"There are many Middle East countries who do not tolerate homosexuals, they actually hang and execute homosexuals," she said, according to Reuters news agency.
"In the US many states have passed laws that are either against or restrict activities of homosexuality... so why pick on Uganda?"
Volocopter expects to get the European aerospace regulator, EASA, to clear its machine, the VoloCity to carry passengers in the next few months, so they can be ready for the Olympics.
He says that more powerful, cheaper batteries will emerge, allowing Volocopter to build a bigger aircraft that will be able to offer services at lower prices.
Lilium says there is potentially a huge market for such an aircraft which can offer connections around congested cities, or services where rail links are poor.
He points to a deal announced in June under which Shenzhen Eastern General Aviation (Heli-Eastern), plans to buy 100 Lilium aircraft.
Heli-Eastern runs air links in the Greater Bay region of China, which includes Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macao.
He also makes the point that the new firms will have to get much bigger: “It is crucial for the industry to scale-up to avoid adopting a model limited to business travellers or financially privileged individuals.”
I know Elon Twitler is a giga troll but now he's just taking the piss. He is probably going to fund his own legal bills against the unfairly terminated devs of the company he had to be forced to purchase.
A Russian “guided bomb” has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials say.
Volodymyr Zelensky posted an image of the building on fire as a result of Saturday night’s attack in around Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region.
The city of Kupiansk and nearby settlements were seized by Russian troops in the first few days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022.
President Zelensky also said that on Saturday Russia separately carried out a missile attack, targeting an aeronautical company run by group Motor Sich in the western Khmelnytskyi region.
On Sunday, Russia’s air defences destroyed a drone as it approached Moscow, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said.
Last week, an office block on a Moscow skyscraper was hit two days in a row by Ukrainian drones, Russian authorities said.
When Afraa was found in the rubble of a collapsed building in Syria, her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother, who had died just after giving birth.
Baby Afraa was the only member of her immediate family to survive - her father, Abu Rudaina, and her four siblings died, along with her mother.
When Afraa was in hospital, thousands of people around the world offered to adopt her, so Khalil and his wife Hala had to prove they really were related before they were allowed to take care of her.
Eventually, the DNA results confirmed Hala was a blood relative - the sister of Afraa’s father - and the little girl was discharged from hospital.
We buried them the next day in a nearby village called Hajj Iskandar, where the Civil Defence had dug mass graves."
Delivering aid to the four million people living in this rebel-held area of Syria is extremely difficult, where most of the residents have already been displaced by the country’s 12-year war.
Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than expected, the space agency said.
A signal was picked up on Tuesday but thanks to an “interstellar shout” - a powerful instruction - its antenna is now back facing Earth.
Staff used the “highest-power transmitter” to send a message to the spacecraft and timed it to be sent during “the best conditions” so the antenna lined up with the command, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd told AFP.
After communications were lost, the probe had been unable to receive commands or send back data to Nasa’s Deep Space Network - an array of giant radio antennas across the world.
On Monday, the space agency said its huge dish in Australia’s capital, Canberra, was trying to detect any stray signals from Voyager 2.
The probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets, which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn.
A little disappointed in BBC with the clickbait title there… All is not lost as the headline implies, per the article:
While fuller communication is not yet established, Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa says “should enable communication to resume”.
Frustrating that they make it sound like this is a big deal.
They did update the title later to “Voyager 2: Nasa picks up ‘heartbeat’ signal after sending wrong command”, I’m using original title they used when publishing the article.
It’s pretty frustrating that the news lately just goes out of their way to make things look bleak. Like that CNN story about Saturn’s rings “disappearing”. They mentioned that “future astronomers might not get the chance to view Saturn’s rings.” and went on about how they were disappearing. At the very end of the article was the estimate of the timeline, and it was 100 million years. Give me a fucking break. These fucking news outlets with their clickbait bullshit titles just irritates me. I get you were just posting what was there. My frustration is just at the news outlets themselves.
Same old. Just follow specific users by copying their full ID (e.g. @Teppic@kbin.social without the space) onto the search on Mastodon and follow as normal.
We should perhaps use hashtags more here because that would would be another way for Mastodon users to find/follow kbin content.
Going the other way to contribute to a kbin magazine from Mastodon, If you want the post to appear in a particular magazine, simply mention it in the post content, for example, "@fediverse@kbin.social" (no space) Note it will appear in the Microblog section.
