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Is there a TL;DR which are more trustworthy or privacy friendly?

I had a quick look, it's a pretty long writeup of different ways in which all those apps are bad.

Some simple actionnable recommandations would be nice.

It's an opportunity to switch to an alcohol-free beverage.

Les assurances complémentaires privées augmentant les coûts pour les patients vu qu'il faut payer en plus le marketing, les dividendes, le système d'échange entre sécu et complémentaires, ...

Ces surcoûts n'existent pas si la sécu gère tous les remboursements obligatoires. Comme c'est le cas en Alsace-Moselle. Il ne s'en portent pas plus mal.

Because it's cheaper to buy.

It's also why people keep buying from third party sellers on Amazon/Temu/Shein. Even after a report revealed most toys bought this way fail to meet EU safety standard, meaning they're likely dangerous and illegal to sell in the EU.

https://www.inkl.com/news/temu-shein-and-amazon-to-be-held-liable-by-the-eu-for-dangerous-and-illegal-products-they-sell-report-says

J'ai déjà vu quelqu'un repartir d'une pharmacie avec une portion de sa prescription faute de pouvoir payer la totalité du reste a charge.

Dans cette situation des gens sont forcés de choisir ce qu'ils vont traiter plus ou moins arbitrairement.

Requirements do specify a number of ~8x18 ft cat parking spaces. The regulation mention the space needed to park a car, rather than the word "car", to make things precise and consistent. See https://www.munistandards.com/ca/los-angles/parking-requirements/

Good point on the overall transport infrastructure. Parking is necessary but not sufficient. Parking requirements and urban planning should work in pair to make the city human and bicycle-friendly. It won't happen overnight, so better start soon.

Requiring car parking space around a building means there's more space between building, ie buildings are further part. So the parking requirement itself contribute to city sprawl.

I assume this is about eliminating car parking requirements.

What about changing the parking requirements to be vehicle agnostic? Require construction projects to have parking for X people, rather than X cars, and consider the requirement met if it's a mix of bicycle parking, cargo bicycle parking, and car parking.

Bicycle parking takes less space. So that'd be an incentive to deliver projets with more bicycle parking, and should help reduce housing cost.

California may not be bicycle-friendly, but it has to start somewhere to be. A colleague of mine used to commute to work in that area using an electric bicycle, it helps cover more distance than a classic bicycle.

A well informed, technicality litterate, reasonable person wouldn't.

Many reasonable people start/keep using those products. All of this is somewhat obvious for tech hobbyist. Others may not be fully aware or the risk, or don't consider they're particularily at risk. The norm is to use those services and apps. There is strong peer pressure to use those service to stay connected with people and organisations.

There's a need for more or at least better education around being safe online, and protecting personal data. An education that's free of big tech influence/sponsoring.

The AI made mistakes, according to the humans, flagging an estimated 350 publications as questionable when they were likely legitimate. That still left more than 1,000 journals that the researchers identified as questionable.

That's quite a large error rate.

This is an interesting example of narrow-AI working well on a problem it was specifically trained for.

Too bad people are going on wild goose chase trying to build AGI using LLM, creating more problems than they're solving. Narrow AI are easier to build, people know how to build them, and they typically give better results, but they don't get as much attention or money. It'd be willing to pay a subscription to access a collection of decent narrow AIs that works well for specific tasks, but not LLM that do many thing poorly.

The US is sidelining itself at the moment by alienating and making unreasonable requests to trade partners.

The point is not to permanently unweave relations, but to resist unreasonable requests, since giving in to Trump only embolden him.

The door need to remain open, as the US may one day became a more reasonable partner.

Everyone hate quacks.

Good luck to Ukraine.

I wish they didn't publicise details on how the mines were discovered, and how they were destroyed. It's an interesting read, but the Russian army may also find this intetesting.

That's awesome.

Don't stop there. The transition to renewables and electrification could also help, by reducing the import of oil, gas, and coal from Russia.

There's opposition from some EU countries to sanctions against Russia. Hungary and Slovakia for instance still depend on Russian oil gas, and are blocking or delaying sanctions. Other countries import Russian gas https://www.financial-world.org/news/news/financial/28200/hungary-and-slovakia-oppose-eu-sanctions-aiming-to-halt-russian-energy-imports/

This dependance on fossil fuel is putting the EU in a terrible situation where it imports from its agressor. Those billions of import contribute to Russia's budget and war effort.

Reducing import and reliance on fossil fuel from Russia, or elsewhere, is as important as helping Ukraine defend itself.

#NotAllCockroaches

The CDC is lucky to have her, she seems to care about science and to be ready to defend the CDC. She's brave for not resigning and not making it easy for the administration to get rid of her.

Is it producing steam?

The moral high ground vs Donald Trump? That's a very low bar. You'd have to try very hard to do worse.

Also, not everything in the world revolves around that selfish man.

Funny comic strip. But smoking isn't cool, it's litterally poison sold for profit by the tabacco industry.

I might be the buzzkill here but that's okay. Please don't smoke. You'll thank yourself later.