zephorah
@zephorah@lemm.ee
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 day ago:
Maybe the evolution. My grandmother told stories of her dad scaring her mom with his “crazy” driving, speeding up to 40, sometimes even 45 mph.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 day ago:
Screen consoles in 4000lb bullets were the dumbest engineering idea ever. It’s probably a contributing factor as to why accident rates are up.
Up until 2018 I could manipulate my entire console without shifting my eyes from the road. Doing this by touch alone only works with physical buttons and knobs.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 2 days ago:
The better odds are on control.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 2 days ago:
Luigi wasn’t talking with anyone. None of this would’ve helped them with him.
- Comment on Meow 3 days ago:
The cat is abducting itself. They’re not dogs. They’re rarely loyal.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 3 days ago:
Signal, Tuta, Proton. And that Apple bullshit.
This push to know everything about everyone is outrageous, expected, and depressing.
- Comment on MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want 4 days ago:
I’m still sold on Gulf Dukat.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 5 days ago:
Congress is in charge of the money. I think they need Johnson acting to do anything about Elon though.
Someone more up on the mechanics should clarify.
- Comment on All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 5 days ago:
Ballot measures. Write them if your state empowers them. That’s where the democracy will happen.
- Comment on Psychology 6 days ago:
Psych has many areas of study. Psychobiology, psycholinguistics, behaviorism, cog sci, borderline philosophy, defunct hx lessons in Freud and company, etc.
Cognitive science and behavioral economics have a fairly large overlap on a Venn diagram. There are also dual discipline individuals engaged in both mathematics and psychology.
Practical application and experimentation depend on what flavor of psych you’re engaging with. Dennet or even Pinker are going to read and be applied differently than, say, Kahneman & Tversky.
Vs, say, someone like Elizabeth Loftus back in the repressed memory explosion of the 90s.
How each area can intersect with experimentation is going to vary.
All of that said, who wasn’t fascinated by the idea of Asimov’s Hari Sheldon? I devoured those books in my youth.
- Comment on Trump Take Egg 1 week ago:
No. They’ll wait for Shapiro or Beck or Fox to tell them why and then repeat that statement to death without fact checking it.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 week ago:
I’m curious. Why, when Mozilla exists?
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 week ago:
Weird. I think the last time I had it on a personal computer was 2012.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 1 week ago:
Who uses Google chrome?
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
Money and 1/2 of Economics is based on magic and “religious” belief.
- Comment on TikTok is back on the Apple and Google app stores 2 weeks ago:
Well. Thank god for that, now nothing is wrong.
/s
- Comment on An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers 2 weeks ago:
It was the year of the whistleblower deaths, that’s the answer.
I don’t like Bill Burr generally, but he’s spot on regarding corporate and Luigi. Corporate = modern mafia. There’s less “whacking”, as he calls it, because we’ve made most of their shenanigans legal. But, corporate (neo-Mafia?) will still “whack” a rat.
- Comment on 02/01/2025 - Pentagon swaps out NYTimes, Washington Post, NPR, and NBC News from their Pentagon news offices to make room for NY Post, One America, Breitbart and HuffPost 3 weeks ago:
All the echo chambering reaction rags that help fuck perception and elections. Great.
- Comment on Harvard Scientists Uncover How Gut Bacteria Fuel Inflammation and Depression 3 weeks ago:
The redundant, awful writing of AI is hard to take. I’m trying to decide if my neurons feel more strain and numbness by reading this type of writing or by watching an advertisement.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be. 3 weeks ago:
Congress could shut this down, but not for much longer.
- Comment on US claims free passage through Panama Canal 3 weeks ago:
It’s part of the con. It’s a loud and glittering display of force that is meant to make even the non believers in Trump, Believe. Muzzle velocity. Shock and Awe. Whatever you want to call it.
There’s a reason congress is quiet. There’s also a reason none of the orders are congressional bills (good odds he would lose). There’s a reason he’s punching out at other countries like Canada, Denmark, and Panama. It’s to display the executive branch as THE unequivocal authority. The only authority within our federal government that matters. King George III would be impressed, because it’s working, at least, it is if more mainstream social media is to be believed.
But belief is all that’s needed to make it so.
Checks and balances only work if the other branches are willing to check or balance and they’re not. The US Constitution may as well be in flames right now. And no one else is doing anything. My partner went to a “protest” in a fit of frustrated angst after the treasury news. Roughly 1,000 people stood around with signs, or simply stood around, and didn’t talk to one another. If that’s all we’ve got, then this is the end of the USA.
- Comment on US claims free passage through Panama Canal 3 weeks ago:
Well. $40k in eggs were just stolen out of the back of a truck so, technically, yes.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 weeks ago:
The unbagged produce was fresher than grocery store and didn’t rot on the shelf in 3 days like post COVID produce from the grocery store tends to do.
So this post has potential.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 weeks ago:
I would really like an Imperfect Foods replacement. Originally, IF was scratch and dent ugly veggies on discount with some consignment items. Post covid, prices crept up and then you had to pick and choose to get a deal, but you could still get a good box for under $40 every 2 wks that also included things like farro and yogurt. Misfit Marketplace bought them out and it took on a Whole Foods by mail vibe. Double to triple the regular grocery store prices. It would be $80+/week for the same box content which is galling. And it’s not the groceries, it’s MM. Who is paying $3 for 1 cucumber? $4 for 2 apples? $8 for a single pound of grapes or a pint of blueberries?
New potential produce sources are most welcome.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 weeks ago:
There is greater demonstration of community among non white people. As such, theres a built in hook not just for saying hello to a stranger, but for coming together to organize something like this. I think that’s more likely where it’s coming from than what you’re thinking.
Either way, I’d like a better veggie source for the things we don’t grow ourselves.
- Comment on Impossible to know what this gesture means, unfortunately 5 weeks ago:
The only way to tell the difference between good and evil Spock: the goatee.
TOS is underrated.
As for Elon. The context of a person is everything. The guy keeps allying with the far right, nazi political group in Germany. Maybe not QED level but Elon’s actions speak loudly on the topic regardless.
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 1 month ago:
Keep on pushing back or you’ll end up like us across the pond.
- Comment on Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork) 1 month ago:
Cliff notes: end to end encryption is borked.
- Comment on Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets a big community patch keeping it alive 1 month ago:
That was the original intent in the way it was made, with module creation.
It was a very active forum until Bioware accidentally deleted it once and then dumped forums altogether. I’m not surprised the fan base keeps the game going. Dnd is cool like that. Remember, Beamdog came out of nowhere and re-upped all the originals.
- Comment on Meta eliminates third-party fact checking program, moves to 'Community Notes' model 1 month ago:
I’m starting to think that 1A speech Trump posted out via RFK on YT, the one with the giant green crayon subtitles, was a directive list for his oligarchs, not really intended for mass consumption, just them and the legislators who worship at his altar.
No one’s talking about it, not even here, but these guys are doing it.