SnotFlickerman

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We both know that this kind of nuanced take isn't was Truss is aiming for, though. Otherwise she wouldn't use the "free speech" canard.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The highest levels detected violated the state of Washington’s limits


https://tamararubin.com/about/

Tamara Rubin is an internationally recognized, multiple federal award-winning Lead-poisoning prevention advocate, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons (ages 26, 20, 17, and 14). She took on the cause of childhood Lead poisoning and consumer goods safety advocacy after her sons were acutely Lead poisoned by the work of a painting contractor in 2005. Tamara lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two youngest sons (who each have permanent disabilities from Lead exposure as infants).

She does this work specifically because it can cause permanent harm. Her family literally are victims of it.

Also, as the article notes, Washington State has much stricter standards than the Federal government.

More on Rubin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Rubin

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

weaning them off government assistance.

What a horrific way to state such a thing, and basically, fuck Florida for this anyway.

faith-based organizations

No seriously, fuck Florida.

I don't know whether to be on the trolls' side or not in this instance, because these people should just have access to their government assistance instead of this bullshit. I guess I'm not on their side though because getting in the way still hurts people in need. Ugh. Ugh. Fuck everything about all of this.

this one time, as a treat.

Thanks for this, at least it gave me a chuckle in these dark times.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If we are going by that metric clay tablets beat paper.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The articles take is actually much more nuanced and neutral than that, but it still really amounts to the same thing.

Even if there are other options for viewing the limited content, those options are not widely used, and as such, the content block is generally effective.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 week ago (22 children)

I think tape storage has the best longevity in offline data storage, but it's been a while since I checked.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/google-faces-backlash-over-human-rights-concerns-in-32bn-deal-for-israeli-unit-8200-linked-firm/

If they don’t follow the law with their adds, why should they follow it with our data?

Oh we're well past that point.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh and that biometric data? The US government can just ask for any and all of it any time it wants to and Discord has to legally give it up.

Do you really want to be handing this info to the Trump admin?

Get the fuck off Discord, now.

I don't give one flying fuck how easy it is to use, they're betraying you with every word you type into it. They keep all that data, and thus all that data is up for grabs by the US government because it's a US company.

This is fascism we're dealing with here. You can piss and moan about "user interface" and "it's hard to understand Matrix" when you don't live under fascist authoritarianism you fucking fools.

 

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting that cocaine is “not worse than whiskey” and that it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America.

Colombia, the world's largest producer and exporter of cocaine, has spent decades fighting drug trafficking, but the country's left-wing president claimed the drug was being scapegoated by American politicians, who have waged the war on drugs for decades.

“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey,” Petro said during a six-hour-long government meeting.

“Scientists have analyzed this: cocaine is not worse than whiskey,” he added, suggesting that the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.

The thing is, he's absolutely right. There was a suppressed 1995 study by the World Health Organization on cocaine and its effects. The US threatened to pull out of the WHO at the time since the findings didn't match US drug policy. Instead of losing the US, the WHO quietly shelved the study.

https://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/cocaine/181-who-cocaine-study

https://web.archive.org/web/20090618160146/www.tdpf.org.uk/WHOleaked.pdf

From the conclusions section:

A continuum can be identified for cocaine use, which includes:

  • experimental use
  • occasional use
  • situation-specific use
  • intensive use
  • compulsive/dysfunctional use

Experimental and occasional use are by far the most common types of use, and compulsive/dysfunctional is far less common. Compulsive or dysfunctional users often have serious relationship, work, legal and health problems.

 

At CES 2025, a company called Sybran Innovation showed off the Code27 Character Livehouse. It's an AI-powered digital purgatory that you can trap a small anime girl in, forever.

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