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The people who are making these things happen are wholly unfamiliar with consequences.

This Brandon Gill?

I propose that cobras be referred to as firegulls. The hissing for the noise, and the venom spit into your eyes is “hot” (spicy).

Oh wow, I missed the video also linked in that article. Oops!

Why?

Because I am sure that lots of people read "human trafficking" and think that it primarily affects women, or is a "women's issue", and by extension, assume that human trafficking has little impact on men. That opens up a whole "men vs women" can of worms, frames women as victims and men as perpetrators.

I believe - and @shalafi@lemmy.world will correct me if I'm wrong - that as long as the static charge differential between you and the equipment is low enough, there's no concern about damaging static electricity flow through components. Touching the case, even if it's not earth grounded, will discharge any potential you're holding into the case. Then the difference between you and the components will be small enough to be safe.

The provenance of the image on that article is here. Those are freed captives.

I would like to point out that a huge proportion of the people in that picture are men.

Conflating two very different political groups seems par for the course.

Fascinated, sure. There's a lot of history to be fascinated by, doesn't mean you have to think it was good.

The pirate story is a great one. Probably exaggerated at best, if not almost entirely made up, because Dignity and Glory (I have capitalized those because they were concrete concepts) were huge things in Rome in those times, and those were earned through war. Having such a tale ascribed to you was a way to earn Dignity and Glory if you had political aspirations and were not (yet) able to actually go to war.

... "inaccurate and uncalculated" artillery fire.

They only meant to drop shells near the aid stations, to keep the bad guys away. Gazans should make quantum leaps from where they are to inside the aid stations, without passing through the space near the aid stations. Duh.

Caesar

Which one?

Regardless, I don't think anyone is in the dark about the brutality of Roman leaders, even if the "Gaius Julius got kidnapped by pirates and was an absolute legend in that situation" is widely appreciated. That doesn't mean we want to model our own time on their examples, or revere them.

There's so much Little t can be criticized for; this is the smallest of potatoes, and he certainly had nothing to do with it.

What nobody has yet mentioned is that redoing the thermal paste is dead simple, and doesn't carry any significant risk.

Make sure you're grounding yourself by touching the metal case frequently. Open the case, unclip the CPU fan, clean the old paste off with isopropyl alcohol and a lint-free wipe (both the fan and CPU). Use as high a concentration of alcohol that you can lay hands on, and eyeglass wipes and gun cleaning patches are lint free. While the fan is off, hold the blade still and blow off all the dust with some canned air. Dab of thermal paste, between the size of a grain of rice and a pea, right in the middle of the CPU. Don't spread it. Clamp the fan back on, done and done.

As long as you're taking the fan off, might be worth investing in a new fan at the same time.

I mean, I see that you did, but he also didn't "extend sanctions," The Treasury Department extended sanction exclusions, very likely just as a matter of course to keep whatever agreements had previously been made in order.

What would please me more would be not posting false titles in the first place, because people are easily misled, whether that happens accidentally or purposefully. Facts matter.

So there's a whole "Hitler" thing in India. In addition to what that author says, I have to think that it also has something to do with Hitler being against Britain, famous occupier of India, who only left in 1947.

Nope. Nope nope nope. Title is simply wrong.

(d) Effective June 27, 2025, General License No. 115A, dated January 10, 2025, is replaced and superseded in its entirety by this General License No. 115B.

115A is found here. That one does the exact same thing, and supersedes "General License No. 115, dated December 18, 2024" - which does the exact same thing, except only for GazPromBank.

All 115B does is extend the existing sanction exclusions - which were implemented during Biden's term - to December 19, 2025.

So yeah, reading is fundamental.

Pritzker is good, as evidenced by the "Pritzker sucks" signs found across rural Illinois. My concern would be who would replace him as governor.

Soviet Union ... Maoist ...

Uhh

So I learned something yesterday, from someone who is in the world of research.

The trope about researchers spending most of their time applying for grants is no joke. Universities don't pay researchers; the researchers get paid from the grant money they receive. If they also have a teaching position, they might get a tiny tiny bit from the university, but that's it.

So when federal grants get halted, there's a whole bunch of people who do important research basically put out of work immediately. The kicker is that a fair amount of the research being funded is ongoing research, where if you just "stop doing it," all the previous work is ruined. Because there's a lot of things you can't just stop, put on a shelf, and restart later.

Little t's war on universities is more serious than you might think.

We are all playing in a World of Darkness game on this glorious day.

“/s not /s”