I’m going to be honest, what grated on me with the middle of Scrubs was the tone leaning too hard on wacky humour. I liked episodes that parodied that sort of thing, like My Life in Four Cameras or My Big Bird, that made a point of saying it wasn’t supposed to be that kind of show…but then it’d go back to JD and Turk abusing their interns by making them play Space Invaders in the parking lot.

I’d argue even that’s better than what we’re getting now. If you’re looking for a car and they’re all in the most popular colour by default, then A. There’s a good chance you’re happy with it; B. You can change it later; but most importantly C. you already want a car. You’ve already bought into the product and are just quibbling about colour. This is seeing all the streetcars in LA being torn up, and a GM salesman is enthusiastically explaining how to get a driving license because it’s what everyone’s doing now they’ve ensured there is no choice.

The initiative to create the social media platform W is supported by an advisory board and former ministers and business representatives, primarily from Sweden.

Welp, that URL’s borked.

As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

Ireland has Mastadon.ie, it’s not official but it is at least a server there.

It’s not just records from hospitals.

The company is encouraging users to connect their personal medical records and wellness apps, such as Apple Health, Peloton, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, and Function, “to get more personalized, grounded responses to their questions.” It suggests connecting medical records so that ChatGPT can analyze lab results, visit summaries, and clinical history; MyFitnessPal and Weight Watchers for food guidance; Apple Health for health and fitness data, including “movement, sleep, and activity patterns”; and Function for insights into lab tests.

It’s noted in the article.

When asked if ChatGPT Health is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gross said that “in the case of consumer products, HIPAA doesn’t apply in this setting — it applies toward clinical or professional healthcare settings.”

One of my favourites is Fortress (1992). This has an 38% rotten and a 40% popcorn meter rating on Rottentomatoes.

I’d like to take this moment to say I fucking love Fortress and I wish it had the bigger budget it lost when Arnold pulled out of the project.

It reminds me of the gameplay footage played on short videos to provide visual content while audio is playing, or games optimised for streamers to play and overreact to. They aren’t games that are intended to be played and provide enjoyment that way, but as tools for others to turn into enjoyment from playing them, and then their audience gets that enjoyment from participation or simply watching.

Also ofc so-called “White Supremacists” are always hilarious because so many don’t realize Irish, Polish, and a bunch of other light-skinned European people don’t count as “white” to their fellow bigots because they really mean Aryan

It was very funny hearing the founder of the Ozarks whites-only compound complaining about residents trying to bring their Mexican wives. I still don’t know how they think Mexico is somehow a pit of racially damaged subhumans, but have no opinion on Spain (hint, it’s because Spain was fascist in WWII).

This is just a picture, is there supposed to be an article?

It’s something you’d hear in Australia (where this happened) or the UK more often than the US.

“a safety initiative … intended to deter and prevent illegal overnight parking in the area”

Ah. So you only turn them on at night, then. Right?

Unfortunately a common side effect of SSRIs is sexual dysfunction, and many men have a lot of their pride and identity bound up in sex. I ended up quitting escitalopram out of sheer frustration because I was capable of and indeed frequently did get aroused but was unable to relieve it. (not to say domestic abusers would have healthy sex lives to begin with)

Base 44. Base 44, over and over and over again on my account with the history turned off.

Yeah that was my instant thought.

“I’d have taken it into a different direction so you’re not competing with the modern-day GTA games,” he added. “You’re zagging when everyone else is zigging, so to speak.”

My dude all you’re doing is going from ripping off Rockstar’s San Andreas, to ripping off Rockstar’s Mafia games instead.

I’ve been wanting to play a game with this concept (but taking it serious) for a while; breaking into vehicles / buildings that have had all sorts of disasters happen to them, and trying to repair them enough to delay their destruction and cut a safe passage out for survivors, while not dying in the process. Fighting wind and rain, fire and flood and rising seas as the environment does its best to kill you.

Almost certainly a hundred small ones from the X-Ray in the article, snapped together into rods. Think Geomag but cylindrical.

Many have video intercoms that let the pilots buzz flight attendants in. Unfortunately, when I searched for websites that could inform on this, the results were polluted by this story in dozens of news websites.

Or imagine every music you listen to has to be vastly different from anything else.

Yeah…imagine if you could sue because someone put out a song with a beat almost identical to your own, which is what Sony is alleging happened here: https://americansongwriter.com/ice-ice-baby-and-the-david-bowie-queen-legal-battle-that-tainted-vanilla-ices-career/

If Meta actually stopped collecting data on users who instead pay them in a straightforward money => experience transaction this would be a great improvement. Except, of course, you know they won’t.