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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is up with that blue car? I'm imagining the owner parked at a strip mall, selling car insurance, vehicle registrations, and automotive decals to whoever walks up.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I really like the maps that also indicate population, like this dot density map:

https://media.wired.com/photos/5b59eab77756071a9b78f1ee/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Dasymetric-Dot-Density-w.jpg

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

In 2015, two German researchers speaking at the Chaos Communication Congress described the internal operation of the OS. The North Korean government wants to track the underground market of USB flash drives used to exchange foreign films, music and writing, so the system watermarks all files on portable media attached to computers.

Interesting! I wonder what they do with the information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No information is the best option. How bad the misinformation is depends on intent. Is the misinformation a lie intentionally told to conceal a truth? Or is it bullshit, information intended to persuade regardless of truth?

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

From Harry Frankfurt's essay On Bullshit

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

You could totally sell boar's bile to conservative suburban moms today as a "natural home remedy."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

NiteRider has a K-Edge adapter for their Lumina lights:
https://www.niterider.com/products/gopro-adapter-by-k-edge

They're a US company but have distributors in Europe.

The Luminas are a more serious headlight than you are looking for. They're great, though. Mine lights up the road on the darkest nights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This would fit better in [email protected].

 

“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

 
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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Dixville Notch, NH has returned the first results in the 2024 US election. The town voted at midnight and only six ballots were cast, so tallying the results didn't take long. In the presidential race the results were evenly split, with 3 votes each for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

https://www.wmur.com/article/midnight-voting-new-hampshire-election-results-24/62810457

~~And now we get the first spot of color on the map, courtesy of Associated Press:~~
Edit: AP has now removed the blue squares in New Hampshire from their map.

https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/

 

The recent post in the Wikipedia community about the Trojan Room coffee pot got me thinking: are there any interesting webcams still running on the web? If so, do you have any favorites?

Aside from my local ski area I didn't think I could name a single webcam still running.

 
 
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