[–] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

So, they made a new chemical to make tyrea last a bit longer. But, whoopsie.. It kills these extremely environmentally-important fish, this is confirmed fact. Also, there's no way to avoid it getting into water streams if it remains in tyre formulations.

Solution 1: ban the fucking chemical and go back to prior situation.

World, apparently: no, that's ridiculous. Instead, we'll just do studies to see what people might pay for a tyre without this chemical, while we cross our fingers and hope someone makes a new chemical that's not toxic... But keep using the poison one in the meantime.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    If you read the article, you'd see..

    What the GPL changes is the commercial benefit. Under MIT, someone can take Asahi's code, close it up, and sell a product, and that's perfectly legal as long as the notice stays in.

    Under the GPL, anyone who distributes a modified version has to release the source under the same license. You can't legally build a closed, paid Apple Silicon distro on top of GPL code. And if a product's source has to be public, the copying is easier to spot.

    The article explains that the GPL license will enable legal action against future use along those lines - and that WINE did the same thing back in the 90s, and its worked for them.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    It's wild to me as a non-American that you still have places named after these people and statues in their honor.

    There are no statues of Nazi generals in Germany, nor places that celebrate leading members of the Reich.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Kinda.

    Cyber attacks have been a commodity on the dark web since long before genAI whether that be paying for access to ready to use hacking toolkits utilizing zero-day exploits or buying access to botnets for DDoSing a target of choice.

    There's no doubt that genAI has enabled additional cyber attacks - but it's also enabled bug-fixing and cyber protection, it's mostly a wash.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    EA did something good?

    And all of the 90s artists agreed to relicense the Road Rash soundtrack music??

    I like this feeling, and I can't wait to try the Road Rash remaster.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    I don't agree that 'rat poison is necessary'. That would mean by extension that it's necessary to kill all the owls and birds that feed on poisoned rats - a real and current problem due to overuse of rat poison.

    There are other effective means of rat control - poisoning is just the cheapest and easiest.

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  • [–] 64 points 5 days ago (24 children)

    They'll cozy up to the Dems. It's not rocket science. All the corporations pay both parties to further their interests, due to the most idiotic ruling in history: citizens united, which effectively decided that legally in the US, money = speech.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago

    The cleaning thing is a myth btw. Dicks, just like vaginas, don't need to be washed with anything more than some running water and very gentle abrasion (unless they've gotten some large amount of dirt or foreign objects in them). They likewise both have a microbiome, which is modified significantly by circumcision.

    I know the link to lower STIs is often brough up as well, but it's got shaky evidence. A recent and very large Danish study found that over "more than three decades of observation, non-therapeutic circumcision in infancy or childhood did not appear to provide protection against HIV or other STIs in males up to the age of 36 years. Rather, non-therapeutic circumcision was associated with higher STI rates overall, particularly for anogenital warts and syphilis."

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago

    Any chance for big-business conservatives to scare the uneducated with the boogeymen of regulation and taxation on the wealthy (NBC is owned by Comcast, and is run by Michael Cavenaugh, a former banking and private-equity CEO).

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