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I'd be interested on a study there.

I lot of therapy is taking emotions and verbalising them so that the rational part of the brain can help in dealing with things. Even a journal can help with that, so talking to an inanimate machine doesn't seem stupid to me.

However therapists guide the conversation to challenge the patient, break reinforcing cycles, but in a way that doesn't cause trauma. A chatbot isn't going to be the same.

Watching Hong Kong get amalgamated into the rest of China after it was returned by the British has been so sad. They've raged. They've fought. But slowly they've been consumed.

It's not sinking. It's not a boat that sprung a leak. It's staying exactly where it's always been. It's getting submerged by sea level rises.

Saying it's sinking makes it sound like a local phenomenon. Sea level rises are global.

Otherwise known as "The collapse of the USA".

It's a sign that the AI companies are complicit in industrial level copyright violation. There was a recent US court decision that a book publisher brought again Anthropic. In it the judge rules that the use of the book contents was "spectacularly transformative" (and therefore "fair use") because the resulting machine did not copy the work.

People are trying to prove the judge wrong. It does copy the work.

Interesting that asthma attacks are up so sharply, but I'm unconvinced it's down to "Toxic air". Generally things seem to be on a improving trend, so getting a 45% increase in health issues would suggest something else at play.

From https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/air-quality-statistics/summary

Days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution

• There were on average 6 days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at urban pollution monitoring sites in 2024, down from 9 days in 2023.

• The number of days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution at rural monitoring sites peaked in 2018. Levels have fluctuated since then, with noticeable drops in 2021 and 2024, when the number of days with 'Moderate' or higher air pollution fell to the lowest level since 2016.

• Since 2015 the mean number of days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution has been higher at rural sites than urban sites due to ozone pollution. There were on average fewer days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at rural pollution monitoring sites in 2024 compared with 2023 (19 days in 2023, 11 days in 2024).

• In 2024, as in previous years, ozone was responsible for a large proportion of the ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution days at rural sites. The increase in ozone pollution in most years since 2018 was in part due to the prolonged hot and sunny conditions experienced in the UK in the summer of these years.

Top tip: When you quote someone don't cut off "...not as a way to..." at the start of a quote.

I'm doing this not as a way of bringing you out of your obvious delusion but to highlight it for people reading later.

I don't think Choke is as good myself. Still a good read but Survivor has stayed with with more in the years since.

3. Where is the pedestrian crossing on the left meant to be going?

S to the I to the M to the P

You're not alone. Exactly what I saw too.