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I like how Israel just randomly attacked the new government of Syria that they helped install. Greater Israel antisemitic conspiracy theorists stay winning.
#Gay robot ---- spotted walking around in Los Angeles, California. "The Rizzbot" was seen crossing traffic and confronting people in LA. The AI-powered robot stands at 4 feet tall, weighs 77 pounds, and is manufactured by China-based Unitree Robotics. ----The “Not Elon’s Bitch” sign drives home that Rizzbot is a moonbat. Not even Google’s AI — with its Negroid Vikings, popes, Founding Fathers, etc. — could be more obvious. In the future, expect AI to be more insidious about supporting left-wing assumptions and objectives. https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1945146377266454991
About 20 years ago, I saw an excellent rock. It was unusual, so I took a photo. But I couldn’t find the photo shortly afterwards and thought I’d deleted it by mistake. I was sad. I kept describing the rock to people, but they were strangely uninterested. I am clearing out my photo archive and I just found it. I am happy. I missed this rock. I thought of it often. I can show my rock to people now, whether they want to see it or not. You included.
@NormanDunbar To me it actually looks the other way around like the white was a soft coating over the black underneath. My first guess would flint but I am also not a rockologist nor do I play one on TV though I did once play one in a drama class at school
@NormanDunbar @ShadowInTheVoid Is the black part gelatinous? I might think it to be obsidian-like or some type of black volcanic glass. The fact that the other rocks are gelatinous-free leads me to the following: 1) It is not oily or gelatinous 2) I very much enjoy using the term gelatinous
@Nead Hahaha. Given that I described the black bit as being like 'a burnt crisp packet', I won't pretend to have any knowledge about its properties or gelatinousness. But I can say that I like your enjoyment of using the term gelatinous.
I was away from the Fediverse most of the day and am a bit baffled by this lovely reaction to a random toot about a random rock. I'm not sure why a rock resonated with people - the response is kind, generous and much appreciated.
I'm still catching up with the replies, but they're full of geology and folklore and history and wit and astronomy and literature and science and Dad jokes and weather animations and rockology and poetry. My neighbours in the Fediverse are fabulous. Yes, you all rock.
MLP FiM My Little Pony Friendship is MagicS04E18 S04 E18 Season 4 Episode 18 Maud PieMaud Pie - Maud Pie's PoetryRock.You are a rock.Gray.You are gray.Like a...
in April I visited a friend and went hiking a bit. I saw an excellent rock on a beach. It was too big to be brought back as a souvenir (reasonnably). But I took a photo. I think about it often.
I don't know if you're going to like my input, but it's quite common in Norway to find flint nodules with cortex (the white part) covered in natural (or unfortunately not-so-natural) bitumen
on pourrait créer un #rockywednesday pour l’occasion,ou alimenter le célèbre #rocksofmastodon ! Parce que derrière chaque photo de roche se cache une histoire …
Thank you for sharing. I feel such stability, as if I’m suddenly standing on rock-solid ground. Seriously though. Spouse does not understand the allure of a good rock. At least Kid somewhat does.
Your alt text description is lovely, though I do feel a bit bad for the rocks described as uninteresting. Although your photo is a rock, I share this conversation that poet Wislawa Szymborska had with a stone.
Troll heart fragment, partially exposed to sunlight before returning to Earth. Trolls are generally of Unseelie, wild, or minor fae-baronies, but some occasionally align Seelie. You were wise not to touch it, as whomever cut it out could have been a really tough customer.
Troll flesh from most subraces does resemble flint or chert after photorhexis, due to the cell walls limiting the silicate crystal growth before rupture.
at first, I thought it was a crab-like creature that had vomited up many smaller rocks, having consumed whatever yummy substance had grown in them. I will spend the day assuming that I am correct.
"Nobody sits like this rock sits. You rock, rock. The rock just sits and is. You show us how to just sit here and that's what we need" - Albert Markovsky (I Heart Huckabees)
it is a magnificent rock and I like all the little ones around it for though I guess they are classed as pebbles but I'm not a rockologist or a pebblologist!
