It does, it just favors the dominant ethno-religous complex. Much of the western proffesional dress code has basis in christian ideals of modesty. These cultural signifiers don’t occur to us though as they’re so normalized. If you came to work dressed like Angela from the office you wouldn’t be cited because the dress code was written with that attire in mind and people view it as normal. You’ll be cited if you violate those ideas of modesty, eg. Showing midriff, or having different views on modesty, eg. A head scarf.

If you want to say it’s completely neutral you’ll have to exorcise all christian biases and assumptions from western culture, which they dont seem to be doing here.

they’re a particularly beefed-up auto complete

Saying this is like saying your a particularly beefed-up bacteria. In both cases they operate on the same basic objective, survive and reproduce for you and the bacteria, guess the next word for llm and auto-complete, but the former is vastly more complex in the way it achieves those goals.

Looks like somewhere close to chabot park near Oakland California. It’s overlooking the bay and across to San Francisco. You can see two dogs fucking, then southern Oakland, then the thin strip of water separating Alameda island, then the larger bay, than the southern part of San Francisco.

I could see this going either way for emissions. On one hand people being forced to go into the office requires them to make a daily commute which adds emissions. On the other hand though people being able to work remotely encourages even more sprawl and car dependence for other every day tasks. If you start working remotely in the middle of nowhere you might be commuting less but driving further for other tasks.

It’s for rental scooters, not all scooters. My guess is two reasons:

1. They’re left everywhere and can hog probably already crowded Paris sidewalks and bike racks.
2. They’re mostly used by inexperienced people who don’t know what they’re doing and will ride on sidewalks with little regard for pedestrians, especially in Paris with the large amount of tourists, who the parisians already hate.

Making things biologically and making things with silicon and plastic are two completely different animals. Were far off from making something to simulate the brain in all it’s parts, much less making a biological one from scratch. Same thing with a chicken leg, we can make a robot chicken leg that does all the functions of a chicken leg, but you probably wouldn’t want to eat it.

Those are mostly for sprinters and short distance runners as they are higher impact and use running cleats with less cushion then softer distance running shoes. They’re also more likely to fall in events like hurdles and it’s better to land on that then on concrete. Most of the shock that could be absorbed by those tracks could also be absorbed by good running shoes. Most events above a mile take place on the streets.

Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s decades away if it’s even possible. The current process involves putting animal cells in a bioreactor(vat) with nutrients and having them propagate. It’s hitting hard limits on scaling though because the larger the vat the harder it is to get waste out and nutrients in without some sort of vascular system. Even if it did scale it’s not producing steaks or even meat chunks, it’s just making meat cell slurry that’s mixed with a bunch of other stuff to make something like beyond burger but with some actual “cow” cells for probably 3 times the price.

It took evolution billions of years to efficiently make complex multicellular structures, humans are a long way off.

Get ready for even more “apps” that are just glorified web views of their mobel site.

Yeah but to be fair it’s not like children, or even adults really, are flocking to this app.

Honestly out of the people that would associate with him he was probably one of the best and brightest.

Probably cost 2 grand and a black eye at dan flashes, well worth it though.

The sticking point for diplomacy is not the annexed lands but the right to return. Arafat would’ve accepted most of the border changes, except the ones in east Jerusalem, and maybe even Hamas would. But Israel will not accept a deal with the right to return, as it would change the demographics so much as to make Jewish democracy nearly impossible. Palestinians won’t accept a deal without it as so many are still cramped in refugee camps looking to return. Combine that with the fact that Israel has almost all the power and therefore no reason to negotiate and the idea of a diplomatic solution without heavy outside pressure is impossible

There aren’t any non-violent solutions that would make any impact, Israel has made sure of that. Protests in Israel and Palestine are suppressed and ignored by the increasingly far right Israeli state. Protests in the west are dismissed as anti-semitism and both parties continue to send aid. Boycott divestment and sanctions have been made illegal. Every vote in the u.n. or attempt to try the Israeli government on human rights abuses is vetoed by the u.s.

If you want to see what happens when they give up on violence look at the west bank. Fatah has long ceded military control to Israel and have they been rewarded with any degree of autonomy or rights for Palestinians? No just continual encroachment and violence from settlers and the IDF.

things were happening that seemed like the whole thing could come to a resolution without hamas being involved.

This is utter fantasy. There was/is a growing movement on the left in the west recognizing the abuses of the Israeli regime but that movement was very marginal and would probably remain so in the near future. The governments and ruling elites in the west still overwhelmingly supported Israel and were willing to turn a blind eye to the abuses, even as they have increased under the new far right government that came to power recently. Even the Arab countries that previously championed the Palestinian cause were defecting.

The trajectory of this conflict before Oct 7th was a slow legalistic ethnic cleansing in the west bank backed unquestioningly by the United States. A few more leftists might protest it in the U.S. but they are fundamentally impotent against the inertia of the current system as a majority of the people don’t know or care about Palestine. Doesn’t matter if a tweet calling Israel an apartheid state gets millions of likes if the U.S. Congress still votes 430 to 5 for aid to Israel every time it comes up.

The Palestinian cause needed something to keep it relevant and shake up the status quo that was slowly killing it. Oct 7th was probably one of the worst ways to do it, but at least more people know about how horrible the system is.

and possibly elsewhere, I’m not informed about the housing market all over the world

It depends on how hierarchical and stratified the society is. A lot of indigenous societies were very unhierarchical, maybe they had a chief and a council of elders but nothing like the deep hierarchy of Europe or East Asia. In those societies the land was either held in common by the tribe and families owned the home on the land or each family held it’s own plot of land and house. You only see renting in societies with deep entrenched hierarchies as you need some sort of power and justification to say the Lord on the hill owns the land, not the tenants or slaves actually living and working on it.

Generally the more hierarchical and stratified the society is the more people rent. Post-war America was an anomaly in this regard as it was the most egalitarian it had been since the industrial revolution.

It’s not as if the u.s. doesn’t have anti-bds laws. Also if the conservatives/Republicans were in power in the u.s. like in the u.k. they definitely would be trying something similar to this

Sounds closer to “from sea to shining sea, let freedom ring” but no one calls America the beautiful a call for genocide.

It only comes out to 364 days so you’ll still need to handle that 1.25 extra days in a year otherwise it’ll drift. You could just add December 29th as a special day past Saturday, but then you lose sync with the moon, eg.if New moon was on Sunday the first in the previous year, New moon would be on December 29th instead of on Jan 1st the next year and all new moons would be on the 28th.

You can keep your calendar in sync with the moon or the sun but not both.

Idk, I’d rather not find out what happens when you smoke Roundup.