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  • Today we're going to learn about wage theft

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  • I would definitely call it theft in most cases, because in a capitalist system, labor is structurally coerced and is not giving up its surplus value freely, as you basically said yourself in different words. Or perhaps more succinctly, I would call slavery a form of theft. But I agree it isn't "wage theft" because that has a more specific understood meaning related to what's owed according to the law.

  • California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

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  • ATM rule

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  • Bathrooms are usually free. So there's something at least.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils new orders to tackle NYC housing crisis on Day 1

    www.nbcnewyork.com /new-york-city/zohran-mamdani-housing-executive-orders/6437886/

  • 'Blatant Act of Retaliation': Trump Denies Colorado Request for Fire, Flooding Disaster Relief

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  • I'd bet you were thinking of the name James Comey, director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, who was recently in the news for retaliatory prosecution against him.

  • Bill to reopen government shuts down hemp industry

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    Bill to reopen government shuts down hemp industry

    www.houstonpublicmedia.org /articles/news/business/2025/11/12/535842/bill-to-reopen-government-shuts-down-hemp-industry/

  • What if we held hands 😳👉🏻👈🏻

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  • I have you tagged as "knows chemistry". I'm sure I meant the science, but I'll choose to trust you on this too.

  • xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings

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  • Making an educated guess as a layperson, besides some satellites that are geosynchronous but not geostationary, I'd assume those are primarily old geostationary satellites in graveyard orbits - when they're EOL, satellites in those orbits are supposed to perform a small boost out of them, usually adding a few hundred km to their orbit's radius (GEO is about 36,000km in altitude, so a few hundred km is relatively small). Then, without station keeping, I believe they should naturally precess around the Laplace plane, which will range between roughly Earth's equator and the ecliptic plane (the plane of Earth's orbit). At GEO altitudes the Laplace plane is about 7.2 degrees inclined from the equator. I believe that would mean, starting at the equator with an inclination of 0 degrees, these satellites should precess to about 14.4 degrees and back to 0 over several decades (excluding other perturbations, of course).

    I found this online which would seem to confirm at least the mechanics: https://amostech.com/TechnicalPapers/2013/Orbital_Debris/ROSENGREN.pdf

  • The White House Peace Vigil, after standing for decades, is dismantled

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  • There’s an argument that the First and Second Amendments should be treated differently because of how they’re worded. The First flatly says "Congress shall make no law...," which makes permits seem like an infringement. The Second, though, begins with "A well regulated Militia...," and if we take "well regulated" seriously, it can be seen to imply regulation is part of the right itself rather than contrary to it. You could even push it to a more radical reading: that being free from excessive gun violence is itself an implied right, since "well regulated" might be taken to point in that direction.

    Not necessarily saying I agree with that reading (honestly I don't think I have the legal background to have a real opinion except oughts and shoulds) but it's an argument I've seen made and it seems internally consistent.

  • These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous..

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  • Oh cool! I hadn't considered that. The crystallin and vitreous humor in the eye do indeed have a refractive index similar to water, so Cherenkov radiation happens at less than 1 MeV IIRC, so it comes down to how much light would actually be produced in such a small volume. It does seem perfectly feasible!

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I get where you're coming from, and I do feel like Chani really suffered from the adaptation, but I felt like it was more due to screentime and not having internal thoughts than changes made. I felt her being skeptical at the beginning was both a great change to her character (it feels like she falls in love with the Muad'dib Paul becomes, not the Atreides he was) and a really good way to carry themes of anti-messianism into the movie where the book relied on philosophical asides. It also provides a natural foil to Stilgar's zeal and Jessica's manipulation, presenting Chani as more aligned with Paul himself.

  • These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous..

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  • Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe due to the very low refractive index of about 1.0003, particles need tremendous energy to produce Cherenkov radiation in atmosphere. So the demon core flashes (while perhaps some negligible part Cherenkov) were probably mostly just from the ionization of the air, and subsequent nitrogen/oxygen fluorescence.

    If my awful phone math is right, you'd need about 21 MeV of energy for an electron to produce Cherenkov radiation. I think the processes producing energetic electrons here (Compton scattering, some pair production, photoelectric effect, internal conversion, delta rays, and Bremsstrahlung cascade I believe) should regularly produce energies around 10 MeV at most (from Compton).

  • Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary

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  • The entire series is incredible, if you have the time. It really left an impression on me.

  • The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine

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  • It isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you may find this interesting, and it's a bit of an insight into the relationship between pretraining and fine tuning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10965

  • Well ain't that just dandy?

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  • Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary

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  • ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

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  • That basically just sounds like Mixture of Experts

  • Age verification

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  • For those curious, the "off" means "off premises" (or something like that, they may use a different wording), so a license for a store that can sell alcohol that must be taken elsewhere to be consumed, i.e. a liquor store or package store. The inverse is an "On-License", a license to sell alcohol that may be consumed on premises, so things like bars, pubs, and restaurants.

  • Italy OKs $15.5 billion project to build world's longest suspension bridge from mainland to Sicily

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  • Honestly if it works economically, I think this kind of infrastructure project should at least partially count towards NATO targets. Not all of war is moving troops, some of it is logistics, keeping your citizenry relatively happy, and an accumulated history of economic investment. If they can manage to get a lot of that money into workers' hands, that alone is a huge benefit when combined with the transferrable skills you're reinforcing in your workforce.

    Not that we should have to justify infrastructure as military expenses. But I do think it kinda works.

  • 1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit

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