Didn’t realize that! I just unchecked some of the things I don’t care as much about. Guess I could have just slid them down the priority list.

after every statistical review over the last hundred years of reviews of statistical data, your claims do not bare out.

Can you link one of many statistical reviews that you are mentioning?

Is that like a fork of StreetComplete (or the other way around)? My problem with street complete is that it decides priorities for you in terms of what info to ask you for. Like I dont care much about reporting road surfaces and lane lines, but I’d really like to contribute to mapping of hiking/biking trails, and things like water sources. I know you can do that kind of thing via web interfaces, but I like the way street complete makes it easy in an app.

Yes, but there is incredibly strong evidence that mask wearing does reduce transmission rates. I haven’t looked (so definitely correct me if I’m wrong), but I suspect that lid closing likely does not have strong evidence for decreased transmission.

One factor that I think likely weighs heavily into this is that public toilets, where you could be exposed to particles from a stranger dont have lids usually, and they have a much more violent flush, while home toilets are mostly just used by your own household.

The problem is mother nature tears down giant trees that provide shade (and look nice), and then the city replaces them with crape myrtle, purple-leaf plum, Bradford pear, and a whole bunch of other non-natives that dont grow tall enough to ever provide shade, and dont have any other benefit.

Yeah, sales taxes is generally bad because it is regressive. The fact that it can capture revenue from non-locals is one of the main benefits.

The fake leather is polyurethane, which goes through hydrolysis. Basically humidity destroys the bonds.

That’s not a recycling symbol, it’s a “resin identification code”. They just make it looks like the recycling symbol to trick people.

You’re making a good point, but I think it’s also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone’s humanity. It feels a little bit to me like the whole “I just pretend everyone is white”-approach.

I think there’s too much nuance to make a hard rule on it. I’ve worked with someone who’s go-to way to describe people was always ethnicity/perceived nationality-based to a weird extent, never with anything negative, but it was still jarring. Like he would say “the Bosnian guy who works with Steve” instead of "the guy who works with Steve ".

I would also find it strange if someone treated someone’s race like it was a bad word. Like, I think it would be fairly natural to say “what’s the name of the black guy who works in the shop?”, and much less natural to say “whats the name of the person in the shop who often wears black pants, and said they were a fan of that new TV show, and they said they were from Oklahoma, and …”

“East Asian” also feels needlessly specific

This might be a regionalism. In the US, someone from India wouldnt be called Asian (even though India is obviously in Asia), but (in my understanding) in UK English, “Asian” will be used for both south Asian as well as east Asian folks, so it’s probably more normal there.

I think it just comes down to which people groups migrated in the largest numbers to which place first.

The idea that we could accidentally create a superintelligence is a psy-op by the companies looking to boost their stocks.

During peak pollen season, there are a few things that really help me. One is rinsing my face after I’ve been outside for a bit, particularly if I’ve been sweaty and/or moving quickly (like running or biking).

The other has been having an air purifier in my bedroom.

It sounds like your problems aren’t with EVs. It sounds like your problems are with any modern car.

Ah, that all makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I can see this being really useful once apps have handled all the ways people might want to shorthand things.

Actually seeing the grid makes it way easier, I think. I bet there’s a way to turn that on in the Google maps app itself.

How does that work?

V75V+8Q Paris, France

If you reach “v75v+ paris”, it’s less detailed than the full plus code, and “paris+8q” doesnt get you anything.

I would hope they minimize the use of homophones. They do use different forms of words, but the way the words are assigned, you aren’t going to have 2 really similar sounding locations in the same area. If you know someone went missing on a hike in Scotland, you’ll be able to figure out that the three words correspond to a Scottish location and not somewhere in Kenya.

It almost seems like a different use case. It seems like the plus codes are effectively like mailing addresses for places that dont have addresses (lots of countries). They still lack the ability to do clear, analog communication (e.g., over radio or just a person’s memory in a search and rescue situation).

I will say, I’ve noticed the plus codes, but never looked into them. It’s really good that they are open source and can be generated offline. Hopefully they have some adoption in other apps/devices.

The original use case, as far as I know, is helping search and rescue. Words that are easy to communicate verbally, and easy to remember, so you dont have to worry about bad radio or phone signal garbling communication. Even if your phone dies, or you dont have pen/paper, it’s easy enough to remember the three words and communicate to search and rescue after you’ve made it out to a trailhead or whatever.

Oh dang. I haven’t actually used the app in a while. It seems like the monetization of core features is a new thing?

It’s such a simple and good idea at its core, so it seems really stupid to muck it up. I guess I will just have to go back to using decimal lat/longs. At least mapping applications seem to be able to interpret those better now. For the longest time, even Google maps would just give you no results if you typed in what was obviously lat/long if you didn’t have the ° symbol and minutes/seconds.