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One-Gap-3915 t1_j9xvxet wrote

Reply to comment by itsfuckingpizzatime in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

This is basically what SNCF said when CHSR brought them in. Stop treating it as a vote buying program and just stick to a realistic deliverable project. They left because the project was too dysfunctional.

https://www.businessinsider.com/french-california-high-speed-rail-north-africa-biden-trump-2022-10

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One-Gap-3915 t1_j4uaxr7 wrote

Reply to comment by wadewad in Apple introduces new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro — more powerful, capable, and versatile than ever by TbonerT

As someone who uses a Lenovo thinkpad and an (intel) MacBook Pro on a daily basis, both with 16GB ram, it’s night and day difference.

I can open as many apps as I want on the MacBook and it hardly slows, presumably macOS is very efficient at allocating memory. Meanwhile on the thinkpad it slows down after just a few applications are open.

I wondered why tech forums always obsess over memory because I’ve never found it that big a deal, but when I started using the thinkpad I realised where it came from. And this is comparing with an Intel Mac, apple silicon ones are even better apparently.

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One-Gap-3915 t1_iyjnfoa wrote

Reply to comment by Sinocatk in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

This scheme literally offers up to £2k scrappage to upgrade car - again you just need to find a used car manufactured less than 17 years old. Wheelchair accessible cars get up to £5k scrappage.

All the criticisms people are talking about have been addressed in great detail in the scheme.

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One-Gap-3915 t1_iyjmyuq wrote

Reply to comment by Lelabear in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

> they could have phased out the gas guzzlers long ago

They have, gas guzzlers are taxed in the U.K. and the car industry is on notice that new petrol cars are banned from 2035 onwards. As a result the U.K. car market has shifted to offer many small efficient city car options.

> and developed decent mass transit.

We are talking about London, U.K. here. It’s literally had highly developed mass transit since at least the Victorian age.

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One-Gap-3915 t1_iyjmj4y wrote

Reply to comment by Lelabear in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

Literally every petrol car sold since 2006 is exempt. London also has great public transport and they’re expanding public transport frequency in outer London in coordination with this move. How is there a lack of options? People will just regurgitate ‘why do regular people have to make the changes’ even when policy makers have done every last thing to make it as painless as possible.

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One-Gap-3915 t1_ivswuiv wrote

Reply to comment by Fit-Rest-973 in New study (n=276) finds that a standardized mindfulness program is as effective as a common antidepressant (Escitalopram) at treating anxiety, with both treatments leading to about a 30% reduction in symptoms. by fotogneric

  • I live in a country with free universal healthcare and SSRIs are very widely used including for longer term treatment
  • SSRIs take time to start working, the first 6-8weeks would be adjusting to side effects and building up dose so idk how it would even work for a short term application. Aren’t you supposed to take SSRIs for a while and then once you’re stabilised and have done therapy etc you taper off.
  • We have way more data on SSRIs now. Despite the title of this post, SSRIs and therapy are more effective than either alone.
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