Pet peeve: the waste generated by appliances for which the consumables and/or wear components stop being available shortly after release.
Think air filters, non-stick grill plates, nonstandard vacuum cleaner bags, ear thermometer caps, seal bag rolls, and so on.
Like, you end up with a perfectly working device that you can't use anymore because you can't replace the one part that's worn out despite it being *expected* that that would happen.
Probably the most authoritative crowd counting association in Serbia estimates between 275k and 325k people today. They emphasise that this is likely an undercount due to uncertainties in other parts of the city at that exact point in time.
To put those undercounted numbers into perspective:
- That is between 15% and 19.5% of Belgrade's total metro area population.
- That is between 4.2% and 4.9% of Serbia's total population.
@hazel the most fun part is that if you look down while it’s happening to find out the password you can’t do it all of a sudden because that’s not what your head is doing in the muscle memory for the password. your own brain just decides it would like to keep it a secret from you
uspol, Greenland politics
Boosting with CW, but I love this take on MAGA.
lmao. Alton Towers opens new ride themed to toxic fluids, and puts up a 'splash zone' sign somewhere as decoration.
Then on opening day, a sewer pipe of a nearby toilet overflows, and floods the area in sewage.
And I don't even know whether it's delicious irony or a bizarre marketing stunt, because it *is* Alton Towers we're talking about here...
ok, let's say I want *the* sharpest tweezers out there. the absolute finest point you can find. sharper than a needle.
I already have the ultra fine tip pair from Weller Erem (which I think now rebranded to Apex Tools) and they are, amazingly, not fine enough for the task I have in mind.
what're my options here? are there tweezers available with tip geometry sharpened down to the micron range?
note: must be hand tweezers specifically, not anything bonkers like wire bonding rigs.
I understand the programme making style required for general audience TV.
But as I watch more YouTube and shorts than everything else I’m used to stuff that’s tailored to people already interested in the topic, without the detailed exposition and emotional interviews to get you invested.
Summary:
🔹Licencing a company to buy debt is hard & takes years.
🔹He wrote off £1M debt with £100k of his to make a point: Govt should consider the Fair Banking Act & make banks accountable.
🔹Govt/banks declined interview.
🔹Gordon brown interviewed & said he’d try help start some conversations.
I just watched Michael Sheen’s £1M Giveaway. I don’t want to detract from the mission which I wholeheartedly agree with, but God I forgot how slow TV is!
Long-form tv aimed at a general audience, with all the required exposition feels a lot slower than YouTube.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/michael-sheens-secret-million-pound-giveaway
What appears to be an LRAD fired towards the crowd during 15 minutes of silence (one for each victim of the canopy collapse), causing a brief stampedo (fortunately with no serious consequences).
Students did what they planned to do after a security incident: they took off their reflective clothing and said that the protests are officially over, distancing themselves from whatever happens next.
What happens next remains to be seen, but needless to say, thousands of people are still out there.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.