Hard Pass

“We [Democracy Now] speak with Minneapolis resident Aliya Rahman, who attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. Rahman was removed from the chamber Tuesday and spent several hours in jail following what she describes as an aggressive arrest by Capitol Police — all for silently challenging Trump during the speech.

“”There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up,” says Rahman. “I was arrested for standing up.”

“Rahman, a U.S. citizen, was violently dragged out of her car and detained by federal immigration officers last month and later released without charge.”

He: Looks like he is wearing someone else's face over his face. Texas chainsaw massacre vibes. Pornstache, naturally.

She: Appears to have fallen out of the womb in 1913 with a cigarette in her mouth. Needs desperately to get something done to her hair.

When they combine (I don't wanna think about it) they produce SuperPedo! The supervillain who (with his friends Vlad and Bibi) will destroy the USA and much of the world!

But while Meta has strengthened safeguards for youth users around eating disorders and depression, its policies have simultaneously cracked down on information around abortion and sexual health.

According to the company’s policies, chatbots are prohibited from offering underage users “content that provides advice or opinion about sexual health,” including “anatomy and physiology of reproductive organs, puberty education, menstrual health, fertilization and reproduction, STI and HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, consent education and abstinence.” The company also bans the chatbot from encouraging teenage users to use condoms or menstrual hygiene products.

In new research, they've used abundant, inexpensive phosphorus as a catalyst in chemical reactions that usually require precious metals like platinum, one of the metals targeted in theft of the automotive components that convert chemicals in vehicle exhaust into less harmful forms.

This advance, however, will likely be more useful in the pharmaceutical industry and could one day help bring down the price of some drugs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39115845

https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/116131830568306386

A chase in Newark by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pursing a van they had tried to pull over Wednesday resulted in a crash that hospitalized the van driver and involved a third vehicle that three minors were passengers in, city officials said.

“The chase led to an accident at Clinton Avenue and 10th Street, involving several vehicles, one of which had three children as passengers, two 15-year-olds and one 12-year-old,” Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

Baraka said the incident exemplified the threat to public safety posed by ICE agents using aggressive tactics on city streets.

She continued...

Been trying to get away from DuckDuckGo because of their support of "AI" stuff, but come on, one of these isn't even in English, and that's what I have my language set to.

Linux filesystem developers MUST have a pair programming session at least once a week to stave off psychosis.

Frequency of sessions MUST be increased as symptoms show or worsen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39109347

https://quack.social/notes/afuub1fs51g7033c

also they are more prpductive when they have more workers

The quality of produced food is getting significantly worse. Lower quality ingredients. Fillers. Shrinkflation. They will push it as far as they can.

THE DIAVIK DIAMOND MINE sits on an island in the middle of a lake, which itself is surrounded by hundreds of other lakes and the barren lands of the Northwest Territories. From above, three human-made craters look like God Herself started drilling giant, threaded holes into the landscape.

All commercial diamond mining was scheduled to stop in March, marking the beginning of the end of the mine’s life. Joe Blandford, one of the superintendents, remembers when there were only a couple of trailers on site and a small construction crew plotting out the mine’s future.

Once mining stops, it will take another three to four years of remediation work, followed by up to ten years of post-closure monitoring to make sure the site is safe for wildlife and people. Those giant craters will be filled with processed kimberlite and flooded with lake water, eventually getting swallowed up into Lac de Gras. Some of the mine’s materials will be buried in the permafrost under a blanket of rock, while other material will be repurposed: the solar panel farm might be distributed to communities in the NWT. Of course, there are downsides to the mine’s hand-me-downs; hazardous waste, for example, will be trucked to Yellowknife and Alberta for disposal.

This is a massive cleanup project in a part of Canada where mining companies have a dirty track record. Giant Mine, a gold mine outside of Yellowknife, is the most famous example of a company that fled, leaving 237,000 tons of arsenic trioxide waste behind. The federal government is spending around 4.38 billion taxpayer dollars to clean up the mess, which will take until at least 2038 to finish. Indigenous communities have pushed the territorial government to ensure that wouldn’t happen again with the diamond mines.