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Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space
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Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space
updawg Link ParentYes, I clearly wasn't thinking very thoroughly about it. Of course a survey would be the best way to discover things in unknown locations. That should have been obvious to me. JWST will be "great"...Yes, I clearly wasn't thinking very thoroughly about it. Of course a survey would be the best way to discover things in unknown locations. That should have been obvious to me. JWST will be "great" once we have somewhere specific to look. Of course, it will still be giving us images of a quality pretty similar to those that Hubble gave us of Pluto before New Horizons visited.
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Comment on David Byrne - Hard Times (Paramore cover, 2024) in ~music
updawg LinkOfftopic cc: @mycketforvirrad Tag suggestion Can we start tagging music videos with the tag music video in addition to video? I was thinking about filtering out music videos, but I realized that...Offtopic
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Tag suggestionCan we start tagging music videos with the tag
music videoin addition tovideo? I was thinking about filtering out music videos, but I realized that most of them are just tagged as videos. I don't expect to really watch many music videos posted on Tildes, but I am interested, for example, in news about Spotify. -
Comment on Satirical news website ‘The Onion’ sold to Global Tetrahedron in ~news
updawg Link ParentThat's great, but I'm pretty sure he would rather play The Russian Dogsmusher.That's great, but I'm pretty sure he would rather play The Russian Dogsmusher.
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Comment on Satirical news website ‘The Onion’ sold to Global Tetrahedron in ~news
updawg Link ParentYeah, they've had a couple good videos (the girl who refuses to use words that start with N) but I often find myself scrolling through their videos from 11+ years ago even still.Yeah, they've had a couple good videos (the girl who refuses to use words that start with N) but I often find myself scrolling through their videos from 11+ years ago even still.
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Comment on UK asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda in ~news
updawg Link ParentHow many times would you estimate that you've seen that?How many times would you estimate that you've seen that?
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Comment on New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial [he will remain imprisoned in California and the court has ordered a retrial] in ~news
updawg LinkIn a stinging dissent, Judge Madeline Singas wrote that the majority was “whitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said/she-said narrative,” and said the Court of Appeals was continuing a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
“The majority’s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability,” Singas wrote.
Weinstein, 72, has been serving a 23-year sentence in a New York prison following his conviction on charges of criminal sex act for forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actress in 2013.
He will remain imprisoned because he was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Weinstein was acquitted in Los Angeles on charges involving one of the women who testified in New York.
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New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial [he will remain imprisoned in California and the court has ordered a retrial]
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Comment on New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link) in ~enviro
updawg Link ParentWe're going to land on Mars and stop global warming; it's just that we'll do it two or three presidents from now. No way anything will change.We're going to land on Mars and stop global warming; it's just that we'll do it two or three presidents from now. No way anything will change.
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Comment on Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters in ~enviro
updawg Link ParentThey certainly enforced it on those Iranians. While I support the freedom of navigation, this is a needed change for environmental and social reasons....The notification comes after Somalia, in March, released 33 Iranian fishermen and sailors imprisoned in the country for practising Illegal, Unreported, And Unregulated (IUU) fishing within Somali waters.
They certainly enforced it on those Iranians. While I support the freedom of navigation, this is a needed change for environmental and social reasons.
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/a-fleet-prone-to-captive-labor-and-plunder/
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/the-uyghurs-forced-to-process-the-worlds-fish/
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/And I'll link @ChingShih's comment on the industry here: https://tildes.net/~enviro/1dev/how_crowded_are_the_oceans_new_maps_show_what_flew_under_the_radar_until_now#comment-bp6p
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
updawg Link ParentAre you pretending to not know which election I'm talking about?Are you pretending to not know which election I'm talking about?
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Comment on New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link) in ~enviro
updawg LinkThe limits on power plant emissions announced Thursday would also apply to future facilities that burn gas, requiring them to capture their emissions or to use a fuel that is nonpolluting. Gas-fired power plants that are currently in operation would be exempt.
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New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link)
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
updawg Link ParentWhich narrative is that? Each side has some radically divergent narratives right now, and the argument that each side is saying the same thing in different ways has never been remotely convincing...They want to corral everyone to view the regime-approved narrative as the truth
Which narrative is that? Each side has some radically divergent narratives right now, and the argument that each side is saying the same thing in different ways has never been remotely convincing when one side is claiming that they need to purge the federal government of the other side's traitors who "stole" an election.
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
updawg Link ParentI won't say we need the "gerontocracy," but this is why having old people in positions of power can be good. They remember when the world was not the way it is now. I'm not sure the current...I won't say we need the "gerontocracy," but this is why having old people in positions of power can be good. They remember when the world was not the way it is now. I'm not sure the current generation of octogenarians actually benefit us with their wisdom in this specific scenario, but you may notice that it seems that tensions started growing once the people who remember WWII started dying off.
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
updawg Link ParentBeing told exactly what China is doing is pretty much the opposite of realizing "wait, if we're doing x, then they must be doing x."Being told exactly what China is doing is pretty much the opposite of realizing "wait, if we're doing x, then they must be doing x."
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Comment on The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language in ~humanities.languages
updawg Link ParentWould it? I thought Japanese schools teach romaji. It wouldn't be that hard to just switch to the Latin alphabet. Just require teaching starting in 2025, all signs to include romaji by 2030, all...Would it? I thought Japanese schools teach romaji. It wouldn't be that hard to just switch to the Latin alphabet. Just require teaching starting in 2025, all signs to include romaji by 2030, all government forms to be in romaji by 2035, etc, etc, etc.
Not to mention that they could just require the use of katakana instead of kanji.
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Comment on US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform in ~tech
updawg Link ParentI don't think the lightbulb ever came on. This all started up again after Congress received a classified intelligence briefing. And some Congressmen said they were so troubled by the brief that...And I suspect the "wait if we're doing it......" lightbulb came on waaaaaaay too late in the case of tiktok and that's why we're seeing bipartisan support.
I don't think the lightbulb ever came on. This all started up again after Congress received a classified intelligence briefing. And some Congressmen said they were so troubled by the brief that they wanted it declassified.
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Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space
updawg Link ParentMaybe we can send a fleet of Global Hawks into the outer Solar System to conduct a survey. But yeah it's insane the precision you need for optical interferometry because the cameras would have to...Maybe we can send a fleet of Global Hawks into the outer Solar System to conduct a survey.
But yeah it's insane the precision you need for optical interferometry because the cameras would have to be within something like a quarter of a wavelength of alignment, which would be about 100 nanometers. Just another really cool concept that I'll have to leave to the experts because I will never have the patience to fully understand the underlying engineering.
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Comment on New evidence found for Planet 9 in ~space
updawg Link ParentYou're talking about interferometry, not synthetic apertures, although that would be an accurate name for a telescope array if the name wasn't already taken. I'm not enough of an expert on Solar...You're talking about interferometry, not synthetic apertures, although that would be an accurate name for a telescope array if the name wasn't already taken.
I'm not enough of an expert on Solar System astronomy to respond to that definitively, but I would suspect Planet 9 wouldn't have much of a radio signal, so a mid-Infrared telescope would likely be best, and, thankfully, that is exactly what James Webb is best at exploring. Unfortunately for Planet 9 research, JWST will likely be spending more time looking at black holes and galaxies on the other side of the Observable Universe, so it will be harder to dedicate time to this search specifically, although it's always possible that Planet 9 will be found by chance when looking at those images. I've never conducted serious astronomical research beyond undergraduate projects, but I would suspect we already have enough images to prove the existence of Planet 9; the issue is just that we would need to dig through the countless images searching for the faintest changing pixels.
That's a great video! Thank you!!