An NPR reporter collected samples of raw milk from 4 farms in Texas, and asked a USDA-authorized lab to test for bird flu. The lab refused to do it, because the farms wouldn't give them permission to test, even though permission isn't required. Wow.
My mum passed away on Thursday 25 April 2024. She was found on Monday 29 April. She died in her bed, in her sleep, and didn’t suffer. I don’t remember when I last spoke to her. Probably over a year ago. The last time I wrote about her, 8 months ago, to put into words that I had finally given up hope to get along with her, we had stopped speaking to each other 6 or so months prior.
Fun demo of the difference that galvanizing makes. The left stack of nails are bright finish, where the right stack are galvanized, so the zinc kept them from rusting when I left them out overnight
If only my knowledge of EU law had the desired impact this fast every time 🙂
My father wanted to pay a EDF French electricity bill from a Belgian bank account, and was told that this was not possible because the bank was outside France
I formulated a stern email to EDF for him, in French, stipulating this was not allowed as a reason within the Single European Payment Area (SEPA), and within a few hours they relented in a grovelling email!
“Kontrollen an deutscher Grenze sind rechtswidrig” #schengen
Interessanter Fall. Nicht zuletzt, weil der betreffende Wissenschaftler die gleiche Frage (Maßnahme um eine Identitätskontrolle oder eine Grenzkontrolle?) verwendet, die ich seit Jahren benutze.
@jon Yes, but one of those choices is going to be fucking misery, and the other one is going to be beautiful views, free internet access, and a picnic which can contain a bottle of wine and a corkscrew.
The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.
Good trains. Sensible company. Thoughtful offer. I wish them well! And some international trains - to Genova and Madrid - are being considered, as well as operation of 16 carriage trains to Lyon
looks like i have successfully turned #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer (as well as an RTL8211FD devboard I got from Aliexpress) into a fairly decent network interface card :D
this applet is written idiomatically and with no modification of the core USB framework (using the abstractions every other applet is using, rather than direct access to libusb or something), in a single-threaded CPython 3.12 asyncio event loop