This puts aspartame in the same category as aloe vera. It is classified as less risky than drinking hot beverages or eating red meat.
Readit Newspzone commented on The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer vox.com/2023/7/1/23780348... · Posted by u/activiation
pzone commented on Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-w... · Posted by u/CHB0403085482
Fire/ambulance/police are supposed to be exceptionally loud so they can get drivers attention and then they can get through. (I expect you know this already, but I'm making sure we're all on the same page.)
Over time cabins in vehicles have gotten more isolated with better sound systems. Outside has gotten generally louder. Both of these things mean the emergency sirens need to be even louder for it to get a drivers attention.
I'm not sure if it is because drivers don't hear/see them or if they just don't care anymore, but almost every time I see a firetruck with it's lights and sirens on lately, I see it have to come to a stop and wait, get on the even louder horn, before drivers start getting out of its way. This isn't down the whole length of the street or anything, just once or twice before it drives out of my view (several blocks). I don't think I ever saw in person this before 10 years ago.
The problem is that horns and sirens typically provide little practical benefit. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, arriving an extra minute or two faster rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...
pzone commented on Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-w... · Posted by u/CHB0403085482
haha, NYC has entered the chat.
Cars aren't loud, car SPEAKERS are loud.
The subway. Ambulances. Construction. Garbage truck compactors. Guys trying to get you into their restaurants. Panhandlers. Buskers. Customers haggling with street vendors. Hassidim on cellphones negotiating deals. Mothers on cellphones giving relationship advice. Laughing teenagers. Drunken couples having fights. Cops chit chatting with each other, or arresting people.
People have recorded the sounds of NYC and during the pandemic someone posted this to YouTube for nostalgia.
I've traveled to 35+ cities and they're all quiet compared with New York.
The worst part is that horns and sirens often little practical use. Even in an emergency situation like a heart attack, an extra minute or two rarely improves patient outcomes. Essentially, these noises are put on for show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/us/sirens-noise-ambulance...
pzone commented on Krita: A professional free and open source painting program krita.org/en/... · Posted by u/doener
As a counterpoint, some years ago I felt it was time to use "a real painting program" and switch to Photoshop. It felt so backwards, mostly in terms of interface, that I dropped the idea very fast. There are a few shortcuts that I change or find missing in Krita, but apart from that it felt like the painting experience was much more streamlined (which is my main concern, so I can't talk for other aspects).
Adobe halted development of painting and illustration features in Photoshop a number of years ago. Their goal seems to be to get people to use Illustrator for illustrations and Fresco for painting.
pzone commented on What De-Dollarization? The Dollar Rules the World bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I'm having trouble understanding the authors point, it's not explained in much detail. Feels like an economist saying "This is a strong American dollar. You can tell it's strong by the way it is.."
Why are closed-capital markets in China a sign of a strong American dollar?
They are not a sign of a strong American dollar. They are a roadblock that limits the yuan's usefulness for anyone outside of China.
pzone commented on What De-Dollarization? The Dollar Rules the World bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/paulpauper
To explain this in a way that people on this forum will understand: A currency relies on network effects. The dollar is kind of like twitter. It doesn't matter how much it fucks up, network effects ensure it's continuing dominance.
Actually the dominance of a currency is harder to challenge, since you can post the same text on both twitter and mastodon, but you can't invest the same money in both dollars and euros.
To continue your analogy: the two major competitors also have serious flaws. The Euro is like Mastodon. Its decentralized leadership prevents it from offering the features and convenience of Twitter. The Chinese Yuan is like Truth Social. Tight restrictions on what you can do there mean it is not a useful alternative for most people.
pzone commented on $52B Chipmaking Plan Is Racing Toward Failure bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Good to know that “affordable, accessible, reliable and high-quality child care,”
Is the reason that the $52bn is going to fail. Oh, and of course those pesky environmental laws.
“One can debate the merits of any of these objectives. But larding already-uncompetitive businesses with crippling new costs to advance completely unrelated social goals is simply at odds with the stated purpose of this law.”
How about funding vocational training, building more housing, rejoining the EU and courting the tech industry by any means necessary?
I find ASMR videos about as pleasant as nails on a blackboard.
Not everyone is young and in shape to push couches or jump over them.