Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures
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    Weird, I haven't been experiencing any of this. Am I still at risk of running into this issue if I haven't seen it so far? I don't use this shit-ass OS, if that helps.

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  • Even before I went vegan I never understood this.
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    Seconding this. It was reposted from an Instagram account, which isn't ideal either, but in the future, OP, try to vet these things.

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  • What's going on with the Godot engine?
  • TheTechnician27 TheTechnician27 Now 100%

    Reactionaries project their toxicity onto everything and everyone who doesn't conform to their nonsense.

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  • What's going on with the Godot engine?
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    Oh, so Godot is even more based now? That's cool to know. Toxic bigots don't belong in any community; deplatform and shame the fuck out of them.

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    In leaked recording, Trump makes crass jokes about man killed at rally
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    “So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the check—we handed her the check—and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same,” Trump reportedly said. “At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.”

    I'm so glad my projected lifespan overlaps with an extended period where the boomer generation functionally no longer exists.

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  • 4 October 2024
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    The fruitarians were right all along.

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  • Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track
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    At least for right now it's just a test on a 100-meter length of track, but this reeks of a startup trying to innovate its way out of NIMBYs not wanting to put solar panels where they actually belong without considering why nobody has put solar panels in the middle of a railroad track before (cough rocks, dust, wildlife, vibration, and vandalism cough).

    PV Magazine is neat for reading about potential new innovations, but one thing I really dislike about it is that it basically just regurgitates what solar companies say about themselves in press releases in a way that's completely uncritical. For instance:

    Similarly, removal and installation tests will be carried out to demonstrate that the Sunways pilot installation is perfectly adapted to the constraints related to maintenance work and the operation of the line.

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    [Not OC] Large cloud over Mexican landscape

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    That hurts a little
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    Oh shit, hey Beard. I didn't expect to see you here either. For that matter I didn't think anyone else surrounding the project used Lemmy. Cool to know I'm not alone.

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  • YSK: If you're cold, the easiest first step is to tuck in your clothes
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    Depending on what you have going on down there, you'll either want to tuck your parts into your socks or your socks into your parts.

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  • [Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
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    Oh hey, it's cool to meet a fellow editor out in the wild, especially someone from another language. I will say for what it's worth that I so far haven't run into what I perceive as an anti-vegan bias on the English Wikipedia. Simultaneously, though, I often avoid editing articles specifically about veganism because I recognize I could get heated over what for me is a deeply held ethical belief, so I may just not be where it is if it does exist.

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  • [Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
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    As someone who edits Wikipedia fairly prolifically and does have quite a lot of insight into how it works, I'm going to go up to bat for it here: Wikipedia operates on the premise that all information (some exceptions apply for information considered obvious like "2+2 = 4" or "Paris is in France" outside of an article on Paris) must be cited to a reliable source. This means that we can only say what the reliable sources have to say about a subject. As much as possible, we aren't allowed to synthesize from existing material to form a conclusion not explicitly stated in a reliable source. Wikipedia aims to be a tertiary source that captures as best as possible what reliable secondary sources say, interspersing primary sources only as needed and especially as much as possible not personally weighing in. Lastly, we are to provide due weight to viewpoints based on how substantially they're covered in reliable sources.*

    It's an unfortunate fact that presently, reliable news sources often tend to be biased against veganism. That's pretty obvious from articles like this that overwhelmingly portray the animal agriculture industry as victimized by an extremist movement, giving only the bare minimum attention to the activists and intercutting their points with "buts". When this is what Wikipedia has to work with, it really isn't their fault. It's a large part of why, for instance, Wikipedia's article on Elon Musk used to fellate him to Mars and back; it was because reliable news sources absolutely constantly treated this man like a supergenius and consistently downplayed the awful things he would do.

    If you're able to cite specific articles, I can look into them and see if they fall short of Wikipedia's standards, but ultimately, people need to change before secondary sources will, and secondary sources need to change before Wikipedia can. If you have any specific questions related to the project, I'd be happy to answer; I have pretty extensive experience with policies and guidelines at this point.

    (* For instance, if we have an article about a video game that consistently got 7s and 8s from reviewers except for a sole outlier who gave it a 3, we can definitely highlight that 3 as a counterpoint, but we have to consider what proportion of the coverage we give to that review.)

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  • Republican Senate hopeful says U.S. military needs ‘alpha males and alpha females,’ not LGBTQ+ people
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    “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat ’em, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”

    Hugely reassuring to me that this psychopath was a captain in the Navy.

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  • [Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
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    The pamphlet referred to veganism in general, and one out of every 25 people in the UK is vegan. This would be like saying "Hey, better watch out if your coworker starts wearing a hijab", or better yet "Coworker talking about being more environmentally friendly? Probably an eco-terrorist."

    It was completely ridiculous. If you're offering what you think is their reason for doing this, then the actual information they put in the pamphlet doesn't reflect that. If you're attempting to justify this, you're off the mark.

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  • [Press release] The Vegan Society Welcomes the Removal of Veganism from NHS Prevent [counter-terrorism] Training
  • TheTechnician27 TheTechnician27 Now 100%

    Well you see, if you don't turn veganism into a bogeyman at every turn, you might encourage people to think critically about the merits of veganism and actually try it themselves, and that might challenge the status quo and result in lost profits for the animal agriculture industry.

