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  • The number of underage french girls who are suicidal and hurting themselves is rising extremely fast. Experts are worried.

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  • That hypothesis should be easy to verify by comparing against Belgian French speakers. We have largely the same culture and media intake, but our school system is much less focused on tests.

    If anything we have the opposite problem, for budgetary reasons it has become nearly impossible to fail the standardized tests and as long as you get 10/20 it literally does not matter what the score was. I was in the first year when tests were introduced and they were so easy we did not even study for them.

  • Fat cats are taking Ozempic now — and it could be the solution to terminal feline illnesses

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  • We don't understand all the mechanisms behind obesity in humans but we know that:

    • It is often caused by hormonal imbalances (particularly GLP-1) causing the brain to feel more hungry than necessary
      • The causes for those imbalances are not known for sure (!) but GLP-1 agonists counteract them all the same
    • Forcing oneself to eat less will work to lose weight but requires a truly disproportionate amount of willpower compared to a healthy adult. The long-standing myth that fat people have purely psychological issues has been extremely damaging, both on a personal and human level but also to the state of research on the matter which for the longest time did not receive funding for that unsubstantiated reason
    • Dieting causes side-effects such as slowed metabolism and chronic fatigue as the body mistakenly thinks hungry = need to save energy. On top of the mental strain of feeling hungry all the time for the rest of your life which many formerly obese people can attest to. All of which affects quality of life and can make the side-effects of GLP-1 agonists pale in comparison.

    Now I don't know how well all that translates to cats, but I would not be surprised if the obesity epidemic in humans had environmental causes that were affecting other mammals in similar ways. And it would make sense that for the worst-affected, GLP-1 agonists would be a better way to manage this hormonal imbalance than forcing the poor kitty feel absolutely famished all day long to maintain a barely healthy weight.

    I will let professionals decide when an obesity case is better treated with strict portion control vs GLP-1 agonists, but the least we can do is avoid blanket statements on the management of the complex and badly understood mechanisms of hunger control and weight gain.

  • Thinner!

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  • One thing people who don't build products tend to imagine is that PMs are constantly doing market research, data analysis, focus groups, etc.

    That may be true at some companies, but IME they can be clueless beyond belief because their real job is to be salespeople. They sell dreams to executives. Whether those will actually sell is a much lower concern.

    See also: AI being shoved down everyone's throats.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • That's one area where you can see it is indie despite the large development cost.

    They were published by Kepler Interactive and for some markets Bandai Namco. Neither of which have Ubisoft or EA's marketing budget which normally makes up something like half of the development budget of a game.

    They did have some marketing. I know a lot of French streamers were paid to play the game on launch. But yeah not "in your face for 6 months in front of every YouTube video and inside every happy meal box" like a new assassin's creed or something.

  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023

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  • The category is misnamed. It should be best single A game from an independent studio.

    Technically Sandfall is an independant studio. A very well privately funded independant studio founded by industry veterans supported by a great publisher. But no-one is arguing that other games published by Kepler Interactive aren't independant. And with 30-ish full-time employees Sandfall's scale is that of an SME, not an Ubisoft/EA/Sony.

    The award doesn't feel right because this middleweight AA category was completely abdandoned the previous decade (which legacy studios are now paying a heavy price for), and "indie" came to mean "single A" because if the material conditions of being an independant company.At the same time though technological advancements enabled small teams to take on larger and larger projects. "Indie" does not mean what it used to, and Clair Obscur is trailblazing this AA renewal. Award shows simply need to adapt and start restricting entry based on team size or something.

  • Nearest national capital

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  • Sorry, I don't hate the Brits, I just think UKans are being ridiculous to expect us to care. The onus is not on foreigners to have an opinion – much less weigh on – domestic issues such as Scottish Independance or Irish unification. Even if I wanted to have an opinion, I'm more than likely to eat my own foot.

    Scotland and NI are nowhere near unique in their having a federalized governance and internal struggle for independence. However until independence happens, Scotland and NI are part of the UK and you can't be mad at maps of Europe for reflecting that fact.

    I support a sovereign Ukraine but a 1980 map of Europe would have it as a non-sovereign Soviet Republic and that's not a contradiction.

    Also very ironic that you would talk about "made up people" to a Belgian. I don't even talk the same language or receive the same TV channels as my compatriots 50 km over. We've mastered having a national identity built on not having a national identity.

  • Nearest national capital

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  • Also applies to the three regions of Belgium, FWIW. Even your ID card and passport will be slightly different depending on where you get it.

    And don't you start grandstanding about what you think that should mean for us, because regardless of what you say your outside understanding will be incomplete and your opinions will be ignorant.

    The UK has a unique history that has led its constituent nations to conceptualize strong cultural and political identities - which is far from unusual. The only unusual thing is that Brits keeps pretending that the UK is somehow Special™ and foreigners should give any more of a shit about its subnational divisions than you do about US states or German States or Canadian Provinces.

  • Nearest national capital

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  • Quite typical of the Brits to get pissy about you saying the truth.

    They went all over the world drawing arbitrary lines separating or forcing peoples together, but try to get them to understand that the world considers the UK to be a singular entity and they blow a fucking fuse over the semantics. And they're not even correct about the semantics!

    The entitlement some British people feel over foreigners giving a shit for their internal politics is frankly outrageous.

  • Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse

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  • Same, and I'm not well-versed into the neurology of it all but I think it's something way worse than the symptoms of ADHD.

    Five seconds is well within my attention span. I forget everything the minute I open a door or open a new tab, but this ain't that. I can watch something in silence, my brain distracts itself, that's kind of the whole problem. This though? This is about promising an impending dopamine hit to a restless junkie who was about to scroll down for a quicker hit.

