wanderingmagus

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Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)
6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men in c/[email protected]
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Carnivorous plants attract bats with echo reflectors (www.fau.eu)
 

An international team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Greifswald, and Universiti Brunei Drussalam has discovered that Nepenthes hemsleyana – a pitcher plant found in Borneo – uses an echo reflector to attract bats. However, it is not the bats themselves that the plants are after, but their droppings. As the pitcher plants grow in soil that is low in nutrients they need additional fertiliser and the bats’ droppings provide them with vital nutrients. In return, the plants offer the bats the perfect place to sleep inside their pitchers.

Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How about polar bears?

Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fortunately or not, both the UK and France have thermonuclear teeth to bite back if the totally-not-a-Tsar tries. And as far as the UK goes, it's the same thermonuclear warheads, missiles and submarines as the USA, using the same procedures and with the same capabilities.

CFCs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sounds like you're the goalposts-mover here, shipmate, and it seems the rest of the readers here agree with me. Maybe this place ain't your venue.

SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's not necessarily imaging as in optics. Could be OPIR, encrypted comms, space to space ASAT, or any number of other things besides just earth imaging.

What would you bring to an adult show and tell? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Those are amazing!

Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Maybe they're talking about the fediverse or something? Idk.

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"Women of Distinction" award named for Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone (www.wonkette.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13235727

What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is this asshattery?

The family of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is very much up in arms at something called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation over its decision to give a leadership award named after the former Supreme Court justice to **drumroll* … *Elon Musk.

. . . Oh yeah, Rupert Murdoch is also getting this year’s Leadership Award, along with Martha Stewart (weird but whatever), Michael Milken (what?), and Sylvester Stallone (no, seriously, fucking what?).

. . . The award is all of four years old, and has previously gone to “individual women of prominence.” Did we run out of those or something?

stan teachers unions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.

stan teachers unions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Force of habit from almost a decade in the Navy, it's a term of "endearment" that was intended by politicians and bureaucrats to be a "polite" term that can be universally applied regardless of rank, but is usually applied out of exasperation when actual insult isn't warranted. Apologies for the unfamiliar term.

stan teachers unions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Shipmate, I'm pointing out that the system as it already stands is pretty much exactly as shit as they say it would become should the situation change. Each attempt to merely increase wages here and there is like putting a bandage on a gangrenous wound or a tumor, instead of realizing that the tumor itself needs to be surgically removed for all these symptoms - the American prison system, for-profit childcare, normalized hunger as a punishment for poverty and so on - to be actually treated. Believe it or not, I'm on your side.

stan teachers unions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

How about

parents would have to pay for daycare, children would go without lunch, etc.

? Are parents not already forced to pay for daycare, children not already going without lunch?

Edit:formatting

Starbucks accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act by charging extra for non-dairy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pihole might help?

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Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13207517

A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.

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Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
 

A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.

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New Orleans police evidence room overrun by rodents, officials say: "The rats are eating our marijuana" (www.cbsnews.com)
 

The headquarters of the New Orleans Police Department is in such a state of decay that rats are eating drugs in the evidence room, the department's chief said.

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Stolen data rule (dotnet.social)
 

4 panel System32Comics comic 1: "Oh no! The virus is stealing my personal data!" 2: "Free Anti-Virus Software Help!" 3: Free Anti-Virus Software to the rescue! 4: Free Anti-Virus Software is stealing his personal data

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Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data (www.theverge.com)
 

Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.

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Colorado pastor accused of pocketing $1.3M in crypto scheme says 'Lord told us to' (www.nbcnews.com)
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Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism' (www.nbcnews.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11125375

“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is "Jewish by association" during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

"I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. ... Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish," the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association."

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Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (www.theguardian.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10484686

Pardon?

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Train manufacturer intentionally bricks trains serviced by independent service providers (zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9227800

Polish train manufacturer that lost servicing tender programmed train controller to brick itself after train stays for some time in 6 ISP facilities or in 1 their faculity(for testing?) until undocumented button combination is pressed. Some controller versions brick itself after train is idle for 10 days. After news about this became public, manufacturer removed ability to unlock train by button combination.

Also manufacturer is able to remotely brick train over internet(connected via GSM) at any time.

Mod wanted ONLY article, so enjoy reading in polish.

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