cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38257178

Meme Image: A photo of a wonderfully cooked Thanksgiving turkey.

Meme Caption: Food Stamps? No Turkey For You!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38459476

By Salim Lamrani
Nov 1, 2025

Unanimously condemned by the international community every year since 1992, this state of siege gravely affects the well-being of the entire Cuban population—particularly the most vulnerable—and remains the principal obstacle to the country’s development. From March 2024 to February 2025, U.S. economic sanctions cost Cuba $7.55 billion—a 50 percent increase compared to the previous year—representing more than $20 million per day and nearly $15,000 per minute.

That amount is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Cuba’s 10 million inhabitants for six years. With the same sum, Cuba could fill every household’s grocery basket for six years, cover the nation’s medical needs for 22 years, or guarantee public transportation for the next six decades.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

Games releasing this month:

Switch

No Switch game releasing this month.

Switch 2

Game | Price | Date

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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment | $69.99 | Nov 6 Kirby Air Riders | $69.99 | Nov 20

Switch 2 Upgrade Packs

No Switch 2 upgrade pack releasing this month.

Upcoming Games, December on wards (NA):

Switch

Game | Price | Date

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Metroid Prime 4 | $59.99 | Dec 4 Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream | TBA | Spring 2026 Rhythm Heaven: Groove | TBA | 2026 Pokémon Champions | TBA | TBA

Switch 2

Game | Price | Date

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition | $69.99 | Dec 4 Animal Crossing™: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition (Switch 2 version of 2020 game) | $64.99 | Jan 15 Mario Tennis Fever | $69.99 | Feb 12 Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park | TBA | Spring 2026 Yoshi and the Mysterious Book | TBA | Spring 2026 Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave | TBA | 2026 Pokémon Pokopia | TBA | 2026 The Duskbloods | TBA | 2026 Splatoon Raiders | TBA | TBA

Switch 2 Upgrade Packs Game | Price | Date

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Metroid Prime™ 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition Upgrade Pack | $9.99 | Dec 4 Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch™ 2 Edition Upgrade Pack | $4.99 | Jan 15

Let me know in the comments if there's anything missing or mistake in the post, or if you would like any change.

For instance an RPI that just boots straight to a full screen browser with nothing else. I’ve used Magic Mirror but I want to switch to a web based dashboard instead.

Edit to clarify: Specifically talking about a cheap computer and monitor setup, not a tablet and touch controls won’t matter.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45088835

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Oct 24.

After suffering four days of abdominal pain, the unnamed teen was taken to Tauranga Hospital on the North Island.

“He disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior,” said a report by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

The magnets, which have been banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on online shopping platform Temu, they said.

An X-ray showed the magnets had clumped together in four straight lines inside the child’s intestines.

“These appeared to be in separate parts of bowel adhered together due to magnetic forces,” they said.

[...]

Surgeons operated to remove the dead tissue and retrieve the magnets, and the child was able to return home after an eight-day spell in hospital.

“This case highlights not only the dangers of magnet ingestion but also the dangers of the online marketplace for our paediatric population,” said the authors of the paper, Dr Binura Lekamalage, Dr Lucinda Duncan-Were and Dr Nicola Davis.

Surgery for ingestion of magnets can lead to complications later in life such as bowel obstruction, abdominal hernia and chronic pain, they said.

[...]

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue from his intestines, doctors said on Oct 24.

After suffering four days of abdominal pain, the unnamed teen was taken to Tauranga Hospital on the North Island.

“He disclosed ingesting approximately 80 to 100 5x2mm high-power (neodymium) magnets about one week prior,” said a report by hospital doctors in the New Zealand Medical Journal.

The magnets, which have been banned in New Zealand since January 2013, were bought on online shopping platform Temu, they said.

An X-ray showed the magnets had clumped together in four straight lines inside the child’s intestines.

“These appeared to be in separate parts of bowel adhered together due to magnetic forces,” they said.

[...]

Surgeons operated to remove the dead tissue and retrieve the magnets, and the child was able to return home after an eight-day spell in hospital.

“This case highlights not only the dangers of magnet ingestion but also the dangers of the online marketplace for our paediatric population,” said the authors of the paper, Dr Binura Lekamalage, Dr Lucinda Duncan-Were and Dr Nicola Davis.

Surgery for ingestion of magnets can lead to complications later in life such as bowel obstruction, abdominal hernia and chronic pain, they said.

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Archived

France's finance minister threatened on Monday, November 3, to ban Shein from the country if the Asian e-commerce giant resumes selling "childlike" sex dolls, just days before it opens its first physical store in Paris. The warning followed France's anti-fraud unit on Saturday reporting that the company was selling dolls of a likely "child pornography nature."

