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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They could write perfectly balanced articles on everything else, this specific article demonstrates a significant bias. Hell, it ends with an instruction for what Palestinian people should do, basically a call to action for Palestinians in Jordan. A professional, unbiased journalist does not do that.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

I'm sure shuffling the holidays around will be the perfect cure to long term critical underinvestment.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This study sought to assess the effects of a salt substitute (62.5% NaCl, 25% KCl, and 12.5% flavorings) on incidence of hypertension and hypotension among older adults with normal blood pressure.

Lol so the salt substitute is still nearly 2/3 salt. This study sounds like bullshit that wouldn't be replicated in the real world, participants knew they might be getting reduced salt food and thus were more likely to accept it. In day to day life people would still generally prefer the saltier foods.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The syntax for embedded pictures in the post is ![](url)

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Same thing with pubs/bars.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

1970s I think? The guy's name is Frank Schaeffer, and he deeply regrets it now, although his wikipedia page barely mentions it.

There's a really good podcast called Things Fell Apart that goes over it an various other culture wars. This is the episode, it's well worth a listen:

Things Fell Apart: S1. Ep 1: 1000 Dolls

Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cpq

Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p0bk0p4g.mp3

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AI is a tool, like all tools it's only as effective as the tool who is using it.

Israel have already shown that AI can be abused to commit atrocities, while giving them further opportunity to avoid due responsibility.

With self driving cars, the main reason we don't have them is that the manufacturers would not be willing to accept liability. Also, the insurance industry is a massive leech on society and doesn't want to give up its cash cow. It's less about the effectiveness and the politics, more about money.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons.

Apparently no one was paying attention to Azerbaijan.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Very biased article, but an interesting perspective nonetheless.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

The question is: why don't our governments regulate effectively?

The answer is: money.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 86 points 2 years ago

The difference is with Tesla and Space X he has actual experts doing the work, with Neuralink he gets the worst of the crop - no successful or ethical medical professional is going to want to work with him on this.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ironically, evangelicals never cared about abortion - they saw it as a Catholic issue, and they do not associate themselves with being Catholic.

However, there was this wannabe Hollywood filmmaker who made an avant-garde anti abortion film, and they didn't like it, but then the New York Times did an article on it and he started getting protests outside his screenings. He literally had empty stadiums with protests outside, then this was covered by the local news, then the evangelicals were like "Hey, this pisses off all the hardcore feminists, we should go check this out!" and they attended the following nights. And thus the anti abortion movement was born.

It's pretty ironic, really.

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