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  • No, one of them is a turquoise marine predator.

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    Let's discuss: Visual Novels
  • 999's DS version—the original—had superb dialogue. Sadly they made it absorb all the narration way more rigmarolously than VLR's.

    (Fun fact: Makoto Naegi has a specific pattern on his hoodie.)

  • Police officer's gun sucked away by powerful magnets in lab raid
  • I agree with the legal state part, but it was not the energy use of the MRI; it was BS'd from the following:

    "Franco conducted surveillance on multiple dates in 2023, reporting the 'distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked,' tinted windows–which he attributed to efforts to conceal cannabis cultivation, security cameras– which he associated with locations where cannabis is grown to prevent theft, and two individuals in similar attire at the premises – whom he concluded were performing maintenance or expanding the cultivation operation," the lawsuit alleges.

  • Police officer's gun sucked away by powerful magnets in lab raid
  • One LAPD officer, "dangling a rifle in his right hand, with an unsecured strap, approached the MRI Office" and glanced at the large warning sign on the door that read: 'Warning. Magnetic Field. High Frequency Yield. Metal Parts and Medical Instruments of All Types prohibited.'" He then walked into the MRI Office, according to the lawsuit.

  • I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten.
  • What do you mean by the broader sense after you block the ads?

  • This Place is Not a Place of Honor
  • I'm not an expert on this topic, and the following is my impression from the information I've seen.

    1&3: A nuclear repository needs to be sealed to prevent radiation. A chemical landfill does not. People can see the waste inside landfills from afar and realize that it's nothing of value. Meanwhile, nuclear repositories will have their waste far far away from what people can see. Future beings will not see the glowy warm metal quickly, and just breaking the concrete to see it will cause significant disruption.

    1b: There are parts of spent fuel that are completely spent and unreusable; in fact, reprocessed uranium costs way more than just dumping the spent fuel and buying new uranium.

    2: You are assuming that the future beings will only discover and somehow manage to breach the place before recivilizing. If such an apocalypse occurs, there 78% will be a point in time where they at least reach 19th-century levels of technology. Even if they didn't, having the place breached before the future figures out how to seal radioactive things/use concrete will choke out their development and despair us all for eternity until evolution manages to make a resistant species, which will take a long time.

  • The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

    How Vavilov, the Mendelev of botany, was prosecuted for speaking out against Lamarckian pseudoevolution, and how his institute worked tirelessly and hugrily to preserve his seed bank during the Siege of Leningrad.

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    This Place is Not a Place of Honor

    An exploration into the biggest challenge to the proposed Yucca Nuclear Waste Repository: Warning future beings against treating it as an Indiana Jones film set.

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    I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten.
  • I understand that that’s the general trend of public companies. However, I think that this specific action benefits both.

  • ‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President
  • Have you read the article?

  • Mozilla's massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer
  • Theoretically, the browser executes the Mv3 blocking rules, so it could be optimized and more efficient than js ever could.

  • I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten.
  • Porqué no los dos?

  • MSFT Rule
  • and I was wondering what the cause of the tiny blip was

  • Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets
  • No, they only said they were stopping work on HoloLens 3 last time.

  • Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets
    www.theverge.com Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets

    Microsoft will still continue its HoloLens work with the US Army.

    Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets

    Production is ending on the HoloLens 2 headset, with no sign of a replacement. In totally unrelated news, MSFT stock dropped 2.23% in a day, bringing the weekly average down to 1.63%, with an asking price at $420.69 after close.

    > > > Microsoft has now teamed up with Anduril Industries, the military tech company started by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, to improve its IVAS mixed reality headsets used by the US Army. Microsoft’s initial IVAS headset, based on HoloLens technology, first went into trials in 2021 and includes integrated thermal and night vision imaging sensors in a heads-up display. > >

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    MSFT Rule
  • Bing: "Strong buy"

    (Lemmy currently doesn't support attachments yet, but Mbin and Mastodon do as the only available way of image upload; hence, my attached image would likely show up as nothing for you, so I also embedded it in markdown. Attachments allow server hosters to cache thumbnails while still specifying alt text. Follow the progress at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2456!)

  • MSFT Rule
  • Now that they've discontinued HoloLens (today), that'd be hard.

    ...or so we think

  • MSFT Rule
  • I was looking for why the stock was dropping lol. They discontinued HoloLens today.

  • Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
  • Agreed, but to play devil's advocate, the support wasn't branded as such and customers could've not reported out of shame, which wouldn't happen if they knew they could do that at the beginning before it became anything substantial.

  • Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
  • “The men came over to the car again and stood in front of it for a few minutes. Finally when they left, the car was still stalled but I clicked the ‘in car support’ on the screen and they seemed to be aware of the issue,” Amina said. “They asked if I was OK and the car began to drive towards my location. They asked if I needed police support and I said no.”

    When she was almost to her destination, Waymo support called her again to ask if she was ok, she said. “I assured him that I was fine and he told me I would be given a free ride after,” she said. “After many hours I was called one last time by their support team. They asked if I was OK and told me that they have 24/7 support available. They also said I would get the next ride or next two rides (uncertain) free.”

    "In an instance like this, our riders have 24/7 access to Rider Support agents who will help them navigate the situation in real time and coordinate closely with law enforcement officers to provide further assistance as needed," a spokesperson for Waymo told 404 Media in an email. "While these sorts of events are exceedingly rare among the 100,000 trips we serve a week across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix, we take them very seriously. We continuously look for ways to improve rider experience and remain committed to improving road safety and mobility in the cities where we operate."

  • ‘Hefty Sneeze’ Sends Soccer Player to the Sidelines

    > > > "Now, Victor is a powerful boy, and even his sneezes are powerful." > >

    > > > Sammy Sosa strained his back ligaments in 2004 by sneezing, rendering him unable to play for 15 days. In 2015, Lindsey Vonn was hospitalized after she hurt her thumb breaking up a fight between her dogs. Michael Jordan severed a tendon in his finger in 1999 while cutting a cigar. Glenallen Hill, an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, ended up with cuts and carpet burns after he tried to escape spiders in a nightmare in 1990. And in 1996, Bruce Walker, a defensive lineman for the New England Patriots, wound up with a chest injury while playing catch with a knife. > >

    > > > Last week, Croix Bethune, a midfielder for the Washington Spirit, injured her knee after she threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Washington Nationals game. She will miss the remainder of the National Women’s Soccer League season. > >

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    Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

    > > > We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers. > > > > This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux. > > > > These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses. > >

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    Detroit judge who put teen in handcuffs during field trip is demoted to speeding tickets
    apnews.com Detroit judge who put teen in handcuffs during field trip is demoted to speeding tickets

    A Detroit judge who was temporarily removed after ordering a teenager into jail clothes and handcuffs during a field trip is back on the bench.

    Detroit judge who put teen in handcuffs during field trip is demoted to speeding tickets

    To the great smelly cop car you go!\> [Judge Kenneth] King got in trouble for singling out a 15-year-old girl for falling asleep and having what he considered to be a bad attitude while she was visiting his courtroom with other teens.

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    WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources
    techcrunch.com WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources | TechCrunch

    WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources.

    WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources | TechCrunch

    The blocked resources in question? Automatic security and features updates and plugin/theme repository access. Matt Mullenweg reasserted his claim that this was a trademark issue. In tandem, WordPress.org updated its Trademark Policy page to forbid WP Engine specifically (way after the Cease & Desist): from "you are free to use ['WP'] n any way you see fit" to a diatribe:

    > > > The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress. > >

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained attempts to provide a full chronology so far.

    Edit:

    > > > The WordPress Foundation, which owns the trademark, has also filed to trademark “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress.” Developers and providers are worried that if these trademarks are granted, they could be used against them. > >

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    TIL "adrenalin" is a protected trademark owned by Endo International

    > > > The following three lists of generic and genericized trademarks are: > > > > * marks which were originally legally protected trademarks, but have been genericized and have lost their legal status due to becoming generic terms, > * marks which have been abandoned and are now generic terms > * marks which are still legally protected as trademarks, at least in some jurisdictions > >

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    Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel
    www.theguardian.com Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

    Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004

    Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel

    how long is this fucking article

    > > > In a statement to the Guardian, Roberts denied ever killing a dog with a shovel. He did not answer questions about why several people say he told them that he had. > >

    > > > News of Roberts’s alleged comments to colleagues comes as Trump, the Republican nominee for president, and his running mate, JD Vance, have engaged in a racist and false propaganda campaign to demonize Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio, by claiming that they have been killing and eating people’s pets. The xenophobic claims, which are probably meant to strengthen support among white, racist and anti-immigrant voters, have incited multiple bomb threats that have disrupted the Springfield community. > >

