Is it true that autistic persons can be less inclined to lie than “normal” people? If so, why?

Die hatten schon um 1989 nach dem Ende der UDSSR eine “Sonderperiode in Friedenszeiten”. Da haben die Kubaner im Durchschnitt signifikant abgenommen… :-(

Wie wärs mit “Not Killed Baby Animal Nutrient” ?

Use of AI in companies would not save any time if you were checking each result.

You can simplify the for loop by something like

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s globstar             #assuming bash
for i in images/**/*.gif 
do
     convert ..... $f
done

or, if you don’t use bash,

find images/ -type f -name '*.gif' -print0 | xargs -0 convert .... '{}' 
# maybe xargs needs "-1" option to process only one file at a time

both versions call imagemagick’s convert on all files ending in .gif in the images folder.

For testing, put an “echo” command in front of the “convert” .

You could also check out if there are Rust utilities which do what you want - you’d need to install these using “cargo install”.

Things are more serious though - there are many people which are really lonely, there is a mental healrh crisis among teenagers (and both evidently because of social media) and there seem to be many neurodivergent young people which apparently can’t getting qualified help.

(And on top of that, social media and overwork seem to produce symptoms similar to adhd, see “attention deficit trait” - which is not a personality trait, but a kind of burnout symptom!!)

The German emperor’s last chancellor Bismarck, who was decently leaning on the conservative side, said famously that there are two things where you really don’t want to know how they are made: Politics and sausages.

I wish I could build a time machine and put it in operation as a shuttle service, so that people from the future in business attire, with suitcases full of money, could enter parliament lobbies, party centrals and regulatory agencies. We would have far less problems with necessary change.

Well, that all sounds a little contradicory. Especially the part about “AI skills” when it is all about deskilling.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

This. The two most important places are the home and the workplace. It is ideal if average daily commuting is less than one hour. But you can factor in that healthy humans positively need about one hour of daily excercise per day, so you can subtract that as gym time.

Everything else flows from chosing the right places and making it a priority to be able to get there either by bike or public transport.

Having done that, you will invariably find that you do not spend more time on errands and getting around than people which own a car. Inhabitants of Copenhagen or Amsterdam do not spent more time commuting than inhabitants if Houston or Los Angeles.

It is also great to chose a place with a community which has local social interactions. Most humans need that, too.

I live in Munich.

I bike to work. It is only 14 kilometers (about 9 miles).

If the road is to icy to cope with studded tyres, I take the fast commuter train… it is a tad slower, because bikes are often more efficient.

BTW I have doing that since the last 15 years and the last five jobs, in five towns or cities. That may shock you, but I am 58, and never had a car.

To go to places farther away, I use the train. We have a decent train system here (though it’s not as good as Japan’s or Switzerland’s - these countries lack bribe money from the car industry.)

I use the train for travel and vacation. I have been in a large part of Europe by train, including Greece. For example, in the last years, me and my partner traveled to Scotland, Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia, and to Denmark - by night train.

BTW it also saves a ton of money. Cars are fucking expensive. In the last ten years, I spent about 3000 € on bikes (I have two, a normal trecking bike and a recumbent one), and about 1200 € on professional maintenance (I repair and clean most stuff myself, but I let look a bike mechanic for it every year, for safety and because it saves time and unplanned repairs). So, my costs are about 420 € per year.

Historically, poverty and beer sales have been well correlated. But man, have you seen what a pint of beer costs now?

In theory, this can also happen if prices are changed during the day - perhaps according to the time of the day, and that change just happens between you putting the article into your chart. Unless every customer has a device that tracks the price of each item until he/she pays, such mismatches (or “race conditions”, that’s the technical name in software development) will be difficult to avoid.

But to me, also something weird happened. I was watching a corner with small kitchen stuff (things like knives, cooking cutlery), and there was a TV screen with advertising in it. I took one of these items (out of perhaps 100 items) into my hand and it started to play advertising about that item. Freaked me out.

The trend that people drink less and less alcohol is well-documented now.

Apart from the bullshit about AI, it is also frankly disturbing that the shares of beer companies still go up. That doesn’t quack like a market economy.

Had I read this article ten years before, I would have thought it was hilariously satirical, very funny, albeit a bit dark.

Now I am checking it is really from the guardian.co.uk, and not the onion or Private Eye.

The world has truly gone mad.

Ist denn diesmal Geld für ein Zugsicherungssystem dabei? Das hat, soweit ich mich erinner, beim Transrapid damals nicht geklappt.

Am besten ein Zugsicherzngssystem, das von Anfang an mitgedacht wurde und nichts wo man versucht Sicherheit nachträglich an eine Demo dranzutackern.

Ach ja und man könnte mal drüber nachdenken wofür man zuerst Geld ausgeben möchte, ein ultraschnelles, ultrateures Verkehrsmittel für wenige oder ein funktionierendes Fernbahnsystem für alle.

Man könnte sich bei der Entscheidung ja an den Köimaeffekten d.h. eingespartem CO2 orientieren.

Ich finde, der Ausbau der Netze sollte schlicht und ergreifend nach Verursacherprinzip bezahlt werden.

Wir brauchen dringend Erneuerbare Energien, weil die fossilen Energieträger das Klima zerstören. Das bedeutet heute schon nicht nur täglich neue Katastrophenmeldungen, sondern auch massive Kosten von vielen Milliarden. Mittelfristig gefährdet es die Stabilität von Demokratien (und verursacht Kriege mit, wie in Syrien), zerstört die globale Nahrungsmittelversorgung, und jegliche Grundlage unseres Wohlstands.

Der Umstieg auf nichtfossile Energie ist absolut alternativlos. Da gibt’s kein Aber.

Dieser Umstieg verursacht Kosten. Teil dieser Kosten sind die Kosten des Netzausbaus. Hätte man nicht ewig an der fossilen Energie festgehalten, wäre gar kein sxhneller und daher besonders teurer Ausbau nötig geworden.

Die Kosten müssen gerechterweise von den Verursachern getragen werden, also von den Firmen, die fossile Energie einsetzen und verkaufen, und den Individuen, die sie einsetzen.

Wenn der Bau einer Autobahn eine Lärmschutzwand erfordert, um Gesundheitsschäden zu vermeiden, dann sind die Autobahn und ihre Benutzer doch auch die Verursacher - nicht das Krankenhaus oder der Kindergarten, der um Lärmteppich liegt.

Und wenn eine Frittenbude oder Metzgerei einen Fettfilter einbauen muss, tragen die Kosten doch auch nicht die Anwohner, die der Gestank belästigt.

Kein Verlust.

Doch, deine Rente möglicherweise.

In Germany, we used to put an ASCII art fish for trolls, because they were troll-fishing:

><xX))))o>

That was advising others not to react to them/ Maybe we should use something similar for clanker-bots ?

Here another article on this: http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gemini.html (written in 2020)