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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You left out one important piece of the Timeless Child plotline: Time Lords were supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, and the writers kept having to find excuses for the Doctor to go past the limit, but the Timeless Child plotline made it so the Time Lords have the limit because they got the regeneration ability from the Doctor, while the Doctor has the ability naturally and has no limit on regenerations. Makes it much easier to keep changing actors, which was probably the point of the whole thing.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The article mostly focuses on the effectiveness of US weapons in the war, but the war has also shown that when the US gets low on munitions, it's "America first", with allies being left to wait:

Estonia's Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur on Monday said the U.S. has paused Estonia's deliveries until the end of the war in Iran, at least. If the conflict lasts for a long time, Estonia may start to reconsider its previous decisions about weapons purchases, he added.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's also a description in real units:

All the heat the Stratos Project emits will add up to another 7 to 8 gigawatts of energy in the form of waste heat.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"Blood-borne diseases" would make more sense, given that you're talking about blood and not sex.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

A Trump company losing lots of money makes a good headline, but this is mostly because crypto is down, not because they're spending more than they're making:

TMTG is also active in financial services, and the company announced US$2.5 billion in funding a year ago to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of Trump’s recent passions.

But the plunge in digital currencies hit this part of the business hard as the price of Bitcoin tumbled from over US$126,000 in early October to below US$70,000 in March.

It has since rebounded somewhat to over US$80,000.

Because the company is required to reveal the value of its investments, even if it hasn’t sold them, it recorded a loss of US$406 million for the first quarter.

“The vast bulk” of the loss was due to digital assets, the company stated.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Technically you're right, but with the court having skewed the system to favour Republicans so much, it will be very difficult to get more people on to the Surpreme Court who want to overrule this one's decisions.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

For those who really like the idea of blocking the sites on that list, the linked github repo also has it formatted for pihole and the like.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, it's still on them.

The voters who initially challenged Louisiana's map asked the justices last week to speed up the usual 32-day period between when a ruling is announced and when the Supreme Court clerk formally passes the decision down to a lower court. They wrote that "time is … of the essence" with this year's elections approaching quickly, and said the issue needs to be returned to the district court so it can "oversee an orderly process" to fix Louisiana's maps.

On Monday, the high court granted that request, writing that the court's typical 32-day wait period is "subject to adjustment" by the justices.

The court broke with the normal timeline to let Louisiana hurry up and do its thing. When, again, December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's unconstitutional map.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 38 points 6 days ago

The Republican justices thought December was too close to the election to do anything about Texas's gerrymandering that favored white poeple/Republicans, but somehow last week wasn't too close to the election to shoot down Louisiana's changes that boosted minorities. That's pretty clearly policy at work, not the law.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Hasn't their AI search always included "expert" advice from Reddit, like eating rocks, and putting glue on pizza?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How dare you imply that a Southern gentleman like Lindsey Graham would be interested in such an act. He'd have to retreat to his fainting couch at the very thought. Is 69ing even legal in the South? My stars!

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

71% have stopped buying physical music, and 70% no longer by hard copies of TV shows and movies.

I'm going to guess that a large chunk of Gen Z never started buying physical media in the first place.

 

Just the three big revenue streams that Houston cancelled — $272.4 million for HST (that benefits those with the money to allow them to be big spenders), $160 million for income tax bracket changes, $40 million for bridge tolls (that primarily benefit people in HRM but have to be made up for by everyone in the province) — add up to $472.4 million.

The cuts save the provincial government just $304.9 million.

With the tolls now gone, the province is budgeting $120.1 million for Halifax Harbour Bridges.

No matter how you slice and dice it all, the fact is that Houston-the-professional-accountant seems to have badly messed up the province’s accounts.

 

While mired in controversy from all sides, the Walt Disney Company has unveiled price hikes for Disney+ and its other streaming services today.

As of October 21, Disney+ will cost up to 20 percent more, depending on the plan you have. Disney+ with ads is increasing from $10 to $12 per month, while the ad-free plan is going from $16 to $19 per month. The annual, ad-free plan will go from $160 to $190.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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