Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all....
This is a feature, not a bug. I'm not sure how you know they are the same user, but if they do the same thing that got them blocked before, you can block them again.
Yes I very much respect the minority of conservatives who are loyal Americans instead of power mad neofascists trying to subvert our precious 245 year old democracy.
An army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists in search of registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges.
A retired teacher with diabetes struggles to afford her medication despite having health coverage. "I have to decide between eating" and paying for drugs, she said.
This year is set to be the world's warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last month was the hottest October on record by a massive margin.
For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
A day after Lukasz Krupski put out a fire at a Tesla car delivery location in Norway, seriously burning his hands and preventing a disaster, he got an email from Elon Musk. “Congratulations for saving the day!” Musk, Tesla’s CEO, wrote in March 2019. But what started as a story about a heroic employee and a grateful...
Using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the abundance of oxygen in the early universe. The findings, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and posted to the arXiv preprint server, show that the amount of oxygen in galaxies increased rapidly within 500–700...
The plane returned safely to London Stansted Airport after 36 minutes. Investigators believe the damage was caused by high-powered lighting directed at the aircraft for a filming event held the day before.
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, objects with masses much greater than star clusters yet much smaller than dwarf...
The U.S. military's experimental spaceplane will soon soar to orbit using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, a Pentagon news release announced. The X-37B spacecraft will launch from the
Gravitational waves are not 'mechanical waves'. It is thought that gravitational radiation is a lot like electromagnetic radiation. Therefore gravitational waves might work like light waves, and have a particle like light does.
They seem to think the gravity waves are a property of gravitons.
The article talks about gravitational waves, not gravity waves. It is believed that gravitational radiation is similar to electromagnetic radiation. This would mean that gravitational waves are made up of particles called gravitons. But as the article says, we don't know that for sure because we haven't been able to detect gravitons yet.
When it comes to duality it’s the particles that exhibit wave-like properties individually.
And waves exhibit particle behavior because waves are particles and particles are waves. Light comes in waves. But when we see light it doesn't mean we are seeing a single light photon.
Google's acquisition of fitness-tracking company Fitbit seemed like a big move at the time, but four years later, the future of Fitbit looks uncertain.
Described as The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then” has finally been released, featuring the voice of the late John Lennon decades after he first wrote it.
Workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike will have to hit the negotiation table Friday as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze.
Dutch flag carrier KLM posts only occasionally on Twitter nowadays, and its pinned post is a warning that it no longer provides customer service there. The result, though, is scammers pretending to…
It suggests democracy was the issue when hamas murdered Fatah members.
Hamas would not have been in a position to exert that power if they did not have the majority control they got from winning the election. It's like when the Nazis came to power from elections they started murdering their opponents with nobody to stop them.
People are drawn to short-term limited duration insurance because of the low cost, but what many don't realize is how little these policies cover until it's too late.
The boy killed Sonic employee Matthew Davis in May in Keene, Tex., after the 12-year-old’s uncle got into a fight over urinating at the chain’s parking lot, police said.
A 13-year-old Texas boy has been found “the equivalent of guilty” in the murder of a Sonic restaurant worker with an AR-style rifle after the child’s uncle got into a fight with the employee, according to authorities.
The boy was arrested on May 13 after police received calls about a shooting at the Sonic Drive-In in Keene, Tex., about 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. The boy, who was 12 at the time of the shooting, was found “delinquent,” which is the equivalent to guilty in juvenile court, of a murder charge on Oct. 5. The boy, who is from Fort Worth but hasn’t been publicly identified because of his age, was convicted after nearly seven hours of deliberation, the sheriff’s office announced Sunday.
The boy is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, the sheriff’s office said. A juvenile convicted of murder in Texas could face up to 40 years in prison, according to state attorneys.
Police say the incident unfolded when the boy’s uncle, Angel Gomez, started urinating in the parking lot of the Sonic on the night of May 13. Matthew Davis, a 32-year-old Sonic employee, confronted Gomez, 20, for “being disorderly in the parking lot,” and the argument between them got physical, according to the Keene Police Department.
