https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuel

In general, biofuels emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions when burned in an engine and are generally considered carbon-neutral fuels as the carbon emitted has been captured from the atmosphere by the crops used in production.

That does not mean they do not produce CO2 when burned, sorry.

Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir, Meta definitely until '22, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, Coinbase, Coca-Cola

The list goes on. Never has it been more obvious who profits most from stroking his ego.

There’s a 1min video of what happened. You don’t need a Doctor to tell you that this cop

• has way too little or no training on how to de-escalate
• obviously gets off on holding a gun and being mean and threatening

It’s all right there, and it can be summed up with “abusive asshole”.

Not to speak of the even more obvious fact that he’s deliberately withholding ID. Cops, like most public servants, are not allowed to do that.

Just read the whole article!

But I cannot resist quoting some bits that stood out to me:

While some organizations reported from inside the protest itself, most did not: They set up camp behind the police line, or reported using drone footage, or simply asked the cops what to say. “Dozens of people were arrested Sunday and accused of attempted murder, arson and other crimes during a day of violence and protests in Los Angeles,” NBC Los Angeles declared in an article based exclusively on LAPD sources. It’s an understandable decision on their part. Just look at Lauren Tomasi, a reporter for the Australian Channel Nine news service who got “caught in the crossfire” and struck with a rubber bullet while reporting—by which I mean an LA police officer aimed directly at the reporter from close range and shot her. (…) As of Tuesday morning, the LA Press Club documented over 30 injuries to members of the press. Easier and safer to parrot police talking points than face down their guns.

(…)

The idea that cops were just reacting to protester provocation is absurd. Cops occupied intersections in an attempt to split the protest, then occasionally charged the protest lines that surrounded them to force the crowds to temporarily retreat. These assaults seemed unrelated to protester action or lack thereof. At one point, while the cops were unloading round after round of blue-tipped rubber bullets into a crowd hunkered down behind a barricade, a different group of protesters approached from the side and threw a firework into the center of the police line. The cops turned their fire against the group, which ran off, but did not pursue them. Thirty seconds later, the cops were back to shooting at the barricade.

(…)

When I arrived on the scene, the cops were seriously outnumbered—thousands of protesters, a couple hundred cops. If there had truly been a riot, those cops would have found themselves overrun, disarmed, brutalized. But it was a protest. So they were fine.

And yet, the anti-protester framing is relentless, even from otherwise balanced sources.

I like that the writer doesn’t try to gloss over the occasional violent act from the protesters’ side, but instead always points out cause and effect, how understandable a reaction it is when you’re being shot at for - well, protesting.

Trump can call these protests invasions all he wants: I know what I saw. As the sun began to set, riot cops from the LA county sheriff’s department showed up on trucks, fully kitted out with shields and gas masks. The rapidly shrinking protest saw the writing on the wall and, rather than confront these militarized enforcers, turned and walked away, into the night and into the city. For hours they marched, blasting mariachi music and old-school West Coast rap and chanting their simple, reasonable demand:
“No ICE in LA!”

Why do they point out that it was 4 hours ago? Did he tweet truth lie it after the attacks started? That would be …what’s the word… sanctimonious

This is a famous example but you could have chosen any of his “speeches”. I’d claim that the newer ones are even worse.

Journalists around the world have been complaining about this ever since 2016: it’s impossible to write good political journalism about Trump. There was a collective sigh of relief in 2020, manifesting itself as pleasant silence. Then Jan 6 happened…

One reason is that IP’s can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn’t always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.

Another reason could be to circumvent people’s privacy settings, which are becoming more popular even without using a VPN. Essentially a sort of “we don’t trust you with the data you give us about yourself”.

And since others brought up search engines etc., there’s a third reason: I always use English on my computer UI, but I am not in England and English is not my first language. Sometimes it’s nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).

Oh, and while trying to find a site that tells me where it thinks my IP is located right now I noticed that the top search results all ask location permissions and show me nothing without them. And “Location” is a combo of IP, cell tower and GPS. It might come down to IP only on a laptop, but soon maybe not anymore.

using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

This is what they call “modern cloud-based solutions”. Except, now it’s “modern AI-based solutions” - same shit with a different label.

I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?

Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard.

Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.

I’m the opposite: I find it increasingly harder to distinguish car makers just from looking at the car (without seeing the logo of course). They all look snazzy.

I just know that when I see a fancy car, and check the make, it’s BMW or something high end, and when I see a pygmy hippo lookin’ motherfucker, it’s made by one of those “buy one, get one free” type manufacturers that appeal to meth head soccer moms.

First of all, car manufacturers invest A LOT of resources into evoking that specific reaction in (potential) customers.

And I don’t like your attitude towards people who have less money than you.

You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment.

There used to be one or two pretty popular versions of this though; not an exact copy but just a sporty chassis on top of a ubiquitous and cheap model, like the Karmann-Ghia on top of the VW Beetle.

Damn. As a German! That’s shameful. And of course utterly nuts.

I found this question on reddit with a really good reply, if someone’s interested:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230605123206/https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/58doy0/ive_seen_a_number_of_conspiracy_theorists_and/

Sadly, Weigelt does not stand alone in the Linux community. I used to frequent one of the oldest and largest Linux forums, and there were all sorts of crazies. But more importantly, the general tone was more conservative than you’d think. Or rather Libertarian.

I asked in another thread if there’s some media coverage of what the troops themselves think, in LA. Or how they act. You wouldn’t happen to know some?

Talking about car emission regulations here, and in that context “so far” is correct.

What maker/model/year? Front or back? Both sides? What exactly do you mean by “entire suspension”?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422014523/https://www.gnu.org/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-free-software.html

FWIW, X.org is Libre already.

And that article does not inspire me to delve deeper into the topic.

Other Nordic here, and I think these ages are too low. From what I see around me, personally, but also as a professional.

They might be too old for that approach though.

Something I thought of when reading OP. Why now? He’s 15. This question would have made way more sense if he was many years younger.

[It might be the teenager himself asking here, but hey, that’s OK]

I hope you mean supportive of your son.

If so, I see this dynamic play out in some families (I work with kids) and I don’t like it. Dad metes out rules/punishment, mom’s role is to be nurturing instead. It teaches kids to play their parents out against each other. To go to another authority figure if the first one said no. To become incomplete.

As for your question: this is over the top for a 15yo. And that’s not how you help kids to learn self-regulation. It’s also kinda dismissive of puberty. OTOH it’s important to get enough sleep, esp. if you go to school, and he might need constant reminding of that. Yep, raising kids is never straightforward.

Same in Finland and just about every EU country. But apparently not enough, since OP hasn’t noticed.