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wiggywithit t1_j7ii7ur wrote

Reply to comment by DeNoodle in In a study examining conversation as a vehicle for social influence, researchers found that changing the mind of someone who is dismissive of efforts to protect the planet could be accomplished by sharing a pro-sustainability point of view during a verbal or written exchange. by memorialmonorail

Brilliant! I’ve used that argument with my conservatives about immigration. Instead of thinking of it as “they leach off the system I pay for”. Or the classic “der tuk rrr jerrbbbs” I say how about, as a people, we invest in these people, and then we can all pay taxes.

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rougewitch t1_j7ii3d1 wrote

Reply to comment by lakeland_nz in Analysis showed that 65.6% of women who took extra Vitamin D gave birth naturally. The study analysed results from the MAVIDOS trial which involved 965 women being randomly allocated an extra 1,000 International Units (IU) per day of vitamin D during their pregnancy or a placebo. by Wagamaga

Wow! So more vitamin d would widen my pelvis to allow passage of my 10lb son?? I wish i knew that before my surprise csection! (Im obvs joking)

Csections suck

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DrXaos t1_j7ig8eq wrote

Reply to comment by keithcody in Researchers tested a large sample of the prominent major AI technologies available today and found not only did they reproduce human biases in the recognition of facial age, but they exaggerated those biases by giuliomagnifico

I guess I don't get your point. The images reflect the phenomenon I suggest.

Look at the younger images. In the smiling & young side there are more relatively high spatial frequency light to dark transitions, interpreted as a higher probability of wrinkles, vs the non-smiling side. I conjecture those contribute to higher age estimation.

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fatamSC2 t1_j7ifq6h wrote

Reply to comment by SexyOldHobo in Current climate policies lead the world to less than a 5 percent likelihood of phasing out coal by mid-century ,new study shows by 9273629397759992

Has nothing to do with it. You could be as green as humanly possible and the poorer countries will still use coal because they're trying to catch up and green just isn't feasible in those countries for the most part. Or at least not on any grand scale. So coal usage will continue on until green becomes VERY affordable

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mattjouff t1_j7ifi97 wrote

Reply to comment by Rakshear in In a study examining conversation as a vehicle for social influence, researchers found that changing the mind of someone who is dismissive of efforts to protect the planet could be accomplished by sharing a pro-sustainability point of view during a verbal or written exchange. by memorialmonorail

Well depending on where you are 90% of recycled stuff still ends up in landfills because you can’t just have cardboard mixed in with different types of plastics. The sorting still has the be done by humans, so it’s easier and cheaper not to sort.

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keithcody t1_j7idyma wrote

Reply to comment by DrXaos in Researchers tested a large sample of the prominent major AI technologies available today and found not only did they reproduce human biases in the recognition of facial age, but they exaggerated those biases by giuliomagnifico

Your description doesn’t really fit the findings.

Sample image used for training

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/9800363/bin/41598_2022_27009_Fig1_HTML.jpg

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James_Solomon t1_j7id6db wrote

Reply to comment by DeNoodle in In a study examining conversation as a vehicle for social influence, researchers found that changing the mind of someone who is dismissive of efforts to protect the planet could be accomplished by sharing a pro-sustainability point of view during a verbal or written exchange. by memorialmonorail

This was also why you had a lot of federal programs to ensure the population was vaccinated, fed, and baseline educated - America found out in WW1 that many Americans couldn't need the fitness standards of the army at the time.

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