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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

Well, let's replace it with whatever they're doing for the AI companies.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

We think it's probably PCOS, but the ~~death panel~~ insurance won't pay for the test, so we're treating empirically. It improved some of her symptoms, but not that one, and I'm cool with it. I've accepted that this is our relationship.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Not if we're just giving it away to the richest people on earth to feed into a plagiarism generator, no. There's either IP law for everyone, and EVERYONE gets DMCA, or there's IP law for nobody. Nobody is above the law, including AI execs.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Well, the biggest change in our case was that she basically did not want to be touched for the whole pregnancy plus a full year afterwards. To provide some context and what I mean, she'd get annoyed with holding hands, and really frustrated with hugging. Physical contact is big for me, so that was really rough. Then, she convinced me that every pregnancy is different and that probably wouldn't happen the next time (it did). It's been over a decade, and I've basically just come to terms with the fact that sex really isn't a part of our relationship anymore. That was a really, really difficult thing to adjust to, but I did adjust to it. I eventually saw that it had to be a choice, and had to ask myself what was more important. I decided that I liked my relationship with my wife and my kids better than I liked sex. I'm not going to try and convince you that it's better; it's not, it's just different, and I'm good with that. Definitely not everyone would be, YMMV.

I don't want to frighten you, OP, I'm just telling you my lived experience. It really is different for every person, and having kids is not an easy thing, so it's going to change you. You can't say how your partner may change any more than you can know how much you'll change in five years. Only you and your partner can decide what you're both willing to put up with. If you want to stay with them, do it. If not, don't.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm mostly sure it's only that cheap:

  • because the train is a realistic alternative

AND

  • they're probably operating at a loss or near loss and covering the cost from other operations (like if they're a subsidiary of a US company, for example) in order to convince people of how cheap and convenient air travel is. See? You don't need trains! Just dismantle your rail system, you can trust us to have a monopoly on your long distance travel.
[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

But rich people told me that it fixed transit in England =(

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

Sleeper trains like Nightjet exist now, but you have to book weeks or even months in advance to find a seat.

This seems like a really obvious demand signal for expanding the availability of this kind of service =\

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Boeing: por que no los dos?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, not going to happen. Rent-seeking behavior is soon going to make this the default and we'll be right back to ticket prices over even what we're at now.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago

Nooooo, haha, you don't need high speed rail, you'll hate high speed rail, it's too expensive to build, besides, remember the videos of how crowded the metros are? and you "hAtE oThEr PeOpLe", right? Here, do the fiscally responsible thing and pay a thousand dollars to get harassed by every federal law enforcement agency, stand in our taxpayer subsidized barely held together high speed low drag tube shoulder to shoulder and dick to ass with six hundred other people for four hours, and then die either because we just DOGEd the whole ATC except for private jets or because we dropped any pretense of holding plane manufacturers accountable. We can't tell which and don't care, fuck you, don't build the trains.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 6 hours ago

FTA: The user considered it was the unpaid volunteer coders’ “job” to take his AI submissions seriously. He even filed a code of conduct complaint with the project against the developers. This was not upheld. So he proclaimed the project corrupt. [GitHub; Seylaw, archive]

This is an actual comment that this user left on another project: [GitLab]

As a non-programmer, I have zero understanding of the code and the analysis and fully rely on AI and even reviewed that AI analysis with a different AI to get the best possible solution (which was not good enough in this case).

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

Remember when being gay was a sex offense and they chemically castrated Turing? What they can do to the worst offenders, they can do to everyone else. They're currently proving this in the US by working to say that gay people are all pedophiles.

 

This and the "beep beep beep" deer are deer classics for me

 

President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged in a tense back-and-forth at the White House on Wednesday over Trump's false claims of "genocide" against white South African farmers.

"I don't know, all of these are articles over the last few days, death of people, death, death, death, horrible death," Trump said.

Trump claimed White South Africans were "fleeing because of the violence and the racist laws."

"This is sort of the opposite of apartheid. What's happening now is never reported. Nobody knows about it," he added.

"I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my minister of agriculture," Ramaphosa said. "He would not be with me. So, it'll take him, President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspective."

At times, Ramaphosa sought to steer the conversation back to trade and economic investment, which he said was the "real reason for being here." But Trump continually talked about the treatment of White South Africans.

But when pressed on what he wants Ramaphosa and his government to do, Trump conceded, "I don't know."

Elon Musk, a South African native and a top adviser to the president during his second term who has also amplified false claims of "white genocide," was present for Ramaphosa's visit to the White House.

Musk was seen standing behind a couch and did not speak during the exchange between Ramaphosa and Trump.

"Elon is from South Africa. I don't want to get him involved," Trump said. "That's all I have to do. Get him into another thing. But Elon happens to be from South Africa."

"This is what Elon wanted," Trump said, chuckling.

Well, I guess now we know why he fucked with Grok.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62373168

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted. In the post, which Reuters saw before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge "obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week."

A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.

 

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted. In the post, which Reuters saw before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge "obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week."

A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.

 

This is a thread to provide easy access to UAP disclosure information, including congressional hearings. The resources will be indexed first by date, from least to most recent. For material that may be missing a date, I will add a secondary index when the need arises. For the purposes of the thread, I'm only going to list content that is accessible at no cost.

