The ugliest urban environments were designed around older cars, long before SUVs were the norm. Like you said, it’s not just the car, but also the infrastructure it requires.

Yea I have never heard a story of someone who was failing at school, but got their shit together when an inspirational teacher called them a name.

Agreed.

And the fact that this teacher is sharing screenshots of private conversations with parents online makes me think it’s not such a bad idea if the principal does get involved, just to make sure everything is okay in the class.

Flexibility is a pretty broad term. The point is that having children can give parents a special excuse to ask for flexibility. But there is important stuff going on too in the lives of people who don’t have children, but they don’t have this special excuse. The need stays the same: flexibility

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I started drinking white tea recently. It’s nice to change things around

I have tried some of the popular LLMs a few months back when I had to digitise an old policy document from which only an old scan still existed. I had trouble reading it.

The results varied wildly. OpenAI was really poor at it while Gemini got it right completely. I was quite impressed. ABBYY FineReader is supposed to be the best non-LLM software for OCR, but it doesn’t come near the performance of Gemini

There are differences, but also similarities right? Artificial insemination doesn’t mean voluntary. Swap the species and you’d call the same acts rape.

The vegan making the comparison is likely against rape, as well as artificial insemination of cows.

What makes comparing it deserving of bashing and psychopathic?

Most content about veganism on Lemmy or Reddit is about bashing veganism. It’s honestly really disappointing. This is where conservatives and progressives find each other.

Very good explanation on why it’s not a personal choice.

This is how I explain it to people: The animals we eat aren’t able to stand up for themselves, so some people try to do that for them. Kust like how activists do this for dogs or orangutans. It’s not against personal choice, but about trying to protect those who are hurt by the choices of others.

Besides, we all share the same planet and animal agriculture has a big impact on it. So it’s not like our choices don’t affect others.

I think it depends a bit on how multicultural an environment is. In a lot of places (including here), for plenty of people English isn’t their first language. I have seen ‘Female’ used on bathroom signs several times. The focus should be on intention, not language.

What sounds better, LibreJet or Free35?

The pain of misplaced apostrophes is why I’m not a programmer

This sounds awfully similar to my story…

Lol, alright ChatGPT

I suspect that in the countryside it’s more common to ask guests to take their shoes off. Which makes sense, given additional mud people might bring in. It was a bit of a mixed bag where I grew up, but definitely very normal to ask guests to take their shoes off.

After moving to London there was no way I’d keep shoes on in the house, looking at how dirty streets and sidewalks can be. Context probably matters a lot alongside the cultural aspect.

I can think of a few reasons like ecological decline, climate change, antibiotic resistance, pandemics and public health.

Maybe control isn’t the right word though

It’s hard to explain just how well it works and how nice it is to have a nook or hallway be ceiling lit and daylight-bright during the day, then warm and cozy by lamplight in the evening.

Completely agree. I only run it in the living room as it’s north facing and can feel a bit dark.

Besides the light bulbs being coloured, are they a special kind? I tried to find high CRI lighting and ended up replacing the led strips in a cheap LED panel with Auxmer led strips.

You don’t even need to script it. Just use the Adaptive Lighting custom integration. You can sync your light color temperature with the sun, or customize it any way you like.

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Exactly. Bus drivers are better trained than regular drivers. In that respect I used to trust them more. But they are also people who might be into car culture. My partner had a London bus overtake her in an intersection and brake check her while she was cycling. Multiple times in a row. It was super dangerous. We complained to the bus company and they reported back that they put the driver on a mandatory training.