Most plastic melts at between 200°C and 320°C. So… Uh. Let’s fire up those ovens, baby.

I suggest we start with Dupont and 3M executives to field test the removal process - since they’re cool with testing their products on us.

Additional suggestions encouraged. Coke-Amatil? Tyre manufacturers?

There’s a whole ocean between ‘a single (biased) source claims Signal have stopped responding to requests for cybercrime assistance’ and ‘Signal is a pro-Kremlin app’.

But it can make custom emoji! 🫨 That alone is worth the hundreds of millions Apple spent.

Probably the same as we have now, “be neat if and when it eventually arrives”.

Nah it’s all good - it’s confusing because federal-level hate crime and Anti-Nazi laws came in recently also (last month). Those are all mandatory minimum prison sentences though, no fines.

I cordially invite Elon to come to Melbourne Australia and flip his favourite salute.

Its a significantly more painful $23,000 fine there, and if he does it repeatedly there’s a good chance of a 12 month prison term.

https://www.vic.gov.au/fact-sheet-nazi-symbol-prohibition

P. S. If my maths is right he can do it almost 15 million times before he runs out of money, I might have to email Vic gov to ask them to review the fine to be wealth-adjusted.

Do you know how you stop ‘edgy teens’ from becoming actual Nazis?

You show them consequences for their incredibly disrespectful and obscene behavior.

This kid obviously hasn’t has enough consequences in his life, and will now get to experience some.

Only in one state of Australia, Victoria. Worth mentioning.

Remember that Pewdiepie arranging, paying for, and posting separate videos of people holding signs saying “Hitler did nothing wrong”, and “Death to all Jews” were just jokes bro. To an audience of literally tens of millions of kids.

And people here still Stan for him. I’ll take my downvotes now.

I’d much rather use a password and a two-factor auth via TOTP code. It’s fast, portable, I can store them on a variety of open source apps, and it’s very hard to hack. I don’t need to use a specific provider, or browser. Flexible and free.

Passkeys in their current implementation are comparatively a mess. Here’s an article that runs through many reasons why:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

Ah that is probably my bad then, I read it as being able to redirect arbitrary URLs, hence the need for geoblock and abuse protections - if it’s only your own self-hosted/personal domains then yeah that absolutely makes sense.

Yeah this approach has definitely worked in Saudi Arabia, where public beheadings draw a crowd and people sell mementos of the occasion. Their people are famously anti-death penalty now - they even stopped sentencing children to death in 2020 by royal decree, very progressive. Though they haaave been increasing executions significantly over the last five years, even though up to two thirds of their executions are for non-violent crime. Hmm.

Public opinon polls are very rare in SA so let’s check in on some opinions from SA redditors…

https://www.reddit.com/r/saudiarabia/comments/qsbbew/whats_your_opinion_on_the_death_penalty/

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Can I ask - why would anyone do this? Several URL shortening services of the past have shuttered and it has left the web littered with links to sites that can never be resolved (linkrot) - this to me just seems like a another surefire way to speedrun future deadlinks in forums etc. Why?

Edit - I have misunderstood the assignment.

This is targeted at self-hosted/personal-domain stuff only, not general internet site URL shortening/redirection.

Already happened to chocolate. Raw cocoa is currently around 10% more expensive than it was at the same time last year - but chocolate products at retailers has shot up 40% or more. Including brands where cocoa isn’t the dominant component ingredient like milk chocolate.

Yet businesses like Lindt are celebrating a 7.8% increase in sales… Make it make sense to me cos I buy far less now. Who are the people who see these increasing prices and buy more 🤡

Source data: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa

No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.

I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.

Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.

In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.

I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.

As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.

I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.

They love Trump, because their oligarchs and their puppets have regularly praised him on Russian state TV since 2016. So no, no confusion. They know Trump works for them.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-tv-praises-trump-putin-1740156

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-trump-putin-hegseth-2030562

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/09/493289326/donald-trumps-long-embrace-of-vladimir-putin

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russian-state-tv-says-its-no-coincidence-trump-is-echoing-putins-talking-points/ar-AA1zCNnZ