It’s also the buildings.

I live in Sweden. My flat was built in the 60s, and it’s made to retain heat. It was part of the million programme and is incredibly sturdy. I half joke it’d survive a nuclear bomb, but it very well might. There’s even a shelter.

Past few days we’ve had temps going up to around 27. That’s not too bad if you’re outside. In my flat however the temps easily rise to 32, and has even hit 35. Opening a window helps a little, but the entire building heats up and retains this heat.

While it gets cooler outside during the night, the building is still radiating heat, and it doesn’t fully dissipate come morning. I have a portable AC, and while it works well, the moment you turn it off the heat that remains in the walls, ceiling, and floor quickly radiates out and completely nullifies the efforts of the AC.

Many places in the U.S. has the complete opposite problem. Like this example.

It’s not about people being wimps, it’s about the climate changing in fairly chaotic and extreme ways, and our adaptations to protect against the weather simply not keeping up.

Jesus in general to be honest.

It’s the wakaba mark. Wakaba means sprout, which is also used as a colloquialism for newbie. 🌱

It’s why new accounts in Final Fantasy XIV have sprouts next to their names.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that any symbols are self explanatory but these stand out and aren’t hard to recognise.

I’m from Europe, and I feel like our road signs are pretty intuitive, but they’re not, nothing is intuitive really. Things only feel intuitive because it aligns with your expectations.

As an example, to me a pedestrian crossing is a blue sign with a person walking over a striped road.

This to me is intuitive. It has the lined crossing indicating a crosswalk. It has a person walking over it. It’s blue, so it’s an informational marker.

When I visited the U.S. some years back, a particular sign kept cropping up everywhere, and I didn’t understand what it meant. It was yellow and said Ped Xing. After a few days I asked my friend who Ped Xing was, and why their name was signed everywhere. Why hadn’t I headed of them, if they seemingly did something to warrant their name being put all over the place? They had no idea what I was talking about until I pointed one out.

Mr/Ms Xing is actually Pedestrian Crossing. It sounds like a Chinese name to me, but somehow X is read as cross.

Our signs generally don’t have much text, and this just didn’t register as that for me. It didn’t help that many crossings weren’t striped, and not all crossings had Ped Xing watching over them. There was no pattern to infer meaning from.

I don’t know if them releasing it for a bigger audience necessarily means they’ll support it. Might very well be that they’ll rely on the community for that.

I’d love to see how these are made. They’re very pretty.

I think we should stop being so reductive towards pigs. They’re very clever, social creatures. The only label applicable to cops there would be “creatures” and even then I’m hesitant.

They're little computers with cameras that capture everything. I think some of these types of devices run Android. Many are very poorly secured, like the article suggests. A "license plate reader" sounds like it only reads license plates, these are surveillance platforms, with cameras and microphones. They can be accessed remotely to do more than just read a license plate.

I'm thinking the person says that couching it as a license plate reader is disingenuous, because it doesn't really convey the gravity of what the devices are capable of.

Shooting at a vehicle that's being driven by a suspected shoplifter makes zero sense. Fuck, this made me so sad and angry.

Such a happy little guy!

It's so out there it feels like it's on purpose. Violence shouldn't even enter into the picture when it comes to shoplifting. They wanted to wave their gun around and murdered a baby in the process.

I hope they're haunted by this for the rest of their lives.

Fuck, I need to do something else, my heart will explode.

This kind of story is what radicalised me on privacy matters, too.

Was a man here in Sweden who got assaulted by masked police, in his home at night. Yahoo had given emails to a private company which trawled through the data for possible CSAM. They'd flagged some of the images and videos of the man in question and his boyfriend doing stuff.

Instead of approaching these people, being like "hey we got a report from X place about a thing and we'd like to talk it", these people immediately go for inflicting physical harm. This is precisely why people say that all cops are bastards.

Naturally the masked cops who assaulted this man never faced any repercussions. The investigation was dropped because they were masked, and thus it'd be "unfair punishment to those who were innocent." As if assaulting an innocent man isn't somehow unfair.

Obviously, neither the man, or his boyfriend were white.

There's a rot in the building blocks of society. When a structure is rotten, you tear it down and build something new.

I wonder if there’s some way we could destroy these devices remotely.

Ooh, I thought that was the joke! He meant that autistic people should stop speaking altogether?

I develop software for the largest underground iron mine in the world. It's always fun to say "I'm a software engineer, I work with mining" because most people's reaction is "oh god, not crypto right?"

It's not crypto, but we're still destroying the environment!

In my free time I homosexually walk my dog, I enjoy gay cooking, I homo read books, I same-sex play games with friends, and queer do a whole bunch of other things.

It's not like the U.S. is the only country affected by this. Real people are losing lives down there, and the effects of the war is echoing all over the world.

I live in a Nordic country, and the group I work in is having our work scaled down for autumn because the company we work for is reducing their budget as they're unable to ship a significant portion of the iron they produce. Thanks Trump.

I'm okay with the U.S. taking this hit. I'm sick and tired of the idiots in charge keeping their heads when others are dying because of their actions.

The only reason this lady faced the fallout she did is because she stole money from investors/rich people. There are so many people that should be utterly destroyed like she was, and the fact that they aren’t says so much about society.

Oh yikes, they did not strip that out before posting, unless of course they filled it with fake data.

It shouldn’t be approved at all.

You calling for a modern day Vlad the Impaler has me feeling all tingly.

Cool. Did she quit being a Nazi too? If not she’s welcome to take up a new more lethal hobby.