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Genuinely not trying to start a political firestorm, but I'm curious - did these same scientists bring up similar concerns in any previous elections?

I'm a firm believer of absolutely no electronic voting machines. In-person, paper ballots, hand tallied, escorted by armed guards/trusted election officials with audited paper trails. It might cause a bit of a ruckus mentioning it here, but requiring photo ID to verify who you are before you vote should be mandatory as well.

If Israel and the USA can deploy offline-based malware to cause damage to nuclear centrifuges in Iran, what makes people think that US-unfriendly countries (or heck, even the CIA) won't try to do the exact same thing to voting machines to undermine democracy?

I wouldn't even trust open source, since I wouldn't trust election officials to keep software up to date on their voting machines, let alone know how to even update them.

MikroTik has been a bit of a behind the scenes player in networking since the beginning - at least in western markets. Even though I don't work in the networking field as much anymore I always look at their product release newsletters and am surprised at the price to performance their equipment provides with new interesting features.

I'm really not sure what a "Cloud-Native" processor is - will be interesting to see what comes of this partnership though!

There's a bottom of the barrel, dollar store brand under the Betty Crocker name brand in Canada - all black plastic cooking utensils, cheapest you can get in all varieties.

Every time I go over to mom's place it's so shocking to see these utensils being used for high heat applications they were never meant to be used for.

Flipping burgers in a pan, moving fries on a baking sheet - the ends of them are all warped and disfigured, bits carved out of them from scraping something and a piece of plastic chips off and ends up in the food.

Same with the pots and pans, she's been using the same teflon coated set for the better part of a decade and to her it doesn't matter that there's a spiral from the stovetop element burned into the inside of the pot where the teflon's overheated and chipped off.

I've tried buying her new pots and pans, utentils, etc. and educating her about how much plastic and teflon she has (and by extension I have) been eating over the years but it's in one ear and out the other.

We really need to stop making plastic cooking utentils. I've moved mostly to glass or metal bowls for storing, microwaving, baking foods - silicone for utensils (which I've heard is still somewhat risky even though it's inert?)

Microplastics are the leaded gasoline of my generation it seems like.

I hope they include Amazon's practice of taking popular products on their storefront, making generic "Amazon Basics" versions, and selling them to undercut the popular options. Simultaneously owning a marketplace, approving who can and can't sell products on it, and then putting your own products on it to undercut other sellers is so scummy and muck rake-y.

I hope they also include Amazon allowing thousands of Chinese retailers to stock Amazon's warehouses with counterfeit, faulty products, and potentially dangerous out-of-spec parts - with no way to meaningfully report or bring the offending product to Amazon's attention.

It's a bit difficult to figure out what specifically the guy was being arrested for and I had to re-read the article 2-3 times.

Looks like the main charges are due to violating the Lacey Act multiple times - shipping the hybrid sheep domestically while labelling them as "pure" sheep, while also conspiring to import embryos/sperm of the Marco Polo Goat (central asian) goat, also illegal without permits/procedures.

If the guy was younger, I'd assume he'd be getting at least football numbers in prison given how long the business was running, etc.

The typical Broadcom revenue extraction has struck again!

Just another example of a greedy company like Broadcom buying up companies, jacking up prices to extract profit, while the employees and VMWare clients suffer.

10x price increase - my goodness.

I would always store/re-use the thin plastic grocery bags for trashbins, storage bags for miscellaneous things/junk, etc. etc.

Yeah, we probably collected too many over time, and then got fed up and shoved the mass of plastic bags from the drawer into the garbage and into the landfills.

The new plastic ones, I always forget to bring, end up buying 2-3 new ones for $1.25 each - which I'm sure the store has a decent margin on - and then they sit in the house - too "nice" to be used for garbage or any other purposes, so they sit there and eventually get thrown out.

And then you have the previous generation, who moved from paper to plastic to save the environment - whether that was a lobbying campaign from "big oil" to use more plastic, or a well intentioned grassroots movement that grew to make big change.

So now we're back to paper. I wonder if I'll live long enough for a new revolutionary material to come to market and we quickly move to replace the current material. (hemp fiber bags maybe?)

The videos I've seen definitely look like it was more than a battery explosion - very high energy...

Wondering if the pagers were intercepted and implanted with heat-sensitive explosive?

The NSA has planted custom chips/firmware inside cisco routers after intercepting them - it's not a large jump to go to explosives inside pagers.

ACE 3-4. Not very satisfied at all.

I find it hard to call what I went through "trauma" when compared to other situations people have posted - they definitely had it a lot harder than I had. It's hard to not compare your upbringing compared to other and minimize your trauma.

