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Also what about plugging a outlet tester into the outlet?
Maybe the fuse is blowing because something is wrong with the outlet?
And yes I thought bosch had been a decent brand, I'm not sure why they were unhappy with them now.
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Conservatives and the False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
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Another YouTuber put Tesla vehicles through a ‘Wile E. Coyote’ wall test with mixed results.
https://www.theverge.com/news/634130/tesla-fsd-wile-e-coyote-youtube-test-cybertruck
People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas
Kyle Paul responds to Mark Rober’s fake wall vs. Tesla FSD / Autopilot test with one of his own.Umar Shakir (The Verge)
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Voice of America staff sue Trump administration for shutting down network
Six Voice of America journalists and a director at its parent agency have sued the Trump administration, alleging its moves to shut down the U.S.-funded network are unconstitutional.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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The photo Global News chose for this article on RFK wanting bird flu to spread, is utterly hilarious
Give that editor a bonus, well played
https://globalnews.ca/news/11090800/bird-flu-rfk-jr-plan/
RFK Jr. says let bird flu ‘go through’ farms. Experts call it ‘dangerous’
As bird flu continues to sweep through poultry farms, United States Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proposing a different approach: let the virus spread.Katie Dangerfield (Global News)
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A local ordinance has banned grass burning because it poisons the air and kills insects, and there are organic waste bins on every corner. Unfortunately, the effect is just the opposite. People who aren't selfish idiots didn't burn grass even before, and the rest burn even more now to show that they aren't obedient sheep and that no one is going to take away their freedom to poison the air for their neighbors.
This graph shows what it does to the #airquality. It immediately jumps from OK to unhealthy.
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@VulcanTourist a citizens arrest is still "you wait here while I call the police". So what do you do when the police laugh it off?
What this last year in the US has taught us (not really taught anybody) is that every law needs to not only ban a thing but NEEDS specific references to who will enforce it and with what minimum penalties.
Otherwise it is selectively enforceable and can be ignored by the rich or stubborn.
my bigger point is still that several laws, big and small, fail because nobody explicitly made enforcement an issue. The law is no place for 'shoulds'. 'Shalls' only. Serious or don't bother.
Now the sarcasm was missed.
@Urban_Hermit The problem with that is, some things cannot practically be enforced. Remember prohibition? Remember the "War on Drugs?" You might catch a few offenders but if the punishment is a slap on the wrist they won't care, and if it's more severe you risk filling prisons with non-violent individuals (or at least they were not violent before going to prison).
The correct answer (and maybe this is what you were going for) is "Don't ban a thing unless it really matters and a very significant majority of the people agree with the ban". And, I might add, don't make bans for political reasons or so that some bureaucrat or politician can feel like he accomplished something, people will always oppose those bans.
In early 90s my father built a summer house on his old family property in countryside. When he was applying for a waste bin, his neighbors told him that it was waste of money, "you have a stream behind the house, just dump it there, and the next big water will take it away", it was normal there back then. My sister lives there now and no one would even think of it any more. The stream is clean, even trout and cancers are back. And no ordinance was needed.
Microplastic pollution affecting Photosynthesis - EUROPE SAYS
Microplastic pollution affecting Photosynthesishttps://ecency.com/@bala41288/microplastic-pollution-affecting-photosynthesis-6e1by loadingglifeEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
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Digimon Beatbreak, New Digimon Anime Set to Premiere in October 2025
The tagline for the new anime—”emotion-devouring digital lifeforms”—hints at a potentially dark premise. Analysts speculate that the central conflict may involve Digimon entities that have the ability to steal or consume human emotions, though exact plot details remain scarce.
Holy Fuck!!! The Man is an INSANE NARCISSIST!!Has no clue what Government, Society, Country is about!
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-supreme-court-injunctions-judges-rcna197457
Trump asks the Supreme Court to prohibit judges from blocking his policies
President Donald Trump has railed in recent weeks against federal judges who have ruled against his administration, painting them as threats to the country and demanding that the Supreme Court halt all nationwide injunctions.Clarissa-Jan Lim (MSNBC)
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actionshttps://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.Just Security
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Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Data https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Data
Lee Dudek, Trump’s interim Social Security chief, says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data.Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
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Wow. The US Treasury Dept. today announced it is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that state-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been massively using to launder their stolen billions.
"Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our discretion to remove the economic sanctions against Tornado Cash as reflected in Treasury’s Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury."
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0057
h/t to @ncweaver for the heads up. Weaver said: "The US government has just said "money laundering is legal as long as the process is automated."
"Every wei that flows through Tornado Cash, even if 'legitimate,' is helping the North Korean nuclear regime by hiding illegitimate flows," Weaver told me.
Here's Treasury sanctioning Tornado Cash in 2022: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916
Tornado Cash Delisting
WASHINGTON — Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy issues raised by use of financial sanctions against financial and commercial activity occurring within evolving technology and legal environments, we have exercised our d…U.S. Department of the Treasury
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One of Tesla’s biggest backers says Musk has to cut his work with DOGE to focus on Tesla, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled..
