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NoSpotOfGround

@ NoSpotOfGround @lemmy.world

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  • Can you recommend a good camera app?

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  • Thanks for the tip regarding Fossify, they do seem to have a nice clean set of apps!

  • Russia says Moscow now occupies all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, illegally annexed in 2022

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  • We should ask the Kremlin.

  • Most Common PIN Codes

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  • Meh. He only had $23.50 in his account.

  • Fetterman Complains He’s Missing Beach Vacation Over Vote for Bill Projected to Kill Thousands

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  • You guys get to wank off at all? You're wank billionaires, you ingrates! I never get any time for it with my girlfriend always demanding sex.

  • 45-hour voyage in replica canoe tests Paleolithic migration theory

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  • Don't be ridiculous. Now back to those dog-powered props,...

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  • I'm all for the "SLEEP 8 HOURS" bit though. I need more of that in my life.

  • Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

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  • Bottle caps are stored in big bags of some sort before being placed on bottles.

    They have sharp edges and they scratch each other's paint as they shift around in the bags.

    The scratching produces a fine dust of plastic/paint particles. The dust covers all sides of the bottle caps in the bags.

    The caps are placed on the bottles. The dust goes into the liquid inside the bottle. People drink it.

  • Your Intelligence Might Be Determined by a Rhythm in Your Brain

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  • How you doin'?

  • Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

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  • Yes. So many people are misunderstanding this article... The microplastics are on the inside, in the drink, and they are bits of the paint from the exterior of bottle caps that stuck to the inside of other caps when the caps were all jumbled together in big bags before they were placed on the bottles.

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  • There's a region around the handle where you can grab it to slide left-right but also be scrolling the page up and down, defeating the attempt to move the finger out of the way.

    The first time I tried it I kept hitting that region, but I see now that with a bit more precision you can avoid the up-down segment.

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  • Also, having the handle on the middle of the picture instead of underneath is awful on mobile where you can't see anything because of your own finger.

  • AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic

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  • You had one job.

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  • Yes. Doesn't mean it's a bad strategy.

    This is not a one-round game. Elections happen repeatedly. If you show someone you will punish them for bad behavior even at cost to yourself, it might teach them to change their ways. On the other hand, always minimizing your losses in the current round (i.e. having no memory or vision) makes you a perfectly predictable and exploitable player.

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  • What we're talking about is a game between two players: democrats and their potential voters. It is totally a valid strategy in game theory to punish the other player when they're not cooperating. If you're always cooperating even when your opponent (i.e. your preferred political party) isn't, you're just encouraging them to continue to not cooperate.

    Try out this interactive page.

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  • That's not how it works. Using that logic voting for Himmler would be the right thing to do because at least they're one step less awful than Hitler. Fucking demand that Himmler change his ways or a better candidate is allowed to run.

    A lot of countries have political theater instead of actual politics, but the US is really deep into it.

  • Spain says 'overvoltage' caused huge April blackout

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  • That is just right-wing disinformation:

    The right-wing opposition has questioned the Socialist-led coalition government's phase-out of nuclear energy and reliance on renewables, saying they made Spain more vulnerable to blackouts.

    But the government says there is no evidence to suggest "an excess of renewables or the lack of nuclear power plants" caused the crisis.

  • Hundreds of Thousands Form 'Red Line' Around The Hague

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  • Two percent of the population is actually pretty huge. Historically, 3.5% has been the threshold after which change has almost always happened.

  • There’s no cheating this random number generator

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  • No, wait! Please do explain why you are going to bed.

  • Trump–Xi call boosts Chinese president’s tough man image — and may have handed him the upper hand in future talks

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  • Aside from the actual effect of the resumption of rare earth exports, Trump’s apparent priority given to the issue signals to Beijing just how reliant the U.S. is on China in this regard — something that would not have gone unnoticed by Xi.

    Xi never came calling

    Just one day before the June 5 call, Trump wrote on social media: “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!”

    His conversation with the Chinese leader would have further reinforced Xi’s tough image — not just for a Chinese audience, but for international observers as well.

    This was certainly encouraged by how China described the call. According to China’s official statement, Xi “took a phone call from U.S. President Donald J. Trump” – the subtle implication being that it was Trump who initiated the call.

    This framing promotes the idea that Xi holds the upper hand. The Chinese statement also highlighted that the Geneva talks were “at the suggestion of the U.S. side,” implying that China did not back down in the face of Trump’s trade pressure — and that it was Trump who ultimately blinked first.

    It goes on with lots of interesting details. Worth the read.