Russia’s brutal ongoing invasion of Ukraine has provided US intelligence services with a rare opening to recruit Kremlin insiders furious with the handling of the war....
This... This is an ad. This is literally a recruitment ad for Russian defectors disguised as a common article in CNN.
Lede very much unburied(exhumed?):
“Disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said CIA Director Bill Burns last year during a speech in the United Kingdom. “We’re very much open for business.”
“That business is the exchange of information that the asset or agent would provide for something that they want,” said David McCloskey, former CIA officer and author of Moscow X. “We want people who have some sense of what [Russian] leaders’ priorities are – what they’re trying to accomplish.”
Look at all the money we have to pay out for those filthy migrants and drug dealers! All this property damage! What's that? Gun violence? No- Look over here... They cut the poor defenseless fences trying to get in! They slept in this man's barn! Can you imagine?! He had to burn the whole thing down! This is Brandon's fault.
Florida is continuing to “callously” strip healthcare coverage from thousands of children in lower-income households in defiance of a new federal law intended to protect them....
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
That's good except "Would you mind..." should be "I'm going to do things (this way, according to the needs of the situation, by the book, ...) going forward." It's assertive instead of passive.
No. A company with over a billion dollars in revenue? No, this all seems unlikely: They could easily use all the excess from their profits to support their entire workforce with good wages, and the people in charge of such decisions could still have enough to live in luxury themselves. Why would a company try to suppress the wages of its employees? There's no incentive, and how would they even go about it if, for some strange reason they actually wanted to? It's not like there's a power imbalance between employer and employees.
No, very unlikely, improbable, and doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would or could happen here.
Since we know that it isn’t constant with time, how can we be sure that it is constant with space? This might be a reason the variability in our measurements which seem to disagree....
We’d see that in the redshift: one direction would be more redshifted than another. Instead, we see all points in space moving away from all other points (except points mutually within gravitationally bound systems), and the rate of expansion between two points (recessional velocity) is directly proportional to the distance between them: the more distance, the faster they expand.
Edit: To answer the question in the title: Strictly, we don’t. We know, as you pointed out, that our measurements don’t agree. We also have good evidence that the rate of expansion was different in the past (much, much faster) in the early universe.
Inflation is supposed to explain this: It could provide the initial impulse to kickstart the velocities. I think the general idea is that the fact that everything is moving away from each other to begin with is explained by inflation, and the fact that this expansion is accelerating is explained by dark energy. Take all this with a grain of salt, here we approach the limits of my tenuous understanding, but what I do understand is that none of this is experimentally verified: No “inflaton” has been found, or any other mechanism to otherwise explain inflation theory has ever been produced such that we could test it, and no working model of dark energy has ever been produced (to my limited knowledge) that we could test or detect.
Tl;dr: I’m pretty sure it’s untestable anyway, we basically will never know during our lifetime short of some breakthrough in physics.
Gravitational attraction is not a relevant factor on the largest scales where dark energy takes over. To be more precise, it’s possible to measure the effects, and to describe a specific distance limit between two bodies where they can no longer become gravitationally bound and are doomed to eventually expand out of each others’ event horizons. That limit is the precise boundary between gravitational dominance and DE dominance.
To be specific, literally everything outside of the Virgo Supercluster (home to Andromeda and Milky Way among others) is outside of this limit, and will eventually become impossible to detect because the light between us and them isn’t moving as fast as the rate of expansion between us and them. Everything within the supercluster is gravitationally bound, and will eventually (iirc, grain of salt on this one) form a supergalaxy.
It’s true-to-life. Any AI could make a “clean” image, I don’t think you should edit out the ugly bits.
For my critique, this POV does not distinguish the boat on which this work is being done from a dock with rails. That boat is at least half the subject of the shot. Only someone who knew what a boom or a mast was to begin with would be able to identify this as a sailboat.
I can’t believe I used to regularly watch television programming with all the clapping and cheering and whooping and laughing and awwwwwing etc.
This would have been much better with just JS speaking into a camera. Playing up for laughs really takes away some of the punch of his points. METO is an unironically good idea on the face of it.
There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?
Senate Bill 6231 defines hostile architecture as “elements designed to restrict the use of public spaces by individuals experiencing homelessness.” (A PDF of the original bill can be viewed here.)...
“No, your honor, we weren’t trying to stop anyone from sitting or lying at street level, we have just become infatuated with neoarchitectural design, including spikes, cemented rocks, barbed wire, and other very-legitimate hyper-modern artistic design elements. We even paid an artist. The internal emails you subpoenaed will confirm all of this.”
I think they’re trying to say that the language in reference is just pandering.
In my experience, a homeless guy doesn’t give a single fuck if you call him homeless, unhoused, temporarily displaced, or a person experiencing homelessness. The bill itself is also quite tepid. While it does address some of the resultant effects of cruelty to the homeless, the actual cruelty itself remains, as well as the system that produced and perpetuates the conditions of homelessness in the first place.