On its website, Le Parisien daily published a photo of one of the dolls sold on the platform, accompanied by an explicitly sexual caption. Shortly after the fraud watchdog's statement, Shein announced that the dolls had been withdrawn from its platform and that it had launched an internal inquiry.

Finance Minister Roland Lescure warned on Monday he would move to ban the company from the French market if the items returned online. "These horrible items are illegal," he told the BFMTV broadcaster, promising a judicial investigation.

Shein is due on Wednesday to open its first physical store in the world inside the prestigious BHV Marais department store in central Paris, a move that has sparked outrage in France. The Singapore-based company, which was originally founded in China, has faced criticism over working conditions at its factories and the environmental impact of its ultra-fast fashion business model. Some brands have pulled their products from BHV Marais since the announcement.

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France has already fined Shein three times in 2025 for a total of €191 million ($220 million). Those sanctions were imposed for failing to comply with online cookie legislation, false advertising, misleading information and not declaring the presence of plastic microfibers in its products. The European Commission is also investigating Shein over risks linked to illegal products, while EU lawmakers have approved legislation aimed at curbing the environmental impact of fast fashion.

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Has anyone ever discussed how insane the bounty on Maduro is? Just a cash reward to kill/imprison the elected leader of a country you have no jurisdiction over? Imagine if Russia put a bounty out on Finland's PM and tried multiple times to kill/kidnap them. We'd probably be starting the mobilization already.

But if the US does it? Crickets

1. The feedback window decided to annoy me by popping up by itself.

2. I figured I might as well complain about the weather radar taking more clicks to access the information I want.

3. The feedback window broke because the BOM site now relies on scripts from Google's reCAPTCHA service which my browser blocks by default. Yes, I know this is mostly on me, but it was just the icing on the cake.

“Our olives are everything for us: the backbone of our economy, in our homes, on our tables, in our culture. These last years have brought nothing but misery to us,” says Hassan, 68.

The situation is the same across much of the West Bank. Since the beginning of October, the Palestinian Farmers’ Union (PFU) has logged more than 50 incidents of violence or destruction.

A consumer advocate says testing has revealed some children's toys being sold by online shopping giant Temu are unsafe.

More than 160 products, including children's toys, have been tested by several European consumer groups in Germany, France, Denmark and Belgium.

The test sold through Temu and Shein found more than 60 percent of the products investigated from both online stores had failures.

The worst categories were products marketed as suitable for children younger than 3 years old and USB electronic chargers.

Consumer NZ research writer Belinda Castles told Midday Report the research showed some products failed safety testing.

"It was quite concerning actually. There was a number of failures," she said.

The products were tested against European Union (EU) standards and were tested for mechanical, chemical and electrical compliance.

Mechanical safety issues were found in 30 of the 54 toys tested, Castles said.

"They were looking for harmful substances, so chemicals that shouldn't be there, and also mechanical and electrical safety and labelling requirements. And what they found was that 18 of those 54 toys actually had high severity non-compliance issues," she said.

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Warning and compliance label issues were also found in 26 of the 27 Temu products, alongside all 27 Shein products tested.

"Although that's obviously not as serious as sort of the mechanical and the electrical failures, it's still a concern if they're not providing consumers with the correct information about how to use those products safely," Castles said.

A case study in the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) said surgeons at Tauranga Hospital had to remove part of the boy's bowel after he ate between 80 and 100 of the small but powerful magnets.

The magnets were banned in New Zealand.

The report by NZMJ claimed the magnets were purchased from Temu.

"It just highlights the real difficulty in these online international platforms. People are still able to buy from them," Castles said.

Consumer "strongly recommended" not purchasing children's toys and USB chargers from Shein and Temu.

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Having grown up in the northern hemisphere I have a particular mental image of Father Christmas/Santa Claus/Saint Nick/whatever. It involves a lot of clothing, topped with a lined robe. Y'know, typical cold weather gear.

In the southern hemisphere, do you get the same? If so, how come the poor guys cosplaying as him don't overheat?

Hey all,

im looking to ditch the stock rom and put a rom on that doesn't have any proprietary stuff on it. i have a Moto G Stylus 5G 2024, and from XDA, it seems that there is not only root, but also GSI roms. do GSI roms still contain google binaries (play store, play services, etc...) or is it similar to a AOSP rom where its just a bare android image with no apps other than the very basic stuff? Sadly i can't afford getting a pixel atm or another device that can run mobile linux or graphene, so just wanted to see if this was viable.