Sorry, the fact you’re being downvoted for this is kinda funny.
As a generally left-leaning person, lemmy absolutely has a leftist demographic, and most politics-related threads are full of upvoted low effort hot takes, while relevant but unpopular opinions tend to get downvoted.
But, then again social media is gonna social media…
Good point, and worth keeping in mind! At the same time, the generics are often so much cheaper it’s worth a try. I take Claratin daily for allergies and the Costco version is literally 10% the cost of name brand. It’s astounding how much of a markup basic OTC drugs can have.
Favorite so far was probably a 2003 Mazdaspeed Protégé. They were kinda anemic for a 2.0t car out of the box, but I had built the engine a bit and goosed it to around 225whp. It wasn’t the fastest thing around, but it had a raw mechanical feel that was a hoot to drive and toss around corners, especially after adding some stickier rubber.
I’ve got a NB Miata in the garage right now, but man it’s just missing about 75whp to match the smiles per hour factor.
It’s weird that the headline is “Websites using AI to Undress Women…” and the first line of the article is “Websites that used artificial intelligence (AI) to undress people, especially women…”
I’ve always thought it would be an interesting experiment for all (or most) proposed laws to be written as though they were scientific experiments, complete with:
Hypothesis (what is the law intended to accomplish?),
Metrics (how will effectiveness be measured),
Effectiveness period (when will these effects be realized?)
Success cnriteria (what is the minimum effect to consider the law effective?)
Side effects (what might go wrong, and how will that be evaluated?)
There’s probably lots that does not cover, but the main idea is that any new law comes with quantitative ways to determine its effectiveness against its stated goals. Any law that does not meet those goals in the predefined time period is scrapped.
But again, as Zeppo said, without an informed and interested electorate, it’s all pretty much moot.