cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20265433
> Canadian National Railway said on Friday that labor union Unifor has filed a notice of dispute to the Canadian Minister of Labor, just three days after initiating negotiations. > > Also known as "conciliation", the notice of dispute can be sent by either party to the Canadian Minister of Labor during a negotiation and typically results in the appointment of a conciliation officer to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
Yeah...Belgium has its own sordid history for sure. Frankly I wasn't aware of the extent of the abuses by the Catholic church there until reading this article, and unfortunately I suspect one may readily find similar in other countries that have had any major Catholic presence.
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.
> On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and the LGBTQ+ community in the church. > > And that was all before Francis met with the people most harmed by the Catholic Church in Belgium — the men and women who were raped and molested by priests as children. Seventeen abuse survivors spent two hours with Francis on Friday evening, telling him of their trauma, shame and pain and demanding reparations from the church.
Yeah...Honestly now that you mention it I never have looked into how they're structured and if that may play a part in them not doing so. What I do know is that I respect their mission and want to see them stick around and reshape things to allow for more organizations like them to exist rather than get snuffed out.
For months a huge iceberg blocked the path of hundreds of penguin chicks but somehow they survived.
> In May a huge iceberg broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, drifted, and came to a stop - right in front of “maybe the world’s unluckiest” penguins. > > Like a door shutting, the iceberg's huge walls sealed off the Halley Bay colony from the sea. > > It seemed to spell the end for hundreds of newly-hatched fluffy chicks whose mothers, out hunting for food, may no longer have been able to reach them. > > Then, a few weeks ago, the iceberg shifted and got on the move again.
Some bittersweet news, with an important reminder of how much more precarious life is for creatures living on the Earth's poles due to the changing climate.
Two weeks ago the world did not know the capybara from Hoo Zoo in Telford existed.
> A young capybara's escape from a zoo a fortnight ago gripped animal lovers across the globe. > > Cinnamon's Friday 13th flit from Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Shropshire has inspired memes, merchandise, and a song, which staff have on repeat.
> Four additional healthcare workers in Missouri who came in contact with a hospitalized bird flu patient developed mild respiratory symptoms but the virus was not confirmed in any of them, U.S. health officials said on Friday. > > The report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brings to six the number of healthcare workers who cared for the Missouri patient and developed respiratory symptoms. > > Unlike previous U.S. bird flu cases this year, the Missouri patient, who was hospitalized on Aug. 22, had no known contact with infected animals. Scientists are watching closely for signs that the virus has begun to spread more easily in people.
> Canadian National Railway said on Friday that labor union Unifor has filed a notice of dispute to the Canadian Minister of Labor, just three days after initiating negotiations. > > Also known as "conciliation", the notice of dispute can be sent by either party to the Canadian Minister of Labor during a negotiation and typically results in the appointment of a conciliation officer to assist the parties in reaching an agreement.
then some steam games would theoretically also be exempt because they don’t use steam drm.
I think the main difference that would arise between these and GOG would be the provision of installers. Even though some Steam games don't use its DRM, they're still reliant on Valve's servers and an online connection for installation. GOG games are reliant on CD Projekt's servers and an online connection for installer downloads, but upon download completion, one may install and reinstall games even while offline.
That's a critical difference in digital distribution, in my opinion.
Other quotes I found compelling from the article were these:
Ultimately, a personal action versus political action binary is unhelpful. The environmental movement needs to sustain a way to do both: agitate and organize for systemic change while also still encouraging individual behavior changes.
[...]
Which is to say that personal action and collective, political action are self-reinforcing. Individual lifestyle changes can act as a kind of alloy that strengthens political activism. To do the difficult work of walking more lightly on the planet is to bind commitment to conviction.
JPMorgan disclosed that the CFPB could punish the lender for its role in Zelle, the giant peer-to-peer digital payments network.
> Buried in a roughly 200-page quarterly filing from JPMorgan Chase last month were eight words that underscore how contentious the bank’s relationship with the government has become. > > The lender disclosed that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could punish JPMorgan for its role in Zelle, the giant peer-to-peer digital payments network. The bank is accused of failing to kick criminal accounts off its platform and failing to compensate some scam victims, according to people who declined to be identified speaking about an ongoing investigation. > > In response, JPMorgan issued a thinly veiled threat: “The firm is evaluating next steps, including litigation.”
Title is original from site.
Arguably a better title:
Why JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over regulation
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
Note: article may be paywalled if you've read all your free articles from Wired for now. Archive link in that event.
> [...] Against the back wall, where one might find confessionals in a different kind of church, there’s a tower of humming black servers. These servers hold around 10 percent of the Internet Archive’s vast digital holdings, which includes 835 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts, and 15 million audio recordings, among other artifacts. Tiny lights on each server blink on and off each time someone opens an old webpage or checks out a book or otherwise uses the Archive’s services. The constant, arrhythmic flickers make for a hypnotic light show. Nobody looks more delighted about this display than Kahle. > > It is no exaggeration to say that digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—and that, as the world’s knowledge repositories increasingly go online, archiving as we know it would not be as functional. Its most famous project, the Wayback Machine, is a repository of web pages that functions as an unparalleled record of the internet. Zoomed out, the Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion. The rhapsodic regard the Internet Archive inspires is earned—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history.
