You know, there’s a shortage of RAM right now, not pixels.

Translation:

Warning: cats jumping out

Conclusion(s): Women with rectovaginal endometriosis were judged to be more attractive than those in the two control groups. Moreover, they had a leaner silhouette, larger breasts, and an earlier coitarche.

Okay but like, this actually does point at a potential cause (as in, why it persists/is so common in the population) of the condition, which is sexual selection.

Why does Baby Jesus look like Donald Trump?

Yeah, but asking for the small piece how I get through social situations like birthday parties with grocery store sheet cake; I think grocery store sheetcake is absolutely disgusting and a standard-sized piece will literally make me sick, but I will suffer a few bites to be part of the festivities and not make the host feel judged for their taste in desserts. Give me a big piece and I’ll feel obligated to finish the whole thing or rudely waste the gifted food.

Also sometimes I’m full or have a bellyache or already had a big dessert that day and really can’t handle that much sugar.

Either way if I’m wrong and decide I want more, there’s this concept called “getting a second serving.”

I assume they meant that they composed the resume themselves vs a chatbot spit it out for them

Sincere question:

Most of the comments here cite reasons for disliking AI that include one or more of the following: environmental degradation, resource consumption, increasing energy/hardware prices, disregarding copyright, disregarding privacy, undermining human artists, mass layoffs, creating a market bubble, throwing education into chaos, monopolization by corporations/billionaires, AI hallucinations/inaccuracy, a product that is overpromising/undelivering, a product that makes generating misinformation easier.

Which of these reasons for disliking AI do you think fall under your assertion of “anti-intellectual technophobia”? They all seem like legitimate, well thought out reasons for disliking something to me, especially when considered together.

This is also a huge problem when deciding how to write foreign names into Chinese: imagine the difference in public perspective when reading a news article about some country leader named “Prime Minister Sleepy Swamp Pit” vs “Prime Minister Strong Universe Zephyr” or whatever.

Boo, AI slop

It’s less that Santa is on strike, and more that his sleigh is quagmired in a foot of melted permafrost

Is this meme recommending the destruction of:

1. generative AI Godzilla

or

2. generative AI, Godzilla

?

#commasmatter

I sometimes get sent/click on shorts too, however I absolutely cannot stand that YT shorts auto-repeat, which keeps me from watching more than one video at a time (hit that back button at light speed). Plus the clickbait videos are almost always disappointing (“I tuned in for 90 seconds for something that could have been summed up in a sentence and ended up being a total dud anyway!?”).

I am only just getting into medicinal gardening, but my impression thus far is that there are basically two kinds of plants in this category: “normal” garden plants that happen to have medicinal properties but are usually grown for other reasons (basically all herbs, like sage, parsley, lavender, etc, as well as plants often grown for ornamental purposes, like calendula and yarrow), and “unusual” garden plants that are rare in standard gardens and are typically grown specifically for their medicinal properties (such as stinging nettle, mugwort, ashwagandha, tulsi, arnica, etc).

You would be really surprised at how many plants have medicinal properties! Even plants like strawberry and raspberry: their leaves make great tea for easing menstrual symptoms. But like all medications you have to be careful about allergies, side effects, and drug interactions. For that reason, I’d highly recommend searching for a book or reputable website that goes into the topic at length (I’m just starting out so I don’t have any offhand to recommend, sorry). “Medicinal gardening” or “garden pharmacy” are two search terms to get you started.

All over the world, humans have been growing and foraging plants for their medicinal properties for thousands of years (in fact, even other animals have been observed intentionally seeking out medicinal plants to treat specific ailments!) so there is certain to be a local culture for medical plants in your area. Unfortunately with modern medicine a lot of this knowledge has been lost/forgotten, but it’s being unearthed and reexamined all the time (for example: urtication with stinging nettle for arthritis).

More info on plants for pollinators:

For bumblebees I’d also highly recommend lupine (make sure to track down a native variety, and don’t plant lupine in the eastern hemisphere where it’s highly invasive), followed by fireweed (native to most of the temperate northern hemisphere), although these both require a decent amount of space to grow properly. If you’re balcony gardening, bees of all kinds seem to enjoy many flowering herbs, such as mint and lavender, as well as many vegetables after they bolt, such as the brassica family, meaning you can easily grow plants for both your and their use!

Lastly, don’t forget that bees aren’t the only pollinators: flies, wasps, and beetles are all pollinators too! Attracting them to your garden may sound unappealing, but that’s only because some especially gross and ugly species give the whole group a bad rap. Most wasps are not aggressive, and many fly species are actually really cute and super fun to watch, such as bee mimics and hover flies. These pollinators tend to prefer large clumps of small flowers, such as yarrow, coriander (bolted cilantro), parsley, and carrot (again, lots of plants also edible for humans!) Attracting bees is great, but it was only once I started growing plants for these other pollinator types that I began to notice a true ecosystem forming, with spiders, dragonflies, and birds coming by to prey on the flies and wasps.

For attracting native bumblebees in North America, I cannot recommend echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) enough, especially if you live in its native range (marked in green):

It’s not native in my region but I have it in my medicinal herb garden, and let me tell you I have never seen the native bumblebees go more gaagaa over a flower (the non-native honeybees, on the other hand, were generally uninterested). Echinacea would prefer some room, but I’ve successfully grown them in containers before (I’d recommend one plant per 5-10 gallon container). Unfortunately echinacea won’t bloom in its first year, but they’re worth the wait!

Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.

Pretty ironic, given that Oregon Republicans are best known for taking the ball and going home…

I do this (I watch the first season when it comes out and then if I really liked it I’ll wait until the whole series is complete so I can binge it in one go, and if I just thought it was just okay I’ll watch the seasons as they come out because I don’t care that much if I miss stuff on account it forgetting what happened previously) and I know it screws with viewership numbers when it comes time to decide what to renew/axe but when the alternative is rewatching the entire series every time a new season comes out…

(Otherwise known as the tale of why I’ve watched Bojack Horseman S1 five times)

DS9 is a funny example because (relative to contemporary shows TNG and Voyager, but other TV of that era too) they oftentimes doesn’t wrap up the philosophical/moral/ethical conundrum neatly by end of episode and leave things more open or unresolved or ambiguous, which is simultaneously dissatisfying and refreshing IMO. Also, I think some of their best episodes from a conceptual perspective ended up a bit clunky in execution, like they don’t have enough time to properly explore the subject at hand in only one episode so they squeeze it into a more superficial plot that then as a result feels a bit drawn out (also Star Trek dialogue usually ranges from mid to meh–with a few standout lines sprinkled in–which unsurprisingly taints the acting too). There are a number of single-episode plots that were good but could have been great if they’d given them more time to marinade over multiple episodes, but they already had a huge number of balls in the air for an episodic show in terms of plot and character development, so maybe that would have been disastrous to attempt idk.

Absolutely wild ride of an article. Unusually long for The Guardian, but totally worth the read, regardless of your personal interest in birthing methods. Went in expecting medical woohoo beliefs, left with a better understanding of the growth and formation of radical online movements. Make sure to read to the end!

Currently anticipating the inevitable sequel once they get hit with manslaughter charges.