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the 51st state talk is gone

It's not even gone, this is from a few days ago

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trump-us-greenland-separatism-denmark-51st-state/

Just do like 10 minutes of research before you buy

The average person might not know what's reputable and what's not. A lot of the VPN review sites are also secretly run by the VPN companies, or get paid off by them. Someone might even mix up the bad PrivacyTools for the legitimate PrivacyGuides

Thanks, I've edited the title accordingly

I haven't heard of any learning curve with Jellyfin. It seems easy to set up, and the apps are about as user friendly as you can get (especially the third party ones)

On a related note, this story from 2024:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/facebooks-onavo-vpn-used-to-wiretap-competitor-data-court-filings-reveal

Even ignoring any ownership issues, it's an awful service. If you look up "ExpressVPN cancel" you'll find lots of posts and comments from people complaining that they were charged again after cancelling, that the interface makes it difficult to cancel, that they needed to reach out to support multiple times, etc.

Instead:

• Use a different VPN
• Check if you actually need a VPN for your situation

I check this guide from time to time to see if anything has changed with the usual recommendations:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

This is very detailed and helpful, thank you

If you have some more time, which soundbar or AV system did you end up going with?

who has a history of listening to Nick Fuentes

Would you have a source where I can read about that? I haven't been able to keep up with all the news

A lot of the reports are from people who are arguing in the thread, and then reporting the comments of the other person. Some are related to previous issues outside the thread/community, often related to things that I don't have the context of. The reports rarely relate to the community rules, despite a lot of the content in this community clearly violating the rules in this community's sidebar.

Neat!

The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all hybrids, with queens needing to mate with males from a distantly related species, Messor structor, to keep the colony functioning. But researchers found that some Iberian harvester ant populations have no M. structor colonies nearby.

"That was very, very abnormal. I mean, it was kind of a paradox," study co-author Jonathan Romiguier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montpellier, told Live Science. The team initially believed there was a sampling issue, but they went on to find 69 regions where this was the case.

In setting out to resolve this paradox, Romiguier and his team found that queen Iberian harvester ants also lay eggs containing male M. structor ants, with these males ultimately fathering the workers. This discovery, published Sept. 3 in the journal Nature, is the first time any animal has been recorded producing offspring from another species as part of their normal life cycle.

"In the early stages, it was kind of a joke in the team," Romiguier said. "But the more we got results, the more it became a hypothesis and not a joke anymore."

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The team then separated 16 queens from laboratory colonies and looked at the genetic sequences of their freshly laid eggs. They found that 9% of their eggs contained M. structor ants. They then directly observed a single queen producing males of both species by monitoring its broods weekly over an 18-month period.

Together, all these findings show that Iberian harvester ant queens are cloning M. structor males and not passing on any of their own nuclear DNA. Researchers now need to pinpoint the exact mechanism underlying this cloning, Romiguier said, and find out at what point the maternal DNA is removed.

Some excerpts:

    
Leonard Phiri from Zambia and Jasten Mabulesse Candunde, a citizen of Mozambique, were arrested last December after a cleaner reported hearing strange noises in a room.

The two men were found in possession of a live chameleon, an unidentified white powder, a red cloth and an animal's tail, all of which they reportedly planned on using in a ritual that would cause death "within five days" as explained by Phiri, according to a magistrate.

The court convicted both men under the Witchcraft Act, a law criminalising witchcraft, dating back to the colonial era under British rule.

President Hichilema has increasingly been accused of using the courts to silence his opponents and more generally crack down on free speech in Zambia.

Witchcraft has also played a major role in the ongoing dispute concerning the body of late president Edgar Lungu, who is currently awaiting his funeral in a morgue in South Africa as the Zambian government insists that he should be buried in Zambia despite this going against his family's wishes.

Hichilema's insistence on Lungu's burial in Zambia has fuelled rumours that the president would want to use his former rival's body for "occult purposes", an accusation denied by the government.

  

Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.

If you're running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:

• Your usual browser might have cached some content from the last time you used it
• Unless you kill them properly, your computer might not have the RAM/processing to be running two browsers at the same time with the best performance
• One browser might be bogged down with extensions / issues that built up over time

You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in safe mode (it's now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there's any difference

Also YouTube

https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge

Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases

I'd love an update post once you complete the next part of this :)

A few other notes

• MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link
• I don't find as much value in news stories with "Trump says" in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I'd much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it

There's also the older popper toy

A relevant community for anyone visiting this thread:

!outdoor@slrpnk.net

you'd end up with a list of people assigned to tasks that ordinarily be an A4 page, printed at 400% size and having to be blu-tac'd to the wall rather than just pinned as usual

I'm picturing a group of people crowding around a wall looking for a list of names (assignments, exam results, roles for a play), not realizing that the wall is the list because it's on A0

The trailers had some fun looking episodes, and some questionable looking ones. Looking forward to it