tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@grimalkina
It's a right wing government, motivating things with "focus on creating jobs" is sort of the default option, so I'm not sure if there's a lot of signal in the choice itself.
But pay me little mind, this is ways outside the lands I have any sort of reliable politics knowledge of, best hope some well informed local can offer a more grounded account.
@grimalkina
Yeah, there is a very strange framework for valuing knowledge encoded in this decision.
But likely it is the outcome of a big internal struggle and so doesn't actually come from a coherent worldview in the first place, so no surprise the sales pitch makes little sense.
@eivind
"kuse" is pussy in norwegian? I only know of it as a dialectal word for insect pests, though evidently it had a different meaning in the past.
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Another extremely eyebrow raising pardon is a woman who had 5 years of house arrest left on her sentence for committing the largest local government embezzlement in US history, over $53M stolen.
You'd think being the person known for stealing the most ever from a small government shouldn't get special treatment. There's certainly more deserving individuals for sure.
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I was going to write a singular positive post about Biden taking a break from protecting war criminals for a day to finally getting around to pardoning average people. And for sure he totally did the typical pardon of several "non violent drug offenders" which is great. But also, oh god he pardoned some real monsters who earned every minute of their sentence and then some.
At least one of the kids the Conahan jailed committed suicide as a result.
https://www.citizensvoice.com/2024/12/12/biden-commutes-sentence-for-kids-for-cash-judge/
@nullagent
So, quick rule of thumb: if you ever think an EM drive in atmosphere explains something you should abort that line of thought, drink some water, and have a lie down.
If this is your genuine gut feeling, the conclusion should be that this is not an area where your gut can provide reliable input, just as how the gut is frequently wrong about just how much chocolate you can eat without adverse consequences.
Seriously, the new jersey ufo panic is not how military industrial conspiracies expose themselves, sometimes a public panic just has dumb immediate causes.
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Wer transportiert eigentlich Donald Trumps Klimaleugner-Ideen nach Deutschland? Wie fließen die Gelder und bei welchen Parteien landet beides? Achtung: Die Antwort ist wenig überraschend! (by @correctiv_org)
"This feeling strengthened after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when both the good and bad of Soviet culture disappeared and the GDR turned from the most prosperous of all the Russian satellite states into the poorer half of a newly reunified Germany. In a 2019 poll cited by Amberger, 60% of Germans in the former GDR said they saw themselves as second-class citizens. Many Germans in the western part of the country regard their eastern neighbors in the same way"
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-former-east-germany-is-fertile-ground-for-the-far-right/
via @kaiarzheimer
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So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.
1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years
This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".
Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.
The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.
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It turns out that one of the enablers of COVID was actually our increased carbon footprint.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/virus.html
#covid #covid19 #CarbonFootprint #CO2 #climate #ClimateChange
@tomstoneham
this probably has more to to with Elon having bought Trump, I doubt the tune stays friendly after Trump breaks the bromance.
@1br0wn
@w7voa
You and what court Mr Blinken? You were pretty upset with the international courts that already exist just last month.
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Droughts in Brazil and Vietnam Are Driving up Global Coffee Prices.
Climate change is projected to drastically reduce suitable coffee-growing regions by 2050. #ClimateChange
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122024/todays-climate-droughts-coffee-prices/
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Non violent climate activist Gaie Delap, aged 77, is facing imprisonment in the UK again due to home tagging wristbands not being made small enough for her, and an ankleband not being safe due to her health.
In other news #StormDarragh has smashed the UK, killing two and leaving 200,000 without power.
Make this make sense.
tobychev
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Street Complete v60 was just released, with 3 new quests and a lot of work behind the scenes and fixes!
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@mcc My "favorite" version of this was spending a good half a day wondering why "x" wasn't being printed only to realize the Android phone I was holding was just plugged into a charging brick and the one I had actually been deploying to all day was tucked under my desk.
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The third #Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite was launched on a #VegaC rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. #Sentinel1C extends the legacy of its predecessors, delivering high-resolution radar imagery to monitor Earth’s changing environment, supporting a diverse range of applications and advancing scientific research: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Double_win_for_Europe_Sentinel-1C_and_Vega-C_take_to_the_skies - additionally, Sentinel-1C introduces new capabilities for detecting and monitoring maritime traffic.
@inthehands
This sort of reminded me of this blog about how come we are so inefficient that we could give a decent standard of living to the *entire world* at a third of the price we pay for the current shitty one: http://www.cottica.net/2024/08/07/the-hidden-inefficiency-reflecting-on-modes-of-provisioning-in-new-economic-thinking/
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Mary Wareham, the deputy director of the crisis, conflict, and arms division at HRW, explains how the Biden Admin misrepresents the mines it’s sending to Kyiv and how the decision to aid Ukraine in violating its 1997 Mine Ban Treaty obligations is already unraveling disarmament elsewhere. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/02/pulling-at-the-fine-fabric-of-international-humanitarian-law
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Last week, an agreement holding together seven decades of Russian-European scientific collaboration expired due to a mix of sanctions over the Ukraine invasion and Putin’s personal science whisperer (another damned Kovalchuk), who thinks Russia is better off on its own. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/03/concerning-cern
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
