DocMcStuffin
13h ago
•
100%
I'd be surprised if they had net positive income on Tribes 3. A lot of veteran gamers of the series saw who was really running development and decided to stay away. Once bitten, twice shy. The writing was on the wall that it was a dead game back in June.
DocMcStuffin
13h ago
•
93%
The requirements shaped the design. They wanted mail carriers to be able to stand up in the cargo area without having to bend over → tall cargo area and tall doors. High visibility → a large windshield. Along with the options of a BEV or ICE powertrain → duckbill front.
Personally, I think it's iconic and obviously less of a deathtrap vs the current vehicles.
DocMcStuffin
14h ago
•
100%
Yeah, I would mostly agree. The poll peaks in 2020 when there was COVID, a virus that was putting people in the hospital on ventilators and had a mortality rate we hadn't experienced for over a century. Along with a healthcare system barely holding on, lockdowns, masking, social distancing, a major recession, people losing their jobs, kids going back to school with all that chaos, and in the middle of one of the most chaotic and stressful presidential elections in history. BUT 55% of people were better off in 2020. Hmm.....
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
Yeah, I remember this one too. Going back and reading one of the articles from when it happened, and I just don't have words for it.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
Also a sovereign citizen.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
I see your schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how you ... handle it.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
OP said die and I'm going to take him at his word 😉
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
This was a set of trading cards for kids. I only had a few, but they were bloody awesome.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
77%
So you want to die in a burning boat‽ While some countries in Europe allow for assisted suicide, I don't think any allow for self immolation while at sea.
Now if you're looking for a viking funeral procession after your death, I would think environmental regulations would be the biggest hurdle.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
They got back today. Things faired pretty good. No roof damage, and we were expecting damage. No water damage. Power is back on. The carport even survived, but that was because the wind was hitting the other side of the house.
www.nbcnews.com
Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event. St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in the 24-hour period during which the storm made landfall, according to precipitation data from the National Weather Service. That included a staggering 5.09 inches in one hour, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET — a level considered to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
I have family that boarded up and left (Sarasota County). We're waiting for them to head back down and survey the damage. Also waiting to hear from the neighbors.
DocMcStuffin
1w ago
•
100%
Unless you are growing the tomatoes yourself, you're better off using canned. Store bought are picked green and are watery and flavorless. They're only good for salads and sandwiches.
DocMcStuffin
2w ago
•
100%
NOAA has been working on a newer interactive map. It's pretty good and even works on mobile.
DocMcStuffin
2w ago
•
83%
New fetish unlocked!
DocMcStuffin
2w ago
•
100%
I have one like that. He's so fluffy and soft and his fur gets everywhere.
DocMcStuffin
2w ago
•
100%
The corruption is so thick you can cut it with a knife and spread it on some bread. Stealing from tax payers to give to some rich grifter. Forcing religion down kids throats. Walters is showing his fine Christian values.
arstechnica.com
In a randomized controlled trial, the probiotic *Bifidobacterium animalis* subsp. l*actis*—used in many probiotic products, including Dannon's Activia yogurts—did nothing to improve bowel health in people with constipation, according to [data from a randomized triple-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2824333) Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
DocMcStuffin
3w ago
•
100%
It's easier than that: c for ceiling, g for ground.
DocMcStuffin
4w ago
•
99%
At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said.
DocMcStuffin
4w ago
•
100%
A word like that is too big for his base to understand. They need something simple like the SS.
> Black girls face more discipline and more severe punishments in public schools than girls from other racial backgrounds, according to a groundbreaking new report set for release Thursday by a congressional watchdog. > > The report, shared exclusively with NPR, took nearly a year-and-a-half to complete and comes after several Democratic congressional members requested the study. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, later with support from Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, asked the Government Accountability Office in 2022 to take on the report. > > Over the course of the 85-page report, the GAO says it found that in K-12 public schools, Black girls had the highest rates of so-called "exclusionary discipline," such as suspensions and expulsions. Overall, the study found that during the 2017-18 school year, Black girls received nearly half of these punishments, even as they represent only 15% of girls in public schools.
www.cnbc.com
- A new rule proposal from the Biden administration would prohibit products that are subject to U.S.-China tariffs from being eligible for a special customs exemption. - The de minimis loophole allows packages with a value of less than $800 to enter the United States with relatively little scrutiny. - Officials say a recent explosion in the number of de minimis shipments is due largely to Chinese-linked online retail giants like Shein and Temu.
Responding to reports that prisoner contact with loved ones helps reduce the recidivism rate, state lawmakers last year approved a $1 million pilot project to allow inmates with good behavior to make one free 15-minute phone call per month to the outside world. Pleased with its rollout, members of the Florida Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations came back during the 2024 legislative session with a budget line item expanding the program to $2 million from an inmate trust fund, and not from general revenues. But Gov. Ron DeSantis slashed that line item in June. Advocates for prison and criminal justice reform say that’s a problem. “Keeping families connected is very important for re-entry and so is the education,” said Karen Stuckey, who’s had to deal with escalating phone bills as both her son and husband have been incarcerated in Florida prisons. “If you want somebody to be successful, you have to keep them connected to their families or their loved ones. Because when you get out, it’s really, really hard.”