Note: article may be paywalled if you've read all your free articles from Wired for now. Archive link in that event.
Workers have been sharing videos alleging the precarious working conditions that have allowed the Chinese ecommerce giant to target unstoppable growth.
> In a video uploaded to the Chinese social media platform Bilibili in October, a Shein warehouse worker in southern China with black-rimmed glasses tells the camera he picked 650 clothing items during his last shift—a feat he claims to have accomplished, in part, by not taking a single bathroom break. The worker says the sacrifice would help him reach his goal of earning 10,000 RMB (nearly $1,500 at the time) a month at his job picking and packing customer orders for Shein, the global fast-fashion juggernaut valued last year at $66 billion. > > In a separate Bilibili video posted a few days later, a different Shein staffer says that he is “sweating profusely after picking goods all night,” but he’s grateful, at least, that his team leader is friendly. In a third clip shared to the short-form video platform Kuaishou in November, another Shein worker with long hair pulled back into a low ponytail tells the camera she is having trouble lifting her left hand after completing an 11-and-a-half hour shift at a Shein warehouse. “My first time working in logistics, there won’t be a second time,” reads the caption.
Note: title is drawn from the article, and I'd argue is rather exaggerated given the contents. A better title might be, "A Look Into Shein's Reliance on Gig Workers". Just realized this may be behind paywall for some, archive link in the event of that.
But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.
Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.
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are you getting a cut from kagi for writing that instead of search? gimme the deets on that deal if so! 😛
> RT was long known to be government-funded and a source of Russian propaganda. But it claimed to be independent. It hired American journalists, and featured some big names like former CNN host Larry King. The channel’s aesthetic was sleek, modern, and cable news-like. But over the years, as American relations with Russia cooled, skepticism of RT grew. > > Now, the U.S. government has accused RT and its parent company, Rossiya Segodnya, of going beyond propaganda, as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to destabilize democracies and erode international support for Ukraine.
If the Otterbox case had a rubberized coating on it to try to improve grip, and with it being 6 years old, there's a possibility it's the culprit. You could try ditching the case for a little while, and/or getting a new case and swapping them out, clean the surfaces again and see if you feel the stickiness again after handling your phone and other stuff.
However, often with those rubberized coatings, the degradation (when severe enough to feel sticky) is more immediately apparent and you'd be more apt to avoid touching anything else afterward. Also in my experience I don't recall it transferring to other surfaces much, but then again when I dealt with it I noticed ASAP and cleaned my hands right away.
More direct link to their ArtStation page here: https://trufanov.artstation.com/
Also these are some great mechasaurs! Thanks for sharing this artist's work!
Considering this group is in Amsterdam, it may be that there isn't as much of a religious backdrop to make people think of it like that. Admittedly I don't know the demographics of the city, much less the country, enough to know whether that's the case or not.
The artificial sensor detects distant objects through ‘tele-perception.’
> Researchers have designed a robotic “artificial skin” that is as unique as the team’s animal inspiration—the platypus. Created by collaborators between China’s Tsinghua University and the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, the dual-sensory system can interpret information not just from direct physical touch, but also through detecting electrostatic changes in the air around it.
Although I'm sharing the Popular Science article for easier reading, I'd recommend checking out the journal article it cites, as it gets into the details of the research. Best of all? Journal article's open access, so from what I can tell by checking between browsers, it's not paywalled!
Huh. This inspired me to look up what FTO means, so for anyone else curious but too lazy to look it up, it's Face-Turning Octahedron.
Congrats on getting the hang of it OP!
“League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game.
> “League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game. > > The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called a strike against “League of Legends” on Tuesday, arguing that Formosa Interactive attempted to get around the ongoing video game strike by hiring non-union actors to work on an unrelated title.
From login/paywalled Financial Times article that this is citing:
Data from Similarweb shows active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8mn a year ago to only around 5.6mn now, with more than a third of that fall coming since the summer riots.
- Require you to type the instance before you can start typing your credentials.
- This complicates things and adds an extra step. This also wouldn't completely solve the problem.
First thought in a similar vein to this, have a pause for credential & instance review before passing them along?
E.g. Type everything in as-is, but instead of log in promptly sending anything, it displays all the information you just entered again with some simple message like, "Does everything here look correct?" and Yes/No or something of the sort.
It complicates things and adds a step as well, however I think it would do a better job of encouraging people to double-check for any typos than what you mention in what I've quoted above. Bonus of this idea is that it also keeps external ties to a minimum.
Meta could strike deals for “really important” work.
> Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter. [...] > [...] > Zuckerberg said Meta’s future AI content strategy would likely echo its blunt response to proposed laws that would add a fee for links to news stories. The company has typically responded to these rules by blocking news outlets in countries like Australia and Canada. “Look, we’re a big company,” he said. “We pay for content when it’s valuable to people. We’re just not going to pay for content when it’s not valuable to people. I think that you’ll probably see a similar dynamic with AI.”