#Jews #NYC Mamdani pretends not to hate Jews anymore Mamdani’s fellow Muslims killed thousands in New York on 9/11. Now New Yorkers are invited to weep for this sniveling victim of “Islamophobic rhetoric.” ----Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, told a group of influential business leaders on Tuesday that he would refrain from using the phrase “globalize the intifada” and would discourage its use by others, addressing concerns about the term’s perceived association with violence against Jews. The comments, shared by three individuals familiar with the discussion, mark a shift for Mamdani, who had previously declined to condemn the phrase during his primary campaign. jfeed.com/antisemitism/zohran-…
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you’ll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead. Did you know that Vega is one of the most studied stars in our skies? As one of the brightest summer stars, Vega has fascinated astronomers for thousands of years.Vega is the brightest star in the […]
"We're sending you a trailer full of heavy and valuable equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars. We loaded everything, but we don't accept liability for anything that might get broken, so we'll let your professional handle securing everything." *Driver shows up* "I from Turkey on political asylum. This my first job. I drive the truck. I have no idea what straps are." Can Boomers go 5 minutes without outsourcing another job to an unqualified foreigner to save a nickel?
@wgiwf It's gotten really bad. The last time I went to Five Guys, nobody on the whole staff seemed to know more than the most minimal English necessary, and the cashier communicated in Sand People grunts.
Sugar in Coke issue: Exactly what I'm talking about regarding dropping the bar to the ground then jumping over it.
How about this: Shame this shit and stop drinking it. Learn you don't need "something to drink all the time." Whatever but this is retaaaaaaaaaaded (Boston for retarded).
Half of New Orleans clergy abuse claims could be tossed in US bankruptcy court | New Orleans clergy abuse | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
It’s a commemorative plaque honoring Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union. The years on the plaque (1916–1974) refer to her birth and death. Pavlichenko is widely known for being one of the most successful female snipers in history, with 309 confirmed kills during World War II. deltarune
... for people who never studied physics--the world is filled with miracles. For Western journowhores and "intel analysts" in Russia it is really similar in the effect.
Russia appears unrattled by President Trump’s new ultimatum aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, retreating to a long-held position that it will weather any sanctions and continue pursuing its war goals in Ukraine regardless of outside pressure. Russian commentators have also questioned whether Mr. Trump has really reversed course and is fully committed to supporting Ukraine. I'll give you a hint--Russians don't give a flying fuck. Maybe because Russians study physics and REAL economy, they also study the world at the academic level which make Ivy League programs look like a vocational school for retarded kids, who then are pushed into all kinds of think-tanks and even "intel" community where they read Solzhenitsyn and are briefed by clowns like this:
... for people who never studied physics--the world is filled with miracles. For Western journowhores and "intel analysts" in Russia it is r...
@DrFell (Disgruntled Citizen) She is Rebekah Koffler an alleged Russian expert who worked for the State Department, the DIA and is only a glorified Russian English teacher from Kazakhstan. She's an idiot. She's one of the "spies" that encouraged the US aggressions, against Russia.
We should have a process to bring top tier talent into this country from other places. Do it through the DOD and tell them you can never go back for security reasons. Same should go for many college degrees or research projects.
Yep. Bamco have taken in so many support tickets but haven't done a thing. Using the same OS seems to kinda function at least, I did manage to play with the one guy I know who isn't still on Win10. Never got to test linux using the Steam Deck but considering the game never had its mark updated to mention that proton support was added most people probably aren't aware. Sucks because once you get into DLC PQs the game will bust your balls right open for not bringing in (non-retarded CPU) allies. Also sucks because I really want more Super Mix Capsule Zs, which are multiplayer mode exclusive.
If nothing else at least the game does have a good amount of content for singleplayer.
I just voted NO on the Rule for the GENIUS Act because it does not include a ban on Central Bank Digital Currency and because Speaker Johnson did not allow us to submit amendments to the GENIUS Act.
Americans do not want a government-controlled Central Bank Digital Currency.
Republicans have a duty to ban CBDC.
President Trump included a ban on CBDC in his January 23rd executive order and Congress must also include the ban on CBDC in the GENIUS Act.
...ule for the GENIUS Act because it does not include a ban on Central Bank Digital Currency and because Speaker Johnson did not allow us to submit amendments to the GENIUS Act.
Americans do not w...
#Kinks My girlfriend's run off with my car And gone back to her ma and pa Tellin' tales of drunkenness and cruelty Now I'm sittin' here Sippin' at my ice cold beer Lazin' on a sunny afternoon Andy Pyle, British rock bass player (The Kinks) is 79 youtu.be/2JlBE6Rcl9Y?si=u6mKgB…
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@Goalkeeper Aw shucks looks like I missed the most meta banner in horsegaem history I will NEVER be able to pick up horsegaem now one more gacha I can NEVER play and nothing I can do to change it now
Pretty wild story. The video drags it out a bit, certainly didn't need to be a two part story but still worth a watch. Dude was trapped in a cold water rapid for twenty four hours!
