There’s a natural regimen to save yourself - you must cut out all gluten, eat meals consisting of horse/radish paste (that’s a paste made of horses and radishes), and drink at least 6 glasses of clam juice per day.
To be sure. A purebred dog the kids "kept secret" for several years after a culling. So only the kids knew the dog even existed. Sounds more like the kids found a puppy and justified keeping it by saying they always had it.
Guinness World Record holder Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo, passed away at his home in Portugal on Saturday.
“Despite outliving every dog in history, his 11,478 days on earth would never be enough, for those who loved him,” wrote Dr Karen Becker.
Bobi’s grand old age was validated by the Portuguese government’s pet database, which is managed by the National Union of Veterinarians.
Bobi lived his whole life with the Costa family in the village of Conqueiros, near Portugal’s west coast, after being born with three siblings in an outbuilding.
Mr Costa and his brothers kept the dog’s existence a secret from their parents until he was eventually discovered and became part of the family, who fed him the same food they eat.
Apart from a scare in 2018 when he was hospitalised after suddenly collapsing due to breathing difficulty, Mr Costa said in February that Bobi had enjoyed a relatively trouble-free life and thought the secret to his longevity was the “calm, peaceful environment” he lived in.
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This is what I always wonder when they tell me a plant “tolerates clay soil”. Like does it really? Or does it just avoid it by spreading out all its roots in the thin topsoil? This would seem to be the latter.
I’ve done face edits/swaps ages ago with large family photos, as when you get enough people in a picture there’s amongst always somebody blinking, sneezing, etc
Europe: curbs lithography machine exports to China
China: curbs drone exports to Europe
Europe is entering the “find out” phase of “fuck around and find out.” This is what shoving a knife into the back of globalization in the name of national security gets you…
Not that China’s semiconductor competence would have affected European security given that China has neither the means nor the desire to project power outside of their immediate vicinity.
Oh they very much have that desire. To think China has no ambitions to be the next world leader and to exert their power and form of government to other countries is delusional.
It’s actually really sad how cynical you are. You smugly look down on anyone who has hope in anything. China must be just as bad as the US because nothing ever gets better.
Do you really look at the totalitarian government in China and say „yeah, that is something I want for my country“? Then I really am sorry for you too.
They may be a progressive force (as in a driving force in global politics / dynamics) but that does not mean it has to be positive. And it‘s not cynical if you look at the massive human rights violation, the treatment of opposition or ethical minorities in China. I do not want any of that. But if you want to trade it for a few years of your life go for it.
And it‘s not cynical if you look at the massive human rights violation, the treatment of opposition or ethical minorities in China. I do not want any of that
Well I live in America, and we kinda already have all of that. In fact, our prison populations are even bigger and our cops kill more people.
China is exertng their economic power in Africa nation building all the time. Their nuclear arms stockpile is fastest growing. China make a habit of stealing IP so much that companies stopped sharing prottypes for years as they would be taken at the border for security checks and returned with the deal myateriously disappearing from the "private" company
“Stealing IP” isn’t real. The idea that you can own an idea is a legal fiction we made up, we shouldn’t be surprised when other countries don’t respect our imaginary property.
While I agree that Imaginary Property shouldn’t be real, in our capitalist hellhole it is indeed real and it has as assigned value to people that are inside that capitalist hellhole.
The West has tried to cripple China’s tech industry and so now the Chinese tech they rely on for things like the war in Ukraine isn’t available. That’s an obvious conclusion but it’s still necessary for people to understand why things happen the way they do.
The trade war US and EU are pushing for seems like a stupid attempt to stop China from developing.
It’s very petty of them because they can’t compete fairly and have to resort to such BS, and I don’t think it’s going to work.
Europe and the US can absolutely create and support the industry required to make as many drones needed, but defense contractors make more money if they can export it to china to save on costs and restrict supply to increase profit, so of course that is what happens.
“The only change for now is that we’re more actively buying whatever stock is left in European warehouses,” says Lyuba Shypovych, who heads Dignitas, one of the largest Ukrainian volunteer groups supplying the military with drones.
"Because days are getting shorter and nights longer, this is definitely having an impact on supplies for our military and on how warfare is conducted in general because we don’t have as many thermal imaging drones.
The world’s largest commercial drone-maker, DJI, halted direct sales to both countries two months after the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
According to Ms Shypovych, the number of Chinese drones made available to distributors in Europe fell sharply between August and September 2022.
