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silence7 ,

OP: If you’re in Canada, Meta banned news there entirely

Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers (www.nytimes.com)

“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”

Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds | Climate change is making heat waves linger for longer stretches of time, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures. (www.nytimes.com)

The longer heat waves stick around in one place, the longer people are exposed to life-threatening temperatures. As workers slow down during extreme heat, so does economic productivity. Heat waves also dry out soil and vegetation, harming crops and raising the risk of wildfires....

silence7 OP ,

Most news isn’t some major exposé, but routine reporting on things that are happening. This falls into that category.

silence7 OP , (edited )

It’s considered a civil dispute. You can sue to those using your face in an ad for monetary damages, which in practice means you’re trying to sue an overseas shell corporation with no assets, and can’t get anything, so no lawyer will represent you.

silence7 OP , (edited )

In the US, kinda sorta.

Advertisers are liable if they use your likeness to promote a product, imply endorsement, or otherwise make commercial use of it without your consent. This gives you the right to sue, which is worth absolutely nothing when you’re dealing with a shady overseas shell company hawking fake Viagra.

News organizations, artists, and random private individuals can publish a photo or other image of you taken in a place where you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy without having to contact you or have your consent. This is important: think of trying to share a photograph of a public event, and having to track down people in the background, or create public awareness when you photograph politician committing a crime.

silence7 OP ,

Because it’s a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way.

Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969:

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp

Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.

silence7 OP ,

Lol no. It’s a tiny and very expensive part of what needs doing

silence7 OP ,

Yeah, kbin has a couple of nasty bugs:

  • it can’t get thumbnails for anything on the Washington Post
  • when it doesn’t have a thumbnail, it picks one at random from some other post
silence7 OP ,

Most of lemmy fails to load thumbnails for The Washington Post

Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)

In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.

Ukraine, Stalled on the Battlefield, Targets Russia’s Oil Industry (www.nytimes.com)

Mr. Ernst and Mr. Krutikhin noted that, unlike in other oil infrastructure such as pipelines, a lot of complex machinery and sophisticated engineering goes into refineries, and they can take several months to fix. Some analysts say the repairs could take longer than usual because sanctions prohibit Western sales of certain...

silence7 OP ,

Key difference: a major failure at the nuclear reactor is can kill people across a large area.

Taking out refineries is going to raise the cost of gas, and lower the value of oil, resulting in both a cut to drilling and to burning, which is a net benefit for people.

silence7 OP ,

Prevent crude oil from being refined, and it’s not useful, so people don’t burn it. The quantities passed through the refinery are far greater than the amount present at it on any given day, so one less refinery means a whole lot less consumption.

silence7 OP ,

Burning an oil well directly burns oil which people would otherwise burned, while raising prices and encouraging additional extraction. I’ll also note that Saddam Hussein had people light the oil wells on fire before the US moved in.

An attack on a refinery prevents oil from being burned, and can’t burn oil that’s not there. I’d prefer to see them shut down in a planned matter, but this is better than keeping them going.

Different things are different. Deal with it.

silence7 OP ,

An attack on the midstream is fundamentally different from burning oil at the well in terms of how it affects how much carbon goes into the atmosphere; it results in oil not being extracted and burned.

silence7 OP ,

Yes, that’s the hope. It’s still more expensive than silicon cells. But this gives it a plausible path to commercial viability.

silence7 OP ,

A lot of car makers use a cellular connection collect this data. You need to disable that too, as well as any apps used to access car features.

Your cell phone provider could likely deliver this same data as well.

The right answer is to make it illegal to collect, except for a small amount stored on-vehicle for crash analysis.

silence7 OP ,

Selling your data is a new revenue stream for automakers, and as a practical matter, you can’t avoid it.

silence7 OP ,

Working to make the car payment, instead of zipping around on a paid-off bicycle

silence7 OP ,

That won’t work at scale; cars wear out, and become expensive enough to maintain that people scrap them

silence7 OP ,

On average, people junk cars at about 20 years. A few really do last longer, particularly if they’re not driven daily.

silence7 OP ,

For the Amazon, there’s one big trick: don’t cut it down, and restore areas which have already been cut down. Then it stays a lot moister, and you don’t lose the entire thing.

silence7 OP ,

Yes. They had industrial policy to encourage investment in it. Nobody else did

silence7 OP , (edited )

Utility-scale batteries are getting to the point of displacing a bunch of that gas. Nuclear is sufficiently expensive that we’re probably only going to use modest amounts of it.

silence7 OP ,

Bribery

silence7 OP ,

US bribery laws are incredibly lax compared with other developed nations.

silence7 OP ,

Be nice, but a lot of utility regulators are effectively controlled by the utilities.

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