“It demonstrates that in low-density, sprawling cities like Brisbane, people cannot be expected to permanently give up driving unless there is significant investment in public transport.”

However, researchers found given participants were likely to slightly reduce their reliance on cars, it showed experiencing car-free living, even briefly, could help people break away from automobility.

In Brisbane, 89 per cent of households own at least one car and 48 per cent of commuters drive to work.

This was essentially the goal of the study, to demonstrate that more investment is needed in public transport to increase public buy-in, and that even just being forced to try it for a few weeks increases usage and lowers car use longer term - so if there can be incentives to try public transport that could also increase its use long term and reduce cars on the road.

The headline is not what people here (myself included) wanna read, but the study succeeded in its demonstration and will hopefully drive positive govt policy outcomes.

Do racoons live near the Whitehouse?

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No, entirely incorrect. “bad thing can happen, so it will happen” is essentially a mangling of Murphy’s Law.

In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected [eg: this minor law] because the slippery slope advocate believes it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends [eg: loose claims of a pot getting hotter implying further details will be demanded next].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

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What’s that? The tears of a clown being shown evidence their beliefs are wrong?

Now this use of AI, I like.

I agree, it’s completely unacceptable.

Hard to take China’s complaint seriously though when they do the same thing with regularity.

I like the ‘Enshittocene Era’ also.

This is why critical thinking is so important to teach in schools (and why Repubs defund schools).

The more kids are enabled to think critically about sources and find quality evidence-supported information, the harder they are to con and scam.

RFK is a perfect example. Will not believe medical science with multiple thousands of years of combined data. Will accept a masculinity-blogger or Joe Rogan recommendation because of ‘gut feel’ or Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/slippery-slope-argument

Vietnam speedrun any%

It did achieve the intended distraction from Trump’s Epstein issues quite well though, they’ve been off the press radar since this began.

I mean I wanna upvote but this has my AI sensor sus.

“They are made in china, why not just smuggle them out of the factory and skip the middle man?”

Explain how this comment makes sense.

They are not made in China.

Can people just not read articles anymore?

The entire article is about US-manufactured servers being shipped to China. Not a single mention of the other story of TSMC chips directly-exported to China from Taiwan, which is an entirely different event.

Yep. Its honestly mild as hell.

Essentially legislation that says:

• app stores have to have age categories to silo children, teens, and adults.
• OSes have to have a field to collect this data from users when they set up their login, so it can be sent to app stores via API.

Its just a standardized system that should have been done ages ago, but was not a priority for standards orgs, so none stepped up - so legislation appeared.

I strongly argue that it should only apply to commercial OSes and app stores though - as they’re the ones that primarily cause issues these laws intent to address.

Linux and FOSS have been caught in the crossfire in a privacy and personal data battle they were not involved in.

This does not disagree with what I said, nor add weight to the statement I was replying to.

The servers in question in the article were made in the US and the chips in Taiwan.

Yes, there is shitfuckery going on with the grey market, and yes, Nvidia is likely doing their best to turn a blind eye - that really doesn’t have anything to do with what you wrote.

I feel like I don’t need to fact check this and should accept this as true and share it to others.

Its what RFK Jr would want.

Edit: ahaha holy fucking shit you weren’t joking.

Uhh… No.

The servers in question are made and built in the USA, and the chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC. China is not involved at all, as they lack the capabilities to manufacture these chips (for now).

Considering RFK Jr looks like a handbag, I’m not surprised he believes in the healing powers of “sunshine”.

Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it.

Yep. I get stuck in analysis paralysis too. Like the price of GPUs in particular it’s been hard to time a ‘good time to buy’ a major upgrade in the last decade because there’s being something driving price cycles artificially multiple time and for extended periods.