hiked since starting recovery from the broken ankle in 2015.
Google Does Not Make It Easy to Help Them
I noticed that the Google infobox from a search for a local town contained photos of sites in neighboring towns. So I sent them feedback to help them improve their service. But the feedback system changed my comment to be about one of the nature preserves in another town rather than feedback on the infobox itself. Almost certainly that means they’ll keep showing people pictures of things they WILL NOT FIND in the town they searched for.
Generally I find Google search gives me the better search results than any other general search engine but there’s always room for improvement.
Privileged White Woman Wants Exemption from Speed Limits
What a horrible piece of work Laura Burkett of Pawtucket is. She’s whining about getting a parking ticket for violating a parking ban law. Then she says she doesn’t want the city to enforce speed limits around schools, WTF!
Burkett said she thought the $50 “robo tickets” for tickets in school zones, where someone is ticketed for going 31 mph in a 20-mph zone, were bad enough.
https://www.valleybreeze.com/news/pawtucket-business-owner-after-parking-fine-enough-with-the-money-grabs/article_b5ea506a-c9d1-11ee-bd74-db715c021304.html
Seriously of all the places you don’t want people flagrantly violating the speed limits it’s school zones. It’s very likely the system lets you get away with 25 or 26 MPH in school zone, but she wants to drive 11 MPH above the limit, what a horrible person, I bet she cheats on her taxes and violates many other laws too.
Thankfully the judge slapped her down in court. I think the city of Pawtucket will be far better off if she moves to a town that is willing to let well off white business woman ignore the laws everyone else has to follow.
Shame on the Mayo Clinic
This was a disappointing read this morning.
This is where the Mayo Clinic is truly delinquent. It’s one thing to soft peddle claims of making patients feel better. It’s another to misrepresent clinical science. That has negative effects beyond the topic at hand, and demonstrates a lack of dedication to the science of medicine that should be embarrassing for such an institution.
Go read the whole article here: Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki
Real Information for Kids Online Safety
Hat tip to Mike @ techdirt for pointing me to the free book that has actual information and not pseudoscience. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd.
Oh, and as always, do read Mike’s whole great article.
Rep. Justin Humphrey of Oklahoma is Obviously a Racist
There is no way a non-racist could write something like this:
From HB 3133, introduced Tuesday by Oklahoma state Rep. Justin Humphrey:
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/19/oklahoma-bill-would-specially-target-hispanic-gang-members/
Any person who:
1. Is of Hispanic descent living within the state of Oklahoma;
Science is purposely constructed to be slow and contradictory
I stole the title from this very well reasoned and written article.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
The New Englanders’ Secret to Feeling Young
Outlook Web Slow Loading Fix
Recently I was having close to a minute of it, “sending request to csp.microsoft.com”. This tip fixed that for me, thank you frankmarshall5.
I Believe the Simpler Hypothesis is Correct
I’m referring to the last sentence, but do read the whole article. I learned quite a bit more about octopus brains from P.Z. than I knew before.
Reading Denyse will only make you more ignorant. (although it will get you in better standing with some religions, the ones that want you ignorant of reality)
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