I understand that weather on TV can’t be hyperlocally accurate. But a weather app on my phone has my exact GPS coordinates. Why can’t it tell me exactly when a rain cloud will be passing over my location?...
I know any in my case. I’m in a black hole of info. The nearest weather station is over 30 miles away and it’s not remotely accurate for my location because of terrain changes between here and there. There isn’t even a weather station in my overly large and oddly shaped county.
We went so far as to contact the people in charge of weather stations to see if we could set one up in our yard and while there was some initial excitement from them they eventually ghosted us.
Why is it so obsessed with “white dudes”? Even if you are soecifically tagreting them, it seems odd to keep repeating it, especially since people who are goinf to vote a black woman of asian origins as preaident should tend not to be white supremacists
@bookstodon I'm reading The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by Rickert. I picked it up a while ago after someone mentioned it here on Masto. Thank you to whoever did!
I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it.
What is a little odd is that I keep thinking about Little Big by #JohnCrowley. I haven't read that one in several decades and barely remember it except that it had a huge impact on my young self. I remember the feeling of reading it though, and I get some of that now, but don't know why.
"Being with someone who was close to dying was oddly akin to waiting to give birth. That same concentration and the effort involved and the slowing of reality and the open texture of everything."
Title is how I used to remember port/starboard: I left port. My method for the lights is a little odd but since red goes on port side, I use “red right wrong”.
DATE: July 28, 2024 at 12:00PM
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TITLE: Dutch women, but not men, in same-sex relationships are more likely to commit crime, study finds
A study in the Netherlands found that women in same-sex relationships have 69% higher odds of committing crimes compared to their peers in opposite-sex relationships. In contrast, men in same-sex relationships had 32% lower odds of committing crimes compared to men in heterosexual relationships. The paper was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Sexual minority groups generally face an elevated risk of various types of adversity. Studies show that they are more likely to have been abused in childhood, to have been victims of crime, and to suffer from substance use disorders and other psychiatric disorders. They are also more likely to commit suicide.
Individuals prone to crime and antisocial behaviors also tend to have increased odds of these same adverse outcomes. This suggests an association between being a sexual minority and being involved in crime or antisocial behavior.
Study author Steve G. A. van de Weijer and his colleagues wanted to explore the links between having a same-sex relationship and being involved in crime. They also wanted to know whether this link is general or specific to certain crimes. In other words, are individuals in same-sex relationships more (or less) prone to committing specific types of crimes compared to their heterosexual peers?
Starting from a theory that sexual minority individuals are exposed to more stress as they grow up, the study authors hypothesized that these individuals would be more likely to have committed criminal offenses compared to their heterosexual peers. Also, based on theories explaining the social and behavioral specificities of sexual minorities as effects of sexual hormones (mainly testosterone), the study authors hypothesized that women in same-sex relationships would be more likely to commit crimes, but that this likelihood would be lower for men in same-sex relationships.
The authors analyzed data from Statistics Netherlands, a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. Data about whether a person is in a same-sex or opposite-sex relationship and about criminal behavior also came from government databases. In total, the study used data from over 3.5 million individuals, 2% of whom were in a same-sex relationship at least once (around 75,000 people). 15% of these participants were suspected of committing a crime at least once between 1996 and 2020. 90% of those accused were also found guilty by a judge or paid a fine.
Results showed that 22% of men in opposite-sex relationships were suspected of committing a crime at least once. This was the case with only 14% of men in same-sex relationships. In contrast, 7% of women in opposite-sex relationships were crime suspects at least once in their lives, while this was the case with just below 9% of women in same-sex relationships.
This pattern was found for all types of crime except drug offenses. 0.5% of women in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships were accused of this type of crime.
“The results of the study suggested that men in opposite-sex relationships were more often suspected of crime than were men in same-sex relationships, while women in opposite-sex relationships were less often suspected of crime than women in same-sex relationships,” the study authors concluded.
The study sheds light on the links between crime and sexual orientation. However, these links probably also depend on the cultural context and the status of sexual minorities in a society. Therefore, statistics might be different in other cultures. Additionally, not all criminal behaviors result in legal prosecution. This difference between crimes actually committed and those which were prosecuted and for which a suspect has been identified could have produced a certain bias.
The paper, “Same‑Sex Relationships and Criminal Behavior: A Total Population Study in The Netherlands,” was authored by Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Sjoukje van Deuren, and Brian B. Boutwell.
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I suspect there are going to be many lawsuits all over the globe about this. The situation is so bad and so expensive Intel has decided to weather all those lawsuits and class actions instead of doing a recall. That suggests to me odds are everything they have made since the 13th Gen is soon for an early tech graveyard.
I saw him in a clip of the metal band performing, which was also fucking wild. Couldn’t tell if it was explicitly AC: Unity based (which would be odd to single out, imo) or just a generally historical outfit. Gonna have to watch the whole thing at some point.
Vladimir Putin has warned the US that if Washington deploys long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, Russia will station similar missiles within striking distance of the west....
