“Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.” — Bill Murray.
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7·1 day agoThe leak contains extensive personal data on people accused by tipsters: names, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, license plate numbers, Social Security numbers and criminal histories.
Although P3 says in sales material for clients that “each tipster’s identity will remain anonymous at all times,” personal information from those who shared it is also present throughout the leak.
Both the accused and the accusers. I wonder how much this will impact the Crime Stoppers’ information flow. Will the tips dry up, or will the public shrug after yet another data breach?
I’m lazy and chopping it down would take effort. And then what am I going to do with a utility pole? You’re asking me to do labor and then think about my actions?
It starts with libations and food offerings.
Sweets were fed to the gods in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India[7] and other ancient civilizations.[8] Herodotus mentions that Persian meals featured many desserts, and were more varied in their sweet offerings than the main dishes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessert#History
The Romans continued the practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine#Desserts
back to the main dessert article:
Europeans began to manufacture sugar in the Middle Ages, and more sweet desserts became available.[14] Even then sugar was so expensive usually only the wealthy could indulge on special occasions. The first apple pie recipe was published in 1381;[15] The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.[16]
And then there’s this guy:
Evidence for the domestication of the cacao tree exists as early as 5300 BP in South America, in present-day southeast Ecuador by the Mayo-Chinchipe culture, before it was introduced to Mesoamerica.[8] It is unknown when chocolate was first consumed as opposed to other cacao-based drinks, and there is evidence the Olmecs, the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, fermented the sweet pulp surrounding the cacao beans into an alcoholic beverage.[9][10]
Chocolate was extremely important to several Mesoamerican societies,[11] and cacao was considered a gift from the gods by the Mayans and the Aztecs.[12][13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#History
Now as to “why before bed”? It’s become a practice. But here’s the thing: nobody is making you eat a sweet nor at a particular time of day.
In the 80s it was rare to see people drinking water, except for “health food nuts”. It was far more common to see soft drinks/sodas. Over the years, society has become more accepting of drinking water. You didn’t have “hydrohomies” in the 80s. Be the change you want to see in the world.
3·2 days agoWhile rare, these are lawyers specializing in lithium battery fires…
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Lithium-ion battery fire statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show 245 fires within 64 waste facilities alone over a seven-year span, which were determined to be caused or likely caused by lithium-ion batteries and lithium metal.
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And even if it’s a low chance, it’s a chance.
As I understand, that’s a decent analogy.
They have been measured in situ only on Earth and Titan, although they are believed to exist on other planets like Mars.
4 Discussion and Conclusions The recent findings by Cardnell et al. [2016] highlighted the large conductivity differences in the Martian atmosphere depending on solar illumination. Our simulations show that dayside conditions do not allow SR to develop, while nightside conditions, presenting conductivities 2 orders of magnitude lower, do (Figure 1).
To summarize, we report numerical simulations of the SR to be expected at Mars, based on the latest modeling efforts of the Martian atmosphere-ionosphere chemical interactions and properties. The day-night asymmetry was never addressed before in SR studies at Mars, and our study highlights its importance for assessing the main SR parameters.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL071635
I wonder if this sort of data could help in the search for potentially inhabitable planets sometime in the future?
ChatGPT isn’t on the team.
Except that when someone pastes “ChatGPT thinks that {wall of AI-generated text}”
That person put ChatGPT on the team. And if there was no human input, the competition is free to use that and mock it word for word. Use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to convince your team that anyone can use that, including your competition, if it is published.
The U.S. Copyright Office’s January 2025 report on AI and copyrightability reaffirms the longstanding principle that copyright protection is reserved for works of human authorship. Outputs created entirely by generative artificial intelligence (AI), with no human creative input, are not eligible for copyright protection.
https://natlawreview.com/article/copyright-offices-latest-guidance-ai-and-copyrightability
She’s also an author
Her short stories have been published in anthologies and with Mike Resnick, she co-edited Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, an anthology published in 2003.