"It came as protesters announced on Wednesday they were planning what they described as their biggest day of action yet against the EV maker, with 500 demonstrations expected at Tesla showrooms around the world on 29 March."
#RemoveMusk #RemoveTrump #Corruption #Fascism #Nazism #News #Tesla
Tesla backer says Musk must reduce Trump work, as 46,000 Cybertrucks recalled
Dan Ives warns company is in ‘brand tornado crisis moment’ as it is removed from Vancouver auto showDan Milmo (The Guardian)
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Calling it a cyberPinto is not fair... To the Pinto. Musk's traveling garbage can catches fire 17 times more than the pinto.
@bardmoss which begs the question,"why is Musk's folly being treated so preferentially?"
Entire careers could be earned cataloging and explaining the number of mistakes that went into that car. The fact that those voices are barely out there indicates that journalists and publishers can be intimidated by anyone with that much money (speculative wealth, it is not real yet and can only be borrowed against).
It is probably not ethical or wise to be that wealthy.
NEW EVIDENCE THAT COSMIC RAYS SPARK LIGHTNING https://spaceweather.com/ Every second, almost 50 bolts of lightning zig-zag across the skies of Earth. Despite centuries of study, however, researchers still aren't sure how the bolts get started. Electric fields in thunderclouds are often too weak to ignite a powerful discharge. https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=204474
A new study just published in the Journal of Geophysical Research may have solved the mystery."We believe that most lightning flashes in thunderstorms are ignited by cosmic ray showers," says the study's lead author Xuan-Min Shao, a senior scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
To investigate the earliest moments of lightning formation, Shao and colleagues built a radio interferometer named "BIMAP-3D." Consisting of an array of 8 antennas in Los Alamos, BIMAP-3D can make three dimensional images of lightning and pinpoint the bolts inside thunderclouds. Here's an example: https://spaceweather.com/images2025/20mar25/3dlightning.jpg
This is a lightning bolt from a massive thunderstorm that passed by Los Alamos on July 30, 2022. BIMAP-3D imaged more than 300 bolts during the 90-minute storm. It was a treasure trove of data.The experimenters realized that some of the bolts they observed happened in parts of the storm where electric fields were too weak to cause the "Initial Breakdown Event" (IBE)--the initial spark that sets the lightning in motion. Modern theories of relativistic electron avalanche couldn't explain what they saw. Their suspicions soon focused on cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays are high energy particles that come from distant supernova explosions and other violent events across the cosmos. They strike Earth's atmosphere all the time, creating a secondary spray of particles called "cosmic ray showers." Regular readers are familiar with these showers because we routinely monitor them using Earth to Sky cosmic ray balloons over California. https://spaceweather.com/images2025/20mar25/airshower.jpg
One of the important things about cosmic ray showers is that they contain antimatter--positrons as well as ordinary electrons. The Los Alamos 3D lightning maps contained strong evidence for positrons. Electrons and positrons are bent in opposite directions by Earth's magnetic field, so they leave opposite imprints on the lightning's polarization, which BIMAP-3D also measured."It took me a while to figure this out," admits Shao. "I started with electrons only at the beginning, but could not explain the observations. With both electrons and positrons involved, all the observations can be consistently explained."
Positrons clinched the case for cosmic rays. "The fact that a cosmic ray shower provides an ionized path in the cloud that otherwise lacks free electrons strongly favor the inference that most lightning flashes are ignited by cosmic rays," the authors wrote.
In fact, it's still unclear how much of Earth's lightning is sparked by cosmic rays. Many more storms need to be studied with this method to improve the statistics. "This will require a lot of long-term and good quality lightning data," Shao says.
Stay tuned! And meanwhile, read the original research here. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2024JD042549
This is literally "modern-day life is too complicated". :(
Why you're so tired — Johnny Harris
In today's fast-paced world, experiencing burnout and constant exhaustion can make daily functioning feel nearly impossible. So I set out to answer two crucial questions: why are we so tired? and what can we do about it?
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Everyday Cyborg (@digitalraven@retro.pizza)
Seven of the #RPG books I worked on were pirated by #Meta to train their #AI #Bullshit Regardless as to my feelings on copyright, the IP owner did not consent to their inclusion in the dataset.retro.pizza
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Yeah, but think of how much EXPOSURE your books got …
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https://stallman.org/glossary.html#nightmayor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/eric-adams-nyc-developer
Night-Mayor Adams has NYC paying half a million dollars per month to an indicted hotel developer who could testify against him. One must suspect this is corruption like what Adams is accused of.
