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Zathras , in Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef

According to the article, the crabs have been bred in an environment without predators. Therefore they have to train the crabs how to protect themselves in order to survive in the coral reefs. Picture of using puppets to train crabs

FuglyDuck ,
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That is a terrifying puppet. Like wtf is it supposed to be?

janus2 ,
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A Very Normal Sea Creature Nothing To See Here

(squid?)

FuglyDuck ,
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normal… is uh. relative, heh.

I mean… have you seen what comes up out of the sea? freaking aliens, man.

Redhotkurt ,
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Octopus, if I had to guess

FuglyDuck ,
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apparently, yes. and… basically everything else. apparently. and also cuddle fish and squid.

LillyPip ,

*Cuttlefish. They may look cuddly, but most are not.

Maeve ,

Ironically said by a fugly duck. Hmm

UFODivebomb ,

Terrifying for a crab… Wait… are you a crab?!? :O

PandaPikachu ,

I’m kinda surprised to see them training them one at a time. That’s going to take ages. “OK, Roger has been successfully intimidated by the nightmare puppet. Looks like Brenda is next in line, someone bring in Brenda.”

tdawg ,

Just put a real predator in the tank forehead

Wrench ,

Pretty sure crabs brains are so simple that they are almost purely instinctual. You shouldn’t need to train them. But I can hurt, I guess.

LillyPip ,

Marine biologist’s friend: How’s work been lately?

Biologist: Great! This month I’ve been putting on puppet shows for crabs!

Friend: Is that a euphemism or …?

iHUNTcriminals , in Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

Sounds like they are pushing a max speed limit update and the old ones cant be updated.

NikkiDimes , (edited )

The speed limit is unchanged.

Prior to this update, the board gave “push back” tilting the nose up with the last of it’s available torque when the user was going too fast and emitted a high pitched beep trying to let to user know to slow down or face a nose dive. The problem is, it was fairly easy to not notice the push back and the beep is completely inaudible when going 20mph due to wind noise. This update adds a physical vibration within the motor that the user can’t help but feel when they’re close to exceeding the limits of the board.

MiikCheque , in Federal judge won't block Medicare from negotiating drug prices

allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is unconstitutional** for several reasons. It then asked for a preliminary injunction to halt the program by October 1

wtf kinda colonialism bullshit is this. Negotiating price points is unconstitutional?

confused Boston Tea Party noise

Can’t believe this is even serious. Though fitting given how our country’s healthcare is the antithesis, a complete joke.

downpunxx , in The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended
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suspended? lol, this is the united states of godamn fucking america here, dude interfered directly with gestapo tactics against freedom of the press, he should be fired, and brought up on criminal charges, right fucking meow

FuglyDuck ,
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Yup. This is the US. Which is why he’ll be back at work inside of a month

chiliedogg ,

If we’re really lucky he’ll be turned to resign.

…and take a pay raise at a bigger department the next county over.

A_A , in 2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons
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…wikipedia.org/…/Blue_Grass_Chemical_Agent-Destru…

Thermal Destruction – uses the heat of the electrically heated containment vessel to deflagrate the munition and destroy the agent and energetics. The resulting gases are treated in an off-gas treatment system. The Static Detonation Chamber, or SDC, is an example of thermal destruction technology.

Fredselfish , in The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended
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Mayor needs to go next along with judge who signed the fucking unconstitutional warrant.

JustZ , (edited )
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What was unconstitutional about it?

Oh I see, just morons down voting instead of actually answering a question.

MotoAsh ,

All I see is a moron that doesn’t understand the word “constitutional”.

JustZ ,
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Why don’t you break it down? Simple question.

Otkaz ,

News organizations are typically issued seapenas for specific information because just raiding them and going through everything can reveal sources for unrelated stories. News organizations should have the ability to protect confidential sources if needed. Reason people are saying unconstitutional is because first amendment protects speech and freedom of press.

At least that’s how I understand it but I am not a lawyer.

