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rollin

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  • Stone tablet found with carved symbols that do not match any known language

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  • The rock actually appears to be local:

    Measurements put the slab at 9.5 by 7.9 in, close to book size. Researchers identified vesicular basalt, volcanic rock with bubble-like holes, and traced the material to volcanic outcrops around the lake.

  • People forget that Dr. King's real life was filled with threats, violence & injuries, not speeches and "dreams."

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  • High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 20

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  • The tail end of an evening train between Malaga and Madrid with some 300 passengers came off the rails near Córdoba at 7:45 p.m. local time and jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into a train with some 200 passengers coming from Madrid to Huelva, killing at least people 21 and injuring dozens more

    oh wow that's a serious crash. At first it sounded like a case of a train going too fast at a corner but apparently not:

    Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente said the causes of the crash were unknown. He called it “a truly strange” incident because it happened on a flat stretch of track that had been renovated in May. He also said the train that jumped the track was less than four years old.

    Article doesn't mention how fast the trains were going but they can go at up to 300 km/h, depending on the track, and this being a straight section of a route to Madrid, 200 km/h would seem a conservative estimate. It also doesn't say if both trains were high speed - but in any case a head-on collision between 2 trains at these kinds of speeds is going to be catastrophic.

  • Center left wins Portugal presidential election first round, setting up showdown with far right

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  • As none of the candidates secured an absolute majority, António José Seguro, a former head of Portugal’s Socialist Party, and André Ventura, leader of the far-right Chega party will face each other in a Feb. 8 runoff election.

    But while Ventura performed strongly on Sunday, few believe he has a real shot at winning the runoff vote. Political watchers expect the public to mobilize to prevent him from capturing the presidential palace and to rally round Seguro. That may not matter to Ventura, who said he has no real interest in being “the president of all Portuguese people” and has hinted he was only running to gauge support for his eventual candidacy for prime minister.

  • Germany is questioning the future of the European project

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  • Isn't this a reason to keep 20 separate governments rather than merge them into one? The bigger they are, the more they tend to treat people as just numbers to be controlled and managed rather than real individual people.

  • Why do we have a bunch of ways to say good night, but only one way to say good morning?

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  • Was it the part that's normally responsible for pooping?

  • Sentimental Value sweeps up at European Film Awards

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  • if you switch to Reader View once the page has loaded, it skips all those pop-ups. (click the little "document" icon on the right of the address bar)

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • my information might be out of date yeah! I've just skimmed their wikipedia which hasn't helped clear things up! Seems they did have difficulties around 2011 - "After two decades in decline, Philips went through a major restructuring, shifting its focus from electronics to healthcare."

    Then, "On 29 January 2013, it was announced that Philips had agreed to sell its audio and video operations to the Japan-based Funai Electric for €150 million [..] Funai was to pay a regular licensing fee to Philips for the use of the Philips brand.[59] The purchase agreement was terminated by Philips in October because of breach of contract[61] and the consumer electronics operations remained under Philips"

    It's a long wiki article with a hell of a lot of transfers and acquisitions, and it's not clear how up to date some sections are. So I'm not sure what the current situation is.

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • Phillips is another one not on that list. European company that AFAIK have mostly resisted the enshittification urge.

  • Study Reveals How Exercise Slows Tumor Growth

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  • mm yeah that happens... either that or you just get very good at standing about leaning on exercise equipment while staring vacantly into space

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • Same. This hardware keyboard is taking up potential screen real-estate.

    If you want a hardware keyboard, just use a bluetooth one, you can get folding ones which fold up pretty small.

  • Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID

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  • Drop the OSA, free all the non-violent protesters, drop the threat to Jury trials, and publicly apologise for being a complete fascist cunt. Then, maybe they deserve a second chance.

  • How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

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  • If you're a firefox person, there's an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz

    Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I've never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)

  • This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000

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  • Ah ok that's one I'd heard (the other being Day-see-ah like the other guy said). Glad to have it cleared up, thanks!

  • This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000

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  • I didn't even know Dacia was its own brand before Renault got it!

    I'd love to know how you pronounce it though - specifically the 'C'. Do you (i.e. Romanians) pronounce it like an S or a K or something else??

  • Will Smith sued by tour violinist for sexual harassment

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  • [Epic] Chivalry 2, first-person mediaeval brawler

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  • Played the first one a little, years ago now, it was a lot of fun and much more accessible than I was expecting. I've heard the second one is even better so I'm looking forward to giving it a try.

    Gold on protondb:

    https://www.protondb.com/app/1824220

  • China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along

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  • Yep. The rest of us switched to metric a long time ago.

  • 1,800-year-old 'piggy banks' full of Roman-era coins unearthed in French village

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  • Just want to say the English plural of museum is museums 😁 If you wanted to use the Latin plural for some reason, notice that you would need locative plural, not nominative! Best just keep to English eh