New York City paying $500,000 a month to indicted developer who could testify against Mayor Eric Adams
The Adams administration has continued to pay the hotel company of Weihong Hu, a developer accused of funneling illegal campaign donations to the mayorGeorge Joseph (The Guardian)
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👬 For teens' mental health, strong friendships matter more than social media use, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-teens-mental-health-strong-friendships.html
#friendship #children #teenagers #psychology #mentalhealth #socialmedia
For teens' mental health, strong friendships matter more than social media use, study finds
Teens who report strong, high-quality friendships tend to have better mental health—an influence that appears nearly three times stronger than the link between social media use and mental health challenges, according to a new study published in the J…Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (Medical Xpress)
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The Vietnamese mossy frog! A master of disguise! Trust me, there are definitely frogs in this photo.
Unlike the red-eyed tree frog, which uses its colours to scare predators, the mossy frog is a nervous bean who would rather curl into a ball and stay like that until it goes away.
I love these guys because not only have they developed the mottled green and brown colouration of their namesake, they've also gained a bumpy texture on their skin to really sell the idea that they are just suspiciously frog-shaped rocks covered in moss!
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South American Horned Frogs! Also known as Pacman frogs, because like Pac-Man they are round, 50% mouth, and eat absolutely everything in sight!
Those "horns" in their name aren't true horns, but fleshy bumps over their eyeballs that make them look a bit metal. These guys are ambush predators who hide in the mud until it's time to chomp something. They still need to see their food coming, so the horns help disguise their eyes as leaves. They even sleep with their eyes open, so they can see potential food at all times, which can be just about anything including their own kind.
Some people keep these ravenous bin-mouths as pets. Personally, I'd be worried about losing a finger because they're also one of the few froggos with teeth!
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when I glanced over the notification oh the phone about a video about japanese rail" , I was like "oh a new @notjustbikes video"
Now I looked more closely: it was actually a Wendover Productions video about how Japanese Rails history
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-why-japanese-railways-win
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the video about brightlines a few months ago was pretty good.
Or a crossover like Tom Scott did with Sam in the shortest flight video. Sam doing voice over for the aviation part, was funny.
[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/the-guardian-view-on-labours-semantic-shift-its-the-party-of-work-not-workers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/labour-is-gaslighting-disabled-people-and-that-should-terrify-us-all
Now that Labour has redefined itself as the "Party of Work" rather than "Party of Workers", one more similar shift can redefine it as the "Party of Bosses and Shareholders that others work for." The same party distanced itself from
Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all
The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe WilliamsZoe Williams (The Guardian)
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So far this year @ProPublica has reported on who's working for #DOGE, the impacts of cuts on agencies like #USAID, and a lot more. Reporting on abuses of power matters more than ever before.
This is the last day of our spring member drive you can give as a member. As always, I would love the #fediverse to be represented in our member base. It matters.
If you have the means, please consider joining as a member through a gift of any amount: https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben #journalism
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In film: @josephinelee writes that these librarians are risking their safety and livelihood to speak up for First Amendment rights, intellectual freedom, and, most of all, for the students who tell them “books have saved them.” https://www.texasobserver.org/librarians-movie-sxsw-book-bans/
#documentary #library #books #bookstodon #politics #USpol #censorship #film
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.Josephine Lee (The Texas Observer)
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Pilot Actions May Have Contributed To Endeavor Air CRJ-900 Crash - An excessive descent rate may have contributed to the Feb. 17 crash of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 at Toronto Pearson International Airport
Pilot actions, including an excessive rate of descent, may have contributed to the Feb. 17 crash of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, according to a preliminary report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.The TSB report noted that the aircraft descended too quickly, striking the runway and causing the right main landing gear to collapse. This led to the detachment of the right wing from the fuselage, spilling fuel and sparking a fire. The aircraft then overturned; however, there were no fatalities.
#AVweb #news #aviation #aircraft #accidentPilot Actions May Have Contributed To Endeavor Air CRJ-900 Crash
An excessive descent rate may have contributed to the Feb. 17 crash of an Endeavor Air CRJ-900 at Toronto Pearson International Airport.AVweb
NEW STORY // City of Seattle Pushes to Dismiss Appeals Blocking Housing Growth Plan
via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/03/21/seattle-dismiss-appeals-blocking-housing-plan/?feed_id=5609&_unique_id=67dd633af08c6
City of Seattle Pushes to Dismiss Appeals Blocking Housing Growth Plan - The Urbanist
# The six appeals against the One Seattle housing plan had been headed toward a lengthy hearing later this spring. But a filing by the City seeks to dismiss the appears much more quickly to advance the plan.Ryan Packer (The Urbanist)
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#BBCNews - Counter-terror police investigating Heathrow fire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5dg4p2l0o
And the chaos the shutdown is causing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt
Heathrow Airport latest
Heathrow Airport latest: Shutdown causes flight chaos and leaves thousands stranded
The fire which knocked out airport power is still burning, as counter-terrorism police investigate as a "precautionary measure".BBC News
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The class war is always the poor versus smarter people
Gas the poor
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