Then, Gomez’s nephew, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, retrieved an AR-style .22 rifle and shot Davis at least six times, according to police.
“A confrontation between two adults became physical at which point the 12-year-old boy got out of the vehicle and fired multiple shots, striking the victim,” the sheriff’s office said on Sunday.
Davis was airlifted to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
By the time police arrived at about 9:40 p.m., the boy, Gomez and the boy’s aunt had fled the scene, according to the sheriff’s office. Gomez later returned to the scene of the crime and was arrested, the Keene Police Department said in a news release. Authorities found the boy in Rio Vista, Tex., about 13 miles south of the Sonic in Keene, and took him into custody.
Gomez is also charged with murder. It’s unclear whether he has an attorney, and court records were not available to determine the status of his case. If he’s convicted, Gomez could face a sentence of five to 99 years in prison.
These events are symptoms of the deeper malaise in America’s dysfunctional health-care system. The country spends about $4.3trn a year on keeping citizens in good nick. That is equivalent to 17% of gdp, twice as much as the average in other rich economies. And yet American adults live shorter lives and American infants die more often than in similarly affluent places. Pharmaceutical firms and hospitals attract much of the public ire for the inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to a small number of middlemen who extract far bigger rents from the system’s complexity.
Over the past decade these firms have quietly increased their presence in America’s vast health-care industry. They do not make drugs and have not, until recently, treated patients. They are the intermediaries—insurers, pharmacies, drug distributors and pharmacy-benefit managers (pbms)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the nine biggest middlemen—call them big health—equated to around 45% of America’s health-care bill, up from 25% in 2013. Big health accounts for eight of the top 25 companies by revenue in the s&p 500 index of America’s leading stocks, compared with four for big tech and none for big pharma.
Blocked users who move instances don't stay blocked (kbin.social)
Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all....
Liz Cheney weighs third-party US presidential run, says Trump threatens democracy (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024.
Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists' efforts to purge voter rolls (www.cbsnews.com)
An army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists in search of registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges.
"Today I am going blind": Many Americans say health insurance doesn't keep them healthy (www.cbsnews.com)
A retired teacher with diabetes struggles to afford her medication despite having health coverage. "I have to decide between eating" and paying for drugs, she said.
This year set to be warmest in 125,000 years, EU scientists say (www.ksl.com)
This year is set to be the world's warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists said on Wednesday, after data showed last month was the hottest October on record by a massive margin.
Star Wars' Iconic C-3PO Head Sells for $800,000 at Auction (www.ign.com)
The head of C-3PO, used in 1977's Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope, has sold for more than $800,000 at auction.
Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack (www.livescience.com)
For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
Man vs. Musk: A Whistleblower Creates Headaches for Tesla (news.yahoo.com)
A day after Lukasz Krupski put out a fire at a Tesla car delivery location in Norway, seriously burning his hands and preventing a disaster, he got an email from Elon Musk. “Congratulations for saving the day!” Musk, Tesla’s CEO, wrote in March 2019. But what started as a story about a heroic employee and a grateful...
Astronomers use Webb data to measure rapid increase in oxygen in the early universe (phys.org)
Using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the abundance of oxygen in the early universe. The findings, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series and posted to the arXiv preprint server, show that the amount of oxygen in galaxies increased rapidly within 500–700...
You just woke up and it’s actually July 14, 2013. What do you do? (kbin.social)
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U.S.-bound plane took off from London with missing window panes (www.nbcnews.com)
The plane returned safely to London Stansted Airport after 36 minutes. Investigators believe the damage was caused by high-powered lighting directed at the aircraft for a filming event held the day before.
Dwarf galaxies stripped of stars prove to be the missing link in the formation of rare ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (phys.org)
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they transition into ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, objects with masses much greater than star clusters yet much smaller than dwarf...
