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Former President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library in Delaware. He has also tapped a group of former aides, friends and political allies to begin the heavy lift of fundraising and finding a site for the museum and archive.
Some 88 postal operators have either fully or partially stopped sending mail to the US due to President Donald Trump's cancellation of a tax exemption for small packages, the Universal Postal Union said Saturday. In the week since the new rule was introduced, postal traffic to the US fell 81 percent, the group said.
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Some 88 postal operators have either fully or partially stopped sending mail to the US due to President Donald Trump's cancellation of a tax exemption for small packages, the Universal Postal Union said Saturday.
The difference between Holocaust denial and Gaza Genocide denial is that Holocaust denial is illegal or a criminal offence in many countries, and is, for the most part, the preserve of marginalised kooks and conspiracy theorists.
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Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…
In a recent report about climate change from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the authors state that “U.S. tide gauge measurements reveal no obvious acceleration beyond the historical ave…
I don’t have the time but I’d love to read this more thoroughly later.
One issue I have with change point models is the design of the model often assumes (or enables the likelihood function) to assume a change point exists. On a flat line it will fail to find a change point, but on a constant slope it will always select one.
I much prefer something like a restrictied cubic regression spline, where a change point can exist but the model has more freedom in accepting drift. Realistically most datasets don’t have a single change point, but there are plenty of times it’s worth asking.
In a recent report about climate change from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the authors state that “U.S. tide gauge measurements reveal no obvious acceleration beyond the historical ave…
Ti capita che la stanza** giri o di sentirti confuso? Le **vertigini **sono molto più di un semplice capogiro e possono essere un campanello d'allarme importante per la tua salute. Distinguiamo tra vertigine oggettiva (il mondo gira) e soggettiva (sei tu a girare), ognuna con cause diverse: da problemi all'orecchio interno come la VPPB e la **labirintite, fino a stress, ansia o disturbi cervicali. Scopri quando le vertigini richiedono attenzione medica urgente e quali strategie puoi adottare per ritrovare la tua stabilità e il tuo benessere. Non sottovalutarle: il tuo corpo ti sta parlando!
An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it's mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo Show devices, which he said he "never" uses, exceeded 4 GB of data usage in 24 hours.
“There was the misconception that, because Africa is warm anyway, people are tolerant to the heat,” she said. “I think that tolerance level is now superseded.”
Declines in cooling sulfates combined with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations have increased the intensity and frequency of African heat waves. And the temperature spikes may be even more intense than has been recorded.
Thats a super cool visualization! This might make a really cool post for !dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world! Maybe a screenshot with a seperate link to the site
Actually there is a legal definition, a Public Benefit Corporation has statutes in its articles of incorporation which legally commit the company to pursue a set purpose which supersedes the fiduciary responsibility of the corporation to shareholders. This is important because it provides some degree of legal protection from activist shareholders suing the company for making spending or policy decisions which don't directly maximize shareholder value. The body of law around this issue is still relatively murky, but some defense is better than none at all.
For example, shareholders could attempt to sue BlueSky into increasing advertising placement or data sales functionality intothe core platform to increase company revenues, but if that is at odds with their stated public benefit purpose the legal team for BluSky would have grounds to attempt to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the shareholders purchase the shares under the explicit understanding that these functions would be subordinated to the public benefit goals of the platform.
No almost all of that is misconception. Shareholders can sue normal companies and "PBC" for not maximizing shareholder value. PBC are still legally required to cater to shareholders interests. Legal scholars say that PBCs do not provide any protection against shareholders suing and data shows it does not stop profit maximizing behavior. Its pure marketing.
Yes but we like mastodon because they're open and if they fuck up we can move away at any time. Bluesky is completely closed except the protocol and the network is fully centralized. They're just waiting until they have enough marketshare to enshitify.
Not at all. The issue with Bluesky's "federation" is, you can't really set it up at home, you need thousands of dollars and it's not really accessible.
Search up "Mastodon instances" and then "Bluesky instances" you see like thousands for Mastodon and only the official one for Bluesky. It's marketing gimmick for the mainstream normies who want to pretend they have freedom but in reality they're just jumping on the train with the billionaire who runs it.
This is an update to a Summer 2024 blog post. At the time, atproto relays required a cache of the full network on local disk to validate data structures. With the Sync v1.1 updates, relays don't need all that disk I/O.
[Edit: I see the problem, even with a self-hosted instance of 1, when you comment on posts in other instances that data is no longer held on your server, so you don't own it and can't control it directly, is that right?]
So as I understand it the big "advantage" of ATProtocol is the account portability via DID, however this is at the sacrifice of actually hosting an ATProtocol being extremely data heavy.
