despicable as the petro giants are, the extremely high energy capacity of fossils fuels and their use as raw materials means that replacing entirely them with renewables is unviable for neutrality.

  • Why Did My Favorite Candy Bar Drop ‘Milk Chocolate’ From the Label? As climate change has helped push cocoa prices higher, companies are changing candy recipes in subtle ways.

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  • Surprised that the article didn't mention Cadbury's Marvellous Creations, which introduced and marketed as chocolate bars that contained more unconventional candy like jelly beans and popping candy.

    In reality, it was a way to reduce costs by reducing the amount of actual chocolate in each product.

  • China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree

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  • No, China is not ahead of the western world on this, nor is this an unprecedented policy.

    Most developed countries already have robust regulation preventing people from giving undue professional advice, especially in health or finance.

    These are the same regulations preventing from you claiming to be a qualified lawyer, doctor, accountant, etc without the appropriate qualifications.

    Many developed countries such as the UK, Australia, and Canada have already started arresting finfluencers after victims have sued them for making fraudulent claims.

    FCA leads international crackdown on illegal finfluencers | FCA - https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-leads-international-crackdown-illegal-finfluencers

    The equation of a university degree as a valid qualification for China is mostly an artefact of the lack of adequate professional bodies and accreditation.

    But if course, the devil is in the details and implementation.

  • Get over yourself

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  • a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction

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  • it's great for pedestrians

    the highway cuts directly through the heart of these towns

  • a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction

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  • Reminds me how whenever someone makes a realistic Australian city in cities skylines, everyone in the comments roasts them for adding stop signs/signals on highway ramps, which are extremely dangerous and inefficient.

    They really do have stop signs/signals on highway ramps in Australia 😭

  • ‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Australian Coalition MPs weighing net zero given denialist briefing on climate science

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  • Coalition:

    ❌net zero

    ✅net zero seats

  • Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

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  • Israel strikes Gaza

    The move away from passive voice is refreshing, even if very late

  • Colorado woman found guilty of voter fraud for casting ballots for late ex-husband and son

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  • Davis, a Republican

    Usual suspects

  • Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether to revisit marriage equality

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  • The false narrative that basic rights were earned through "civil debate" has been parroted by right wing talking heads for so long.

    Most people are uninformed, and have an impression that rights just kind of happened via peaceful protests or debates, either due to their own ignorance or learning a very whitewashed version of history.

  • Amazon Rolls Out New AI Tool to Help You Decide What to Buy

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  • Why does MyAnimeList need 938 partners?

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  • That's the neat part, you can't, because the companies that run ad networks (e.g. Google and Meta) intentionally make the consumer behaviours market as opaque as possible. As the market maker, they have an economic incentive to withold information from their customers, because any mistakes from market participants due to information assymetries directly translate to profit surplus for the market maker.

    We have long since moved on from simple pay per click/view pricing models to pay per "impression," the definition of which is not clear even to the companies that purchase the ads.

    And in a somewhat ironic twist, one of the motivations for such extensive surveillance is the desire to quantify such ROIs. Statistics and analytics such as click through and conversion rates all require tracking user behaviour across vast networks.

  • Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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  • Immich users flag Google sites as dangerous

  • Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more

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  • Yes. Social media addiction is comparable to those of illicit drugs, both in terms of actual symptoms, as well how alter dopamine networks in the brain.

    This is just a recent review article that focuses on teens, but similar results hold more broadly as well if you search.

    Social Media Algorithms and Teen Addiction: Neurophysiological Impact and Ethical Considerations - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804976/

  • Thought Experiment

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  • Also not as disparate as memes would have you believe, depending on how you look at it.

    The Tokyo Metro Area is very dense at 38 million / 13,000km2, compared to the London Metro Area's 15 million / 9000km2. But the density of Tokyo rapidly decreases as you go further out, even with the Metro Area.

    Even agglomerating up to the entire Kanto Region only gets around 42 million / 32,000km2. London + East + South East Regions gets you 31 million / 50,000km2.

    I don't think comparing comparing Regions is very useful, but this only yields that Kanto is approximately twice as dense as London + surroundings. National level figures have Japan at 330/km2, Vs UK's 285/km2.

    A much more suitable comparison would be the central areas of Tokyo and London, which are the 9 special wards in/around the Yamanote Loop and Inner London (roughly zone 2). This is around 2.2mil / 140km2 or around 15,000/km2 for Tokyo Vs 3.4mil / 320km2 or around 11,000/km2 for London. Again, not nearly the massive discrepancy suggested by memes.

    Apologies if my tone is pointed - having lived and commuted in both cities the way the internet thinks of Japan really bothers me. I do think Tokyo is worse for crowdedness, but honestly not by much, especially when London tube lines can be so long they go outside the station.

    If you repeat the exercise and focus only on central areas, you will find that most major cities actually have very similar densities.