TIL that Devrom is an “internal deodorant” that eliminates the odor of poop and flatulence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth_subgallate
#til #todayilearned
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South Carolina No Longer Asking 'Carolina Squat' Drivers Nicely To Fix Their Dumb Trucks
People who continue to drive illegally modified trucks could lose their licenses.Collin Woodard (Jalopnik)
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#FediHire #jobsearch #hiring #getfedihired
White-collar recession: it's hard to find a high-salary job
A new report shows the real winners — and losers — in the job market.Aki Ito (Insider)
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Checks out for those in high income industries (like tech). I know some folks who have been actively job-hunting for 7-8 months. It took me 3.5 months, myself.
I’m not much of a white-collar person, though. I’m more of a hoodie person (and I have various colors). 😉
drivers are monsters and we should design streets to account for how they really behave instead of how we wish they would
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The mom message chain is sharing that another one on my middle schoolers' friends who lives on our neighborhood got hit by a driver on his way to school today. He usually bikes on the sidewalk in the area of the arterial streets.Mastodon
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Did you know eSIMs still run an embedded form of Java?
It's not real Java. No of course not. It's much more cursed.
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If you want to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31D94QOo2gY
This is a technical talk, so be warned. You will also probably be spooked by your phone afterwards. I know for a while I kinda just stared at it, like, "ehhgh... I don't like this."
Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
Karl Koscher & Eric ButlerAugust 1st--4th, 2013Rio Hotel & Casino • Las Vegas, NevadaYouTube
The Truth About SIM Card Cloning
There is much misinformation on the topic of SIM card cloning. This video shows the cloning process in detail, and answers the questions of when, how and wh...YouTube
Eghhmmmm
This is a simple question and the answer is not straightforward.
In the sense of, "can I get an open-source SIM card?" The answer is "yes, but..."
The "but" there is the problem.
The thing is, you need the ICCID, phone number, authentication keys, etc. to sign onto the network.
These things cannot be retrieved from a SIM card by design (otherwise you could clone SIMs and that would actually be extremely bad).
You would need to run your own network... I doubt any major network is gonna let an MVNO on with an open-source SIM.
You also generally speaking can't modify much on a SIM, especially the code, after it's been flashed. That said, people have done interesting things with the applications on the SIM card before for small uses, like setting up a small mobile network for a conference in the woods (they had a special FCC license just for the occasion, it was all above board, it's just expensive to run long-term and you couldn't run it everywhere), with a VPN and everything.
@notjustbikes
Many many valid points.
Is there any other way we could save lives, help the environment, reduce injuries, improve mental health, reduce pollution, make transport cheaper, and more, for such a small amount of money and effort?
#NotJustBikes #WarOnCars #Nebula #Urbanism
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-what-is-the-correct-speed-limit/
Not Just Bikes — What is the "Correct" Speed Limit?
There's a trend towards lower speed limits in cities all over the world, but why is this happening? What is the research behind it? And what is the "correct" speed limit for cities, anyway?Nebula
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.
We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the administration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.
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a reality that socialist or progressive protestors must take into account is that disorder on the streets always works to the political advantage of fascists, who credibly promise order at all costs even while they cynically ensure protest becomes disorderly.
it’s not fair, but it is reality. in the ecstasy of genuine righteousness one may not give a fuck, but then a morning after comes.
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Now you are changing the terms of the debate.
You said disorder on the streets *always* works to the political advantage of fascists. I disagreed and mentioned how disorder on the streets is what got us the rights the disorder happened to support.
Vietnam war protests *did* benefit south east Asia! There were no more bombs being dropped on Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.
This is true, and in the long-term in seeded movement reactionaries who gifted us…Reagan and *gesticulates wildly*
it always works to the advantage of fascists because the right wing does not throw their radical actors under the bus like liberals do.
if a fascist does something heinous, "respectable" conservatives go "while certainly i disagree with the methods, [target] had it coming"
whereas liberals spend weeks clutching pearls about the entire movement if one person breaks a window.
insert MLK quote here about the white moderate and their devotion to order before justice.
Publicly Threatening to Lose Your Motherfucking Shit and 5 Other Great Ways to Ask for More Civility
Guest Column by District 5 Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore We live in extremely politically divisive times, and that’s why it’s more important than ever to ask for more civility by repeatedl…The Needling
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Harrell and Saka are two regressive turds who need to be voted out of office.
Great piece!
For the first time since March 2023, there are no more slow zones on the #MBTA Blue Line:
T Restores Full-Speed Service to the Blue Line Zones After 2-Week Closure - Streetsblog Massachusetts
After closing subway service in East Boston and Revere for two weeks to repair tracks and overhead wires, the MBTA restored Blue Line service this morning without any speed restrictions.mass.streetsblog.org
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Ah yes, cops trampling those pesky first-amendment rights in order to raise a symbol of our freedom.
https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-storms-city-college
#HellgateNYC #CCNY #ACAB #FTP
NYPD Raids CUNY's City College, Violently Arrests Students, Then Hoists American Flag - Hell Gate
Hundreds of officers burst through the City College gates, clearing out a Gaza solidarity encampment.hellgatenyc.com
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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.
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Meanwhile, the company has filled our skies with at *least* 420 airplanes with defective, red-painted parts that were locked up in the MRSA cage, then snuck out and fitted to an airplane that you or someone you love could fly on the next time you take your family on vacation or fly somewhere for work.
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CarBrain strikes again!
Training for drivers is 1 h. Training for cyclists is 4. Which of us is easily capable of killing someone else with a moment of inattention again?