Some will say “take wins where you can get them,” but I would not call this a win at all. Might actually cause a backlash against the homeless population over there.
Edit: I no longer think my anxiety about backlash was justified in this instance. Abhorrent > Tepid
the backlash already exists and already informs policy
I think you and I agree on this point, this is pretty much what I was saying with “the actual cruelty itself remains, as well as the system that produced and perpetuates the conditions of homelessness in the first place.” I also re-read the bill to find “owned/operated by the city/county” where I previously misread something to the effect “within the city/county,” and the correct reading does reduce my anxiety about backlash. And you’re right, this would improve the sort-of “right to exist” in public spaces. Abhorrent was much too strong a word… More like… tepid.
I maintain the bill does not go nearly far enough, doing precisely nothing to address fundamental causes, but it might relieve some of the immense stress on those poor bastards, which is incontestably a good thing. I was wrong a moment ago, this is a “take your wins where you can get them” moment.
That’s actually a common misconception. Protect and serve was never the police motto, it was a slogan written on the side of los angeles police cruisers back in black-and-white television days. People picked it up through shows like Adam-12 and Dragnet. LAPD (no PD in america that I know of, actually) no longer write that slogan on any of their items, specifically to avoid the impression that they might be supposed to protect and serve if they don’t want to.
Edit: I’m told that some unspecified police departments do keep this “motto” on their vehicles, despite not being beholden to or, generally speaking, acting upon it.
Senate Republicans demanded that border security be added to a White House request for aid to Ukraine and Israel, but they are now balking at the details of a potential border deal.
It is weird, we are taught about “pork” bills in our government civics class. I remember distinctly thinking it was stupid and backwards and probably leads to a lot of bullshit slipping through the cracks. My teacher touted it as “an american original.” This was around the time I started refusing to participate in the daily indoctrination pledge every american student is mandated to be subjected to.
Texas Attorney General investigates reports of car manufacturers selling secretly collected driver data ( www.ksat.com )
The Ukraine war is a huge opportunity for US intel to recruit Russian spies ( edition.cnn.com )
Russia’s brutal ongoing invasion of Ukraine has provided US intelligence services with a rare opening to recruit Kremlin insiders furious with the handling of the war....
Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks ( www.nbcnews.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15408610...
Texas to pay landowners for damage caused by border crime | The Texas Tribune ( www.texastribune.org )
cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/12311687...
DeSantis’s Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law ( www.theguardian.com )
Florida is continuing to “callously” strip healthcare coverage from thousands of children in lower-income households in defiance of a new federal law intended to protect them....
can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
Why can't Strings in String Theory be replaced with Springs?
Woodford Reserve tried to undermine unionization effort at its Kentucky distillery, judge rules ( apnews.com )
xkcd #2917: Types of Eclipse Photo ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2917...
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit ( www.washingtonpost.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14006087...
Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship, Gaza war ( thehill.com )
How do we know the Hubble Parameter is constant in space?
Since we know that it isn’t constant with time, how can we be sure that it is constant with space? This might be a reason the variability in our measurements which seem to disagree....
[critique wanted] A man and his boat ( feddit.nu )
Jon Stewart on Israel - Palestine | The Daily Show ( www.youtube.com )
Jon Stewart weighs in on the war in Gaza and offers up a solution for ending the conflict.
Case Adjourned When Jurors Can't Be Found Who Are Willing to Convict ( yt.artemislena.eu )
Canonical YouTube link
How does the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation temperature variation change over various time scales?
Is the CMB only red shifting in frequency or is there more to it, and over what time scales and distances would one notice a significant difference?
Raise your privileged hand if you’re willing to ‘fight to the last Ukrainian’ ( thehill.com )
Unions call for strikes at Ubisoft studios in France to protest wages: 'We cannot tolerate being treated as expendable to mitigate their bad decisions' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Last-minute negotiations to avert the strike failed to produce results, so they're hitting the streets.
So much spam ( kbin.social )
There seems to be a few waves of users created just to post spam specifically in kbin. It's quite strange as the posts are so obvious and they keep getting downvoted. I'm also blocking the users but I can't see a way to report them. Is there a better way to handle this situation?
Washington Senate bill aims to prohibit use of hostile architecture preventing homeless camps ( mynorthwest.com )
Senate Bill 6231 defines hostile architecture as “elements designed to restrict the use of public spaces by individuals experiencing homelessness.” (A PDF of the original bill can be viewed here.)...
Despite grand jury investigation, officers may not face charges in Uvalde shooting response ( www.texastribune.org )
WA liquor board suspends ‘lewd conduct’ enforcement after LGBTQ+ bar inspections ( www.seattletimes.com )
Senate GOP split threatens bipartisan border deal as Trump looms large ( www.npr.org )
Senate Republicans demanded that border security be added to a White House request for aid to Ukraine and Israel, but they are now balking at the details of a potential border deal.
Woman involved in Slender Man attack as a child again seeks release from psychiatric institute ( www.nbcnews.com )
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