    It's so interesting to me now that veganism is starting to gain an honest-to-goodness foothold in the public consciousness seeing the ridiculous lengths lobbies will go to to try to stop the beginning of the end of their industry.

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  • Idaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”
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    It isn't, but to be fair, it absolutely does add an additional layer of irony that they weren't even born there.

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  • Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies
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    I thought Ragnarok and Endgame were extremely mid tbh. Infinity War was great, but I think Endgame was a huge letdown. Agreed with Dark Knight (I don't think that highly of Dark Knight Rises), Spider-Verse, and the Raimi trilogy, though, and Dr. Strange is a solid 7/10 for me; definitely doesn't suck massive ass. I'd add Incredibles to that too. I've heard nothing but great things about the latest TMNT movie.

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  • Autumn is upon us in the northern hemisphere, and parts of the southern ought to still be pretty chilly. If you start getting cold, try tucking in your shirt. If you're wearing long pants and long socks, you can even tuck your pants into your socks, and this one's a big help too. Why YSK: this one tip can save you a ton of money over your lifetime by lowering the threshold for when you need to put the heat on in your house, and it can make you feel more comfortable in the colder seasons. Wearing thicker clothes and layering helps, but there's only so many layers you can comfortably wear and clothes can only be so thick before you probably don't feel comfortable wearing them inside. If you're out and about, it might not be realistic or convenient to throw on another layer. This has become my first line of defense when I start getting cold. You should feel noticeably warmer within minutes. Additional tip: if you have two shirts on, you can tuck the overshirt into your pants and the undershirt into your underpants to create a pocket of warm air that's way more insulating than if you tucked them into the same layer. Edit: I know this is "common sense", but you'd be shocked at how many people either don't know about this *or* forget to use it.

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    www.latimes.com

    >The text of the law recognizes that octopuses are “highly intelligent, curious, problem-solving animals” that are conscious, sentient and experience “pain, stress, and fear, as well as pleasure, equanimity, and social bonds.” It goes on to note that in research studies, these eight-legged marine invertebrates have demonstrated long-term memory as well as the ability to recognize individual people. At the very least, this sets a precedent, although it's pretty obvious based on the law's text that octopodes being the target here instead of or in addition to e.g. pigs which [are known to be quite intelligent](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/201506/pigs-are-intelligent-emotional-and-cognitively-complex) is a clear example of doublethink. Nonetheless, this is a huge win for just leaving animals the fuck alone.

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    www.chowhound.com

    I know this is a relatively small culprit in the grand scheme of things, but I figure there are people out there who would want to know about this (lest the Vegan Police remove your vegan powers). >When wines are freshly fermented, they typically have particles suspended in the liquid, like tannins, yeast, and proteins, giving the wine a cloudy look. Over time, these will settle on their own [...], but that can be a slow process. So, winemakers often use the fining process to clarify their wine, making it a nice, clear, non-cloudy color. Certain proteins are added to the wine and effectively latch onto those cloudy particles before dropping to the bottom of a wine barrel, where they can be filtered out. It's these proteins that are the culprit here: The most commonly used fining agents are milk or animal proteins (specifically casein and gelatin), isinglass (a gelatin derived from fish bladders), and albumin (from egg whites). [...] >There are vegan-friendly fining agents, like activated charcoal and bentonite [...]. To confirm whether a wine is vegan, you may need to contact the winemaker or company directly. You can also consult a certification organization called BevVeg, which lists legitimate vegan wines. Alternatively, if wines are labeled as "unfined" or "unfiltered," this means that no fining agent has been used, so it should be a safe bet.

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    Can this man even do the one thing that *his own name* suggests he should be able to?? If not, how can we trust him to help the American people?

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    www.bbc.com

    cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/17343153

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    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15598276241283158

    New York City (NYC) Health + Hospitals implemented a nutrition program making plant-based meals the primary lunch and dinner options for patients at its 11 hospitals.

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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402411609X

    The research was partly funded by ProVeg, but the evidence itself seems reasonably compelling, and the researchers appear to have done a good job controlling for factors that their previous study failed to.

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    Following CNN's [fake news slander](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html) of upstanding champion of freedom Mark Robinson, Newsmax today dropped a bombshell investigative report on Tim Walz, showing a consistent record over at least *eight years* of Walz *lying* to his children about the existence of Santa Claus (a socialist, by the way, giving kids *free* presents when there's no such thing as a free lunch!!) Walz would, for instance, tell his kids that the Super Soakers he got them *at Toys "R" Us* and – crucially – *not the North Pole* were given to them by "Santa" for free for good behavior (a way to indoctrinate his kids to fall in line with a communist government instead of teaching them the merits of capitalism that bought them the Super Soakers!) But then at some point, he told them that Santa Claus *wasn't* real, by his own admission even making Gus feel "a bit bummed out". When questioned on this issue, Walz replied that he thought this was "really pretty common" and that he doesn't even see an *issue* with it. Is this the kind of man we want as our vice president?!

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