When a Lithuanian rafter became trapped in rapids on the Franklin River it made headlines around the world. Now, for the first time, the rafter Valdas Bielia...
The image is a screenshot of a news website with a dark background. On the left side, there is a photo of a woman in a blue NASA flight suit, standing in front of an American flag and a NASA emblem. The text below the photo reads "UNC graduate selected as commander for upcoming mission to International Space Station." The source of the news is WRAL.com, and the article was published 22 hours ago.
On the right side, there are three news articles. The first article, from NASA (gov), is titled "NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Gears Up for Space Station Research" and was published yesterday by Melissa Gaskill. The second article, from ABC11, is titled "Zena Cardman: UNC graduate selected as mission commander for SpaceX crew" and was published yesterday. The third article, from Spaceflight Now, is titled "NASA, SpaceX target July 31 for Crew-11 launch to the ISS" and was published 2 days ago by Will Robinson-Smith. The "Full Coverage" button is visible at the bottom right corner of the image.
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TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) – The Foreign Minister of Pakistan reaffirmed his country’s solidarity with Iran in the face of Israeli and American aggression in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart in China.
A study found that eating choline-rich foods daily, like eggs, fish and broccoli, was linked to lower Alzheimer's risk. Experts discuss which foods are best for your brain.
Chinese scientists have developed a smart nano eye drop that can effectively reduce retinal neovascularization in diabetic retinopathy, which can lead to vision loss and even blindness. The non-invasive treatment offers new hope for patients with chronic diabetic complications.
Once a faggot, always a faggot. Yes if any of you here keeps talking to a tranny or a pedo I WILL remind you of it over and over until you either repent or get out of my sight. What are you going to do about it huh?
to add to it, this guy keeps talking to pedos even though in DMs he told me that he knew it was a bad thing and is going to cut off all communications with those people. Bad, bad liar. Me think that this guy is trying to enable people to become pedos themselves and promoting it. I don't know about you guys but having him around me is just a pain in the ass and I'd recommend staying away from him and his cliques.
Btw this is not me being Bot, we have many proofs of Maija and Wiz being chummy with pedos.
"They're slashing health-care and shuttering rural hospitals. They're cutting disaster response as fires rage and flood waters rise. Food banks are seeing pantries run dry as inflation rises. It's cool though - the DHS is posting based white nationalist memes from 2016."
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that 93 martyrs and 278 injured people arrived at hospitals in the Strip over the past 24 hours.The Ministry of Health stated in its daily report: “93 martyrs (including 5 recovered) and 278 injure
Watch live as California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a press conference. The Pentagon said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in ...
great point, also Kash and Bongino must have been susceptible to this clever Democratic hoax as they were blasting off about this during the campaign season.
The binders were all fake. The people who got them are pissed. Any important data was blacked out.
Epstein went to jail for life and that sentence was just. He had 1000's of child porn pictures in his possession and he liked to prey on young women. He sexually harassed them or worse.
Glenn Beck Special tonight was stopped cold. Glenn read Trump's letter today.
Yes, things about Epstein has gotten odd. Glenn thinks files were reviewed & found Biden's WH & NIH placed bogus documents in it to imply Trump w/ young girls like Russiagate & E Jean Carroll. Would take years to prove another scam & get justice. Better to close & lose files.
Trump promised to expose Epstein. The game was on....
I’ve learned that I keep getting posh post assignments at my soccer stadium job because my supervisor doesn’t want me to get killed by random drunk men so here I am essentially babysitting the families of the players lol. Do I look that fragile?
@GalacticTurtleAre you short? Maybe that’s part of it. Drunken dudes can be over the top. This is in the USA, right? If it was Europe, you could get killed!
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will host astronauts for a media opportunity as the center celebrates its 65th anniversary during a free, community event on Saturday, July 19, from noon to 5 p.m. CDT at The Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama. Marshall, along with its partners and collaborators, will fill the amphitheater with space exhibits, […]
Σε νέα κινητοποίηση καλούν σήμερα στις 10 μ.μ. στο λιμάνι του Πειραιά οι ΠΕΝΕΝ και ΕΝΕΔΕΠ. ενόψει της άφιξης του πλοίου "Cosco Shipping Pisces", το οποίο φέρεται να μεταφέρει χάλυβα με προορισμό το Ισραήλ.
