92% not going and yet I still have to wait 6-8 weeks for a visit with my PCP, to be mostly ignored and referred to a specialist, then 6+ months for a specialist to be told I need to go back to my PCP to redo all the diagnostics they did at referral because the results are too old now...

Yeah, I live in small-town US where many residents have complained about speeding in areas with heavy pedestrian use. In response, the local PD was quoted on the front page of the paper saying they don't have time to enforce speed limits. A few years later and they were again on the front page saying that they don't have time or equipment to enforce parking regulations. So here they're somewhere between suggestion and completely ignored, but the next town over is filled with speed cameras and highway patrol sitting in wait to meet their quota...both towns on the same road.

And in optics, the "real" portion of a material's refractive index represents scattered light and the "imaginary" part represents absorbed light.

It's a traditional dish in the southern Appalachians and is called kilt (killed) lettuce, usually made by pouring hot bacon grease over lettuce.

Why, as an American, do I have to navigate an internet full of pop ups designed to make sites GDPR compliant?

I honestly don't know the full extent of the accusations against Gates. But more generally, even if the people involved were adults, how do we know it wasn't criminal? How do we know the women were involved consensually? And for those that did "consent", how do we know it wasn't due to coercion and the enormous wealth and power imbalances at play? The pictures of Gates released with one of the previous dumps sure don't make it look like everyone was happy to be there with him... obviously a lot of this is speculation, but I'm weary of using the logic of adult = not criminal activity.

Several posts are saying this would be a good thing. Maybe, if implemented like the meme shows, but I worry ads in LLM chatbot output have the potential to be the most insidious and persuasive form of advertising we've ever seen. Chatbots are -- by their nature -- conversational and pushed in forms that are meant to eliminate any sort of thinking on the part of the user. And more and more, people are using them as their closest, most trusted confidants. Who's to say a (e.g.) political candidate won't pay to control the narrative of a chatbot, and have their propaganda ("ads") appear as a private conversation between an individual and their trusted "friend" or "partner"?

This graph makes the SAT drop look worse than it is

Yes, an example of why dual y-axis plots are problematic (when the variables are not direct mathematical transformations of each other).

And notably, many changes have been introduced to the SAT and SAT scoring over that time. It's unclear to me from the information here how those have been accounted for in the data.

To add to this, the Phillips screw was designed to be self centering for use with motorized screw drivers on assembly lines, with an added benefit of easy cam out that prevented over tightening by said screw drivers. All that is kinda obsolete now and actually disadvantageous, so Phillips is probably the most entrenched and enduring corporate propaganda screw.

I would consider them a type of dumpling.

The rest of the band isn't a whole lot better:

Then, Balzary and Smith jumped into the crowd. Balzary picked up the woman and began to spin her around on his shoulders, while Smith pulled her bathing suit to one side and began to slap her bottom, Grasso said. Officials said Balzary got on top of the woman, asked her to perform a sex act, then began to simulate the act.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/17/Two-members-of-Red-Hot-Chili-Peppers-arrested/7434637650000/

The Ecotopia borders are not that different from Cascadia.