Being able to visualize the problem is often nearly halfway to solving it. :)

Also, if you haven’t got enough colorful string, try GnuPlot. :) It’s free and it has considerable capabilities. :) It can even draw animations.

Thank you for the tip, I tested.

Without logging in, both resources load instantly.

When I log in, however - “lemmy.world” becomes slow.

Environment: Firefox on Linux, discards cache and cookies on every browser exit.

Just don’t let him become a president-for-life. If someone becomes president-for-life, the way to end their presidency unfortunately involves ending their life.

Would subscribing to 20 communities be considered “many”?

I’m observing the same effect, but only with “slrpnk.net/c/world@lemmy.world” - it just now took me 20 seconds to load.

For comparison, the community (very new and low volume) “slrpnk.net/c/eesti@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz” loads in a second.

Glad to see it reversed. It was shortsighted.

Sad, but informative reading. The article explains why it wasn’t by accident.

There is nothing to do with the goods that are supposed to be bought, definitely at the price they sell - and the investments are supposed to be made voluntarily by the private sector.

Nobody’s going to do it. There’s no incentive mechanism and no enforcement mechanism except warm vapour out of politicians’ mouths.

Realistically about 30% of this is maybe going to happen.

Also, what “all times in history” are you referring to? I doubt you have an overview of all trade disputes between the US and EU, and their outcomes.

As an EU resident: we promised him that during the next migration of flying unicorns, they would land in the US.

We’re not even going to cheat. Unfortunately flying unicorns don’t exist.

In my experience, most car sockets struggle to deliver 10 A and might be fused at 20 A (but a fuse is not a suggestion, it’s a safety device). :)

Fortunately in this case, the charges are already in the hands of the court. The court does not have to abide by the opinion of the ministry of justice.

However, that a ministry of justice - which should be a mere support organization for two highly independent institutions, that is prosecutors and courts - is attempting to interfere in ongoing criminal cases - is reprehensible.

It’s also reprehensible that cops get away with recklessly killing people. If there is no legal recourse against them, surely that makes people consider illegal ones.

The concerns are legit. :(

Then again, empires and wars make for great story material. Persistent peace… not so much. So I believe science fiction has a bias towards epic messes.

As for when this was written - wow, 1978. Probably before Iain M. Banks brought a typewriter home and started typing his first Culture novel…

…but as a result of his typing, even libertarian / socialist viewpoints of science fiction contain empires (often defeated) and wars (sometimes resolved without mass casualties, but not always). The damnable reality of literature tends to be: if there’s no gun on the wall in chapter 1 and someone isn’t shot by chapter 3, you have to figure out what sells the story. :(

Nice to have confirmation.

For those who haven’t heard, adjuvants can increase the efficiency of a vaccine - producing stronger immunity with less active ingredient.

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

…and one of the fairly boring adjuvants is aluminum hydroxide. People ingest it if they have too much stomach acid. In a vaccine, its presence helps stabilize proteins in a solution (prevents them from precipitating out) and provokes the interest of the immune system, causing a local secretion of uric acid from tissue, which in turn attracts monocytes and dendrite cells.

Some notes:

• slugs and snails hate traveling on copper, if you isolate the area early (before they come), you can keep them away with a barrier of copper foil

• tobacco deters and heated + filtered tobacco water kills insects, aphids are relatively easy to kill with “green soap” spray (direct translation, I don’t know the English name of the substance)

Now as for wasps, I would consider a netting of some sort. Most likely, it would keep other kinds of insects out too, but aphids are probably too small to keep out with nets. If there’s too much, I would control their numbers with soap.

100% prevention is probably unattainable, but in case of the childrens’ camp an early word of competent instruction “get away from rivers and find shelter on high ground” would have probably helped a lot. Even if it would have woken up only 10% of the people, they could have woken up the rest.

Speculation:

• Xi is losing power because his health is deteriorating
• some members of the military loyal to him have been purged
• as with the CCP, nothing is transparent, so nothing is predictable
• some claim (or maybe hope) “maybe power will be handed to Wang Yang” (who doesn’t seem a fan of iron-fisted central rule), but more likely that is wishful thinking

As a minimum, a local emergency deparment should have an automatic interface to the nearest weather radar. If a radar scan suggests “ocean falling down”, people should be alerted with text messages in the same way they’d be alerted of a wildfire, chemical leak or incoming missile strike.

Over here, no experience with ModBus yet. One customer might want an application, but in my own house, they’re all air gapped and I program them with buttons. :)

Disclaimer: I’m not a medical person, but I did learn some biology 20 years ago. I’m not competent enough to give a firm opinion, but I’ll try to guess a bit.

• all the listed cancer types affect internal organs
• I notice that skin cancer isn’t rising
• I notice that esophagal, mouth and gastric cancer are not listed (but liver cancer is)
• I conclude that risk of cancer hasn’t risen equally for all cancers
• I guess that toxicity from alcohol or tobacco is not involved, but could play a small role
• several organs involved in digestion are listed, one should look at what people eat & drink
• several reproductive organs are listed, one should look for dysregulation and hormonal unbalance

Overall, I would recommend to look for clues in these directions:

• is there a shift in food / beverage types?
• is there a shift in food / beverage processing (e.g. towards ultra processed)?
• is there a shift in packaging (e.g. different metal for cans, different plastic or more plastic for trays)?
• is there a shift in food preparation (e.g. different cooking methods)?
• is there a shift in calorie intake or gut microbiome (e.g. bacterial species that produce toxins that eventually cause cancer)?
• is there a chemical contamination of food or beverage sources?
• is there a shift towards sedentary lifestyle?

What I notice in the comments of the county officials: some of them claimed “it could not have been prevented, even with radar”.

Here in Eastern Europe, a weather radar makes a full turn in 5 minutes and I think that faster ones exist in fancier places. An SMS takes at most 15 minutes to deliver, with some arriving in seconds and some trailing behind if the network is under load.

Also, I’m sure some US states get even tornados, and are damn quick at sending out alerts about those things… so the diagnosis is “as usual, people ignored a considerable risk”. They had not set up automation. People could have been alerted, tech for that exists already for a decade or more.

Sadly, I’m not surprised.

Both sides have been clearly working on enhanced autonomy for a while now.

At first, it seemed that autonomous targeting would soon remain the only option in face of electronic warfare taking down a majority of drones. (The spectacular footage we’ve seen so far has mostly originated from a small minority of drones that got through. This is changing with fiber optics, of course.)

Then, tactical tricks (flying repeaters) and new guidance methods (fiber optic wire) gave direct guidance a fighting chance again, and somewhat postponed the need for high autonomy…

…but soon enough, an average drone will be capable of much more processing than a super expensive cruise missile from the 1990-ties, and this kind of weapons can be highly autonomous. You can give them the approximate location of a target and tell them to look for something - a ship, a train, an aircraft, a bridge, and of course vehicles with protruding pipes.

It will get nasty and complicated when they get cheap enough to target individual humans, because both common sense and international law insist that humans may be non-combatants and even combatants can surrender. A drone with enough mind to understand will be required to understand this, but there will be a motivation to cut corners. :(