I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.
Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?
Thanks to everyone for the fantastic response to this request for examples of hidden e-waste. There's so many examples! It's shocking, hard to even comprehend the scale of it all.
Hidden e-waste is also in every web search and every usage of AI tools: data centers, server farms and cloud services have not only high energy consumption but also produce a lot of electronic waste, as the hardware is regularly upgraded. That's hidden/outsourced #ewaste we probably don't often think about.
I was given a pen with a big red ball on the top, that, when shaken or hit, makes some blinking light. Electronics AND battery, totally useless, absurd and absolutely out of place in our collapsing world. The person who thought this was funny and _different_ or whatever, lives very disconnected from our current situation 🙈
Another one: a water jar with a filter (active carbon) that has a small electronic device that you reset each time you change the filter, and which warns you after some time that you need to change it again.
There’s a category of “festival” electronics — cups shaped like incandescent bulbs that light up; doodads that concert goers hold in the stands that make the whole stadium into a reactive light show (I think, based on the description of a kid). @gerrymcgovern
do the paper wrist bands with nfc tags in them count? A local amusement park uses them for their day tickets. One day use, and designed to be thrown away without realising how the "magic" worked
One of the major shipping carriers, I think UPS, puts RFID label tags on many of their packages.
I have a collection of several dozen waiting for me to have the time to dump them in acid and do some circuit analysis. Curious whose chipset they're using etc.
Pregnancy tests and other single use medical devices like insulin pens. Bank and ID cards. Kids toys with any ‘scanning’ functionality, like RFID, playing cards, tokens, Amiibo etc. RFID or NFC clothing tags in stores are now widespread, as are security labels. Any modern USB cable has a ton of advanced electronics on it beyond two connectors strung together.
Can’t think of any more for now, but I’ll keep pondering on it!
I watched a video of someone disassembling a dead nic vape and there was a literal microphone in it. The sensor that triggered the autodraw was an actual microphone. Bizarre
(I'm not saying they're not doing anything useful. I'm saying I didn't expect cables to be more than just some copper that establishes an electric connection between pins at some given impedance)
As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. As [John] AKA [Nyan Satan] demonstrates in a…
Basically anything without an easily replaceable battery, chief among them earbuds and wireless only headphones thanks to Apple starting the trend of removing the 3.5mm jack
The 'Wifi kettle' is my go-to example of how stupid and wasteful everything got. It not only requires unnecessary electronics and energy, but it makes no sense. You still have to walk right up to the kettle to pick it up and fill it and to use it. Connecting it to the Internet provides no usefulness. At least the Teasmades of the 70s had an actual function.
@CiaraNi Indeed! It's wonderful, these days, that WiFi can transfer clothes from the washing machine into the drier, close the doors, set the programme and then, when it's all dry, empty the drier and clean the seals and filters! (Oh hang on, that's me who does that!) @gerrymcgovern
@NormanDunbar @CiaraNi It's got a nice ring to it and 'NWD' will look splendid as a monogram for your dress shirts. I do stress that friends may latch on quickly and go straight for the "Hey, Wiffy!" nickname.
most of the digital pregnancy tests still use the exact same system at the analog ones, but then have a chip, battery, and screen to display the + or -, there is no difference in accuracy.
kids books with buttons to make specific noises. Or my parents recorded themselves reading the night before Christmas in a book designed for that purpose. No replaceable batteries in any of them.
the obvious one that leaps to my mind was getting Doom to run* on a pregnancy test - the ultimate of the "use once and dispose of" materials. pcmag.com/news/yes-doom-is-pla…
I remember reading a story I can no longer find from someone who was looking for an Apple cable while traveling, and the ones they found were surprisingly cheap but all of them said you needed to have Bluetooth on, which made no sense for a cable.
Well.
It turns out the Apple licensing fee for their proprietary connector costs more than a Bluetooth chip, so these cables all had USB at one end and a Bluetooth chip embedded in the wire, with a dummy Apple plug that wasn't wired!
Do batteries count? So many things that don't need them have rechargeable batteries now. People must spend more effort recharging than they would 'doing the thing' manually.
adjacent anecdote: a friend of mine with adhd uses the dismantling of throwaway vapes for stimming. surprisingly most of the batteries in there are rechargable; just not exposed. over 50% are still in very good condition. she dismantled well over 300 by now
One thing that probably falls into this category that I'm not sure how to dispose of: heating pads, heated blankets, and the like.
