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Sonori

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  • Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say

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  • The scientists of the 1880s, through every decade up to the modern day were all so terrified of being called transphobes that they secretly conspired to fake the entire field’s research? Right, that makes sense.

    You definitely promise that they’d be canceled too, and not given constant interviews by the Daily Mail, Fox News(the largest and most watched television news station in America), and the BBC(looking to show both sides of banning only certain people from getting otherwise uncontroversial and freely prescribed medication). None of thouse outlets would ever be interested in interviewing them say things their editors are pushing for.

    They would also certainly not then get millions in dollars to continue their research by groups like the Heritage Foundation, the group which in 2016 focused group tested ways to create new culture war issues and identified the decades old practice of prescribing puberty blockers to children who have fought through years of therapy as one of the effective things for conservative outlets and politicians to push.

    Yes, questioning children should be given love, therapy, and the choice to delay the permanent changes brought on by puberty until they are an adult and can make an informed decision, and not forced to because a politician copied an American far right party’s method to distract voters form the impacts of their economic policies by screwing over the thirty thousand English who are physically incapable of otherwise loving their own bodies.

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  • Trans people know they should be the other gender and that puberty causes massive permanent changes to their body they are horrified by. They often do not know that everyone else around them’s deepest fantasy isn’t to wake up one day as the other sex.

    They do not know that there is a easy and harmless way to delay these permanent changes effecting their bodies until they are an adult and can make a informed decision, that if started early enough these medications create a path to eliminate the need for nearly all of the intensive surgeries that are otherwise in their future, can be stoped at any time if they don’t want to continue with it, or that these medications are deemed harmless enough to be freely handed out to their fellow cis children for a wide body of disorders, but which the NHS suddenly requires years of regular therapy trying to talk them out of it to “prove” they are deserving of if there is even a hint of them being trans.

    Yes, this means that the NHS has for decades required that the child and their parents must know they are trans and how they feel about the exact effect of puberty years before the child even starts puberty in order to gain the majority of the benefits from these medications which doctors can freely prescribe for non trans children without any of these barriers.

    When you talk about the recent UK “research” you are talking about the Cass report yes? The report that outright stated it ignored over a century of scientific research because thouse papers went double blind, meaning they secretly gave an equal number of cis children puberty blockers without their knowledge or gave trans children sugar pills without them realizing they are still going through puberty, which was subsequently ridiculed as a purely politically driven by hundreds of UK pediatricians and experts in the field, who’s authors were actively helping draft policy with American far right politicians that defines a child gaining any acess to puberty blockers or even social transition as child abuse and requiring years of prison time for the parents, and who despite all this own author’s stated that even with their standards that while the NHS gives little support for non-binary children the high barriers it maintains against trans children pausing puberty, socially transitioning, and other forms of gender confirming care are actively harming them.

    But hey, if so many people are apparently treating acess to these medications as no big deal dispite all the evidence to the contrary, why do nearly half of trans people in the UK end of having to get these medications from grey market dealers in southern europe instead of their local chemist?

  • We need to talk about Chinese and US influence in Europe’s energy industry, European researchers say

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  • You mean free trade policies might result in foreign companies coming in and outcompeting local ones here instead of just allowing our companies to go into, take over, and outcompete their ones? How could this happen? Who could have possibly predicted this turn of events? How could anyone else’s companies come in and do unto us exactly what we’ve been doing to them for the last half century?

    Why, next your going to tell me that in a free market a company with lower labor costs that is willing to slash profit margins might actually gain market share over a collection of companies that collectively decided not to compete with each other on margins./s

  • Global Electricity Review 2024 | With record construction of solar and wind in 2023, a new era of falling fossil generation is imminent.

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  • The rate of renewable construction however is still skyrocketing, which is why in a few years it is expected to not only be replacing new generation but quickly replacing existing generation as well. Hence why gobal carbon emissions are expected to peak sometime this or next year.

    More to the point, even if all industry stoped and we ignored that the same industry is responsible for making all the replacements for fossil equipment, we would still be seeing vast increases in electricity consumption, as sectors that are currently run almost entirely fossil fuels like heating and transportation moved from fossil fuels to electricity.

    While electric technologies like heat pumps and motors are thankfully twice to several times more energy efficient than furnaces, boilers, and engines, they still use vast quantities of electricity, and given that these sectors tend to be on par with if not significantly larger than the current electrical generation capacity, and as such replacing them with things that don’t inharently emit carbon will necessitate a vast increase in generation capacity.

    If anything I’d think the idea that we can just improve the efficiency of things that emit carbon is what has long been proven unviable, as a more efficient furnace or gas car still inherently emits carbon while even a inefficient heat pump or metro does not.

  • Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile

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  • While the paper demonstrated strong diminishing returns in adding more data to modern neural networks in terms of image classifers, the video host is explaining how the same may effect apply to any nureal network based system with modern transformers.

    While there are technically methods of generative AI that don’t use a neural network, they haven’t made much progress in recent decades and arn’t what most people mean when they hear or say generative AI, and as such I would say the title is accurate enough for a video meant for a general audience, though “Is there a fundamental limit to modern neural networks” might be more technically correct.

  • Here’s why so many US Republicans won’t buy EVs

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  • I used to think that a decade or so ago, but between things like the Texas districts profiting most from wind being the most against it to basically everything this congress has done, it is become increasingly clear that Trump successfully made ‘owning the libs’ the party’s primary platform.

    They are already cheaper long term, near parity short term, and charging corridors have gone from just along freeways to most highways, but most Republicans will still call them useless vanity items because why would you give up the ‘freedom’ of gas.

