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Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.

You can pause Stardew by bringing up the menu.

Make the data centers build their own power plants. Then they get all the risk and all the reward.

Make them put the power plant right next to the data center, that way they’re not stressing out the rest of the grid. And that way the exact same community that gets the benefits of hosting the data center also gets the environmental costs of the power plant.

I beg to differ: spez has ruined reddit for everyone.

The story notes that the pool was near in size to the car. That would mean that, regardless of water pressure, you wouldn’t be able to open the doors. My next try would be the windows but it’s possible that it was such a tight fit that they wouldn’t be able to get out the windows either.

My next option would be to pull down the back seat, exit into the trunk, and use the interior trunk release to exit the trunk. However, that also may not have worked, depending on whether the car’s weight was on the trunk (preventing you from exiting the trunk), or whether there was enough room along the back or sides of the trunk (preventing you from making your way to the surface).

My final option would be to try to kick out the windshield and exit there. I’m sure many people would try it earlier; my assumptions are that the weight of the engine would be holding the front of the car closer to the bottom of the pool; that momentum carried the front of the car close to/into the edge of the pool, limiting space to exit that way; that front airbags may make the exit awkward; and that a possibly shattered windshield and crumpled front of the car make exiting through the windshield a more dangerous route.

Other than those options, I’m not sure what you could do.

If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they’re going to patch it, I’d like to read about it :)

Not a direct answer to your question, but: the sun (like the earth) has areas that are more “geologically” active; those areas tend to throw out solar flares. As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.

Currently, we’re just slightly past solar maximum. For the past year or so, the “more active” part of the sun has been roughly facing earth and intermittently spitting out solar flares. When these flares hit the earth’s atmosphere, they cause auroras (which is why we’ve had so many auroras these past couple years) and can interfere with electronic and electrical equipment (see: the Carrington event).

I have no details on what l the exact damage that was caused by the interference the plane suffered, nor any knowledge of how they plan to address the issue. But whatever they come up with is going to take some time to develop - and we’re moving away from solar maximum so being hit with a massive flare is increasingly less likely - at least for another decade. My suspicion is that they’ll come up with a “solution” that actually may not work very well, but it works well enough to give the impression that they’re doing something - and it’ll look like it’s working to some extent, simply because the active side of the sun is rotating away from us.

she was led around the Tuileries gardens answering questions for a long time, with the entire interview process lasting several hours.

Even if you hadn’t been drugged with a diuretic, this would be hard.

The CGT culture trade union said: “[…] there is a systemic problem, which enabled a senior civil servant to act like this for a decade.” The union said other staff had previously made allegations against him, accusing him of taking pictures of women’s legs in meetings.

It always starts small, as they see what they can get away with. They knew there was some kind of problem with him, yet they let him continue for over a decade.

women in the job interview drugging investigation said their case was taking too many years to come to trial, only increasing their trauma. “Six years later, we’re still waiting for a trial […] For us, it feels like we’re being victimised a second time.”

And now it’s been another six years for these women, waiting for any kind of justice. If I’d spent sixteen years waiting, I’d be angry too.

I remember during his first term, when he was tweeting outrageous random shit in the middle of the night, and every morning I woke up with a feeling of existential dread over whatever shit he would’ve come up with overnight.

Lmao, I wouldn’t put it past them to screw it up like that again …

Covert operations expected to be first step […] The United States plans on Monday to designate the Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization […] The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading Cartel de los Soles, […] Washington in August doubled its reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest to $50 million. But U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that the terrorist designation “brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States.”

… Are they publicly announcing that they’re planning to assassinate the head of a foreign government?!

[he] addressed the “immense” energy needs of AI, acknowledging that the intensive energy requirements of expanding AI ventures have caused slippage on Alphabet’s climate targets. However, Pichai insisted that the company still wants to achieve net zero by 2030 through investments in new energy technologies. “The rate at which we were hoping to make progress will be impacted,” Pichai said, warning that constraining an economy based on energy “will have consequences.”

We need “line go up” so badly, we’re willing to bake the planet.

“We will have to work through societal disruptions,” he said, adding that the technology would “create new opportunities” and “evolve and transition certain jobs.”

Someone once described AI as “a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth”.

“The government does not announce that they have become fascist. They announce that anti-fascists are the enemy.”

He made a post on reddit like five years ago, doing a brain dump on various features and stuff.

I’m not going to bother looking up DC misdemeanor law, but in many places the judgement of guilt is done by the jury and the assessment of penalty is done by the judge.

Yeah, don’t care.

Time used to be a respectable magazine. These days it just seems like anyone can submit and “publish” there.

Interestingly, NewsMax refused before Fox did.

I edited everything before deleting it, double-checked it was still deleted periodically, and it all got restored sometime earlier this year.

Wikipedia says

“A Kumari is a prepubescent girl selected from the Shakya clan of the Nepali Newari Buddhist community. It is believed that the girl is possessed by the goddess Taleju or Durga. When her first menstruation begins, it is believed that the deity vacates her body. […] While there are several Kumaris throughout Nepal, with some cities having several, the best known is the Royal Kumari of Kathmandu. […] her life takes on an entirely new character. She will leave her palace only on ceremonial occasions. Her family will visit her rarely, and then only in a formal capacity. Her playmates will be drawn from a narrow pool of Newari children from her caste, usually the children of her caretakers.”

Uh, what becomes of these poor girls once they reach puberty? I’m guessing they get married off to some well-connected old, rich person. It seems such a sad life :(

Why is there a pile of clothing there?