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cf1241290841··on YouTube star MrBeast rejects Elon Musk's appeal to share content on X
IMO a lot more interesting story around mr beast:

If you have a bit of patience, while very much annoying, the making off video of his squid game blood packs is really interesting from a maker perspective.

> How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game https://youtu.be/hdt18p-VMmQ?t=133 or 7:30 if you know what a squib is

They had 3 weeks (yes) to get 500 wifi controlled bloodpacks. And went through all stages of development hell. After technical problems, regulatory problems, supply chain problems, manufacturing problems and last but not least the obvious integration problems it started a day late (+500k$ for MrBeast) because the team with the targeting software had shit latency and drained their batteries prematurely. In the end they still added cgi for a better videoflow and used thin yellow paint to not get demonetized.

Again, worth the pain of watching it. Turn down the sound a bit and stay strong. Skip forward if need be

He also had an interview later once you are through with the video.

> The TRUTH Behind Mr Beast's Squid Game Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePkjsTmi47s

cf1241290841··on Teardown of Two Russian Missile Sensors (@lelabodemichel5162)
He lives in France and its not clear what laws he could have violated even if he would live in the US.

He looks at 20 year old stuff, doesnt dump the firmware and there are obviously no explosives involved. You can find this stuff in museums and on ebay.

edit: The topic even made it into mainstream television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5TW6E3Aonw

Here the heat seeker / guidance system of a Sidewinder in a Pawnstars episode. She got 500$ in case someone is wondering. Her father got it from military surplus crates.

edit1: Sidewinders are still in active use btw. And according to wikipedia might be through the late 21st century. Stuff is just getting old, this is not much different from Magnetrons being shipped in household microwaves. High tech just gets old.

cf1241290841··on Deplatforming reduces overall attention to online figures – longitudinal study
>Ethical considerations. In this work, we only used data publicly available on the Web and did not interact with online users in any way. We study and make several deplatforming events available. Yet, each event was covered in news pieces and widely discussed on Reddit, leading us to believe that we are not infringing on reasonable privacy expectations

This is the ethical consideration of the mentioned paper in its entirety. As far as i could see not one word about about the risks of deplatforming or its safe use. I would call it negligent if malice wasnt an equally likely explanation. You apparently dont need safeguards if you just believe hard enough to have good intentions.

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
No, bad case of language barrier. Thanks for asking for clarification, its an equally unpleasant misunderstanding as people feeling insulted by the use of the generic you.
cf1241290841··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
There is a book recommendation in the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894227

The McDonnell Douglas merger is also worth mentioning in this context.

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
> ITT: software people think they're experts in airworthiness and aircraft maintenance.

You mean working with safety critical systems with hardware software co design and human interaction through complex processes? Yes last i checked we do have a bunch of safety focused computer engineers who do that for a living.

That you think this is a matter of simple engineering might be the problem here. "Just maintenance/installation" is a legit error case somebody should have planed for and you thinking in terms of conspiracies has me rather worried.

edit: I wouldnt assume i could tell when a design is airworthy, maybe reconsider if you are qualified to make general statements about safe operations. The two are very much not the same.

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
>If one door falls of the aircraft, it's most likely a service tech didn't do the job properly

More or less what both Boeings predecessor and the FAA took away last time such a thing occurred. Crew didnt close the door properly and a warning sign was installed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96

>Injuries 11 (2 crew, 9 passengers)[1]

>That'd require much more fallen doors.

That happened last time that happened

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

>Fatalities 346

I think its fair to argue you dont have a very sensible perspective here. We tried the approach you proposed in the past and it didnt work.

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
Even if that is the case, it shouldnt been an issue. The DC10 problem was due to insufficient safety mechanism that allowed for crew to unknowingly close the door without engaging the safety lock.
cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
The Turkish airlines crash was even worse. And it happened almost two years later after the FAA was fine with a gentlemen's agreement instead of an airworthiness directive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

For anyone that doesnt know, McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing.

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
In the other plane. And its a miracle the pilot survived
cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
It was a fuselage failure, those dont happen all too often. Back then it was because of a lack of maintenance.

It was before i read it was the door though.

edit: In case its not obvious, would be great if you could post other examples. These events in the air are rather rare and i am rather curious for the upcoming ntsb report of this one.

edit1: Apparently the newer one is a 737 from Southwest from 10 years ago, also maintenance issues. But like similar ones it was rather small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_812

cf1241290841··on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout
For reference: earlier fuselage failure in 737:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

edit: Earlier door failures happened to two McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 after they changed their locking mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

Situation back then was made worse as it sucked part of the floor out with the door.

cf1241290841··on Whistleblower Aid
Its worth mentioning that how we protect and deal with whistleblowers as a society is a good indicator of how dysfunctional it has become.

Working towards corrupt kleptocracies is just not a sensible thing to do, you too have to live in the mess you create. Go watch at the video of Sadams purge if you feel smart enough to profit off such movements.

cf1241290841··on Unintended electromagnetic radiation from Starlink satellites
Apparently this is the kind of hardware they are using.

http://www.xforceamps.com/item/Straight-64Pill---Krazy-Xtrem...

