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- Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: News and Current Affairs
- Topic: Other Genocides
- Replies: 4
- Views: 262
Re: Other Genocides
More On Sudan.. "We've issued warning after warning about what was going to happen if the international community did not respond," Nathaniel Raymond, a human rights investigator, said. He said his team at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab had been watching events in Sudan from satellite ...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: Secularism and Social Issues
- Topic: The War On Drugs - Time To Change Tack?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2670
Re: The War On Drugs - Time To Change Tack?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/29/nsw-drug-law-overhaul-would-allow-six-marijuana-plants-for-personal-use Good for NSW Being introduced by a minor party though, that happened in Vic too and the majors just opposed it, fingers crossed for NSW. In Vic when those legalise cannabis...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Non Science Based
- Topic: Loose Bananas!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 595
Re: what thread should this go in?
Still reeling from the crazy there, but I guess, to answer the question. Any craziness like this I suppose goes in "Non Science Based".
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: News and Current Affairs
- Topic: What is Elon Musk up to now..
- Replies: 156
- Views: 49698
Re: What is Elon Musk up to now..
Looks like he has also been getting into the car UI as well, the engineers need to tell him to fuck off, check this out; Yeah not like designers spent years working out where to place things for the least distraction. Now he moves most of that stuff to a touchscreen, because as we know interacting ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: News and Current Affairs
- Topic: What is Elon Musk up to now..
- Replies: 156
- Views: 49698
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
- Topic: Surveillance and Tracking Matters
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4559
Re: Surveillance and Tracking Matters
At least we are not in China hey.. maybe we can still get there.. sigh.. A programmer in northern China has been ordered to pay more than 1m yuan to the authorities for using a virtual private network (VPN), in what is thought to be the most severe individual financial penalty ever issued for circum...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:10 am
- Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
- Topic: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
- Replies: 94
- Views: 4182
Re: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
Hydrogen buses given low mark by professor. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/24/victoria-warned-against-very-very-inefficient-hydrogen-buses-after-trial-announced On that point, well adjacent to it maybe, I have been noticing more and more buses with "this bus has been conve...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
- Topic: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
- Replies: 94
- Views: 4182
Re: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
The future of "affordable" electric cars?
As one of the comments said, the VW beetle (EV) of our time?
As one of the comments said, the VW beetle (EV) of our time?
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:37 pm
- Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
- Topic: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
- Replies: 94
- Views: 4182
Re: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
Too many "normal" people are deluded, scary and weird. Be careful out there, anti-EV road rage crimes could be the next trend. Yeah, I was actually thinking of removing the little EV badge (which you might have seen in my debadging post) I had left on the car.. Hard to know but I have had...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: Geek Speak - Tech Forum
- Topic: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
- Replies: 94
- Views: 4182
Re: Electric + Human-Powered Vehicles
Not quite the header, but there's an urgent recall on some LG solar batteries. See linky. Yep those NMC batteries are the gift that keeps on giving, I think I mentioned in another thread (earlier in this one) arguing with multiple solar installers who kept trying to promise me the LG NMC batteries ...