Anxiety, Depression, ADHD. Verbally and occasionally physically abusive father, with an emotionally absent mother and an intellectually/mentally disabled brother. If I had to draw a comparison - it was like being a kid in a family where the parents should have divorced decades ago but stayed together "for the kids".

I never felt comfortable with bringing anything about my life up with either of my parents as they'd fight and argue all the time, and they'd never really _listen_ to me when I had problems. So I absorbed myself in the internet on the computer I was given one Christmas when I was 9 years old. Not a healthy environment for a kid - 4chan, porn, etc. all had their effects on me.

Now I'm looking back through all the arguments, all the fights, all the emotional breakdowns I had, all the gaslighting, all the lies, manipulation tactics, etc. and I can't help but be depressed about it - so many times I passed the guidance councilor's office at school and thought "man, I could just walk in there and say my dad yells at us all the time, and my life could have been much different". So many times I wanted to do things but I was just too scared and didn't have a person in my life to support me.

Personally, I wouldn't say I'm successful - though that's probably because of my lack of motivation. I work remotely for a larger IT firm in eastern Canada and make okay money (Canadian economy taken into consideration), but I struggle so much with pushing myself and goal setting, time management, etc. I was never able to figure out what I really wanted to do because I was living life for my parents and not for me.

I struggle with social situations because I don't feel valued. It's hard for me to make friends (especially when you're in your late 20's early 30's), I feel like everyone has moved on with their lives and I'm still stuck here the way I'll always be - the party's over and I'm standing at the empty bar, getting in the way of the cleaners vacuuming up the floors of confetti for a party I showed up to 10 minutes before it ended.

As I get older I'm coming more and more to terms with the idea that I'll never be in any kind of relationship and/or have kids because of how messed up I am mentally - I push people away from me when they try to get close because I'm horrified of rejection. Biological clock ain't getting any younger either. I never know what to say or how to interpret things in conversation - doc says it's from my inexperience, but part of me wonders if it's a hint of Autism that's undiagnosed.

To avoid this being even more of a somewhat glorified trauma dump - for anybody else reading these situations, if you're suffering from trauma, please get help if possible. I hope there are free or low-cost options wherever you live, whether a phone hotline, support groups, etc.

You don't get to take the easy way out while the rest of us have to stay behind and suffer! ;-) /s

I would hope the individual that produced the antibody is well rewarded for what their body did.

Unless this antibody is somehow similar across all antibodies created as a reaction to an infection - that single patient should get a part of the profits from all vaccines/treatments derived from the antibody made in their body - it's only fair if their "work" is part of making vaccines that are then sold to others globally on a wide scale.

Then again, this is the medical industrial complex, so I'm sure they'll find a way to justify not reimbursing the patient. Unless I'm mistaken?

It's honestly mindboggling.

You're moving a four-wheeled vehicle down an aisle, with enough room for 2, maybe 2.5 cart widths. Yet people decide to stop right in the center without considering that they might be blocking someone.

But I'm the jerk if I point it out.

People are so silly (myself included)

I wonder if you're fairly compensated by the police department for your time without your vehicle, just because you told the police you don't want to give them access to your Tesla.

Plus the time to go down to the station to pick your car up, because you know they're not going to courier it back to you.

Plus any accidental damage done to the vehicle because an officer/towing company/whoever damages your vehicle during the tow/seizure of your property.

I doubt it.

Tesla should respond by making it harder/impossible for law enforcement to retrieve the data off the drive - maybe encryption at rest only unlockable with your tesla keyfob or phone connection, etc. etc.

If it helps you at all - you're definitely not alone with this, I'm going through the same "existential crisis" of sorts in my 30s.

The internet and the variety of content and dopamine sources are horrible for some people who have ADHD, myself included. So much time wasted last decade going down the rabbithole on Youtube, Wikipedia, video games, etc. with deep regrets of missing out on more important things in life like networking, socializing, trying new things, etc. Not sure if you feel that way as well.

Even with long-term medication (Vyvanse)- which I have my own personal reservations about if they really "work" or not - I still struggle with this daily.

If you're looking/asking for advice - for me, I've found that taking drastic, meaningful actions help. "ripping the bandaid off", if you're familiar with that phrase.

I've unplugged my gaming PC, threw the power cord in the trash, and challenged myself to go as long as I could without it. I purchased a lower-end laptop and dock to plug into to still have dual monitors. It's not powerful enough to play the games I want to play which was the point, but I could still run VS Code to work with Python, Javascript, spin up webservers to play around, etc.

I ended up lasting a couple of weeks before purchasing a new power cord - but I did learn to remember that I do like programming/scripting.

