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  • Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • Do you realize how terrifying that would be? Get pulled over for a burned out tail light, your drivers license doesn’t count any more (realistically - how quickly could you clear out a day to visit the DMV?)

    Especially in the US, where a lot of things are car-centric. Sure, you could drive to the DMV, but your licence is invalid, so you'd be driving without a licence.

  • Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • My. Immediate thought was it’s intentionally leaving out the part that says you’ll be issued with a replacement so won’t stop you from driving so no biggie right?

    Nope, it says you'll be issued a new one once it is surrendered, but it also says that it would be invalid immediately, so would not be legal to drive with.

  • Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year

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  • People also generally need support if they are to have kids.

    If you have a cultural expectation that people need to move out when they are of age, they can't rely on grandparents or extended family to look after the children, and if they are spending all their other time working, they're just not going to have the time to find someone to have kids with, or be able to actually raise the children.

    In the absence of other factors, like needing the kids to help out on the farm, people have no reason to have them. Especially in countries like the US, where healthcare and childcare are quite expensive. A childbirth alone is about $3000 - $30000 over there, to say nothing of health-care costs, complications, there being very little parental leave, or any of that.

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?

    That's not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it's multimedia.

  • Karim Diané Gets Support From George Takei For Playing Star Trek’s First Gay Klingon

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  • Acceptable loss.

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  • It's a very Roddenberry design.

  • Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

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  • It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don't care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.

  • Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders

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  • I thought that this is just confirmation of other studies? We knew that it exacerbates underlying mental conditions, especially in those underage.

    It pretty much is, though I think this study is unusual in that it suggests that the effect may be independent of socioeconomic factors.

    Though the authors do admit that there may be a bidirectional link at play, which is quite interesting, and relatively novel, off the top of my head. You're at higher risk for schizophrenia or psychosis if you use marijuana, but you're also more likely to use marijuana if you're at higher risk for schizophrenia or psychosis. A lot of prior studies established the links individually, but didn't combine them.

    I don't think I have met the crowd you refer to.

    There are a few dotted throughout this thread, laying the blame on other things than the hasis.

  • Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders

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  • They did. One of the variables they statistically controlled for in the study is the "neighbourhood deprivation index", which represents socio-economic living factors.

  • Liminal Space

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  • It's pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn't just nothing happening.

    The eyes don't just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.

  • Liminal Space

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  • There's also the question of why would it experience horror? It's not exactly in pain, and they way they make the eyes grow is just to add the hormone signal that makes eyes grow when developing.

    So from its perspective, it just got told to make eyes, so it has rudimentary eyes now. Hardly the most horrifying existence.

  • Liminal Space

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  • perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don't know it.

    Your eyes technically are part of your brain.

    But it's certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.

  • Lemmings, please give us your info dump.

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  • I wonder if they do. That seems like a lot of effort to go to for the average person for a scammer.

    It seems easier to have a generic voice, rely on the fact that phone audio quality isn't great to bridge the gap, and use a shotgun approach.

    Some places do, since there were a few high profile attacks, but they were nearly all targeting organisations by pretending to be the CEO or something.

  • Get bent, Brenda

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  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

    There's also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

  • I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

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  • Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

    Specifically since RAG-AI doesn't place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

    Whilst people really shouldn't use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the "results" like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

    It's probably also bad for people who don't use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

  • Exercise can be ‘frontline treatment’ for mild depression, researchers say

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  • Delivery might be part of it. The advice sounds very similar to the typical "if you want to be less depressed, just don't be depressed" or "you don't need bottle of something that rattles, you need a pair of sneakers and fresh air" business, so a lot of people automatically file it away under the same category.

    Something like what the researchers suggested, where even moving a little bit helps, and it doesn't replace medication, though it may make it more effective, is better, but a lot of people will just read the headline and move off.

  • Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux

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  • now they quit supporting old windows?

    That's not too surprising, since Microsoft stopped supporting it earlier this year.

    Not much point supporting an OS the manufacturer no longer updates in any capacity. Similar to how Firefox no longer supports Windows XP or Vista.

    You can still use the old version, they're just not going to bring the newer ones to Windows 7, or fix issues for it.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    What happened to Kbin.Social?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    T156 @lemmy.world

    What caused the change in electronic terminology?