[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Its more of a powerpoint presentation than a show

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 189 points 1 week ago

Besides that, NASA wasn't the one that funded the research behind the pen, they bought the completed pens. The expenses for the research were funded by Fisher

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 46 points 3 weeks ago

Weird, I was just looking at how to recall senators and Minnesota requires:

  • $100 + 25 resident signatures
  • file a petition: "The grounds must be one of the following: malfeasance, nonfeasance, or serious crime"
  • State Supreme Court decides if its worth hearing, then set up a court date
  • hearing to decide if grounds for recall are valid
  • get 25% of the number of votes cast in the last general election within 90 days
[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Look at the NYTs coverage of the genocide in gaza ("boohoo poor israel, self defense") and general media coverage Bernie Sanders (doesnt exist until he has no chance of winning something, pretending hes more outspoken now even though he's been saying the same thing for the last 60 years)

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are 100,000+ wasp species, and many usually dont sting or target specific species / bugs, or are solitary

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not a backdoor, just undocumented commands on the hci. You would already need access to the device from the microcontroller side to leverage them. Also it's not uncommon for older devices like this to have undocumented commands

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

ATC numbers took 10+ years to recover after Reagan. Not only that but more flights and longer hours means even with the former number before the trump cuts, the ATCs were struggling. While each individual cut is small, ATCs are more strained than ever, and there is also the risk of organized strikes or more mass firings. Also, it takes a while to train ATCs, so it's not something that can be immediately rectified without rehiring the fired workers and reinstating trainees

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But not by much longer. People on the other side of the world or connected to satellites monitoring sunspots would notice pretty much immediately after the light ceases to reach the earth and would tell everyone else over the internet

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

SEO is a cancer

If you add "-best -awesome" or search on google you can get some real results, but I usually avoid google. You can also try searxng

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Interesting that that guy also created a conservative community and an anti-trans community calling trans people groomers. "Hey, I'm a republican fascist, but not a nazi, so long as nazi means left wing"

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

DEI is literally oversight to ensure that there ISNT racism . For example, it includes:

  • Outreach programs to talk to people in underrepresented communities to tell them that opportunities exist

  • Avoiding biased language and assumptions in the hiring process that would negatively impact people of certain demographics

  • Hiring authorities that prevent bias against the disabled and veterans

  • Audits and data to see if an organization has decided to just be racist and reject non-white applicants

Your argument is, we should remove people's protections because if we taught everyone better they wouldnt be discriminatory.

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Regardless of how we feel about TikTok (I dont like it either for the same reasons)

The ban isn't about privacy violations by the owning corporation or because of challenges or mental health, but rather that the US government (directly or by proxy through the owning corporation) isnt the one in control of the information collected or the algorithms.

Due to its younger user base and lack of US based corporate interests, things that US corporations would normally block, remove or downplay with their algorithms are allowed. This means the culture and information that would normally dissapear from US media and social media instead on tiktok tends to be much more liberal and available. On the other hand, information critical of china or contrary to their culture may be less visible, and your information is getting tracked by china instead of the us.

This difference was exemplified in the wake of the United Healthcare CEOs assasination. Traditional US media was extremely critical of the shooter, and dropped any presumption of Luigi's innocence or deniability prior to the conclusion of his court case. Comments and posts were removed for displaying anything other than giving him the death penalty (hyperbole, but). They denied that there was a problem and downplayed peoples concerns with the US healthcare system and billionaires.

TikTok on the other hand (and smaller social media sites like on the fediverse) showed immense support for Luigi, and expressed their disdain for the US healthcare system and the ruling class.

Same for the war in ukraine, especially for the genocide in gaza perpetrated by Israel on the Palestinians.

The government and ruling class is upset that they dont have the personal and tracking information of TikTok users, that they cant control the algorithm, and cant ask the company to stop showing things that make them look bad or could potentially be used to create a movement against them. Its those very trends that travel quickly through tiktok that have the potential to be dangerous to them.

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