This has made me very curious about self-hosting ActivityPub (meaning an instance of 1 user), it would seem like focusing development on a client that makes it as close to as easy to self-host an instance as it is to join one would solve the issue of accountability portability, as you literally own all the data and rights when you self host. The Major challenge I see there is security, where experienced admins for larger instances should have some level of cybersecuroty expertise while the average use may have little to none. But then focusing group effort on auto-updating the client and the default settings of the client to maximize security would solve that issue it would seem?
So what am I missing? Other than hosting costs, what else is deferring a self-hosted-first development approach for the Fediverse?
Is it actually that AP development fundamentally believe moderation should be handled at the admin/instance level, and self-hosting makes moderation more difficult and less directly authority based?
Publicly shared blacklists and whitelists would seem the natural fit for a self-hosted-first network, akin to adblock and horizontal.
Edit: I see the problem, even with a self-hosted instance of 1, when you comment on posts in other instances that data is no longer held on your server, so you don’t own it and can’t control it directly, is that right?
The "problem" is also going the other way around. If a large instance is sharing data with your single user instance, they ultimately cannot control what you do with it.
Isn't that a non-problem? I mean, afaik, you cannot control any data after it's sent. If I send you an email with an attachment, I cannot stop you from forwarding it to everyone you know, nor can I stop you from editing it before forwarding. I guess it becomes a problem of reliability, then, which is only a problem if the original source is unavailable - which is not that uncommon in the fediverse.
It is a "problem" if your goal is full ownership and control over your user interactions and data footprint. ATProtocol in principle achieves this, you can delete or move your account and all your user interactions will be deleted or follow you (meaning edit permissions, full access to all the posts/comments, follows, updoots, etc.). The cost of this is a very high data load for the host, though I'm still not clear on exactly why it is so much more data intensive, is it the size of lookup instructions between hosts in addition to the actual markdown?
[Edit: I see the problem, even with a self-hosted instance of 1, when you comment on posts in other instances that data is no longer held on your server, so you don’t own it and can’t control it directly, is that right?]
Not quite. It's more like Bluesky works, but also not quite.
First, a note on the idea of "your" data. The law gives people rights over certain data. For example, copyright gives people rights over certain content, which translates to rights over data encoding that content. You may think of a movie as being yours because you have the file on your device. The copyright holder still considers it their data and will therefore demand control over your device through DRM.
Rights over data always means rights over what other people do with their computers and devices. Unfortunately, Fediverse users are not very tech-savvy. They demand more rights and regulations and then condemn Big Tech for the predictable consequences. They pull on one end of the string and blame dark powers when the other end moves.
The European GDPR also creates rights over certain data. You have GDPR rights over all data that is directly or indirectly related to you. For example, if I write about the current French President, then Emmanuel Macron has GDPR rights over that data, even if I don't mention him by name. Of course, his rights will be limited by freedom of information. Also, these rights are rarely recognized outside of Europe.
What legal rights you have over data depends on your location. Copyright is internationally recognized, but its precise reach depends on location; eg the US has Fair Use. Even at a specific location, those rights depend on context, with a lot of gray area. This cannot be implemented technically.
With Lemmy it's like this: When a user on an instance subscribes to a community, all (recent-ish) posts and comments in that community are downloaded to that instance. Users on that instance are served from their own instance.
Generally, a Fediverse instance keeps a copy of whatever data its local users might need. If your instance was the only source for some data, then every user in the whole world needing it would have to access your server every time they want it. Every user whether registered or unregistered would hit your server every time they reload. If a server buckles under the strain, you just get missing data. It just wouldn't scale.
Bluesky has Personal Data Servers (PDSs) for that role. Those are the definitive store of some user's data. This can be self-hosted easily. The data from all users is aggregated by a "relay", If a PDS is like a personal web server, then a relay is like a search engine. That's the one that you can't self-host; takes big time capital expenditure.
I don't think the Fediverse has a solution for this. Imagine Mastodon or Lemmy with 100M+ users. How do you find stuff? Well, making a crawler and search engine for the Fediverse would be simple. But that would also take major capital expenditure.
The Bluesky relay combines all activity into the "firehose". Anyone can write apps that get data from the firehose and present them to users. When Bluesky blocked Mississippi, that meant that the official Bluesky App did that. Other Apps still work in that state.
Final bit: When you self-host, you need to be your own legal department. When you use a service, you are shielded to some degree. Eg when you infringe copyright, a social media service will usually just take it down. If you infringe copyright on your web server, or even via torrent, you may get a pretty hefty bill.
Fedi-users cheer when Meta gets sued or settled with a huge fine. Well, good luck running your own Facebook server. Fedi-users mostly aren't very tech-savvy but when it gets to law, they are positively delusional.
