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Cagi

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  • FTX fraudster Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison, ordered to forfeit $11 billion

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  • She was given extreme leniency because she was the main cooperator with police. There would be no FTX case wihout her. She seemed relieved when it all got cracked open and she seemed remorseful in her interviews and testimonies. So she at least demonstrated remorse enough to convince the police and the court. Whether it's genuine remorse or alligator tears doesn't matter as much as her contribution to getting the bigger fish caught, though. Rewarding cooperators an essential piece of the justice machine.

  • The Insurance Apocalypse Is Upon Us

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  • I used to work for a property insurance company about 10 years ago and by that time, no one on the industry was a climate skeptic.

    Here's something they did about earthquakes we might start seeing in areas where climate change hits hardest:

    This is on the west coast of Canada, and this company jacked up premium prices in areas they thought would be hardest hit by the anticipated mega-earthquake that may happen any time between now and a hundred years or so. They were hoping to dump those customers except it turns out all the other companies had the same idea. This started a gouging war between them, believing the only solution is higher and higher premiums. So many people just ended up paying more with no option, or without realizing they had one. There was only one major carrier that didn't do this and if your broker didn't sell their policies, you just had no option but to pay way more.

  • don't buy .io domains rule

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  • Is this true of .ai? Anguilla owns it and is a British territory.

  • [Question] Recipes for 12 egg YOLKS?

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  • Crême Brulée.

  • 7,000 Microplastics Studies Show We Have One Really Big Problem

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  • Or several trillion very small problems.

  • 54 percent of Americans back mass deportation of immigrants: Poll

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  • "The survey was conducted using KnowledgePanel, the largest and most well-established online probability-based panel that is representative of the adult U.S. population. Our recruitment process employs a scientifically developed addressed-based sampling methodology using the latest Delivery Sequence File of the USPS – a database with full coverage of all delivery points in the U.S. Households invited to join the panel are randomly selected from all available households in the U.S. Persons in the sampled households are invited to join and participate in the panel. Those selected who do not already have internet access are provided a tablet and internet connection at no cost to the panel member. Those who join the panel and who are selected to participate in a survey are sent a unique password-protected log-in used to complete surveys online. As a result of our recruitment and sampling methodologies, samples from KnowledgePanel cover all households regardless of their phone or internet status and findings can be reported with a margin of sampling error and projected to the general population."

  • Zelenskyy was urged not to invade Kursk. He did it anyway.

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  • "The side that stays within its fortifications is beaten"

    Napoleon Bonaparte

    Not only do you need to strike at the enemy's territories and hold it to win, you need to threaten to keep it if you want to restore your original borders. Going to the peace table with enemy cities your pocket is a classic way to negotiate for your own land back. The more Russian land the Ukranians take, the more likely we will see a restoration of old borders.

  • Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media

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  • Very yes. They could reveal their location for starters, which could spoil a mission and put lives at risk, but if they use the same device on both this and the ships network, you risk compromising the ship's network or even the Navy itself, giving our enemies all kinds of sensitive info.

    We are in the midst of a world war being waged in cyberspace and the US is losing. Incidents like this are a genuine threat.

  • We Got You

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  • "Million to one shot, doc"

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • The forests wouldn't exist were it not for pre-colonial salmon numbers. Their rotting carcasses are responsible for almost a quarter of the nitrogen in all the soil in the British Columbian and Tlingit forests (that goes up to 70% in riparian zones). The environmental impact of dams is no more forests as they die of malnutrition. So in a way you're right, no more forest fires if there's no forest. We can do better than dams and MUST do better than dams.

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • Minor mitigations at best. Those environmental impact studies aren't about finding a way to cause no interruption to nature, they are about acceptable losses determined by pro-dam lobbyists if any regulations exist at all. But these are the exact kind of laws both Democrats and Republicans have been gutting for decades in favour of small government.

    Turning a river into a lake is not good for river dependant life. Blocking half of it behind a wall is terrible. Fish ladders are not a replacement for open river, it will only save an "acceptable" fraction of some species like salmon, not allow full passage of all life in the ecosystem.

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • Most dams in the US were built for flood control near towns, not power generation, so these old dams beginning to show faults is especially dangerous to people.

    Here's my favourite Practical Enginerring on the failure of the Orville Dam spillway: https://youtu.be/jxNM4DGBRMU?si=O6T91xjCgxH7demP

  • The worst place in the galaxy

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  • "They're all..."

    All credibility lost.

  • Republicans on security for our schools...

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  • "And show me your genitals!"

  • Elements of Renewable Energy

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  • Hydro requires massive destruction of nature. We can do way better than hydro. I live in BC where all my power is hydro. I, and the endangered, keystone species of our local ecosystem would be very happy to see every dam demolished on favour of other actually planet friendly methods.

  • 8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside store

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  • This is not a mental illness. That's the Fox News scapegoat, not an actual reason. This is just complete ignorance of gun danger in a country that celebrates giving out firearms like candy without any kind of training or licensing requirements. This is a dangerous lack of gun laws and an ignorant gun owner. Here in Canada, we have lots of guns but a far lower rate of accidents and murders. Pistols are restricted, which means the only places you're allowed to ever have a pistol is locked in your home, at the gun range, or at the gunsmith, or locked in truck on a direct route between those locations. You aren't allowed to keep ammo in the same container as the gun, never mind keeping one actually loaded. You know all of this because you had to take a safety course and pass a written and practical exam before you are allowed to own even a .22. The restricted license is yet another course and set of exams.

    This is the fault of the laws of the land and the mother's ignorance. Don't bring mental illness into it, that's ablist bullshit.

  • Could an American please prove me wrong?

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  • This is Medici, where they speak Interligua, a sort of blend of Spanish, Catalan, French, and Italian and where the world's largest natural source of bavarium was found. I remember reading about the revolution a few years ago that ousted the dictatorship that got powerful on the back of Bavarium mining. The US was caught blatantly supporting both sides, but the revolutionaries won and now they are a democracy again.

  • Happy Babe, watercolor on paper.

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  • The thumbnail shrinks away some of the detail of the full image and I was getting some uncanny valley vibes, but when I opened it up it's this excellent painting. Well done!

  • So much winning

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  • Heartbreaking.