I will also point out that the National Gun of the US is the AR-15/M4 which is a .223/5.56 rifle. It can be seen committing war crimes in the Middle East and murdering children on the middle of main street.
What pathetic few gun regulations we have are mostly related to barrel length and them not being fully automatic. The former only actually matters if you need to fire out of a vehicle (and has ballistics implications). And no, riding around in your cybertruck that will shred you with spall if anyone uses even a 9 mm doesn’t count. And there is increasingly the argument that even military rifles/service weapons should not have automatic capability because a rifleman with full auto is just a waste of ammo.
Assuming that the result of a “civillian militia uprising” is not “And that is what we call a hellfire missile”: The plates in actual military body armor are fairly regularly stopping multiple AK (7.62 mm) rounds. Those hit noticeably harder and is arguably why the US military is pushing for a 6.8 mm round as their standard. If you ever watched an action movie where the protagonist shrugs off a few shots to the chest and returns fire… yeah.
Which is why I always say: if the gun nuts actually gave even a single shit about “we need to be ready to fight the government” they wouldn’t be pushing to have their emotional support assault rifles. The answer would be small caliber high velocity rounds fired from concealable pistols. That gives you good odds of getting rounds into vulnerable/less armored parts of the body and you are fucked if you are in a ranged engagement (soldiers carry a LOT of grenades and have access to air support) or a prolonged engagement (soldiers carry a LOT of grenades). Like, there is a reason that The Allies dropped so many pistols and concealable weapons to partisans in WW2.
Because any standing fighting force? They will literally be blown to hell.
And, to clarify. I don’t care if you touch yourself to pictures of trump, Lenin, reagan, or che guevara. You are just as dead when the army rolls up.
I don’t see how masturbating with soap has any increased risk of soap in the urethra than normal washing. Especially when you wash yourself everyday. It would also matter on how often you do it. If you’re jerking it with soap every time you jerk it yeah you increase the likelihood but if it’s a once in a while thing it would be a negligible increase in odds.
I can’t believe I just put that much thought into jerking it with soap.
This is just a guess, but I think that the likelihood of Twitter federating is almost to zero, unless forced by legislations to do so. It simply doesn’t benefit from that, since every group and individual leaving Twitter might as well defederate it, and odds are that the upper echelon there knows it.
Instead I think that Twitter will try to associate the Fediverse with terrorists and what have you, to indirectly smear shit into its competitor Faecesbook/Threats.
To be honest, I really enjoyed my run (100 hours in). If you omit the bugs, it’s a nice alternative to Skyrim with a very different setting (space) and some quality of life improvements (eg: having your ship to store shit anywhere you go, instead of traveling back and forth to your house if you have any).
But I admit the game feels very old in general (especially because of those loading screens, which should be a thing from the past in 2023), and is not original at all on its FPS mechanics. There is also this odd feeling that the game does not want to block you access to anything (while the new game plus, which is a very good idea and introduced in a clever way, should have been enough to be more « punishing » with the player).
As an « old » gamer, it was not a big issue (especially because I play ton of retrogaming games, along with recent releases), but I totally understand what a player expecting a modern SF RPG game might feel.
