The “Natural Flavors” ingredient in the U.S.
Just because something claims to have natural flavoring for strawberry, doesn’t mean it actually comes from strawberries.
Something “vanilla” flavored may actually come from chemically processed wood pulp, or even the anal castor sacs of a beaver.
- “Zero calories” or 0 grams of [blank] in the nutrition information. The regulations let them round down if it’s less than 1 gram.
For example, take a look at the “Serving size” of some cooking spray. 1/3 of a second of spray means 0.25g… So everything is zeroed out in the Nutrition facts.
This is an important point. Simply giving a ton of rice to an area will put the rice farmers in that area out of business.
They’ll need to grow something else to make a living, but then when the next year comes around, no one is making rice anymore and they’ll be dependent on that external flow of rice.
Some other countries build up math skills a little differently. For instance, in Portugal, they teach a little bit of Algebra, a little bit of Geometry, and a little bit of Calculus every year.
In the U.S. the students focus on Algebra, one year, then Geometry the next, then Algebra again, and finally Calculus (if they did well in the previous math courses).
So, if a student transferred for their senior year of High School from the U.S. to Portugal, they would have a different experience compared to their peers. They would find all of the Algebra and Geometry sections very easy and be able to help tutor the other students, but then they would struggle with the Calculus portions and need help from the others.
I’m not sure how common this is among other european countries. I would be curious to know how math courses are taught in other countries.
I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn’t try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.
One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.
Downvoting/Upvoting doesn’t mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.
This isn’t a problem that’s unique to “capitalism”. It’s a monopoly problem. Even in other economy types this problem would exist. For example, with communism almost everything would be a monopoly.
A free market is supposed to provide us multiple options to take our business, but we need regulation to keep capitalism in check.
We do have laws against monopolies, and there is already a case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Live_Nation_Entertainment
The way to really fix this is through our legal system and representatives. We need to pressure our representatives to pass better laws to prevent this from happening again as well as electing officials who actual care about issues like this.
Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.
Looks like Vice can’t be trusted as a reliable source of information if they’re willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.
The article addresses the topic of how quickly the banning of this kind of material can get out of hand:
These are, it seems, the same people going on book-banning crusades that ensare such smut as Calvin & Hobbes comics.
Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.
The removals are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning. In 2024, the state legislature amended the “Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022” to specify that any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library. This change means books are not evaluated as a whole, and excerpts can be considered without context, if they have any content that is deemed to cross these lines. This leaves no room for educators and librarians to curate collections that reflect the real world and serve the educational needs of today’s students.
All they really need to do is make self-driving cars safer than your average human driver.
Still issues here, but modlogs are mostly public, and anyone can verify what you actually said by looking at the logs. Definitely makes it easier over at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com to see what’s going on.
Make federal service required for anyone to obtain “full citizenship”.
/s
The only exception to this would be for motorcycles. I get that they want to be heard so that some driver doesn’t pull out right in front and cut them off, or attempt to change lanes right into them.
It’s a potentially life saving tactic.
That’s why some people have been modifying their comments entirely (and then deleting them).
My favorite use of the “speak to a manager” trick is to use it in cases where an employee has gone above and beyond. I want their manager to recognize that they’ve got a great employee.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I realized that @stepan@lemmy.cafe is probably referring to the bottom comment in the image.
Fascism and communism both lead to a major loss in freedom.
If I read somewhere correctly, they’re also the first to open source their swipe dataset:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/futo-org/swipe.futo.org
You can also contribute and help out with their dataset here:
https://swipe.futo.org/
An NPU isn’t required for something like recall, it just makes running local models more efficient.
You must be very young,
haven’t seen many movies,
only seen the worst movies,
or else you really need to get into directing and make a movie that will put everything else to shame.
Or maybe that’s the translated name of some movie I’ve never seen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Although, I am curious, what would it take to make a good movie in your opinion? Or what do current movies seem to be lacking in?