(this is an official UCI email from Transportation & Distribution Services)
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NYPD is right now about to storm Columbia University in NYC after protesters against genocide occupied a university building.
Here’s something interesting from the Uhiversity website.
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Killology. The distilled poison of the US civil police force soul.
Exactly. (Though I do quote from Grossman's On Killing in regards to the steps required to pull the trigger.)
All "strict" parenting is abusive. A primary focus on controlling children instead of working with & living with them in ways that respect them as people, is only ever going to be on a spectrum of "bad" to "worse."
There seems to be a lot of focus on differentiating "good" strict parenting (supposedly not abusive) and "bad" strict parenting (abusive), when any variation is wildly authoritarian and worthy of condemnation.
The abuse of children is absolutely endemic. It's the norm. Which means MOST parenting is, to some extent, also abusive.
In the same way that men must be explicitly AGAINST patriarchy to do good, non-engagement with gendered oppression means participating in it, so too adults must be ACTIVELY opposed to the oppression of children in order to not engage in normalized abuse of children.
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So BJ's can tell if you're using a phone number associated with a mobile phone specifically now, and requires you do so to use their delivery service.
I've been using a VoIP number specifically so I DON’T have to give my real phone number out to businesses and other organisations that will likely sell them to data brokers etc.
This kind of tech is concerning, Many of us use VoIP numbers to keep big businesses and other shady operations from getting our real numbers. This could basically kill that, and I wonder how many other businesses will start using tricks like this to get our personal data in the future.
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Investigation fully rejects all ethics allegations against Bike Bellevue staffer
Without caveat, the investigation rejected the ethics accusations against Franz Loewenherz. Not only did the City of Bellevue’s investigation find no ethics violations, but their full report …Seattle Bike Blog
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How racist is Seattle?
Very.
There are still hundreds of racially restrictive deed covenants, though legally not enforceable, still on deeds all around Seattle. Removing them costs as much as a used car.
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"I think we've went bit over budget with this bus stop"
submitted by u/CZsfPurplik
https://redd.it/1cgb167
#fuckcars
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"ALICE" is the acronym for "asset limited, income constrained, employed" -- basically, folks who have jobs but ones that don't pay terribly well, and possess little wealth
Research shows this cohort of the American population is growing ...
... and they're stuck in a bad spot, policy-wise: They earn too much to quality for low-income government support, but too little to be comfortable amidst the big soaring costs of housing, health care, education and transportation
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I dunno if you count the civil war as a US government war tho (I think the union counts)
I mean we fought a war over the right to own human beings basically
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sudo has a huge codebase, especially considering that most people are using only the core feature.
Having it integrated into that thing that starts services as root would indeed make sense.
Wilburton Station is destined to be a major bike/transit hub of the Eastside
Wilburton Station is destined to be a major bike/transit hub of the Eastside
Lots of people biked to Wilburton Station for the 2 Line opening celebration. To celebrate Sound Transit’s 2 Line opening over the weekend, my kid and I biked across the 520 Bridge to a stati…Seattle Bike Blog
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Freedom of the press is being hammered in several European Union countries.
Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries
Civil liberties network warns of decline across the bloc as a result of harm or neglect by governmentsJon Henley (The Guardian)
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The words "hard core" are the tell. He's doubling down on an obviously-even-to-him bad decision he made in the middle of a drug binge, so he can avoid looking dumb or weak or wrong.
Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.Ars Technica
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US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News
US will reclassify marijuana in historic shift: AP sources | AP News: Once OMB signs off, the DEA will take public comment on the plan to move marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD.honeypot.net
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I mean I've been voting in favor of legalization at every opportunity despite not using, because i think it's among the dumber enforcements.
But I didn't think the federal government would budge in my lifetime.
Alcohol is WAY more dangerous all-around and gets a free pass. (Both can still be very hazardous of course.)
I heard that Alcohol companies helped to push the war on drugs- not sure if that’s actuate or not. But it’s believable.
https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/docker/jfrog-reveals-docker-hub-compromise-spanning-millions-of-repositories/
JFrog Reveals Docker Hub Compromise Spanning Millions of Repositories - Cloud Native Now
Malware attacks against Docker Hub repositories have been underway since 2021. Assume that content you host on a publicly accessible repository may be compromised.Mike Vizard (Container Journal)
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https://x.com/lucas__crespo/status/1730329318960644250https://x.com/lucas__crespo/status/1485169497489162243
actually disappointed me because I was hoping it'd be more like nanoraptor or another person who spends the time to make talented tech shitposts that look nice. i think it's all just a facade to boost marketing skills and resume padding. "Look at my twitter metrics, I have all these engagements" and showcasing various things. it's unfortunate because his posts are legitimately funny. I love these types of posts but considering the other things yea unfortunately i think this is the first and last time i make a post about this user
The United States is broken.
A friend of mine worked for a company for almost 20 years. He had an accident in November (fell off his roof). A horrible accident. He has a family. He’s a wonderful human being
Well, because we’re in fucking America his employer is not only able to but incentivized to fire him. 20 years? Later, asshole
So because this is how we bandage our broken system, here’s his Go Fund Me. Fuck this country.
@lisamelton can he get a boost?
https://gofund.me/baecee48
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Say what you will about Tesla, but they were the only car company who said they both require a court-ordered warrant before sharing your vehicle's location data AND tell customers about demands for their data.
This finding comes from the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, which asked the association representing automakers how their members respond to law enforcement requests for location information collected from internet-connected cars and trucks.
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