What would happen inside an electromechanical central office if you left your phone off hook? From the channel [Connections Museum](https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum)
AMD is warning about a high-severity CPU vulnerability named SinkClose that impacts multiple generations of its EPYC, Ryzen, and Threadripper processors. The vulnerability allows attackers with Kernel-level (Ring 0) privileges to gain Ring -2 privileges and install malware that becomes nearly undetectable. Tracked as CVE-2023-31315 and rated of high severity (CVSS score: 7.5), the flaw was discovered by IOActive Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, who named privilege elevation attack 'Sinkclose.' Full details about the attack will be presented by the researchers at tomorrow in a DefCon talk titled "[AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation](https://ioactive.com/event/def-con-talk-amd-sinkclose-universal-ring-2-privilege-escalation/)." - [CVE-2023-31315](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31315) - [AMD-SB-7014](https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7014.html)
arstechnica.com
Public sentiment on the importance of safe, lifesaving childhood vaccines has significantly declined in the US since the pandemic—which appears to be solely due to a nosedive in support from people who are Republican or those who lean Republican, [according to new polling data from Gallup.](https://news.gallup.com/poll/648308/far-fewer-regard-childhood-vaccinations-important.aspx) In 2019, 52 percent of Republican-aligned Americans said it was "extremely important" for parents to get their children vaccinated. Now, that figure is 26 percent, falling by half in just five years. In comparison, 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said it was "extremely important" this year, down slightly from 67 percent in 2019.
Last week, the World Health Organization called attention to an mpox outbreak in South Africa. Officials there confirmed 20 cases between May 8 and July 2, with 18 hospitalizations and three deaths. Another concern is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where an outbreak that began last year has been accelerating — and where the variant is dramatically deadlier than the mpox strain of 2022. About 6% of people who get this type of mpox are dying from it — compared to a 0.2% death rate for the 2022 strain. Most of the deaths in the DRC outbreak are among children.
The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.
It's just a *short* text article
If you're a parent struggling to get your kids' off their devices and outdoors to play, here's another reason to keep trying: Spending at least two hours outside each day is one of the most important things your kids can do to protect their eyesight. "We think that outdoor time is the best form of prevention for nearsightedness," says Dr. Noha Ekdawi, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Wheaton, Ill. And that's important, because the number of kids with nearsightedness – or myopia – has been growing rapidly in the U.S., and in many other parts of the world. \[...\] Wu convinced his son's elementary school to increase outdoor time. He also recruited a control school. A year later, his son's school had half as many new myopia cases as the other school. "We saw the results – they were very successful," Wu says. He did more research, at more schools, and eventually convinced Taiwan's Ministry of Education to encourage all primary schools to send students out doors for at least 2 hours a day, every day. The program launched in September 2010. And after decades of trending upward, the rate of myopia among Taiwan's elementary school students began falling – from an all-time high of 50% in 2011 down to 45.1% by 2015. It's a major achievement, says Ian Morgan.
The target for this treasure hunt is in Calhoun County, in a forested spot between the Apalachicola, the Chipola River, and the Dead Lakes. I don’t know if you could pick a worse spot in Florida to plop down such a toxic industry. The Apalachicola is the largest river in volume in Florida and has the largest and most environmentally sensitive undisturbed floodplain ecosystem in the state. The Chipola is the source of drinking water for the town of Port St. Joe, population 3,600. Its “Look and Tremble” whitewater rapids make it popular with paddlers, too. As for the Dead Lakes: Despite the eerie name, that’s a popular fishing spot. My dad, who grew up in nearby Jackson County, loved to fish there. If someone spilled oil in that area, the way BP spread yucky globs across the beaches of eight Florida counties in 2010, I think those lakes would be dead for real.
tmo.report
T-Mobile made waves back in 2021 when they automatically set user privacy settings to on by default for sharing customer info with advertisers. It made a lot of people angry then, and a new setting that’s appeared in the same settings is once again enabled by default. A new toggle has shown up in the T-Mobile “Privacy Center”, and it appears to have first been spotted a month ago on Reddit. The toggle is for allowing “automated profiling” of your user data to analyze and predict how a user might behave, particularly when interacting with support. This article will dive into what exactly “profiling” is in this context, and how you can opt-out for your account.
Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky. News spread quickly that day last November, but by word of mouth, says Denny Khamphanthong, a 29-year-old Richmond resident. "We don't know the full story, but we know that you shouldn't breathe in the air or be outside for that matter," Khamphanthong says now. "It would be nice to have an actual news outlet that would actually go out there and figure it out themselves." The city's primary local news source, The Richmond Standard, didn't cover the flare. Nor had it reported on a 2021 Chevron refinery pipeline rupture that dumped nearly 800 gallons of diesel fuel into San Francisco Bay. Chevron is the city's largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Yet when it comes to writing about Chevron, The Richmond Standard consistently toes the company line. And there's a reason for that: Chevron owns The Richmond Standard.