Searching for the phrase, documentation matches for Taiga so maybe you’re right!

Would be curious to read the LLM output.

It looks like it’s available in the linked study’s paper (near the end)

Related, but not so great that I wanted to submit it: The Betoota Advocate: King sends nice portrait to the Mint in case they change their mind about the $5 Note

For better or worse, I doubt converting all the volunteer force to paid positions is in the cards - at least for the foreseeable future. But if people are financially secure (which is not exactly the case right now, generally speaking), encouraging volunteer work is fine imo. The “if” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there though @_@

Maybe I’m missing something, but why are they? If it’s public money where’s the profit (the reason everyone else lobbied for it) in doing minimum-possible-effort?

computer sad

I didn’t see any examples of inspection failures for Fair Trade.

From the article (with emphasis added)

On one estate, listed as a supplier for Lipton and Twinings, we met estate worker Darshini.

The estate had Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade certification. While Lipton only sources tea from Rainforest Alliance-certified estates, Twinings has its own set of ethical standards.

Darshini has been a tea plucker for nearly three decades, since she was a teenager, and knows the meaning of a hard day’s work. A map showing Sri Lanka’s tea growing regions.

She was one of dozens of women plucking tea in a remote field on the day the ABC visited.

The work is arduous. To receive the minimum wage she needs to pluck 18kg of tea before the daily weigh-in to meet her quota.

“I have only plucked 6kg so far. I have to pick another 12 kilos,” she said. “If it’s 15 kilos or less I’ll get half pay.”

When the workers finish plucking for the day they must march several kilometres to the weigh-in, with heavy sacks of tea leaves on their backs.

Tea plucker Darshini has to pick 18kg of tea a day or risk being paid less than the minimum wage.

Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade certification is intended to ease some of the harsh conditions inherent in this kind of work.

For workers on this estate, it should guarantee they “always have access to safe and sufficient drinking water” and “sufficient, clean and functioning toilets” either in the fields or close by.

But the workers here told the ABC the plantation had provided neither.

“We do not have these facilities while we are in the field,” said tea plucker Maheswarie. “There is no toilet in the field.”

They also said that they regularly lost access to drinking water in their houses on the estate.

Breaches of Rainforest Alliance standards should be uncovered through routine audits, but according to Maheswarie, the auditors come but managers “don’t allow us to talk to them”.

“Maybe the auditors don’t get to talk to us because we might tell them the truth,” she said.

Haha, it happens!

Reading submission titles is woke

I can’t believe Daniel Andrews did this to us

It sounds like The Shovel is participating in anti-semantic attacks and should be reported to the appropriate authorities (Weird Al, maybe?).

Honestly this seems too absurd even for the onion!? What the fuck lol

I can get behind the general idea, but in this implementation specifically it seems like the low modulation example isn’t distinct enough from simply lower-quality audio, but the higher modulation example (where the effect is more distinct as an intentional effect), is just not nice to listen to. Maybe there are other ways to distort the voice that don’t have as much of that downside?

Fun watch, thanks for linking!

We have a premade ant poison thing which I think is basically the same (I think the active ingredient listed was borax?). After neutralizing all known threat actors terrorizing the local food supply, these measures were deployed to safeguard the civilian population from future unprovoked attacks o7

My dudes the dishwasher is not edible leave it alone (they were mostly looking at the pantry cupboard, but a surprising number were chilling in the dishwasher)

~5PM water the plants, enjoying the cool change
~7PM go for a walk, enjoying the cool change
~9PM get some food, enjoying the c-OH NO THERE’S AN ANT INVASION IN THE KITCHEN

please send your highest quality thoughts and prayers

Well I linked to an article from the Australian national broadcaster, so that tracks :P

They’re still called athletes I guess? but for some reason we* nonetheless never (?) use “athletics” to mean “all sports”. I’d never really thought about how it’s a bit strange until this thread!

* at least here - can’t speak definitively for everybody

It’s referring to athletics - Wikipedia suggests that in North America it’s usually called “track and field”?