Why is electroshock therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?
It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.
File under: Germany in a soybean shell.
To Earn His Crown, Germany’s Tofu King Had to Overcome Sausage and the Slammer
To this day, the legal battle continues over whether dairy substitutes made with soy or oat can be called “milk” at all. Until a court battle in 1989, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dairy lobby managed to keep soy milk and derivatives such as tofu strictly verboten.
Did you know you can also send trailers, to append metadata after a message body?
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology.
(…) the economics of processors has changed dramatically, pushing computing into specialized domains that are largely distinct and will provide fewer benefits to each other. Moreover, because this cycle is self-reinforcing, it will perpetuate itself, further fragmenting general purpose computing. As a result, more applications will split off and the rate of improvement of universal processors will further slow.
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LEPIN 16016 Flying Neitherlands (via orf.at).
♬ a toxic clean.
Who the Hell are the Disabled?
Official Government figures stated in 2014 that there are more than 11 million who fall within their definitions, which includes those with mental health issues, diabetes and invisible impairments. We are the largest minority group in the UK, if not the world.
But oh, the disabled are tragic. Or sporty brave. Or embarrassing. They’re ungrateful. They’re a burden. More recent history condemned us as scroungers.
GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data.
Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.
Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You.
I’ve mentioned that in SemVer the maintainer can do whatever they want, as long as the major version is zero. That leads to many maintainers sticking to their beloved 0ver forever.
“The catastrophe of industrial meat is a poorly concealed secret.”
The Sadism of Eating Real Meat Over Lab Meat.
The meat industry also abuses animals long before it actually kills them, and depends on the exploitation of vulnerable human workers at the best of times. During Covid-19, slaughterhouses have become hubs of infection. Animal agriculture also helps develop and spread other zoonotic illnesses, such as H1N1 swine flu and H5N1—and more recently H5N8—avian influenza, in addition to playing a role in the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
