But why that metric? What makes that metric a good metric to use? Was that metric genuinely the best, or was it the best to get the answer they wanted to satisfy whoever was funding the study?
we’re not voting for president of the mammals.
No, but in general it’s worth questioning any stats and figures because people we vote for use them to make policy decisions
Which I think is intentionally disingenuous as it massively favours the large mammals over the far higher number of species of smaller mammals.
For example you’d need over 70 squeal monkeys to make to the biomass of an average American.
Humans and other great apes can be considered mega fauna, so it doesn’t seem surprising that us and the animals we consume make up a higher percentage of bio mass. Were bigger.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Any reminders set in any reminders/task type apps? My phone sometimes picks up those as alarms.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250628010642/https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll
So you don’t need to sign up to the verge to read
People would buy more than just bare essentials because people want things
People would buy less and ecconomies (rightly or wrongly) rely quite a lot on people buying more than they need. There’s a reason economics are scared of deflation. The fear of deflation was why interest rates where so low after the 08 crash and even lower during the pandemic.
Also, other appreciating assets have some use within the wider economy. Shares you’re ingesting in a company that produces goods or services so they can spend that money on growing their business, bonds/guilts you’re enabling the issuer to borrow more to do whatever they need to do with that money (in the case of government bonds think roads, hospitals and bombs).
There’s no intrinsic value to fiat currency.
True. There isn’t to bitcoin either. What fiat has is stability and public confidence. When it looses stability that’s when things are bad. Bitcoin has proved itself extremely volatile, its about 16 years to become stable and it never has. Because bitcoin coin is so dominant in the crypto market I can’t see any crypo becoming stable while it exists.
I see what you’re saying now. You’re basically describing deflation. Yeah people would buy bread (and other essentials to live) but as their currency would be more valuable tomorrow they’d put off buying non essentials. In fiat currency this is seen as prices dropping in bitcoin is seen as the value of the bitcoin going up.
Why would I buy a non essential today when I know it’ll be 10% cheaper tomorrow?
Why would I use my bitcoin to buy anything non essential when if I wait until the next spike it’ll be 30% more valuable than today?
The answer of course is I wouldn’t. I’ll buy it later when it’s 10% cheaper for my fiat currency or 30% cheaper if I’m using bitcoin. It’s not an essential so why spend more to get he same thing.
Currency needs stability in fiat currency to much instability is described in terms of inflation and deflation. Because bitcoin is more of an investment than a currency it’s described as it going up and down.
As there’s no intrinsic value to bitcoin and because there’s no central backing working to maintain the stability it’ll never be anything other than a speculative investment for people who’re already rich or the few who get lucky to make some actual useable money off.
I don’t understand your comment then. It reads that people should stop using dollars to buy stuff like bread and just buy bit coin instead.
But if they’re not buying things to buy bitcoin because they want to get returns off their bitcoin then they’re literally doing the exact opposite of buying things with bit coin
So we’re back to bit coin has no intrinsic value.
They’d be insane or desperate in extremis to use bitcoin though, given the volatility of the “currency”.
That doesn’t help with the buying things part though.
Why would anyone buy anything with it when tomorrow they could have bought ten of the thing they bought today?
Found the person from Liverpool.
You could just do that first
Which is why they’re looking to add a easy to reed short overview.
some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that Al features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with "machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.
I feel like if they feel that this is an issue generate the summary in the talk page and have the editors refine and approve it before publishing. Alternatively set an expectation that the article summaries are in plain English.
This really shows how shit the DVLA have been at communicating the changes to the highway code that happened in 2022.
You’re supposed to give way to pedestrians who want to cross at every roundabout in the UK as it’s a it’s a junction (you’re supposed to at all junctions)
It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.
Slang for kinda generic sausages in the UK. Usually not high quality.