U.S. military’s X-37B mini-shuttle to launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy for the first time (spaceflightnow.com)
The U.S. military's experimental spaceplane will soon soar to orbit using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, a Pentagon news release announced. The X-37B spacecraft will launch from the
Do gravitational waves exhibit wave-particle duality? (bigthink.com)
AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About (www.theatlantic.com)
Google, are you sure no country in Africa starts with a K?
The future of Fitbit doesn't look good | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Google's acquisition of fitness-tracking company Fitbit seemed like a big move at the time, but four years later, the future of Fitbit looks uncertain.
Elon Musk's Tantrums Reportedly So Bad After Buying Twitter, Staff Considered Calling For A Wellness Check (jalopnik.com)
"Elon didn't just break Twitter. Twitter broke Elon Musk."
A bear stole a Taco Bell delivery order from a Florida family's porch — and "then he came again for the soda" (www.cbsnews.com)
The caper was captured on the home's Ring camera.
How recently have we understood the Universe? (bigthink.com)
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
NASA telescope reveals 7 new planets orbiting distant star "hotter than the sun" (www.cbsnews.com)
NASA described the planets as "scorching" and "bathed" in heat emitted by a distant host star.
Analyst on Don Jr.'s "stunning" testimony: "I cannot overstate how damaging these admissions are" (www.salon.com)
The Beatles’ ‘last’ song ‘Now and Then’ is released (www.cnn.com)
Described as The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then” has finally been released, featuring the voice of the late John Lennon decades after he first wrote it.
There are 40 quintillion black holes in our Universe (bigthink.com)
For the first time, astronomers have created a data-driven estimate for how many black holes are in our Universe: more than anyone expected.
Why many scientists are now saying climate change is an all-out ‘emergency’ (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
Scientists used to avoid phrases like “climate emergency” and “climate crisis.” No longer.
Ask Ethan: How did the Universe truly begin? (bigthink.com)
If you said "with the Big Bang," congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here's what we've learned in all the time since.
'Scary': Boston Dynamics integrates ChatGPT into 'Spot,' allowing robot dog to talk (www.dailydot.com)
Spot Robot ChatGPT: Spot, the canine-like machine built by engineering company Boston Dynamics, can now speak thanks to
Brace yourself. Streaming platforms are going to remove a lot more shows (www.latimes.com)
The Writers Guild of America's new contract tilts streamers toward shelving content, but there's a solution emerging.
Striking St. Lawrence Seaway workers, management called back to negotiation table (www.cbc.ca)
Workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike will have to hit the negotiation table Friday as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze.
Florida Man Harasses Alligator Until It’s Time To Pay The Price (www.whiskeyriff.com)
A RIFF on what country is really about.
Scientists Puzzled by Stars That Disappeared From the Sky (futurism.com)
More than 70 years ago, astronomers were doing a sky survey when three bright stars they just saw disappeared, never to be seen again.
NASA Brings Back Actual Sample Of Asteroid But Can't Open The Lid (www.iflscience.com)
NASA has hit a significant problem. Two fasteners are stuck.
As brands leave Twitter, scammers arrive, posing as the disappearing customer service agents (boingboing.net)
Dutch flag carrier KLM posts only occasionally on Twitter nowadays, and its pinned post is a warning that it no longer provides customer service there. The result, though, is scammers pretending to…
Here’s what happens when a for-profit company takes over your local ER (www.theguardian.com)
Costs are slashed, entire departments of doctors are laid off, and patients’ bills go up. I would know
How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power (slate.com)
In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.
How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power (slate.com)
In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.
How to fix the internet (www.technologyreview.com)
If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.
Wake Co. woman stuck with $30,000 surgery bill junk insurance wouldn't cover (www.wral.com)
People are drawn to short-term limited duration insurance because of the low cost, but what many don't realize is how little these policies cover until it's too late.
Texas boy, 13, convicted for killing Sonic worker with AR-style rifle (www.washingtonpost.com)
The boy killed Sonic employee Matthew Davis in May in Keene, Tex., after the 12-year-old’s uncle got into a fight over urinating at the chain’s parking lot, police said.
Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system? (webcache.googleusercontent.com)