JustZ , (edited )
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I’m looking for something hyper specific, legal. Thanks for taking a whack.

I think the usual case involves information from a confidential source, the publication of which by the press is absolutely protected by the First Amendment.

In this case, it was a newspaper reporter who directly was accused of breaking the law to obtain confidential information from the government. The reporter either falsely impersonated the subject of the records or falsely certified as to her reason for accessing them, either violates state and federal law notably the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is what the search warrant cited.

The press’s remedy for obtaining public records is through FOIA, which is itself a requirement of the First Amendment, on the basis that speech is infringed when the government doesn’t make its workings known to the public.

The search warrant made sense to me, and seemed that, if true, the only reasonable conclusion is that the reporter broke the law.

slurpeesoforion ,

You could like, read the article. No need to be obtuse.

JustZ ,
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Read it, and the warrants.

M500 , in Brain-eating cannibal back in public life after 10 years

He ate a man’s brains and eye balls.

Eww gross.

He went to subway after eating the man’s body parts.

EWWWWW! GROSS!

Pappabosley ,

We have crab juice or mountain dew

watson387 , in The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl
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Here’s hoping they do the right thing…

PeepinGoodArgs ,

They’ll do the right thing, al-right…

Gray ,
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Everything is all right with this Supreme Court.

Fredselfish ,
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Nope this is the year they dismantle everything just in time for Trump to overthrow our government. We need to impeach and remove all traitors from our government. When do we say enough is enough and bring out the Guillotines, Pitchforks, and Torches?

queermunist ,
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We aren’t organized enough to act before it’s too late 😞

Fredselfish ,
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Yeah hard to do that when almost half the country is begging for the dictatorship and loving the boot on their neck.

queermunist ,
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That still leaves more than half that don’t.

Yet there don’t seem to be organizations seriously preparing for the end of democracy.

I suspect it’s because anyone that was serious would be infiltrated by law enforcement.

BombOmOm ,
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The US has withstood vastly harder times than this. We are hardly at the ‘end of democracy’.

queermunist ,
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It’s not the 1800s anymore, everything happens a lot faster these days.

And going from “contested election” to “civil war” wouldn’t take long at all.

Maeve ,

Almost did on January six

Maeve ,

🤨

Son_of_dad , in On the brink of a federal shutdown, the House passes a 45-day funding plan and sends it to Senate

“It’s a 45 days, 45 points, 1 point per day, we get to 45 points we’re back in business! And limo lady, we are going completely carbon neutral!!”

-Michael Scott

vamp07 , in On the brink of a federal shutdown, the House passes a 45-day funding plan and sends it to Senate

Will this ridiculous yearly grandstanding ever stop?

Spasmolytic , in Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

I’ve never understood what gap these things fill that isn’t better filled by a bike. They look really fun, but as soon as I think seriously about it I can’t see why I wouldn’t want the exercise and mobility of walking or biking, and what I can’t do with those is satisfied by my car.

Not trying to shit on it, just musing.

JohnDClay ,

It’s more fun and easier to store

mosiacmango ,

Skateboard/last mile niche. You can pick up and hold them with one hand when on mass transit, then zip to your destination easily.

Spasmolytic ,

If it were a lot cheaper I might be down. Saw a guy cruising along the beach near the water in Oregon and that looked really nice.

shroomato ,
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You might want to check out the smaller EUCs. There’s a bunch that cost half as much as Onewheels, while still having more power and range.

drathvedro ,

Portability. You don’t have to worry about bike racks, or how to carry it to the upper floors in apartment buildings and offices, and where to store it. You can just carry it like a briefcase and throw under the desk at the office and nobody would have a problem with that.

Not_mikey ,

The answer to this is also the answer to where they were created, San Francisco. They’re perfect there because:

  1. Cars are a hassle to deal with for traffic and parking. It’s dense enough and public transit is good enough that you only really need to walk/ride the last half mile.
  2. The hills are no joke, I’m pretty in shape and even I have to walk a bike up most of the hills. This can be helped by an electric bike but that brings us to
  3. Bikes get stolen fairly often. Especially if you have an ebike this will cost a lot in the long run. With a one wheel you can just carry it in the storeand not have to worry.

