Moose can be pretty good, but I think I would have to say Turkey

Mass go brrrr

Residential wind for electricity generation is not really recommendable afaik, but it could be viable for some amount of heat generation, potentially: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-mechanical-windmill/

You can’t opt out of government-provided health insurance. It’s not even really referred to as health insurance, it’s really just referred to as health care.

I get my additional private health insurance paid for by my employer, so I never actually pay myself, but the same one seems to be going for about €110 a month.

I don’t know that I would buy it if I had to pay myself, but I’m quite happy to get it for the small amount of additional taxes I have to pay on the benefit from the employer.

For me, it’s not music. Not mentally stimulating enough, it just makes me irritated. It has to be podcasts for me.

Music works when I’m doing tasks that are already mentally stimulating.

Yes, but there are two different ones - one for medical appointments and one for medicine.

Sweden.

A few alternatives:

• I could book an appointment at the local health center. I would probably get a time at the earliest next week, and it would cost me $30. Health center doctors are generally quite overworked, and can sometimes be a bit dismissive of your issues in my experience, but they will help you. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral, which could take several months depending on the priority of the case and the type of specialist.
• I could use an app to get access to a video call with a doctor, after having described my symptoms in the app. I would get a video call the same day and it would cost me $30. Given the remote nature of this kind of contact, they can be a bit limited in what they can do for you, but will try to help you regardless. If your case requires in-person examination, they will ask you to go to a health center instead. If you need specialist care, they will give you a referral and you’ll have to wait the same amount of time as for a referral in the health center scenario.
• I am lucky enough to have a private health insurance plan through my employer. If I have any problems, I’ll submit them to this private health insurer, and they put a human on the case and connects me with a specialist right away if the problem warrants one. Typically this happens the same or the next day. This costs me nothing, apart from what I pay in benefit taxes to be on the private health insurance plan.

All in all, things work fairly well in Sweden, but having gotten private health insurance has definitely jaded me a bit on account of how much better the experience is when you have that. If only the public system wasn’t systematically underfunded and run by the dumbest politicians on offer in the country, then maybe everyone could have great patient experience.

Oh shit, my bad. Yeah, hard agree there

Additionally, the platform being owned by an outright Nazi should give even the most out of touch people pause.

How is Daniel Ek a nazi? That’s a wild take if I’ve ever heard one.

Saturn Devouring His Beans

I’d be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.

For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I’d imagine that this would not clear that bar.

I don’t think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.

Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.

It’s extremely frustrating to read this comment thread because it’s obvious that so many of you didn’t actually read the article, or even half-skim the article, or even attempted to even comprehend the title of the article for more than a second.

For shame.

…no?

That’s exactly what the ruling prohibits - it’s fair use to train AI models on any copies of books that you legally acquired, but never when those books were illegally acquired, as was the case with the books that Anthropic used in their training here.

This satirical torrent client would be violating the laws just as much as one without any slow training built in.

I’d agree, but my understanding is that Elitewheels are quite trustworthy.

I’ll let you know if they break and I eat pavement

Scored myself a very nice set for under $400, for road use.

The key in this case is of course to buy from China

A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you’ll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.

I think it’s high time Finland retakes Karelia, on account of how thinly stretched Russia must be at this point.

I’d definitely come to Canada over the U.S as it stands today.

In another time, if the U.S manages to beat their fascism-issue, I’d like to go there as well.

Keep your living space cooler by blocking out sunlight from coming through the windows, preferably using shading on the outside.

Make liberal use of fans, they lower perceived temperature by several °C.

Wear loose-fitting linen clothing.

Use hats that provide shade, like a cap or something with a larger brim.

Go for a swim.

Take a warm shower before bed (counterintuitive but helps in my experience).

Try to create a breeze through your home by opening windows on opposite sides of the home, when the temperature is higher inside than outside.

Use sunscreen.