Pregnant Ukrainian soldiers say they are fighting for the future of their country and for their children.
Ukraine’s military is finding it hard to recruit young men as the war with Russia grinds on, but women — all volunteers — are a bright spot. The number of women serving has grown more than 20 percent to about 70,000 since Russia’s invasion in 2022.
While the U.S. Army and many other militaries remove pregnant soldiers from combat zones, Ukrainian women usually serve until their seventh month. And that is in a military that doctors and soldiers say is ill-equipped to support them — from uniforms that don’t fit pregnant women, to a lack of prenatal care and nurseries — amid the costs and challenges of fighting the war.
Nadia said that after her baby was born, she was allowed 126 days of paid leave if she wanted to return to the front. Otherwise, she could take off three years, unpaid.
She had initially been hesitant to return to service after giving birth in late 2021, worried that a military salary would not support her family. The Russian invasion changed everything, she said.
Finding a unit to accept her back wasn’t easy, Valentyna said, partly because of the sexism that experts say is pervasive in the Ukrainian military. Several turned her down, including one whose commander said she should stay home with her baby. She did not get approval until August 2023 — when her son was 18 months old.
In Ukraine, the military covers 126 days of maternity leave. After that, the state provides about $170 a month for the child.
The Ukrainian military did not respond to questions about how many women were pregnant or had given birth in the ranks, or about prenatal care for soldiers.
While Olya has officially quit the military, she plans to re-enlist in a year or so. “We have very few people left with the necessary level of experience and professionalism,” she said. “And this is a long game, so we are needed.”^[[1] https://archive.ph/7t2QU]
It would be a delicious geopolitical thumb of the nose if Greenland low key arranged a big meeting of all the deputy prime ministers in the EU (perhaps leading out Hungary and Slovakia, since they’re being dicks)
The Europeans are such vassals to Trump that this token act is seen as a sign of defiance. How about stationing European troops and kicking out the US base there?
The family of a woman killed by an ex-partner who bombarded her with hundreds of messages and calls will ask a judge on Monday to force the French authorities to explain why they failed to protect her.
Sandra Pla had complained to police three times about Mickaël Falou’s threatening behaviour over a period of six months, but her application for a protection order was rejected.
Between 3 January 2021 when Pla, 31, ended their relationship and 18 June 2021, Falou, 40, bombarded her with 317 text messages and telephoned her 67 times. His almost daily presence outside her home was recorded by the doorbell camera her parents installed, but police said Falou was on the public highway and could not be prosecuted. Finally, Pla’s mother, Annie, and stepfather, Gérard, moved from Spain into her small apartment in Bordeaux to protect their daughter, who was so scared her doctor signed her off work for 15 days.
Last year, 136 women were killed by partners or ex-partners in France, a rise of more than 44% on 2023. In the last five years, the French state has faced several cases brought by victims’ families who accuse it of failing to act to prevent the killings. In June, the state was ordered to pay €27,000 (£23,000) to the family of Nathalie Debaillie, killed by her former partner in Lille in 2019. It is facing at least two other cases, not including Pla’s: the murder of Chahinez Daoud, 31, who was burned alive by her husband in 2021 and the killing of Patricia Gomit, 51, by her ex-partner in 2022.
The young dude who HAS to play his shitty music on speaker (we all know you have headphones, you all do).
The parents who gave their 2 children an ipad to play games on at full volume.
The teenage to late 20s girl/woman who can't talk to her friends without having it on speaker, and thinks yelling about her one night stand in the train is appropriate.
Berlin has even started making announcements about it: "Please mind others and keep your music, tiktoks and phone calls in your ear instead of playing them through your loudspeaker".
The German version holds back a little less: "...music, tiktoks and calls belong in your ear and not played over your speaker".
I was on the train in Rome and there was a family of Chinese tourist that was all playing their phones really loud with no regard for others. It was like tik tok in Chinese or someting.
“The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” de Sousa said, according to the Portugal Pulse’s report. “He operates as an asset.”
The President of Portugal, one of the parties of the treaty of Tordesillas, ruling country of half the New World with the benediction of the pope, top sardine fisher, main exporter of Cristiano Ronaldos, and foremost port wine producer.
And also he defined that term very specifically. He said only that Trump is acting in the best interests of Russia. When someone normally uses that language, they mean they are in the employ of a country, like a spy.
So, it's meant to be inflammatory and spur action on the part of the US and Europe.
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Furthermore, PPD/PSD is not the Socialist Party (that's PS), it is the Popular Democratic Party/Social Democratic Party, but Montenegro's wing (current PM of Portugal) is neoliberal, unlike Rio's wing that still lived up to the name social democratic.
