One game that had a different perspective (first person mmo), but a fun network of road building in a simulated wilderness .. Wurm Online

Why can’t I filter by $/TB??

I want to see the table sorted by lowest cost first, but with a $/TB filtered to be in the top 5% (or under some max value).

Interesting that he would consider software a new life form. I think our organizations are really the higher life form above Apex humans.

When we have computer systems acting as corporation owners, and we begin to thrive in working for those corporations… That’s really going to change the picture.

Green Dot Corporation, presumably.. although that’s Apple Cash, not Apple Card.

I think it’s newsworthy as related to managed web publishing/speech and the governance of online information. Did any Wikipedia articles cite this page? Do those need revision now??

This is a big win for China. Standards of Justice have moved tremendously in open seas.

Whether drugs or information, you don’t want to be on the wrong side of this!

With RO, could* focus on kitchen and bathroom sinks; amortized cost should be $5-10 per-month per-sink.

Toilet, shower, and laundry could all be low-risk with unfiltered service tap water.

honestly just doing kitchen should be enough to get 90% of the benefit

Seems like continuous edge testing would be a critical first step.

End users seeing water content in real time would absolutely motivate fixes.

Via ChatGPT, some groups of Chicago children are average 6-8 µg/dL blood lead levels, guaranteeing they’ll face challenges related cognitive disability. 100+ years of this—and all they need is good water filters.

This should be a class action to get fixed. No way the government can fix this alone in a reasonable time frame without focusing on end-users first.

Primary source of exposure in Chicago is from household dust contaminated by old paint. Water is secondary or tertiary issue, but can be bad. The article is a bit off the mark as they did not interview the Chicago DPH inspectors who respond to high serum reports.

Also, the average lead level of urban or suburban toddlers in the 1970s was 10-15 µg/dL, due mostly to vapors from leaded gasoline. Gen X had eye-popping lead exposures as kids.

So 6-8 µg/dL doesn't guarantee cognitive disability, but it is still bad.

[Edit: also want to add that quality monitoring doesn't necessarily fully solve the water situation either. For example, it is known that a chunk of leaded detritus or solder can drop into rice or pasta water from stream or aerator and raise serum precipitously, but won't be seen in a test as it is intermittent. The problem of lead is ubiquitous and not entirely tractable, but a lot of progress is possible over time.]

id like to remind you all that this is the richest country on the planet, and they live like its 19th century victorian britain

19th century victorian britain was the richest country on the planet

it also had open sewers, child prostitution, destitution, some of the worst living conditions in the first world. Just because the owners bump up the per-capita average doesnt mean shit, just like you see in USA. How many people cant even afford a brick building to live in?

Could you link a real source instead of ChatGPT, please?

No shame on JSON.. XML can do this too!

I’m confused.. effective ad blocking is now “piracy?”

I thought TiVo settled that argument long ago.

Edit; maybe not TiVo leading the disruption here: https://modern-counsel.com/2016/tivo/