wjrii

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[–] wjrii 1 points 1 hour ago

The simple answer is, and I shit you not, they look it up and try their best.

If everything else about the question at hand and the parties to the litigation makes sense for a particular court, they’re more than willing to interpret foreign law with the right amount of notice and limits to the scope of the inquiry. Some of the procedural hijinks you may see in this case could involve trying to remove it to courts in those countries though.

[–] wjrii 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing came up for me, until I tightened in on just the print. Leaving the frame selected threw Google off the trail.

[–] wjrii 1 points 13 hours ago

spoilerLog Cabins?! In Egypt?!

[–] wjrii 1 points 13 hours ago
Wordle 1,322 4/6*

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[–] wjrii 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
#WhenTaken #339 (31.01.2025)

I scored 616/1000🎗️

1️⃣📍437 km - 🗓️18 yrs - 🥈148/200
2️⃣📍8.0K km - 🗓️2 yrs - 🥉106/200
3️⃣📍609 m - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥇187/200
4️⃣📍11.5K km - 🗓️38 yrs - 🥉0/200
5️⃣📍595 km - 🗓️6 yrs - 🥇175/200

https://whentaken.com

By far my worst one. In particular, I

spoilermistook Portugal for Brazil and confused the construction of the Panama Canal for the construction of the Suez Canal.

[–] wjrii 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Probably the annoyingly large number of people taking it seriously.

Honestly, I still use reddit for certain niche communities, but FFS nobody should be using it without limiting to your subscriptions and culling the biggest stupidest subreddits from those subscriptions.

To a lesser extent, I would argue that goes for Lemmy too.

[–] wjrii 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes, and as someone who stays on Facebook as a proxy for actually communicating with people I'm fond of but don't want to call (as well as some practical communication needs), you get basically a daily dose at this point, with a single click to reshare. I click it probably once a month for my fellow olds who are still on the site, though most of mine are baby pictures of my kid.

[–] wjrii 4 points 20 hours ago

Look at the kids who are in the top tier spelling bee competitions, and then look at their parents, and tell me whose dreams are coming true.

HA! My kid keeps winning her class and then flaming out in the school bee because studying spelling is boring!

[–] wjrii 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't really mean it was ever an explicit position, beyond possibly your Carville strategist types in smoke-filled rooms, but the fact remains that Roe v. Wade was always being chipped away at, in courts and statehouses and law schools, and at several points in the 50 years that it was in effect the Democrats had the power necessary to put up a legislative firewall (see, e.g. Obamacare), but they took no action while reminding voters every election who supported choice. They didn't even have to lie, but there was always a "better" use of political capital, and nothing was done until it was too late.

Labour is in a somewhat analogous situation, in that they have taken power, and they can blame the hardships of Brexit on Tories, and they know the UK is better off in the EU, but they have other priorities. I am fully aware that they need to be prudent, and maybe repairing relationships is meaningful progress, but this could also be tickmark #1 on a ledger called "Times that Labour could have fixed Brexit but didn't."

[–] wjrii 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
  1. You don't have to re-share them all.
  2. It's admittedly much worse if your High School and College pictures aren't already on FB.
 
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DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!

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Focus FK-5001 that I cleaned up and converted to USB. White Alps, original double-shot ABS caps. The calculator works.

EDIT: This fucker developed a short within like an hour of my closing the case back up. Now I have to either use my multi-meter to learn the entire 130-key matrix, or I have to desolder all the switches and kill the calculator function to turn the board into a hand-wired custom, though that would allow the left side function keys to be different from the top-row ones. Sigh.

 
  • JWICK 67g Yellow linears
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  • DIY case including the emblem of the Taitō ward where the shop is located
 

Not their best work, IMHO, but the Herbstreit tag they either pulled off the pile or had him record makes me think they agree.

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I ONCE SAW A BABY GIVE ANOTHER BABY A TATTOO! THEY WERE VERY DRUNK!

On a more meta level, I feel pretty comfortable that 30 Rock in general was satirizing not the experience of the urban poor, but rather the cynical way that Hollywood and the privileged would capitalize on it, or that the cluelessly well-meaning could fall into toxic patterns. It can be a fine line though, and for that reason I'm also not too bent out of shape that Tina et al didn't fight to keep the blackface episodes more readily available. The author is just as dead to a racist asshole as she is to an open-minded audience member assuming good intentions.

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cross-posted from @[email protected]: https://lemmy.world/post/23787115

I've managed to do reverse engineering of circuit boards using GIMP and rough alignment of layers using images like the one pictured. I want to use images to reverse engineer parts in CAD, but the minor lens distortion of a camera on a phone at ~20cm high on top of a stack of objects to keep it eyeballed flat is not enough. The result is off in multiple planes. There are minor errors in my curves in the transparent CAD part pictured, but the hole pattern is correct. The picture has been calibrated to 20mm against the ruler. Any suggestions on how to make this usable for replicating the ellipse that crosses the holes ±0.05mm?

 
Wordle 1,288 3/6*

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Those emoji blocks look way cleaner than my actual thought process.

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Look, I get it. Mark Knopfler the lyricist cannot compare, bell-curve-wise, to Mark Knopfler the guitarist.

Mark Knopfler the lyricist still has some absolutely top-tier shit that is very much in my wheelhouse. This song is a marvel of tone and of pulling emotion out of a ship-breaking operation (of all things), using vibrant but efficient imagery, and the song suits his vocal abilities. He was a journalist for a while before Dire Straits hit it big, and it shows. The arrangement and playing both sound excellent to me as well, but I'll defer on that to people with a more sophisticated ear than mine.

 
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

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Back on the horse, for the most part.

 
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