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The USDA told Reuters that Mexican exports from the western state of Michoacán have not been blocked. Additionally, avocados and mangos already in transit wouldn’t be affected by the suspension of inspections, which would be paused "until further notice."
So we're saying "if you beat up our people, we'll stop enforcing our policies and still do business with you"
Cool
I'll make a point to not buy Mexican avocados and mangos until this is fully resolved because who knows what's happening with them if the people who are charged with ensuring their safety get beaten up.
Killed two weeks before launch? That makes no sense
What a sucker punch to that entire team.
I'd rather something to release than for nothing to ever come out, or if it's not up to snuff for the publisher, for the team to go indie (like this one tried to) and still release it rather than having it be forever undercooked in a vault somewhere.
Some advice that has taken me over a decade to learn myself:
There are no rules, the titles are made up, the responsibilities and requirements do no matter.
Get what you can from your job, and once you get something do your Best even if that best sucks, and stay until you have gotten what you want out of the job, or realize you can't or don't want to do it anymore, and then start again doing something else.
Don't ever limit yourself thinking you need to "level up" or something needs to get unlocked.
Learn by doing, try your best, you will make things that suck sometimes, but as you do more and more you should be making things better.
It's so fucked
Micro and nano plastics are so thoroughly spread through the world and through our bodies
I fully believe it is having negative impacts on my body. I eat takeout a lot and I wear polyester clothes and I live in the city. When I was younger I microwaved my leftovers in the plastic container and so on and so on.
The only way I know how to decrease plastics in blood is to donate the blood, 1/10th at a time.
So, do I give up my life and move to the woods and make a log cabin and start a garden and wear wool and linen clothes and donate blood and treat plastic goods like radioactive substances wrapped in asbestos?
The more I read and learn about the effects of micro and nano plastics - the more that all actually seems rational. But that is such a massive jump from my current lifestyle, I fear I will remain irrational and continue this life, and die early from cancer and discomfort from inflammation.
In Fort Worth, TX
Or, it's because whoever is doing this hates freedom of information and historical evidence. There's a long list of powerful people and governments who have the resources and will to carry out these attacks.
Cyber warfare is real, and the Internet archive is a museum and library of culture and truth. It provides evidence and context to our past.
As in conventional war, it is valuable to the amoral to destroy culture and truth in order to control it. Many would like to kill that to supplant it with their version of events that can't be refuted with evidence.
Off the top of my head
Potentially odeysee, peertube, or maybe even twitch, more likely I could see subscription platforms like patreon and nebula taking over
Potentially something entirely new, I don't know
Reddit did that and then instantly multiple serious competitors began to siphon off their power users both out of principle and practicality, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
YouTube i think understands to not cross the line because if they no longer have a monopoly on mid to long form content their golden goose dies. People are already on edge after a long sequence of attacks against non-premium users.
Personally, If they do do that, and at least some amount of the channels I care about move to a different platform, I'll happily move with them and cancel my YouTube premium.
Don't respect their knocks. Don't open your door. Don't step outside. Too many people have died. Too many people have had their 4th violated.
Tyrannical cops are not punished. Cops are trained to be tyrannical.
If they have a warrant, let them say that through the closed door. Then you can open it to comply and save them from damaging your door.
If they don't have no warrant, they're just fishing, don't take the bait.
It's drawn for comedic effect, but ideally it should be in a proper holster (it can still be in that area, like an appendix holster), that covers the trigger and protects the hammer - prevents it from falling out - and also ensures the weapon is always pointing slightly away from the body towards the ground
How sad
by a margin of 2,642 to 2,045, or 56% to 44%
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Analysts expected a difficult contest at the Alabama Mercedes-Benz facilities because the company conducted an anti-union campaign
Intriguingly, brain organoids preserved in MEDY showed similar growth and function patterns to those that had never been frozen. Incredibly, one batch was frozen in MEDY for as long as 18 months, and still showed similar protections against damage after thawing.
The team also froze samples of living brain tissue taken from a human epilepsy patient, and found that MEDY protected them from damage. The process didn’t disrupt the structure of the brain cells, and even preserved the pathologies of epilepsy – that’s important, because it means samples can be frozen for later study or analysis without damage from the freezing process confusing the results.
Very cool especially for research - hopefully this can allow for better research into how the brain functions as they're able to amass rare brain issues and study them together with this new found ability to preserve brain matter
In a way, yes.
Historically, the US fought a war to not be the UK. There was an earnest attempt to enshrine freedoms to privacy and thought from the beginning of this governments creation. With the ability to enforce free thoughts through explicitly allowing speech and weapons, along with the ability to reject search and intrusion from the state (outside of due process)
I think it's important for people to be able to be private and to have secrets. People act differently when there's trust that they are not observed and will not be observed.
I think it's cruel to confine the human experience to only being in the "observed" state of mind.
Being able to secretly meet people, and go places without others knowing, and have private conversations, and to own and make things secretly is important to me. They don't have to be nefarious or even embarrassing, a person on principle can just want something to be private, rational or not that should be allowed by default.
If I went on a hike alone to clear my mind, and then stumbled into a tracking camera on the trail, my mood would be changed. I would feel compelled to play a performative role and manage my appearance and actions and regulate what I say and do in a way that I wasn't before that feeling of privacy was broken. Even more so if I knew that camera was live reporting with ai identification and analysis to the government.
This privacy is already barely existing anymore, I feel compelled to oppose any new invasion of privacy and to make attempts to carve out new privacy where I can.
The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.
No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.
What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.
Soon we'll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.
Land of the free
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeidasTouch#History
The group name and slogan come from their mother and father, combining their father's last name, Meiselas, and their mother's maiden name, Golden,[14] while alluding to the mythological Greek king Midas known for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
On July 21, 2023, MeidasTouch filed paperwork to rename itself to Democracy Defense Action,[19] and later that year, news reporting indicated the MeidasTouch name was being used for a news network called MeidasTouch Network
I enjoy NSFW when seeking it out, but I don't like being bombarded with every NSFW post in the lemmyverse at all times.
In the settings I only see all on or all off.
In the old sync I remember there being an option to hide NSFW on the main pages, but to show them when you go to a specific sub, I'd like that again.