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Hi-Rez Studios announces February 17th shutdown for Realm Royale and Divine Knockout
  • I'd be surprised if they had net positive income on Tribes 3. A lot of veteran gamers of the series saw who was really running development and decided to stay away. Once bitten, twice shy. The writing was on the wall that it was a dead game back in June.

  • Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks
  • The requirements shaped the design. They wanted mail carriers to be able to stand up in the cargo area without having to bend over → tall cargo area and tall doors. High visibility → a large windshield. Along with the options of a BEV or ICE powertrain → duckbill front.

    Personally, I think it's iconic and obviously less of a deathtrap vs the current vehicles.

  • Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago
  • Yeah, I would mostly agree. The poll peaks in 2020 when there was COVID, a virus that was putting people in the hospital on ventilators and had a mortality rate we hadn't experienced for over a century. Along with a healthcare system barely holding on, lockdowns, masking, social distancing, a major recession, people losing their jobs, kids going back to school with all that chaos, and in the middle of one of the most chaotic and stressful presidential elections in history. BUT 55% of people were better off in 2020. Hmm.....

  • Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man files third release request
  • Yeah, I remember this one too. Going back and reading one of the articles from when it happened, and I just don't have words for it.

    https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html

  • Playing Lucas Arts
  • I see your schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how you ... handle it.

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  • This was a set of trading cards for kids. I only had a few, but they were bloody awesome.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_Attack

    https://www.bobheffner.com/dinosaursattack/

  • If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the sea can this be done? Or is it even legal?
  • So you want to die in a burning boat‽ While some countries in Europe allow for assisted suicide, I don't think any allow for self immolation while at sea.

    Now if you're looking for a viking funeral procession after your death, I would think environmental regulations would be the biggest hurdle.

  • Hurricane Milton's downpour around Tampa Bay was a 1-in-1,000-year rain event
    www.nbcnews.com Hurricane Milton's downpour around Tampa Bay was a 1-in-1,000-year rain event

    St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in 24 hours.

    Hurricane Milton's downpour around Tampa Bay was a 1-in-1,000-year rain event

    Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event.

    St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in the 24-hour period during which the storm made landfall, according to precipitation data from the National Weather Service.

    That included a staggering 5.09 inches in one hour, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET — a level considered to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.

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    [QUESTION] For pasta sauces, is it best to use fresh tomatoes or canned?
  • Unless you are growing the tomatoes yourself, you're better off using canned. Store bought are picked green and are watery and flavorless. They're only good for salads and sandwiches.

  • Upsidedown yet comfortable
  • I have one like that. He's so fluffy and soft and his fur gets everywhere.

  • Oklahoma defends Bibles-in-schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify
  • The corruption is so thick you can cut it with a knife and spread it on some bread. Stealing from tax payers to give to some rich grifter. Forcing religion down kids throats. Walters is showing his fine Christian values.

  • Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial
    arstechnica.com Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

    If you’re familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.

    Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

    In a randomized controlled trial, the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis—used in many probiotic products, including Dannon's Activia yogurts—did nothing to improve bowel health in people with constipation, according to data from a randomized triple-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.

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    I always get them confused.
  • It's easier than that: c for ceiling, g for ground.

  • LAPD raid goes from bad to farce after gun allegedly sucked onto MRI machine
  • At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said.

  • Trump says he'll use federal forces to invade U.S. cities over immigration policy
  • A word like that is too big for his base to understand. They need something simple like the SS.

  • i am hella indifferent to humans of any gender taking shits
  • But they could be shitting right next to you! Menacingly!

  • Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals
  • Apple has a long history of working against right to repair and third party repair shops. This includes making it difficult for third parties to source the parts needed and changing the designs to requiring part pairing in the name of security. It got to the point where repair shops were buying broken Apple products so they could hopefully source the parts needed.

    Looking through what they provided now, it's basic stuff any third party repair shop could do if they could source the parts. It's useful. However good electronic technicians can go beyond that and do board level repairs. But that requires schematics and diagrams. A lot of times they would have to get those through other parties who in turn got them through less than official means or violated NDAs.

    Guess what Apple isn't providing? Board level information. This is just doing the minimum the law requires them to do.

    Bonus: Louis Rossmann talks about Apple's history of right to repair [10 minute video]

  • Exclusive: Watchdog finds Black girls face more frequent, severe discipline in school

    > Black girls face more discipline and more severe punishments in public schools than girls from other racial backgrounds, according to a groundbreaking new report set for release Thursday by a congressional watchdog. > > The report, shared exclusively with NPR, took nearly a year-and-a-half to complete and comes after several Democratic congressional members requested the study. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, later with support from Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, asked the Government Accountability Office in 2022 to take on the report. > > Over the course of the 85-page report, the GAO says it found that in K-12 public schools, Black girls had the highest rates of so-called "exclusionary discipline," such as suspensions and expulsions. Overall, the study found that during the 2017-18 school year, Black girls received nearly half of these punishments, even as they represent only 15% of girls in public schools.

