damn, its so strange that a rich guy was able to throw thousands of satellites into space, in a manner that completely changes humanity’s relationship to the cosmos, without any meaningful form of public debate or discussion.
even more strange when you consider that the owner of the company is one of the most talked about people on the planet. i wonder how he’s able to keep getting away with it.
Everyone in the comments getting played like a fiddle, the real takeaway here is that all “gig economy” workers deserve a guaranteed hourly salary at a livible wage
Not beside the point. Good or bad, this feature will mean that some workers will see less trips and make less money. That’s a simple mathematical fact.
Alternatively, in a world where gig workers made a livable salary regardless of the number of jobs slung their way, these safety changes would be much more decoupled from affecting the take-home pay of one of the poorest sector of workers in this country.
Hopefully some skepticism can finally be focused on the concept of giving a single billionaire unfettered control over who is allowed to access the internet, and what they are allowed to do with it.
The whole endeavor to “arm” Ukraine with Starlink has always been a shameless attempt to dodge any future criticism of the company, by claiming to be a “military asset”
I hope one day the full story gets told about the tremendous pressure and media scrutiny checo has contended with. Its very strange, there is always some excuse preventing him from getting any positive recognition. Undoubtably, race plays a factor here, even subconsciously.
If he fails to get on the podium, he apparently needs to be fired immediately. When he has a bad qualifying and cleanly overtakes half a dozen cars to finish 2nd, then its entirely the car that’s responsible. and, i guess, also due to his ‘south american’ heritage.
Ironically, due to his inconsistent qualifying, and exceptional racecraft and tire management, he’s one of the more entertaining drivers to watch on raceday.
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should go ahead and ban image uploading to lemmy.world, as there is likely a ton of illegal, copyright-violating content that hasn’t been stress-tested for fair use.
Who knew that just a couple of decades later, humans would collectively decide that watching buffering 720p YouTube videos from the middle of the Pacific would be more important than whatever all those weird TV dishes in the background are doing
In a study published in June in Environmental Science & Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics....
I see a connection between elon’s increasingly ‘wacky’ persona with the start of the cozy financial relationship he has with saudi arabia. imo, he’s serving as a captured asset for oil giants to further their influence and interests in the west, in a similar vein to all the recent acquisitions of popular US/UK sports teams by the middle east.
The ‘eccentric’ behavior, to me, is 100% intentional. A layer of security is built when your rivals, regulators, and the general public are unable to predict your next move. A ‘white noise’ is created: for every midnight decision to change your company logo to dogecoin, intentional and sinister actions slip thru, such as the banning of twitter in turkey during their recent elections.
This strategy of wrapping yourself in layers of ambiguity was explored by Adam Curtis in his doc Hypernormalization, describing how this has been the central tactic Putin has used in Russia for decades.
Lenovo has spent the last decade destroying the repairablity of ThinkPads. They’ve only ‘rediscovered’ the ‘innovations’ they stripped from their laptops, like a removable battery, because they are scared of framework.
The number of telescopes capable of doing astronomy will get smaller, the available hours on that scope will need to be shared among all academic astronomers, and therefore, the number of people able to do astronomy will get reduced.
Having a few telescopes floating in space is not a solution. Not when there is so much space unexplored. Mankind does not own the night sky, only a few billionaires do.
that’s a great vision, but we don’t have to trade ground-based astronomy for space-based astronomy. that would put us in a ‘dark age’ of astronomy for the rest of my lifetime, until all these yet-to-be-launched telescopes get built.
You wouldn’t know it from the first half hour! Can’t believe the studio needed to put out posters warning audiences that ‘only the first two scenes’ aren’t in English.
Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update (half-life.com)
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lincoln man goes viral with city council speech (youtu.be)
Lyft’s new feature lets women and non-binary riders request their driver’s gender (www.cnn.com)
Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender....
Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships (www.thedailybeast.com)
Original source: edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/…/index.html
Helmut Marko accused of discrimination against Checo Perez (www.marca.com)
“Let’s remember that he is South American and so his head is not as focused as Max Verstappen or as Sebastian Vettel was”
Alpine break new ground with Reddit after 'first-of-its-kind' partnership unveiled (www.planetf1.com)
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What's their secret? (lemmy.world)
How do Japanese live this long?...
Contact, Robert Zemeckis (1997) (lemm.ee)
Mmm, that framing…
For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic (www.wired.com)
In a study published in June in Environmental Science & Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics....
Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios (www.vice.com)
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2023 Hungarian Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX 2023...
An inside look at Lenovo's goal to create sustainable tech | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Intel Exiting the PC Business as it Stops Investment in the Intel NUC (www.servethehome.com)
[Erik van Haren] Nyck de Vries immediately sent away from AlphaTauri. Daniel Ricciardo will replace him in Hungary next week. (twitter.com)
De Vries’ adventure with the sister team of Red Bull has therefore only lasted ten races.
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day (gizmodo.com)
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say (www.space.com)
Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.
Sorcerer - My favorite film, directed by William Friedkin (lemmy.world)
Criminally underrated, mostly due to releasing the same weekend as Star Wars. Anyone else a fan of this movie?