No, that's the opposite of what I want to happen. If they "divest" that means they're selling their stake in the company to someone else, who likely cares less about climate change. The company stock doesn't just disappear. Shareholders are the only ones in our current system who can have a meaningful impact on companies they own shares in. The people who hold companies to climate expectations are exactly the ones I want holding stock in those companies.
I thought this article was a good, brief discussion on cookie banners. The summary is that the EU didn't mandate cookie banners, just acquiring consent. And they forbid common dark patterns making the "no" option more difficult to submit. It's the tech industry that settled on the terrible banners, and many of them (most?) don't actually conform to the law's requirements.
I wanted to see exactly where they transplanted the islet cells, because my understanding was that transplanting them to the pancreas was not really viable for a number of reasons:
Agreed. Carbon capture is absolutely an important tech that we should deploy after the cheaper, better solutions of removing carbon from our economies. Carbon capture should be the final phase where we help the Earth heal the damage we've done after we stop doing the damage. We need to first implement those stop-doing-the-damage phases.
No, it doesn't say why. And it also doesn't actually say Biden spent that money. It says Congress "allocated" $7.5 billion. There are plenty of processes between allocation and actual expenditure that could be holding this up.
Have no idea what it is about, other than being decentralised. Some basic search results suggests that its a sham, scam and riddled with crypto ideas. Or is it apart of something noteworthy? Geuinly curious what the general consensus is of the Web3.
But people aren't using the web the same way they were at inception. These big companies have built closed source, centralized systems on top of the decentralized infrastructure to serve new use-cases that weren't envisioned in the original standards. People like these new use-cases, so we need new standards, etc., to facilitate a re-decentralization of data and features in these new use-cases if we want the most used parts of the web to maintain their openness.
I don't think it's fair to lay the blame on the common user for the centralization of their data, when only the centralized systems have been providing the capabilities they want until very recently (where the open alternatives have arisen partly because of new standards like ActivityPub).
Yeah, I was frustrated with Greene saying "Democrats saved him," because with the infinitesimal majority they have, it would be the Democrats who ousted him if they voted the other way. Republicans basically have no agency in their choice of Speaker anymore, thanks largely to the chaos and dysfunction caused by her faction.
The attack vector described in the article uses the VPN client machine's host network, i.e. the local network the device is attached to. They don't discuss the DHCP server of the VPN provider.
People go through stages as they fall into the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. Early in the decent they are still engaging in healthy reasoning patterns that I won't go so far as to say are "logical" or "rational," but they are still flexible enough to be diverted from the conspiracies. There's always a reason they start down that path: maybe someone close to them got badly sick, maybe they just had a child and are seeking out the best ways to protect them. If you can sit down with them and engage with them on this underlying cause for concern in an empathetic way, that's when you can change their mind and keep them in the zone of legitimate science and medicine. If they react to every discussion as a confrontation, they are beyond the point that bringing scientific evidence to them will change their mind.
In the past decade, the Pentagon tried to tame its massive health care costs by pushing medical care, especially for family members, into the private sector....
I hate this basic assumption that privatization will lead to cost reduction unless proven otherwise. Cost reduction is a question of optimization of process combined with requirements for quality. You can either make what you're doing more efficient or reduce the quality. The military can be extremely efficient when it wants to, so I'm not surprised at all that when outsourced to the private sector, costs didn't go down. There was probably just no room to optimize given the existing requirements, and then private companies had to make a profit, so quality had to go down.
I think maybe you should approach this from a different angle. Rather than just to "get it off your chest," I think you should approach this as a problem to be solved.
We're all human. We all do things we wish we didn't. To be adults means to recognize under what conditions we make these bad decisions, and rather than just try to "do better," you should work to remove those conditions. What I mean by that is, if you were to get drunk at a party today, what's to stop you from making that same bad decision? Have you stopped going to parties with the kinds of people you would proposition like that? Have you stopped drinking alcohol so you wouldn't get drunk in the first place? Or have you not changed anything at all, and those same conditions could reasonably come up in your life again today?
If the answer is "these conditions can't come up again because I've already made life changes to prevent them," then great! No need to bring it up with the girlfriend, because it no longer represents a future threat to the relationship. You are no longer the person who did those things because you have made a change in yourself that wasn't present back then.
If the answer is "nothing in my life has changed to prevent this from being a future problem," then you may (emphasis on may) want to bring it up as a problem to solve as a couple. Consider telling her about what you did in the context of asking for her help preventing that from happening again. Talk about what you think led to that situation and brainstorm things you can work on changing that she can help with. Maybe you only go to parties together and she helps keep track of your drinks? Maybe you stop going to parties and come up with other activities to socialize with friends (hiking, mountain biking, fencing, pottery, poetry writing, Warhammer 40k figurine painting; the limit is your imagination)?
I don't know you, so I can't suggest changes that I think will work for you, but she does. The hardest part is that you have to legitimately want to change and you have to put in a good faith effort to make those changes. To make this work, you will have to sacrifice something, maybe sometime you really like doing. But it ultimately won't be for her or even for your relationship. It will be to make yourself a better person, one who works at having a healthy relationship with your significant other.
I remember in Revenge of the Sith, when the actor playing Vader yells "nooooooooo", at what is supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy, the theater roared in laughter....
Not a line, but I saw Matrix: Revolutions in theater on opening weekend. During the 1-on-1 fight with Smith in the rain, there's a slow-motion shot of Neo punching Smith in the face. It's such bad CGI the entire theater burst into laughter. I'm pretty sure it was intended to be dramatic, but after seeing the latest Matrix movie and how tongue-in-cheek it is about itself, I'm not entirely sure anymore.
The human fatality rate of COVID-19 is 1-3%, depending on how you count cases. From what I've seen reported, the human fatality rate of this strain of bird flu is closer to 50%.
(Lots of "ifs" coming) If this starts to spread human-to-human, if it spreads as easily as COVID, and if we don't lock down and this becomes endemic like COVID, COVID will look like a walk in the park compared to what this will do. I'm crossing my fingers that COVID was in that mortality sweet spot where it was bad enough to cause a lot of deaths but not quite bad enough to make officials make people angry with actually taking care of the problem. 50% mortality should be comfortably on the side of "deal with it at all cost."
I remember you saying that that was exactly the plan, so that they could bleed the western economies to death right there at the eastern border of Ukraine
The economies? I could see the argument for Russia bleeding Western political support for Ukraine, but it's just fantasy (or propaganda) to suggest a single economy the size of Russia could bleed the combined economies of all Western countries to death.
If all countries under discussion ramped up to full war time economies, like Russia is already doing, the West would outproduce Russia by at least an order of magnitude, maybe even two. Any suggestion otherwise is either ignorant or a bad faith argument.
But I think Putin knows this fact of economical imbalance, as he's doing a superb job undercutting Western support of Ukraine through subversion of the political process via corrupt politicians, keeping the US and others in a state of hand-wringing and infighting. If he truly believed any of his own propaganda, he would already actually be at war with NATO (instead of just claiming to be and not actually touching any NATO territory), and the West would coalesce around the clear immediate threat and begin the war time economic ramp up.
I meant now that they have identified the mystery illness as the highly pathogenic avian flu, it's not surprising that it has moved into the US. It has been in South America for several seasons, and avian flu can be carried by migratory birds. It was only a matter of time until it spread like this.
I'm looking for easy and cheap options for lunches on weekdays. I mostly eat deli sandwiches and hot dogs right now and I always feel like shit after eating them. I think I need something healthier but I don't have time over my lunch hour to cook anything too fancy. What do you all do for reliable healthy easy lunches?
On Sundays I do lunch prep for the days in office. A few slices of deli meat and block cheese for a nice flavor. Then a pile of raw veggies and a small container of dipping sauce. I prefer sliced bell pepper and green onion with ranch dressing, but you can do whatever veggies you prefer (for example spinach, sugar snap peas, carrots). I always feel great after that lunch; grains like bread or chips always made me feel lethargic.
I take it into the office in a plastic bento box to keep everything from jostling around, and the sauce goes in a smaller reusable container separately.
The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go....
That's exactly why she's doing it. To make the prosecutors appeal like last time, which takes time. Trump just wants to delay all his cases until after the election so he can drop them all when he's president. This is potentially the most serious case against him, as the government doesn't mess around with classified info, but since it's a federal case, he'll have the most power to drop it once he's president.
The article touches on that. VPN traffic is itself a small category, so even if we assume all VPN traffic is torrenting, that doesn't push it very far up the charts.
Cut the extra inch off the long side to get a 4" square, then cut the remaining 1" x 4" piece into 4 1" squares. The boy never said the squares had to be the same size.
If the triangles have already been cut, it's a peanut butter sandwich: use peanut butter on the edges to glue it back together and cut the squares. The child gave you a challenge, think outside the box!
At least we could be sure they would certify the legitimate results of the presidential election, which is more than we can say of the Republican House.
Shell urged to clarify climate targets as it braces for shareholder rebellion | NBIM, one of oil group’s largest investors, calls for ‘additional disclosures’ about green commitments ahead of AGM ( www.theguardian.com )
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. ( www.nature.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15676759...
Is Carbon Capture Cause for Hope? a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it's more complicated than that. ( newrepublic.com )
President of Xbox asked about the closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, spends close to a minute saying almost nothing ( www.pcgamer.com )
Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years ( www.washingtonpost.com )
What is the General Consensus of Web3?
Have no idea what it is about, other than being decentralised. Some basic search results suggests that its a sham, scam and riddled with crypto ideas. Or is it apart of something noteworthy? Geuinly curious what the general consensus is of the Web3.
House quickly rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to remove Speaker Johnson from office ( apnews.com )
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
Antivax quacks are continuing to make up fantastical biological mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccine “shedding” ( sciencebasedmedicine.org )
Pentagon's reduction in military medical costs is criticized as going too far ( www.npr.org )
In the past decade, the Pentagon tried to tame its massive health care costs by pushing medical care, especially for family members, into the private sector....
Struggling to decide if I should tell her
Hi, I am (22M) in a long term relationship with (22F) that has been going on for 3 years as of now....
Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny?
I remember in Revenge of the Sith, when the actor playing Vader yells "nooooooooo", at what is supposed to be the emotional climax of the trilogy, the theater roared in laughter....
Two Doctors, Six Others Quarantined Amid Bird Flu Outbreak in Ranchi ( www.etvbharat.com )
Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares ( www.vice.com )
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF ( www.bbc.com )
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
there is no need ( lemmy.ml )
Finally, an answer! ( lemmy.world )
(I know this is about Rifftrax, but we don't have a Rifftrax community.)
BREAKING: Mystery Illness Impacting Texas, Kansas Dairy Cattle is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Strain ( www.agweb.com )
What lunches do you eat on a weekly basis?
I'm looking for easy and cheap options for lunches on weekdays. I mostly eat deli sandwiches and hot dogs right now and I always feel like shit after eating them. I think I need something healthier but I don't have time over my lunch hour to cook anything too fancy. What do you all do for reliable healthy easy lunches?
Mar-a-Lago Judge: Jury Sees Top Secret Files or Trump Wins ( www.thedailybeast.com )
The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go....
BitTorrent is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic ( torrentfreak.com )
launch him anyway ( mander.xyz )
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Mike Johnson Completely Blindsided by Resignation in His Own Party ( newrepublic.com )
House Speaker Mike Johnson had no idea Representative Ken Buck is quitting, as the GOP is in complete shambles....