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Hovenko , to technology in OpenAI CEO promotes crypto project Worldcoin after fundraising report
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Another megalomaniac with world saviour complex?

tsonfeir , to news in 'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California
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I’m more shocked this is AOL.com

Buffaloaf ,

There are still people that use AOL email addresses

SkyezOpen ,

And they should schedule a colonoscopy.

aeronmelon ,

I don’t know what the actual number is, but I’ll bet the amount of people still unknowingly paying for America Online dial-up service is shocking.

DigitalTraveler42 ,

It’s old AF news and Scripps News is the one doing the reporting, AOL, like MSN and Yahoo, and the Hill, just rehosts “news” articles, they have no actual journalists on staff, just “news” outlets that pay them to be on their front page.

Also this place wasn’t a “Wuhan lab” it was a medical test manufacturer that also had a shitload of bio waste onsite that needs to be cleaned up as it’s a threat to public health.

LordOfTheChia , (edited )

Almost a month ago that charges were brought up. Interesting that this article from 3 days ago is claiming so many unknowns and mystery about this facility since it’s really old news and most of those questions have been answered:

justice.gov/…/operator-central-california-bio-lab…

The original discovery was made 4.5 months ago:

nbcnews.com/…/officials-believe-fresno-warehouse-…

Edit: This might be the original news source that broke the story:

midvalleytimes.com/…/investigation-on-reedley-bui…

DigitalTraveler42 ,

Yeah it definitely comes across as clickbait for the tinfoil hats.

LordOfTheChia ,

It definitely is. They go out of their way to avoid mentioning that they discovered they were making testing kits for various infectious diseases (which explains why you’d want samples of said diseases).

This information was in the original report that broke the story and the in the charging report:

justice.gov/…/arrest-made-central-california-bio-…

According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Zhu and others manufactured, imported, sold, and distributed hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 test kits, in addition to test kits for HIV, pregnancy, clinical urinalysis, and other conditions in the United States and China.

As I mentioned in a comment below, the word “test” appears nowhere in the “Scripps News” report.

Luvs2Spuj , to news in Idaho halts execution by lethal injection after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line

Can you imagine the strain on a person to come to terms with facing your final moments and an execution. Then the trauma of being strapped to a table facing certain death, then having to go through 8 failed attempts to kill you. Then go back to a cell and come to terms with facing the ordeal all over again. America is fucked up.

BigDanishGuy ,

I’m not saying that it was on purpose, but either way it’s a mock execution. What happened to just shooting people? That seems like a pretty solid solution.

ChillPenguin ,

Also cheaper too.

scoobford ,

“Cleaner” methods like lethal injection are more pleasant for spectators, which is always the real point of executions.

A guillotine is ugly, which makes it “brutal” despite being the most humane method possible.

Sludgeyy ,

Pumping the cell with carbon dioxide without the prisoner knowing when it was happening. They’d go to sleep (or stay asleep) and never wake up. Painless stress free death.

But you know “gas chambers” bad

Dasus ,
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Pumping the cell with carbon dioxide

I think you mean “monoxide”.

Breathing in carbon dioxide is nasty.

Shake a soda bottle when it’s somewhat empty and then open it and take a breathe.

It’s definitely something you’d notice, and most certainly not painless or stress free.

Euthanasia chambers use just nitrogen. The air is already 80% nitrogen, so breathing it is completely unnoticeable, you’ll just become hypoxic with the lack of oxygen.

But euthanasia is quite different from killing someone. Wanting to sleep off vs being forced to die, essentially.

Capital punishment is rather archaic.

Candelestine , to technology in Fugees rapper says lawyer's use of AI helped tank his case, pushes for new trial

… aol still exists…? Huh. TIL.

Salamendacious OP ,
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Oh how the mighty have fallen

sturmblast , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

this whole situation is ridiculous

skozzii , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program
lolcatnip ,

No, it’s not.

atetulo , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

This is north korean level bullshit.

