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[–] pelespirit 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They might be? Federation isn't great for all of the big boys.

[–] pelespirit 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My buddy recommended I watch this show because they knew I was interested in how North Koreans lived. I've read a few books in the past. It is very romance based, but it's supposed to be somewhat correct on how they lived when you read about interviews from defectors. It's a long drama, fr drama, so buckle up if you decide you want to go there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Landing_on_You

[–] pelespirit 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You are a genius (fr):

Side note, get yourself a universal remote so you can change the channel on TVs in public spaces like gyms and waiting rooms.

[–] pelespirit 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Amen.

I would also add to stop reading articles with hyperbole and only read about trump if it effects you or your community. The more we give him air time, the more we give him power. If the news outlets don't make money through him, then they might stop promoting his bullshit.

I've not forgotten that a NYT reporter was asked during the first term if he would prefer Obama or trump and he said trump because it got him so much better clicks. (paraphrased). I'm over it.

[–] pelespirit 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Choose a smaller instance. The biggest one isn't accepting people right now.

[–] pelespirit 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

…when life becomes cheap, it will be spent cheaply…

dude, I've never seen it put that way before. That's the underlying theme for fascists. Send them to war, take away their benefits, stop them from having choices in life. It really doesn't matter to them because life is cheap. I'm going to get drunk this weekend I think.

[–] pelespirit 5 points 1 week ago

My sound was off and I though you were rickrolling him, but I took a chance and wasn't disappointed.

[–] pelespirit 41 points 1 week ago (8 children)

“We can never work out the algorithm,” one of the drivers says, requesting anonymity for fear of losing work. They wonder if the app ignores them if they’ve done a few jobs already that hour, and experiment with standing inside the restaurant, on the pavement or in the car park to see if subtle shifts in geolocation matter. Retail assistants say they have to pay a fee if they want to receive their wages within a month. ‘So immoral’: gig economy workers charged fee to get paid quicker Read more

“It’s an absolute nightmare,” says the driver, adding that they permanently lost access to one of the platforms over a matter of a “max five minutes” wait in getting to a restaurant while he finished another job for a different app. Sometimes he gets logged out for a couple of hours because his beard has grown, confusing the facial recognition software.

“It’s not at all like being an employee,” he says. He is regularly frustrated by having to challenge what appeared to be shortfall in pay per job – sometimes just 10p, but at other times a few pounds. “There’s nobody you can talk to. Everything is automated.”

[–] pelespirit 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's how I feel about Celsius being for everyone.

[–] pelespirit 9 points 1 week ago

Not to brag (I am), but we banned direct links awhile ago on People Twitter. We require archived links for well known people and politicians and allow screenshots. That seems to be a working solution.

[–] pelespirit 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

FYI, those were trolls. You can tell by them disappearing about these topics right after the election. Also, the spamming they did on a very precise schedule.

 

I accidentally got the PETG filament instead of the PLA which I normally work with. I have an Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro.

Here's what was weird:

  • The test strip went across the bottom of the board instead of the side. It went back to the side when I put the PLA back in.

  • The temperture melting point changed automatically from 200 F to 220 and then back again when I switched back to PLA.

Does the printer know what kind of filament I'm using and if so, how?

ETA: The filaments have all been the Elegoo brand filaments.

 

That investigation first exposed Ogles' misrepresentations about his educational and professional credentials, later raising questions about the thousands of dollars he raised for a children's burial garden that was never built.

All of which led to questions we uncovered about the $320,000 that Ogles reported having personally loaned his campaign back in 2022 — even though Ogles' personal financial disclosures did not reveal him having that kind of money.

Last week, the House Ethics Committee released the report where the Office of Congressional Ethics had investigated and concluded in August that "Rep. Ogles Reported Loaning His Campaign $320,000 — But He Never Loaned His Campaign That Amount."

The preliminary report indicates that Ogles refused to cooperate with the investigation, as did a number of close associates, and it recommended that they be subpoenaed and forced to testify or provide relevant records to the committee.

 

It was not immediately clear why the crowd took exception to a man who first entered the ring in 1977 and went on to win six World Wrestling Entertainment championships, the last coming in 2002 when he defeated the now company CEO Triple H for as short reign, and be inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame not once but twice.

In 2015, he was temporarily removed from the WWE Universe when a shocking video emerged of him repeatedly using the n-word to describe his daughter’s rumored boyfriend. However in 2018, all was forgiven and Hogan once more began making appearances for the Connecticut-based promotion.

However, Hogan’s increasingly vocal support for President-elect Donald Trump might have been behind it, although wrestling is not generally known for attracting a liberal audience.

 

Lenders will no longer be able to see whether American borrowers have unpaid medical debt in their credit history, according to a new rule from the outgoing Biden administration.

