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Bonus points if you work in the medical field!

https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Nedry

Dennis Theodore[1] Nedry was the main antagonist during the first half of the original Jurassic Park film. He was a computer programmer at Jurassic Park. Due to his financial problems and low salary, he accepted a bribe from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island.

In both the film and the novel, he is slain by a Dilophosaurus. He was directly responsible for the events that happened in both the novel and film. A combination of factors led to his demise: despite working in a career around dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, he had a limited knowledge of them, and greed, which was intertwined by desperation to pay off his debt collectors and make himself rich after that.

You people.

While true, I would point out that the low mortgage rates that increased housing prices --- low mortgage rates permit people to borrow more and tends to drive up prices --- in the decade-and-a-half before 2022 was unusual for the US. Prior to about 2008, interest rates were at or higher than they are today.

Here's a graph of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

Here's the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. This measures same-home prices --- that it, it attempts to factor out changes in types of home being built, so new homes being larger won't drive it up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPISA

It's not adjusted for inflation, though.

Here's an inflation-adjusted graph:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-vs-inflation/

Between about 2011 and 2022, the real price of a given house rose rapidly in a low mortgage rate environment. In 2022, mortgage rates returned to something that's more historically-normal.

I expect that to sell a house in this environment, a homeowner will probably have to cut what they're asking.

Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear."

looks dubious

I can believe that most people want something that they consider stylish. However, I'm skeptical that most people specifically want something to look like existing stuff. Clothing has shifted a lot over the years and centuries; it's not as if every person putting something on their body said "it has to look like the stuff that's come before", or present-day vision equipment would look like this:

Or this:

I'm assuming that you're guessing "female"?

https://sexualityandthecity.com/2016/11/26/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-than-men/

In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston. His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the Sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years.

Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.

IIRC, border agents do have some expanded authority within a certain distance of the border, and that might affect some of California, but not Los Angeles.

kagis

Ahhh. Apparently water borders count. Doesn't need to be a land border.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-border-patrol-internal-arrests-3f37f3ad15a31f2f1b7c57def9f2c055

Agents are granted by federal law the ability to stop and question people within 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the border, including the coasts. They have heightened authority to board and search buses, trains and vessels without a warrant within the zone.

That encompasses vast swaths of the country that include about two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Los Angeles is well within 100 miles of the Pacific Ocean.

You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there's some time delay until you're no longer bound by the terms. You can't just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn't be very meaningful.

EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here's the treaty text on withdrawal:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.44_convention%20antipersonnel%20mines.pdf

Article 20

Duration and withdrawal

1. This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.
2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.
3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.
4. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.

Oh, that's interesting. Didn't know about that.

I don't think that there's a way to list instances that a PieFed instance has defederated from, unlike Lemmy; while both have a list of instances at /instances, only Lemmy indicates which ones have been defederated from. It was a helpful tool to help me guess the sort of content an instance had.

Like:

https://lemmy.world/instances (under "Blocked Instances")

https://piefed.world/instances

EDIT: It does show the last time that the instance sent data, and I guess you could sort of guess that if a large instance that probably has activity hasn't sent data to the PieFed instance recently --- like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net on piefed.world --- then they're probably defederated. But it doesn't clearly indicate that this is the case, either.

ragingHungryPanda

And poop while I was doing it.

looks skeptical

Bamboo is pretty fibrous.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/18/puritans-and-sex-myth/

Debunking the Myth Surrounding Puritans and Sex

The Puritans weren't prudish. In fact, they were passionate.

From the beginning, Puritans maintained sexual intercourse was necessary for procreation, but also asserted sex was an important way for couples to bond in a loving relationship.

“They talk about the duty to desire, that you’re supposed to engage in intercourse with your married partner and that this is good,” says Bremer. “There will actually be some people in early New England who are censured by the church because they have deprived their married partner of sex for three months or more and this is seen as bad.”

I don't think the Puritans had any issue with pregnant people having sex.

Expect a bunch of people in comments who will deliberately recommend default Arch

Arch

Any of them that use the Arch repos directly are probably fine. Don’t use Manjaro.

Manjaro or Endeavour.

Just base arch

Garuda

Steamos

Artix + OpenRC

CachyOS

EndeavourOS and nothing else.

I suppose that pretty much covers the full gamut.

EDIT: Here's the Linux distro family tree:

https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases

It lists 19 still-living Arch-based distros. Disregarding category-based recommendations and looking only at explicitly-named recommendations, as of this writing, you've explicitly been recommended 7 so far, or over a third of what exist. :-)

How to look it up:

        M-x org-mode RET


  

That's "Meta-X" (Alt-X), then "org-mode" and Enter, switches the major mode of the current buffer to org-mode so that we have the org-mode keybindings active.

        C-h k C-c C-x C-l


  

C-h, Control-H, is the "help" prefix. "C-h k" is describe-key, tells you what a given key sequence runs. C-h k C-c C-x C-l will say what C-c C-x C-l does. It gives the following output:

        C-c C-x C-l runs the command org-latex-preview (found in
    org-mode-map), which is an interactive native-comp-function in
    ‘org.el’.

    It is bound to C-c C-x C-l.

    (org-latex-preview &optional ARG)

    Toggle preview of the LaTeX fragment at point.

    If the cursor is on a LaTeX fragment, create the image and
    overlay it over the source code, if there is none.  Remove it
    otherwise.  If there is no fragment at point, display images for
    all fragments in the current section.  With an active region,
    display images for all fragments in the region.

    With a ‘C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear images for all fragments
    in the current section.

    With a ‘C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, display image for all
    fragments in the buffer.

    With a ‘C-u C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear image for all
    fragments in the buffer.

  

I mean there’s the EWMM, emacs based windows manager. So it can absolutely do anything.

Nobody's made a Wayland compositor running in emacs yet, just an X11 window manager!

EDIT: Okay, apparently they have, ewx, but unlike EXWM, it's not really in a usable state.

And edit videos.

https://www.nongnu.org/gneve/

This has a raven:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1c91nyu/a_raven_is_crowned_in_tictactoe/

A 1920 pre-European-Union proposal to partition Europe into a set of radial political divisions centered on Vienna. I saved it to submit it to !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz as part of a larger thread.

Higher resolution version.

Motorcycles are legal in the US.

I don't know if I'd call it a favorite, but Time Cube is pretty iconic of Internet zaniness for a certain period. It went down in 2015, a decade ago now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecube.com/index.html