gAlienLifeform

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

The Matrix somehow dodging all the bullets in this thread is fitting

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

There are two wolves inside of me

Scientist: "The life form appears to be... noodle based sir."

General: "Holy Macaroni."

and

A bartender, a line chef, and a bomb disposal tech are in a car. A drunk driver t bones them and causes significant injury to all three.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

And what does some random painter have to do with anything

It is if you're a pig apparently

Also, let's not forget them also lying to investigators after initially being caught doing this (they said they thought they were following department policies, but they were using Signal to coordinate with ICE instead of their department emails because they knew they weren't). These guys really shouldn't be trusted to work in any police department ever again, but they'll be back on the beat before schools are back in session.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Also, par for the course when you build your whole economy around an extractive industry with no thought about what comes after (see also; basically all of West Virginia)

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
  1. Click bait sucks, but just complaining about it doesn't do anything to help anyone, we can all (presumably) read the headline and see what you're seeing

  2. I think it would have been really hard to get all the nuance here down to a single headline sentence,

...representatives of at least 15 coal-burning power plants, four steel mills, four chemical facilities and two mines wrote emails to the E.P.A. this spring, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

All 15 coal plants were ultimately exempted from requirements to curb several hazardous air pollutants, including mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause developmental problems in infants and children. All four chemical facilities were exempted from restrictions on other harmful air pollutants, including ethylene oxide, a gas linked to several types of cancer.

Those email exemptions were part of a broader wave of more than 100 granted so far by the Trump administration to facilities across the country, including oil refineries and sites that process a type of iron ore. The exemptions apply to rules that were set to take effect in the coming years.

Some named companies here,

The Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest federally owned utility, successfully sought two-year exemptions from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for three coal plants in Tennessee and one coal plant in Kentucky, according to the documents obtained by the Sierra Club.

Alabama Power’s James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Jefferson, Ala., also successfully sought an exemption from the stricter mercury rule.

The documents also show that Eastman Chemical Company, a global chemical manufacturer, requested and received an exemption from the limits on ethylene oxide emissions for its facility in Longview, Texas.

U.S. Steel, which was acquired by Japan’s Nippon Steel last month, had mixed results in its quest for regulatory relief.

While the documents show that Citgo Petroleum Corporation and Phillips 66 requested exemptions for some oil refineries, they do not reveal the names of the facilities.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With as much spyware garbage and paywall nonsense and other anti-reader practices as these media companies engage in, I'm really sympathetic to someone offended by being asked to click on the basis of "just trust us, the information we're vaguely promising up here is somewhere in this article"

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

which Brussels conceded it has no power to control

Bullshit, you just said a quiet part out loud and now you're trying to sweep it back under the rug but you absolutely have soft and hard powers to incentivize these companies to do what you want, you just don't want to admit it because you'll face uncomfortable questions about why you never seem to pressure these companies into serving the general public and this kind of thing only happens when rich people's yacht money is at stake

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

16 year olds working isn’t that unusual, though it depends on what exactly they had her doing at the spa. If it was stocking shelves, ok, but if it was giving “massages,” it gets creepy fast.

This was Trump she was working for, there's no way it wasn't creepy regardless of what they hired her for and there's no way a bunch of different people working for him didn't know and didn't just try to cover it up

 

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is blocking podcasts of its national radio station, RNE, from some third party podcast apps.

But unusually, the company still publishes open RSS feeds for all its shows - so shows appear in every podcast app that uses them. The broadcaster has chosen to deliberately block specific podcast apps from downloading the audio.

One such podcast app that RNE is blocking is AntennaPod, a free podcast app on Android. It’s one of the most popular apps on Android - and in Spain, 78.8% of Spanish mobile phone users use Android mobile phones.

Users have discovered that RNE is specifically blocking AntennaPod, based on the app’s user-agent, which is correctly set for every download. It’s unclear why: the app contains no advertising, and is open-source. It’s free to download, and acts in accordance with the unwritten contract between podcast publishers and apps.

“We will review the case of AntennaPod,” said J. Javier Hernández Bravo from RTVE, in an email to Podnews, after we asked for comment. He told us: “RNE Audio continues to publish open RSS feeds, and at the same time, it has decided to block some third-party podcast applications from downloading audio. Many of those platforms were making money from our content.”

There are no podcast platforms that Podnews is aware of which charge for access to open RSS feeds. (We’re always grateful to hear of any). Some podcast apps contain display advertising, but this is not the case for AntennaPod.

...

RNE had just told us that some companies were “making money” of RNE’s content - but then gives three examples of those that do. Spotify makes money off podcast content by aggressively marketing premium upgrades to its music app, and in some cases playing audio advertising before and after episode audio. YouTube puts advertising in front of podcast content, and markets a premium version. And even Apple Podcasts makes money off podcast content by exclusively being available as an app on iPhones and Macs, which only Apple sells.

AntennaPod does none of these things: so why is it blocked?

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250721123131/https://podnews.net/article/rne-blocks-open-rss

 

The Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect in some areas of the country, for now, by curtailing judges’ ability to block the president’s policies nationwide.

Ruling that three federal district judges went too far in issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump’s order, the high court’s decision claws back a key tool that plaintiffs have used to hamper the president’s agenda in dozens of lawsuits.

But it does not yet definitively resolve whether Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship are constitutional, a hefty legal question that could ultimately return to the justices.

Archived at https://archive.is/Nud6n

 
 
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