Not a single traditional party in Portugal has a name that matches the political ideology the practice: - The "Socialist Party" (PS) one of the two dominant "center" parties is Neoliberal (as seen from their love for Privatisation and "Free Markets"). - The "Social Democrat Party" (PSD) the other dominant "center" party is slightly more Neoliberal (roughly similar to the US Democrat Party mainstream, so PSD is actually to the Right of the Progressives in the US) - The "Communist Party" (PC) love Putin, a Fascist and even their "leftwing" thinking is little more than Soviet Union slogans. - The "Social and Democratic Center" (CDS) are the conservatives which in Portugal means the yearn for the previous regime (which were the Fascists)
Like in pretty much all other countries in the West the Overtoon Window has shifted rightwards, though even at the very beginning right after the Revolution in 1974 that overthrew the Fascist Dictatorship, the Socialist Party were never Socialists (it was the Communist Party that wanted a Revolution Of The Proletariat, not the Socialist Party) and similarly the Social Democrat Party was never Social Democrat (for example, they voted against the creation of a National Health Service in Portugal, the exact opposite of the Social Democrat ideals).
Look, it's not the 1600s. Idk if I'd call Portugal a major world power. I'd never heard the man's name before this. Anyways, yeah, that definitely happened.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I feel the same about Spain. Brazil is significantly more relevant than Portugal. They're no Luxembourg, but they're not Australia either.
You'd think so, and to an extent, you're right. But I hear about it quite a bit, more positive than negative. Portugal? Nope. Nothing. I'm not sure I could name a person or fictional character from Portugal. Brazil, I know at least a few.
I looked that up, since I've never heard of it, apparently he was Portuguese in that version, but he was turned Spanish in the most recent version. Damn, stealing the Portuguese rep they need. I'd like to know more about modern Portugal. I'll probably do a little bit of research today.
No, still Portuguese. The show opens with a explainer saying the Spanish went west and Portuguese went east due to the church decreeing how the world would be split amongst the two countries.
I don't keep track of Football, I didn't know he was from there. Unfortunately, he was one of the two living people on the list of Portuguese people I'd ever heard the name of, the other individual being Shawn Mendes, who was raised in Canada. I also knew two dead ones, Magellan and Vasco de Gama. Which are from when Portugal was more of a world power. I recognized the names of 6 famous Brazilians.
You may feel that Spain is in the same league as Portugal, but by most metrics, it's objectively not. It's one of the EU's big 4, a top 20 economy, the world's 8th largest arms exporter, etc. Not a superpower, but definitely a power.
I must ask, why did you focus on Portugal part of this article? Surely the most important part is that a world leader called another world leader a russian asset?
That's why they used this term. If it were any place that you would unquestionably call a major world power, then they would have used the name on the title.
I would like to point out to everyone underestimating Portugal's influence in world politics that, while I agree it hasn't been a military or economic major power in centuries, it has great diplomatic outreach: - Part of the EU and has been used as an example of how to handle drug abuse - Part of CPLP which seeks to align the interests of all Portuguese speaking countries (in Europe, South America, West and East Africa and Oceania) - Vast naval territory in the Atlantic and the Azores which have hosted a US military base for decades - Good relations with China especially after the return of Macau - The current secretary general of the UN is an old portuguese Prime Minister
So while no longer a major country, it still has sway on how relations between some countries develop
Also the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1373. Still in effect today. This isn't a nothing treaty, according to Wikipedia it was activated during the Falklands war. Though Great Britain may not be the power they once were, they still have sway with a lot of the world. I don't really know where I'm going with this other than to say Portugal has friends.
Yes, but in our history we have had more interests in common with the British than different ones, especially as far as mainland Portugal is concerned.
True, oldest treaty in the world yadda-yadda, don't hold your breath if you think Starmer would give two shits about Portugal if it advances his own fascist agenda. The British citizens do have good relations with Portugal, just ask anyone in the Algarve.
To be honest I doubt Montenegro would care about the British either.
He was furious with Marcelo because he wanted to go unnoticed (he doesn't really have a defined international policy) and soon started receiving calls from the White House.
They couldn't care less about Portugal or the Portuguese and in general they see the Portuguese as just another bunch of Southern Europeans and their view of Southern Europeans is highly prejudiced in a negative way.
We're a puny little shitty shit country from their point of view, an impression reinforced by Portuguese Politicians bending over backwards and licking the arses of the British elites.
Like Britain is the "poodle" to America so is Portugal to Britain only even worse.
There's still a lot of dumb provincialism in Portugal when it comes to foreigners, especially amongst Portuguese Politicians and especially towards larger European nations such as Britain.
