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  • Thousands of children in England falsely accused of witchcraft in past decade

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  • Or President X, or General Y, or Mr Secretary, even for people who no longer hold those positions.

    And for the record, Sir is an ancient military title just like Captain.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • Absolutely!

    Another example is HIV: Initial infection is just a minor flu, you're then infectious and active for 5-10 years before becoming seriously ill with AIDS (of course this is for untreated HIV). This allowed the illness to spread for decades adapting to humans before finally being identified in the 80s, killing millions.

  • Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through?

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  • I think this is the primary reason, but I'll add a couple of thoughts.

    1. His people. The core of his actions right now is 'project 2025' which was written by an extreme right wing think tank in Washington called 'The Heritage Foundation'. They've been around since Reagan and have been thought leaders in the GOP all this time. In other words, they know the system extremely well and they are well organised.
    2. His supporters. A large number of his supporters are poor, Christian folk, often from red states. They are poor because the structure of the American economy has been designed to extract money from the non-rich and channel it to big business and rich individuals. Think Walmart and Musk. For 40 years GOP have been telling the lie that billionaires as job creators, that taxes, regulations and unions are bad, that trickle-down economics works. This has led to staggering amounts of money taken from the middle and working classes and piled into bank accounts of the real elites (here meaning billionaires and biggest companies). Trump's supporters know the economy is rigged and they want to change it. Unfortunately they believe their church leaders (who have unabashedly instructed their flocks on politics and single issues like abortion) and the mainstream media (meaning Fox) who push these lies incessantly. The Democrats have not attacked (let alone resolved) these issues under Obama and Biden. But Trump claims he'll shake up Washington as an outsider and tackle these issues. His supporters somehow do not equate a nepo baby, ivy-league educated billionaire ex-president as one of the elite. They think of him as 'their man'.

    In short, the propaganda from Fox, the Internet, their churches and their neighbours has persuaded them to vote against their interests and elect a group of elite political insiders and businessmen who have taken 4 years to plan the hostile takeover of the government in order to channel even more money to themselves.

  • When you live in the UK and don't work for the BBC

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  • A 'nonce' is something used when encrypting data - it adds randomness into the data, so that identical messages will be encrypted differently. This stops hackers executing attacks where they can guess the first bit of the message, and work backwards to the encryption key (among different attacks).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

  • "Today"= 18 Months Ago

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  • Everyone needs an asshole otherwise you're just full of shit.

  • Jaydee strongly hints at defying a judge’s order

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  • The counter:

    When the president does it, it's legal

    The supreme court went and said that anything vaguely related to presidential duties can't be questioned by the court.

    This is frighteningly close to President = King and tyranny.

  • White House Faith Office

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  • I'm interested! I thought both words derive from Latin prosequi/persequi and had essentially the same meaning as modern English. Which language do you speak?

  • White House Faith Office

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  • Is that prosecuted or persecuted? Hmmm, actually both fit perfectly in your sentence

  • Two Russian colonels mysteriously ‘fall from upper-floor windows’

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  • It's in the middle of a Russian winter so the central heating must have been belting out so much heat for the poor Colonel to open said window.

  • What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

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  • Umm, it's your immune system that detects the vaccine and responds to it by developing antibodies specific to the vaccine (and by extension to the actual disease). Just as it would when challenged in real life by the pathogen.

    Vaccination basically gives your immune system a several day head start on producing antibodies.

  • Donald Trump says TikTok "worthless," might not save it after all

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  • Isn't the 'weave' the mop of hairsprayed fiber on top of Trump's head?

  • What hidden "secrets" have you learned from your home automation?

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  • Depending on the location, but

    1. Often rain comes along for the ride on a warm front as it moves over the property (although cold fronts also carry rain)
    2. In winter, the rainclouds act as insulation and so rainy days are warmer than blue-sky days

  • Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters?

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  • This is the right answer. I had the job of planning a schema update to fix this shitty design.

    Saying that, unicode and character formats are incredibly complex things that are not easily implemented. For example two strings in utf-8 can contain the same number of characters but be hugely different in size (up to 3-4x different!). It's well worth reading through some articles to get a feel of the important points.

  • A video has gone viral on Chinese social media calling for China to take advantage of Russia's weakened state and seized large pieces of its territory.

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  • They might not use genered pronouns, but they do a lot of referring to people as uncle/auntie/big sister/little brother and the like.

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  • Many years ago, my mother used the electric lawn mower without unspooling all the wire. When it finally shorted, all the plastic wire insulation was in the process of turning into a melty plastic soup. A Lesson Was Learned.

    The reason isn't resistance - it's that the coiled wire makes an electromagnet that stores energy in the magnetic field. The alternating current in the mains switches 50 or 60 times a second. In each cycle the magnetic field is created, destroyed then recreated in the opposite direction, then destroyed. This dumps a lot of energy (and therefore heat) into the coil.

  • The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant

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  • Even better - it's using ESPHome, which is part of the Home Assistant stack.

    ESPHome works from a YAML config file, which ESPHome uses to build firmware images which can be installed OTA (or USB of you must)

  • COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford

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  • Car accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings (ie eating something you shouldn't), fires. There are a lot of horrible ways to go.

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  • So they were rushing to an empty house to rescue who exactly?

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  • I agree with your logic and analysis.

    However the non-tangibles here are pretty staggering - Russia is hugely dependent on China and India for exports (basically oil and gas) to raise cash and foreign currency. It also needs high tech goods from China - China provides drones, cars, bikes, clothes and more to support the invasion. And critically a lot of electronics, including those under sanctions being smuggled from the West.

    Placing tariffs on China sends a strong negative message to China - it's a real slap in the face that will invite a pretty nasty punch back again.

    What on earth motivated this?