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  • How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

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  • While western companies often focus primarily on technological innovations, Chinese EV firms including Nio keep consumers’ needs at the central of their strategy to create a competitive edge among fierce domestic competitions.

    Wow! Look what happens when one company doesn't own an almost monopoly.

  • How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

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  • When a driver enters their automated station, the station will connect directly to the vehicle, drive and park it at the platform, have the depleted battery be dropped out from the bottom of the vehicle and replaced it with a fully charged battery while charging the user’s account — all within three minutes. The driver doesn’t even need to control or step out of the car.

    It's a good example of what you can do when you have, essentially, a captive market.

  • New York's top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of gag order in hush money case

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  • Let me introduce you to wombat poop. Go ahead and google that.

  • Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’

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  • Good luck getting DeSatan to accept that. He'll take the money, and move it off to some "other" uses, but accept climate change?

  • Palestinians Ask Federal Court to Rule Biden Is Complicit in Israeli Genocide

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  • The US is not the only country that has enacted laws governing jurisdiction in cases of genocide that has occurred outside their borders. Many of these countries also have laws that are automatically in force when a determination of genocide has been made by the UN. These laws generally cover sanctions and doing business with "those who perpetrate or support genocide".

    https://thesentinelproject.org/2013/06/14/when-to-act-a-states-obligations-and-responsibilities-regarding-genocide/

    Many other States have adopted statutes pursuant to Article VI, which explicitly provide not only for territorial jurisdiction, but also for universal jurisdiction over genocide. Examples of such statutes include: the 2002 German Code of Crimes Against International Law (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch) Section 1 of which recognizes the jurisdiction of German courts over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed outside the German territory and to which Germany has no specific link. Likewise, Section 2, § 1(a) of the Dutch International Crimes Act of 19 June 2003 makes provision for universal jurisdiction over genocide provided that the alleged perpetrator is physically present in the Netherlands. Moreover, the Canadian’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act, adopted on 24 June 2000 sets the basis for universal jurisdiction for genocide; Section 6, §1 of this Act reads as follows:

    Every person who, either before or after the coming into force of this section, commits outside Canada (a) genocide […] is guilty of an indictable offence and may be prosecuted for that offence in accordance with section 8.

    Many other countries, including France, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, and Austria, have adopted national legislation, as required under Genocide Convention Article VI, that allow for the prosecution of genocide committed outside their territories.

  • Palestinians Ask Federal Court to Rule Biden Is Complicit in Israeli Genocide

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  • The political question of the US' position on genocide rulings can be better understood by reading what it has done with previous atrocities.

    This repost was done during Bush Sr's presidency by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It goes through the US' response in the past to quite a few incidents and describes the decisions that were made and the thinking behind them.

    https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Todd_Buchwald_Report_031819.pdf

  • Why the pope has the ears of G7 leaders on the ethics of AI

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  • Under-shaved, brown-robed and jovial, Benanti is adept at explaining how technology can change the world, “with humans ceding the power of choice to an algorithm that knows us too well. Some people treat AIs like idols, like oracles, like demigods. The risk is that they delegate critical thinking and decisional power to these machines.”

    AI is about choices. He points out: “Already a few tens of thousands of years ago, the club could have been a very useful tool or a weapon to destroy others …”

    The Italians, not pioneers in the technology, warn that AI prefigures a world in which progress does not optimise human capabilities, but replaces them.

    While I certainly do not side with the Catholic Church and their moralistic dogma, it is valuable to pay attention to a group that has made it their mission to think about how humanity is affected by various things. Never mind that they have their own bias in how humanity should be conducting itself. If instead, you treat them as a think tank with a relatively narrow focus, then we can make use of their work in this area.

    I'm relieved to see at least one world leader though listening to an expert on technology. The US Congress had a department just for interpreting and researching various high technology concepts, but in their infinite wisdom they decided they knew better and disbanded the department.

    One may disagree with the Catholic churches interpretation of their explanations of how AI technology can affect humans, but we would be fools to completely disregard their reports and findings.

  • Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill - SCOTUSblog

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  • Maybe you should have a word with Alito and Thomas about that?

  • California Senate approves ban on transgender notification policies in schools

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  • "Why would my child want to hide such a horrible thing from me?"

    Maybe because you're the reason they're hiding how they feel?

  • Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill - SCOTUSblog

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  • Writing for the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh acknowledged what he characterized as the challengers’ “sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections” to elective abortion “by others” and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone. But the challengers had not shown that they would be harmed by the FDA’s mifepristone policies, he explained, and under the Constitution, merely objecting to abortion and the FDA’s policies are not enough to bring a case in federal court. The proper place to voice those objections, he suggested, is in the political or regulatory arena.

    I'd almost thought the con side of SCOTUS had forgotten what standing even is.

  • Exclusive: US House panel finds Wall St 'colluded' to curb emissions

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  • NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee will accuse the biggest Wall Street firms on Tuesday, in a report seen by Reuters ahead of its publication, of colluding with advocacy groups to force companies to shrink their greenhouse gas emissions.

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    The report says Climate Action 100+ "bullies asset managers to join" and presses them to use their shareholder votes in support of climate proposals, seeking to reduce fossil fuel extraction and raising energy prices for U.S. consumers.

    Lobbying companies = bad.

    Lobbying politicians and SCOTUS = good.

    Now I get it. They're afraid of losing some of that cash.

  • Massachusetts school can in fact ban 'there are only two genders' T-shirt, federal appeals court rules

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  • The ironically named ADF claims it's a free speech issue. How do you suppose they would feel if I sent my kid to school wearing a shirt that said, "All White People are Guilty of Genocide" with an indian head silhouette?

  • Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras. Here’s how it’s going

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  • The primary responsibilities of one job at a Marshalls in Miami Beach, Florida, are to maintain a “proper and professional stance” at the front of the store, act as a “visual deterrent to prevent potential loss/dishonesty” and wear a company-issued body camera. The description says that the camera is to record “specific events involving critical incidents for legal, safety, and training purposes.”

    These employees, who wear a company-approved black vest, black pants and black shoes, are instructed not to stop or chase after shoplifting suspects.

    It's the same reason I made sure the security cameras on my house are visible from the street. People with bad intentions just move on to easier targets.

    They may have seen the studies down on police forces who adopted cameras. They saw a drop in complaints against officers, as well as fewer escalations by the public against officers. Likewise, they're hoping this translates to retail.

  • Jared Kushner’s Firm Pledged to Build Memorial to ‘Victims of NATO Aggression’

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  • Can't we just declare the entire Trump crime family to be an enemy of the state?

  • James Comer Helped a Donor Get Chinese Hemp. What They Got Tested as Marijuana

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  • Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has for months used his power as House Oversight chair to assail Hunter Biden’s involvement in a failed business deal with a Chinese energy company.

    But The Daily Beast has obtained emails and other documents showing that when Comer was running for governor of Kentucky, he himself was involved in a failed Chinese business deal. It involved importing Chinese hemp seeds through Comer’s office—he was Kentucky’s agriculture commissionerat the time—to benefit a campaign donor’s company that Comer had fast-tracked for his industrial hemp pilot program.

    The documents—which The Daily Beast obtained after the Kentucky government released them to a third party in response to open records requests—contain a stunning revelation: While the emails show the involved parties clearly intended to import only legal hemp, two rounds of tests revealed the plants were essentially Chinese pot, containing illegally high levels of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high.

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    China Just Cured Diabetes and America’s Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it

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  • Ok, first, it only applies to Type 2 diabetes.

    In a remarkable medical breakthrough, Chinese scientists have successfully cured a patient of type 2 diabetes through an innovative cell therapy approach.

    Second, it was done on a case-by-case basis. Each person has their own therapy tailored for them. This does not appear to be a mass-solution.

    The groundbreaking treatment involved transplanting lab-grown replicas of the patient’s own insulin-producing islet cells into their body. This ingenious approach effectively restored the patient’s pancreatic islet function, enabling the body to regulate blood sugar levels naturally without external intervention.

    From the linked article:

    According to a South China Morning Post report, the patient underwent the cell transplant in July 2021.

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    The new therapy involves programming the patient's peripheral blood mononuclear cells, transforming them into "seed cells" to recreate pancreatic islet tissue in an artificial environment. This approach leverages the body's regenerative capabilities, an emerging field known as regenerative medicine.

  • New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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  • That would be for the legal system to decide. If you purchased it for a specific advertised feature, and that feature was disabled unless unspoken terms were agreed to, you would have a case.

  • New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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  • For the downvoters, in the US:

    https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/what-is-the-warranty-of-merchantability.html

    The implied warranty of merchantability guarantees that a product sold to you will work for its intended purposes. In other words, it means you can expect a toaster to toast your bread. If it doesn't, you have legal protection against losing money on a product that doesn't work.

