While Colín Silva has the option of taking the exam again, she says it costs hundreds of dollars to complete and that is money she and her family cannot spare.

Her family is currently struggling to find the means to pay their rent in Quebec City and to pay for plane tickets to return to Mexico.

Out of money for the retake, rent, or plane tickets back. Sounds like they’re just totally out of money.

“I don’t want to speak poorly of a country that welcomed me, but I find this really inhumane,” she said. “It’s as though we are garbage.”

I’m not seeing anything insulting about the government’s position. There’s a language requirement. They knew that. It sounds like the first test taking may have been free, but on failed tests, the followups have fee. Where are they being treated like garbage?

“Give me a meme and a message board on which to post it, and I shall move the world”

-Archimedes

one day get super pissed off

This was the moment anon decided that their own value was greater than the perceived versions of others in his social circle anon had manufactured in his head. He was confident he was worth more than those manufactured constructs. Everything after that were expressions of that confidence he had in himself.

Confidence is attractive. Now it can go two ways though:

• Benevolent confidence - where you are kindhearted and you wish to build others up because you see no risk to yourself in doing so.
• Malicious confidence - where you tear others down because you see everyone a risk to yourself.

Both can lead to success by varying definitions of the word, but I know when I get to the end of my life I’d much rather hae arrived there on a path of benevolence.

The policy includes new details stating that unless a user opts out, Starlink data may be used “to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models” and could be shared with the company’s service providers and “third-party collaborators,” without providing further details.

Its still shitty of Musk and Starlink to even approach user data they’re paying for to train AI, but for those that have no other choice for connectivity, I wanted to call out the opt-out exists.

Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

There’s also a version of the prep that is only 2 liters. Its more concentrated, but I can do that easier for me than the 4 liters.

Another vote for getting colonoscopy screening. I had two precancerous polyps they found. Confusingly, precancerous doesn’t mean they are cancer, but rather the type of polyps that turn into cancer. Both were removed during the procedure. With that there’s no more actions or risk needed except a followup colonoscopy in 3 years. If they found no polyps its a followup in 10 years.

Also if its a colonoscopy screening, and because of the ACA, the entire procedure is covered by insurance as its a wellness screening. If they are doing a colonoscopy because you’re reporting problems, then its a “diagnostics” colonoscopy and you can get charged for it. The price tag on mine was slightly over $2500, but was 100% covered because it was a screening. Get your colonoscopy before you have problems and spend your $2500 on something else you want in your life!

Call today and get an appointment for this. When I called the soonest appointment was about 5 months out. Call today to get yours booked.

We lost a family member to colon cancer. She was 34 years old.

Don’t put this off. Get it done, people.

In Lemmy, if you put two spaces after the last letters, THEN go the next line it will make the vertical list you want

This text has two spaces after
This text does too
This text does not This text does not

Odd markup, but here we are.

Also this gem: “In October 2021, he posted a political cartoon criticizing Omar’s security spending.”

He criticizes her security spending, then acts out showing exactly why she should be spending even more on her security.

“I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.” There you go: “I don’t recognize your authority.” That’s the masked-up mentality, as bluntly put as can be.

Here’s the oath of office for Pierce County Washington where Swank is the sheriff. Presumably he took this oath when he took the position of sheriff:

“I, (state name), do solemnly swear that I am a Citizen of the United States and a resident and registered voter of Pierce County; that I will support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Washington, and the Charter and Ordinances of Pierce County; and will faithfully, impartially, and honestly perform the duties of the office of (insert title of office), as such duties are prescribed by law, so help me God.”

source

Bold is mine. Doesn’t this mean the sheriff is admitting he will violate his oath of office?

Mesh back haul can get some distance connecting some communities aa well.

I don’t think community driven mesh networks are a realistically sized solution for the entire continental connectivity .

Ideally, to me, that would multinational orgnization building common infrastruture for the collective benefit.

Certainly that would be best for the many nations of the continent. However, that hasn’t happened and high speed internet as a basic utility has been commonplace as a utility in huge parts of the world already for decades. So without the ideal of a coalition of NGOs, are the under served nations on the African continent just supposed to go without instead of the tech companies building the infrastructure, and maintaining the ownership that comes with that, to bring these services as is detailed in the article?

So WISPs and 5G networks address “last mile” access. According to the article Google and Facebook are building undersea cables which don’t compete with last mile services, and in fact can help them as the existing backhaul circuits become saturated from continued new WISP and 5G users being added.

I think its fantastic that there are community built efforts to bring people online. However, it sounds like these are small pockets of efforts instead of national or continental efforts. If the WISPs or 5G service area are only in pockets, is it fair that millions of people should go without access to the internet just because they don’t live in one of the areas served by those existing community efforts?

What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn’t that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?

I don’t see how that rephrasing changes the outcome of the question. What’s your view on it? What is the difference you’re seeing with that modified question?

Even retail gas stations have to pay upfront before operating to have their underground tanks dug up and removed in case they go out of business. Why isn’t this standard for petroleum extraction? If nothing else, the public government would benefit from investing those prepayments until the oil company successfully completes their properly secured inactive well and that money is returned to them.

As long as you’re doing your own whole disk encryption, you have a valid path to still be secure. However, if you’re running an unencrypted disk, you’re much more likely to lose your data to a non-state actor.

A pocket computer that can call.

I held that same mindset for years in the prior generation of technology. I had a Sharp Zaurus and later a Nokia n700 for pocket Linux computing. It took a large amount of effort to make them useful devices. Most people simply don’t have the time or ability to do that for themselves and products like iOS and Android deliver what they’re looking for right out of the box.

I like the essay’s highlighting European contributions to software and technology, but it doesn’t quite answer the fundamental question of its title:

Why there’s no European Google?

The essay’s answer is [paraphrased] “…because we don’t need it.”.

I don’t quite understand that position because if a Google wasn’t needed in Europe then Google could disappear from Europe and no one would notice or care. Yet that isn’t likely the case. If Google disappeared overnight it would likely have massive impacts on business and personal lives across Europe.

I guess my answer to the article’s question as to “Why is there no European Google” is that creating Google (or a European Google) is extremely resource and financially expensive. Unless the funding for that effort comes from somewhere, it won’t just happen in Europe spontaneously without replicating the same private business model that many dislike about Google.

P.S. Another European created technology that should be added to the list for accolades is the creation of Deepmind machine learning/AI. This also lead to the creation of Google Gemini. While this is owned by Google, it was created out of the London offices.

I hope it succeeds, but history hasn’t been kind to others that tried.

I want to see real Linux phones that don’t run Android and are somewhat competitive with Android phones, at least in the mid-range space.

There’s a large graveyard of attempts at this. The most recent and successful is probably Tizen. Prior to that Firefox OS. People just don’t buy them so there’s no market for them.

Thank you for that link, I appreciate it. Here’s what I searched, and as you can see your link doesn’t show up:

Your direct link does indeed show China successfully tested it. Thanks!

I did search it before I wrote my original comment, thats what I cited about the anti-satellite satellite effort China did. So I’ve already taken the time and came up empty. You’re saying it exists, but I didn’t find it in my original search. So I’m asked you because you encountered the info firsthand and may have a better chance of finding it.