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[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is a bizarre claim. It appears to be based on a video in which a durian is briefly exposed to a 3300 degree torch. Anything more than that would obviously reduce the whole fruit to char.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Insurance never covers damages from war, because that's a good way to bankrupt the insurance company. Even they don't have infinite money.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

I was skeptical, but the source checks out.

Luminet, J.-P. (1979). "Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 75: 228–235. Bibcode:1979A&A....75..228L

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I have a very similar setup (Vive + 4070) working under Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The only special workaround was to install Steam natively, downloading directly from Valve instead of using the Snap provided by Canonical. Aside from that, everything worked immediately right out of the box.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Canada was an open participant in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and a clandestine participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which kinda sounds like picking a fight to me.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OK, now explain why you can't find a decent ISP in a major American city. (That's right, it's because of monopolies and enshittification.)

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Counterpoint: Every developer should have to test their app on a machine with 1 GB of RAM and a dialup modem before inflicting their bloat on the rest of the world.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

The labs that are being "relocated" are next to the forests that they study. How the fuck do you study forests from a central headquarters in Utah?

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's "just a reorg" where they shut down all the research labs (which can't be moved because they're located by the forests they study) and hand leadership to pro-logging lobbyists.

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

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