    If you bought the router expecting it to work as advertised, you may make a claim if it doesn't. They would have to spell out ahead of time what the limitations and requirements are in order to avoid trouble.

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    Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

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  • If you're going to war against a court of law, you might be the criminal.

  • New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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  • If I bought one of their routers and this came up, I would simply be returning it and giving the person at the counter a printout as to why. Sorry, but this router is not "suitable for purpose". Look up that phrase and "merchantability".

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    DeSantis spread false info about trans kids healthcare says Judge

    www.losangelesblade.com /2023/12/22/desantis-spread-false-info-about-trans-kids-healthcare-says-judge/
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    Former political power broker Steve Pigeon sentenced to 364 days in jail

    www.niagara-gazette.com /news/crime/former-political-power-broker-steve-pigeon-sentenced-to-364-days-in-jail/article_296c10cc-a11f-11ee-9029-b3b7c7a7ed38.html
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    Charlie Kirk Says He’s Off Fox News And Its Hosts Are Now Barred From His Events: ‘They’re Not Allowed to Be Here’

    www.mediaite.com /media/charlie-kirk-says-hes-off-fox-news-and-its-hosts-are-now-barred-from-his-events-theyre-not-allowed-to-be-here/
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    Meet the post-Evangelical Christians. They’re just getting started.

    news.yahoo.com /meet-post-evangelical-christians-just-135700022.html
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    Jack Smith added a Supreme Court specialist. Trump has the Missouri lawyer who sued Joe Biden.

    www.politico.com /news/2023/12/20/trump-jack-smith-michael-dreeben-supreme-court-lawyers-00132710
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    Judge orders Trump ally Scott Perry to turn over "incendiary" evidence to Jack Smith

    www.salon.com /2023/12/20/orders-ally-scott-perry-to-turn-over-incendiary-evidence-to-jack-smith/
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    Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed

    www.wsbradio.com /news/national/federal-judge-orders/HA4KIFACL2K7K2EF6ATZ67BTNI/
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    Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule

    www.kut.org /energy-environment/2023-12-15/texas-power-plants-have-no-responsibility-to-provide-electricity-in-emergencies-judges-rule
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    Separation of Church and State

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    Senator demands answers on reports of Meta censoring pro-Palestinian content

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/dec/14/elizabeth-warren-mark-zuckerberg-meta-instagram-censorship
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    As Missouri AG opens probe, Media Matters sues Texas AG Paxton

    www.losangelesblade.com /2023/12/12/as-missouri-ag-opens-probe-media-matters-sues-texas-ag-paxton/
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    The mystery of the missing binder: How a collection of raw Russian intelligence disappeared under Trump

    www.cnn.com /interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/
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    Bungling burglar caught hanging upside down from windowframe by his shoelaces

    www.mirror.co.uk /news/uk-news/incredibly-inept-burglar-caught-hanging-31661879
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    Sources: Christian Ziegler wants multimillion-dollar buyout to step down as Florida GOP Chair

    floridapolitics.com /archives/649068-sources-christian-ziegler-wants-multi-million-buyout-to-step-down-as-florida-gop-chair/
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    Supreme Court agrees to quick review of Trump’s presidential immunity claim

    www.courthousenews.com /supreme-court-asked-to-consider-trumps-presidential-immunity-claim/
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    Mike Johnson claims to hate the devil. Maybe he should look in the mirror

    www.salon.com /2023/12/03/mike-johnson-claims-to-hate-the-devil--maybe-he-should-look-in-the-mirror/
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    Anti-abortion attorneys ascend federal government ranks with Christian right legal training - Kansas Reflector

    kansasreflector.com /2023/12/10/anti-abortion-attorneys-ascend-federal-government-ranks-with-christian-right-legal-training/
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    Trump: A General Who Has Seen Soldiers Die Said My "Pussy" Tape Response Was Bravest Thing He'd Seen - Joe.My.God.

    www.joemygod.com /2023/12/trump-a-general-whose-seen-soldiers-die-said-my-pussy-tape-response-was-bravest-thing-hed-seen/
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    GOP’s Vance seeks investigation into op-ed that criticized Trump

    www.msnbc.com /rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-vance-seeks-investigation-op-ed-criticized-trump-rcna128757
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    US sets policy to seize patents of government-funded drugs if price deemed too high

    www.reuters.com /business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-sets-policy-seize-government-funded-drug-patents-if-price-deemed-too-high-2023-12-07/