Yeah, your 15- year-old device is slow, but let’s see how slow it is with windows 11 installed

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You can buy the Same Thing in the US right now for $15k https://zeromotorcycles.com/model/zero-s

TIL USA is outside of the world.

And in the US they can just demand you do anything.

Light clothing and hats are absolutely not spf infinity.

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Minimum area to contain unit-sized blocks, or largest blocks in a unit-sized area, depending on your perspective.

I’m a fan of not tetris 2

Those are luxury face bones, they don’t count.

OK, show your work.

Minimalism is just a conspiracy by big small to sell you more less.

I think one of my big “wow” moments looking at ALARA was when smarter every day toured the nuclear power plant. He was setting up some camera equipment, and one of the employees mentioned they all avoid the material his bag was made of (nylon or vinyl, iirc). It can attract radioactive material from the outside world, enough to set off detectors and get their lunches confiscated.

For some more context: the onion political cartoons lean into extreme caricature of political cartoons themselves. The cartoonist is always depicted with an “I am very smart” quip.

This is ironically one of the most toned-down comics I’ve seen from them! They’re usually a lot more silly

It’s a good study, but reporting on the results is consistently garbage. In both rounds of testing, canada tested in the middle of the pack among oecd countries. I usually have to copy-paste the following in America Bad circlejerk threads when the US’s similar results are discussed:

Another day, another time I have to copy-paste this comment clarifying the 54% stat [the “nearly half” in the headline for canadians]:

For clarity: this is based on piaac test results. The literacy test results are sorted into 6 categories (1-5 and <1) for comparing the distribution internationally. 54% of Americans score less than 3, compared to top-scoring Japan and top-english-speaking Australia at approximately 35% and 45%. The task description for level 3:

Adults at Level 3 are able to construct meaning across larger chunks of text or perform multi-step operations in order to identify and formulate responses. They can identify, interpret or evaluate one or more pieces of information, often employing varying levels of inferencing. They can combine various processes (accessing, understanding and evaluating) if required by the task . Adults at this level can compare and evaluate multiple pieces of information from the text(s) based on their relevance or credibility. Texts at this level are often dense or lengthy, including continuous, noncontinuous, mixed. Information may be distributed across multiple pages, sometimes arising from multiple sources that provide discrepant information. Understanding rhetorical structures and text signals becomes more central to successfully completing tasks, especially when dealing with complex digital texts that require navigation. The texts may include specific, possibly unfamiliar vocabulary and argumentative structures. Competing information is often present and sometimes salient, though no more than the target information. Tasks require the respondent to identify, interpret, or evaluate one or more pieces of information, and often require varying levels of inferencing. Tasks at Level 3 also often demand that the respondent disregard irrelevant or inappropriate text content to answer accurately. The most complex tasks at this level include lengthy or complex questions requiring the identification of multiple criteria, without clear guidance regarding what has to be done

I could not find which source originally cited level 2 as “6th grade” equivalent, though the oecd recommends against drawing that parallel

Read again. Scores have been steady since 2013. In both tests, ~1\6 of the group scored 1 or less, and in recent years 1/2 scored 2 or less.

Gold has spiked recently. It’s worth more than $100s by weight.

But have you considered https://wikigacha.com/?lang=EN

I guess words change if we use them incorrectly for long enough.

Looking at the etymology, it appears that short sighted started as the medical term, with it’s relation to foresight coming later. It’s also older than nearsighted.

It may be less common in modern contexts, but it’s definitely a “correct” use.

Also: all words are made up and the points don’t matter.

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Well it’s probably a good thing you quit!