<p>An analysis of UK Biobank data found that individuals who spend more time in daylight exhibit a lower risk of major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychosis, and self-harm behavior. Independent of this, greater light exposure during nighttime was associated with increased risks of major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and self-harm behavior. The study was published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00135-8"><em>Nature Mental Health</em></a>.</p>
<p>Circadian rhythms are natural, internal processes that regulate the sleep-wake cycle and recur approximately every 24 hours. Influenced by external cues like light and darkness, these rhythms are vital for maintaining various physiological functions, including hormone release, body temperature regulation, and metabolism. Disturbances in circadian rhythms can significantly impact overall health and well-being.</p>
<p>Research suggests a strong connection between circadian rhythms and psychiatric disorders. Many psychiatric conditions, such as depression, bipolar disorder, and certain sleep disorders, are associated with disruptions in circadian rhythms. For example, individuals with depression often exhibit irregularities in their sleep-wake cycles, and disruptions to the circadian system can exacerbate mood disorders.</p>
<p>In humans, the central “clock” regulating circadian rhythms is located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus region of the brain. Rhythms produced by this area of the brain are regulated by daily light exposure patterns. Researchers believe that the modern way of life, which includes lower exposure to natural daylight and increased exposure to artificial light during the night, might create a disruption of the circadian rhythms and contribute to adverse mental health outcomes.</p>
<p>Study author Angus C. Burns and his colleagues aimed to investigate whether exposure to natural light during the day and artificial light at night is associated with psychiatric disorders involving disturbances in circadian rhythms. They hypothesized that greater daylight exposure would correlate with a lower risk of psychiatric disorders and improved mood, while greater nighttime light exposure would correlate with a higher risk of psychiatric disorders and poorer mood.</p>
<p>The team analyzed data from 86,631 individuals in the UK Biobank database, a large-scale biomedical database and research resource containing genetic and health data from over 500,000 UK residents. This data is extensively used in research to understand the complex interactions between genetics, lifestyle, and various diseases.</p>
<p>The light exposure data for this study were gathered in 2013, when over 100,000 UK Biobank participants took part in a 7-day physical activity and light exposure study. During this time, participants wore an accelerometer with a light sensor on their dominant wrist for seven days, which recorded data on their movements and light levels. Psychiatric data were collected in 2016, when participants were asked to complete an online mental health questionnaire.</p>
<p>The results indicated that higher exposure to light at night was associated with increased odds of major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, and psychosis. For the entire sample, there was no link to bipolar disorder; however, participants with the highest levels of nighttime light exposure had an increased risk of this disorder.</p>
<p>On the other hand, higher daytime light exposure was associated with lower odds of major depressive disorder, self-harm, and psychosis. Increased nighttime light exposure was also associated with a higher risk that an individual will have multiple psychiatric disorders at once.</p>
<p>“Our findings demonstrate a consistent association of light-exposure patterns that are healthy for circadian rhythms with better psychiatric outcomes. These results suggest that light-exposure interventions may act in a transdiagnostic manner to improve mental health by strengthening circadian rhythms. Brighter days and darker nights may be a simple, freely available, non-pharmacological intervention to enhance mental health that is easily implementable in a community setting,” the study authors concluded.</p><div class="addrop-wrap" data-id="64749"><p style="text-align: center;">
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<p>The study sheds light on the links between light exposure patterns and mental health. However, it also has limitations that need to be taken into account. Notably, the study design does not allow any cause-and-effect conclusions to be derived from the results. It is possible that light exposure patterns affect mental health, but it is also possible that mental health conditions affect behavior in a way that produces the observed differences in light exposure patterns.</p>
<p>The paper, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00135-8">Day and night light exposure are associated with psychiatric disorders: an objective light study in >85,000 people</a>”, was authored by Angus C. Burns, Daniel P. Windred, Martin K. Rutter, Patrick Olivier, Céline Vetter, Richa Saxena, Jacqueline M. Lane, Andrew J. K. Phillips, and Sean W. Cain.</p>
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I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....
It’s a Linux problem because you can’t ensure a kernel module in Linux is untouched by the user. This is a design on Linux. This means Linux and secured anti cheat solutions are fundamentally at odds.
I am setting up a new server for my media and wanted to ask for your best ways to manage an ebook and comic collection. I have been using calibre so far, but it is not really designed to be managed remotely.
I’ve just been down this exact journey, and ended up settling on Kavita. It has all the browse, search and library stuff you’d expect. You can download or read things in the web interface. I’m only using it for epub and PDF books, but its focus is comics and manga so I expect it to shine there.
I don’t think it does mobi, but since I use Calibre on my laptop to neaten up covers and metadata before I drop books on to the server it’s a simple matter to convert the odd mobi I end up with. Installation (using docker inside an LXC) was simple.
It’s been a really straightforward, good experience. Highly recommend. I like it better than AudioBookshelf (which I’m already hosting for audio books) which I also tried, but didn’t like as much for inexplicable reasons. I also considered Calibre-Web, but that seemed a bit messy since I guess I’d use Calibre on my laptop to manage my books on a NAS share then serve it headless from the server with Calibre-Web? I might have that completely wrong, I didn’t spend any time looking into it because Kavita was the second thing I tried and it did exactly what I wanted.
