Here in Belgium there's a village that's famous for doing this. Currently there's about 100 people there who are living with another family. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezinsverpleging_(Geel) If you translate you can read about it.
Readit Newsenimodas commented on James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died npr.org/2025/03/03/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
Really? I have heard of alot of FUD around plassing in particular, see e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/blood-mon... / https://archive.is/kXRef
Lowers heavy metals or something
enimodas commented on In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work slate.com/life/2024/12/wo... · Posted by u/mooreds
I thought this comment was a very clever joke, then I clicked the link and realised it’s an actual summary of the article.
Thanks for saving me seven minutes.
It's a summary of the title, but not of the article.
enimodas commented on Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court cosmowenman.substack.com/... · Posted by u/abetusk
This is utterly puzzling to me.
I just don't understand how you sit on the museums side of the trial on this, without seriously questioning your own position and conceding immediately.
They were basically arguing that they are entitled to hide those scan artifacts to better protect their gift shop?! How can they even reconcile those arguments with preserving the artists legacy/serving the common good?
I'm also surprised at how nonchalantly the french supreme (!!) court seems to cope with the museum just ignoring their two month deadline for three months in the new trial... Is there no equivalent to "contempt of court" in french law? Is this typical?
My conclusion is that there is either pure stubbornness or some weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side, because I have no other explanation why they would fight so hard for their position seemingly against all reason.
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy: In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
enimodas commented on The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999) bofh.bjash.com/... · Posted by u/newswasboring
I remember finding this funny back in the 90s but it’s just kind of sad to me now. Today he just seems like a very unhappy, psychopathic character.
I expected to experience something similar, but on reading, it's so over the top that my brain has no problem realizing it's a joke. Violent movies on the other hand I can't really enjoy much anymore.
What is this "Maxwellhill" thing refer to? I vaguely recognize the username as an old reddit powermod, is the implication that reddit power users are involved in human trafficking?
enimodas commented on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted nytimes.com/live/2023/11/... · Posted by u/donohoe
“Where does the Super Bowl even begins? In the parking lot? Then I drove there. In the seat? Then I walked there. Was I ever there? Who knows, what is a person other than an ever changing cloud of electrons and protons moving, spinning and decaying at amazing rate… where does my butt ends and the seat begin?…” if you roll Pedantic for 20/20
- Is the system rigged? Yes. - Are laws written by mediocre people hence full of loopholes? Yes. - Are most people in the Justice system mediocre? Yes, to the best of my knowledge your honor. - Is Justice != Law application? Yes, greatest marketing scam calling it Justice Department. - Is SBF a scammer that had a chip on his shoulder and got rich off other peoples money? All signs point to yes. - Does he deserved to be in jail? In SBF words, “Yep”.
Mate, I don’t question your intellect or memory, surely you are God - even in a forum where there is no lack of bright people - but your emotional intelligence is severely handicapped, so much that the “functional” part of your self description falls into doubt. You come across as the Simpsons comic store guy. Chill.
>Are laws written by mediocre people hence full of loopholes?
Guy once told me his job was to write some law in Spain, or for the EU, or somewhere in between. He submits his writings to his bosses, who tell him (paraphrased): "it's too clear, too watertight. Go back and make it more ambiguous." So he did.
> Remote-controlled light bulbs. Personally, I’d never buy these, because I’m fanatical about color quality. (It’s futile to start with low-quality photons and then try to arrange matter to make them look good.)
I am about to buy several Philips Hue lights. Does this statement apply to all LED-based lights or just the cheap ones?
If you want the numbers, there's always https://lamptest.ru/
https://op111.net/posts/2025/10/png-and-modern-formats-lossl...
I compare PNG and the four modern formats, AVIF, HEIF, WebP, JPEG XL, on tasks/images that PNG was designed for. (Not on photographs or lossy compression.)