It seems that it agreed with it, as I don’t see anything in the “corrective action” field.

Strictly speaking, China has gone from encouraging Chinese to have as many children early on, when IIRC Mao felt that population density encouraged industrialization, then to restrictive birth policy under One Child for a long time, and then back to trying to get people to have kids in the mid-2010s as demographic concerns rose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

It’s more that China is state-interventionist than that it has consistently favored few or many children.

I’d argue that banning abortion is probably state interventionist, more in line with the consistent thread of overall Chinese policy over the years.

Context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxuUkYiaUc8

SNL skit: Sexual Harassment and You

Summary: be attractive, don’t be unattractive

Yeah, it’s not an unreasonable connection on that information – Florida does also have palm trees – but I’m betting that it’s gonna be the other coast.

Florida is flat and pretty wet. It looks pretty lush compared to the Southwest.

kagis

Florida:

https://cdn.landsearch.com/listings/4CVJR/small/bell-fl-126924064.jpg

Here’s a shot from around Los Angeles out in California.

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1162381995/photo/stunning-panoramic-view-of-the-agua-dulce-area.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=9e6xR3S3RJzdvgIztUmMKAG53uVNhS7v_pVXG9ULOUk%3D

It’s dry enough that you won’t just have vegetation growing everywhere, and unless you’re gonna water it, anything that survives has to be able to tolerate little water. The planter there doesn’t have grass or anything.

I don’t think it’s Florida. Those are arid-land plants. I believe that that’s some kind of yucca in the planter in the foreground. That tree may be mesquite. The palm may be a California palm fan.

From the plants, I’d guess American Southwest somewhere, maybe southern California.

I think that the license plates are dark-on-light.

California would fit:

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

Arizona would fit:

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

I don’t think it’s New Mexico:

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

Or Nevada:

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

Rural areas in the US tend to have more pickup trucks. I don’t see a bunch of trucks.

Walmart is a value store, tends to be more-common in less-wealthy areas.

The cars are older, which could also indicate a less-wealthy area, but might also be the age of the photo; I don’t know the age.

https://logo-timeline.fandom.com/wiki/Walmart

The Walmart logo is the 2008+ version, so the photo cannot predate 2008.

If I were gonna make a guess from that, I’d go with Los Angeles or San Diego or thereabouts.

EDIT: The image is a recent Google Street View shot, says copyright 2024 on the watermark. So those are gonna indeed be older cars.

EDIT2: Nah, that “yucca” is just a small palm. Just don’t usually see palms that small.

Mangband is a realtime multiplayer modification of Angband that forced turns every N amount of time, and while it is playable, yeah, I don’t think that straight multiplayer conversions of traditional roguelikes work well.

Someone who wanted to try to do a “multiplayer traditional roguelikes” ’ would probably need to make a number of game design changes at a pretty fundamental level to make the thing work well. Really a new game.

There are some multiplayer roguelites out there:

https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/auzail/best_coop_multiplayer_roguelikes/

That might kinda be something that the parent poster would be interested in.

I haven’t been playing competitive FPS games for a long time, but they used to be a dime a dozen. There must be some kind of alternative multiplayer FPS that you could just play instead if you’re not happy with Call of Duty.

How can there not be rail traffic in Libya? I mean, there has to be some kind of line that runs along the southern rim of the Pacific.

kagis

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

Hmm. Apparently the map is right.

There have been no operational railways in Libya since 1965, but various lines existed in the past. Since 1998, plans for an extensive system have been developed,[1] but work has largely halted since the outbreak of the First Libyan Civil War in 2011.

kagis for an Africa rail map

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzewtbml8t4481.jpg

It looks like there’s rail along the south Mediterranean rim except through Libya. Doesn’t even detour south around Libya. I guess one switches cargo to ship or truck or something.

kagis

https://forward.com/fast-forward/675325/pete-hegseth-tattoos-christian-crusades-trump/

One of Hegseth’s most prominent tattoos is a large Jerusalem cross on his chest, a symbol featuring a large cross potent with smaller Greek crosses in each of its four quadrants. The symbol was used in the Crusades and represented the Kingdom of Jerusalem that the Crusaders established.

Hegseth also has “Deus Vult,” Latin for “God wills it,” tattooed on his bicep. The phrase was used as a rallying cry for the First Crusade in 1096. It is also the closing sentence of Hegseth’s 2020 book, titled “American Crusade.”

Hegseth also has a cross and sword tattooed on his arm, which he says represents a New Testament verse. The verse, Matthew 10:34, reads, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

He later added “Yeshua,” or Jesus in Hebrew, under the sword. Hegseth told the site Media Ink in a 2020 interview that the tattoo was Jesus’ Hebrew name, which he mistakenly said was “Yehweh,” a Biblical spelling of God’s name. He told Media Ink that he got the tattoo while in Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace, which is located in the present-day West Bank, where he was reporting for Fox Nation.

“Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about,” Hegseth told Media Ink.

Hegseth opposes the two-state solution and supports exclusive Israeli sovereignty in the Holy Land. He has also said the idea of rebuilding the biblical Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is a “miracle” that could happen in our lifetimes. The First and Second Temples stood on a site where the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, now stands.

Hegseth expressed these views in a 2018 speech delivered in Jerusalem at a conference organized by the right-wing Israel National News, also known as Arutz Sheva.

