An odd article. Their previous work hits a lot of the same notes. But the selective transparency on the methods - for instance, only briefly describing how they arrived at these "taboo conclusions" - suggests they're more interested in stirring the pot and keeping these assertions circulating under the guise of suppressed science. (My mistake, they relocated the pilot study to supp mat, but it is not reassuring to read.)
"A vocal minority and silent majority may have created a seemingly hostile climate against taboo conclusions and the scholars who forward them, even if the silent majority has great contempt for the vocal minority. Future research should test these possibilities more directly."
This kind of editorializing feels out of place and very revealing. This retraction is perhaps indicative of the general quality of the work as well:
I agree with many of the "taboo" conclusions, so just like the paper I am not commenting on their veracity when I say these are common beliefs held in many righter leaning academic circles. There's nothing wrong with polling people about these ideas, but I would have rather the respondents be given more open ended prompts about what they thought were taboo ideas vs what the researcher wanted them to think about.
Literally 100% of published papers in psychology, sociology and related fields will have "editorializing" equal or greater to the line you quoted. This one likely only stood out to you because it went against your beliefs while others align to them, or because you don't regularly read such publications to be familiar with norms.
I was thinking about this while watching an amazing Chinese historical drama, "Longest Day in Chang'an," which has a "24"-like real-time structure. But instead of the beep... beep... beep... you have this one guy in an official building intently watching a water clock and pretty much every episode he bangs a drum on the hour and yells out the exact time and a kind of proverb, like "1 o clock!! The shadows reappear!"
Great show and there are lots of interesting historical details like this. Good post too.
Yeah it's pretty gross. I've tried to move away from synthetic fabrics wherever possible. It's just plastic.
I learned recently that a huge amount of the lint you see in the dryer is microplastics. Guess what? A similar amount comes out in the washer and goes out with the waste water wherever that ends up in your area. (These tiny fibers aren't easily caught by bulk water treatment methods, I understand.)
A significant portion of "household dust" comes from two sources: dead skin cells (great) and microplastics from textiles (wooo), like bedding, clothing, towels, rugs.
Rugs: You can get machine-washable wool or cotton rugs or jute rugs.
Hate this. I'm presently torn between the desire to get an EV and dreading the inevitable tech quagmire I'll be wading into as a result. My car is 23 years old but will hopefully last long enough that the pendulum swings back towards simplicity and accessibility, even if that costs more money.
I would LOVE to have an EV that’s a “dumb car”. I have no interest on my car providing me all of the extra bells and whistles that I already get from my phone.
What kills me too is the giant screen with smart features on these cars is extremely unreliable. The GPS/LTE frequently disconnects. The apps randomly crash or are very slow. I’d much rather just use my phone with Bluetooth for any of these features.
I bought an WV eUP! (2014) this winter and it is basically a "regular" car with normal physical buttons + a small Garmin GPS.
It's nothing like new cars, electric or not, with big screens and almost no buttons, and a bunch of privacy violating sensors and telemetry tech built in. It does have a 2G GSM and a GPS antenna, but the 2G network is soon turned off here in Norway.
And it's hacakble! You can buy an open source replacement for the remote control of charging and climate control! I love this car and I'm not tempted at all by Tesla and the like, they are a privacy nightmare.
They stopped production, but due to popular demand, they have started it back up! [1]
The open source remote control system is called OVMS [2]. I have not got around to order and install it yet, but my ambition is to get it done this summer. They have detailed instructions on their site [3].
For all the fancy aspects of CarPlay or whatever the Android version is, what most people really want is a phone mount that charges and can play music.
CarPlay is miles better than most any in-car "infotainment" crap, but all of it is basically not needed.
I dunno, plugging my phone in and having it automatically pop up a suggested route for getting home, that avoids the traffic jam on the freeway I was unwittingly planning on taking, is pretty sweet.
no, what I want from my car display is Google Maps. Music control is a bonus, but my CD player works fine. My very old OEM maps with no traffic insights are the only thing that pain me when I get into my older car after driving a newer one.
I don't want a phone mount, where my phone can fall off. I don't want the rest of the apps available, either. I don't need a DuoLingo practice reminder while I'm driving, get it?
There might be something in Accessibility that could work; unfortunately phones are so strongly built around "one user" that it would be hard to turn on and off.
Is there a consumer advocacy group or the like that could please formalize and oversee a "Dumb" certification? I would love to buy a certified Dumb TV.
If you like the styling of an older car there are plenty of conversion kits for a variety of torque/kilowatt outputs, sans batteries. Ford already sells factory kits, wiring harness and all. The downside is you're taking care of the fragile minutia of an older car, such as combating shock tower mount rust or the plastic gearing of the window mechanism. I'd still happily put up with 3D printing or machining a small, broken, long out of stock part than put up with all the forced technological integration of modern market EVs, though.
I guess there’s ever a huge market for any sort of aftermarket thing, but a mid 90’s small truck with an electric mod and a raspberry pi powered Linux touchscreen for the entertainment system would be much more interesting to me than any vehicle currently being sold.
There are people making conversions - but the prices are high enough that either you need to do most of it yourself, or you just buy a modern EV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGyHM_5q31U
They can range from as simple as a Tesla with a different body to as complex as combining batteries and motors from various donors with custom controllers, etc.
it is ironic that while mechanically EVs are much simpler, they are only shipped with all the complexity from electronic side.
i am not an automobile engg, but the core parts required to run an EV (motor control, battery management, etc.) has to be comparable to the ECU that are in decades-old Hondas and Toyotas.
2016 hyundai ioniq here. (subjectively the best car ever.) Hopefully I got it just before "connected cars" were mainstream. Hopefully that changes someday :(
FYI, Microsoft now says (we contacted before publishing) the policy we cited "contained an error" and was intended to only apply to facial recognition, and has been changed in the official code of conduct. We've updated the headline and body to reflect this change. A mod might want to change the HN hed too.
FYI the Analogue Pocket supports a number of OpenFPGA emulators quite well, I have several carts but also plenty of harder to find NES, SNES and GBA roms loaded right on.
I disagree. ratfuck is a specific term, not just a general pejorative. and I think class traitor is appropriate here as well. but i get what you're saying. that's the result, pro and con, of the shift away from edited journalism to stuff like ed's newsletter.
Interesting. In the (US) military, we used this term to describe someone who breaks into the MRE stash and steals all the good stuff, leaving horrid creations like cheese and veggie omelette.
“Private Johnson got caught ratfucking the MREs while everyone was doing PT” etc etc
TIL ratfucker actually means something relevant to the context of the article.
I think you worded my feelings much better than I did. This is a fiery op-ed from a personal blog and not polished journalism, so I should expect some individualism on writing tone.
"A vocal minority and silent majority may have created a seemingly hostile climate against taboo conclusions and the scholars who forward them, even if the silent majority has great contempt for the vocal minority. Future research should test these possibilities more directly."
This kind of editorializing feels out of place and very revealing. This retraction is perhaps indicative of the general quality of the work as well:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761989791...