Clambake0351

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[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?

Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's also why I'm excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.

If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it'll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The numbering is weird, there aren't actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.

Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete "for" and "against" arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the "for" and "against" campaigns.

On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide "Voter guides" like the above, that you can independently research.

The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I'd wager most folks just read the official "for" and "against" blurbs and form an opinion.

ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.

To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Docker helps with software compatibility, SBCs with hardware.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 23 points 14 hours ago

Communities are not legal institutions. The rules are suggestions to keep the community organized and on subject.

Just because a rule doesn't exist, doesn't mean mods are powerless to react to content that breaks the social order.

Not everything needs a rule unless it's a significant problem or common misunderstanding.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 12 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

The advantage of SBCs aren't just the price, it's the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn't work was either:

"Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad"

Or

"Your system sucks, just buy better hardware"

Now there's a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a "how-to" community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Please let Hegseth be the GOP nominee, dude is practically radioactive for abusing troops and being a key player of the economic nightmare we find ourselves in.

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 14 points 16 hours ago

That endorsement from the Michael J Fox Foundation carried a lot of weight, it seems.

 

Massive Effect: The BioWare Story started filming two years before EA shut down the studio.

BioWare is no more after Electronic Arts shut down the storied studio last month. As it turns out, a film crew documented the studio's final act. A documentary called Massive Effect: The BioWare Story is in the works, as Deadline reported, and it's expected to arrive next year. Filming started two years before BioWare shut down.

The documentary — which Canada's Super Channel commissioned — will cover "the story of how a group of underdogs from the Alberta prairies built one of the most beloved studios in gaming, told by the people who were there," producer Shane Fennessey said in a statement on X. "Now, with the shocking news of the studio's closure, we carry the responsibility of telling how the story ends."

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 67 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Test them for lead.

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/science@slrpnk.net/p/1972992/do-cats-fart-an-investigation-into-the-mysteries-of-feline-flatulence

Dogs are constantly passing gas. So why don’t cats seem to?

[–] Clambake0351@piefed.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

IDK why OP used it, but if I recall Pepe lore, the original creator was not happy about it being coopted by racist trash humans, so they probably(?) would approve of this post.

I could also have made all of that up.

 

Erik’s Ranch is among a growing number of businesses striving to meet neurodivergent employees — and guests — where they are.

 

Aghorn pleaded guilty and paid a $1 million fine after a worker and his wife were killed by toxic hydrogen sulfide in 2019. Regulators are still finding violations at its facilities.

 

The social media we know was once easy to define. Platforms such as Facebook or X were designed to mediate human relationships at scale: sharing stories, forming communities, debating ideas, and increasingly, monetising attention.

However flawed these platforms became, they were built on one core assumption: people interacting with people. But that assumption is currently being tested.

In January 2026, a new platform called Moltbook was launched by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht. The website described Moltbook as “a social network for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.”

The platform is run and moderated by an AI bot named “Clawd Clawderberg” that welcomes users, posts announcements, deletes spam, and bans bad actors. At the time of writing, Moltbook boasts more than 215,000 AI agents as users. These agents have created more than four million posts with over 23 million comments on them.

At first glance, Moltbook looks familiar. Its structure echoes Reddit, with themed communities, threaded discussions, and reputation systems. But the resemblance is misleading. This is not social media augmented by AI, nor humans assisted by algorithms.

 

Amid a surge in early onset cancer, the Trump administration has taken more than 500 actions to systematically dismantle protections against carcinogens once in place across the federal government, an October report alleges.

The Natural Resources Defense Council report, and comments from current and former officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, bring into focus how myriad changes in federal rules or protocol will dramatically increase the public’s exposure to carcinogens. These are taking effect at a time when some forms of early onset cancer are spiking by about 30% per decade.

MAHA.

 

Climate.gov, a federal website, used to provide a bridge between climate data and the public – with graphs, tools, and blogs to help people understand it.

But last year, the Trump administration took it offline.

Rebecca Lindsey was the site’s project manager when she was fired as part of a DOGE-led purge.

And the loss of Climate.gov has made it harder for teachers, journalists, elected leaders, and others to find reliable climate data, lesson plans, and resilience-planning tools.

So now, Lindsey and others who worked on Climate.gov are bringing those resources back. They’ve launched Climate.us, which features graphs, explainers, blogs, and links to other resources.

 

Touching: Darline Graham honors her brother, the late Lindsey Graham, by finishing on bottom

 

Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

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