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In a fight between delusion and physics, physics may always win but delusion never concedes.

  • Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

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  • So they're feeding bees Vegemite now.

  • Would the concrete stick to the bird's feet?

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    Okay why is your distro the best?

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  • I've been running Ubuntu Studio for almost a decade, but I'm pretty fed up with it. Maybe I'll switch to Arch. I dunno. Having a turnkey media production distribution was handy. It did audio well. But with pipewire, that seems redundant now.

  • If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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  • I'm not a fan of cannibalism, but I guess waking up a billionaire would make for a good breakfast opportunity.

  • Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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  • I'm not a nuclear weapons designer, I've just read some books. But my understanding is that shaped charge implosion is better for Pu designs. It does require much less material to reach criticality. Maybe 8-9kg? vs 65kg for a U device. But I don't think Iran has been refining Pu, just U.

  • JD Vance Tells MAGA Podcaster He Thinks UFOs Are ‘Demons’

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  • He's weaponizing an old theosophical conspiracy for the purpose of manipulating the MAGA base.

  • JD Vance wildly claims Ilhan Omar ‘definitely committed immigration fraud,’ White House will ‘go after’ her

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  • JD Vance has a law degree from Yale. He knows better. I remember when politicians didn't direct the DOJ to go after their opponents with bogus claims of wrongdoing.

  • Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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  • A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.

  • Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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  • They cannot build a W54. This would be an early prototype device and that would not fit on a vest. Iran only has enriched uranium, not plutonium (according to news reports). It takes a great deal more uranium than plutonium to build a bomb. About 65ish kilos of +90% enriched for a uranium bomb.

    The W54 is a shaped charge implosion device. To build a W54, they'd need plutonium. And the trigger to detonate shaped charges at the right time in the right order. Plus, they need a neutron moderator to limit criticality so it doesn't detonate with the full potential of the nuclear material. This is all well beyond Iran's capabilities.

    Russia could do it though. Probably China too. North Korea? I think not.

  • Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp

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  • Mastodon project needs to fix how authentication is handled across user instances. This confuses newbies because they click a link and wind up at a remote server where they're not authenticated, and don't even realize it.

    This divide is problematic across ActivityPub. Hubzilla and zot fixed that problem years ago.

  • Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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  • They are much larger than a suitcase, extremely heavy, and developing them took decades. If Iran had +90% enriched uranium, their likely first attempt would be a gun style bomb like Little Man. Much easier design than shaped charges, not least because of trigger timing. But that's a large bomb. The Enola Gay was the largest bomber in the US fleet at the time, and it just barely carried the bomb for Hiroshima.

  • Iran could develop nuclear suicide bomb vests, claims JD Vance

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  • Maybe a dirty bomb with nuclear materials, but an actual fission bomb on a vest? No. Never mind they don't have the enriched fuel, never mind just building a working device would be extremely difficult for them and that would be large like the Hiroshima bomb.

    This is Iraq Weapons of Mass Distraction all over again. Fuck this administration.

  • Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn

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  • Find a better server.

  • Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn

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  • It's just research!

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • You're insane. It's a brilliant film.

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    The Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons

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  • Two points:

    • The choice of framing this as illicit experimentation is unfortunate. This policy is anti-science and anti-medicine, but it isn't really experimentation per se. It is a grievous violation of prisoners' human rights though, and should he called out.
    • The Lemkin Institute is named for Raphael Lemkin, a man who lost much of his family in the Holocaust. He was also a lawyer and wrote the anti-genocide UN convention. Lemkin is an important person and more people should know about him.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin

  • The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

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  • I can understand the FTC being involved because trade. But the FCC? Maybe regulatory authority over WiFi? But this seems like massive over reach.

    Remember when conservatives claimed to support smaller government?

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  • Reminds me of that movie, Crash:

  • Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase for consumer CPUs

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  • Apple's integrated CPU, GPU and high bandwidth RAM has won the price/performance war. Neither Intel nor AMD have yet to offer a comparable product line that meets Apple's design. They value upgradability via low bandwidth DIMMS and continue to lose customers.