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If anyone knows where this originates from, credit where it's due - I didn't make this. I personally got it from what apparently is a long line of folks in the math lab at the local community college.

https://lemmy.ca/c/CRT

The House has voted 211 to 204 to refer the articles of impeachment filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing the impeachment effort spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Tuesday's vote short-circuits any potential floor vote on the articles of impeachment, and virtually guarantees the measure will not be taken up before the current session of Congress expires.

The vote provided a surprise reprieve for President Trump's embattled Defense Secretary, who was facing an impeachment vote by the full House as early as Wednesday.

Massie reintroduced the articles of impeachment on Monday, accusing Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection to the war with Iran and U.S. strikes against Iran and on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

I would've liked to have seen a timeline of periods as to when you played a game. Like it could be displayed in a bar like picture, that shows the time you've bought the game and every dot afterwards, details when you've played the game after that point up to the recent point of time.

To expand a little on this idea. The timeline could go by a month within a year. So, it'd be like you played a game at a point in 2024, on December. It doesn't have to be specifically as to what time but if needed, either way works. It could show how many times too during that day on the month of and year of, you launched the game for.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday turned aside a resolution to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, halting an effort to remove the Pentagon chief for his conduct in office and his handling of the war in Iran.

The vote came as Republicans grapple with the fallout from sweeping midterm losses that some in the party have blamed on the war in Iran and the resulting surge in gas prices. But after President Donald Trump signaled strong support for Hegseth, GOP lawmakers largely stood by the secretary Tuesday, blocking the effort in a near party-line vote.

The effort was led by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and backed by Democrats. The vote Tuesday may only delay an impeachment push against Hegseth, with Democrats set to take control of the House and Senate in January.

It apprears that NextDNS has removed No Google, No Facebook, and other blocklist without notifying users. One person said the NSA blocklist was also down. The company had made no responses to complaints on the community server when I checked earlier. Crickets...

I noticed Android and Linux being unable to access the app and web interface to confirm connections, starting some time on November 4th. I was able to switch DNS providers on Android and switch back, after which NextDNS seemed to work. On Linux however, systemd confirmed it was enabled but it went right to google's webpage with no block.

If you're on NextDNS, go check your domain filters ASAP. I switched to RethinkDNS, and it's been decent so far. What is everyones preferred solution?

I've heard about "hydrothermal vents" deep under the sea that supposedly provide hydrogen, and bacteria can use that hydrogen as an energy source to feed on. But i've always been too lazy to read up on it. Not anymore!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-oxidizing_bacteria

This article mentions:

Occurring at ambient temperature, serpentinization is an exothermic geochemical mechanism that takes place when ultramafic rocks from deep in the Earth rise and encounter water. This process can produce large quantities of H2, as well as methane and organic substances.

This means, you have to imagine that there's liquid (non-oxidated!!) metal inside the Earth's core. Due to volcanic processes (and plate tectonics), it sometimes rises and comes into contact with the water from the ocean. Now, you have:

2 Fe + 3 H2O --> Fe2O3 + 3 H2

In this process 3 molecules of hydrogen were created. Or that's the gist of it, if i understood correctly.

The key insight is that raw, non-oxidated metal from the Earth's interior is the reduction agent, and water is the substrate! Water gets split into oxygen and hydrogen, i.e. hydrogen gets reduced by the metal, and then gets released as a gas into the ocean -> atmosphere.

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Does anyone really like these? Like the ones where you see people once a year and just talk about how work is or if you took a trip? I'm not from a family that does this so I don't exactly have my own opinion but it just seems pointless.

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A PieFed community for the City of Heroes and City of Villains MMORPGs, no matter the server.

The survey on Cascadia high speed rail options is open through November 13.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait ("Am I The Asshole?") because company shareholders want to see "engagement numbers" go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that's "engagement". but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the "Asshole", so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the "don't make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow" idea.

With Jim Jordan elected GOP leader, let’s remember that Jordan is part of a longstanding coverup of sexual abuse of student athletes at Ohio State by Dr. Richard Strauss. The story got a lot of attention a few years ago and it briefly seemed possible that it might derail Jordan’s position in the House GOP caucus. But he stonewalled, refused to credibly address the allegations and eventually his colleagues and conservative media gave him a pass. He’s never come clean about any of it. As recently as last year there was a whole new documentary about it. Multiple ex-wrestlers and even a ref describe how Jordan knew about it, turned a blind eye and has been lying about it ever since. “To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie,” said former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie in the documentary. You’d think House Republicans would be stung enough by Donald Trump’s main character status in the Epstein Files. But memories are short. Jordan was never the caucus leader until now. Democrats need to be certain everyone knows that his colleagues know about his stonewalling and the coverup and are fine with it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55165008

The vikings shop closed. The vikings shop sold many RYF-certified computers. Another shop that still sells Freedom respecting computers is here.