    You are taking about a party where a significant portion have been sold massive impractical pickup trucks that never get off the pavement because of marketing that a big expensive truck is ‘manly’ and ‘free’. In that paradime, where a car is a form of personal expression based on marketing, things like practically or cost are not going to be significant factors in decision making.

    After all, if the practicality or cost were driving factors, every Republican would drive a Japanese sedan or van and bike everywhere they could.

    Even if every quibble was solved, we’d still see pushback because ‘I just don’t like it’, or ‘rolling coal owns the libs’.

  • Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity | They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. The technology is expanding

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  • I believe a decent number of modern inverters and BMS’s have gotten around to adding a preset for them now. The steeper curve is definitely still a disadvantage compared to the LFP cells we’ve gotten used to.

  • Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement

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  • But if we don’t feed the entire internet into Siri, China would, and you don’t want China to have an advantage in the autocomplete wars, now do you?/s

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    U.S. Voter Turnout

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  • I’m not the specific target of the question since my family always turns out to vote, but I’d imagine some of the big ones are people not knowing that they have a legal right in many states to take paid time off work to vote, general apathy, voter suppression making it very difficult to vote in some areas, and given the swing in turnout between presidential and non presidential elections, a lot of people who only pay attention to the presidential elections because they get nationwide coverage dispite your local and district votes bro by a whole lot more important when it comes to effects on your life and keeping extremists from implementing their policies.

  • Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation

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  • Cracking down on “illegal” immigration, exclusively targets legal immigrants showing for appointments at government offices, sounds about Right.

    Surely randomly deporting legal immigrants can only going to lead to higher illegal imagination as people decide to not present themselves at the border in favor of banking on the shear impossibility of effectively survaling the entire country. But I imagine that is kind of the point, we need to manufacture a illegal imagination crisis but all we have is legal asylum seekers, so we better do something about that and bet that our electorate is too dumb to understand.

  • What's changed in lemmy and the fediverse in the past 3 months?

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  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • I can’t imagine any sort of verification system not being completely overrun by bots/people on fiver/ mechanical turk immediately unless you tied it to meatspace IDs in an know your customer sort of way, in which case you would definitely need a central organization to do said verification, which eliminates any possible need for a blockchain as said organization can just use a faster, far cheaper, and most importantly for this application editable database.

    More to the point, no one doubts that an article published by one organization was secretly published by another, but rather that they secretly used AI in the writing process, which also negates the system because that organization is never going to tell you which articles are done by AI, and any sort of reporting system for the entire organization or a specific author is just going to be immediately and constantly used to review bomb.

  • It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

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  • How could that help at all? Seeing as the blockchain would have no way of telling the difference between human and Ai text, and if you could find a way to automatically verify that in way way that was so efficient you could expect all the text uploaded to the internet you could just run that program locally and not be beholden to people paying a fee to post anything to the internet.

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    what do you think about my tier list of distros

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  • I regret that I have to be the one to inform everyone of this, but I fear MajorHavoc suffered an unfortunate accident caused by a computer glitch in an elevator control system three hours ago. They will be missed.

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    Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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  • There is also a massive difference in user experience in China vs abroad, to the point where they might as well be two fundamentally different apps. Even just things like time limits for children exist by default in China and are unavailable elsewhere, which kind of feels like an admission that they only take things like platform safety seriously at home.

  • Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for climate tax on billionaires | And she called for the money to be sent directly to the world's most climate-vulnerable people.

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  • There are only what, 400 or so? Low single digits would still be a notable portion of the population.

  • Drivers, start your electric motors! Imagine an auto race with speed but no engine noise. That battery-powered future is already here, with Formula E.

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  • Tire dust is a problem, but i’m not sure it counts as a very big one when compared to the sheer scale of the damage to both people and ecosystems climate change will do. Between ocean acidification and the subsequent collapse of marine life, more frequent and intense hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and droughts, it would take a lot for microplastics to enter the same scale of devistation wrought by over a hundreds of millions of cars dumping more than five metric tons per year of CO2 into the atmosphere.

    To reduce microplastics in North America your looking at fighting the car obesity ecidemic, improving tire lifespan, convincing people to be more gentle on the accelerator, fixing the god forsaken mess that is trying to ship anyone less than a thousand tons of aggregate by rail, and of course reducing the number of people who try and use a car to get around a city by expanding rapid rail transit/ increasing telework opportunities.

    Outside of maybe some incidental improvement in tire lifespan and chemistry though, I’m afraid I really don’t know how you expect a raceing circuit to be able to help with any of the above.

  • If all kernel bugs are security bugs, how do you keep your Linux safe?

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  • Crontab dnf update -y and trust that if anything breaks uptime monitoing/ someone will let me know sooner or later.

  • These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping’s climate problem | Harnessing the power of wind could both reduce emissions from cargo ships and extend the life of these vessels

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  • In practice, the reasons why these don’t come standard dispite having been around in this form for over a hundred years tend to come down to boring things like adding a lot of mass high up on the ship and adding a not insignificant amount of maintenance for the crew in extange for a marginal improvement in fuel for a few types of ships.

    They do have some effect no doubt, but you can achieve the same gains by just dropping a few knots off the ships speed with no other changes.

    More to the point, they don’t really provide a pathway to zero emissions, just a few percent reduction. As such the focus is going to need to be on both alternative fuels that can be made carbon neutral or by reducing the need for them in the first place, which either through direct reductions is intercontental shiping or by prioritizing overland low tariff electrified rail along most routes. Build out zero carbon ways to get around the two major landmasses that have people on them and you just need ships to take the shortest path between them as well as the outlying islands.