Notices by Jonathan (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica The BFG is a nose upturn and harumph

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power. If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won’t be eradicated for another 229 years.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/wealth-five-richest-men-doubles-2020-five-billion-people-made-poorer-decade-division

@arstechnica The best defense is a good offense!

@arstechnica good thing I don't listen to con men

@arstechnica oh no Boeing accidentally left the humans behind?? 😉

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Let's fill space so we cannot even go to Mars

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Cable TV is dead! Long live cable TV!

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They should have called it the SSHealion attack

Wet bulb temperature

"A wet-bulb temperature above 90 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 degrees Celsius is the limit for humans to perform outdoor activities. Humans cannot survive for more than a few hours beyond 90 degrees Fahrenheit wet-bulb temperatures, even with unlimited water and shade. And yet, climate change has already caused some areas of the earth, in the Persian Gulf and Pakistan, to cross above 95 wet-bulb degrees."

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Here are the basic facts: It took Virgin Galactic two decades to build a single space-worthy spacecraft and make a dozen flights above an altitude of 50 miles (80.5 km). During that time, the company consistently missed its targets for vehicle development and flight cadence. With little revenue to speak of, Virgin Galactic loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year (financial statements can be found here).

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One soldier per 500 dogs seems like good oversight. 🤡

We literally just heard what happens when militaries do this with the Israeli whistleblowers who said they were just clicking buttons and authorizing the bombings, no meaningful oversight was happening .

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Guo, who works at a government-affiliated think-tank and who asked that only his surname be published, said his office received the order late last year. “They gave us a deadline with a month and day by which we would have to stop using iPhones.”

“They didn’t give us any subsidies, instead one day Huawei people came into our office with boxes of phones to sell, all 20 percent off,” he said. “Our whole building was fighting to get the phones.”

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Medical ethicists are alarmed by Musk having anything to do with science at all.

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But then I understand they voted Republican and the government dismantled those structures. Very sad story.

@wonderofscience

Every time I see one of these videos I'm always hoping at the end of one of them it'll be the tree that gets up and flies away.

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Just waiting for the other three horsemen to arrive.

@arstechnica quickly, buy the NFT of this article! It's only going to go up!

@nixCraft

The HP Special Cartridge Response Team is now outside your house. This is your final final notice. Once we issue the breach order we cannot guarantee your safety as guaranteed safety is only a feature of the HP plus plan.

@junior @nathans

I don't think it would work. The organization is not a charity so it can't take the money revenue free. If it donated it it would just get the tax off the same dollar. No gain. But I'm open to be wrong here.

@junior @nathans

In thinking about it. I wonder if they get a kickback from the commercial org to be the listed charity? Wouldn't put that past corporate psychopaths.