The screenshot is from Slovakia and my country is culturally closest to it, about as close as the average pair of neighboring US states. Like most Czechs, I know a few Slovaks and can understand 99.9% of Slovak without tools, so I looked up what My Doctor is using primary sources. (Yes, the two languages are so close there were serious efforts around 1920 to classify Slovak as a Czech dialect)

FYI, this image is too old to be slop

Urgent cases are treated differently. They won’t let you die, you’ll just present the card later (however, paramedics will try to find your identity with this card or another document on your body so they can check the database for your medical history, allergies etc. to avoid high-risk procedures) and there are no medical bankruptcies even among those who lack coverage.

This is a bank’s loyalty program for private preventive care. Public coverage works all over the EU but yes, you do need to present the insurance card so they know how to bill you for any procedure.

MyDoctor is a private provider. People who need MRI are sufficiently taken care of by the public system. This is preventive care, like insurance companies offering discounts on health-promoting services like dental hygiene, diet consultation, fitness programs etc. Slovaks have worse things to worry about under Fico.

Better than a headline leaving out the important bits

AI vector redrawing of a graphic in the cited paper. One paper is from 1889, predating this graphic style by about a century.

One cited paper is from 1889, predating this whole graphics style by about a century. The graphics are probably what an AI made as a response to “illustrate this text passage” or “redraw this figure as vectors”. (Yes, this one probably generates vectors, otherwise the font families would be inconsistent within images, not just between them)

What person would label a human as “1.75 m”? We know what a “human for scale” is. Also, every single graphic, despite credited to the same author, uses a different scale marking: zebra, bar, tick, snaking (and then ignores it). The fonts differ too (look at every capital R) but oddly not within drawings, it seems to be an AI optimized for vector output.

I have the same game, with this background, branded “𝒾𝓅𝒽ℴ𝓃ℯ 𝟴” but also PSP-shaped. Predates the iPhone 6, actually.

No, there are emergent properties at organ and organism level you can’t get with uniform tissue. I think most philosophers would agree consciousness takes more than 12 random neurons taken from an existing human.

Not the vanilla game with a limited map, and not on a 90s (or any existing) computer, and never in real time. But anything that can chain NAND gates to arbitrary size is Turing-complete, and we hve good reason to believe all atoms in the human brain obey laws of physics which can be simulated in a huge but finite Turing machine (there is still some debate over what we don’t undersrand at quantum level). In fact, nobody has proved we don’t live in a simulation because that’s impossible (like most religions by design and there are no practical consequences so this talk is just philosophical, don’t waste your time trying to “break the Matrix”). And if the underlying simulation of our reality is goats on a huge AoE server, would that make me and you not conscious?

All of them, CRTs can’t do black this deep in a room as bright as this

My EE course did include safety training as a prequisite to using advanced lab equipment. Some really did not pay attention. “What’s this [left] terminal in the [Euro Type F] socket?” − “Umm… phase?”
“And the other one?” − “The other phase?”
“And we have TN-C-S, which means the pin is neutral?” − “Yes”
“Go read it again” (He passed in the next round)

Where is the bill? It allegedly passed last week but when I pasted the sentence into DuckDuckGo and picked “Last month” I got no relevant results
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=“Missouri”+House+passes+bill+banning+AI+deepfake+porn+of+children.&df=m&noai=1&ia=web

Guardia parco

I wonder what that means /s

Invidious is just an alternative frontend, much like Piped. It’s against YouTube’s ToS but that does not need to concern you (in most jurisdictions, you can’t get prosecuted for using or recommending a website that breaches a civil contract). The videos are still being pulled from YouTube’s servers so only those YouTube will serve are available (albeit under conditions YT would not approve of, such as without ads, with free broader playback speed options etc.). However, the server’s location can be used to bypass region-locked YouTube videos, which might be considered priracy.

Also, there are client-side alternative frontends like NewPipe, Revanced (modified official proprietary Android app) and Grayjay (with optional features like Subscription Exchange and Polycentric integration relying on FUTO servers).

What is oenisn? Misspelled Genshin? Open-ish? Leninism? Bosnian? Penis?

This is about a week before they stopped shrieking and started living on their own, so not really babies anymore. Here’s one of their parents, a shitty 1.6MP photo from a 15-year-old camcorder. I don’t have the storage to process the (720p) videos right now.

I feel sorry for disturbing it, it clearly needed a rest from 3 weeks of care. And this was a small tree, just some 6 m above me, any recent DSLR with a telephoto/zoom lens could have made a picture as good as the one in the post. The younglings were higher up though (some 15 m diagonal line-of-sight), you can tell they’re in a dense linden as opposed to a bare branch of a walnut tree… And they wanted to take a look at me, bobbing and circling their heads… Unfortunately the real action is at dusk, the only video I have of them eating and flying is a blurry, grainy silhouette…

My neighbor has a phone with a periscope telephoto lens, this is the best picture.