The speech laid out a vision of a world beset by a growing darkness that can only be saved by the United States, Israel and fellow “free people” from other countries.

The amusing thing is that OP’s article didn’t even get to him because it was talking about other nominations.

Nigeria is not “the West”

I didn’t say it was. I’m just indicating wherevthe floor is.

Age of consent to sex, not marriage.

https://www.ageofconsent.net/world

According to this, it looks like the closest country to this age of consent is Nigeria, at 11.

If you want age of marriage, in the US, looks like four states will let you marry at any age, but require special conditions like parental approval or court approval:

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

California, Utah, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

At the time of the K-T extinction, we looked like this:

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

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event,[a] also known as the K–T extinction,[b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth[2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. Most other tetrapods weighing more than 25 kg (55 lb) also became extinct, with the exception of some ectothermic species such as sea turtles and crocodilians.[4]

Omnivores, insectivores, and carrion-eaters survived the extinction event, perhaps because of the increased availability of their food sources. Neither strictly herbivorous nor strictly carnivorous mammals seem to have survived. Rather, the surviving mammals and birds fed on insects, worms, and snails, which in turn fed on detritus (dead plant and animal matter)

Luckily, great-grandaddy squirrel-critter was a survivor and had a taste for insects:

It is thought to have been rat-sized (6 in (15 cm) long and 1.3 ounces (about 37 grams)) and a diurnal insectivore, which burrowed through small holes in the ground.

Man, we live in a world which probably has immediate and ready access to nude images of any particular sort one might desire – and we’re getting to the point that computers can synthesize stuff that doesn’t even exist – and you’re committing crimes and risking your job to get a low-quality cell phone picture of a cell phone screen of an amateur nude photo?

EDIT: And randomly checking the first guy, he’s apparently married with four kids:

https://notes.mshp.dps.mo.gov/si01/si01p001.nsf/035631d21d12b3ca8625729800536894/25cc708fab2ad89c8625871e0052e782?OpenDocument

Trooper David L. McKnight, of Sikeston, Missouri, has been assigned to Zone 7, which serves the citizens of Mississippi, New Madrid and Scott counties. Trooper McKnight is a graduate of Scott County Central High School in Sikeston, Missouri. Prior to joining the Patrol, he worked as a patrol officer for the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. He is married to Natalie (Cooper) McKnight and has four children.

Probably not going to do wonders for your marriage, either.

If that email is actually from Logitech, it probably has some way to unsubscribe. Might have added you for some nonsense reason like a warranty registration, but I’ve never hit problems with a reputable company not providing a way to unsubscribe.

The random scam stuff…yeah, probably can’t do much about that.

One possibility I’ve wondered about is whether, someday, email shifts to a whitelist-based system. I mean, historically we’ve always let people be contacted as long as they know someone’s physical address or phone number or email address, and so databases of those have value – they become keys to reach people. But we could simply have some sort of easy way to authorize people and block everyone else. In a highly-connected world, that might be a more reasonable way to do things.

Hmm.

I’d think that that’d also affect Lemmy instance operators were it to enter into force.

The text and its scope would also be interesting, because I can’t see a practical way for, say, an instance operator in Bakersfield, California, to have any realistic way to evaluate the truth of claims about an election, in, say, Malaysia, if it extends to all elections. I suspect that even in California alone, acting as an arbiter of truth would be tough to do reasonably.

EDIT: Looking at the bill text, it probably does not currently, as it looks like it has a floor on the number of California users, and there aren’t yet enough users on the Threadiverse:

(h) “Large online platform” means a public-facing internet website, web application, or digital application, including a social media platform as defined in Section 22675 of the Business and Professions Code, video sharing platform, advertising network, or search engine that had at least 1,000,000 California users during the preceding 12 months.

It’s also interesting that traditional media apparently is not covered:

The bill would exempt from its provisions a broadcasting station and a regularly published online newspaper, magazine, or other periodical of general circulation that satisfy specified requirements.

It is apparently specific to elections in California.

My guess is that it’ll probably get overturned on some First Amendment challenge, but we shall see…

I don’t think that the military uses much TNT directly, but military explosives may be derived from TNT.

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

Yeah, there’s a list under “Applications”.

Composition B, for example, is a mix of TBT and other stuff.

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

Composition B (Comp B), also known as Hexotol and Hexolite (among others), is a high explosive consisting of castable mixtures of RDX and TNT. It is used as the main explosive filling in artillery projectiles, rockets, land mines, hand grenades, and various other munitions.[1

Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff, I believe. She didn’t serve in an office before, but was high-level in his campaign in 2016, 2020, and 2024, so she’s around for a long time.

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

Didn’t just show up with Trump, has done Republican campaigns for a long time.

That’s good, but those are still pretty high levels compared to the historical situation.

Lower-case “L”.

Capital “L” would be, like, the Libertarian Party.

Looks fine to me.

Little side question: Will the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the motherboard work in Arch? From what I could gather, the drivers for it should be in the latest kernel, but I’m not 100% sure.

If they don’t for some reason and you can’t get it working or need some sort of driver fix, can always worst case fall back to a USB dongle or similar until they do. Obviously, preferable not to do that, but shouldn’t wind up stuck without them no matter what.