Even if she didn’t have a pass or was the person who didn’t pay last time (the driver was mistaken), they never should have closed the door while a person was in them.
Even if the door had managed to detect she was still in the way, the door closing on her could have injured her. And there’s surely always something that could get stuck in the door without the sensor detecting it. If not a walking stick like this case, then a thin piece of clothing.
Idk… Tbh I am not sure what they aree talking about.
Here in Spain and I think applies to Europe aswell the government can sent alerts per region or globally for any reason , Android and iOS handle it but I wouldn’t exactly call it a Google alert of course if Google fuck it up it wouldn’t work on Android phones. That said until recently at least here it had been barely tested, recently they did tests and finally seems to work fine but initially some phones didn’t receive anything, but as far as I know it was ISP provider issues, again not sure how the delivery is done so you get the alert
Okay, thanks. I got some quake alerts in Japan before, but I also thought that was a network message, not a specifically Google alert.
I’m just curious why Google is specifically taking the blame here, like if they took responsibility or announced intention to report on future quakes and then dropped the ball or something.
Google is not taking any blame. Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system, it did not work, and they’re claiming it did.
No one asked for such a system in the first place from them, and while it’s nice they’d go about doing something like that in Earthquake prone parts of the world, if it doesn’t work they probably shouldn’t get up and start declaring “No no, it totally did work, dunno what those survivors are on about.”
Is this something Google regularly does? Release alerts about earthquakes? Is it specific to Turkey or global?
From the article (which you should read, it’s quite short):
Google’s Android Earthquake Alert System was announced in Turkey in June 2021. The system is operational in dozens of countries around the world. The company describes the ability to send quake alerts as a “core” part of its Android service.
Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system
If you read between the lines of their ‘earthquake system’, it is obviously polling your phone on a very short and granular basis and pulling movement data, which is something no one seems to be talking about. This is the kind of data collection that pisses me off, and they get away with this by trying to pass this off as some sort of wonderful life saving system that I bet no one even knew they were contributing data to.
I hope everyone you know is doing okay but I don’t think Google is really flexing that the alert system didn’t work. Tech isn’t perfect but the system has worked with other earthquakes. If anything we can hope the tech gets better because this event will highlight gaps.
Google’s product lead on the system, Micah Berman, insisted it had worked. “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts,” he told the BBC. However, the company did not provide evidence that these alerts were widely received.
Personally I don’t think they have any responsibility to build such a system, or even have it function properly. By “weird flex” I was specifically referring to the “We are confident that this system fired and sent alerts” line.
Obviously my view is anecdotal (especially the whole “No one got any sort of alert” part of my original comment), so take what I say with a grain of salt!
It’s nice that an ad company lets us know when we might accidentally die but, yeah, not a first line of defense. Local government should be beating commercial sources to the punch every time vital information needs to go out.
Nah. Relying on an ad subsidized service to alert you of danger is a bad idea both for the end user and the local government.
There is a already an emergency alert system baked into every iPhone and Android device, the government is responsible for using it regardless of whether there is commercial service working in parallel to theirs.
I think there are a few key paragraphs in this article that provide important context to the post title:
“Russia’s military has displayed “professional qualities” by preventing Ukrainian forces from “advancing quickly”.”
So they’re advancing, just not quickly enough for someone’s timeline?
“The Institute for the Study of War says Ukrainian forces appear to have broken through “certain pre-prepared Russian defensive positions”.”
So the Ukrainians are advancing, even through readied russian defenses.
“So far there’s little evidence that Western supplied tanks and armoured vehicles have been able to tip the balance decisively in Ukraine’s favour.”
So there’s no context for what they mean by decisively, But since we know that the Ukrainians are advancing because of these tanks and even breaking through pre-prepared Russian defenses, the armored vehicles are clearly tipping the battle in Ukraine’s favor.
Based on what evidence? Or is it simply because she is a woman, she couldn’t possibly do something illegal, so she must have been forced into doing it?
Did you even read the article? No. Of course not. She was found with like 30 g on her. What cartel is going to traffic drugs 30 g at a time?!?
Strange deal, but sure - always good to work on yourself. Also not sure why you assume, I would think that smuggling heroine would be a good idea to beginn with.
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