> Straight 64Pill - Krazy Xtreme Duty - 6.4KW-M

> Together they can draw up to 1280amps total off your mobile.

> The combined output power of the two units is +16000w PEP when supplied with enough electrical power.

edit: Larger one from 10 small ones with a maximum ampere draw of 980.

http://www.xforceamps.com/item/Straight-480Pill---Krazy-Xtre...

> Straight 480Pill - Krazy Xtreme Duty - 48.0KW-M

> Maximum Recommended Dead Key Output 12000w

> The combined output power of the Ten units is +130000w PEP when supplied with enough electrical power.

edit1: Also https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/if-your-128-pill-amp-isn...

>Puts 48kW amp in car, gets effective radiated signal no better than a couple of kilowatts does due to the fact the car is a crap ground plane to start with.

>Someone commented that commercial AM stations are limited to a couple of kilowatts more. If you look at the antenna ground system AM stations use, there's a whole lot more metal involved than is in the body of a car.

edit2: Video from a smaller car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOT63GUdQDc

edit3: More specialized cars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daKDu6FT2Xs

edit4: Truck that claims 60kw dead key output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YWke8cseg

cf1241290841··on Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts
>What makes you think that is the case?

The fact that the incompleteness is easily shown. Whether you look at the overall number of people who have used a certain drug vs the number of people who ruined their life with it, or at individual cases that didnt develop that way.

I also wouldnt go as far as your reframing of "certain drugs have certain results" to "certain people have no problem with certain drugs". Given the high impact of a users socioeconomic background for how he develops i think you can look at the way people use a drug / perform addictive behavior and find pattern for the people most and least negatively effected. Its not that different from finding the group of people that get morbidly obese through overeating or get into debt for gambling. You can often tell them by their planed behavior and lack of self reflection and self control in that behavior.

You know certain stuff is addictive and messes with your self control. If this fact sneaks up on you or you planed to solve that with overconfidence in your self control you are pretty likely pretty screwed. And the people with the most problems here are those that keep going and accelerating despite knowing they have no more breaks.

Its also not something that should take you long to realize looking at how you stick to your planed consumption and your ability to react to that. Think days for some people. With the next group at risk those that fall asleep at the wheel. And so on. While i wouldnt risk it with cocaine and the likes, i think arguing that its impossible ignores a bunch of very successful people. You could argue that this just means those are the people who manage to stop on their own after it escalates and then stay away from it, but this ignores the people who somehow have a tendency for not accelerating routines they cant recover from too far. If i had to guess those might the the people who trust themselves the least, i am pretty sure you are unlikely to land in such an arrangement by luck.

We can of course argue about the difficulty of balancing on this spectrum for certain drugs, but pretending this is a matter of "there could be" and not the history of actual individuals sounds a lot like a self fulfilling prophecy. Especially since it glosses over the people who stopped their usage for other reasons then having lost control (health, happiness ...)

Individuals, their predisposition to certain drugs and addictions, their risk profile and their behavior are just very different.

cf1241290841··on Delete or hide life-wasting apps
>It's the addiction of our times.

It is, remind yourself that this is what you are doing and embracing. I am by no means sympathetic to a straight edge perspective, but when ever you find yourself pointlessly clicking clickbait and other garbage to get your dopamine fix, remind yourself that this is what you are doing.

You are sniffing glue right now. Its not healthy and does produce long term damages. You are grilling your attention span and are hanging around with other addicts.

All the power to you if that is your goal, but it should be your goal and not something you got suckered into. Embrace it or leave it.

So, what do you say, you wanna do another line of youtube shorts? Or are you bored already and are up for some old school c̶r̶a̶c̶k̶ imageboards? You said you arent a cop, right?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hVd4CI39ouw/VsoH0MP7M9I/A...

edit: The Jeffrey comparison is also very valid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEtBDQDkEXc

cf1241290841··on Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?
You need that doctor and put him on the ground. That is often not the case in Europe or the US if the terrain is considered unsafe.

The scene for the national geographic clip starts at 7:30.

The situation is even more drastic for cave rescues, there its not unusual to take days for a doctor to arrive.

cf1241290841··on Thomas Cochrane
Your link seems to go to the article itself. What function did you try to use?

Did you try to reference this paragraph?

>Up until then, sugar planters from rich British islands such as the Colony of Jamaica and Barbados were able to buy rotten and pocket boroughs, and they were able to form a body of resistance to moves to abolish slavery itself. This West India Lobby, which later evolved into the West India Committee, purchased enough seats to be able to resist the overtures of abolitionists. However, the Reform Act 1832 swept away their rotten borough seats, clearing the way for a majority of members of the House of Commons to push through a law to abolish slavery itself throughout the British Empire.[21]

cf1241290841··on Few adults are interested in trying "lab-grown" meat
I wonder more and more why we even go down that path. "Like meat" is hitting the consistency more and more and you can create the flavor artificially. See thought emporium for "chicken flavored soup" on that.