Building code is close to rocket science. Or maybe voodoo… Building a house is pretty simple, but a code inspector will come up with 2,000 odd little things you didn’t do. A clip here, a gap there…
I think its a reflection of the writers more than anything. Trek writers usually try to pull their ideas from current political and sociological issues. AI and genetic engineering (which I think is thinly veiled commentary on gender) are simply the current issues of our time. It is odd that they’ve chosen the federation to be the problem in the recent shows though. In older trek the federation was always the ones to stand up for the cause and the conflict came from worlds they visited. Of course, that’s probably linked to the same idea as the AI/genetics, people are much more frustrated and disillusioned with western government these days and the writers are no doubt exploring that.
So there will probably be changes in the federations stance that are two steps beyond what we see happening in the world around us. Trek has always tried to lead people in a moral/philosophical direction.
Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN....
You want an unstoppable raping, pillaging, murdering force rolling West over every opposition, against all odds, and only stopped by the logistical impasse that is the sea and the festering attrition of greed?
Because, that’s how you get an unstoppable raping, pillaging, murdering force rolling West over every opposition, against all odds, and only stopped by the logistical impasse that is the sea and the festering attrition of greed.
edit: sorry for the historical caricature, kiddos. Lighten up, FFS.
I have an Benq EX2510 (the older model from 2020) and I have a gtx 1660 super with an i5 10400f in my pc. The motherboard is MSI b460 m pro vdh wifi....
OK that is an odd one… so we know it isn’t the monitor as you said it works fine with the laptop, so it seems to come down to either the gpu or your psu is getting weak. (power supply.)
Monitoring your temps with something like Speedfan ( almico.com/speedfan.php ) would ensure it’s not temperature related but it sounds like it may be more than that at this point. I’m not sure what else you could try other than swapping the gpu or psu out to see if that solves the issue. You could also try a different monitor just to be sure your monitor just doesn’t like your pc, but it doesn’t sound like that would be the problem.
If I had a nickel for every utility I worked with that handles billing of capital projects on a spreadsheet, I’d have 2… Which isn’t a lot, but still odd that the backbone of their billing is excel
I really want to know why people think that is a valid question?
ABA is not about helping the person be themselves or have a better life, but to try to “convert” them to be more like other people to make those other people feel more comfortable with their beliefs.
Family counseling based on ‘we all need to learn to be kinder to each other’ gave us useful tools when our undx nd family was struggling 30yr ago. Available dx for my daughter then were BPD or ODD (bc girls aren’t autistic, right?) & I was determined to keep her away from that.
Now we see that almost every woman in our fam over at least 4 generations is autistic & we’re all much happier!
And there are other articles that checks for if you can sell at lower price(without temp sales) on EGS, only 5 out of 41 did so. I take it with some handful of salt cause ars didn’t actually list out the games and who is the publisher behind those 5. That’s why I post the first link from a developer’s stand point. We will only know details once the case developed more.
Regarding reviews, it’s like manage or moderate a forum, but it has huge impact if your changes aren’t communicated, I just list this one but if you are more interested you can dig up older/newer changes. Simply put, if it wasn’t through backlash and developers pulling teeth to push some odd changes like this back to a more neutral place. (ie. Early Access Reviews, Product received for free, product refunded tags are all much later than this article.) Steam’s reviews would be something like youtube shorts that I simply skip. Is it better in the end? I don’t know, cause you can still influence how popular a review is by the upvote/found useful from marketing campaign. Extra costs from developer to marketing(and still subject them to exploits), harder to navigate for consumer(like Amazon reviews), it’s really messy and not really consumer/producer friendly.
I put my points in simply because there is a overwhelming “worshiping” of Valve/Steam that make the 30% cut seems justifiable, and distribution for digital good seriously can’t be more expensive than physicals right? you can go check how much average Amazon charges seller even given it’s dominant position as digital market place. Or simply put it this way, youtube/netflix/social bandwidth consumption is bigger than game distributions for average user. It might be a case for triple-As that come at 45G per game but vast majority of games are about 12 hours worth of streaming(<20GB), I’d like Valve simply provide a usage based charge like cloud providers and developers can pick and choose what features they wanted to pay accordingly. 30% cut is not normal just as lootbox is not normal, they did it simply because they can. (as in traditional brick-and-mortar shop like BestBuy charging extras for cables etc, even with Amazon as competitor.)