I was connected to the uni’s wifi, which I access with my institutional account, on my personal laptop. If using the app Notion - accessed with my personal gmail account - and writing on it, what can they see? do they have access to what I’m writing? Do they just see I’m using it?
IT guy here, I work in the finance industry and have never worked with eduroam, but I have some experience of what we normally can see.
I am not an infosec guy, so I can’t speak to what they can see.
In my experience a normal IT team will see the connections your computer makes to the remote host (in this case google), but can’t see the information transfered.
This depends on if your connection uses https (gmail does) and weather or not the network uses deep packet inspection.
Https encrypts the traffic, sort of like you putting a big pink stuffed elefant in your car boot and driving it to your new place, people won’t see the big pink elefant, but they will see your car going from A to B.
Deep packet inspection is like a security checkpoint between A and B, the officers will open you car, log that you are carrying a big pink stuffed elefant, and send you on your way.
You can use a tool like ssllabs testing service to find out the issuer of a certificate, and compare that to the issuer on the certificate you get in your browser.
However, the most important thing to remember is that we as IT guy don’t care about what you do unless you break the rules or in some other way are causing harm to the network.
We don’t do pinpoint surveilence, unless we have a reason to.
We collect data yes, but that is only really used for statistics and troubleshooting.
But we have plenty of automation that will log the shit out of a misbehaving system, there are plenty of similar systems, but the one I am familiar with is Microsoft Defender 365.
If it notices something odd or bad it will log everything related to it, files modified, the user running the program, registry values changed, connections to other computers, commands run, and more, but it will only do that when bad action is being taken, not just by connecting to gmail.
We in IT don’t have time or interest in looking at generic logs for fun.
The one thing that might be putting you on the radar is the use of a third party app, it might not be approved software if you ran it on a company laptop, but since it is a personal laptop, I wouldn’t worry about it.
TL;DR: It is doubtful that they will see what you have written, and even less likely that they have access, and even less likely that they care or even knows about it.
But if you fear people reading what you write, you have two options, one easy, the other one less so.
Stop writing, easy, then there is nothing to be found.
Local encryption, get veracrypt, create a new encrypted file, mount it, format it, and save your texts there.
It sounds like the film is still pro-religion in the end, odd that it is receiving such backlash.
Places like Egypt and other middle eastern countries definitely need their Richard Dawkins moment (even though I don’t think he’s a great person), but I don’t think this is it.
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky (Also the first repeat game). This is my Ship that is stuck on fire. No clue why. It was damaged, and after I repaired it the fire wouldn’t go out. It works fine and all systems are operating perfectly. So I guess I just have a ship that’s on fire now
It could totally use new biomes. I have some genuinely cool ones. But for every cool one there is another 10 that is just “Rocky with Odd Trees and some sort of environmental hazard”
It’s true what you say, at least as far as a regular yankee can say. They’re was palpable relief when joe stepped down. I never thought it would happen but I’m glad it did, cuz harris has the chops Biden doesn’t and i hope she wins.
But I’m not gonna forget the experience I’ve gained in my 30 odd years following politics as a hobby… “People-powered” implies we folks in the dirt are driving her campaign when of course it’s large corporate donors who are providing her the required money and will be deciding her platform.
I ain’t saying anything surprising or controversial. I’m not teaching anyone anything new here. I just capital H Hate pandering and ill call it out every time.
Guess that ruffled some feathers this morning. Ahhhh oh well
How satisfying is it that the race is no longer the media constantly haranguing that “old man too old”, and now Kamala can just stand back and point and say “that’s odd”?
I’m so relieved that this election is finally able to pivot and be about how uniquely unqualified Trump is, and how very fucking weird he and Vance are. If you’re looking for the side that’s not aligned with American values, it’s the felon and his eyeliner-clad sidekick.
What a horrible thing to happen. Was hear use of “rebuke” odd? Sure, but hardly threatening. I am very curious what the officer has to say in his defence, I do not see hos this could anything other than murder. Perhaps discussion of which degree, but surely murder and not manslaughter.
I am devastated on behalf of Massey’s family and I hope they will eventually find peace.
I think you’re overstating the threat here. The above commenter, though being facetious, is making a good point. The cop told her to take her pasta off the stove and even joked with her about avoiding the steam. Then he shot her. She was standing at a sink behind a raised-bar style countertop with a pot of water. Assuming she’s going to be able to chuck it over the counter at the cop is a bit of a stretch, particularly given her demeanor throughout the encounter. Nevermind the fact that she’s standing there with two armed men that could easily kill her (and one did), it’s bonkers to assume she would have both the motive and capability to do so.
It’s one thing if she behaved erratically to that point, but she didn’t. Additionally, if the cop was really concerned about the pot he could have said, “no, stay on the couch.” It’s just an odd hill to die on stating the cop was concerned about the pot.