Recipe for diy https://youtu.be/sR8M4zARBXY?t=740

cf1241290841··on Kai Zhuang: Cyber kidnapping in US illustrates growing crime trend
As mentioned in the 37c3 security nightmare talk, for the love of god go arrange a safe word with your family and loved ones offline. This is the new "installing adblocker on your old relatives machines during Christmas visits". If you wont do it, its going to be costly.

>Victims have reported hearing screaming on the phone while the perpetrator claimed their loved one was in danger to secure a ransom.

cf1241290841··on Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
Shout out to Benatars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been

Its always easy to feel bad about kids who need to grow up in todays world. I would recommend considering this before you misplace your birth control. People already do it with species appropriate living conditions for pets.

Edit: Pls dont take this as encouragement for suicide. Read the book, you already have sunken cost, you might as well stick around and enjoy it. Doesnt make procreating any less egoistic though.

cf1241290841··on Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
Daniel Schmachtenberger uses the categories of truthful, not true and missing context. Truthful means the person communicating thinks it to be true (misinformation), not true being disinformation and missing context while true, misleading without context.

Its the landscape of framing. By now people should be familiar with the works of Edward Bernays.

cf1241290841··on Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

>Figure 5. England and Wales suicide rates (Ages 15-64),

graph in question

edit: Sorry wrong title, see below from defrost its

> Figure 2. U.S. Adolescent and Adult Suicide Rates (Ages 10-59), 1981-2021

Thanks for the correction!

cf1241290841··on Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?
Mountain rescue also has the impossibility to land. Here some HD footage from national geographic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk9QKRM_8Jo

Notice the cut audio track. Giving these people the legal ability to give pain meds cant happen early enough. Mont Blanc helicopter rescue services also make some great documentaries every few years.

The situation is even worse for a lot of snake bite victims, as you cant get lifted out of the rain forest.

cf1241290841··on Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts
There is also an argument to be made that actual gambling has less of a negative social impact.

Having been bored during the pandemic and gotten myself some gambling tokens at a brokerage site it turned out that i almost kinda funded some pretty severe human rights violations. Drones dropping grenades and mortar shells on indigenous people with bow and arrow type of stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSf3268tAbg

Maybe check your portfolio for Freeport-McMoRan

Funnily enough, the youtuber that made the video also had his house fire bombed by organized crime for reporting on Australias gambling industry.

edit: Picture of drone in question https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1426514097617752066

cf1241290841··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
This might be poor framing. Maybe its for a job well done. A big reason for google funding is fears of monopoly lawsuits. From this perspective a firefox fewer people use is a good thing.
cf1241290841··on Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts
I think there are subgroups of people that get caught up in certain routines they then have a hard time exiting. Drugs increase that risk but even here different people are vulnerable to different things. A good friend of mine told me with a straight face that his doctor explained to him that his BMI is in the "you are eating yourself to death" region. He told me this over refilling his glass of coca cola.

At the same time the bankster i know is still in the process of winning both capitalism and hedonism. I think it is likely more about how you manage your own weaknesses. One of them wont do this till he needs judicial/medical intervention.

edit: Never tried cocaine or heroin btw and had a rather easy time loosing weight. But i am very confident about the outcome of those two people. One has given up while the other knows he cant trust himself with this stuff, has planed and is acting accordingly and is able to grind through very unpleasant stuff.

cf1241290841··on Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts
>If you look at drug addicts as a group,

What makes you think you arent just looking at the extremly visible dysfunction subgroup? How many cocaine consuming banksters do you know and what does that say about the completeness of your perspective? I think there is a good argument to be made that you are over generalizing from a stereotype.

cf1241290841··on Young men face high risk for gambling addiction as sports betting surges:experts
That simplification seems counterproductive. There is obviously a spectrum of rationality that gets compromised by addiction. Be it heroin, alcohol, sugar or gambling.

There was a social engineering talk a while back that i cant find anyone where some sysadmin explained that just informing users they wanted to do something stupid was far more beneficial then just blocking their attempts.

Most of these addiction industries are profitable through addicts, the amount of cheap hard liquor bought by non-addicts is neglect able. Maybe just communicating with these people is far more sensible then banning something that people can also consume reasonably. Maybe somebody that spend his last 3 months rent on gambling wants to talk about how to not do that. While the notice on every visit is quite annoying.

Even if you cant let go of the demand for judicial intrusion altogether, maybe start with something like a one week detox after x months of behavior typical for an addict that lost control. It would likely get a lot of people over the diet hump they have been battling for years and sobering up long enough to reevaluate your life choices might not be the worst thing to do.

cf1241290841··on Slavery and the slave trade in Africa by Stanley, Henry M. (1893)
From the author of "Darkest Africa" (from his expedition finding Livingstone) arguing for colonizing efforts in Congo to reduce the plight of the local population at the hand of Arab slavers.

See also the resulting horrors of Belgian colonial rule in Congo.

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