    > > > Marsha Weisiger, a colleague of Roberts at the time who is now an environmental history professor at the University of Oregon, recalled being invited to dinner at Roberts’s home with her husband, and Roberts telling both of them the story about how he had hit a neighbor’s pit bull with a shovel and killed it. > >

    > > > To make matters worse, she recalled Roberts saying that the neighbor in question also had puppies and that he had considered killing them, too. Weisiger’s husband, who asked not to be named, recalled Roberts saying he had complained about the dog to the police, who were not responsive, and that the dog sometimes got into his yard. > >

    > > > Daniel Aran, who has been released from prison and is now the owner of a small construction company, spoke to the Guardian from the front yard of the small stone house. Aran is lean and muscular, with a chiseled face and hardened stare. > >

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    [misc] PSA: Getting Train Sim World 5's free starter pack automatically gives you the TSW5 versions of all the previous DLC you've purchased, even if you bought the previous DLC for e.g. TSW2
    store.steampowered.com Train Sim World® 5 on Steam

    The Rails are Yours in Train Sim World 5! Take on new challenges and new roles as you master the tracks and trains of iconic cities across 3 new routes. Immerse yourself in the ultimate rail hobby and embark on your next journey.

    Train Sim World® 5 on Steam

    so get it while you can. thought it'd be relevant, downvote/remove this if you want lol

    Example: If you bought the HHR route for Train Sim World 2, clicking on the "install game" button on Steam for the TSW5 free starter pack (no, you don't have to install it) will automatically give you the TSW5 version of the HHR route with no further steps; if you're on PlayStation, you do need to do the same process for TSW4 first.

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    US Schools are replacing blacktop with greenery to avoid the heat island effect

    > > > Today, the Los Angeles Unified School District has a goal of converting at least 30 percent of every schoolyard to green space, a years-long project that it expects to cost $3 billion. By its own estimate, about 475 schools do not meet that standard and, of them, more than 200 elementary schools have less than 10 percent green space. This analysis does not include school parking lots or truck delivery areas — paved surfaces that are likely to remain that way and raise the temperature around schools. > >

    > > > Webster, after years of waiting, is now on the list of schools to be renovated by the Trust for Public Land. The nonprofit will work with a class of third-graders and landscape architects for the next year to design a new schoolyard. Projects like this can take two to three years to complete, at a cost ranging from $400,000 to as much as $2.5 million, said Danielle Denk, who directs the organization’s schoolyard transformation work. In Philadelphia, most of the money for these projects comes from the water department, which is trying to make the city more capable of absorbing storm runoff. > >

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    Suspected Gunman at Trump Golf Course Said He Was Willing to Fight and Die in Ukraine

    > > > Mr. Routh, a former roofing contractor from Greensboro, N.C., was interviewed by The New York Times in 2023 for an article about Americans volunteering to aid the war effort in Ukraine. Mr. Routh, who had no military experience, said he had traveled to the country after Russia’s invasion and wanted to recruit Afghan soldiers to fight there. > > > > In a telephone interview with The New York Times in 2023, when Mr. Routh was in Washington, he spoke with the self-assuredness of a seasoned diplomat who thought his plans to support Ukraine’s war effort were sure to succeed. But he appeared to have little patience for anyone who got in his way. When an American foreign fighter seemed to talk down to him in a Facebook message he shared with The New York Times, Mr. Routh said, “he needs to be shot.” > > > > In the interview, Mr. Routh said he was in Washington to meet with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission “for two hours” to help push for more support for Ukraine. The commission is led by members of Congress and staffed by congressional aides. It is influential on matters of democracy and security and has been vocal in supporting Ukraine. > > > > Mr. Routh also said he was seeking recruits for Ukraine from among Afghan soldiers who had fled the Taliban. He said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest. > >

    > > > A man with the same name and similar age as Mr. Routh was arrested in 2002 in Greensboro, N.C., after barricading himself inside a building with a fully automatic weapon, according to the Greensboro News & Record newspaper. > >

    > > > In a May 2020 post, he invited Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to Hawaii for a vacation and offered to act as “ambassador and liaison” to resolve disputes between the two nations. > >

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    There's an ecosystem of fictional automakers that sell car models on Roblox

    Link goes to its Fandom wiki. I trust that you have your own extension that will redirect it to your preferred Fandom viewer.

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    Aatube Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

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    I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

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