It is odd that so many people forgot about this. All “the sky is falling” posts about debt completely ignore this chart. What was weird was debt getting paid off during the pandemic. Not the rate of debt spending we’re back to post pandemic.
Sure they represent their country, but they aren’t government officials. You seem to be blurring the lines between government and country in a way that indicates that you don’t simply hate the actions of the Israeli government, you actually hate Israel the country. The next step down that path is to hate all Israelis.
Not a good path to be going down.
Now you’re nearing schizoid levels of paranoia. Take your meds, bro
Trivializing mental illness. Classy!
It is odd that this particular war is considered by many to be a leftist cause isn’t it? A war that started when Hamas (a fascist regime) brutally murdered people living in Kibutzes (socialist communes). It’s odd for leftists to to the side of fascists in this this one case and while normally being on the other side in other cases.
You might not want to admit that leftists have issues with antisemitism, but you can’t control how others see leftism. Personally I think it keeps popping up because of the old “greedy capitist jew” stereotype which creates an association between Jew and Captialists. This makes leftists predisposed towards antisemitism.
Being in denial of these kinds of things means you’ll never look at it head on. This hurts your ability to communicate your message on anything (whether it be leftism or Palestinian causes) because you’ll always be blindsided when people say “hold up, that seems a little racist to me” which devolves into you say “no it’s not” and derogatory insinuations about mental illness and such.
People will rightfully turn away from those espousing hateful rhetoric. If you can’t be bothered to put any effort into learning why some rhetoric is hateful, you will be have no influence on people that oppose hate speech and you won’t even know why.
Do you have any data to back up your second point? I know dozens of people that have made careers out of passions that they discovered in high school and college. And those are only the people that I’ve asked about it.
But we could expand a little bit and make your claim more likely to be true, and also more reasonable. For example, if Jimmy loves playing the guitar, he could try to form a rock band and get successful enough to make a living touring. That’s kind of hard. Possible but the odds are against him. So he might try that and later transition to some other job that’s still in entertainment. This example, and generally the shift from a single job to something else that’s related to it, is something that young people should expect. Focusing too much on one area could be a weakness if you have to change jobs later. And in general, the majority of workers will make major changes to their careers at least once in their lives.
Yes, and apparently fifty-odd people have upvoted that comment, like “yeah, wait a minute, increasing how much your balls stink probably isn’t good advice!*”
Well get used to it, generalization is what people do, they love it, I’m doing it right now, it’s a function of the human brain seeking patterns. They’ll decry it against their group and use it on another group in damn near the same breath, welcome to the world. We even have phrases for it, “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” and all. I bet if I scrolled through your comment history (I’m not gonna, but if I did) I wouldn’t have to go too far to see you generalize about a group commonly perceived as “all bad,” I’d guess it’s republicans, probably say they’re all racists or all nazis or all X, it doesn’t really matter, point is the odds that you do are higher than the odds that you don’t.
Oklahoma state superintendent releases guidance on controversial Bible teachings in schools (abcnews.go.com)
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters released guidelines on the state’s controversial Bible mandate in public schools on Wednesday....
Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?
I understand that weather on TV can’t be hyperlocally accurate. But a weather app on my phone has my exact GPS coordinates. Why can’t it tell me exactly when a rain cloud will be passing over my location?...
Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day? (lemmy.sdf.org)
never signed up for anything like this,...
Leaving Port (lemmy.world)
Going for a Michael Mann feel.
Intel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recall (www.tomshardware.com)
There was a guy dressed like an Assassin's Creed character doing parkour while carrying the Olympic Torch in Paris, which was somehow one of the tamer parts of the opening ceremony (www.pcgamer.com)
Putin warns US against deploying long-range missiles in Germany (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has warned the US that if Washington deploys long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, Russia will station similar missiles within striking distance of the west....
Eduroam question, what can they see?
I was connected to the uni’s wifi, which I access with my institutional account, on my personal laptop. If using the app Notion - accessed with my personal gmail account - and writing on it, what can they see? do they have access to what I’m writing? Do they just see I’m using it?
Egypt Controversy on social media about the movie “The Atheist” as its release approaches (nan.media)
Day 11 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
Today’s game is No Man’s Sky (Also the first repeat game). This is my Ship that is stuck on fire. No clue why. It was damaged, and after I repaired it the fire wouldn’t go out. It works fine and all systems are operating perfectly. So I guess I just have a ship that’s on fire now
Harris says she’s the underdog, touts her campaign as ‘people powered’. (www.voanews.com)
‘This Is the Worst Police-Shooting Video Ever’ - The officer who killed Sonya Massey didn’t see what I see. (www.theatlantic.com)
Car Repossessions Surge 23% as Americans Fall Behind on Payments (www.bloomberg.com)
Paywall removed archive.is/NFELy
Outrage after French MP says Israelis 'not welcome' at Olympics (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Men in their 40s, what’s one piece of advice for men in their 20s?
Anon takes the ball-pill (lemmy.world)
Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
How come as of today I can't access [email protected]?
lemmy.world/c/[email protected]...