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Judge lets over 8,000 Catholic employers deny worker protections for abortion and fertility care
  • Money should not be considered speech and healthcare should not be something only corporations can afford.

  • I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work
  • Docker automatically upgrades if you tell it to by specifying "latest" or not specifying a version number. But it only upgrades if you issue the pull command or the compose up command. There are ways to start without a pull like using start or restart. So yes, there was warning and something you did actively told it to upgrade.

    And it's really bad practice to update any software without testing, especially between breaking/major version numbers.

    Finally, it's not uncommon for a platform to release its update and then the plugins or addons to follow. Especially with major updates that require lots of testing before release. This allows plugin/add-on makers to fully test their software with the release version of the platform rather than all of the plugin makers having to wait for one that may be lagging behind.

  • Does anyone actually use the windows key on their keyboard as intended by the OS?
  • Usually only in an emergency when stuff freezes up and I can't use the mouse to control windows anymore.

  • 2nd-ever nitrogen gas execution in US set to take place in Alabama
  • Only it often didn't work properly because no medically trained person will participate. Nor should they because they must "do no harm". So most of the time, the guards have no idea how to tell if someone is reacting to pain and don't understand the actual effects of the drugs.

  • I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend.
  • Soft cookies can be make by changing the recipe slightly and not risk salmonella poisoning or other infections.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
  • More green if nothing goes wrong and in the short term. I'm not saying fossil fuels are the answer. I believe they need to be phased out ASAP.

    But there are lots of alternatives that are lower cost to build, lower cost to operate, lower cost in case of accidents, and exponentially lower cost to future generations relates to waste storage.

  • Emotional Support Vehicles
  • Which is why you aren't the target of the meme. It's the city dwellers who never leave the city but have a 2 ton pickup that barely fits in the narrower, low speed lanes in cities and take up 2-4 compact parking spots who are the target.

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog
  • In the past they have always said that they aren't transmitting the content and so it's the responsibility of the transmitter of the data. Now the content at least appears to be coming from youtube not the advertisers. So I'm curious if that's enough to make it fall under section 230 which would require that they make a good faith effort to remove "objectionable" content.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
  • Right I only got as far as talking about the ionizing radiation itself not even what happens if the radioation emitting materials themselves escape and so other types of radiation become dangerous through ingestion, not just incidental exposure.

    And who is going to pay the trillions of dollars to develop those technologies to reduce the ionizing radiation into a usable product? The energy companies won't because they'd go bankrupt. And what happened when we left companies to dispose of the waste? They sank it to the bottom of the ocean in barrels that some have since resurfaced. So instead we tried to build a temporary solution by dumping it in a mountain bunker, but that was too costly and we gave up and it's all just sitting out in the open still in every country with nuclear power. No country has come up with a solution yet and that solution is part of the cost of generating the energy.

    So how is nuclear power profitable if it's exorbitantly expensive to store it indefinitely and exponentially more expensive to develop the technology to make it slightly safer to store indefinitely. And it costs billions and takes decades to decommission a reactor once it's exceeded its lifespan. Which is why three mile island is still there and containment is still necessary. Again, how is nuclear power cost effective in the long term?

  • Hollywood can’t ditch its Teslas fast enough: “They’re destroying their leases and walking away”
  • Yes, yes they are. If you aren't familiar with the industry ask a cabbie who has worked in an entertainment area of a major city at night how many times they've cleaned up vomit, urine, feces, blood, or any other bodily fluids.

  • In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck.
  • Step 3: Log in and select your account to pay from. Don’t worry, we have security covered. 🤣

    Yeah, scam or not, this method of getting your account and routing information is not at all secure. I'm actually more surprised that the banks allow another site to initiate the login with a plaintext password. This defies all decent security practices.

  • Did a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.
  • Enough people believe women are lesser beings (including many women which is especially sad), mostly because the religious texts almost all say as much, but also hubris. So it's always been accepted by the majority of societies that if there's a chance of brining one male child into this world, that's more important than the mother, not only that but worth all the deaths of all the women who were evil enough to want to not be forced to give birth.

  • What was your last refund? Why did you get your last refund?
  • Amazon sends me open, broken, defective, and/or outright used items all the time these days. So I have a lot of returns, and if I get two in a row, I take a refund instead because their whole inventory of that item is probably too polluted to get a new one. If only there were any other ways to get some things, I'd quit buying from them, but with the lack of small specialty stores, even in cities, it's so hard to find so many things in physical stores anymore, and smaller online stores can't compete, especially for items that need to be tried a lot to find the right size or type.

