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The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners

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I think we might have different expectations here. I think if a company sells a broken game, they should fix it without praise. The consumers paid for it. Specially should they not get an award for that. There should be a category for “most stable release” instead.

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Getting into trad climbing - any tips?

The most obvious advise would be: find a mentor (somebody more experienced) to show you the ropes (pun intended).

Next best alternative is to do a course that teaches you the basics and then take it slow from there.

In terms of practising trad climbing, you can sometimes find bolted routes where you can still place your own gear. Climb these routes like you normally would but also place your own gear. Now you can take test-falls to see if your gear holds. If not, you will still have clipped the last bolt so you won’t just fall to the ground.

In terms of practising a route before committing to sending it on gear only, looks for routes where you can set up a top-rope anchor and practice it on top-rope first until you are either confident that you won’t fall or that your gear placements will hold.

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Smartphones verursachen keine Hirntumore, sagt eine Studie der WHO

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Edit: Siehe Kommentar von dubak dazu. Die spezifische Kritik am Bericht war falsch.

Naja, der Bericht ist von 2018 und redet davon, dass die “World Health Organization in 2011 to classify cell-phone radiation as a “possible” human carcinogen”. Aber wenn man sich hier einen Artikel der WHO aus dem Jahr 2014 ansieht [1], steht da, dass es nicht die WHO war, sondern die International Agency for Research on Cancer. Und wenn man sich heute bei dieser Agency umschaut, gibt es einen Artikel aus diesem Jahr [2] über eine Studie dieser Agentur und da kommt man zu dem Schluss:

The latest findings of this prospective cohort study indicate that people with the most total hours of mobile phone calls do not have a higher risk of developing a brain tumour compared with light users of mobile phones

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electromagnetic-fields-and-public-health-mobile-phones

[2] https://www.iarc.who.int/news-events/mobile-phone-use-and-brain-tumour-risk-cosmos-a-prospective-cohort-study/