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#3340533 8-Feb-2025 14:00

FineWine:

Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, won't roll over.

I wonder if Trump's administration will have another go at this in the USA. The DOJ has failed at every other go. I know Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration, but he won't budge.

He's not even officially allowed to talk about it if he had to back down.

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#3340539 8-Feb-2025 14:30

Tinkerisk:

Here we go: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.html 🤣

Just run it locally then, or in the "cloud" in a non-China country. Works just fine.

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#3340540 8-Feb-2025 14:33

FineWine:

I wonder if Trump's administration will have another go at this in the USA. The DOJ has failed at every other go. I know Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration, but he won't budge.

The rule of law in the USA is shrinking day by day. The DOJ has failed in the past where it has followed due process, but under the new regime, no one has to follow any rules or due process any more.

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#3340907 10-Feb-2025 09:28

Parody.

Nuclear

Honest Government Ad | thejuicemedia

The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its nuclear plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!

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#3341334 10-Feb-2025 21:38

From this story:

When finally complete, the Te Waihorotiu station will have the capacity to handle 54,000 passengers per hour, making it New Zealand’s busiest train station.

Wien Hbf, the central station in Vienna which covers several city blocks and is spread over four separate levels with 20 platforms, does maybe 20k passengers per hour. This one, which is two platforms with three entrances, making it a small underground station in Vienna, can do 2 1/2 times that much?

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#3341341 10-Feb-2025 22:16

54k PPH is the design capacity of the line itself - I'm not certain if that's per direction or total. Probably a quarter of those are going to use each of the ~4 centre city stations.

Vienna Hbf looks to be a mostly terminating station with long distance services. That significantly reduces the capacity of each platform. People are carrying luggage and checking tickets with assigned seating, train acceleration performance is worse, you need to change ends; dwell times are longer. Commuter trains on through platforms have far, far higher throughput.

Scrambling some random statistics, the 64 million National Rail journeys Tottenham Court Road had in a year are all on Crossrail/Elizabeth Line, which at that station is one track and platform each way, with 9-car trains not too dissimilar in size to what the CRL was built to handle, and similar train frequencies.

If we average that across ~300 days, it's about 213k/day, or about 80% of the 268k/day Wien Hbf gets.

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#3341349 10-Feb-2025 23:26

It's actually a through station, being the centre of the Austro-Hungarian empire rail network everything in a several hundred km radius ends up going through there somewhere [*]. Also six S-bahn (rapid mass transit) lines go through there, as well as the underground. It's very different to say Munich or Frankfurt with 30-40 tracks all terminating.

[*] It also has the most braindamaged electronic signage I've ever seen in any station, the signs display the next station the train is going through, not the final destination. Train to Zurich? "Wien Meidling". Munich? "Wien Meidling". Venice? "Wien Meidling". Rome? "Wien Meidling". Whoever came up with that should be killed and then eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes.

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#3341405 11-Feb-2025 11:10

YouTube. Apparently when something goes wrong, it just rolls the dice and tosses out a random error. And that's the story of how when our Internet connection had a blip, our (clean) stream started popping up a "you need to sign in to see this mature content" message.

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#3341408 11-Feb-2025 11:20

neb:

[*] It also has the most braindamaged electronic signage I've ever seen in any station, the signs display the next station the train is going through, not the final destination. Train to Zurich? "Wien Meidling". Munich? "Wien Meidling". Venice? "Wien Meidling". Rome? "Wien Meidling". Whoever came up with that should be killed and then eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes.

Oh. Mein. Gott.

That's not helpful.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3341492 11-Feb-2025 13:05

elpenguino:

neb:

[*] It also has the most braindamaged electronic signage I've ever seen in any station, the signs display the next station the train is going through, not the final destination. Train to Zurich? "Wien Meidling". Munich? "Wien Meidling". Venice? "Wien Meidling". Rome? "Wien Meidling". Whoever came up with that should be killed and then eaten to prevent them from passing on the genes.

Oh. Mein. Gott.

That's not helpful.

I missed a train to Strč prst skrz krk because of that, right track, right time, but wrong destination shown. In desperation I went up to the train and looked through the window at the electronic signage inside which showed its actual destination, but by then the doors were closed and it was about to move off.

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#3341575 11-Feb-2025 17:55

NZH headline today: 'Conception begins at erection': US lawmakers call for men to face stiff penalties.

Extracts from the story:

Proposed laws curbing erections popping up in different states …. would ban men from all sexual acts where there was no intent to fertilise an embryo - any man making an illegal emission faces a fine of US$1000 ($1775) for a first offence, US$5000 ($8875) for a second offence and US$10,000 ($17,750) for any subsequent offences.

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#3341593 11-Feb-2025 18:23

eracode:

NZH headline today: 'Conception begins at erection': US lawmakers call for men to face stiff penalties.

Extracts from the story:

Proposed laws curbing erections are popping up in different states …. would ban men from all sexual acts where there was no intent to fertilise an embryo - any man making an illegal emission faces a fine of US$1000 ($1775) for a first offence, US$5000 ($8875) for a second offence and US$10,000 ($17,750) for any subsequent offences.

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#3341650 11-Feb-2025 19:01

johno1234:

eracode:

NZH headline today: 'Conception begins at erection': US lawmakers call for men to face stiff penalties.

Extracts from the story:

Proposed laws curbing erections are popping up in different states …. would ban men from all sexual acts where there was no intent to fertilise an embryo - any man making an illegal emission faces a fine of US$1000 ($1775) for a first offence, US$5000 ($8875) for a second offence and US$10,000 ($17,750) for any subsequent offences.

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Yeah - it makes you wonder what America is coming to.

Apparently there’s no truth in the rumour that it’s being driven by the President as a way of curtailing the solitary activities of male opponents who he believes are ‘a bunch of w*nkers’. 😃

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#3341702 11-Feb-2025 19:15

I guess Kayne West accompanying his wife naked to the Grammy's wasn't crazy enough.

Easy to guess what "HH-01" means.

Ye's website is selling swastika shirts after boosting its profile with Super Bowl ad: NBC News

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday night to send people to his website as it sells T-shirts emblazoned with a swastika, the symbol of Nazi Germany which is still used by modern-day far-right extremists.

The white T-shirts have a black swastika on the front and were the only items for sale on the front page of yeezy.com as of Monday morning. No text or explanation accompanied the item, just the letters "HH-01." They are available for $20.

The Super Bowl ad — which was not shown nationally but, according to multiple reports, was at least seen in the Los Angeles area — shows Ye in a dentist's chair apparently undergoing treatment.

“So what’s up, guys? I spent, like, all the money for the commercial on these new teeth," he said. "So once again, I had to shoot it on the iPhone. Um, um, um, go to yeezy.com.” The shirts were not mentioned in the ad.
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#3341712 11-Feb-2025 21:07

eracode:

... has described as ‘a bunch of w*nkers’.

That would be more appropriate for Musk and his band of teenage mutant incels currently dismantling the federal government.

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