[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think that's at all safe to say. Do you know how many American Women resisted the right to vote, thinking that politics would be "dirty" for them to get into? Womens suffrage didn't move forward in a meaningful way until American culture, women included, moved past those ideas. Internalized oppression is a very real thing, and cultures are often enforced by everybody that's a part of them. You can say that living under the taliban is far worse for women, I'm not arguing that, but people and cultures don't always evaluate their options so rationally. Plenty of mothers enforce the culture's oppressive rules on their daughters because it's what they believe is right, and it's what they were raised in. Also, plenty of women have just as much reason to hate the US as the men, they've lost family and friends to drone bombings and war. It's totally fair for you to think women would be insane to support the taliban, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.

Again, no group is a monolith. There are obviously lots of women who are terrified to lose their freedom, their options for education, and their way of life, but I don't think we can assume that that is all, or even a majority, of women just because that's what we think they should want.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

What numbers, because while it's not exactly easy to google for, the numbers I'm seeing don't line up with that. Undescended testicles are relatively common, but that's fixable by surgery and they aren't missing, while testicular cancer, surgical castration (not chemical), and transgender surgeries all seem to account for far less than 1% of the population.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Right, but is it more than 2 missing testicles per 102 men? Because that's what it would take to make the average less than one

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, the fact that apple used usb-c on it's "pro" iPads but not the regular iPad is all the proof we need that even apple thinks usb-c is better

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Self driving is a lot more than just AI though. Our current AI gets really smart really quickly, but fails way too often to be used in critical roles like driving, which is why most of the code in these self driving cars isn't actually AI. They use it to predict the path of other cars, decipher data, and make high level decisions, but the actual control of the car (steering, brakes, etc) is all traditional programming. Waymo even talked about how they used to have more AI, and removed some in favor of traditional logic

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The Roman warm period was about 2 degrees F warmer than today when you're measuring global average temperatures, not just in europe, although it was more pronounced in europe. At current rates though, we'll break that bar in 40 years or so though

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

ah, yeah that honestly explains a lot.

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

kind of. It has "view context", which doesn't show the parent, but it also has "more context", which will. So between the two you can get what you're looking for in 2 clicks

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Regulators don't even necessarily come up with the standards themselves, they just need to enforce that companies need to make their services interoperable. Actually creating the standard should probably be up to a collaboration of apple, google, and other relevant parties, but regulators should just enforce that it needs to happen

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like if regulators are going to intervene, we should be expecting something better than RCS though. Most of RCS's problems have happened because there was nobody with enough pull to get anyone to agree to anything more extensive, so we ended up with a slightly upgraded MMS. iMessage is a lot more than just upgraded MMS, it has payment options, polls, games, interactive applets, and anything else that someone wants to make a plug in to add on to it. And the gap goes beyond messaging, Apple also has proprietary standards for airdrop, video calls, ultrawideband, location tracking (although that's getting slightly better), and basically any other way that two devices can communicate with each other.

I don't want regulators to force apple to adopt RCS, I want a cohesive standard for all of the ways that apple has broken device communications, and RCS doesn't even start to cover that. The only things that do really cover everything is IM apps like facebook messenger or whatsapp, so what we really need is for phones messaging apps to become IP based IM apps. Maybe even something where each IM app can federate with all of the others

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I went to my primary care doctor about it, and I matched every attention/stress criteria on their sheet, but I dodn't have anger issues so they said I didn't have ADHD. Yet every time I see a post like this it matches exactly. It's weird to say I think I have ADHD when a doctor has told me I don't have it... But I still think I have it, it just matches too well.

So I guess welcome to the undiagnosed gang, good to have you

[-] bric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Considering that there's a side quest in to where a rock connoisseur is looking for a rare type of flint, I'd say theres definitely different flavors of rock. And in terms of cooking, the gorons have grills where they literally just cook rocks. I'm not sure if they're trying to metamorphize them into different rocks or what's actually going on, but they don't eat their rocks raw. I wonder if concrete would be like a soup for them?

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