I tried this with Gemini. Regardless of the number of rs in a word (zero to 3), it said two.

Earlier this month the government changed one of its rules on mortgage payments, allowing first-time buyers or people purchasing a newly-built home to take loans with 30-year amortizations, instead of 25 years.

Although the move is intended to lower monthly payments and make home ownership affordable to more people, critics say it may have opposite effect by boosting demand and raising prices.

It’s hard to see how this won’t increase prices and costs for buyers. It clearly benefits lenders, but everyone else will pay more.

There are a tonne of realities that are very close to ours are populated by cockroaches and mutants.

Synergy can be pretty good. I think it syncs clipboards and stuff like that, doesn’t it?

be way more based if the porn star, mossad agent, and general were the same person

I can’t speak for 404 Media, but the rest of them build products that people enjoy using. They fill a niche that the users appreciate and do a good job at it.

It’s hard to fault people for liking things.

Gotta keep those waves away from their delicate grey matter.

That or their phone has shitty palm detection and will unwittingly treat their face as a touch if they hold it too close.

… seduction

Is the car something you use for work, or is it a benefit?

I’m from Canada. Employers mostly give company vehicles for jobs that require it.

Burying the lede:

and chicken from KFC.

credible

Chinese companies stealing American technologies could lead to the former being able to produce something for cheap, which, … will allow an everyday person to have a better bargain.

While the company that originally created the product will collapse, putting people out of work and weakening the American economy.

That’s basically what the globalization movement from the 1980s and 90s was. Jobs may move overseas, but think of the cheap shit you can buy!The hollowing out of Western economies has led to the political moment we’re in now.

We knew it was wrong in the 90s, which is why edgelords like this dude (and Trudeau) were into it.

This is one of those features I will never use, but I’m glad it exists.

lucky guess

Weirdly, the abstract on the original paper is a bit clearer than the linked text:

Among children who took inactive modes at baseline, 42% of children in London and 20% of children in Luton switched to active modes. For children taking active modes at baseline, 5% of children in London and 21% of children in Luton switched to inactive modes.

What about sarcasm?

I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.

Check the reviews. I have a Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s good. The battery is excellent - I can usually get two days out of it (without disabling anything).