“It demonstrates that in low-density, sprawling cities like Brisbane, people cannot be expected to permanently give up driving unless there is significant investment in public transport.”

However, researchers found given participants were likely to slightly reduce their reliance on cars, it showed experiencing car-free living, even briefly, could help people break away from automobility.

In Brisbane, 89 per cent of households own at least one car and 48 per cent of commuters drive to work.

This was essentially the goal of the study, to demonstrate that more investment is needed in public transport to increase public buy-in, and that even just being forced to try it for a few weeks increases usage and lowers car use longer term - so if there can be incentives to try public transport that could also increase its use long term and reduce cars on the road.

The headline is not what people here (myself included) wanna read, but the study succeeded in its demonstration and will hopefully drive positive govt policy outcomes.

No, entirely incorrect. “bad thing can happen, so it will happen” is essentially a mangling of Murphy’s Law.

In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected [eg: this minor law] because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends [eg: loose claims of a pot getting hotter implying further details will be demanded next].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Now this use of AI, I like.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/slippery-slope-argument

Vietnam speedrun any%

It did achieve the intended distraction from Trump’s Epstein issues quite well though, they’ve been off the press radar since this began.

I mean I wanna upvote but this has my AI sensor sus.

“They are made in china, why not just smuggle them out of the factory and skip the middle man?”

Explain how this comment makes sense.

They are not made in China.

Can people just not read articles anymore?

The entire article is about US-manufactured servers being shipped to China. Not a single mention of the other story of TSMC chips directly-exported to China from Taiwan, which is an entirely different event.

Yep. Its honestly mild as hell.

Essentially legislation that says:

• app stores have to have age categories to silo children, teens, and adults.
• OSes have to have a field to collect this data from users when they set up their login, so it can be sent to app stores via API.

Its just a standardized system that should have been done ages ago, but was not a priority for standards orgs, so none stepped up - so legislation appeared.

I strongly argue that it should only apply to commercial OSes and app stores though - as they’re the ones that primarily cause issues these laws intent to address.

Linux and FOSS have been caught in the crossfire in a privacy and personal data battle they were not involved in.

This does not disagree with what I said, nor add weight to the statement I was replying to.

The servers in question in the article were made in the US and the chips in Taiwan.

Yes, there is shitfuckery going on with the grey market, and yes, Nvidia is likely doing their best to turn a blind eye - that really doesn’t have anything to do with what you wrote.

Uhh… No.

The servers in question are made and built in the USA, and the chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC. China is not involved at all, as they lack the capabilities to manufacture these chips (for now).

Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it.

Yep. I get stuck in analysis paralysis too. Like the price of GPUs in particular it’s been hard to time a ‘good time to buy’ a major upgrade in the last decade because there’s being something driving price cycles artificially multiple time and for extended periods.

What may be a bigger factor is that the body language of someone feeling uncomfortable is noticed and reciprocated empathetically by someone who empathises with you, automatically.

Genuine question - I don’t actually know how to signal allyship without looking like I’m pandering or being weird. I dress pretty professional/plainly on transit and figure a trans pin would be of place because I don’t have any other backpack decorations. Are there subtle things you guys and girls have seen that sends a positive message in a subtle way?

Absolutely. Never show weakness in your conviction. Don’t back down on your ideas because they may offend.

Seems to work on voters “looking for change” for the politicians selling hate, racism and fascism - don’t see why it couldn’t work for politicians selling inclusivity, positivity and socialism.

Well, the main upgrades needed are CPU and GPU for gaming, which is definitely subpar on recent games.

Linux is definitely part of the plan though, but my impediment is laziness (same reason the PC upgrade was delayed).

Don’t forget that they also always want tax cuts - especially for the rich. Trump’s platform both elections have promised significant tax reductiona for personal and business taxes - and delivered (one of the few campaign promises he’s kept to).

I don’t drink coffee after 3pm for that reason, and it’s definitely helped with settling for sleep at night. Good luck with your efforts.

Very cool, never heard of it… What an unfortunate latin name due to colonial misunderstanding.

I’m sure more enviromenally-hardy caffeine producing plants like this will become more popular and economically relevant as time goes on.

Totally fair enough, thanks for entertaining my curiousity. It is psychoactive which would be concerning about its widespread use if it wasn’t so clearly studied. Kicking the alcohol is definitely a far more impactful improvement to holistic health. Good luck in your efforts.

I have ADHD so caffeine is a useful tool for me, and I do love the flavour and scent.

Why go caffeine free?

I sadly figure the oil companies will make us all go caffeine free in the medium to long term, so may as well enjoy it now before it becomes a luxury of the wealthy.