No.543[View All]
What are some interesting news articles you've read lately /qa/?
https://archive.ph/fEOkdI was surprised after reading this that of all companies Apple implemented a privacy measure that lost them money.
No.884
>>883i wouldn't know because there are no slugs at the end of archive links
No.885
anyways... it's a bit of a running theme that border states have poor standards of living. Ukraine and North Korea come to mind as well.
No.887
>>>/jp/21555
This is a nice article
No.888
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-03/tencent-plummets-as-chinese-crackdown-fears-persistCan't wait for China to finally solve the Chinese problem for video games. It was looking grim with all the steadily growing gacha from China, but I think China has what it takes to stop China.
No.889
> Circa 2010, as Tesla was developing its first mass-market car, the Model S sedan, engineers on the project would occasionally hitch rides from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley on Musk's private jet. On one such trip, an engineer recalled asking Musk his opinion on the sedan's suspension - should it be sporty, like a BMW, or cushy, like a Lexus?
> "I'm going to sell a f--- load of cars, so whatever suspension you need so I can sell a f--- load of cars - that's the suspension I want," Musk replied, the engineer said
heh
No.890
>>888Nice numbers, and even nicer post.
No.891
Well, throw all that good will for Apple into the toilet. No way I'm getting within 10 feet of one of their devices now.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ No.892
>>891>good will for Applegood will for Apple
No.893
>>892forgot it's one word
No.894
>The best-case scenario that I can imagine is that the government is pushing them to do this, and they leaked details early precisely to mobilize widespread opposition.
it's an interesting thought
No.895
their implementation in the documentation details make sense, but it's horribly presented
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_for_Children_Technology_Summary.pdfdon't care for apple though. they make bad products and decisions
No.900
>>881https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/belarusian-sprinter-decided-to-defect-on-way-to-airport-over-safety-fears¥ Runner, Tsimanouskaya, complains about coaches¥ Government calls in to have her returned back¥ Grandma calls in and tells her it's not safe. Media narrative is that runner is crazy and needs psychiatric testing¥ In airport Tsimanouskaya walks up to Japanese police officers and probably says something along the lines of "tasukete" and is taken into protection by the security.¥ Poland grants family Assylum, grandma couldn't make it thoughStories such as these make me trust democratic governments and police for a day or two.
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Some people charge 250$-2500$ to write and maintain wikipedia articles about small businesses.
https://wikiprofessionalsinc.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-create-a-wikipedia-page/ No.944
This is cool! An old fast food restaurant in Pompei was restored and it's open to the public. (to look at, not eat at)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/pompeis-fast-food-joint-unearthed-in-2019-opens-to-publicI find it interesting that there's a painting of butchered chickens, presumably advertising the ingredients. Strangely, however, they are not in smiling cartoon form inviting us to eat them.
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>>1254Thought they had done this a while ago? Also now which are they going to make the primary, funi or CR? Funi was their property to begin with, but CR is arguably much more well known.
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>>1255from another article
>Sony and Funimation have completed their acquisition of Crunchyroll. Beginning lats year, Sony Pictures Entertainment had expressed their interest in acquiring the Crunchyroll following reports of AT&T expressing their interest in selling it, and it was then that a deal was formed. But following a a series of investigations into the acquisition, Sony and Funimation have now completed their planned acquition of the Crunchyroll anime brand. No.1258
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/176321I wonder how an isekai with an established character will be. Probably would actually make things interesting
No.1259
Another big data breach, this time at T-Mobile:
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1028762956/t-mobile-data-breachMaybe at this point people should just assume that all of their personal information is out there
No.1323
Being popular sure has it's own problems
https://www.history.com/news/why-coca-cola-new-coke-flopped>>1285I read that they reversed this recently
No.1324
>>1323That'd be one hell of a quick reversal. Maybe they instantly realized that they'd have no audience left.
No.1325
>>1324The problem was always about banks rejecting payments. As shown they worked out their issues with banks somehow.
Pornography is being heavily criticized for being a mimic of the conventional porn industry with human trafficking and CP. Financial institutions don't want to lose face for being caught up with them.
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>>1325>Pornography is being heavily criticized for being a mimic of the conventional porn industry with human trafficking and CPI don't know what this sentence means.
No.1357
>>1326The title is sensationalist but the article uses citations from proper research
https://theexodusroad.com/porn-and-human-trafficking-the-facts-you-need-to-know/I don't know why it is, but banks really despise criminal activity from people of a low socioeconomic group.
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>>1358Would Kissu break the rules and lower their social credit score to game?
No.1362
Imagine being Activision-Blizzard right about now.
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>>1362The voice actress who dubbed Mercy was murdered mid August as well. Let a friend who had become homeless stay at her house. Stack that on top of the California State sexual harassment lawsuits.
With China cracking down on anything vaguely to do with US culture and their investment into the Chinese mobile market I wonder if the company is going to start tanking soon. Not only are they getting battered culturally, legally, now monetarily.
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>>1395We just need to kill more poor people, less people, less energy needed.
No.1399
>>1395When can we harness the energy of volcanoes that want to kill us all...
No.1400
>>1395The biggest issue I have with this is the double layered greenwashing. Saying that by doing this we'll get more clean energy AND save the environment
No.1401
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/cats-cause-schizophrenia-believe-science-not-hype/Apparently Toxoplasmosis is associated with risk of developing psychosis, but the link between how and why that's exactly the case isn't well understood. Put another way, exposure to cat feces could potentially cause a person to develop psychosis. If true, it seems exceedingly rare for this to be an exact cause, but apparently the chief researcher on this topic maintains that the exact reasoning behind someone developing psychosis due to exposure to Toxoplasma is potentially related to genetic predisposition for some sort neurological inflammation while also during the period of brain development. Interesting stuff.
No.1402
>>1401I wear a face mask when cleaning a litterbox. I acknowledge that it exists, but health issues that are mysterious, directly effecting our lifestyles and potentially life altering are sensationalized either in direction of fear or recklesness. If there were a strong link, you'd think it would be reported by now, but as that article says there's a lot of zero correlation in experiments.
No.1403
>>1402>there's a lot of zero correlation in experiments.Well... Not exactly. It seems researchers do agree that Toxoplasma has some role in inducing psychosis, but from the sample sizes evaluated they found no cases in which Toxoplasma did in fact induce psychosis. I think it's a little like trying to find a condition that affects 1 in 10,000 people. With only 5,000 people, it's pretty likely that you simply won't identify a single case. After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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https://phys.org/news/2022-06-human-urine-natural-fertilizer-crops.htmlI thought pee was poison to crops and something that spread disease, but I guess that's just poop.
Though, this study was done in Africa so I don't think they have the same processed/chemical diet that we do