April 27 2020 Navy 'Go Fast' video: https://youtu.be/YPcgSliHp5Y

April 27 2020 Navy 'Gimbal' video: https://youtu.be/QKHg-vnTFsM

July 26 2023 hearing in Congress: https://www.youtube.com/live/Glw76YKuWCY

Nov 13 2024 congressional house oversight hearing: https://youtu.be/Z5tzv0Mk7as

Please comment with any additional disclosure resources you'd like to see listed.

 

Didn't see this UFO, but I'm kind of sort of not godawful at landscape, and figured I'd try actually making the icon for the lemmy UAP community I made instead of relying on slop. Came out alright, I guess, at least as good as slop imo.

 

Happy Wednesday, everyone! This is your weekly invitation to share what's weird in your life. I'm kicking it off this week with the epic of HumperMonkey, one of my all-time favorite spooky tales from the internet.

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Wow, you managed to see a UAP! What now?

Well, this guide is here to help. With any luck, you will have read it before, remembered its advice, and jotted down some notes to make sure you didn't lose any details. The best way to contribute to UAP investigation is to do your best to record objective facts alongside your subjective observations, and to record them as early as possible.

Start with:

  • Date and Time (or best approximation)
  • Location (or best approximation)
  • What you observed with each of your five senses. Visual tends to be very important, and will usually offer the best details for distinguishing from aircraft or drones.
  • If other people were with you, get them to write down what they observed with their five senses as well.

More advanced:

  • Have a camera with you? Great! Make a note of the settings you used when you took the picture, as well as the device itself and any lenses or filters you may have been using. I've seen really interesting analysis done that was able to use the shutter speed of a camera to estimate UAP speed. Many smartphones also offer optical zoom these days.
  • Have binoculars with you? Amazing! Try bracing against something to stabilize your view. Low-power, wide-aperture binoculars like 7x50s will be your best bet for getting a better look without being too unwieldy.
  • You can estimate the alt-az (altazimuth) coordinates of where you observed the object, its track along the sky, and where you stopped observing the object. This, along with time and date and location, could prove highly valuable in helping to distinguish the observation from drones or other aircraft.

To estimate azimuth (the compass direction you're facing), I would recommend starting with an app called Stellarium (it's free and actually super cool) to help you find Polaris, the north star, if you're in the northern hemisphere. From Polaris, you can use the above chart to roughly estimate your azimuth positions. Simply rotate your hand ninety degrees and then estimate the degrees from the horizon to estimate altitude. The combined coordinates will give you altazimuth, which, together with date and time and location, can help investigators compare against public flight records and astronomical phenomenon.

  • Additionally, make a note of the weather. If it was dark outside, note how clearly you could see the stars (i.e. were the stars twinkling strongly or not at all; how many stars in Ursa Minor could you see? If you can only see polaris, or not even polaris, that suggests poor sky transparency or high light pollution.

  • Consider making a report to NUFORC: https://nuforc.org/

Some quick rule-outs to consider: NUFORC has a really useful guideline here:

https://nuforc.org/report-a-ufo/

But at a glance, consider:

  • Venus: Venus is responsible for something like 33% of all UAP reports, because it's very bright and attention-getting. Check Stellarium. If the bright light was in the West for up to an hour or two before or after sunset, or in the east up to an hour or two before or after sunrise, that could very well have just been Venus punking you.
  • Planes and drones: FAA requires that all operating aircraft use navigation lights, which are red on the left side of the aircraft, green on the right, and white on the tail. Aircraft will also use a strobe when taking off and landing, and may do so under 10,000 ft. Drones use similar nav lights, but are required to use bright red or white strobes at night as anti-collision lights.
  • Starlink Constellation / LEO satellites: Increasingly, LEO satellites are polluting the sky with bright reflections. They're much more prominent at night, but have been seen during the day. Starlink in particular has been responsible for many reports due to its visually striking appearance; Starlink constellations appear as a series of lights moving in a single-file straight line across the sky. While Stellarium is another useful tool to double check, generally speaking, if it moved across the sky in a constant direction and constant speed, that's a pretty good candidate for a satellite.

Happy hunting!

 

I mean, it's a dude looking at pixels on google earth. It's hard to be sure, and there's nothing else really but conjecture to support the claim. Thoughts? Ideas on how to confirm or refute this?

 

US Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters in El Salvador Wednesday that he was unable to visit Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in the maximum-security mega-prison where he is being held.

Van Hollen said he specifically asked Salvadoran Vice President Felix Ulloa if he could meet with Abrego Garcia or at least speak with him over the phone or via video conferencing. Again, Van Hollen said the request was denied.

Pressed on whether he had concerns about the man’s health, Van Hollen said: “I don’t know about his health status which is why I wanted to meet with him directly.”

The senator’s trip swiftly drew the ire of the White House.

Communications director Steven Cheung called Van Hollen “a complete disgrace” and the Office of Communications accused the senator in a statement of a lack of concern regarding crimes they say were committed by undocumented immigrants against his constituents. Abrego Garcia has not been charged with any crimes in the United States, according to his lawyers.

OP editorializing here: Homie is definitely dead.

 

Hey everybody, I know it's a little late, but I wasn't really sure how the weather was going to be until a little while ago. I'd like to invite you all to join me in looking at the sky tonight. What's on the menu:

  • The full moon is going to steal the show tonight, of course. I may spend some time gawking at it.

  • globular clusters: I've been having a hell of a time catching M3, but I'm going to try again tonight. I'm also going to attempt M53. I'm kind of hoping that coma berineces will be able to point me to my targets. I may also attempt M67 in Cancer.

  • galaxies: probably not tonight with the full moon. I know it's doable, but I have a hard enough time with them as it is.

I'll share my findings later!

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