Sorry if I miss some parts to provide follow ups, simply too tired to focus on stuff. Mark my words, once Gabe passed gamers are gonna have the reckoning coming for them. All my purchases are based on how much money the developers can get at the end. I buy games on store/launcher even if I don’t like them, but if more bucks goes to developer, that’s where I choose to buy. That’s the important part, we buy stuff to support the developer we like/love, not to support the “platform” selling them.
Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub earlier this week in Edna, Texas....
Feel free, you have seen the rule says they can be edited yet you’re still responding and cannot admit you’re wrong. No interest whatsoever. I don’t know what comment you’re talking about. Lemmy seems like a nicer Reddit, which I have said before.
Great you’ve been counting the exchanges, I don’t pay attention to usernames and remember what they have said because that’s just a bit odd.
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
You know, I considered being a teacher. But after schooling you, I’ve realized one idiot is enough. I mean odds are they’ll be smarter than you but I just don’t want to risk it.
O I did, you just don’t understand them. Almost everyone of them is there because they see that the odds of new people coming in means there is no one to train them… that’s the entire reasoning…and that incumbents almost always keep their seats. It’s party based power, and it’s good for both sides, while being shit for the people.
Okay so this is weird… I sent a mobi file and it didn’t work.
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A document sent at 10:24 AM on Wed, Dec 13, 2023 GMT could not be delivered.
Send to Kindle can convert and deliver the following types of documents: • EPUB (.epub) • Adobe PDF (.pdf) • Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) • Rich Text Format (.rtf) • HTML (.htm, .html) • Text (.txt) documents • Compressed documents (.zip, .xzip) • JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitmap (.bmp) and PNG (.png) images.
While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war?
All the ingredients are there and it won’t take much to put it all together.
I know it's one of you guys (lemmy.world)
Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration (www.threads.net)
I have my problems with Meta, but I’m hoping this will help Mastodon grow
Starfield will be getting a bunch of fresh features including "new ways of traveling" next year (www.vg247.com)
Bethesda has confirmed that it plans to add a number of new features to Starfield in 2024.
To catch a catfish (www.newstatesman.com)
On the end of Discovery
I have mixed feelings about Disco ending. I really dug the first season’s look at a Federation at war, and following the person who arguably set that war in motion dealing with her culpability. Add to that a ship that is part weird science lab, part haunted house. And yeah, I could live with the Klingon redesign....
Bro's date offer rejected [VIDEO] (lemy.lol)
Panera founder says employees today aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders: 'Nobody cares' (www.businessinsider.in)
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
EBook Management
I am setting up a new server for my media and wanted to ask for your best ways to manage an ebook and comic collection. I have been using calibre so far, but it is not really designed to be managed remotely.
New Argentinian President Says Adios to Argentina’s Ministry of Culture (www.artnews.com)
One of my back teeth is aching at the moment (literature.cafe)
Does the federation ever starts allowing genetic engineering again?
Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment (www.cnn.com)
Russia has lost a staggering 87 percent of the total number of active-duty ground troops it had prior to launching its invasion of Ukraine and two-thirds of its pre-invasion tanks, a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN....
Monitor loses signal within 5 minutes of turning on the computer
I have an Benq EX2510 (the older model from 2020) and I have a gtx 1660 super with an i5 10400f in my pc. The motherboard is MSI b460 m pro vdh wifi....
it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... (lemmy.ca)
Sleepover at a friend's (lemmy.world)
Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought by Epic Games (archive.ph)
Original (pay-walled): wsj.com/…/google-loses-antitrust-case-brought-by-…
Man arrested in slaying of 16-year-old cheerleader found dead in bathtub of Texas apartment (www.nbcnews.com)
Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub earlier this week in Edna, Texas....
Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...
Teenage girl kills classmate and herself in Russia school shooting (www.independent.co.uk)
Epub Site
Anybody have any recommendations for public or private trackers for ebooks? Looking mainly for epub files.