Nobody said they didn’t matter. If anything, the covid deaths don’t seem to matter in the US, because basically nothing happened.

Furies*

Makes it easier to share, like this.

Or lack thereof

Small 2 stroke engines create more particulate and nitrogen pollution than big excavators and bulldozers.

Not relatively, per unit. A leaf blower or moped is worse than a 20 ton caterpillar.

Well, that’s good to know!

Jabba is actually much bigger?

This doesn’t show her strangling Jabba with that chain?

This is kind of insulting to all Hutt?

Needs a green curve to show that you need to turn a corner in the distance.

Getting finger smudges all over the disc… Sigh.

True, but more yeast and less time absolutely makes for worse bread. You can even add baking powder if you’re really in a hurry…

I always buy screws in millimeters in europe. Pipes are occasionally in inches, depending what kind of pipe.

I love trying new recipes, and I absolutely hate when it’s a US recipe, and it’ll include such wonderful measurements as “1 cup, 2 spoons” or “1.5 packed cups”.

In that case, Imperial, if the chart is to be believed.

Part of your reason homemade bread is tastier is because of this process. Making bread at home without any additives is a LONG process that includes a good 8+ hours of waiting. That’s without any work at all, so going from flour to slices can take a good 10 to 12 hours. Industrially made bread goes from flour to sliced in under 4.

That time to develop matters a LOT to the taste, proper fermentation creates most of the flavour.

And the 2nd covid check.

Well, not me personally, I live in a somewhat more functioning country.

I mean, make a list of the the US presidents from the past oh, 40 years. Who would you say is the most kind, considerate and charismatic one on that list?

Those extremists would be very upset if they could recognize reality

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

Yep

The recent PISA data confirms that students who use AI a lot are about a year behind everyone else. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

There’s absolutely no doubt that AI democratizes many capabilities that people otherwise would not possess,

There is so much wrong with that.

For starters, you don’t possess it. You still can’t do it because you haven’t learned.

Second, it’s not something you have inherent access too. LLMs are completely unaffordable to anyone using them, which is why the companies are running insane losses. Your use of LLMs depends entirely and fully on the availability of venture capital to burn.

Third, it was always within your ability to learn. The information to acquire the skills has been available for free.

Fourth, thanks to LLMs (and enshittification) it is becoming more and more difficult to find and access that free information.