I have yet to see anyone describe why transit through the strait should morally be left unencumbered by Iran and Oman. The strait is only about 35 miles wide but international waters don’t start until 230 statute miles offshore. Does the US not assert authority over waters between Florida and Cuba (110 miles) or Florida and Bahamas (125 miles)?

So the US should welcome, say, Russian (or perhaps Iranian) boats heading to Cuba or Mexico, regularly coming about 15 miles offshore of Miami without buying US-approved insurance policies?

throwing away your old ICE car

But most people wouldn’t send their old car to the scrap heap, they would sell it on the secondary market to someone else (or a dealer, who would auction it into the secondary market). The old car would then continue to burn gas for likely many more years, until it “falls apart” anyway.

Stepping back, your old car may be the first in a chain of older (or more falling-apart) vehicles getting traded out, all the way down to one that really does get fully retired, or replacing one that was totaled in a collision. So choosing to keep it deprives someone else of its availability and thereby drives up used prices slightly.

For any study of this type of net effect, the authors need to pick a boundary for what gets considered. How many secondary market transactions do you study in that replacement chain, and what do those buyers substitute when the original ICE vehicle is not replaced with an EV? How far do you go in the pollution and other supply chain effects of manufacturing a new vehicle? I didn’t read a machine translation of your Swiss link, so I don’t know where the study authors drew the bounds, but I suspect it’s easy to choose and defend framing that supports either conclusion.

In my personal calculation, I can only see one step down the used chain, wherein my old vehicle would continue to be driven by someone else, so replacing it with an EV wouldn’t make a substantial difference. I love my old car with no surveillance, so I’m in no hurry to switch even though I’ll presumably buy an EV eventually.

Ultimately this is just one more example that that’s no ethical consumption within capitalism.

That would be just the sort of subject about which I’d love to read a well-considered journalistic take. Do you have any good references?

I suppose it’s not really about morality but more about rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me. I don’t think the US would be cool with Russian or Iranian ships coming very close to Miami on their way to Cuba or Mexico, especially without US-approved insurance or maintenance records.

Hormuz is a natural strait and leads to a natural gulf, but they are entirely within territorial water boundaries of several tightly packed countries. I can see many reasonable justifications for countries to assert control of ship traffic very close to their land borders. Smuggling, pollution, risk of catastrophe, etc.

Of course there are huge financial interests in returning to the status quo ante, and media mostly takes for granted that it’s the way things should be. I just want an introductory explainer of why, and how reciprocal that is to other navigational norms worldwide.

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A federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.

Sounds like bullshit. The video here looks pretty clear that she was just trying to escape the gestapo.

The US is one of only two countries in the world to tax the foreign earnings of its expats (the other is Eritrea). They’re so annoying about it on the finance side that many foreign banks refuse to give accounts to US expats. Renunciation is the only way to avoid that mess.

The US also takes a big exit tax on the wealth of anyone renouncing.

Autoclanking

The article is very misleading. It says

The research paper…notes that the human body is particularly efficient at generating 40 MHz RF energy. Tapping into that through a 'worn receiver' provides power without using any invasive means.

But I read much of the pdf linked at the bottom of that link, and there’s nothing about the human body generating energy at 40MHz. The trick is that skin is pretty effective (sort of) at conducting energy at that frequency, so the authors hooked up a power transmitter worn on the forearm, 5 or 15cm away from a receiver on the hand.

This isn’t about powering anything by body energy, it’s about strapping a battery-powered transmitter somewhere on your body and then having another device pick it up when strapped somewhere else on your body. No thanks.

Oh and it’s actually pretty inefficient and won’t provide much usable energy.

That was great, thanks for sharing! The þorn guy around Lemmy might learn from it a few more ways to be archaically misunderstood.

Boy they sure are owning the libs. “…peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind” is such a pansy-ass mission. If we do great stuff and just share it with everyone, no billionaires get any richer!

NASA was created enthusiastically by Eisenhower, a Republican war hero who had governed American-occupied Germany during WWII and was the first supreme commander of NATO just prior to becoming president. He unleashed an era of American greatness, including the entire interstate highway system which unlocked decades of future commerce growth and is named after him. If you had to name a single president who embodied the Greatness of which one might want to Make America embody Again, there are many strong arguments to be made that Eisenhower is the man.

