wanderingmagus

@ wanderingmagus @lemmy.world

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3 yr. ago

www.fau.eu /2015/07/20/news/research/carnivorous-plants-attract-bats-with-echo-reflectors/

2y ago

Carnivorous plants attract bats with echo reflectors

2y ago

Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws

How about polar bears?

2y ago

Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term

Fortunately or not, both the UK and France have thermonuclear teeth to bite back if the totally-not-a-Tsar tries. And as far as the UK goes, it's the same thermonuclear warheads, missiles and submarines as the USA, using the same procedures and with the same capabilities.

2y ago

SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government

It's not necessarily imaging as in optics. Could be OPIR, encrypted comms, space to space ASAT, or any number of other things besides just earth imaging.

2y ago

What would you bring to an adult show and tell?

Those are amazing!

2y ago

Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG

Not The Onion @lemmy.world

Maybe they're talking about the fediverse or something? Idk.

www.wonkette.com /p/women-of-distinction-award-named

2y ago

"Women of Distinction" award named for Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Sly Stallone

2y ago

stan teachers unions

It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.

2y ago

stan teachers unions

Force of habit from almost a decade in the Navy, it's a term of "endearment" that was intended by politicians and bureaucrats to be a "polite" term that can be universally applied regardless of rank, but is usually applied out of exasperation when actual insult isn't warranted. Apologies for the unfamiliar term.

2y ago

stan teachers unions

Shipmate, I'm pointing out that the system as it already stands is pretty much exactly as shit as they say it would become should the situation change. Each attempt to merely increase wages here and there is like putting a bandage on a gangrenous wound or a tumor, instead of realizing that the tumor itself needs to be surgically removed for all these symptoms - the American prison system, for-profit childcare, normalized hunger as a punishment for poverty and so on - to be actually treated. Believe it or not, I'm on your side.

2y ago

stan teachers unions

How about

parents would have to pay for daycare, children would go without lunch, etc.

? Are parents not already forced to pay for daycare, children not already going without lunch?

Edit:formatting

2y ago

Starbucks accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act by charging extra for non-dairy

Pihole might help?

2y ago

stan teachers unions

"Without them" implied that with them (status quo) the consequences listed would not be occurring.

Technology @lemmy.world

www.theguardian.com /technology/2024/mar/16/instagram-meta-lotte-rubaek-adviser-quits-failure-to-remove-self-harm-content-

2y ago

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content

News @lemmy.world

www.theguardian.com /technology/2024/mar/16/instagram-meta-lotte-rubaek-adviser-quits-failure-to-remove-self-harm-content-

2y ago

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content

2y ago

Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit

Something something high seas something jellyfin

2y ago

Anon notices what they've taken from us

And which of the changes he listed would the 95% figure you mentioned care about? By your definition, short of literally turning each feature into a micro transaction, there's no such thing as user unfriendly changes - and knowing the general public, not even then.

2y ago

Physics

But that's never how magic is depicted - it always takes decades of knowledge and learning or powerful enchanted artifacts forged from rare minerals and materials, and rituals which always name a price.

Modern magic can do all those things - if you have the right artifacts, likewise made of precious metals forged by lightning and etched with beams of sunfire and inlaid with gemstones from beyond the sea, fuelled by the ichor alchemically distilled from the remnants of ancient forests and carefully assembled by entire courts of white-robed magi who have each spent decades perfecting their deep knowledge of ritual and arcane lore.

With these artifacts, I can incinerate an entire room with a twitch of my finger upon a staff of fire summoning, read minds with a helm of probing, lightning people with a tiny wand of stunning, and conjure familiar from across the world to do my bidding on my black mirror for the small sacrifice of tiny particles of lightning in a distant runestone.

2y ago

stan teachers unions

You mean everything you mention isn't already happening in multiple states?

2y ago

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

Didn't say they weren't entitled to know about it, just the reasoning that might've gone through the government's collective heads when not disclosing or looking the other way on Boeing doing an Epstien.

2y ago

Missouri law bars divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence

American law

2y ago

'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death

I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid "embarrassing" the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

2y ago

That gourmet luxury blend...