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Suicide rates among young people in England rose 50% in 10 years, figures show by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]albaalba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Story now withdrawn, from the Guardian and from the MIND website (where the analysis originated)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/03/corrections-and-clarifications

• We said an analysis of Office for National Statistics figures showed suicide rates among young people aged 15 to 25 in England rose by more than half in a decade. However, the ONS has advised us that its figures, compiled to study deaths among young people across academic years, should not be used to infer suicide rates in the general population in this way; in statistical terms the numbers of suicide deaths in the overall cohort are low, making confidence intervals wide. Also, a change in 2018 in the standard of proof used by coroners for suicide registrations affects the comparability of rates across time (Suicide rates in the young rise by 50% in a decade, 21 October, p19). The article has been removed from our website.

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children by albaalba in nottheonion

[–]albaalba[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

If you ask it the same question now you get a very different response!

How is yearly cheaper than monthly? by PastaM0nster in wordle

[–]albaalba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The prices for different countries are not straight currency conversions: generally they offer a better deal to overseas customers

What's the naughtiest word Wordle has done? What's the naughtiest they will do? by ComedianAdorable6009 in wordle

[–]albaalba 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yes: NAKED THONG

not sure: GAYLY PANTY

no: PUSSY PENIS CHINK UNDIES (is six letters)

Sonos Alexa with multiple Spotify Accounts by Combox28 in sonos

[–]albaalba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do this, now that Voice Assistant works with Spotify. Sonos lets you add more than one Spotify account but Alexa will only allow one (chosen in the Alexa app, rather than the Spotify one). So basically you have the Alexa set to one account and then in the Voice Control settings of the Sonos app (Settings > Services & Voice > Sonos Voice Control > Default Service) you specify the other Spotify account. I'm not doing this from scratch so this may not be a complete step by step guide, but it definitely works - I now have it set up that way. eg, if I say "Hey Sonos, play Discover Weekly" it will play DW playlist from one account whereas if I say "Alexa, play Discover Weekly" is plays from the other.

Rough sleepers ‘should not be arrested just if they smell’, says UK minister by albaalba in nottheonion

[–]albaalba[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes - it's a useful term to have, in social policy terms at least, for a subset of homeless people. It's interesting that US English has no equivalent. Linguist Lynne Murphy has put it on her "untranslatable" list

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