So I take it you’re against the government subsidizing science research in general? “The government shouldn’t fund new technology” is a stupid and destructive position. We’d be living in the 1800s if it were up to solely the capitalistic market. I mean, the first broadly effective antibiotics that are responsible for saving probably hundreds of millions of lives at least only exist because of people working in government-funded labs, under government-funded universities, for the government. Why should the environment be treated like it doesn’t matter to our civilization?

“There is no future without electrification. But just electrification will not get us there,”

Daniel Posen is an associate professor in U of T’s department of civil and mineral engineering, and the Canada Research Chair in system-scale environmental impacts of energy and transport technologies. He agrees electrification is vital. But relying solely on electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions from transportation may not be enough, especially if we want to do it in time to stop a catastrophic two-degree rise in global temperatures.

The article you link contradicts you, it clearly suggests that adoption of EVs reduce carbon emissions, but we still need to do more (e.g. ACTUALLY HAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE) to prevent a climate catastrophe.

What are you talking about, I didn’t imply anything I outright said what I meant

wiki.gg is where most of the wikis have transferred to, terraria for example

No, not at all. You can easily view the edit history of all Wiktionary pages – 2 years ago, someone put the definitions in the order they are now for a specific reason. This person thinks it should be the other way around, so if they want to change it it’d be best to make a discussion about it. That’s the best way to get a community consensus on it. Wiktionary is a collaborative effort, people have different opinions on the specifics of a page, that’s why discussions exist and are the go-to for settling differences in views.

Whether a term is characteristic of a certain dialect or region isn’t generally considered all that much when it comes to order on Wiktionary, unless it’s an “obscure” dialect. I contribute a lot to Wiktionary (mainly for languages other than Modern English though) and there are few rules on the specific the order of definitions, it’s mostly just common definitions above uncommon definitions (but this isn’t even a hard rule).

Editing it to change the order for your reason specifically might be considered vandalism, as it’s typical and allowed for entries to be like this and it’s common for little disputes like that to cause editing wars (although that’s admittedly far more common on Wikipedia, since many Wiktionary contributors are actually linguists and are less controversial).

That being said, someone actually did intentionally move the “gang member” definition above the other one, so there’s clearly some sort of difference in opinion.

If you want it changed, the course of action you should take is starting a discussion about it. It’s a good way to get a community consensus.

How can you tell that they’re not a 2D slice of life anime character living in the real world with real world problems? You the NSA or somethin’?

i don’t think that’s how biology works

TTS/many kinds of synthesizers fall under the category of AI generally, including Vocaloid TTS. They even have a trademark “VOCALOID:AI™” which is an LLM that’s incorporated into Vocaloid 6, although Hatsune Miku uses Vocaloid 2-4 which just uses normal AI (to fit the samples together) and not ML afaik.

man your bones must be turning into dust. shouldn’t you be chatting with your friends at the retirement home by now instead of being on lemmy, grandpa? smh geezers

Because software devs have the weeks/months to learn vulkan every time they want to use a GUI for their job, or to learn compiler design whenever they wanna use java for their job

Many times when a doctor learns you have ADHD and especially if you take meds for it they’ll just treat you like a drug addict. You have to go through massive hoops to refill your meds every month and even if you’ve been taking the same exact meds for over a decade, doctors will still treat you like filling the prescription is a massive risk and think getting ADHD meds is “drug-seeking behaviour”. Often, doctors have many biases against mental disorders, and ADHD is one of the clearest to see. Outside of the US/Canada many ADHD meds (even non-stimulants) are just outright illegal too, but that’s slowly changing.

There’s also the problem of insurance. Insurance just goes out of their way to fight you over ADHD treatment costs, especially meds. They deem it “non-essential” and even if you get them to cover a prescription once, you’ll probably have to deal with them denying it again. It actually causes people to not be able to take the only medication that actually helps them (different meds have different effects on different people, and some medications can cause things like pretty bad headaches or lack of appetite which are unpleasant, or just flat out don’t have an effect.

The ironic thing is that most of the problems you have to deal with to get ADHD meds are also things that ADHD literally causes you to have an extremely hard time doing. It’s a sick and twisted joke lol.

Thankfully, I haven’t experienced the part about doctors myself, but I’m very close to people who have and it’s super common to find people venting about it on ADHD communities.

But I think the takeaway is that neurotypicals abusing the substance has made big problems for people who actually use the meds for the disorder. Of course, drug abuse shouldn’t make one group able to “take away” the right to meds from another group, and people should be allowed to use drugs recreationally, so in reality the laws are the problem.

Yeah Ryujinx is in C# Unity so it has its limits. They wrote Yuzu mostly in C++ so while it tended to be buggy it performed way better.

Yeah part of it is the fact that ADHD meds are severely over-restricted, but also ADHD med manufacturers & patent holders are just pieces of shit

Next step for Republicans: Ban sterilization. I mean plenty of doctors already refuse to agree for a patient to have a vasectomy/get their tubes tied, especially young (and white) patients, because of shitty personal beliefs. Why not go a step further? These working class heathens need to be forced to stay in line.

Just use Scala*** ((objectively better language¹))

1. scala does not support breaking out of loops, it does errors on early returns, uses parentheses for array indexing, compiles extremely slowly, …

Well IIRC, for America, the funding money amount for Ukraine is usually just an estimate of the worth of already manufactured goods, mainly of weapons that we have stored that we weren’t gonna use in the first place, and only a small portion of the dollar amount is stuff like clothes, food, etc. which would be seen as an actual cost to the US. We have sent Bradleys and M1 Abrams (and some European countries sent Leopard 2A4s? and Leclercs I think), but I’m pretty sure they weren’t in use by the military and weren’t planned to be upgraded for use any time soon (but I’m just guessing, I can’t Google it rn, I may just be completely wrong on that).

It’d be so much better for everyone if we just took all of the funding going to Israel and redirected it to Ukraine. And then we nuke Israel or smthn idk

Erdoğan would if he could

Often times it’s loitering charges, loitering being a fancy term for “being out in public whenever it displeases a person of authority”. Sitting on a public bench, having a picnic, walking on a sidewalk, sleeping in your car, whatever, all of those can and will get you loitering charges depending on your exact location in the United States.

Then you have public intoxication charges which on paper are only supposed to apply if you’re causing a public disturbance (despite disorderly conduct already being a charge for that, public intoxication just makes it more severe), but in reality it’s mostly used to harass drunk people who couldn’t get a ride home, or uber home, and decided not to drive while drunk. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a higher likelihood of getting arrested for public intoxication while drunk walking/public transporting home than of getting arrested for DUI while drunk driving home. But public intoxication and even DUI can also be used if you’re sleeping off drunkenness in your car, while the car is turned off.