(Mind you, this outburst of Marcelo is pretty healthy in that sense and gives me hope that maybe that's changing, and I don't even like the guy).
The real specific qualities of Portugal have nothing to do with those delusions that past or present great powers are "friends" of Portugal.
You all remember the Cabal from The Blacklist. I guarantee you this shit is not made up. He called him a Russian asset not because it is how it appears, he called him that because it’s a fact. And all the world leaders know it.
Ok, "major world leader" is clickbait, they could've just said Portuguese President.
While i wouldn't describe Portugal as major, it isn't irrelevant either: early member of the EU (was the ECC back then), treaties with a lot of countries (Brazil being one on account of being an ex-colony and sharing the language), founding member of NATO, emigrant communities all over the world (US included), a few high-ranking politicians are Portuguese (President of the European Council António Costa, secretary-general of the UN António Guterres, ex-president of the European Comission Durão Barroso who now works for Goldman Sachs...). There's also that Cristiano Ronaldo guy. The US also has a military base in a Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Why this fascist fuck who likes taking selfies with his voters decided to criticize another fascist fuck is a mystery to me though...
Completely irrelevant, but I live in an area with a lot of Hispanic and Brazilian people, and I overheard this conversation in the grocery store between a mom and her elementary school age daughter, and the little girl said:
"Yeah, she has a crush on him, but he doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Pork-a-cheese."
It makes me laugh every time I think about it, and every Spanish person that I tell it to cracks up.
I live in southwest Ontario and in Strathroy there's a large Portuguese community and our small town caker asses call them "pork and cheese". They take it in stride lol
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, is planning to present Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to detain the activists in harsh “terrorist-level” conditions in the Ktzi’ot and Damon detention centres for females, according to Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s biggest newspapers...
Israel Hayom quoted individuals close to Mr Ben-Gvir saying: “Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”
They can't decipher sarcasm. They need well established tags to understand how to feel. If there is any uncertainty they default to interpreting it as malice, just to be safe. If you don't want your loved ones to suffer retaliation based on uncertainty then use the established runes.
I would've thought the same lol. The emoji is an actual depiction of a face that is doing something absurd, which should convey more than... "/s". But I guess not. 🙃
The irony is pretty clear - unlike the minds of that sort of commenter who's downvoting finger is a lot (~several weeks) faster than their sarcasm detector. I feel free to say nasty things about rhese spoilsports in this place because I am pretty sure they never made it past the first sentence.
I’m saying…. The act would make here even more committed. The opposite of what Israel would hope for. I’m not saying she’s not very committed. It’s not a criticism of Greta, calm down ASPD
I know you're not criticizing her; I meant more in the sense that turning committed+ into committed++ wouldn't have much practical effect in Greta's case. Id wager that most of what she can realistically do she's already doing.
My guess is that these extreme right-wing politicians have their fan base in Israel who will clap (and enjoy the righteous feeling of punishing a woman who deserves it stirring their loins). And that's who the speeches are for.
And maybe they haven't realized that the whole world is listening to their disgusting display of savagery now.
For the sake of Palestinians I hope they figure it out soon, although it would be nice to see them walk deeper into the trap they set for themselves.
[ I got distracted. This was supposed to be a direct reply to your statement - now it's indirect. ]
There is something particularly disgusting about how right-wing talking heads have latched onto this fantasy of punishing Greta Thunberg, for many years now.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, is planning to present Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to detain the activists in harsh “terrorist-level” conditions in the Ktzi’ot and Damon detention centres for females, according to Israel Hayom, one of Israel’s biggest newspapers.
“Following several weeks at Ktzi’ot and Damon, they’ll be sorry about the time they arrived here. We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt.”
What is wrong with these people? You can literally hear the quickening of their breath when they voice their torture fantasies like that.
The activists were also offered the chance to watch footage of Hamas atrocities from Oct 7, which they refused, according to Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister.
I heard this one before. Like it was some sort of gotcha. Like anybody even claimed that Hamas killing people is OK.
They acted the same way about Palestinian woman Ahed Tamimi. Her cousin was shot by soldiers. She confronted the soldiers and slapped one in front of reporters. The Israeli far right went wild with outrage in the days after, with op-Ed’s calling for her to be punished for the insult and made an example of, with some even saying she should be sexually humiliated, and her entire family was arrested after the pressure.
DING DING DING! You hit the nail on the head! I still remember the oil rig workers in the Dakotas who were giving out stickers depicting Greta being sexually assaulted. This is when she was still underage IIRC. They didn't like her climate change activism and fantasies of grape are how they reacted to a child pushing for a better world.
Yeah I know it (I sure hope you didn't link it from his own site).
