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What's with groups of bro-y straight guys being incredibly gay?

Locker room talk got very homo-erotic when I was in high-school gym, but if anyone was actually gay it would've gotten very awkward.

I heard rumours about sports-team initiations where they

Did any feminist writers write about this stuff?

I don't really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.

I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of "quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it's unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it's probably a mistake, and try and fix it.

I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?

Canada has the same vehicle size issue. Large pickup trucks/SUVs are similarly popular. Everyone here goes 15km/h over, unless there's speed cameras which are only by schools.

I wouldn't be surprised if impaired driving was a big factor, in Canada it's the equivalent of a felony even if you don't hit anyone. In the US it seems like people treat it closer to being a speed ticket.

I was thinking something like "wascal" but with the real r-word slur.

The n-word hard-r is definitely worse than the n-word soft-r/a, but Linus' definition of hard vs soft r is more ambiguous as to which one is worse if used in a sentence.

It's funny what this implies he thinks a "soft R" means

This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn't too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.

They don't say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that's actually pretty good.

Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it's either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.

That's very dubious, since where I live they have to honour the shelf price even if it's wrong.

What happens when they raise the price while I'm on the way to the register? How can I possibly counter this?

I actually had something similar happen to me. I grabbed something, I was mischarged, I told the cashier who told the manager who checked, and the manager changed the price while I was standing at the checkout and claimed it was always that price. I usually check the UPC when something is on clearance so I know I'm buying the right thing. I didn't buy the item.

Now I always walk with them to the aisle to see the price so they don't pull that on me.

If you're a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.

It's also different because they're selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can't take away from you. I've been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It's a similar idea YouTube has.

Prices are also almost never based on cost, they're based on what people will pay.

I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it's legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I'm guessing each brand has some rule against it.

Ultimately VPN users aren't a protected class so it's legal to discriminate.

There is some problem with that as you say, but the company doing the poll is pretty well-respected by the west. They were also labelled a foreign agent by Putin at some point, so I looked at their opinion.

This is an interesting op-ed by the guy who runs the polling company, talking about preference falsification.

There's an estimate that <10% of people in Russia have motive to lie because of power they'd lose if their opinion got out, and the theory is that this is usually constant. Unless Putin is scarier than 2 years ago you can still compare differences in opinion, even if you don't trust the magnitude. The guy also said that you can look at the positive responses as having a share of neutral because people who aren't informed just go with the majority instead of saying "idk".

But no matter how much lying in polls there is, the amount of people worried about sanctions went down compared to 2 years ago, and compared to 2015.

Which makes sense considering how much physical capital western companies left in Russia, since VW can't take an auto factory back to Germany with them even if they can take some equipment (but not all).

I'm surprised peanuts are that high in protein, but the rest of the peanut is fat so it's too calorie dense to use for protein goals if you eat badly otherwise.

I usually use g of protein/calorie to evaluate workout/diet food, while trying to keep relatively low cost.

Tofu/soymilk has been pretty good to me, but it's hard to hit protein goals vegan without supplement. Vegan protein powders function fine even though I use brown-rice protein which is terrible-tasting. I prefer soy protein powder, but I eat too much soy otherwise and want to balance my amino acids because I heard that's good to do.

The Chinese car thing is 'funny' in a glib way to me.

Neolibs can't admit that unionized auto-manufacturing is one of the few well-paying factory jobs that still exist and need some sort of protectionism to still exist, because protectionism is bad.

Chinese phone companies collaborating with car companies to make a product that has a UI people like is actually because the Chinese are nefarious.

If there was a Chinese company 1/5th as evil as Nestle we'd never hear the end of it. American car companies have been purposely evil in the past in not fixing stuff to be recalled because the loss of life was less expensive than fixing stuff.

I'm not really hyped on these Chinese cars because of the union jobs that would be lost, and I'm automatically distrustful of cars that are more iPad than car (I don't think I'd like Tesla's even if they didn't kill people because repairability is important).

It was Danish King Valdemar II, who had the flag fall from the sky to him as a sign. Some historians say it was a cross-battle dream, like Constantine, or like the 1217 Seige of Alcacer do Sal.

I guess hallucinating crosses during or after battles was just a common thing for a while. Everyone who lost while hallucinating a cross probably died so there's probably some confirmation bias there too. It's like how praying for your team to win a superbowl only works if you end up winning, if you lose then I guess the other team prayed harder.