This basically means it’s road and vehicle safety that is causing people to have fatal accidents, not THC in their blood.

Even if there was such a limit, people who use cannabis for medical reasons would have to be exempt.

No..impairment is impairment whatever the reason for getting impaired is. Prescription meds get you in trouble in DUIs too.

Really? What else did they have in their blood?

Great: once the bubble pops, all camps will suffer.

Unless you rotate IPs and browser fingerprints for each identity and alter your visited sites, usage patterns, typing speed and style, mouse movements etc. etc. the data brokers will be able to connect your ”inconsistent” identities.

Most attacks on people are done by those who just google your name and see what comes up so some very minor privacy work helps a lot. Its a lot of work to be completely safe but its very little work to be basically safe.

This was not about targeted attacks/doxxing, but systemic data gathering and enrichment.

The comment you responded talked about attacks/doxxing:

> I don't want to feel like someone can just dig up something I've said or shared 5 years ago and use that against me

"I have no idea who you are talking about leave me alone you freak."

if data is linked to me via some vague data that is based on similarities there's no world where that can be used as a trustworthy source or at least not putting doubt into the person who is using such data as often times it also links to a bunch of incorrectly assigned data. It's like trusting LLM's with everything they say.

Multimodal approaches are commonly cited as 89 to 97% accurate under experimental conditions. Certainly Google can be assumed to have much more data over a gazillion metrics, potentially making their accuracy close to 100%.

Seems we are not far away from full-on 1984.

Based on the patterns that appear when undisturbed, this seems to be based on a cellular automaton.

My guess is a reaction diffusion simulation

Yeah the code has a (somewhat rudimentary) fluid sim that's fed into reaction-diffusion. Pretty cool, don't think I've seen that combination before

I happened to have just finished writing a thesis on such a combination. The size of the little droplets is determined by the chemical wavelength of the reaction-diffusion subsystem. There’s a nice video and a pdf here: https://maximzuriel.nl/dynamics-and-pattern-formation-in-act...

You scrub while flushing a second time.

Except if you live in Droughtifornia.

Letting the western desert states push federal regulation of water fixtures onto the rest of the nation was a huge mistake. There's no reason that the myriad of river supplied municipalities (who then treat and return that water so there's no net loss) in the east can't have absurd toilets with 20gal flushes and shower nozzles that exfoliate if you get too close.

Anyone can replace a showerhead in 5 minutes. The only reasons someone would complain about showering with a crappy showerhead is either because they're staying in a hotel (although most hotels don't even tolerate that shit), or because they're a complainer. Just don't be the dweeb who uses teflon tape.

Replacing it isn’t the problem, buying it is. Yes I’m sure you can find showerheads with illegal flow rates available online, but reputable stores won’t sell anything over 2.5 gpm anywhere in the US, and over 2.0 or 1.8 in the states that have those limits. Amazon won’t ship the higher flow rates into a lower flow rate state.

Amazon does, however, ship showerheads that come with an instruction sheet for how to remove the flow restrictor. (One must only do this to compensate for one's home having low water pressure, of course.)

I didn't know "illegal showerheads" existed. I thought the Seinfeld episode was a joke.

Note that a restriction on commercial sales still does not make an item itself "illegal".

I'm not trying to ignore the frustrating activation energy of having to spec/get/install your own showerhead rather than automatically having a default you like. But it's clear that amount of market friction here is much less than say, the overt digital authoritarianism currently going on across the whole phone app/software market. And it's important to keep this perspective, lest memes about "illegal showerheads" morph into groupthink that supports different authoritarian movements.

What's wrong with Teflon tape? It stops minor dripping if you have older pipes with worn threads.

Teflon tape is for NPT (National Pipe Taper), which seals through thread interference. For the various things I do, I generally use a three layer sandwich of pipedope-tape-pipedope for the least chance of dealing with leaks. I'd rather take a little more time to make up a joint than have to disassemble and remake one in the middle of an assembly.

Showerheads are generally NPS (National Pipe Straight) which seals with a rubber washer. So if there is leaking, the real problem is that rubber washer is missing or old, or the female piece is cracked. Adding tape often encourages cracking the showerhead female, as it pushes out on the threads and showerheads are often chromed plastic. This goes doubly when the pipe coming out of the wall is actually NPT, and the tape encourages you to really over tighten it. Tape can be useful sometimes to hackily make things better, it's just not a good default.

It sounds like you know far more than I do about it.

I'll try without it first next time! Thanks!

Just make sure there is an indeed a rubber washer for the sealing. And if it leaks, try replacing that or even adding a second one first. Although none of this applies if both threads do indeed look tapered. And also the rubber washer often has a built in screen in the middle, to catch pieces of whatever (like bits of teflon tape, lol) rather than them clogging up the showerhead's holes.

But my question is; what are the algos trading on? what data, what news?

crowd psychology and momentum