I also found it really annoying. Fortunately it could be turned off by going to Settings in the sidebar -> “Look and feel” -> and set “Preset for swipe gesture” to disabled.

I don’t think you realise what the current state of a lot of Europe is, it is not good. Capitalism is bringing a lot of people into poverty and ruining the nature.

It’s socialism or barbarism.

Studies have been done on this, and lower speeds correspond with less noise pollution.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022005785

She has been running a blog called Skepchick since 2005, and is a youtuber focused on feminism and critical thinking. Although she doesn’t talk about marxism, she is an outspoken anti-capitalist.

Based on the stuff mentioned in Rebecca Watson’s video on it, I’d say it’s probably best to skip it. Video: https://youtu.be/avWOnnhjxM4

While not cheap, headphones with active noise cancelling is much better for public transport imo. E.g. the Sony WH-1000XM4 would set you back $350, which is a bit, but probably much cheaper than a car

Posted this comment elsewhere, but is relevant here so I’ll repost:

Further research is needed, but when digested casein breaks down into casomorphin which might bind to opioid receptors and release dopamine.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casomorphin
• https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.231r
• https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-cheese-addictive#your-brain-on-cheese

Further research is needed, but when digested casein breaks down into casomorphin which might bind to opioid receptors and release dopamine.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casomorphin
• https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.231r
• https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-cheese-addictive#your-brain-on-cheese

I just used to watch Barnaby Dixon, a puppeteer on YouTube. His channel was wholesome and decently big, he was even a guest on Adam Savage’s Tested channel a few years ago. But then he started doing some interviews, and one time he interviewed a transphobe about children transitioning. When people were pointing out how awful this choice was, and how wrong and harmful everything the guest had said was, he just replied to the transphobes and ignored all criticism. So these days I stay away from pretty much all channels unless they are explicitly trans allies.

I agree with you. I was just saying what seems to be the logic of the EU in this letter: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-new-york/eu-explanation-vote-–-un-general-assembly-draft-resolution-combating_en

Which basically is “We oppose Nazism, but Russia uses fighting Nazism as part of its justification for the war in the Ukraine, so if we vote yes it’ll look like we support Russia in the war”.

Which I think is bullshit of course.

They would rather be considered fascists for refusing to oppose nazism than hypocrites for supporting a Russian draft resolution 💀

This a problem of sites being incentivised to get clicks rather than providing accurate and useful data, so every study gets an article with a click-bait title. Studies show all kinds of things, and unfortunately they get lots of publicity from sites that sensationalize the findings even if the study paper do a sober analysis of their findings.

Here’s a decent study if anyone’s interested: https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/20825

Norway is a social democracy, not socialist.

As someone who hasn’t seen either of the versions, but just seen what people wrote about it. The live-action Mulan succeeds in her endeavours because she is the chosen one with magical powers, while in the original she did so through hard work and being clever.

Another thing that frustrates me about the “look at china” people regarding pollution, is that CO2 emissions per capita for the PRC are 7.38 tons. Lots of countries have higher emissions per capita, eg: Germany (9.44), USA (15.52), Canada (18.58), UAE (23.37). source

Also, people fail to consider the cumulative emissions of decades of polluting already industrialized countries have been doing. Countries like China are rapidly industrializing, and “the west” can’t expect countries to increase their living standards without some years of increased emissions.

A just approach would be that industrialized countries would fund a more environmentally friendly development in these countries, no strings attached. But of course they won’t even sufficiently fund environmentally friendly development in their own countries.