Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

Nobel Prize for the Advancement of Home Owner Association Rules

#LittleKnownNobelPrizes
#HashTagGames

#Bezos

This is an utter disgrace: About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67663888

Now it appears the economics have changed so that one can buy a generic circuit board that has multiple footprints for the CRT socket, and multiple taps to support different magnetics.

It’s probably an odd effect of the world being down to only a handful of CRT manufacturing plants and low demand for long enough that a degree of generic compatibility has come to a design space that lacked it previously.

The main thing that makes it so mind-blowing is that back in their heyday, these devices were sold in such high volumes that every model was like a special snowflake custom-engineered for a different CRT picture tube and yoke.

CRTs had 20 alphanumeric character model numbers and you never saw the same one twice, different voltages and pinouts, etc. The coils on the yokes had different inductances and energy requirements.

It’s hard to convey just how radical and mind blowing this board swap is to younger folks who never knew the joys* of repairing consumer CRT TV’s.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoqflFfvkR0

* By rights I should be thrice dead.

I have just found the most amazing picture of our dog.

#DogsOfMastodon

“We're seeing children directly suffering the consequences of this for the rest of their lives.” Dr Rebecca Inglis, an intensive care doctor and co-founder of Gaza Medic Voices, told the BBC that Gaza's hospital system is completely non-functional.
This limits their ability to treat injuries and amputate limbs that in normal circumstances could be saved. She said: "And the hospital system is completely non-functional, which is what it is at the moment.

https://www.tiktok.com/@middleeasteye/video/7311011705989975329

https://www.europesays.com/946508/ As COP28 talks wind down, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and climate adaptation #Climate

Stages (circa 2023)

As expected, Trump wants to halt all proceedings in the DC district court while his interlocutory appeal on absolute immunity is pending.

What's an interlocutory appeal? See:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/interlocutory

A question has been: Will this interfere with the March 4 trial: Unlikely because of how quickly the appellate court turned around the gag order appeal, and that the appellate court has stated it is committed to not delaying the trial.

The DOJ responded to Trump's motion. . .

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#Kiss

we're seeing brioche levels at about 46%

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周一工作日，来一杯咖啡☕️😁

https://weibo.com/7466310624/NwAZDEvc2

小舌头忘记收回去的小狗！ig：jaoh_kitikun
https://weibo.com/7394892032/NwwghqmUZ
Source: https://weibo.com/7394892032

Mistodon: this #ANSIart tribute to Clint Basinger's @lazygamereviews as depicted on an early #IBMPC, was drawn by @meatlotion of thE qUAntUm wOrmhOlE BBS and included in the new MIST1121 artpack collection.

"Scopus, a widely used database of scientific papers operated by publishing giant Elsevier, plays an important role as an arbiter of scholarly legitimacy... But users beware, a new study warns. As of September, the database listed 67 “hijacked” journals—legitimate publications taken over by unscrupulous operators to make an illicit profit by charging authors fees of up to $1000 per paper. For some of those journals, Scopus had listed hundreds of papers."

https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-scholarly-database-listed-hundreds-papers-hijacked-journals

Happy 4th night

#mazeldon

FPV drones of Ukraine's 82nd Brigade hitting the Russian personnel and equipment in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

In recent months, such "kamikaze" drones are often a go-to weapon of choice to repel Russian attacks.
📹 via https://t.me/ruuawarnews/573