The lack of self-control/willpower sucks. It would be nice if there were ADHD life coaches that didn't cost an arm and a leg.

Amazing.

Bing's AI told me a picture of a (what I now know) stinging nettle in my backyard was a hemp plant - I gave it several different pictures at different angles, and it was confident it was hemp.

So I cracked the stem, touched the liquid inside, wiped sweat off my forehead - and eventually stinging, swelling, burning sensation on my hands and forehead.

I asked Google AI and it correctly identified it as a stinging nettle plant the first time.

Amusingly enough, I told Bing AI it was wrong, it's actually stinging nettle, and I have been physically harmed by your response - it immediately ended the chat, didn't go on further to say anything like "here's some help, call poison control, here's some remedies", literally NOTHING. (though, if it's messed up this much, i don't think I'd ask for further help from it!)

AI is a toy - it's not ready for any real use or identification purposes. It's a shame that these companies are so strapped for cash they're rushing like madmen to deploy this new "forefront" of technology that they don't stop to think that they're inadvertently hurting people because of their decisions.

It's sad, someone is going to do something potentially even more dangerous and risky, trusting the AI's that these companies make, they'll get even more hurt (or die!) and these companies will still be able to hide behind "it's the algorithm!", or "you saw the disclaimer!"

And the politicians will keep allowing this to happen because shareholders and money.

I would assume this would be somewhat concerning for anybody investing in crypto.

Correct me if I'm misguided - I'm not an economist, let alone a crypto-economist - I would assume the price of a bitcoin would go up as the mining rewards get fewer and fewer, but with Bitcoin being "tied" in a sense with traditional currencies, I wonder how much of a effect the lowering mining rewards would have compared to other global economic factors.

Is this the kind of event where investors/holders hit critical mass where they start selling off their Bitcoin, leaving a bunch of bag-holders? Or, will the idea of having scarcity keep the currency going? I somewhat understand that the USD was a gold-backed currency before, which I would think (again, not an economist), keep the value of the currency more stable, compared to the system we have now? I'm curious if there's any parallels between the old "gold standard" and limited availability of crypto like Bitcoin.

Very interesting. I've always wanted to play around with crypto stuff but haven't sat down and given it a decent go.

The anecdote of walking into a flooded band room to unplug a submerged power bar is uhh.... "shocking" to say the least.

I would never walk over to a live, submerged power bar to unplug it. Especially with your feet in the water. Very risky.

Putting corrections in a link that nobody realistically sees or cares about is not publicly apologizing.

It's hiding your mistakes because realistically 99% of the population who reads news doesn't care about the corrections.

Nobody seeks out corrections and clarifications.

Nobody meaning, 99% of the population that reads news.

This really reads like a badly disguised hit piece against Elon, doesn't it?

The guy posted something he thought was real, then deleted it when it turns out it wasn't.

Then the writer goes on to mention he "hasn't apologized" and "continues sharing material criticizing the UK government and law enforcement authorities' responses to the riots".

Why does he need to apologize? Oh no, he made a mistake - going by that logic, the Guardian's owners should publicly apologize to all their readers if they get anything wrong. I doubt they do. I would assume they put little "addendums" underneath articles - knowing full well that anybody who has already read the article isn't going back to read it a second time to check for corrections.

And then they list further "hit-piece-y" tidbits about criticisms about how he's run the platform, how companies have decided to leave, how he's suing advertisers...

I don't like the guy for his attitude and demeanor, but come on, it's so clear this was written by someone who needed to get an article out before a deadline.

Is the Guardian located in the same place the riots are happening? It would make more sense I guess, since the riots are affecting the publisher directly, but still...?

It's a shame they had to roll what was once a cool promotional program to encourage you to shop at CT into something that pushes credit cards and debt.

I still have some bills from the late 90's early 2000's when I was in Canada travelling and needed to pick up some cheap camping gear. I thought it was cool that they came in such low denominations (5c, 10c, 25c, probably more).

Seems very very silly to fight this unless you're sure you have damning, concrete evidence that companies are colluding to not advertise on Twitter. Like, many emails between advertisers saying "we're all deciding not to spend money on Twitter" - and even then, I'd think it's entirely in their collective rights to do that.

Or, you have a lot of money to spend and want to try and set some sort of precedent to hopefully end the hypocritical attitudes of these companies. Who knows - there might already be precedent and the droves of internet hacks giving their uninformed opinions (including me!) will be proven wrong?

It's humorous to see companies deciding to throw millions of dollars around to drape themselves in rainbow colors in the west, while simultaneously zipping their lips in other countries who don't share the same sentiment.

It's the attitude of "if it'll make us money, then we'll do it, but if it maybe possibly might result in fewer customers, it's not worth it".

