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6·5 days agoSupreme Court judges don’t seem to retire until they’re weeks from their deathbed.
The US president turns 80 this year, and has shown clear signs of major mental faculty decline for many years.
Self-interest is core to the US government and judicial systems.
97% was reported by earlier small surveys, but I think the most rigorous and widely reported survey of scientists was Harris Interactive in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change#2005–2009
That was followed up in 2010 by a survey of specifically climate scientists, whom hit 97-98%.
The ‘concensus’ has been constantly challenged in conservative media and circles so there have been many such surveys / meta-analyses continuing over the years and it’s been hitting 100% for the last several years. If any idiot ever parrots “science doesn’t work on concensus” my usually response is something like, “no it doesn’t, but when an entire field of scientists have determined a theory to have vast evidence-based backing its considered settled. The only thing that would change that is significant contradictory data being presented, yet instead every year we’re measuring huge volumes of data that confirm the concensus.”
A Chromecast is not full of ads, but are they all just Google TV now? Is Google TV full of ads? I haven’t used one.
Could be an option to reset your TV, disconnect it from the Internet, and buy & use a Google TV device instead. The streaming devices seem to have far fewer ads and shit than TV manufacturers cram into their devices nowadays.
The hoops we have to jump through to minimise surveillance capitalism… I see elsewhere in the thread you’ve had to use a PiHole to block most of the TVs traffic.
5·10 days agoI see…
Its got a few definitions but the context I was using is coming in at the last minute to secure the win. I’ve been listening to kids too much and it’s affected my language. Rip.
You made me curious. I can’t find solid numbers on attacks/deaths per capita, but last year a indigenous Arakun (far north Queensland) fisherman was killed and only confirmed by DNA testing his remains in the Croc.
In 2024 two people were killed, a 12yo girl in NT (Northern Territory) and a 40yo man in Cooktown, Queensland.
The US also seems to have 1-2 annual alligator deaths, but considering our demographics difference (Aus 28.2m, USA 342m), Australia has over ten times as many deaths by large reptile per capita.
BTW all of Northern Aus is where the crocs are, and there are ‘Absolutely no swimming’ signs everywhere, but it’s hot as fuck up there and fishing and boating are very popular pasttimes so it is hard to keep the people and the crocs out of each other’s territory. I imagine it’s similar in the Southeast US?
Us making glorious wildlife films like Rogue (2007) is certainly not helping haha.
Recommended btw if you like a bit of horror and don’t mind dumb movies like The Meg, Deep Blue Sea.
Bilbies are much bigger and their ears are huge, they look sort of like a marsupial rabbit with a large tail.
Bunch of pictures from a Taronga Zoo article:
https://taronga.org.au/news/2023-08-29/greater-bilby-numbers-booming
Sure is. Like Cliff said, it’s a Western Pygmy Possum (from social media source).
Pic from Wikipedia :
Microplastics coming in clutch.
(Unconfirmed but suspected cause of the global increase in Alzheimer’s and Dementia:
I think Bernie is using the term “consequential” very carefully here. He doesnt mean its the most transformative, impactful technology ever. He means it’s the one that’s going to have the most negative consequences for people - and I think it has the internet beat there.
But, its certainly arguable. ‘Ai’ and ‘the internet’ are really both a large collection of technologies bundled into one umbrella terb, and there are positive, benign, and negative components within both.
I don’t ever remember people making ‘fuck the internet’ clubs back when it was gaining steam in 97/98 though…
Apparently it’s just as bad if not worse for most other mass-produced beverages, including glass-bottled (https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/glass-bottles-shed-more-microplastics-than-plastic-ones-surprising-french-study-finds) and aluminium-canned (which are all lined with plastic). In fact of the three, ironically plastic bottles were found to shed the fewest microplastics in this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479724037964
So buying things in glass or converting to cans makes no significant difference, and may make it worse. Plastic is everywhere in the manufacturing process (linings, filters, tubes, pipes). Soda and beer will not allow you to escape the microplastics problem.