    No, scratch that. This is about the video editor constructing a strawman of that restless junkie, pandering to that, followed by a (proto-)fascist algorithm eeking out every last bit of video retention from its users for maximum profit. Even if 95 % of users don't actually need the countdown to keep watching, and the 5 % remaining really should not be using that app for their mental well-being, the algorithm will mercilessly incentivize creators to put in the countdown.

    Since legislating algorithmic attention-hoarding doesn't sem likely to hit the political docket anytime soon, the only winning move is not to play.

  • Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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  • My guess is the same thing as "critics say [x]". The journalist has an obvious opinion but isn't allowed by their head of redaction to put it in, so to maintain the illusion of NeutTraLITy™©® they find a strawman to hold that opinion for them.

    I guess now they don't even need to find a tweet with 3 likes to present a convenient quote from "critics" or "the public" or "internet commenters" or "sources", they can just ask ChatGPT to generate it for them. Either way any redaction where that kind of shit flies is not doing serious journalism.

  • Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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  • True of corpo software as well, FWIW.

    Corporate ghouls will buy a successful company and stuff the "leadership" with an even mix of hapless morons and toxic careerists, then wonder why the successful products aren't selling anymore.

    Or so I heard, dear $currentEmployer whose corporate values I definitely share.

  • why

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  • Feminine is what the Académie settled on, months after everyone settled on Masculine.

    That institution holds some normative power with other institutions (e.g. some media outlets) but has utterly failed to impose its outdated and reactionary outlook to anyone but other reactionaries. They're constantly coming out with revisions for words that reached common parlance years earlier.

    So common usage is Le covid. If someone used the feminine I'd have to assume they unironically use the word "Wokisme", because only these kinds of people actually think that the Académie is worth listening to.

  • why

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    • Dick (bite) = Feminine
    • Cunt (con) = Masculine

    My favorite example for people who think grammatical gender has more than a passing correlation to social gender.

    That being said there is actual built-in sexism to grammatical gender in some areas, e.g. job titles (un chauffeur = a driver, une chauffeuse = a prostitute).

  • Marine researchers find biggest source of microplastics in our ocean is vehicle tyres

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  • So... Cotton/Linen/Wool? The technology is fine, its only downside in most applications is simply cost. Cotton clothes are more comfortable, less stinky, less polluting, and won't fuse with your skin and disfigure you for life if they accidentally catch on fire. On top of not making microplastics soup every wash cycle.

    If we cared to actually solve the problem of plastics in fast fashion we could ban them, with some exceptions for sportswear and shoes where synthetics have some actually useful uses. Hell, we could even make it an easy transition by gradually pulling back the allowable synthetic content for x years.

    But it would directly kneecap Shein and H&M's business model so we have to weigh all the pros against that.

  • We're learning more about what Vitamin D does to our bodies

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  • Tell me you live in NA without telling me you live in NA.

    Brussels is on the same latitude as Calgary, and not only does daylight last less than 8 hours but thanks to the coastal climate it's not abnormal to only get single digit hours of sunlight per month (5/7th of which are when we're stuck in an office). Rest of the time is either rainy or cloudy, neither of which is useful to find stray UVB. London has basically the same climate.

    In the winter it's not even useful to commute by bicycle, because it's dark outside both ways. What the fuck do you want from me doctorman. I'll be gobbling up those supplements because my Vitamin D deficiency is the least surprising outcome of working an office job in Belgium in winter.

  • Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response

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  • All three of your examples were known to cause ill effects for centuries. The ancient Romans knew the asbestos mines were killing their slaves. Their overuse during the 20th century was not due to ignorance but corporate lobbying and political complacency.

    The lobbyist play is to fund counter-studies to sow FUD even though the scientific consensus that [X Bad] is well established, because it gives an easy out for bought out politicians. However the tatoo lobby is certainly not one that I expect to be have the pull to fund FUD scientific studies to delay legislation, and if they are doing that it should be pretty easy to point to.

  • It improves the morale of the future worker.

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  • On top of the other point.

    Capitalism is uninterested in your healthcare policy. That's your country's failure, not capitalism's, for once. Market pressures did not invent a gaggle of middle men siphoning the money between patients and care providers. That's a result of government failures that ossified into a corrupt system benefiting a select few, a scheme which is not unique to capitalism and is actually reminding me of soviet bureaucracy.

    The distinction is not purely academic, because correctly pointing out that you're not fighting capitalism but corrupt bureaucracy makes reform a much easier sell, which is why healthcare reform is a transpartisan issue until donors and lobbyists get involved.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • Altman secretly secured 40 % of the world's DRAM manufacturing capacity last month. Supposedly Samsung and HK Hynix weren't aware they were both signing up for it.

    That alone would be enough to call collusion if it wasn't an obvious play to strangle his competition by literally choking them out of hardware.

    https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

  • What's with those people?

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  • In my local experience, these are actually just profoundly incompetent. Hanlon's razor.

    They tailgate because they are actually incapable of maintaining a following distance (you know the kind, when the road is empty they alternate between mashing the gas and driving well under the speed limit, and somehow if you're a passenger they're totally unaware that they are doing it even if they are not distracted, how it is possible to be this bad at gauging speed and distance I do not understand but these people do exist).

    Then as their malfunctioning brain randomly processes that they want to go faster, they overtake, and since the lane is clear they mash the gas.

    Then when they are done and they merge back, their brain performs a hard reset and they somehow drive slower than before they passed you. They do not notice. You pass them, and they are not looking distracted; the only explanation is that their brain is doing the simpsons-monkey-cymbals.gif.

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