Bring back smaller companies and shatter mega corporations into thousands of individual pieces.

It's amazing how there are systems that exist to ideally take care of your citizens, which result in people having their limbs amputated and their quality of life vastly decreased because "we just don't do that here" - it's an attitude of "well, at least you're breathing".

If it wasn't for that medical student, that man wouldn't have been able to walk ever again.

I hope this method of treatment gains widespread adoption - I'm not familiar with the NHS, is this type of thing common, where innovative treatments like this take forever to be adopted into their system?

I think it was Louis Rossmann who tested out some automotive fuses purchased from Amazon to see if the fuses were actually rated for what was printed on the label.

I believe the fuses _failed to fail_ when running amperages higher than what was written on the fuses themselves. Hopefully someone can clarify, my memory is a bit dodgy.

Amazon should be liable for the products they sell on their market place. They should not be able to absolve themselves of all liability just because they're a "facilitator" of these marketplaces.

They have the ability to manipulate reviews, manipulate what products you see in your search queries, etc. etc. They're culpable in some way as well - since theoretically, if they're manipulating search and reviews, then they must be vetting the products in some way, right?

I do not have recourse via the law for the thousands of VONEO, ARKANEL, POESLLE, BUSSUE companies that crop up every day to sell the same products that may or may not be following well-adopted standards.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm hoping we see less potentially dangerous and less counterfeit products on Amazon and other online retailers as a result of this.

It's either go through a doctor, get a prescription and have it covered in some capacity by insurance, or I go order from a third-party/online solution and pay hundreds of dollars for something I desperately want, but won't be able to sustain financially because insurance won't cover treatments without a prescription.

I've already depressedly resigned myself to going bald - my hair is too far gone to have any medication or treatment give any meaningful amount of restoration.

I hope there's a cure for hair loss but it's too late for me.

My doctor doesn't want to prescribe me finasteride or deuteroxide because of the negative health side effects, even though I was persistent. I was told by my doctor to "come to terms with it" because he's bald.

Guess what, you're a doctor buddy, you'll be attractive to anybody you talk to.

I'm just a lonely IT guy with no life and no social prospects, so any leg up to keep my sanity would have been appreciated - oh well, hope the next life bears fruit

I really wish we find out the root causes of ADHD - I believe it's a mix of genetic predisposition and upbringing to control symptoms. It looks like this research brings us a step closer.

I've heard of the kooks that put electrodes on their scalp and apply voltage to "overclock" their brains - maybe there's something to that, but with a more controlled, pharmaceutical and scientific process behind it. Provide minor stimulation to the claustrum and you end up getting more restful sleep, etc. (not to say that long-term use won't burn your brain matter out!!)

It's been such a negative thing for me, even with support systems, medication, etc.

Even if I can't be cured/helped, making sure future generations will never need to suffer as negatively as some do with the downsides of this disorder would be a great step for society.

I'm not a camera enthusiast - but are these cameras still "worth it" to go through all the effort for their qualities, or is this closer to a vintage computer enthusiast just cracking away at something because it's a challenge?

Very interesting route to go through to get the camera working again!

If the Internet Archive makes a whoopsie with loaning out books they didn't have the license or permission to and gets sued into the ground by publishers, then OpenAI shouldn't have been/be allowed to use and process copyrighted material either.

OpenAI is actively receiving money from funders and (potentially, maybe, eventually will) make money by using others' copyrighted content at a much larger potential than what the Internet Archive was doing.

OpenAI should not have permission to soullessly suck up copyrighted material and use it to make money.

On the other hand, other countries who don't place ethical/moral/fiscal priority on creating and protecting copyrighted works will eat the wests' lunch when it comes to AI as there's no limitation that's preventing them from consuming the content.

Not sure what the answer is - maybe copyright is an archaic idea/belief built and maintained by a once well-intended, now corrupted economic system that needs a bit of a shakeup anyways...

I swear there's something special about the cooking that isn't anything to do with skill and knowledge.

Sometimes it's the person who bakes is what makes food extra special.

My grandmother would always be the one to make fancy prepared sandwiches with all kinds of fillings, for all kinds of events - birthdays, anniversaries, church events, funerals... - when she passed a couple decades ago, something unseen and unspoken changed. Even though we try to keep family traditions around, things just don't feel quite the same as they once did.

It's depressing to see companies just throw out literal tons of UPS devices when all they need is 10 minutes and a 40 dollar battery, because it's cheaper to buy a new one instead of paying a guy to bring the batteries and install them in all the UPS devices.

Lots of e-waste - but thankfully there's people like in the article that repurposes them into more useful devices!