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  • Japan: Hundreds get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling

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  • Alcohol has long been seen as a social lubricant for thousands of years in Japan, where business deals and difficult issues are discussed over bottles of beer and sake.

    It is believed that drinking alcohol creates a more relaxed environment for such discussions.

    This is such an odd bit of “cultural context” to include in the article. Alcohol is a social lubricant in basically every culture that doesn’t outright forbid it.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • FYI there is a setting to disable ads. Doesn’t excuse them for introducing ads in the first place, but at least it’s a solvable problem (for now).

  • Saw this guy on the bike path; anyone know what he is? [OC]

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  • Distractions (July 3, 1908)

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  • Everett may be in the right, but it’s probably not wise to piss off the guy who’s going to be holding a straight razor to your throat.

  • Hegseth Summoned Military Leaders to Say “FAFO” in Disturbing Speech

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  • With no beards! That parts important - Hegseth likes his manly men to be smooth.

  • More for folks from walkable environments, my question is: would you walk an hour and 15 minutes to go to say, the library?

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  • I used to live about that distance from my work. I only walked it occasionally, if the weather was nice, I had the time to spare, and a little extra energy. Generally I took the bus.

    I think 30 minutes is about how long I’d walk to get somewhere before considering public transit or driving.

  • Trump lists reasons he deserves Nobel Prize in epic meltdown

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  • Nobel Peace Prize? Motherfucker just bombed Iran. Pick a lane you lunatic.

  • My wife's new tablecloth. Is it white with gold, or blue with black?

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  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    ICE Releases Gavin Newsom Beheading Video

    theonion.com /ice-releases-gavin-newsom-beheading-video/

  • Jonathan Joss death: Police backtrack on hate crime denial

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  • Or Parkland.

  • Lemme.ee is closing, where do I go. Only been here 12 days lol?

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  • Lemmy.world is the largest instance, for what it’s worth.

  • Ernst draws groans at Iowa town hall after retort on Medicaid cuts, saying 'we all are going to die'

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  • “You first.”

  • Luanne!

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  • Honeyguides

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  • Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?

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  • “Thank you for your answer to my first question. Could you please also address questions 2 and 3?”

    At least by numbering the questions you make it easier to re-ask them.

  • Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud"

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  • my attempt is to balance the perspective of what has become polemic, faith-based scientific dogma completely divorced from fact with some kind of reality-based reasoning and investigation.

    I believe this reveals a real lack of understanding of how modern science is done. I’ve heard similar complaints about scientists being blinded by orthodoxy from anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and from people promoting their alternate models of physics (e.g. “everything is made of photons”). In every case the complaint is based on their own ideological blindness, misunderstanding of the science, or both.

    The idea that scientists are unwilling to interrogate modern theories or entertain alternatives is ridiculous. The most interesting results aren’t those that reaffirm the standard model or expectations, it’s those that are in conflict with our best understanding of reality. These are the observations and theories that reveal new physics. This is the stuff of Nobel prizes.

    Searches for physics beyond the standard model are commonplace; physics conferences generally have at least a few sections devoted to them. There are large collaborations doing experiments that search for physics that’s inconsistent with the standard model, for example searches for neutrinoless double beta decay or the neutron electric dipole moment.

    Even experiments that ultimately reaffirm the standard model began as attempts to interrogate it and discover things that challenge it. At the LHC, Atlas and CMS both observed the Higgs boson and found its properties were consistent with the standard model. If you talk with any of the physicists involved, they were actually disappointed that no new physics was observed. This was the most boring possible result.

  • Too Hot for Lemmy.World: "Quantum Fraud"

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  • Alright I’ll bite. I don’t think this is AI drivel, I do think this article comes from a place of a serious lack of understanding of the standard model and quantum mechanics.

    Yes, prior to the discovery of quantum mechanics some physicists realized that if they made certain assumptions, the math “just worked out”. They did not understand why this was the case, and being good scientists they sought to. They were also clear about their lack of a model to justify this math.

    The development of quantum mechanics not only solved all these problems, but also predicted additional physics that has since been verified (solid state mechanics for example is just applied quantum mechanics, and predicted and described the transistor).

    The reason quantum mechanics and the standard model of particle physics are treated as the best description of reality we currently have is because they are in fact. Attempts to describe cosmology and observational physics based in alternative models all do a worse job, either failing to account for observations or making unphysical predictions.

    A quote from the article:

    While MOND successfully predicts many galactic phenomena, often with greater simplicity than dark matter models, it faces its own challenges, particularly in galaxy clusters, and has often been dismissed by the mainstream physics community, sometimes explicitly because it is perceived to “lack mathematical elegance” or deviates too far from the established framework of General Relativity, suggesting theoretical preference can overshadow empirical parsimony.

    This is incorrect. MOND is generally dismissed because as the article admits, it fails to account for all observed behavior. If you have to pick a model that describes more observed phenomena, which do you choose: the model that matches nearly all empirical data, or the one that only matches a subset but maybe could do better if someone could come up with the right formalism? If one insists that MOND is the path forward, then it is they who are dogmatically blinded by their choice of model.

  • Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal

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  • Definitely an accurate prediction for Collins - she already called in sick so she didn’t have to attend the hearings.

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  • Candyland.

  • The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

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  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees and floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza

    www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2025/01/25/trump-biden-israel-bomb-gaza-hamas-war/f1676fbc-db80-11ef-85a9-331436ec61e9_story.html
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    The War That Would Not End: Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East

    www.theatlantic.com /international/archive/2024/09/israel-gaza-war-biden-netanyahu-peace-negotiations/679581/
  • Everett True Comics @midwest.social
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    Everett makes an impression (July 27, 1909)

  • Everett True Comics @midwest.social
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    Everett takes a stand against age discrimination in housing (1907?)

  • Everett True Comics @midwest.social
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    Everett goes bananas (1907?)

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment

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    Congress Clears Stopgap Spending Bill for Biden, Moving to Avert Shutdown

    www.nytimes.com /2024/01/18/us/politics/senate-spending-bill.html
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    Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History

    www.thecrimson.com /article/2024/1/3/claudine-gay-resign-harvard/
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    You'll never guess the most popular internet country code