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rasterweb, to random
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Does suffering precede all greatness?

rubinjoni,
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@rasterweb No, often it's just suffering.

cstross, to random
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The only folks for whom house arrest isn't a punishment are those who live in palaces with attached infinity pools and golf courses.

(Silvio Berlusconi fought off the inevitable guilty verdict until he aged past Italy's 70 year old limit for prison: then he served two years under house arrest—in his bunga-bunga mansion.)

Just as fines (with no alternative sentence) are the ticket price of wrongdoing for the wealthy rather than the punishment they are for ordinary folks.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112451843395290411

rubinjoni,
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@cstross I use this opportunity to note that Gaddafi probably had Berlusconi videotaped having sex with minors, and possibly other EU leaders.

lzg, to random
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taking a tiny shredder to meetings and a print out of your bad ideas

rubinjoni,
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@lzg Genocide'R'Us, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman.

arstechnica, to random
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Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid

Someday, an NEO will pose a threat to us. Thankfully, we have options.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/outdoing-the-dinosaurs-what-we-could-do-if-we-spot-a-threatening-asteroid/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rubinjoni,
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@arstechnica We just won't look up.

Lana, to random
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Anyone arguing in favor of arming school teachers needs to first explain to me where in the budget you're going to find the money to buy 27 Glocks when you cheapskates won't even buy us printer toner.

rubinjoni,
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@Lana There's always money to funnel into the military industrial complex.

mcc, to random
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I order some Products from the United States.

The cost is $88 CAD.

There's a fixed international shipping cost of $48 CAD. Frustrating, but that is what the shipper has, so okay.

A couple days later, I get an email from UPS asking to pay the import duty fee. The import fee is $51 CAD.

That is more than half the cost of the product itself. I'm overall paying more for shipping+import fees than for the product.

When I moved here I assumed I could buy stuff from USA cheap because of NAFTA :(

rubinjoni,
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@mcc I don't get the "you can no longer press 3" part...

rubinjoni,
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@mcc Major

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

rubinjoni,
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@dangillmor Slop Overflow™

mcnees, to random
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Presented without comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.HiQE.i7fZF-oqy297

rubinjoni,
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@mcnees RFK's brain - not even once.

18+ root42, to random
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The BBC investigates links of the German AfD to far right extremists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68931170

rubinjoni,
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@root42 Mild shock.

arstechnica, to random
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Mercedes’ electric G-Wagon is more capable than the gas version

With four motors, deeper fording, and more power you can forget about the gas version.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/mercedess-electric-g-wagon-is-more-capable-than-the-gas-version/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rubinjoni,
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@arstechnica I doubt gas vehicles will be "forgotten" for any actual off road use in the perceivable future. One doesn't ford rivers to reach the next EV charging station.

ernie, to random
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I made the mistake of pointing out that a new AI app that scrapes YouTube videos was ethically questionable on Hacker News and a dude is just non-stop replying about it.

rubinjoni,
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@ernie I'd subscribe to a service that summarizes youtube videos in full.

Daojoan, to random
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The world doesn't need more conformists and yes-men. It needs more leaders unafraid to march to the sound of their own drum. More innovators determined to do work that matters rather than what's safe and expected.

Will you dare to dance alone?

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/leadership-and-the-art-of-dancing-alone

rubinjoni,
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@Daojoan I need an army of yes-persons to march to the sound of my drum. And I also need a drummer, because I'm not a good percussionist.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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Always reassuring when you call your bank and they tell you that technically they’re two banks that share a name and a customer service line but for legal reasons they’re totally two banks with the same name, owned by the same people, that share a phone number

rubinjoni,
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@ryanhoulihan They travel together on bank holidays.

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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"This project uses a mini CT-scanner, which is different than the full-size donut scanners used in hospitals. By creating a "fish burrito", we can scan many fish at the same time, and it will only take only a few years to scan all the fishes in the world at our current rate thanks to our novel approach to scanning." https://www.adamsummers.org/scanallfish #ScanAllFish

rubinjoni,
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@whitequark I've seen a lizard & snake burrito made for the same purpose.

dgar, to random
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The meaning of opaque is not clear.

rubinjoni,
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@dgar @MaryDeji I honestly thought this was a LAMPP stack shitpost, not actual spam...

rubinjoni,
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@MaryDeji @dgar Is that Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP?

jonny, to random
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Have any and specifically vocal production and perception ppl studied the donald duck voice, bc its like a stunning example of perceptual degeneracy with acoustic variability. Those phonemes are nothing like normal speech and are produced totally differently too

rubinjoni,
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@jonny I'm going to jump in with some obscure knowledge (diving/hyperbaric medicine): mediastinal emphysema is known to cause Donald Duck voice.

rubinjoni,
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@jonny A presentation of decompression injury: air gets trapped in the lungs during ascent/surfacing, and escapes into the thoracic cavity. It goes up the trachea and exerts pressure on the vocal chords. Caused either by holding breath during ascent (extremely dangerous in SCUBA diving), or due to some preexisting problem with the lungs. I was present a long time ago when an ex-smoker had the injury with "Donald Duck symptom" (luckily, he didn't have embolism).

rubinjoni,
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@jonny I'm trying to find some papers/medical reports on it... The things I found mention chest pain, palpable air bubbles behind the clavicula etc, but don't mention the (very noticeable) voice change. Could be something specifically diver related (who spend time immersed with their head up), and not happening in cases where people are in bed or simply not immersed.

(edit: typo)

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@jonny https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgf2.426

rubinjoni,
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@jonny A distinctive, higher-pitch change in the voice can occur if subcutaneous emphysema involves the soft tissues of the neck due to compression in the retropharyngeal and lateral pharyngeal spaces near the glottis. On physical examination, crepitus (subcutaneous emphysema) is commonly present in the chest wall or neck.
https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/home/decision-support-in-medicine/pulmonary-medicine/non-neoplastic-disorders-of-the-mediastinum-pneumomediastinum/

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn This thread would be so much better if Leyland failed over actual coat mismanagement...

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn Engineers and machinists leaving Leyland because C-suits were hogging all the coats...

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn (it's a typo, and the thread is about cost mismanagement)

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