An investigation by The New York Times found that Chinese companies have in recent months cut back sales of drones and components to Ukrainians.
Referring to the curbs that came into force on 1 September, Russian newspaper Kommersant, said: “The restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities on drone exports have seriously complicated their supplies to Russia and led to a shortage of some parts, such as thermal imaging cameras.”
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What a stupid headline. This is not the wind lifting the ground, it is the wind almost pushing over trees with very shallow roots. Trees that will deposit a few hundred kilos of wood on one‘s head once they come down. Trees that will push over their shallow rooted friends like dominoes (which btw is why mixed forests are so important).
I can’t believe the BBC would publish a video of a Darwin Award contender like that.
Absolutely shocking he let that dog run around on it. If he got under there and the wind stopped for a moment, that dog would have died an angonzing death.
The devices also let users erase, move and resize unwanted elements in a photo - from people to buildings - “filling in” the space left behind with what’s called Magic Editor.
This uses what’s known as deep learning, effectively an artificial intelligence algorithm working out what textures should fill the gap by analysing the surrounding pixels it can see, using knowledge it has gleaned from millions of other photos.
Andrew Pearsall, a professional photographer, and senior lecturer in Journalism at the University of South Wales, agreed that AI manipulation held dangers.
Speaking to the BBC, Google’s Isaac Reynolds, who leads the team developing the camera systems on the firm’s smartphones, said the company takes the ethical consideration of its consumer technology seriously.
Professor Rafal Mantiuk, an expert in graphics and displays at the University of Cambridge, said it was important to remember that the use of AI in smartphones was not to make the photographs look like real life.
On Google’s new tech, Reynolds says the company adds metadata to its photos - the digital footprint of an image - using an industry standard to flag when AI is used.
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The Irish government is set to investigate a digital surveillance alliance that has been accused of letting its smartphone spyware “run wild across the world”, BBC News NI understands.It comes after Intellexa Limited and its parent company Thalestris were named in a damning report by a leading human rights body., externalThe firms are registered at a building in north Dublin and are part of a wider Israeli group that sells Predator intelligence software.According to Amnesty International, Predator is “invasive sypyware” that has been used in “brazen” attempted hacking attacks against politicians and journalists.It can be used to turn a smartphone into a surveillance tool and has serious “human rights implications", Amnesty said.The report has called on the Irish government, and others, to investigate and increase regulation on spyware firms.
The alliance, Amnesty said, was “a complex and often changing group of companies”, which advertised itself as “EU-based and regulated”, but had “done nothing to limit who is able to use this spyware and for what purpose”.In July, US officials placed Intellexa on a blacklist, external after determining its surveillance tools posed a threat to national security and foreign policy.The Dublin-registered Intellexa office was set up in 2019, according to a European Parliament briefing paper.Amnesty’s report called on Irish and other European governments to "immediately revoke all marketing and export licences issued to the Intellexa alliance”.The report also called for governments to transparently investigate the alliance’s practices and to enforce legislation “that requires all corporate actors to respect human rights”.
Amnesty has said that once a device was infiltrated with Predator software, the user had unfettered access to its microphone and camera and all its data, while the target was entirely unaware.This sort of spyware is typically sold to governments for legitimate intelligence operations, however there are concerns it has been abused, as is claimed to have happened in the case of the Greek Watergate scandal.A new report from the human rights body, in partnership with European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), claims the software has been used in “zero-click attacks” - meaning it can infiltrate a device without the user having clicked on a link.It said those targeted included President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-Wen, French MEP Pierre Karleskind and several United States politicians.
"Intellexa alliance’s products have been found in at least 25 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and have been used to undermine human rights, press freedom, and social movements across the globe.”Multiple companies linked to Intellexa have been asked by the BBC for comment on the report’s findings, but none of them have responded.Intellexa Ltd is part of a complex international web of companies either fully or partly controlled by the Israeli businessman Tal Dilian.On his website, Mr Dilian said Intellexa "developed and integrated technologies empowering law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies to collect and analyse data in the most advanced methods”.
Intellexa has also been criticised in Ireland by European Parliament member Barry Andrews, who asked the Oireachtas Justice Committee in August to investigate the firm.
Amnesty International said it had also reached out to the entities involved, but received no response, while the European Investigative Collaborations network did hear from the main shareholders of the Nexa Group – part of the Intellexa Alliance.It said the alliance no longer existed and its entities had “scrupulously respected export regulations”.
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