So, I assume that if you put 100 people on a spaceship and sent them to wherever, they'd get very inbred in a few generations. How many people would you need for this to not happen, accounting for the fact that there will eventually be people who are infertile or die before having children?

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Lorenzo Tondo Jerusalem
Thu 23 Oct 2025 05.31 EDT

Although the bill still requires several rounds of approval to become law, its preliminary passage has embarrassed Benjamin Netanyahu, who had earlier urged lawmakers to delay its presentation during US vice-president JD Vance’s visit – an effort to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire. Washington has repeatedly said that any annexation of the West Bank would cross a red line.

“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” Donald Trump told reporters at the White House in September. “It’s not going to happen.”

“I think the president’s made clear that’s not something we can be supportive of right now,” Rubio said of annexation as he boarded his plane for a visit to Israel.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.404media.co/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light/

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Flows of Russian oil to major Indian refiners — a boon for both countries’ economies over the past three years — are expected to fall to near zero after the US imposed sanctions on crude giants Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC.

Senior executives at the processors said the blacklisting of Russia’s largest producers would make it all but impossible for that supply to continue. They asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. Transactions involving the two firms need to be wound down by Nov. 21.

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How Google actively breaks Immich deployments, an open-source Google Photos alternative

Hi. I wonder how do you keep following through on your ideas/goals/topics that you want to research (in specific field or some niche idea/interest) and not burn out/get bored and forget about them altogether?

I've found I often don't have enough time to spend on an interest right away, and then I put it in my todo list/special folder in obsidian to check on later (article, wikipedia page, a video, movie or a book), and then it just sits there. When I open the list I start to think that I need to fix this pile of stocks and start going one by one on them, but by that time they are no longer an interest to me.

Say I got interested in researching history of WWII and Nazi regime because I watched a movie/read a book about that. Then, I just go on to the internet to find out more about it. At the moment I'm thinking "I dont have enough time for all that", so I just get some books, articles, videos about it and stuck it in a file named "to research". Later on, I'm terrified of even looking at that file, it seems large, and when I open it, I'm bored from second one because I "forced" myself to do this, instead of flowing inside of it, like I did with the movie.

I guess being dilligent is very hard for me. I feel like the problem mainly lies in my "fear of time" more than a spurred attention span. But I'm thinking about how can I keep up with irl things like work/chores/whatever while tagging myself with hobbies instead of being either too chaotic or too "formal" without any interest left behind? How do you do that?

Sodium-ion batteries have been in the works for years, and now sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage. JAC, in a partnership with Volkswagen, has been shipping a vehicle called the Sehol or E10X with sodium-ion batteries since 2023. Recently, Bluetti introduced the Pioneer Na(sodium) portable power station. This is just the beginning.

This is from a few days ago, but I just saw it and thought it was pretty sweet.

The GameCube delivered a ton of visually amazing games back in the early 2000s. However, there’s one aspect to these now retro visuals that continues to amaze me every time I revisit the system, which is the water. For whatever reason, Nintendo was absolutely obsessed with water during the 2000s. The GameCube featured a bizarrely high quantity of games with an extensive focus on water, yet somehow also over delivered on the quality of the water visuals and interactivity, as we’ll explore in this video.

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https://archive.is/5NgOp

Over 200 Vietnamese students enrolled at a Berlin hospitality school have absconded over recent months

Subsequent raids by German customs and police officers of nail salons and restaurants suggest that many of the absconded are now working illegally in those establishments.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51562869

https://archive.is/5NgOp

Over 200 Vietnamese students enrolled at a Berlin hospitality school have absconded over recent months

Subsequent raids by German customs and police officers of nail salons and restaurants suggest that many of the absconded are now working illegally in those establishments.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51561557

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will urge China to relax export restrictions on rare earths and semiconductors