geekwithsoul

They got the death penalty more for being dumb enough to get caught. Chinese goods - from aircraft parts and concrete to food and clothing have repeatedly been found to have dangerously cut corners and/or inadequately ensured product safety.

Oh, it’s so much worse than that - NotCo (the sponsor of the study, not just the source of the protein) is using an LLM to create plant-based alternatives to animal-based foods, such as milk, burgers, and mayonnaise. And just because they’re based in Chile, I wouldn’t take that to mean that’s where the plant protein is coming from, as they’re just the “designers” of these foods, not the manufacturers.

“The American Conference of Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) develops Biological Exposure Indices (BEI) as guidance values for assessing biological monitoring results in occupational settings by individuals trained in the discipline of industrial hygiene to assist in the control of potential workplace health hazards and for no other use. These values are not fine lines between safe and dangerous concentrations and should not be used by individuals without training in the discipline of industrial hygiene.” https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/leadtoxicity/safety_standards.html

The truth is none of the standards are based entirely on safe/not-safe levels - they know none of it is safe, but governments are hesitant to hold corporations responsible. And zero-lead is what “happens in practice” for responsible manufacturers. It’s not some unavoidable contaminant that can’t be removed.

There is no safe level of lead in consumables. The standards being tossed around are basically about forcing government or corporate action, not about what’s actually healthy to consume.

Unfortunately Chinese manufacturers have a long history of using harmful fillers in consumables, even for the non-export market so it’s hard to tell how much is accidental and how much intentional.

Most of the plant-based protein on the market is sourced from China and seems to be contaminated with high levels of lead - probably due to poor processing controls, and far in excess of natural plant or animal sources.

While Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is a bit of a mixed bag overall, Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra will always be one of my favorites. Also Courtenay Taylor as female player character in Fallout 4, and Ashley Burch as Pavarti in Outer Worlds.

They don’t want their own spaces as much as making other people’s spaces are theirs too - aka “This is why we can’t have nice things”

Congrats on being sober 2 years! It’s not easy.

But the good news is that the longer you abstain from carcinogens like alcohol or smoking, the better your odds become. Each day sober is a day that decreases your risk of cancers from alcohol. Keep doing that (and avoid other risk factors) and your cancer risk essentially drops to the normal baseline governed by your genetics, environment, etc.

If you can find it, look for the Indonesian version of ramen from Indomie. In my opinion, so much better - it actually has other flavors than salt! ;)

Anyone actually watch this? I’m guessing more pseudo-archaeology bullshit?

Joaquin Phoenix, no exceptions. And it’s totally not fair. He’s a gifted actor, and I can’t stand him for some reason.

Nice strawman, but not applicable. A car can mechanically fail, resulting in a crash or a human can operate it in such a manner as to cause a crash. It can’t crash on its own and if driven and maintained correctly, won’t crash.

An AI, on the other hand, can give answers but never actually “knows” if it’s correct or true. Sometimes the answers will be correct because you get lucky but there’s nothing in any current LLM out there that can tell fact from fiction. It’s just based on how it’s trained and what it’s trained on, and even when taking from “real” sources, it can mix things up when combining sources. Suggest you read https://medium.com/analytics-matters/generative-ai-its-all-a-hallucination-6b8798445044

The only way a car would be like an AI is if every time you sat in the car, it occasionally drove you to the right place and you didn’t mind the other 9 out of 10 times it drove you to the wrong place, drove you using the least efficient route, and/or occasionally drove across lawns and fields, and on sidewalks. Oh, and the car assembles itself from other people’s cars and steals their gas.

It’s more than “AI isn’t perfect”, it’s that AI isn’t even good. Moderation, and even summaries, require more than predictions - they require understanding, which AI doesn’t have. It’s all hallucinations, and it’s just that through sheer dumb luck and hoovering in so much ill-gotten data that sometimes the hallucinations happen to be correct.

I always name them, but I have no naming scheme per se, other than vibes. First car I ever owned was a light blue 83 Cutlass - that was “Bob”. Had an early 90s Dodge Shadow with a v6 and that was “Pepe.” Most recent is a 2010 VW Final Edition convertible w/ blue & white two tone paint and she’s “Elsa.” The names just always seem to be there already when I get them.

Thanks - obviously completely misunderstood the graphic!

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Looking forward to: everything

Scared of: everything

I’m an optimist with a lot of anxiety :/

What the hell is this horseshit… from the AP?! That’s a Sunday magazine puff piece. It’s made him “grateful” and “appreciative”? No, it’s made him even more reckless and reactionary than he was in his first term.

Verizon’s customer portal. Clunky, badly designed interface and what should be simple tasks end in dead pages, non-responsive widgets, and interminable loading screens. Just awful.