For most other American cities that are less dense, more flat and have less thefts they start to make less sense.

Spasmolytic ,

That makes a lot of sense. I’m in Milwaukee, so quit different from SF in the ways you described.

bradorsomething , in On the brink of a federal shutdown, the House passes a 45-day funding plan and sends it to Senate

So lets game this out… in 45 days, can they even pass a bill of they’re still voting for a new speaker?

dethb0y , in Brain-eating cannibal back in public life after 10 years

Dude should have never been released simply because we can’t ever be sure he’ll take his medication or adhere to treatment in the future. At some point, the safety of an individual and the public takes priority over turning them loose on the streets.

Reverendender , in US House passes bipartisan bill to avoid government shutdown

”Federal agencies had already drawn up detailed plans that spell out what services would continue, like airport screening and border patrols, and what must shut down, like scientific research and nutrition aid to 7 million poor mothers.”

Thank goodness they had their priorities straight. Those poor mothers can fuckin’ starve as long as we can continue our useless airport screenings.

/s

andrew ,
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You don’t understand clearly.

White business owners need those planes to make their sales calls. The money generated by those sales trickles down to…

checks notes

Other white business owners?

thesmokingman , in 2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons

the entirety of the US’s declared chemical munitions stockpile

emphasis mine

PugJesus ,
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There's not much reason or rhyme to keeping any. They're not very useful, they take up space and maintenance resources, and they're a PR disaster, even in accidents.

Graphy ,

I mean it’s not like we’re throwing away the blueprints and plans to mass produce them. Don’t need to worry about upkeep and storing now.

alternative_factor ,
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You're right that such weapons could be made again but imho there is no reason to, conventional weapons are more precise, accurate, controllable, and deployable. Chemical and biological weapons are both at the mercy of mother nature and can easily turn on people, like how poison gas can literally just blow back on an army as it did many times in WWI. Nerve agents and things could get into the water supply of both armies, etc.
Don't even get me started on biological weapons which can literally evolve out of control in less than a blink of an eye. There is NO REASON to keep such things around or to make them. Politicians can talk about using WMDS as bargaining chips but it's not really worth it or indeed logical to bargain with billions of lives and possibly even your own.
It's honestly very funny to me that so many people are worried about a robot revolution or skynet when we have weapons that could basically do the same thing already. They aren't intelligent, but diseases are very quick to evolve and adapt to getting as many hosts as quickly as possible, yet we are still keeping such things around for some insane reason.

deranger ,

Regarding biological weapons, we’re not really “keeping them around” aside from smallpox; biological weapons are naturally occurring. Anthrax, glanders, all those biological warfare potentials are right outside your door.

Your local hospital / clinical microbiology lab has an entire stack of plates with QC organisms that could absolutely fuck shit up. O157H7 E. coli, Yersinia pestis, Shigella sp., and so on. They need these to ensure they can detect such organisms should an outbreak occur.

alternative_factor ,
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I should have said the varieties that were specifically bred and engineered as WMDs but you are right that most are very available. For example there is a huge difference between the anthrax that was released in Sverdvolesk and "normal" anthrax. The soviets also tried to weaponize many "exotic" diseases like (allegedly) Marburg and Machupo, which cannot be found just anywhere. I assume that the U.S has at the very least considered creating such awful things with exotic diseases. Hybrids are a big deal too like the old post 9/11 meme of smallpox+ anthrax.

tallwookie ,

why would you do R&D twice?

MonkderZweite ,

Wait, aren’t chemical weapons internationally banned?

CaptainProton ,

“intentionally banned” generally means “banned by a list of signatories who lack the capability to build up stockpiles or strategic utility to own them”. It’s all the countries who have zero planning for multi-million-strong armies crossing a land border in an invasion.

iHUNTcriminals ,

I remember this day. I stood up and proudly declared like an American should.

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