It seems to have the added benefit of being an added barrier to market entry for their competitors.

I’m fairly sure the regulations only kick in when the service has something millions monthly active users.

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how is loops going?

they do?

that also annoyed me

(tangentially: 50.5 years ago, Oliver Sipple had saved President Ford by tackling his assassin Sara Jane Moore. He was promptly outed as gay.)

so did they?

hourly CN air quality map, unit is µg/m³: https://www.air-level.com/

reuters says “The WHO considers PM2.5 concentrations above 50 micrograms per cubic metre “severe” air pollution.” but I couldn’t actually find that in WHO global air quality guidelines or anywhere else. china considers >500 µg/m³ “severe” (严重) and everything on the map would be below that

hourly CN air quality map, unit is µg/m³: https://www.air-level.com/

reuters says “The WHO considers PM2.5 concentrations above 50 micrograms per cubic metre “severe” air pollution.” but I couldn’t actually find that in WHO global air quality guidelines or anywhere else. china considers >500 µg/m³ “severe” (严重) and everything on the map would be below that

dated 25 Feb, 2025. so did they?

what about something that’s not hunter-gathering, really ancient agricultures? like, y’know, the middle ages?

well you no longer have to do the off-label calculation

could you link it? the flynn effect is that average intelligence has been steadily rising ever since IQ tests were introduced faster than could be explained by genetic variation

fitzroy is a last name that 3033 persons share as of 2010, so i could see someone appropriating it as their child’s first name

the average intelligence used to fall?

that infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del strip was drawn up for a reason

https://books.google.com/books?id=4Sg5sXyiBvkC&pg=PA438 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532992/

It is estimated that as many as 26% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage and up to 10% of clinically recognized pregnancies.

some people would like to buy them

not very uplifting innit

I’m not sure what film of which you can’t claim specific lenses would color them contrary to their intentions.

I would compare the action scenes in Saving Private Ryan to the “action scenes” of Schindler’s List. It tells you how hard all of this is, how everybody’s confused, how nobody knows what they’re doing, how it’s all a hellhole. I would not describe Schindler’s List as “glorifying” the plight of the Holocaust victims. It tells you how horrid this all is, not that you should be part of it.

(FWIW, Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line are often put in the same category of “glorifying the people who fought in WWII”. But in my opinion, “glorify” here means “elicit sympathy for their effectively-forced situation”, and not “glorify”, which I would say is something like La Grande Vadrouille (1966).)

Thorium Reader is what I used, both on Windows and Linux

pretty much every war movie

the classics have got Saving Private Ryan, Nolan’s got Dunkirk, Best Cinematography’s got 1917, Ghibli’s got Grave of the Fireflies (released same day as Totoro even)…

for anti-war that’s not depressing, there’s also AFAIK the over-the-top Helldivers

for things that feel “clean” instead of bloody there’s the elegant video game Nier: Automata