Tehdastehdas

Also heavy metals:

Increased blood lead level in children has been correlated with decreases in intelligence, nonverbal reasoning, short-term memory, attention, reading and arithmetic ability, fine motor skills, emotional regulation, and social engagement. … The effect of lead on children’s cognitive abilities takes place at very low levels.

High blood lead levels in adults are also associated with decreases in cognitive performance and with psychiatric symptoms such as depression and anxiety.

Lead poisoning # By organ system - Wikipedia

And microplastics:

And ragebait:

We should, it’s a factor:

So many assholes in the same place somehow.

The incompetent camera operator gives me a shakycam headache. I could only watch it on a small screen.

Short read, if TLDR, crudely shortened here:

The apparent independence of the automobile owner was only concealing the actual radical dependency. The car would oblige the owner to consume and use a host of commercial services and industrial products that could only be provided by some third party. The dream of every capitalist was about to come true. Everyone was going to depend for their daily needs on a commodity that a single industry held as a monopoly.

When everyone claims the right to drive at the privileged speed of the bourgeoisie, everything comes to a halt, and the speed of city traffic plummets. If the car is to prevail, there’s still one solution: get rid of the cities. That is, string them out for hundreds of miles along enormous roads, making them into highway suburbs. But the underside of this solution is obvious: ultimately people can’t get around conveniently because they are far away from everything.

"But at least in this way you can escape the hell of the city once the workday is over.” The car has made the big city uninhabitable. You have to have a car to escape from the urban hell of the cars. “Give us more cars so that we can escape the destruction caused by cars.” Capitalist industry has thus won the game: the superfluous has become necessary.

In the final analysis, the car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes.

The alternative to the car will have to be comprehensive. For in order for people to be able to give up their cars, it won’t be enough to offer them more comfortable mass transportation. They will have to be able to do without transportation altogether because they’ll feel at home in their neighborhoods, their community, their human-sized cities, and they will take pleasure in walking from work to home-on foot, or if need be by bicycle. No means of fast transportation and escape will ever compensate for the vexation of living in an uninhabitable city in which no one feels at home or the irritation of only going into the city to work or, on the other hand, to be alone and sleep.

What is to be done to get there? Above all, never make transportation an issue by itself. Always connect it to the problem of the city, of the social division of labour, and to the way this compartmentalizes the many dimensions of life. One place for work, another for “living,” a third for shopping, a fourth for learning, a fifth for entertainment. The way our space is arranged carries on the disintegration of people that begins with the division of labour in the factory. It cuts a person into slices, it cuts our time, our life, into separate slices so that in each one you are a passive consumer at the mercy of the merchants, so that it never occurs to you that work, culture, communication, pleasure, satisfaction of needs, and personal life can and should be one and the same thing: a unified life, sustained by the social fabric of the community.

She came in too late for that. The people responsible hire people like her.

It would require replacing the money system with a value production estimation and reward system.

I don’t support an upper limit for income. I want wealth tax and inheritance tax to prevent excessive accumulation.

Artificial scarcity is a crime against humanity. Piracy is the first aid. The solution would be a system that pays for the value produced anywhere in society, including when a copy is used to have fun or make profit. Movie makers would get paid more if they received good ratings from consumers. News Corp would get fined for destroying value.

Portion of those studies disprove the obvious, which is why they keep trying.

A hacker may have replaced the authentic video in the phone. The edit must be unnoticeable to the eyewitness who shot it.

So how come brittle glass is useful for fibre optic data cable? Thinness, that’s why. Superconductors don’t need to be thick either, because of the “super”. Also, multi-strand.

Not the light bulbs. They improved light quality and reduced energy consumption per unit of light by increasing filament temperature, which reduced bulb life. Net win for the consumer.

You can still make an incandescent bulb last long by undervolting it orange, but it’ll be bad at illuminating, and it’ll consume almost as much electricity as when glowing yellowish white (standard).

Should have named it Vision 20/20 then.

Quora had heckloads of users before the well-working topic system was destroyed with the excuse of tag spamming (real reason: cost-cutting), which us tedium-loving “Topic Gnomes” had always corrected quickly. So it’s not impossible. Now the tagging is done badly by “AI” and my feed content went to shit, even worse than on PieFed with a leaky keyword mute list.

Missing features were a trust system for topic editors (new user = 0 trust, etc.) and answer topic tagging - only the questions were tagged, which didn’t work when the question was general, like “What should you know in 2025?” and the specific answers were all over the place.

Keywords would never have worked for the infinite questions about perpetual motion machines, because the askers never knew the correct term. Similarly, I have failed to craft a keyword block list to filter out all U.S. politics.

The Starlost needs a remake. Great premise, dollar store execution.

Foreseeing the destruction of Earth, humanity builds a multi-generational starship called Earthship Ark, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 200 miles (320 km) long. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, each kilometres across and housing people of different cultures. Their goal is to find and seed a new world of a distant star.

In 2385, more than 100 years into the voyage, an unexplained accident occurs, and the ship goes into emergency mode in which each biosphere is sealed off from the others.

Centuries after its original launch, most of the descendants of the original crew and colonists are unaware that they are even aboard a spaceship.

The brain damaged lead generation has the power.

I’m hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.

I’m hoping for EU-run social media that requires secure ID like a bank. I liked Quora before enshittification when it had real name policy and strict moderation.

European spyware is the least likely to be used to attack Europe.

Manipulation by unnoticeable omission. Europeans getting a personalised censored feed, not getting recommended and advertised what they need. Social media giant AI detects an illness you have, and silences all content that could lead you to health. Dating sites not showing you the most compatible people. Job sites not showing you the jobs that could strengthen Europe.

So, tax = war. How is the war on drugs going so far? Made much money from the tax? Or, does “war” mean whatever the politician wants it to mean?