The majority of models responding to the survey did not feel under pressure to have an unhealthy weight but a significant number said they felt ‘quite heavy’ or ‘very heavy’ pressure.

What the hell is this conclusion in the report? Their own data shows “quite heavy pressure” as 10% and “very heavy pressure” as literally 0%:

The overwhelming majority says there’s “no pressure at all.” With such a glaring error that is clearly just written to support their position despite their data contradicting it, this report becomes completely useless.

The report opens with a bold statement:

A small group of supermodels inhabit the world of celebrity. […] Their faces and bodies make a splash in the pages of national newspapers and glossy magazines but their voices are seldom heard.

Oh no! Good thing we have this report to get their voices heard! What do they have to say?

“It’s unfair to discriminate against naturally thin models by assuming they have an eating disorder”

I see. The purpose of the report was never to make their voices heard.

Exactly the tool I’ve used. I purged it about a year ago and randomly discovered that everything was restored about a month ago. I don’t know when it was restored, though.

They restored all my comments a few months later, so I’ve tried it again by editing all my comments to gibberish.

fediverse

Amex works outside the US. I use it in Europe.

Holy moly, it was 49 years old, from January 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara_Airlines_Flight_2311

That’s precisely what I try to bring to every thread I engage with, but it can be extremely frustrating.

It’s odd to me to take objection to a post making a bad point by making a sarcastic statement that was open to misinterpretation. The thread invites a discourse about building better cities and yet, in classic Lemmy fashion, it’s just about semantics.

While your comment is very amusing, accessibility and congestion are pretty high up on the list of things that make a place “nice.” A deep Investment into public transit is very likely to have a positive impact on an inhabitant’s happiness.

(Incidentally, it’s ironic that you have leapt to the conclusion that one of these cities is “winning” while nothing of the sort is stated in the post, only then to take objection to people drawing such conclusions.)

Reading past your sarcasm, you’re suggesting that it’s better to have reduced public transit options than investing into them. I’m curious to hear your reasoning to argue that.

What is the required population threshold for investing into public transit? Above 3 million and below 20 million, it seems, but can you be more specific?

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The impact of our incessant growth continuously erodes the environment, wiping out ecosystems for development and depleting our finite materials. Our growth mindset excuses ourselves of the “lesser evil” of renewable energy.

Indeed this isn’t great for the environment and I’m again disappointed about this community’s shortsightedness in refusing to see it that way.

Coming in as a close second after the death of one child and the endangerment of the other: wearing down the car battery.

No, they didn’t. This community read too much into a blog post that stated “over 1 billion,” compared it against an old blog post from several years ago that stated a more precise number of “1.4 billion” and came to the hasty conclusion that they must have lost 400 million users.

Microsoft has since updated their blog post to clarify that it’s now “over 1.4 billion.”

Edit: downvotes, really? Can’t even correct misinformation in this community anymore?

Thanks for providing insights and inviting a more nuanced discussion. I find it extremely frustrating that in communities like Lemmy it’s risky to write comments like this because people assume you’re “taking sides.”

The entire point of the community should be to have discourse about a topic and go into depth, yet most comments and indeed entire threads are just “Nvidia bad!” with more words.

Obligatory disclaimer that I, too, don’t necessarily side with Nvidia.

Yes, indeed this was just a copy error. Thanks for pointing it out.

The linked Reuters article provides a bit more context:

The jury agreed with the plaintiffs that Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), was liable for sending and receiving information from the devices without permission while they were idle, causing what the lawsuit had called “mandatory and unavoidable burdens shouldered by Android device users for Google’s benefit.”

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Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement that the company would appeal, and that the verdict “misunderstands services that are critical to the security, performance, and reliability of Android devices.”

Let me get this straight: your position on this is that the issue is only worth even talking about when on average, each American experiences a shooting at least once? Or are you just making small talk?

I still have fond memories of using Ubuntu. At the time, it must have been 2009 or so, I was working at a company developing desktop software for Windows, OS X and Debian. It’d be so confusing to constantly switch between operating systems because it’d mess with my muscle memory, but Ubuntu was my favorite because of POSIX and the fantastic file manager.

For my purposes and from my experience, things have improved tremendously on Windows, despite it being popular to hate upon. I still frequently use Mac as well and it’s really hardly changed at all. I confess that I only ever use Fedora on a remote instance for very specific purposes and can’t really judge it fairly on day-to-day usage.