Hupf ,
be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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Honestly I think you are giving them a pass with the hypberbole, though I know that's not your intent.

This is good ol' American Style bigotry and racism.

roofuskit ,
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No, this is American level racism.

Sabre363 , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

Ah yes, lets punish and humiliate a person for expressing a completely harmless form of individuality at point in their lives where individuality is exceedingly important for healthy development. This won’t have any negative consequences at all.

FluffyPotato , to news in Idaho halts execution by lethal injection after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line

Did they gets some rando off the street to insert the IV needle? That’s shit even every nurse can do.

Good_morning ,

You’d be surprised, some people’s veins are what a phlebotomist would call “rolly” and move when they attempt to insert the needle. someone else can probably explain better than me.

llamapants ,

I’m a phlebotomist and this is correct, there’s also many other factors that can result in missing a vein, dehydration being the biggest factor and even just the size of the vein.

jwt ,

With me it even depends on the arm. I get my blood checked yearly and they always try the right arm first by default, and they’re always struggling to find a suitable vein near the surface. Then I offer them to try my left arm and it’s done within 10 seconds.

Lupo ,
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I got hospitalized, 2 nurses couldn’t find my vein after multiple stabs. A elder doctor came by and teach them some magic trick.

It’s been this way my whole life and now I have a fear of being stabbed by needles.

Pipoca ,

Essentially.

Medical ethics prevent actual medical professionals from participating in executions. So they make random prison employees do it. So it’s often botched.

Laughbone , to news in Idaho lawmakers move to protect IVF as backlash grows against Alabama decision

Why would dems move to protect IVF instead of do nothing until repubs agree to protect women’s life’s?

Revan343 ,

State Dems aren’t always as milquetoast as Federal Dems. Not always better, but sometimes

LinkOpensChest_wav , to news in 'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California
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“Our local politicians are out there terming it Wuhan 2.0,” said Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba.

Living in Reedley must be a trip with people like that in charge. I watched the whole video, and everyone interviewed seemed wack.

Empricorn , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

I’m the whitest dude you ever saw, and it’s even obvious to me: black hair is different, at a molecular level. You can’t mindlessly apply grooming standards to people who are not the same, physically. Not better, not worse (obviously), just different. These people are racist.

zeppo ,
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Well, much larger than molecules, at the strand of hair level. Very wavy or curly hair has an oval profile while straight hair is round.

Reverendender , to news in Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

Ah, so Texas is pulling an Iran. Stay classy, lone star state.

nekandro , to world in China lobbies countries to praise its rights record ahead of UN review - diplomats

Doesn’t really need much lobbying wrt Xinjiang given that no Muslim country opposes China’s actions.

Map of countries opposing China’s actions (in blue)

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9a9c63c0-6c21-41c8-a835-3c661bec2166.png

Oddly enough, the map is rather similar to this one showing which countries do not recognize Palestine (in grey)

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/cf14db62-0c0b-41ed-a7a3-2a23b8e0f35f.png

I’d imagine the lobbying is towards key European powers who have shown recent support for Palestine to be more consistent on the issue, which would also explain why the diplomats went to Reuters to report it.

mathemachristian ,

It really is always the same map isn’t it

nekandro ,

It’s always the same map. It’s a reflection of the spread of British (pre-WW2) and later American (post-WW2) ideas around the world, which explains the relative geographic outliers of Japan and South Korea as well as Australia.

_dev_null , to technology in OpenAI CEO promotes crypto project Worldcoin after fundraising report
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From the worldcoin wiki:

Worldcoin hopes to provide a reliable way to authenticate humans online called World ID,[18] to counter bots and fake virtual identities facilitated by artificial intelligence.

Fucking glorified DRM?! No wonder he got fired, he’s the face of OpenAI and peddling this shit on the side. I can’t take this ass clown seriously ever again.

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