We tend not to vote in the first place, especially when votes are the most expensive in the entire EU - cheapest was 0,13€ in Denmark, while it was 1,5€/vote here. Someone calculated that based on some previous years with 10 max votes, you could easily get the first place with just something like 1000 people voting the max amount. (And possibly even a lot fewer, as it was max 10 votes per payment method, so one person could use multiple to stack on votes)
I hate cigarettes, but I’ve always liked the designs Marlboro had in their cars over the years. The red/white triangles and the tall “rlb” in the logo giving it a bit of symmetry, it just looks great.
And which 'Murica pickup truck? 
They fucked around and found out, and got embarrassed.
Although by stopping users right after the search with a scraped LLM answer, they won’t go to other sites like they used to which could serve google ads for them, resulting in less money. Not to even mention the long term issue that with no more traffic or revenue, the websites the AI uses for information will die, making the AI useless.
“they simply sold the older, less pure gold bars in New York for what they were worth in U.S. dollars as gold prices were reaching all-time highs, then pocketed the cash and bought bars that met their updated weight and purity standards in Europe, as prices conveniently pulled back.”
-https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2026-04-06/bank-france-sells-its-129-tonne-us-gold-reserve-then-buys-it-back-europe
It’s good to know that Trump won’t do something if he needs the permission of Congress for it first. I’m sure he follows those rules very well, and would never break them.
Speaking of that, has anyone seen the official declaration of war and authorization of military action against Iran anywhere? The Congress seems to have misplaced it somewhere. Must have gotten lost in the mail.
Even worse, she might have also done the terrible crime of wearing something tan and that would have seriously damaged the reputation of the United States.
super-resolution based on extracting subpixel information from a sequence of low resolution images
So basically DLSS for spy satellites. Kinda neat.
If it’s anything like the solution planned in Finland, the waste is placed in copper containers, transported in pretty much bomb-proof vessels, and the facility is kilometres deep underground split into multiple separated chambers that get filled with concrete (or bentonite to be more precise) once they are full. The result is a solid block that will survive basically forever and the only thing you need to do is not go dig it back up.
Another good one is Onkalo in Finland.
The three best current female chess grandmasters are global ranks #123, #152, and #169. So unless the process of transitioning somehow damages your mental ability to play chess massively, there are at least 122 men that could at any point transition and become the top female grandmaster. And if there was no womens only chess championships, there would be I think… One? Female grandmaster in the entire history of chess? Judith Polgar got to rank #10. Second highest was Hou Yifan at #55.
For some other sports, back when Serena Williams was the top women’s tennis player, she lost to the man at men’s ranking #203, who said he wasn’t even playing seriously.
That’s why there are very often womens and open (and almost never mens) divisions in sports, and why trans players aren’t usually allowed in the womens one - because usually, it would be really unfair.
The open one is open, female athletes are free to compete in them. They essentially never do because they can’t qualify, but if you want to know what sports without gendered brackets would look like, it would pretty much be men only.
Trump, you just made your Board of Peace. Ask them for help, ask them to uphold world peace and end the war for you. Surely you can solve your own war yourself, big man, seeing as it was you who started it?
The front fell off.
Russia claims that it was attacked by Ukrainian drones launched from Libya, but usually what they claim is not true so nobody actually knows yet.
Wroom wroom make monkey brain happy.
Because the servers I follow aren’t on matrix, signal or jitsi, and neither are any of my friends.
Currently, a lot of the discarding is done by individual shops/resellers. I know of a few instances where basically all customer returns and unsold merchandise was slashed at the orders of the manufacturer to make them unusable, and then thrown in the bin.
If that is made illegal and everything would have to be returned, stored, processed and then sent somewhere else anyway, the chance that it’s going to end up with destruction greatly diminishes - opening that outlet section/shop or selling them to a local outlet company suddenly makes a lot more finacial sense.
There kinda is, as at some point the heating hits a stage where the oceans will warm up enough, and as warm water can’t hold on to as much Co2, it will be released into the atmosphere, which causes the oceans to warm up, which releases Co2, which causes… And so on.
Add in some ice melting and stuff like that, and once the feedback loop starts properly, there’s not much we can do to stop it.
We are a frog in a pot where we know someone is going to put a lid on it eventually, and we keep arguing and contemplating about when and how soon it might happen, instead of working on getting out of the pot before it does.
Though if you are in extremely cold weather areas, like Alaska, it actually doesn’t help at all as the permafrost keeps the basement walls and floor frozen all year round down hundreds of metres (~3 times as many hundreds of feet)
But anywhere the ground isn’t frozen, go down a few floors and it usually stabilizes somewhere around 15C/60F no matter the ambient air temperature. Fantastic for geothermal heatpumps - warmth in the winter, cooling in the summer.
The amounts being talked about are slightly higher than just regular wages, as they are asking for a bonus pool of 15% of operating profit and removal of caps for the bonuses. For SK Hynix, that recently negotiated the bonus pool to be 10% of their profit, that means they are expected to be paying each worker roughly a $450000 bonus this year, with it being estimated to rise to over $900000 next year.
Which means the bonus alone results in an hourly wage of $240-470/hour.
Would be really interesting to know what those kinds of bonuses do for the job market, where you could be earning ten to twenty times more money doing the same kind of work just because you happen to do it for SK Hynix, or possibly soon, Samsung.