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

Back in the Cold War somebody commented how apt it was that if you wanted to call Russia from the UK you have to dial 007

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

Should scale their worries around… once they reach a certain age, given everyone dies eventually. Younger people should worry about those cars and guns. And Americans’ baffling tendency to poison themselves, it seems

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

Having tried it: choosing an instance is too confusing for a typical user (especially as a minor bit of research suggests there’s a risk your instance could disappear at any moment) and there’s a culture of policing content and style amongst users that’s quite offputting

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

Not working for me in Summit

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

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

For years, successive governments have been in thrall to the large housebuilders. These businesses are incredibly bad for our society, building soulless estates with no facilities and with car-dependency baked in, all the while keeping supply deliberately short to inflate prices. Yet government always thinks these guys are the future of house building for some reason

But this doesn’t fix the issue of net utility. If the utility of me eating you is greater than the utility of your existing (if such things could ever be measured!) then we still end up in the situation in the strip, even if the scores are both positive. Just as the room you’re in could be -10K relative to the room I’m in

Probably classed as a magazine rather than a newspaper?