I strongly suspect that your comment is attached to the wrong post.

or other Lyssavirus strains.

… Well, that was a research hole I regret going down.

Climate Town has a really good video on how we got into this mess in the first place, and it’s wildly messed up even before you factor in climate-crisis-related issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c

glances back at the Ice Age movie

Thank you, turtle duck!

record scratch

“Yep. This is me. You’re probably wondering how I got here. Well…”

Mull browser, not Mullvad; the Mull browser project was discontinued, hence why IronFox picked it up. I actually don’t know if the Mullvad browser is also a Mull fork; the name would suggest a connection, but I can’t see it mentioned anywhere in a quick search of their site.

It’s another Firefox fork (well, based on a Mull fork, which is from Firefox), similar to LibreWolf. No AI, similar built-in security and privacy features. You can find the repository and install instructions here: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

For these guys, wouldn’t it be the equivalent of those calendars where every month has an adorable baby picture?

Remembering that Infected Town mold series on r/NoSleep now… bit of an underwhelming ending, but such is often the case.

Last I checked, LibreWolf also wasn’t on Android. I use IronFox on e/OS

(I bought a Fairphone 4 through Murena a few years back as my first foray into custom ROMs. Still debating what I will do for my next phone when the time finally comes. I do not need to be told about the concerns about Murena, that is already factored into my indecisiveness about my next phone.)

Shout-out to that calendar.

IQ tests, as I recall, are generally pretty decent at their originally intended purpose of predicting performance in the mainstream school system (at least up through high school, not sure about college), because the skills and knowledge it measures strongly overlaps with the skills and knowledge that match well with the current schooling system.

People have subsequently attempted to take this extremely limited and borderline circular usage (Do well on your IQ test? Do well in school. Do well in school? Do well on your IQ test) to be broadly meaningful, which is deeply flawed in a number of ways. And now, of course, there’s attempts to update IQ to reflect a broader set of skills, which is sort of a step in the right direction but still fundamentally flawed in its attempt to reduce an incredibly broad set of different skills and areas of knowledge into a single number that you can rank on a scoreboard against others’ like that’s remotely meaningful.

And of course, by skills, I mean not just the things it’s supposed to measure like math proficiency, vocabulary, etc., but also skills implicit to the nature of the test like focus, auditory and visual processing, ability to actually provide a definition for words vs. knowing how to use them but not knowing how to rattle off dictionary-style definitions, etc., all of which are also skills that are advantageous in our education system as it is currently structured but which aren’t really a measure of other areas of intelligence.

Sadly, we as a society, at least in the Anglosphere that I’m familiar with, have a bad habit of prioritizing measurements that give us easy numbers to work with but don’t really reflect reality that well over more complicated methods of assessment that might be more difficult to work with but actually work better.

Look up “cheese pizza” on Urban Dictionary, a spurious usage that has become known for being at the center of the PizzaGate conspiracy nonsense, with a smaller later resurgence in Epstein Files conspiracy theories.

If this were, like, a restaurant review app, I’d consider it kind of a corny name but not really bat an eye. But for an app meant to share files directly between people without an intermediary… Don’t name it CheezyPizza.

CheezyPizza is an open source, browser-based file transfer app that uses WebRTC to transfer files directly between two browsers.

…

It is actually a fork of FilePizza, which is a pretty solid tool but has its limitations. Like large files would fail, and there is no way to pause or resume a transfer if something goes wrong.

FilePizza

Cooked up by Alex Kern & Neeraj Baid while eating Sliver @ UC Berkeley.

Okay, I now understand the chain of events that led to this name. But also…don’t. Don’t name it that.

Very cool!

These are all gorgeous! Are they domestic or feral? They don’t fit the most common pigeon coloration I see in feral pigeons in the US, but I definitely have seen some feral pigeons with extremely unique coloration and it’s always so cool. (Though every single pigeon, no matter how “common,” is beautiful in my eyes. Unironically, they are one of my favorite birds.) Also, you might be from the UK or something, and I don’t know much about the state of pigeons there, or if you have any truly wild pigeons vs. feral ones.

I’m…confused. By “the person is complaining about rigged elections being fake news,” do you mean the journalist who challenged Trump on his claim? The specific exchange as indicated in the article was:

The pair then moved onto discussing that riot, and Trump was challenged after he repeated his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was rigged.

Trump turned to the California primary elections, where votes are still being counted to determine which two candidates in a series of races - including governor of the state - will be on the ballot in November’s midterm elections.

He said the results had not been called after four days, adding: “They’re cheating on the election.”

“Do you have evidence to support that?” Welker responded.

“All I have to do is look, and I listen,” the president replied.

“But that’s not evidence,” she interjected.

I wouldn’t call that complaining about the entire idea of rigged elections being fake news, but rather challenging Trump to provide evidence for his own claims of specific elections being rigged, which he insulted the journalist and then ended the interview over instead of defending his claims with evidence.

Mystery down votes are a common internet phenomenon that, despite knowing it’s widespread, I’ve never quite been able to figure out. Accidental downvotes do happen, especially on mobile in my experience, but at nowhere near a frequent enough rate to explain down votes in the wild. In this case, there’s many possibilities! Are the downvotes from MAGAssholes? Is someone just blanket down voting because they don’t like the instance? Because they don’t like the community? Because they don’t like the user posting it? Because they don’t like the BBC as a source? Because they downvote every US politics thing they come across? Who knows!

[email protected] is a bit more low level than is most common, but may still be worth including on the list.