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TWeaK

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  • Easter "Eggs"

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  • Fun fact: at birth koalas can't actually digest eucalyptus leaves on their own. They eat their mum's faeces to gain the necessary gut bacteria.

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    Trains have gender neutral bathrooms

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  • Could be? It absolutely is off topic.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • People are already boycotting American things on their own, it doesn't make sense to punish them. If anything, that's more likely to backfire and make that government look bad towards its people.

    The only way tariffs work is if the revenue collected from them is used to do something for the country setting them. America isn't doing that, America is being stupid. Trump is going to rinse America dry and all the tariff money American taxpayers paid will be gone (probably by the government investing in a classic and obvious crypto scam meme coin).

    Other countries shouldn't be stupid like America, they should only apply tariffs with a plan to re-invest the revenue back into their country. If they even need to apply tariffs at all; I'd argue not.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • The point I'm making is that retaliatory tariffs don't make Americans suffer, let alone the American government. They maybe mean some American businesses make a little bit less money, but that's it. What tariffs really do is make that country's people suffer.

    The American government is already making Americans suffer with American tariffs. It makes no sense for other countries to make their own people suffer with their own tariffs.

    Ultimately, tariffs are a tax; they take money from the people and put it in the government's pocket. I wouldn't want my governmet taking more of my money, not at least without some plan for what it's going to be spent on (and those plans being in my or the country's interest).

    If America wants to tax Americans for buying overseas then that's their problem, and it doesn't mean that Europe or other countries should start taxing their own citizens.

  • French industry leaders back Macron’s call to freeze US investments

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  • I just want to add something right here:

    Retirement was pushed to the age of 64 under his name

    Macron did this unilaterally by twisting an emergency constitutional power so that he could bypass a vote from the Assembly/Senate.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • This is why it's ridiculous that media in other countries are criticising their politicians for not responding harshly to Trump's tariffs with tariffs of their own.

    When America applies tariffs on imports it's Americans who pay them. It affects foreign business slightly, in the form of reduced sales, but the real victims are Americans. When other countries apply tariffs, the main victims are their citizens.

    The correct response to someone punching themselves in the face is not to punch yourself in the face.

  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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  • Maybe it isn't, but I just find it hard to believe the obsession with Merrivius on r/comics is completely natural.

  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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  • Shots fired lmao I bet this tanked on reddit, they're obsessed with their elf girl (and that totally isn't astroturfed).

  • How much did it cost to create a 10 foot long bike lane

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  • Nah it would have cost the city the same regardless, you're just talking about how much the civils business pays its workers.

    Most likely this would have been part of a larger project of installing cycle lanes in various places. But it still would have been expensive, civil contractors are notorious.

  • Can't make LastPass extension work

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  • Bitwarden is arguably a better choice, although the two options are generally so similar I wonder if they have a mutual owner.

  • ‘Slime’ keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing

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  • TIL that loose wire connections on breakers can create arcs, heats up the wires or the breaker internally and cause an electric fire

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  • Yes, these days you might have like 20 devices plugged in, but they're all DC and most only draw about 10W each. Also, they're not all drawing power at the same time.

  • TIL that loose wire connections on breakers can create arcs, heats up the wires or the breaker internally and cause an electric fire

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  • Back in the day your monitor(s) would have been drawing a lot more power (I'm talking way back with CRT monitors). Also, your PC doesn't draw 750 watts all the time if at all - 750W is the max rating for the power supply. Even if you did have a very power hungry system (read: GPU) it would only draw that while running full whack, most of the time the PC will idle at lower clock speeds and lower power.

    Your soldering irons are probably only 25W, certainly less than 100W (unless you're showing off). The big things are generally anything involving heating, but many of the things at your desk probably don't use that much. After heating it's motors. And, again, these things are generally not all on at the same time.

    Suffice it to say, there isn't really any higher risk to the volume and type of load we have today than back when electricity was first installed in houses. It certainly should be said that the installations are much safer now than they used to be, where even a faulty install like this shouldn't lead to a fire - if your cable is installed in ducting or kopex then even if a faulty termination heats the cable up there won't be anything in contact with it to start a fire.

    But you should still get check these things checked out. The layers of redundancy by design are great, but you don't want holes in the Swiss cheese to line up - that's when bad things happen.

  • TIL that loose wire connections on breakers can create arcs, heats up the wires or the breaker internally and cause an electric fire

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  • We have a lot more stuff plugged in than the era when most houses were built.

    While this is true, most of the devices we use today are DC devices and much lower power. Your standard USB device is maybe 5V and 2A, so only 10W.

  • Trump says sanctions against Russia to be lifted "at some point"

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  • They've already instructed US cybersecurity agencies to stop reporting on Russian threats.

  • Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

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  • In other words, US agencies are doing less to protect US citizens and businesses from Russian cyberattacks.

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  • Not only that, the VOA literally has its own law requiring it to be impartial and protecting it from direct interference by the US government.

    VOICE OF AMERICA BROADCASTS

    Sec. 206. Title V of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 is amended by adding the following new section:

    Sec. 503. The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world by radio. To be effective, the Voice of America must win the attention and respect of listeners. These principles will therefore govern Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts:

    1. VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news. VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive.
    2. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions.
    3. VOA will present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively, and will also present responsible discussions and opinion on these policies. (Public Law 94-350)