wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 66%
www.fau.eu
An international team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Greifswald, and Universiti Brunei Drussalam has discovered that Nepenthes hemsleyana – a pitcher plant found in Borneo – uses an echo reflector to attract bats. However, it is not the bats themselves that the plants are after, but their droppings. As the pitcher plants grow in soil that is low in nutrients they need additional fertiliser and the bats’ droppings provide them with vital nutrients. In return, the plants offer the bats the perfect place to sleep inside their pitchers.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
How about polar bears?
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Sounds like you're the goalposts-mover here, shipmate, and it seems the rest of the readers here agree with me. Maybe this place ain't your venue.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Those are amazing!
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Maybe they're talking about the fediverse or something? Idk.
www.wonkette.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13235727 > What in the name of all the Earth and its domains and the heavens above is [this asshattery](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/03/15/ruth-bader-ginsburg-award-backlash/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEwNDc1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzExODU3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTA0NzUyMDAsImp0aSI6IjQ3OWViNTAxLThjODItNDMyYy05ZWNkLWQ0NzM4Mjk0M2Y1OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zdHlsZS9wb3dlci8yMDI0LzAzLzE1L3J1dGgtYmFkZXItZ2luc2J1cmctYXdhcmQtYmFja2xhc2gvIn0.4dLV26vXFDpLbz6MtFwtg7wc_IKzL2kXYJXnO4mjFE4)? > > The family of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is very much up in arms at something called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation over its decision to give a leadership award named after the former Supreme Court justice to *\*drumroll\* … *Elon Musk. > > . . . Oh yeah, Rupert Murdoch is also getting this year’s Leadership Award, along with Martha Stewart (weird but whatever), Michael Milken (what?), and Sylvester Stallone (no, seriously, fucking *what?*). > > . . . The award is all of four years old, and has previously gone to “individual women of prominence.” Did we run out of those or something?
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
It would totally make sense for some sailor to use it that way too after a night on liberty in port, but alas no.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Pihole might help?
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
"Without them" implied that with them (status quo) the consequences listed would not be occurring.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Pretty sure no human lived at the Trinity test site or anywhere else in the test sites where weapons were detonated, especially at the moment of detonation. And I'm pretty sure none have since moved onto those sites either. Hence "inhabited". It's not like we nuked cities and towns.
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13207517 > A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.
www.theguardian.com
A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
Something something high seas something jellyfin
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
You mean everything you mention isn't already happening in multiple states?
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
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.
wanderingmagus 7mo ago • 100%
American law
www.cbsnews.com
The headquarters of the New Orleans Police Department is in such a state of decay that rats are eating drugs in the evidence room, the department's chief said.
dotnet.social
4 panel System32Comics comic 1: "Oh no! The virus is stealing my personal data!" 2: "Free Anti-Virus Software Help!" 3: Free Anti-Virus Software to the rescue! 4: Free Anti-Virus Software is stealing his personal data
www.theverge.com
> Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.
www.nbcnews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11125375 > _“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."_ > > Elon Musk said he is "Jewish by association" during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. > > Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust. > > "I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. ... Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish," the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. "I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association."
zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9227800 > Polish train manufacturer that lost servicing tender programmed train controller to brick itself after train stays for some time in 6 ISP facilities or in 1 their faculity(for testing?) until undocumented button combination is pressed. Some controller versions brick itself after train is idle for 10 days. After news about this became public, manufacturer removed ability to unlock train by button combination. > > Also manufacturer is able to remotely brick train over internet(connected via GSM) at any time. > > Mod wanted ONLY article, so enjoy reading in polish.
taskandpurpose.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8926524 > >Marine veteran Ivan Snook set social media aflame on Sunday after posting that the U.S. military should stop allowing enlisted service members to become officers. > > > > “Mustangs erode the esteem, legitimacy and distinct culture of the officer corps like merchants marrying into the aristocracy,” Snook posted on X. “Nevertheless, we are intent on lowering the standards and reducing military service to being ‘just a job’ asap.” > > What an asshole.
taskandpurpose.com
>Marine veteran Ivan Snook set social media aflame on Sunday after posting that the U.S. military should stop allowing enlisted service members to become officers. > > “Mustangs erode the esteem, legitimacy and distinct culture of the officer corps like merchants marrying into the aristocracy,” Snook posted on X. “Nevertheless, we are intent on lowering the standards and reducing military service to being ‘just a job’ asap.” What an asshole.
