I like celery, but am really interested to learn the answer here. The other ingredient that gets added to everything is onions. Fwiw I know the answer to that one: they’re full of sugar. “First, soften some onions…” is basically a way of adding sweetness to food

I’m a huge Bluesky user and I don’t understand this post at all. Bluesky has a strong Block feature, which I use liberally to avoid trolls and people I don’t want to engage with, but I don’t know what’s being referenced here

Motion is also really useful for capturing security camera footage. It’s more specialised for this task than ffmpeg so could work here

I’m excited to see what people do with the Moments button, because at the moment I barely use it. It’d be great to find an imaginative use for it

At every given moment you’re carrying around a very heavy extra motor and a very heavy extra fuel supply. Hybrids aren’t the answer, unless the question is “How can we carry on selling more cars without really changing anything?”

Step 1: get people used to unquestioningly accepting whatever the chatbot spits out as fact Step 2: start spitting out whatever the highest bidder pays for

While I agree we should also be putting in place effective structural interventions, this is a good example of how people are held to a completely different standard of behaviour once they get into a car. Speeding is illegal. Feel free to lobby for that to change, but right now it’s against the law. We wouldn’t suggest the enforcement of any other crime should be avoided in case it “infuriates” the perpetrators, and speeding should be the same. Motor crime is crime.

It also inadvertently reveals that practically anything is faster than driving in the city too

Reform UK seem to be funded by fossil fuel interests, so they’ll always promote more driving and less alternatives to driving

You’re right. I could believe these data might be explained by a lot of businesses being in a “wait and see” phase, hiring conservatively while they see how the AI thing shakes out

The article says that it was a Meta chatbot writing this. Nothing to do with Proton

Air travel is heavily subsidised, especially through very very very favourable tax rates on aviation fuel

What a terrible article. It literally says little more than “I should be able to live how I like no matter what the consequences are for others”, as though we haven’t had literally centuries of liberal thought showing how you can’t run a society that way.

I’ve only skimmed the abstract, but it makes me think antibiotics aren’t effective. I’m basing that on combining two findings that are explicitly stated there: cranberries don’t work, and cranberries are no different to antibiotics. Transitive inference would imply that this means antibiotics don’t work, although I’m surprised the authors haven’t been more explicit about this, given they’ve left it ambiguous and it seems like an obvious question

Edit: there’s slightly more detail at the bottom where it says “Cranberry products were not significantly different to antibiotics for preventing UTIs in three small studies.” It looks like cranberries and antibiotics were only compared in a very limited set of studies, so perhaps take the comparison with a pinch of salt

TBF other country’s politicians* don’t tend to go around pushing the interests of the car industry quite so much

*except America, obvs

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

By walking, that kid was stealing money from oil and car corporations

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The same way a layperson knows how to get any medical intervention: taking the advice of a reputable qualified professional

For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile