catloaf

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catloaf ,

Sell to whom, though?

catloaf ,

Wouldn't you sell to the highest bidder anyway?

catloaf ,

conducted by the University Network for Human Rights, the International Human Rights Clinic at Boston University School of Law, the International Human Rights Clinic at Cornell Law School, the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and the Lowenstein Human Rights Project at Yale Law School

So yeah, big names there. I'm not hopeful about it changing Biden's mind, though.

catloaf ,

But I bet it certainly didn't help.

catloaf ,

Is that the Mexican government?

catloaf ,

It is not.

This article doesn't mention if anyone was killed in the raid, Hamas or civilians.

catloaf ,

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/lemmy.wtf

Yup, it's fucked.

UN adds Israel to blacklist for harming children in conflict zones ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has notified Israel’s Defence Attache in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to add Israel to the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones....

catloaf ,

No, the UN was formed to stop nuclear war.

And it's been effective. We've had no nuclear war (but a lot of genocide).

catloaf ,

It's the ick factor. If you could puree grasshoppers and put something on the ingredients that didn't make it sound like insects, and sell it cheaper than beef, then people would buy it.

catloaf ,

It's not ineptitude. Their hands are tied by the government from providing aid in any effective way.

catloaf ,

We don't want a hardy lifetime dock. We want Israel to stop committing genocide and to allow aid by land and air routes.

catloaf ,

I never said anything like that.

catloaf ,

"They" is pretty clearly referring to the military, as that's what we were discussing.

catloaf ,

Aid by land and air can be done in the short term, a lot faster then building a dock and shipping by sea. The only thing stopping that is a pure policy decision by Israel.

Personally, I think the US should continue with aid airdrops. Hell, I think they should load up trucks and roll through Rafah or any available crossing in Gaza.

catloaf ,

Well, when you want to establish your homeland somewhere that people are already living, yeah it takes displacement. But they're not just displacing them, they're killing them.

catloaf ,

They're not making a mistake. They have no intention of occupying Gaza.

When they're done, there will be no Gaza.

catloaf ,

Nothing lasts forever.

catloaf ,

I'm surprised that he personally has any guns at all. He seems like the kind of person who would be afraid of actually handing them, let alone using.

catloaf ,

*Northern Ireland. Most of Ireland is still free.

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

catloaf ,

Same. I've only ever made one post, and it wasn't to lemmy.ml, nor have I made a significant number of comments, yet I was banned first from the instance, then from the communities, for allegedly spamming. I asked in the Matrix chat linked in their sidebar, and they suggested I message dessalines, so I did. He rejected the message request.

If this is their ideal of Lemmy, then Lemmy is dead on arrival.

catloaf ,

That's just a regular ban. If you were shadowbanned, you would be able to vote but it wouldn't do anything. As far as I know, Lemmy doesn't have shadowbanning.

catloaf ,

They could. But you can't just ignore it, else they would see it missing when they refresh. You'd have to keep track of which things to actually count, and which to hide. It's complicated, and Lemmy isn't big enough to need it yet.

catloaf ,

I'm confused. Felonies are generally more serious crimes. If a felony is being committed, does it matter how it was noticed?

But it also says that less than 2% of stops resulted in a felony charge. That still seems like a lot of felonies. And 96% of stops resulted in nothing? That seems incredibly high.

It feels like a lot of factors are being muddled together here, painting a very unclear picture. Or maybe it's just that I haven't finished my coffee yet.

catloaf ,

What are you going to be running on these disks? I haven't used zfs, maybe it supports mismatched sizes? Or maybe you could do one array with the 4s, another with the 2s, and use LVM to pool them together? Or just keep them separate and fill them up independently.

catloaf ,

Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Superintendent Briggs is black, the man and his daughter are white.

catloaf ,

Also he said life, not nature.

catloaf ,

All living spaces, even for remote workers, unless you want to live out in the sticks.

And there's a dreadful lack of public transportation.

catloaf ,

And 240 of those are BJP

catloaf ,

If they're actually dead, no. If they're not, I'm not sure why you'd remove them in deadheading, but maybe. Worth a shot, at least.

catloaf ,

Yes, sort of. Taste and smell are almost the same sense.

catloaf ,

Punnett squares and gene dominance/recession is a very simplified explanation for a single gene. A lot of things, like eye color, are controlled by multiple genes. And that doesn't even touch epigenetics, where even a dominant gene may not be expressed, usually due to environmental factors. So it's not wrong, just simplified, and that should be explained. If someone told you "this is how it works, and there is nothing else going on" then they lied to you. But the genetics is true.

catloaf ,

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-june-atmospheric-river-takes-134720481.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/world/video/nairobi-kenya-flooding-rain-runda-madowo-pkg-digvid

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rescue-worker-dies-southern-germany-floods-2024-06-02/

https://www.newsweek.com/pittsburgh-rainfall-record-flood-1906267

Record droughts in some places, record rains in others. Regular patterns breaking down means the extremes get more extreme, the swings get more rapid. That's not good news for anything.

catloaf ,

Rubber is just stretchy plastic. It has all the same problems.

catloaf ,

So what is she? What's her stance on, say, cartel violence?

catloaf ,

In case you ever find yourself in this situation, you can also use the message SOS, its Morse code of three dots, three dashes, and three dots, or a triangle. For visibility during the day, build a smoky fire, and at night, three fires in an equilateral triangle.

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

catloaf ,

The experience of people working the night shift, who use blackout curtains to sleep during the day, would disagree.

But that's for a relatively highly regimented sleep cycle. If you slept and worked completely at your leisure, you might end up with one shorter sleep period at night, and one even shorter nap during the day. And without any day-night cycle at all, some people naturally adopt cycles of varying lengths.

catloaf ,

If you want to enhance your knowledge, I would recommend getting involved with a gardening group in your area, or as close as you can get if there isn't one (landscaping, conservation, park maintenance, etc.). The people you work with would have much more relevant real-world experience to share.

catloaf ,

Yup. There are no human-scale objects as a reference.

There are a few landers, yes, but if you tried to use them to gauge distance to the surface, they're so small that by the time you pick them out, it's probably too late to decelerate properly.

catloaf ,

And the universe's expansion is accelerating, so even if you have the most sensitive receiver that can pick up very low frequencies, at some point the waves will be stretched so thin that they'll be essentially nothing. Of course they won't be zero, but where you draw the line for "essentially zero" is up to you.

catloaf ,

We've been shifting imports out of China for quite a few years now. If you look at "made in" labels, I'm sure you've noticed that they've changed from China to Taiwan, Thailand, El Salvador, hell I got a shirt recently that was made in Jordan. I'd never seen that before.

While a lot of stuff is still made in China, that shift means it won't cause a huge destabilization, at least for the US. Of course it will still cause problems, but they're already trying to limit the potential damage.

Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer

It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...

catloaf ,

Same happened at my company. I had seen the writing on the wall, so I bounced right before it happened.

catloaf ,

Smoking can also cause cancer in the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, pancreas, bladder, stomach, colon, rectum, liver, cervix, kidney, and blood. It's by no means a free pass.

In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train ( apnews.com )

Rays of sunlight slice through pools of crystal water as clusters of fish cast shadows on the limestone below. Arching over the emerald basin are walls of stalactites dripping down the cavern ceiling, which opens to a dense jungle....

catloaf ,

Because it will destroy the natural environment.

catloaf ,

Yes. The roads are already built. While a train would take cars off the roads, the destruction is primarily caused by the construction, not ongoing use.

catloaf ,

Yes, obviously burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change, but the construction has a more direct and immediate impact on the local environment.

catloaf ,

The other times I've heard about honor killings like these, it's been Islamic. But it sounds like this guy was just nuts.

catloaf ,

Before I answer any of these questions, are you autistic or otherwise neurodivergent in any way?

catloaf ,

Not to mention, few people have the time, skill, money, and energy to do it. They're happy to outsource in exchange for money and/or data.

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