But I've seen worse. ::: spoiler Actual... ... rape fantasies drawn on stickers. Long before she even turned 18. :::
I mean, there's always going to be a couple extreme assholes, but the general stance is surprisingly commonplace and they (men of course) don't seem to realize how transparent it is.
They will loudly announce that in about 2 month's time they will recognize Greta's right not to be imprisioned but only if she stops proclaiming her innocence.
Ah yes, because as everyone knows the best way to stop determined activists from talking about your human rights abuses is to show them first hand your human rights abuses. I'm sure they'll just shut up after that.
This is the "stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about" bad parent approach. Next will be the "look what you've made me do" abusive partner approach. Classics! It's almost as if the Israeli government and military are abusers...
It’s almost as if violence is only stopped by violence
eh, yeah... that's been working out great since the uk sold all that land to two different people and walked away from the shitshow.
I think we're in a situation where we have to take the decision making power out of the hands of people guided by religious rhetoric and malignant monocultural motivation in order to see any real, lasting change.
they almost had this a few times on both sides but the religious nutbags kept assassinating them. the trick is to get secularist people who recognize a multicultural society is stronger than the alternatives, jihad and genocide.
Sure, but it still seems to be like a simply stupid move on their part. They're gonna turn one of the most influential activists of this generation from an outside observer to an eye witness
We must eliminate their appetite for another attempt
instead of "it is advisable to discourage future attempts" that could be a more professional strategic tone... their language sound to me more like a mob boss in a mafia film, I am probably biased, yes, but that's the tone I would identify among fascists rather than among objective beings handling a problem, full of passionate words as if their strength would be based on that... anyway.
I am not meaning that an eufemististic neolingua substitution would improve the morality of those actions or alike, it does not change the intended purpose behind that phrase, execrable in any case.
My point goes in a different direction, highlighting their viciousness, their emotional engagement, rage and hate, not cold state machinery.
Imagine the phrase I quoted in the following context: there is an organised uprising of progrom attempts carried out by a racist centralised collective against a minority and the state wants to take actions to stop the possibility of such progrom. I cannot imagine their version being used but my example.
Yeah, the photo they choose is always a great litmus test for whether or not the article will be biased in one way or another. If an article has a flattering photo, it’s probably going to be praising the subject of the photo. If it has them looking silly, (and to be clear, in this photo Greta looks like she’s failing to hold in a fat shit while she waddles to the toilet), then it’ll probably be critical of them.
This just seems like it would cause even more body dysphoria than these beauty contests already do. How is this different than just allowing fucking Photoshop? Just creates even more unrealistic body standards
Reminds me of that time I tried to play a Monster Hunter game, specifically MH3 on the Wii.
I was like "what the fuck are those controls? How am I supposed to hit those remotely efficiently?"... To which people answered with the ridiculous crime against ergonomy called "the Claw Grip". That was the last straw and I decided the game wasn't for me.
I am guessing they mean "progressive" as in "including technical progress", not progressive social views. And, no it's not either. It's just marketing around the latest way to sell their image to advertisers.
It could be seen as "forward thinking" in the sense of being open to and accepting of technological progress.
Personally, I think it's just trend chasing. AI might become deeply useful for many applications someday, but it's only actually useful for a fraction of what people use it for at the moment.
The models get 0% of the proceeds for one year and then 10% after that. After interviews and photos of the models, they get around to interviewing the CEOs of the companies doing this, and there's an unchallenged narrative about why it's fair and not exploitative. Shame on the BBC.
The family of a Norwegian hiker who died in northern Manitoba landed in Winnipeg on Friday to embark on a trip that retraces their late son's Canadian journey, and to meet the people who embraced him along the way.
On Friday night, his family arrived in Winnipeg after a long and tiring journey from Oslo, spokesperson Christian Dyresen told CBC News.
The family will return on Monday to Winnipeg, where a memorial ceremony will be held for Skjottelvik, Dyresen said.
Later next week, they'll head back to Norway and lay his body to rest, he said.
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…
🍔 Just collabed with @BobTheShoplifter on a MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH: We exposed how Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) left their drive-thru systems etc completely vulnerable.
🎯 What we found: • Unauthenticated API access to ALL drive-thru locations globally • Drive-thru voice recordings of customers accessible • Employee PII exposed. • Bathroom feedback systems with zero auth • Hardcoded passwords in client-side code
The scope was insane - we could access any drive-thru system globally. Even listen to your actual drive-thru orders 👂
Credit to RBI for lightning-fast response once disclosed, but the privacy implications were staggering.
