There are a tonne of realities that are very close to ours are populated by cockroaches and mutants.

Synergy can be pretty good. I think it syncs clipboards and stuff like that, doesn’t it?

I can’t speak for 404 Media, but the rest of them build products that people enjoy using. They fill a niche that the users appreciate and do a good job at it.

It’s hard to fault people for liking things.

Gotta keep those waves away from their delicate grey matter.

That or their phone has shitty palm detection and will unwittingly treat their face as a touch if they hold it too close.

Burying the lede:

and chicken from KFC.

Chinese companies stealing American technologies could lead to the former being able to produce something for cheap, which, … will allow an everyday person to have a better bargain.

While the company that originally created the product will collapse, putting people out of work and weakening the American economy.

That’s basically what the globalization movement from the 1980s and 90s was. Jobs may move overseas, but think of the cheap shit you can buy!The hollowing out of Western economies has led to the political moment we’re in now.

This is one of those features I will never use, but I’m glad it exists.

lucky guess

Weirdly, the abstract on the original paper is a bit clearer than the linked text:

Among children who took inactive modes at baseline, 42% of children in London and 20% of children in Luton switched to active modes. For children taking active modes at baseline, 5% of children in London and 21% of children in Luton switched to inactive modes.

I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.

Check the reviews. I have a Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s good. The battery is excellent - I can usually get two days out of it (without disabling anything).

I have an Oral-B, and the head replacements are CAD$45. I’d get this, but I feel like I’d be wasting the toothbrush I already bought. 😞

Kinda surprising that this comment got downvotes on this video.

His ideas aren’t monetizable. They’re a throwback to the golden age when tools and utilities were built for passion or need.

Now, tooling is built by for-profit corporations. It satisfies users enough that there isn’t enough room for passion projects. For-profit tooling tends to get usability right.

Look at the fediverse: it’s a workable system that users would be fine with, if more usable for-profit alternatives didn’t exist.

If it had worked, it would have been cool. Sadly, it often failed to register movements.

Your original statement was

Those that just vandalize random art or monuments that have nothing to do with climate change can fuck right off.

From the links you supplied, in two of the three cases (Stonehenge and Flowers) no damage was done. In the case of Stonehenge, the protestors chose a marker that wouldn’t damage the monument. For Flowers, I’d assume they knew about the glass. But that’s me giving them credit.

For the third (Warhol’s soup), damage was done but remediated.

The protestors are being unfairly accused of fucking up art without justification. Others have used that to dismiss the protests and the cause, which is bullshit.

The protestors have a good cause, they’re getting people to (at least) talk about climate change, and they’re taking the punishment for their actions.

The protestors stuck around to be arrested and sentenced, that makes it way easier for me to excuse.

IMO minor damage is acceptable, given the cause.

The gallery previously said the gold-coloured frame of the glass-covered painting was damaged in the October 2022 attack.

Apparently the painting was protected by glass. I don’t know the cultural significance of the frame.

Poverty and pressure to commit pension fraud were shown to be excellent indicators of reaching ages 100+ in a way that is the opposite of rational expectations’.