4chan also faces potential arrest and/or “imprisonment for a term of up to two years,” the lawsuit said.
You don't want to be locked in a small cell with 4chan for two years.
tal
joined 2 years ago
I mean, if I understand aright, if he resigned now, there'd still be deadlock. Like, it wouldn't really solve the three-way split in the legislature.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeep/comments/194cbbj/turn_offdisconnect_remote_access_to_my_2021_gcth/
I just got a text from my dealership saying my oil light was on. Super pissed off about it... When I got the Jeep 2 years ago I asked Jeep to turn off ALL remote access/phone home capabilities to the vehicle. I was on the phone for a couple hours with them until I finally got someone who said they did it.
Weather alerts, contextual ads on my console, distant recording of my travels, whatever, I wanted everything off.
It has a 4G cellular module in the head unit, which connects to a separate 4G antenna via a port on the back of the head unit. Unplug the antenna from the head unit and it cannot communicate to anything. Obviously you have to remove a bunch of trim and the unit.
Now, it's possible that during maintenance, the process might involve uploading or downloading data to/from the manufacturer. That's hard to avoid.
The rise in sales comes before moves by the EU to close a loophole that allows packages worth less than €150 (£130) to avoid customs duty and some border checks.
Ah, so the EU is ending de minimis too, apparently, like the US. Didn't realize that. Though the EU's limit would have been considerably lower already. IIRC, the US limit was $800/package.
EDIT: If this also applies to the UK, I remember a lot of news stories about retailers talking about how Brexit increasing shipping costs was going to be a problem for their businesses, where before they'd ship small shipments directly across the English Channel, and now would have to ship larger shipments to a distributor. I'd think that this would exacerbate that division, make it more important to use bulk import/export companies and distributors.
EDIT2: Ah, yeah, they mention the US eliminating de minimis as well, and that it was $800 there.
"Stay tuned! After our commercial break, we'll be talking to Mike Evans, a Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, to get his take on both the women-excluding Muslim group and the trans-exclusionary radical feminist group."
Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: “Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women's place in public life.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I kind of wouldn't be surprised if the Party of Women does things that exclude men.
kagis
Ah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Women
The Party of Women (POW) is a gender-critical[3][4] and anti-transgender[5] single-issue political party in the United Kingdom, which opposes what it refers to as "trans ideology".[6][7][8] It was founded in 2023 by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) and registered in February 2024.[9]
Is it just a Wikipedia editor beating up on them?
checks website
No they appear to be pretty explicitly upset with trans stuff.
https://www.partyofwomen.org/about-us
Kellie-Jay Keen founded Party Of Women to make sure that people can safely say
No woman has a penis
No man has a vagina
There is no such thing as "non-binary"
And "transitioning" children is abuse
reads further
- Repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 enables individuals to legally change the sex marker on their birth certificate.
- Repeal the Equality Act 2010
- Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
The ECHR has become a tool for imposing ideological interpretations of “rights” that conflict with national sovereignty and women’s protections.
We will:
Withdraw the UK from the ECHR.
End the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights over UK law.
Yeah, I dunno how sympathetic I am to that group either.
Sounds like the only way to resolve this can be an annual, scored, interstate German swimsuit competition to feed the LLMs accurate and up-to-date information on attractiveness.
Meh. I don't really agree with dessalines' politics on the left, but I wouldn't be upset if a company donated to Lemmy development just because of that. I don't really agree with the bs1770gain's guy's politics on the right, but I wouldn't be upset if a company donated to bs1770gain development just because of that. Neither software package is intrinsically tied to their politics.
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We're the global champions at that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.
They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.
The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
If you read the first incident above, the Goiânia incident, after the people involved managed to use tools to break open and extract whatever was behind all that protective shielding, they found a glowing blue substance that they thought might be supernatural, so they brought over their friends and family to show them. And the kids played with it...
They began dismantling the equipment. That same evening, they both began to vomit due to radiation sickness.[clarification needed] The following day, Pereira began to experience diarrhea and dizziness, and his left hand began to swell. He later developed a burn on his hand in the same size and shape as the aperture, and he underwent partial amputation of several fingers.[8]
On September 15, Pereira visited a local clinic, where he was diagnosed with a foodborne illness; he was told to return home and rest.[1] Roberto, however, continued with his efforts to dismantle the equipment and eventually freed the caesium capsule from its protective rotating head. His prolonged exposure to the radioactive material led to his right forearm becoming ulcerated, requiring amputation on October 14.[9]
On September 16, Roberto punctured the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.
The exact mechanism by which the blue light was generated was not known at the time the IAEA report of the incident was written, though it was thought to be either ionized air glow, fluorescence, or Cherenkov radiation associated with the absorption of moisture by the source; a similar blue light was observed in 1988 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States during the disencapsulation of a caesium-137 source.[1]
On September 18, Roberto sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule's contents were valuable or supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing powder.
On September 21, at the scrapyard, one of Ferreira's friends (identified as "EF1" in the IAEA report) freed several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the capsule using a screwdriver. Ferreira began to share some of them with various friends and family members. That same day, his wife, 37-year-old Maria Gabriela Ferreira, began to fall ill. On September 25, 1987, Devair Ferreira sold the scrap metal to a third scrapyard.
The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg[10] while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. The egg was also exposed to dust from the powder; Leide absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, a fatal dose for which medical intervention was ineffective.[11][12][13] Leide's mother, Lurdes Ferreira, also got sick from the radiation.[14][15]
Maria Gabriela Ferreira had been the first to notice that many people around her had become severely ill at the same time.[16] On September 28, 1987 – fifteen days after the item was found – she reclaimed the materials from the rival scrapyard and transported them to a hospital.
In the morning of September 29, a visiting medical physicist[17] used a scintillation counter to confirm the presence of radioactivity and persuaded the authorities to take immediate action. The city, state, and national governments were all aware of the incident by the end of the day.
There was also a second ex-Soviet de-encapsulated RTG incident, like the one you mention, that I recall, where people came across RTG.
kagis
Okay, apparently more than two incidents. I was thinking of the second Georgia incident, I think.
https://www.jalopnik.com/ussr-sprinkled-more-than-2-500-nuclear-generators-acros-1850501190/
That wasn't the only incident involving RTGs however. In 2001, scrappers broke into a lighthouse on Kandalashka Bay and stole three radioisotope sources (all three were recovered and sent to Moscow). Three men in the mountains of Georgia were also exposed in 2002 after stumbling upon cores left out in the woods. In 2003, scrappers hurled a core into the Baltic Sea, where a team of experts retrieved it.
I assume that there's a segment of the population that:
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Does vaguely like the idea of at least some home automation.
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Doesn't have the technical expertise and/or time to wrangle with something like HomeAssistant. Wants something that works off-the-shelf.
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Doesn't want to spend much money up front on a system, which creates pressure for an ad-supported model.
I will say that I'm still more than a little fuzzy on what substantial practical benefits people are actually getting from their deployed systems, though.
For at least some of this, like having a voice command to check the weather, a smartphone has to be pretty widely-deployed competition.
Who in South Korea is going to Cambodia with the intent of getting a high-paying job?
goes to dig up per-capita GDP numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia
South Korea is over 12 times as high.