The vice-president, Kamala Harris, announced early on Tuesday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was removing $49bn of existing unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of 15 million Americans and will ban the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports.

“No one should be denied economic opportunity because they got sick or experienced a medical emergency,” Harris said in a statement. “This will be life changing for millions of families, making it easier for them to be approved for a car loan, a home loan or a small-business loan.”

 

Tesla is the target of yet another federal safety probe, the fourth currently open by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation. Today's trouble concerns the automaker's "Smart Summon" and "Actually Smart Summon" features, which allow Tesla drivers to remotely control their vehicles via a smartphone app.

At least in theory, that is. In practice, NHTSA says it's aware of multiple crash allegations "where the user had too little reaction time to avoid a crash, either with the available line of sight or releasing the phone app button, which stops the vehicle’s movement."

Worse yet, Tesla has failed to report any of these incidents to the safety regulator, which has a standing general order that requires any automaker or operator of autonomous or partially automated vehicles to report crashes involving such systems that occur on publicly accessible roads.

 

The evidence was overwhelming from the time it all began in 2017. A sexual assault in broad daylight at a popular Anchorage park, with a witness who dialed 911 and described the attack as it was happening. A police officer hoisting the suspect from atop one of the victims, the suspect’s pants still around his knees. DNA evidence corroborating the crime.

Yet in Alaska’s slow-motion court system, it took more than seven years for the case against Fred Tom Hurley III to finally go to trial, in December. Attorneys came and went with the passage of time — a series of six for the defense and four for the prosecution — as judges granted 50 delays. Most of the slowdowns came at the request of Hurley’s lawyers, long before and long after the COVID-19 pandemic paused jury trials across the state. At hearing after hearing, talks concerned scheduling, not the facts of the case.

For the two women Hurley was charged with assaulting, justice delayed meant justice denied in their lifetimes. Both died before the case ever reached the jury.

 

The bodies of two people were found in a landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane at the Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, according to the company.

The Airbus flight came in from New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, departing at about 20:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Monday and landing at about 23:00.

Local police are investigating how the two people accessed the plane, while a medical examiner's office is performing autopsies to determine their causes of death, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

 

But as Dorsey worked on the Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner across the 1990s and 2000s as more manufacturing was outsourced, he said things began to unravel, leading to “chaos” filtering down the chain of command and “substandard work” being accepted.

But in 1997, Dorsey said that upper management was thrown into disarray upon Boeing’s merger with McDonnell Douglas, a major American aerospace and defense company before the acquisition.

A broad swathe of leadership ranks were filled by McDonnell Douglas veterans – not Boeing executives – many of whom had backgrounds in finance rather than engineering.

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The Social Security Fairness Act rolls back the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), provisions that curbed Social Security benefits for those receiving retirement benefits from public service jobs.

The repeal of the two provisions means roughly 3 million teachers, firefighters, and other public-sector workers will see increases to their Social Security benefits. While the Social Security Fairness Act received significant bipartisan support, 71 Republicans in the House and 20 in the Senate voted against it, including new Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).

 

North Dakota was one of the last states in the country to form an ethics oversight agency. The 2018 amendment set some ethical rules for public officials and empowered the commission to both create more rules and investigate alleged violations related to corruption, elections, lobbying and transparency.

But the amendment also gave the legislature a role to play, directing it “to provide adequate funds” for the commission. The amendment did not spell out how the commission would operate, and amid that ambiguity, lawmakers took it upon themselves to pass laws governing the commission’s operations and investigations.

 

Watch: Moment avalanche barrels down Utah mountain

Heavy snowfall in Utah caused an avalanche that was captured on camera from a nearby vehicle in Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Local media reported that up to five inches (12.7cm) of snow fell in the area, causing the avalanche and stranding skiers for a while.

Seven US states have declared a state of emergency as Storm Blair sweeps through.

 

He moved to Las Vegas and, at the age of 25, became an officer in the metro police. Kinch came to serve in elite detective units over 23 years in the force, hunting fugitives and helping take down gangs like the Playboy Bloods. Eventually he was assigned to what he called the “Black squad,” according to court records, tasked with investigating violent crimes where the suspect was African American. (A Las Vegas police spokesperson told me they stopped “dividing squads by a suspect’s race” a year before Kinch retired.)

“The Sheriff has become a personal friend who hosted my FBI interview,” Coates responded. “He opens a lot of doors.” Coates had been in D.C. on Jan. 6, he’d told Williams. It’d make sense if that had piqued the FBI’s interest.

To Williams, it hinted at a more menacing scenario — at secret ties between those who threaten the rule of the law and those duty-bound to enforce it. He desperately wanted more details, more context, the sheriff’s name. But he didn’t want to push for too much too fast.

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