Social media platform X published its first transparency report on Wednesday. The report is the first since the company was purchased by Elon Musk two years ago.
> The report, which details content moderation practices, shows the company has removed millions of posts and accounts from the site in the first half of the year. > > X, formerly Twitter, suspended nearly 5.3 million accounts in that time, compared with the 1.6 million accounts the company reported suspending in the first half of 2022. The social media company also “removed or labeled” more than 10.6 million posts for violating platform rules — about 5 million of which it categorized as violating its “hateful conduct” policy. > [...] > When Musk was trying to buy Twitter in 2022, he said he was doing so because it wasn’t living up to its potential as a “platform for free speech.” Since acquiring the company that October, Musk has fired much of its staff and made other changes, leading to a steady exodus of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people from the platform.
As noted, seeing as they're neither consistently active nor terribly large (Adulting is the largest of the two with any posts), building them on other instances now would probably be just as well. They're decent enough topics to try to build communities around imo.
throwing knives (which just seem to breed like rabbits and accumulate in droves)
Every time they're thrown, even just into storage, another emerges from the Forge of Being.
This may be related to the version your instance is on and Thunder adjusting to accommodate different vote display options that your instance version allows for. You might look through Thunder's settings regarding display and see if there's an option to restore the display of vote counts.
Hope this helps!
Slightly surprised to find the Adulting, Career Guidance, and Jobs communities haven't gained too much traction, or in one case stalled out. Although these communities aren't the most exciting or uplifting, so it also makes sense.
I'm talking about the following on Lemmy World specifically:
Given the second community never went anywhere, it's probably best to instead focus on Jobs if anyone was interested. Unfortunately in the case of both the Jobs and Adulting community, the moderators no longer seem to be active to coordinate with to help the communities along.
In looking about the only similar communities I could find to these were on other instances one might also consider too large or controversial, if not both (e.g. Lemmy ml and Lemmygrad). Given their lack of activity, if there was enough interest they might be rebuilt on other instances with more effort to get them going. However, seeing as that already seems to be something of an uphill struggle, revitalizing what's here might be preferable.
Thoughts?
I'm not sure if it's offered as a part-time job, but you might look into localization jobs. Sometimes (often?) they may be the same exact job, but in the situations that they're not it may help to find jobs you might otherwise miss.
The problem with AI translations with some languages is that their results can be far too literal and miss much needed nuance to deliver the desired message, so: localization. Like you said, translation, especially good translation, is an art, and a major part of that is in localizing the translations for different audiences.
Delayed response, but there's a few that I'm aware of that may roughly fit this interest.
Same idea but different instance:
!buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works
Lastly there's !recommendations@lemmy.world, but this is more for seeking product recommendations rather than providing reviews of products. However currently there's nothing in their rules prohibiting product review posts, so you could always DM the mod to see if they're open to them.
Edited & crossed out first couple communities as I reviewed the original thread and saw they weren't what you were after. I also see that you've made a community tailored to what you were looking for via !product_reviews@slrpnk.net, which is apt. Best of luck with it!
Finished watching it the other day and if you're into scifi, or maybe more science-fantasy, it's well worth watching! Refreshing to see some new scifi, particularly with a focus on extraterrestrial ecosystems.
Saw by searching that there's nothing about another season for now, which is a shame, but I think season 1 stands up well even as it is.
Thanks! This tool seems really useful. It's interesting how patchy service availability seems to be even in urban areas. 😕
Ride those celestial surfboards through the 'verse!
Ah yeah, ya see, flip that switch and you bathe the computer with some extremely excited electrons
IT people don't want ya to know it, but computers love electron baths. Takes them to a whole new level of performance!
This is buried toward the bottom of the release notes so I'm bringing it up here:
Added instance-level default sort type
Any admins out there considering changing their instance sort settings or asking people on their instance if they'd like this changed, given that we can individually set sorting anyway? Taking into account the inclination of people to never adjust default settings (I remain deeply curious about this tendency, as an aside), I think it might be worth at least bringing up to one's instance community.
If they decide they want it to remain the same, all good, and even better, it raises some people's awareness that they can change it themselves.
With that convoluted title I'm making myself think about what we'd call the additional days on other planets or other different temporal circumstances.
Instead of ending them with -day you could end them with the planetary body name or circumstance name. Today might be Lajove on Jupiter!
Some side-work I do has me dealing with people a bunch, and for as much as we all complain about each other, at least in brief moments my experiences with others have been okay, pleasant even.
Of course, despite that, I can't shake the idiosyncratic impulse to avoid people much of the time, but regardless. As a bonus: most of those I'm encountering are total strangers to boot, so it's not even a matter of familiarity.
Not much more of a point to this post than that, really. Thought we could use a little more upbeat stuff around here.
Remember: be gay, do crimes
The OwOs are in the jets
The thigh highs control the nets
Always been around, always will be 😎
I know next to nothing of hiking, so I'd be interested in hearing of your trips and tips and whatever else!
My limited knowledge roughly amounts to go with someone (genuinely) experienced, have more water (and probably food) than you'll think you need, good footwear, be wary of the mystery berry, and don't try to pet/touch all the wildlife (no matter how cute they may seem).