I suppose bikers will go for routine checkups and respond to the doctor, “Jeez, I’ve been riding for ten years and nobody ever told me it was dangerous!”

The lessons are the same from every public health concern: risky sex, obesity epidemic, smoking. Badgering people is really fucking annoying for everybody involved - so annoying that they’ll have worse healthcare outcomes in general - and basically nobody will make lifestyle changes because of it. The most you can do with non-structural solutions is get people to take prophylactics or wear a helmet.

Your risk of death is 100%. I drive a convertible even though it is much more dangerous than a sedan in a rollover or T-bone. Many of us here shoot guns, do direct action, have no health insurance, etc. As long as they’re registered organ donors, why should doctors hassle bikers? Bikers know the risk better than the general population, they just want it more.

Bicycle deaths per mile: ~10 per 100M miles Motorcycle deaths per mile: ~20 per 100M miles

IMO this shows that they’re more dangerous, but primarily because you can go a lot further on a motorcycle. Basically 100% of the danger from riding a bicycle comes from cars. In contrast, it’s quite practical to kill yourself on a motorcycle without external intervention. So, if you have already chosen a mode of transportation, behavioral choices on a motorcycle offer much more control over where you fall within that mode’s risk spectrum. Wearing a helmet and taking a class make way more difference on a motorcycle, and that’s borne out by the contributing factors to fatal accidents /u/nat_turner_overdrive has posted elsewhere in the thread. Seems quite possible that the per-mile risk of a motorcycle rider doing everything right is comparable to that of the average bicyclist. Biking in cities is stupid dangerous of course, every cyclist I know has been hit, but that’s a problem with cars not an intrinsic thing.

IMO no, for two reasons:

• reading code is harder than writing it. If the AI writes you a standard implementation, you still have to read it to make sure it’s correct. So that’s more work than just doing it yourself
• AI will produce code that looks right. Since it can’t understand anything that’s all it does, next most likely token == most correct-looking solution. But when the obvious solution is not the right one, you now have deceptively incorrect code, specifically and solely designed to look correct.

I’ve never used Copilot myself but pair programmed with someone who used it, and it seemed like he spent more time messing with the output than it would have taken to write it himself.

No TikTok, no Kaspersky, I’m excited to live behind the Great Firewall of America.

seems like it’d be hard to get reliable data on this. anybody here in the fentanyl business? im not a cop :)

unfortunately it is more of a webnovel: His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai

lmao i’m sorry guys the ArXiv people are drawing arbitrary lines in a sea of dots again

in their defense it is hard to get good data when you’re paying people on the internet £1.50 for an 8 minute trial (total cost: £300). Would have been better and much funnier to go to a real car meet and have an attractive grad student ask who wants to get their dick measured

also 2 of the 6 sports car pictures are the same Porsche lol

unfortunately the hippie shit costs more. Likely the assembly lines are easier if they don’t have to worry about it separating. But since we live in hell world it is entirely possible that hydrogenated fat and/or sugar are less expensive per gram than roasted peanuts

shit post. peanuts are eaten because they’re the cheapest nut. hot dogs and bologna and glorious USSR sausage are eaten because they’re cheap. in every culture people eat what’s available. the presence of these foods in American culture is not because of a successful advertising psyop, it’s because they’re cheap! once they become expensive ideology keeps them there sure.

I take particular offense at this poster apparently not understanding peanut butter. Natural peanut butter isn’t chalky, those scary hydrogenated fats are just to make it so you don’t have to stir. Natural peanut butter will separate and there’s a big old layer of PEANUT OIL sitting there. It’s full of fat already! That’s why it tastes good!

imagine getting rear-ended and it’s a fucking senator. I would snap

macroplastics 😋

I know it’s fucked up to spend extra time empathizing with the Israelis. But if I was one of those four hostages, and I found out that Israel had killed fifty people and wounded another hundred specifically in my name. Christ. How could you live?

It’s sick. They fly it in front of my county’s jail. The prisoners are HERE dipshits!

guy who is pushing for Palestinian liberation because he wants to get a fucking keffiyeh I missed it AGAIN

I bet Israel goes out of their way to specifically block Hirbawi’s exports too. Symbolic battle

i think most people now think that consciousness doesn’t require being able to communicate in language. hence all the interest in Genie and other feral children, animals looking at themselves in the mirror, etc.

good post happy pride boy boy

are you saying babies aren’t conscious

I made it, nobody knows what democratic centralism means