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Restaurant Brands International's assistant platform allowed complete control over 30,000+ Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes locations worldwide - including access to customer drive-thru audio rec…
More than two decades after victims of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the government of Saudi Arabia responsible for helping the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a federal judge has ruled that a civil lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Despite the efforts of a small group of FBI agents to pursue the case, it was eventually closed by the bureau. The civil lawsuit nearly died in 2016, when President Barack Obama vetoed legislation to carve out an exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign governments and permit the families to sue the Saudi kingdom. Congress overrode that veto, however, allowing the suit to go forward.
President Donald Trump later blocked the families from obtaining classified government documents on the 9/11 investigations, claiming they were state secrets. President Joe Biden later reversed that stance and declassified documents that included reporting confirming that Bayoumi was a part-time agent of the Saudi intelligence service.
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.
Most of the Al Qaeda members involved in 9/11 were Saudi, including bin Laden. There's apparently some evidence that some members of the royal family donated to the group. After looking it up, it doesn't seem to have been talked about too much, which kind of makes sense, I wouldn't want to piss off the Saudi government either.
It looks like his words on the topic were focused around the preservation of hardware and the "protection" of U.S. officials do to the known fact that U.S. troops do perform tasks that fall outside legal realms. (Whether under order or not). He focused on saying that it opens the door for private entities to investigate the U.S.'s actions abroad which could fracture the Governments ability to sweep shit under the rug. To me it seems to say, if someone does something horrific, whether they were ordered to or not, the governing bodies of the 2 countries can negotiate a resolution that they think is best for their countries regardless of whom was hurt and the direct effects of individuals who were effected.
Like if the U.S. does a missile strike on Iran supposively aiding Israel, and Iran strikes the U.S. military outposts in the area back, the governments can decide it was tit for tat or some shit, not caring about the individuals murdered in the process, as it helps them long term. Allowing this to go through would in theory allow countries like Iran to use apply similar exceptions so the families/friends/companies could go to their court without reguard of their government and if a bases is found they could launch an investigation. Which ultimately if it was in our government, a lower court would find it legally viable to investigate, and as it went up the appeals courts would get pressure until it was shut down, showing the corruption that justice doesn't occur for individuals, but rather just protects the whole or just the government officials involved.
The civil lawsuit nearly died in 2016, when President Barack Obama vetoed legislation to carve out an exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign governments and permit the families to sue the Saudi kingdom. Congress overrode that veto, however, allowing the suit to go forward.
Add this to the list of horrifically evil shit Obama did
That's all very suspicious behaviour. First the whole Bush Sr admin kill Al Quaida thing, you're either with me or against me, iirc.Then, Obama admin. torpedoes the legislature process of civilians.
Great can we also take the innocents killed in Afghanistan and Iraq to trial? Why is it that pathetic American soldiers fight a war with the best tech and weapons, and somehow still feel like they’re the sad little victim that suffered.
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews.
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Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is "objectively a Soviet or Russian agent," reports Euronews.
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President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa made a harsh statement about US President Donald Trump. In his opinion, the American leader is objectively a Soviet or Russian agent, reports Euronews.
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While I agree that private prisons are horrible, I can't see how this would have changed anything had it been a public prison. This also happened 3 years after he left that job as a prison officer.
He resigned because he was threatened while still on the job.
Generally speaking the police (and in some countries the prison system is a de facto separate police) deals far better with it's members being threatened,especially as their self perception is different and their managements goal is not to make a fucking profit first.
There's a reason redundancy is huge in aviation. All of those redundancies are written in the blood of prior accidents. Same thing with signage in the military.
And year, redundancy for the person flying the plane, or at least monitoring the autopilot is probably a good idea, tough shit for the airlines that want to cut costs.
Yeah, if they'd decrease prices then I honestly wouldn't be that opposed. Flying is very safe, and autopilot is really good. It can even land, though I think this is normally not used if you have a human pilot, but it can do it if it needs to.
We all know that they'd just be cutting employees and probably increase prices though.
The MBAs have taken over the world and are enshitifying entire safety critical industries. They’ve been testing how high they can get the stock price/deaths ratio before someone makes them stop. This is why some industries just shouldn’t be driven by profit, and very near the top of that list is aviation safety.
With the FAA overrun with industry goons and Trump appointees, and aircraft design flaws now acceptable as a cost of doing business, we can expect more regulatory cuts and bits of passenger strewn about the landscape.
Yes, you just need to keep the higher payouts to more bereaved relatives below the cost savings from making a bunch of pilots unemployed, and Bob's your uncle. Simple soulless capitalist logic.
It is, from every perspective except that of capitalists willing to sacrifice a few more lives for greater profit. If passengers really want to survive they can pay more money to travel on a deluxe two-pilot flight. The poors can't afford it, but what are their lives worth anyway? It's just the invisible hand of the market setting the truest price for each person to reflect their real value.