He also signed the civil rights act and enforced school desegregation, in addition to warning the public about the rise of the Military Industrial Complex on his way out of office. In fact, he’s not at all what the nazifascist cheerleaders behind the worst president in American history would ever have thought of as great, but the MAGA slogan was a lie from the very beginning. It’s a very sad time to be an American.

In addition to everything people are offering here, you might want to find a new vet. It’s bizarre that they apparently haven’t suggested anything to you about allergies given the saga you described.

You’ve found the plot! The twist is that this is what asymmetric warfare looks like, decades in the making. The US is currently losing the Cold War against the USSR, which began 5 years before Putin was born so it was his entire upbringing. He doesn’t need to maintain tight control of Donny, but merely let him wreak whatever havoc he will. The leopard face-eating will mostly just be sad because everything will be so badly damaged by the time the red team really understands how badly they’ve been had. Corporate greed is a reliable villain to rise to the occasion, that merely needed some unshackling. Billionaires gonna oligarch if you give them half a chance. Helping capitalism to self-destruct is possibly the ultimate communist victory.

Not to discount the usefulness or complexity of curl in any way, but it’s not one of the larger codebases out there. It’s also pretty darned good. Firefox seems to have a very positive experience with Mythos, but they also had their own internal test harnesses from prior work, ready to utilize LLM analysis at scale. It was far more intensive than having a third party run something on their behalf and produce a report.

Signal is the best thing going on in tech these days. I’m very glad it’s being led by Meredith Whittaker.

Did you know you can get a cool badge on your profile pic if you’re a recurring donor? $5 a month is far less than the value I get from it, but that’s all it takes for a cool badge (and knowing that you’re doing something active against the awful state of big tech today).

Thanks for naming them. It let me find this description.

In August 1970, Berta Linson and Roger Mills made history as the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi. Their union was a landmark challenge to the state’s long-standing ban on interracial marriage, occurring three years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision had already invalidated such laws nationwide.

Berta Linson, a 24-year-old Black student at Jackson State College, and Roger Mills, a 24-year-old white law clerk for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Although the 1967 Supreme Court ruling applied to all states, Mississippi had refused to comply, leaving its 19th-century anti-miscegenation law on the books. 

When the couple applied for a marriage license on July 21, 1970, they were denied by the Hinds County circuit clerk. They immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court to challenge the state's refusal. On July 31, 1970, U.S. District Judge Harold Cox, a judge known for his segregationist views, was forced by the Supreme Court's precedent to order the state to issue the license. 

They were married on August 2, 1970, at the Central United Methodist Church in Jackson. The event was attended by approximately 200 guests, including some who were reportedly armed for protection due to the high risk of violence. The wedding received significant media attention, which the couple found taxing; Berta later expressed that she “hated every minute” of the intense publicity.

The marriage was a landmark moment for civil rights in the South, effectively ending the practical enforcement of Mississippi's ban on interracial unions. The couple eventually moved to Washington, D.C., where Roger finished law school at George Washington University, a move Berta reportedly looked forward to as a reprieve from the tension in Mississippi.

They were married for approximately 18 years before eventually divorcing. They had two daughters; one of them, Demetria Mills, continued the family’s legacy of activism by fighting for marriage equality in the LGBTQ+ community.

In a funny coincidence, April 19 also happens to be the day that officially started the American revolutionary war exactly 250 years ago.

I mean, he’s right to panic about the growth of cheap renewable energy as a threat to national security. The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.

The problem is that while he can frustrate domestic demand to build this stuff, he can’t stop it globally, and building clean energy will continue exponentially. The oil decline is unstoppable, so the primary result of these actions will be to make the US further behind the energy future and economically disadvantaged on top of the petrodollar decline.

Trump Pandemic Response II: Electric Boogaloo

What’s an ICE agent to do with virus masking mandates???

Get ready for bleach and the light inside the body.

This disturbs me in the best way. I love/hate it.

I wonder how long they can run this before their backend database vendor cuts them off with some flimsy pretext because this kind of thing is bad for business.