  • Florida's new COVID booster guidance is straight-up misinformation
  • Fascism needs you to fear the "others". Health and money are the two biggest problems in people's lives right now so making the "others" look like they're coming after those things you already are very close to losing is an easy way to scare people. So taxes, vaccines, etc., are big targets. And as a bonus, they then get to take those things from the people instead; and people willingly hand them to them...for safe keeping or something...I don't know....

  • Did a Georgia Hospital Break Federal Law When It Failed to Save Amber Thurman? A Senate Committee Chair Wants Answers.
  • Problem with that is the Supreme Court has eliminated the impact of precedent by reversing many decisions including Roe v Wade that were based on it. So without a federal law in place, the doctors would still face years of expensive court proceedings before getting a federal appeals trial and the inability to work due to loss of state medical license until their particular case was settled. So that's not much to assure doctors. Really most of the obstetricians will just leave those states. I hate that idea and it will likely take decades to replenish the workforce if the states were to reverse course or a federal law were to ever make its way through Congress to clarify what's legal.

  • YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog
  • So if YouTube is now serving up the ads directly to me, does that mean they're finally liable for the content of those ads? Can we have them investigated for all the malware, phishing, illegal hate speech, etc.?

  • FTC sues drug middlemen for allegedly inflating insulin prices
  • I work for one of the parent companies of one of them and damn the propaganda has been crazy trying to discredit everything about the reports and the cases against them and trying to get employees to write to politicians and propagandize for them. They must be actually worried about the hit to profits over this. I mean it's not like any tiny little fine will be a concern.

  • Hollywood can’t ditch its Teslas fast enough: “They’re destroying their leases and walking away”
  • Yeah, not the best service though, if the customer now has to wait for another cab. It will end up like how often I get opened, likely returned items from Amazon a lot these days because they just put returns back in the pile even if they were returned for defects or were returned after opening/use.

    They don't care to fix the problem and rely on enough people accepting the defective items eventually, because it's too much trouble for them to return. But it's a pain in the butt for someone who wants a new, non-defective item and has to return things all the time. I so often don't get what I paid for the first time so with anything I order for a project, I always have to figure in double the time for it to arrive so I can get a replacement.

    So, I'd rather have a human driver monitoring it so that I get a clean cab the first time rather than having to budget the time for getting to my destination so a second cab can arrive in case the first is too unsanitary to handle.

  • Homeless encampments have largely vanished from San Francisco. Is the city at a turning point?
  • Sweeps by police mostly. Lots in jail, others pushed to suburbs (especially since they combined the Seattle homelessness initiatives with king county resources), and a few put in temporary housing.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
  • That's for normal activity and it's totally irrelevant. So these are some stats about ionizing radiation dosages:

    • Average from all sources for an average person for 1 year: 4mSv
    • Additional if living within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor for 1 year: 0.09 µSv
    • Additional of living within 50 miles of a coal plant for 1 year: 0.3 µSv
    • Living within 30 km of Chernobyl before evacuation (10 days): 3-150 mSv
    • Maximum allowed dose for radiation workers over 1 year: 50mSv
    • 10 minutes next to the Chernobyl reactor after the meltdown: 50Sv
    • fatal lifetime dosage beyond our ability to treat: ~8Sv

    So, yes, nuclear power plants and storage pools are designed to shield radiation and thus during normal operation release an insignificant amount of radiation so much so that even coal burning releases a heck of a lot more.

    But both of those are extremely insignificant if you consider that living near a coal plant will only give you a tiny fraction of additional exposure as the amount of radiation you receive normally from natural sources.

    The problem is that with nuclear fission waste, a tiny leak can cause fatal amounts of exposure in a very short time. If a storage pool cracks after the 100 years or so they're designed to last, or if a flood happens and overflows a storage pool, or a tornado picks up that storage water, or any number of other catastrophic events happen within the 10,000-1,000,000 years before that waste is safe, depending on the type, the people living nearby will likely not survive very long and that area will be contaminated for many times longer than human life has existed.

    Fukushima was a good example and had to rely on the vast Pacific ocean to disperse the radiation. Chernobyl will be unsafe for 10s of thousands of years even if the coffin is maintained for all that time.

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    Looking for an invite for DrunkenSlug. Thanks in advance if you have one to spare!

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