If we could fast-forward to after the ground-shaking study that proves without a doubt that its incredibly bad for us, to the eventual ‘plastic-free’ manufacturing certifications that spring from it, that’d be swell. I’m thirsty.
Spotify streams all music at 160kbps OGG for free users by default, so that’s what this archive is dumped at - the original Spotify content, no transcode. The only difference is they re-encoded all the songs with a ‘popularity’ of zero at a lower bitrate, because that saved an enormous amount of data for all the AI crap pumped into Spotify that nobody listens to.
Side note - it would probably not be possible to do a dump as a paid used (as they would notice a user account is being abused, and ban it), but paid accounts go up to 320kbps OGG and some content is also available lossless (as FLAC).
Anyway, 99%+ of people can’t consistently tell the difference between a 160kbps OGG and lossless, because of limitations in either their equipment, training, ears, or a combination thereof. This has been blind tested many times and the audiophiles that ‘swear they can tell’ are always proven wrong, they then usually blame the equipment or test. There’s tests you can run yourself too, eg here: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html
Just gonna politely point out that America is living under extreme corruption and tyranny right now, and the 2nd amendment aint doing shit to help with that problem. Sure gets lots of innocent citizens killed though.
Just like any expected conflict ever, the 2nd amendment caused an arms race - and the govt is far, far more heavily armed than the people.
I mean, that would be totally reasonable for someone his age, in his shape, so full of constant hate.
But then… With the level of healthcare available to the elite - Dick Cheney got a new heart and lived to 84, Kissinger also didnt look after his health at all and had a coronary bypass and multiple operations… Lived to 100.
The good die young.
The others… Need help.
There’s a reason she was convicted and went to jail.
And that same reason is why Trump and his admin are trying very hard to whitewash and downplay her crimes.
The statement Epstein “killed himself” used in the article has still never been proven adequately. He was on suicide watch (found partially conscious just months beforehand, again no evidence it was by his own hands) and moved to another more secure cell - and there were four cameras pointed toward his cell that would have provided valuable evidence, two were ‘accidentally deleted’ and one was also lost as its video provided to investigators was ‘accidentally’ from the wrong section of the jail that looked identical, the original correct video deleted in the meantime before this accident was identified (‘oh gosh, whoopsie again’). The guards have been prosecuted for lying to investigators about their whereabouts during his death and falaifying claims he was checked on the mandated schedule.
Sure are a lot of ‘accidental’ evidence deletions, false evidence, and lying guards in this story to take the Trump-admin led investigation (his fucking co-conspirator) at face value. Any genuine investigation would have to say “based on the evidence, cause of death is inconclusive”.
For sure. IKEA is a great place to start (or stay), as it’s a cheap ecosystem and their app/implementation doesnt require permanent internet access - functions fine during an internet outrage, and quite privacy-respecting.
HomeAssistant is not anywhere near as hard to set up as it used to be. If you have an old mini-PC retired from work sitting around there are HA images for PCs now, and it’s pretty simple to set up to use your IKEA hub (or whatever you have already), while adding a huge swath of optional features.
I agree it’s still not something your average Joe will set up, but the continual lowering of barriers will get more people into running a self-hosted local config is a great thing for privacy and expanding the hobby.
There’s an xkcd for everything, isn’t there.
Its not wrong, but the major attraction to Matter is it must allow devices to operate locally (not tying them to cloud services that die every internet outrage, or permanently when the service retires), and it’s an application-layer protocol. Meaning it can operate over WiFi, Ethernet, or Thread.
Many existing smart home hubs have been able to program support for Matter and simply send out an OTA update to add certified Matter support.
Same with Russia, at odds geopolitically - in constant proxy wars across the world.
And yet… President Krasnov has repeatedly praised president Putin, given him favourable deals (abandoning the Kurds, pausing sanctions around Ukraine, removing sanctions imposed post-Crimea annexation, holding off on using very powerful financial sanctions available to directly squeeze Russia’s plutocrats and Putin).
Not sure your theory that a country being at odds geopolitically means shit when Trump is president and the Republicans in the house and senate largely enable/encourage him.