On July 24, 2008, Ian released autobiography Society’s Child (published by Penguin Tarcher), which was positively received.
5·8 days agoThe size of the event horizon of a black hole depends on the mass of the black hole. The greater the mass, the larger the radius of the event horizon.
One idea you may have heard is that black holes go about sucking things up with their gravity. Actually, it is only very close to a black hole that the strange effects we have been discussing come into play. The gravitational attraction far away from a black hole is the same as that of the star that collapsed to form it.
So, if you are a star or distant planet orbiting around a star that becomes a black hole, your orbit may not be significantly affected by the collapse of the star (although it may be affected by any mass loss that precedes the collapse). If, on the other hand, you venture close to the event horizon, it would be very hard for you to resist the “pull” of the warped spacetime near the black hole. You have to get really close to the black hole to experience any significant effect.
If another star or a spaceship were to pass one or two solar radii from a black hole, Newton’s laws would be adequate to describe what would happen to it. Only very near the event horizon of a black hole is the gravitation so strong that Newton’s laws break down.
https://wisconsin.pressbooks.pub/astronomy/chapter/chapter-24-section-24-5-black-holes/
solar radius is a unit of distance, commonly understood as 695,700 km and expressed as R⊙{\display style R_{\odot }}, used mostly to express the size of an astronomical objects relative to that of the Sun, or their distance from it.
695,700 kilometres (432,300 miles) is approximately 10 times the average radius of Jupiter; 109 times the 6378 km radius of the Earth at its equator; and 1/215 {\textstyle {1 \over 215}} or 0.0047 of an astronomical unit, the approximate average distance between Earth and the Sun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radius
At about 0.01 au (two solar radii would be 0.0094), the sun as a black hole would not affect the Earth, nor Venus, nor Mercury.
Mercury is 0.4 astronomical units away from the Sun
https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/facts/
Based on that, we would stay put. A black hole does not emit light, including sunlight. Sunlight warms our planet (so it’s going to get mercilessly cold). Many plants would die and they would stop making oxygen. And while you can argue that we can’t live without heat from the sun, with 8 billion humans plus all the animals on the planet, I suspect we’ll run out of air before the cold kills us. But I could be wrong about asphyxiating before freezing to death.
See also https://science.nasa.gov/universe/what-happens-when-something-gets-too-close-to-a-black-hole/
Edit: as others on here have noted, our star isn’t big enough to become a black hole. The above assumes “But what if it did?”
The conditions are
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Blinded
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Charmed
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Deafened
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Exhaustion
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Frightened
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Grappled
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Incapacitated
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Invisible
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Paralyzed
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Petrified
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Poisoned
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Prone
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Restrained
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Stunned
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Unconscious
I guess underLYING would be prone? oh, wait. This isn’t about D&D…
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Cliff Clavin approves.
9·10 days agoThe lawsuit states that Sellinger tried to tell the manager that he had a receipt proving that he had actually paid for the meals, but was asked to leave the buffet-style restaurant.
As he stood up to hand the manager his silverware, Sellinger was allegedly grabbed by the neck and slammed into a table by another employee.
On the side of the restaurant: Why didn’t the patron just show the receipt?
On the side of the patron: Why slam someone on a table? Even if the guy mooched a meal, that’s going to be a lawsuit.
A police spokesperson later confirmed to the newspaper that officers were called to the restaurant at around 6.08 p.m., with the incident being documented as a call for service. No report was filed, the spokesperson added.
Hmmm…
5·12 days agoBook series? Try Michael Moorcock’s Elric series.
25·12 days agoEFF has an article on this, too. They have links on how to limit ad tracking on iphone and android.
Am I a Punic in a Tunic?
Officially Google says the calendar has to be made public.
https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/15925285/how-do-i-share-my-calendar-with-someone-who-doesn-t-have-a-gmail-account?hl=en
Here’s steps.
https://www.clrn.org/can-you-share-a-google-calendar-with-someone-without-gmail/