I did research on communication systems for exactly this. You need a few more than just one pilot, but the general idea is that only take off and landing are hard so you have pilots on the ground remote piloting the aircraft in these situations. In theory you don't need pilots at all, but current autoland systems reduce throughput at airports.
and if there's an emergency? like the pitot tubes go out, or there's an engine fire, or a loss of cabin pressure, or landing gear malfunction, or stab trim runaway, or loss of communication, or GPS jamming over a hostile area, or TCAS alerts, or fuel contamination, or power failure, or the ground equipment for autoland goes out, or fire in the cargo hold, or slat deployment failure, or a bird strike on takeoff, or loss of hydraulic pressure, or a bad storm cell, or wind shear, or wake turbulence, or tower radio goes out, or a tail strike, or a badly contaminated runway, or a radio problem, or a software bug?
For GPS jamming there is research into alternative ground based location services, I'm currently doing research in that area. Interestingly one major problem there is not GPS jamming in hostile areas, it's truckers using GPS spoofers for their tracking devices, because apparently that happens and it happens far away from any wars. Loss of communication was what I researched before, i.e. how reliable communication links are. For most of the other things you list a regular pilot can't do much more than someone remotely operating the aircraft from the ground, the pilot is not going outside to fix an engine mid-flight, or hit the landing gear with a hammer until it works again. For autolanding, the whole idea of remote piloting is to not rely on autoland.
with the landing gear there's mechanical backups. the pilot can (destructively) manually drop the gear if there's a failure. same with other backups: on a non-fly by wire aircraft, the pilot can physically move the control surfaces with enough force. even Airbus has a limited mechanical backup (which has been used a couple times! like when all three avionics controllers disagreed and tripped offline.) likewise, even when there's a total loss of power, the pilot can windmill the engines to start. and since any loss of communication dooms the aircraft, it needs to be extraordinarily reliable - and I'm not sure that level of reliability is physically possible, because the underlying communications links (even ACARS) aren't rated for it, nor are the backbone routers of the internet.
finally, I think it is human nature that remote pilots will become complacent if their own lives are not at stake, like their passengers'.
I'm sure it's fascinating research, and may have a place for cargo/repositioning flights, but I can't see that such a scheme could be made reliable enough to risk human lives.
This is the epitome of could vs should.. could a single pilot fly the plane ( given the technical aids available these days and in ideal conditions).. Yes, Should they.. absolutely Not.. lack of redundancy and too many opportunities for things to go wrong that could be avoided by another set of eyes.
The difference here is that pilots are rigorously trained and go through constant continuing trainings and recertifications, while someone who wants a driver's license effectively needs to prove they have a pulse and can read at a second grade reading level (at least here in the US). If we actually cared about road safety, we'd raise the bar for a driver's license.
When the traffic density for planes is the same as the traffic density of cars within say 100 miles of airports, then I'll take that statistic seriously.
What an odd thing to say... "If conditions would be completely different the statistics would be different, therefore I don't trust the statistics". What's your point exactly?
While the aircraft was flying over Didcot, England, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ejected from the aircraft. He was held in place through the window frame for 20 minutes until the first officer landed at Southampton Airport.
Whoever tried to pass this one pilot thing should be fired.
One of my big takeaways from the Marines (of which there are many) was never do anything without a buddy. There are certainly jobs that are for one person, but a pilot definitely ain't that.
I don't have your experience but I have watched a lot of airplane accident/near accident videos on YouTube, so I'm the worst kind of non-expert, and even I can see that having a pilot flying and another pilot monitoring is absolutely essential. It helps prevent either pilot getting overloaded with work and going to pieces, it provides company and a sanity check on every decision and flip of a switch, and there's no fix for a pilot being incapacitated through sudden illness except having another person there to take over. I wouldn't want to fly on a plane driven by a single lonely and stressed pilot, and I doubt many pilots would want to be doing long-haul flights all alone every day.
I know a pilot and he mentioned a similar proposal he saw, he thought that the only reason anyone wanted them was so that they would have one less pilot to pay per flight.
I mean, that much is obvious. If you could do without two pilots it would be very inefficient to have two per flight, but you can't, so it's a very stupid idea.
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One issue I have with change point models is the design of the model often assumes (or enables the likelihood function) to assume a change point exists. On a flat line it will fail to find a change point, but on a constant slope it will always select one.
I much prefer something like a restrictied cubic regression spline, where a change point can exist but the model has more freedom in accepting drift. Realistically most datasets don’t have a single change point, but there are plenty of times it’s worth asking.