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    Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged 'abuse' of U.S. trade loophole
    www.cnbc.com Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged 'abuse' of U.S. trade loophole

    Under a new White House rule proposal, Chinese exports subject to U.S. tariffs would no longer be eligible for the de minimis shipping loophole.

    Biden targets Shein, Temu with new rules to curb alleged 'abuse' of U.S. trade loophole
    • A new rule proposal from the Biden administration would prohibit products that are subject to U.S.-China tariffs from being eligible for a special customs exemption.

    • The de minimis loophole allows packages with a value of less than $800 to enter the United States with relatively little scrutiny.

    • Officials say a recent explosion in the number of de minimis shipments is due largely to Chinese-linked online retail giants like Shein and Temu.

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    That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes
    arstechnica.com That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes

    Old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries, private collections.

    That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes
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    What happens if you leave your phone off the hook?

    What would happen inside an electromechanical central office if you left your phone off hook?

    From the channel Connections Museum

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    New AMD SinkClose flaw helps install nearly undetectable malware

    AMD is warning about a high-severity CPU vulnerability named SinkClose that impacts multiple generations of its EPYC, Ryzen, and Threadripper processors. The vulnerability allows attackers with Kernel-level (Ring 0) privileges to gain Ring -2 privileges and install malware that becomes nearly undetectable.

    Tracked as CVE-2023-31315 and rated of high severity (CVSS score: 7.5), the flaw was discovered by IOActive Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, who named privilege elevation attack 'Sinkclose.'

    Full details about the attack will be presented by the researchers at tomorrow in a DefCon talk titled "AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation."

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    31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent
    arstechnica.com 31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent

    The partisan divide on vaccine falsehoods threatens the health of children nationwide.

    31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent

    Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, according to new polling data from Gallup.

    In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was "extremely important" for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was "extremely important" this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.

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    British Army on LSD (Acid) drugs
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    Mpox did not fade away. Africa faces two alarming outbreaks — and lacks vaccines

    Last week, the World Health Organization called attention to an mpox outbreak in South Africa. Officials there confirmed 20 cases between May 8 and July 2, with 18 hospitalizations and three deaths.

    Another concern is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak that began last year has been accelerating — and where the variant is dramatically deadlier than the mpox strain of 2022. About 6% of people who get this type of mpox are dying from it — compared to a 0.2% death rate for the 2022 strain. Most of the deaths in the DRC outbreak are among children.

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    Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid
    apnews.com Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid

    The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

    Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid

    The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

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    The Offspring - This Is Not Utopia
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    T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default
    tmo.report T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default

    A new privacy setting, enabled by default, allows T-Mobile to access concerning levels of detail about your activities and behaviors.

    T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default

    T-Mobile made waves back in 2021 when they automatically set user privacy settings to on by default for sharing customer info with advertisers. It made a lot of people angry then, and a new setting that’s appeared in the same settings is once again enabled by default.

    A new toggle has shown up in the T-Mobile “Privacy Center”, and it appears to have first been spotted a month ago on Reddit. The toggle is for allowing “automated profiling” of your user data to analyze and predict how a user might behave, particularly when interacting with support.

    This article will dive into what exactly “profiling” is in this context, and how you can opt-out for your account.

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    Chevron owns this city's news site. Many stories aren't told

    Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky.

    News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. "We don't know the full story, but we know that you shouldn't breathe in the air or be outside for that matter," Khamphanthong says now. "It would be nice to have an actual news outlet that would actually go out there and figure it out themselves."

    The city's primary local news source, The Richmond Standard, didn't cover the flare. Nor had it reported on a 2021 Chevron refinery pipeline rupture that dumped nearly 800 gallons of diesel fuel into San Francisco Bay.

    Chevron is the city's largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Yet when it comes to writing about Chevron, The Richmond Standard consistently toes the company line.

    And there's a reason for that: Chevron owns The Richmond Standard.

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    What are your weird food rules?

    For example:

    • When you open a fresh jar of peanut butter do you only work through one side until it is completely empty then start on the other side?

    • Or when you get those shallow tubs of hummus does it have to make it back home undisturbed? Then one of the baggers at the grocery store shoves it sideways into the bag completely ruining the symmetry.

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    Deaths reported after small plane crashes into Florida mobile home park
    www.nbcnews.com Deaths reported after small plane crashes into Florida mobile home park

    Multiple mobile homes caught fire after the single-engine plane, whose pilot had reported engine failure, crashed in Clearwater, officials said.

    Deaths reported after small plane crashes into Florida mobile home park
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