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  • Juli enjoying her private balcony

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  • ah that's good to hear! Glad you aren't being cavalier with your cat's safety. Might be worth keeping an eye on the integrity of that netting nevertheless, it could weaken over time especially as it's exposed to the rain and sun. The plastic coating will obviously protect the wire from rusting, but the plastic might start to deteriorate after a while.

  • Juli enjoying her private balcony

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  • This freaks me out a little bit, is there only that thin plastic netting protecting her from falling? Sure cats don't easily lose their balance, but she could get tangled in some of that loose netting and freak out a bit, then if she did fall, she might not be able to move freely in the air if she's caught up in it, which could hamper her landing ability.

  • Legalising cannabis increases use and addiction, unless it's tightly controlled. New study finds that decriminalising cannabis does not raise use,but profit-driven legalisation increases use and harms

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  • The phenomenon they've identified doesn't seem to be cannabis-specific at all. The finding really seems to be, "capitalism will pursue profits at the expense of customers' well-being".

    Which isn't going to be news to anyone but the most deluded libertarian. It's a great example of why we absolutely need government to impose sensible regulations on business, because otherwise short-term profiteering will win over long-term societal good.

    Cannabis, as it moves from illegal black markets to legitimacy, is just in an interesting position to highlight these kinds of effects.

  • She’s a hottie!

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  • presumably refers to the size of the cannonballs

  • EU to ban airlines from charging parents to sit with their children

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  • I quickly looked into this the other day when the first articles on it appeared. IIRC there's a regulation that states children under a certain age must be accompanied by an adult - and that includes sitting right next to them. Ryanair's policy was to charge the adult the standard "seat booking" extra. Up to 2 kids would then be given seats next to them without additional fees.

    So the problem seems to be that if you're travelling with small children, you *must* pay to book yourself a seat.

    Ryanair were protesting about any change, no surprise there of course, but I suspect they don't really have to waive the booking fee for the adult, rather they could just allow them to not pay to book a seat, and make sure they are allocated one randomly with their children next to them.

    In any case, I'm left wondering if this can be a worthwhile way for the EU to spend its time. Given how much it costs for any large administrative body to do anything, this really doesn't seem like it should be a big priority.

    When you are a parent, there are so many extra costs everywhere, that saving a couple of euros on seat bookings a couple of times a year isn't going to make any significant difference.

  • No papa

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  • Lion doesn't appear to be looking at the cub though. The smug look on the cub's face makes me think this could even be a "my dad's bigger than your dad" type of sitch, where the cub has just shoved a big festering pile of damp leaves into another cub's school bag, and now has run back to dad knowing that fat philistine is way too dumb to try to encourage his own cub to behave like a halfway decent human being lion.

  • Make stolen phones unusable, London's Met Police urges tech giants

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  • Think you missed a joke old boy

  • BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada

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  • The article this post is about includes this:

    "The second-generation Blade battery is also a particularly good fit for the Canadian market. BYD claims it can charge from 10% to 70% in about 5 minutes even at -20°C (-4°F)"

  • South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy

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  • at least we can be pretty sure the text isn't LLM generated - it's so clunky and hard to read 😬

  • I can't see what this people are seeing

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  • If you want to engage with the lemmy community, you can post your content and questions directly on here. Otherwise it feels like self-promotion - like you're trying to drive traffic to your own website for some ulterior reason.

  • Cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients, trial shows

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  • it doesn't mean vaccine, it just means an injection of any kind - at least in the UK

  • EU age verification app announced to protect children online

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  • Ah yes Orban that champion of personal freedoms and heroic warrior against government overreach

  • Claude Code Unpacked: A visual guide of 'What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code'

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  • works fine for me too

  • Has there ever been a Science Age or Revolution? Like the Industrial Revolution or the Romantic Age and so on and so on. Basically where science was in the lead and about all recognized it?

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  • I don't think you'll ever find a scientific consensus which "about all" are in agreement with, and especially so when you look deep into history.

    Take for example the idea of the earth being a floating ball rather than a flat plane. You'll often find people saying that the ancient Greeks knew the world was round often with an implication that everyone used to accept this, it's only in recent times that the flat earth idea has become popular.

    But the reality is that even after Herodotus had done his experiment showing shadows were cast at different angles in different places at the same moment, there was still a large contingent in the scientific community that held on to the idea of a flat earth.

    There was never really even a singular scientific community before the modern age. Just think how slow and difficult it used to be to share ideas and knowledge around the world.

    Then of course there were all the varied religions of the world, where followers will not tolerate interpretations of the world that conflict with their particular set of myths.

    The vast majority of normal people - living in small villages and so on - would never have heard of such experiments and if asked, would almost certainly say the world was flat and how stupid you are for even asking.

  • Do boys who had affectionate mothers growing up become more "gentle"?

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  • I think it's worth making this clear:

    A loving, caring parental home as judged by the child

    If a child feels loved and cared for then they'll likely grow up well adjusted.

    If the parents say they gave their child a loving and caring upbringing but the child disagrees, then I think that suggests something wasn't quite right.

  • Are both of these things mandatory for citizens of a EU nation?

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  • Same as most European countries, Germany has the adversarial system - no jury, just the judge.

    Don't know about elsewhere, but in Germany, for some trials, there are an additional 1 or 2 "lay judges" - non-professional judges from the community.

  • Babies learn to deceive before they can talk, new study finds | Tactics used include denial, feigning deafness, and hiding things

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  • haha yeah there are definitely gray areas! I was thinking of simpler cases, for instance you go into the kitchen where your 15 month has just run, and when they see you, they almost reflexively hide the item they've taken off the worktop behind their back.

    This is what happened to me this week with my granddaughter, the item she'd taken was a banana so she wasn't about to get told off - not that I her granddad would ever tell her off for anything!

  • Babies learn to deceive before they can talk, new study finds | Tactics used include denial, feigning deafness, and hiding things

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  • Guess you don't have kids yet! By 18 months most kids are scooting around the house on their own two feet, but they can't talk very well. They can totally hide things if they think they're about to get told off though.

  • Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however

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  • install synaptic and your basically there man

    What's my basically there man? (Or should I say who is my basically there man?) I don't think I've installed this. Is it like the Linux version of Bonzi Buddy?

    </ smart arse little shit >

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    rollin @piefed.social

    You can't see your own blind spots

  • Games @lemmy.world
    rollin @piefed.social

    Video games, random friend requests, and scammers!