What's *really* egregious about those is that often I need to lay atop them in order to get the relief I need... buuut they're not designed for that kind of pressure and often contraindicated for the purpose, and so they break.
Some of the railway stations here in southern England are adding redundant departure screens, which are disguised advertising boards, that sport a clock. A clock which updates about twice every three seconds.
My wife just did a sleep study with an at home oxygen monitoring device. A battery powered wrist bluetooth device, with a finger monitor sensor attached by a cable. It was a single use disposable. You could go to a website and download a label to ship it back for "recycling". Which i was 50/50 on if we were shipping back so it could be thrown away out of sight.
Since Western Australia banned vapes the bins near the many many shops that sell them under the counter are just full of disposable vapes. The city empties the bins, presumably straight to landfill. Pink Floyd's album Pulse. Intel used to supply NUCs in boxes that when slid open had a little gadget inside that played their dingdingdongding noise. The box then got immediately tossed to landfill. What about the LED wristbands given to concert-goers? Bet they end up in the bin. Promotional USB sticks given out at conferences and the like. Always too small to be actually useful, so binned en masse I suspect.
kid's shoes with blinky LEDs in them. These are completely endemic here in the midwest, and the shoes last 4-6 months at most. They do look cool, but at what cost.
Someone gave me a real estate ad they received in the mail. It was by a very expensive home builder, and it was a "card" that came in a fancy little box. The card was all cardboard, but it had a fucking display and speakers and crap hot glued in so they could blabber sales at you when you opened it.
I replaced the video with a Rick Roll and gave up when the internet said the chip was ancient and shit and not even really hackable without a significant hardware investment.
A differently disgusting part was that it had a SIM card and cellular modem in it. The company that made it tracked engagement with the cardboard ad. (And I'm sure they also tracked geolocation.)
Not really, sorry. But just last week my local finnish tv news showed police with box of seized vapes. It contained hundreds of vapes all collected from underaged in just few months.
Since I was child, I've hoped all the nonsense short lifespan toys to not include electronics.
Novelty Christmas jumpers that sing and light up. And as have others have mentioned, Christmas cards that do the same. We seem to think that being environmentally aware is for life, not for Christmas. All that paper and plastic gift wrap; throwaway fall-apart novelty thingamajigs; cards and jumpers and ornaments with flashing lights; trees chopped down, transported long distances, brought into the house, then dumped. It's like we're giving our climate-collapse fears a holiday.
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the forced cloud connections and attached e-waste for household gadgets including vacuum cleaners etc. And of course all the technology that just serves to build walled gardens including the drm-chips in John Deere tractors that render them un-repairable on base of copyright.
@owenblacker some theme park Coke Freestyle cups contain an NFC chip so the machines can track the cups and ensure they are only reused on the day of purchase.
Especially bad if the operator doesn’t allow reactivation on return visits but forces you to buy another plastic reusable cup on your next visit.
insulin pens for children, having a chip and a small lcd display that is e-waste whenever the battery runs out (cannot be replaced). The pen still works, but the display is essentially waste then.
You can take a look at DeusExSilicium Youtube channel. It's a french electronic engineer that make videos about that kind of shit (and other stuff). The videos are in french but it can give ideas of that kind of crap stuff
When I recently bought second hand ski trousers for winter walks with my dog, I did not expect that they would come equipped with a diode and an antenna… recco.com/technology/ I do not know how useful this technology is for actual skiers.
furnace filters with a Bluetooth LE chip that basically just is a timer that connects to your phone to remind you when 90 days have past. and also to track you for advertising purposes I assume
- there are cheap, led filled pool noodle-esq lights being given to kids at every community event I’ve been to lately. I replaced the batteries in mine and will eventually use the leds elsewhere, but I’m guessing most of these end up in the trash. 🙁
Like John Deere tractors, many defibrillator accessories (i.e. paddles) have proprietary ID chips which only work with that mfrs device. When the product line is obsoleted, all those accessories go with it.
Will be on the "Profitability and Survival for Indie Genre Magazines" panel at Readercon this weekend. Staff pay is a central theme in the description, so it reminded me to do this. (Really need to put this on a recurring to-do list.)
Clarksworld keeps me going and it can do the same for you! (This audience may remember they published Isabel fall’s debut and final work, and if that’s not enough to be worthy of a lifetime sub - read the new stuff!)
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