Coolkidbozzy [he/him]

lmao the 1970s was still ba’athist but under Assad’s dad

Nice! I’m afflicted by the astrological influence of a planet

LED headlights can be many times brighter than incandescent bulbs with no significant impact to life expectancy. Physically, incandescent bulbs produce light by heating up an element which decays relatively quickly. LEDs directly convert electricity to light.

In the US, there ARE regulations limiting how bright headlights can be, but aftermarket LEDs can be bought which exceed the limit. I’ve heard the EU and Asia already widely use adaptive headlight technology so it’s a uniquely american car problem

they use proprietary file formats (MOV and HEIC) that need to be converted to a universal format like jpg or MP4 to be viewed on android (I think this can be changed in iPhone settings), and the conversion looks like shit

As of now the law seems to be that you’d still need to show a physical ID to police, this wouldn’t be seen as valid. Tbh this doesn’t seem useful

the cold war turned every civil war into a proxy war with at least one large power (the US) prolonging conflicts and fuelling large death tolls by supplying weapons to the right-wing, if not directly intervening

vietnam/cambodia/laos, both afghanistan wars, angola/namibia, liberia, sierra leone, syria, ukraine, both congo wars, occupation of lebanon, libya, yemen, and the years of lead are some examples of this

less nations legally declare war on each other now because declaring war requires UN backing, but the cold war was a violent extension of imperialism that never ended and a lot of people have been killed

so many people are saying this

I feel like a reasonable but controversial answer to this is cows

If you aren’t part of a union in the US, you’re probably working without a contract in an agreement called ‘at will’ employment where this is 100% legal. This is how the vast majority of jobs operate

seems to completely ignore that lack of regulation on AI watermarks (outside of China). All future datasets will be polluted with AI output, worsening accuracy. The more “AI” (large language models) grow as a field, the worse the problem will get