dondelelcaro

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on Shitty parking tip · c/fuckcars · 4 pts · 24d

In the US turning on and off (or off and on) twice the headlights/running lights is the same. Though you'll mostly only see truckers doing it.

Controlling the certs doesn't control the keys. Access to the keys is necessary to inspect the traffic. Even without government control of the root certificates, if they can access the keys, they can decrypt the traffic.

Now, controlling the certs can open you up to MITM, but that's a risk no matter who controls the root.

abruptly discovered packages and updates no longer worked

This happens when you're at least an entire release cycle behind and haven't updated the archive signing keys. You need to install them, and possibly modify your sources.list to point at archive.debian.org instead. No major surgery required.

The foul being accidental doesn't make it not a foul. If it was on purpose (or easier to show, was reckless) that's usually a card.

Fouls don't require intention.

There may be an argument that the foul was incidental and didn't affect play, but that's a pretty difficult argument when it's a foul against a defender in a position to affect play.

As near as I can tell, the report doesn't claim that Bayer was the source of either the glyphosate or the phosphorus. Both are generic active ingredients made by multiple manufacturers in multiple countries. Bayer's board even denied directly selling glyphosate to either the US or Israeli military.

That's not to say that the source wasn't Bayer, but there wasn't any evidence presented in the articles to demonstrate it.

on Quick, Sketch This · c/luigimangione · 1 pts · 80d

This is a combination of why we shouldn't have cash bail and why effective representation is so critical.

Removing cash bail stops the pre trial incarceration of those without significant assets.

Effective representation means that your rights to a speedy trial can be reasserted of your want and reduces the misapplication of state sponsored violence.

on Breaking News · c/lemmyshitpost · 4 pts · 80d

Like many supposed scoops, it's inaccurate too!

::: spoiler why is it inaccurate? It's a cookie scoop, not an ice cream scoop. :::

on You're deranged · c/politicalmemes · 9 pts · 80d

The pool is just memetastic and simple to explain. Classic clickbait fodder. It also has direct links to an area of Trump's supposed expertise.

The other more important things like the Epstein files, oligarchs, genocide, graft, corruption, fascism, inflation, affordability, and idiotic wars of aggression are still getting coverage and will still get coverage after this. They're just not as easily condensed up a meme.

An org that limits individual contributor salaries loses it's individual contributors to companies that don't. Senior principal engineers and principal engineers frequently make VP and Senior VP level salaries. If they aren't, the talent leaves.

on X rays · c/memes · 1 pts · 96d

LNT does not assume that there isn't a repair mechanism. It assumes that the repair mechanism has a constant failure rate. That's a pretty good match for the primary biological process involved.

All of the studies I'm aware of looking at lower dose thresholds for radiation occur on timescales and in situations where the benefits of selection due to mutations overrides the negative effects of mutations on cancers. They aren't actually measuring lifetime cancer risk on an organism level. (If a study is talking about comparing sieverts instead of doses of a specific kind of radiation, it's also suspect.)

It's theoretically possible to have a positive effect on an organism level, but that involves much more complicated biological mechanims like immunity and epigenetics which aren't as easily modeled or as well understood. Moreover, they also have the capability of being supra-linear at low rates of DNA damage.

on X rays · c/memes · 5 pts · 96d

The reasoning behind abandoning ALARA isn't particularly strong; it's based on pragmatism and economics of risk, not the underlying biology and chemistry of ionizing radiation exposure. Linear No Threshold is still one of the more conservative models that accurately depicts the impact of ionizing radiation on the underlying biology of adducts, double strand breaks, and associated repair mechanisms.

We're already in a shooting gallery of radiation exposure due to solar and terrestrial sources; controlling some radiation sources won't be worth the cost, but that's where reasonable comes in.