RegularJoe

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[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

“If I had to ignore the truth at that moment for their expediency, I felt like it was the right thing to do,” Robinson said.

Politicians: Lying. It's the right thing to do.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Well, the .deb install is a system install, but an appimage doesn't install to the system, it's in it's own little environment. You likely have a folder like ~/.config/GIMP/3.2/plug-ins/ where GIMP plug-ins live, and if you had a gmic_gimp_qt you could place it there and change the permissions to make it executable, but this is a hunch on my part. Unfortunately, I've never done this, so you might want to ask this in the appropriate Linux forums for Ubuntu, or Debian, or whichever flavor of Linux you're on.

 

 

 

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The leak contains extensive personal data on people accused by tipsters: names, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, license plate numbers, Social Security numbers and criminal histories.

Although P3 says in sales material for clients that “each tipster’s identity will remain anonymous at all times,” personal information from those who shared it is also present throughout the leak.

Both the accused and the accusers. I wonder how much this will impact the Crime Stoppers' information flow. Will the tips dry up, or will the public shrug after yet another data breach?

 

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I'm lazy and chopping it down would take effort. And then what am I going to do with a utility pole? You're asking me to do labor and then think about my actions?

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It starts with libations and food offerings.

Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India[7] and other ancient civilizations.[8] Herodotus mentions that Persian meals featured many desserts, and were more varied in their sweet offerings than the main dishes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert#History

The Romans continued the practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Desserts

back to the main dessert article:

Europeans began to manufacture sugar in the Middle Ages, and more sweet desserts became available.[14] Even then sugar was so expensive usually only the wealthy could indulge on special occasions. The first apple pie recipe was published in 1381;[15] The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Receipts cookbook.[16]

And then there's this guy:

Evidence for the domestication of the cacao tree exists as early as 5300 BP in South America, in present-day southeast Ecuador by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, before it was introduced to Mesoamerica.[8] It is unknown when chocolate was first consumed as opposed to other cacao-based drinks, and there is evidence the Olmecs, the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, fermented the sweet pulp surrounding the cacao beans into an alcoholic beverage.[9][10]

Chocolate was extremely important to several Mesoamerican societies,[11] and cacao was considered a gift from the gods by the Mayans and the Aztecs.[12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#History

Spongebob selling chocolates

Now as to "why before bed"? It's become a practice. But here's the thing: nobody is making you eat a sweet nor at a particular time of day.

In the 80s it was rare to see people drinking water, except for "health food nuts". It was far more common to see soft drinks/sodas. Over the years, society has become more accepting of drinking water. You didn't have "hydrohomies" in the 80s. Be the change you want to see in the world.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

While rare, these are lawyers specializing in lithium battery fires...

The nationally recognized team at Levin Simes represents clients across the country who experience personal injury as a result of lithium battery fires. To schedule a free consultation, speak with an experienced battery explosion accident lawyer at our firm.

https://www.levinsimes.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-fire-statistics

Lithium-ion battery fire statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show 245 fires within 64 waste facilities alone over a seven-year span, which were determined to be caused or likely caused by lithium-ion batteries and lithium metal.

The fires from lithium batteries cited by the EPA cause environmental threats and disruption to regional business, impacting 28 states in all ten EPA regions.

Not only are the threats from fires increasing and jeopardizing manufacturing workers and our environment, but exploding lithium-ion batteries can cause severe and life-changing injuries to consumers. Below, we highlight lithium-ion battery fire statistics and their threat to you.

And even if it's a low chance, it's a chance.

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As I understand, that's a decent analogy.

They have been measured in situ only on Earth and Titan, although they are believed to exist on other planets like Mars.

4 Discussion and Conclusions The recent findings by Cardnell et al. [2016] highlighted the large conductivity differences in the Martian atmosphere depending on solar illumination. Our simulations show that dayside conditions do not allow SR to develop, while nightside conditions, presenting conductivities 2 orders of magnitude lower, do (Figure 1).

To summarize, we report numerical simulations of the SR to be expected at Mars, based on the latest modeling efforts of the Martian atmosphere-ionosphere chemical interactions and properties. The day-night asymmetry was never addressed before in SR studies at Mars, and our study highlights its importance for assessing the main SR parameters.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL071635

I wonder if this sort of data could help in the search for potentially inhabitable planets sometime in the future?

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

ChatGPT isn’t on the team.

Except that when someone pastes “ChatGPT thinks that {wall of AI-generated text}”

That person put ChatGPT on the team. And if there was no human input, the competition is free to use that and mock it word for word. Use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to convince your team that anyone can use that, including your competition, if it is published.

The U.S. Copyright Office’s January 2025 report on AI and copyrightability reaffirms the longstanding principle that copyright protection is reserved for works of human authorship. Outputs created entirely by generative artificial intelligence (AI), with no human creative input, are not eligible for copyright protection.

https://natlawreview.com/article/copyright-offices-latest-guidance-ai-and-copyrightability

[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She's also an author

Her short stories have been published in anthologies and with Mike Resnick, she co-edited Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, an anthology published in 2003.

On July 24, 2008, Ian released autobiography Society's Child (published by Penguin Tarcher), which was positively received.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Ian

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