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in reply to Elia Ayoub (he/him)

It's a tragedy, and the handling is absolutely awful so far. A few more details:

Right after winning the election, the regional government abolished the regional emergency unit as a cost-cutting measure.
Urban planning failed in allowing to build in what are essentially dry riverbeds and became wet once again.
The state agency for meteorology had been giving warnings for days. Civil protection didn't issue warnings to citizens through their phones until flooding had already begun.
A far right pseudo-trade union has sued the director of the agency for reckless homicide.
The president of the region incorrectly stated that the phenomenon was remiting and heading elsewhere.
The region didn't ask the state to raise the emergency level to 3, in which case the state would take over the single command and deploy its own means to support. But now the region accuses the state of innaction. The region also didn't declare "situation of catastrophic emergency" which would have vested single command on the regional president, probably to elude legal responsibility.
Volunteers were rejected at first, then belatedly organised, and the region instead of sending them to help people in villages with cleaning, food and water delivery and so on, have at times sent them to clean shopping centres.

With that amount of rain it was always going to be bad. But the civil protection plan failed and the political conflict in the country is keeping administrations pointing the finger at each other. Very upsetting.



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In a world where enough women are searching “can my husband find out who I voted for” to make it trend in search engines and social media, there should never be a question again about the value of and right to end-to-end encrypted and private personal communication.

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Buenos días, esto es muy fuerte. Hoy la Generalitat empezaba a "organizar" a los voluntarios para distribuirlos mejor. Hasta aquí ok, más vale tarde que nunca.
Pero resulta que este señor, periodista para La Vanguardia y A Punt, dice que hay lío en "varios" buses porque les han llevado A LIMPIAR UN CENTRO COMERCIAL.
Al parecer la gente se niega a bajar de los buses porque quieren ayudar a la gente en sus casas u calles.
Cuando crees que no pueden dar más vergüenza y asco, lo consiguen.


Jak malé dítě jsem se ráno vykradl z ložnice a pustil si telku, zatímco ostatní ještě spí. Jen nekoukám na pohádky, ale na #OpenAlt 👦📺


Qué raro se me hace que hoy todavía sea sábado. Mi cerebro dice que es domingo. Pero se podría acostumbrar a esto, seguro! Tras probar la semana laboral de 4 días, yo diría que funciona muy bien!
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

A mi la siguiente también me va a funcionar genial, cortesía de un día de AP el lunes.


Mastodon #Science people, I come to you, hat in hand, searching for a paper.

It was about using Corsi-Rosenthal boxes in schools, but it was fairly short, because the teachers in the study school kept turning off the C-R boxes. I do not know if they used the phrase "Corsi-Rosenthal" or if they just called it a DIY air cleaner/purifier.

Does anyone know this paper?



How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.

In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.

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Buenos días. Ayer hubo algo de fiesta jolgorrio así que hoy me recupero.


Early predictor of a marital split coming up - you meet a parent of your student and they are critiquing certain qualities in the child. Qualities that you know the kid inherits from the other parent.


Pracovní sobota právě začíná, tak užívejte volna, já to jdu zkusit dnes vydržet bez úrazu 😀
in reply to Archos

dobré ráno, ať Ti to rychle utíká. Já budu odpočívat. 🙂


I can't take it anymore. Can this website send you notifications? Hey look, an embedded auto play video after two paragraphs! Wanna log in with a free account? Wanna download our app? Did you change your mind on notifications? Stop it. Just fucking stop. Knock the shit off. You've ruined the internet you fucking insufferable knobs.


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People make fun of the “what happens in the booth stays in the booth” election ads, but I know poll workers who have had to keep husbands out of their wive’s voting booths because they had to “make sure she votes right”. When I was phone banking I also talked with a woman who’s husband or boyfriend was clearly around and it almost definitely changed the nature of the call. Voter intimidation by men is a real problem and I’m glad these ads address it.

#USPol #USElection



That moment you order something that costs a small fortune and find yourself worrying about other blind people judging you for it. I've seen some people going where do all these blind people get their expensive devices? While I do think that's a valid question and will absolutely acknowledge that many blind people have had to have help buying those devices (which by the way who cares?) some of us blind folks actually have worked our butts off to get those devices with our own money. So those in the blind community that grouch about how people are just using other people's money to buy devices that ultimately make their lives easier, shove off.


There's a lot weighing heavily on my mind right now. I can't go into it here, I'm sorry, but if you could, your thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated.



Okay everyone, repeat after me: A, E, I, O, U. Keep repeating this again and again, let's start a real vowel movement!
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Well, just get on a plane and letter rip. Your flight may be punctuated by turbulance, though.


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Unpopular opinion from a desktop apps fan: why does anybody need a #ChatGPT desktop app if it's just, well, website wrapped in a Windows executable?
in reply to André Polykanine

Я вообще так и не смог понять какая польза от GPT, но наверное просто отстал от жизни и несколько другие представления об этом всём.
А приложение да, и правда фиг знает зачем такое нужно, тем более оно вероятно всё равно дёргает сервер. С таким же успехом можно ярлык на сайт нужный создать.
in reply to Kirill

@Yinshi А я постоянно пользуюсь им, но только на сайте. Пока не плачУ, бо свободных денег нет, но если/когда появятся, думаю даже перейти на платный план.


Microsoft makes available evaluation ISOs for different Windows editions, such as Enterprise, Enterprise LTSC, etc. I have most of these evaluation ISOs, however I am missing the one for Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB evaluation and I was wondering if anyone has that? I just like to archive these as they make for a quick way to test something in a pinch as they were always freely available. Thanks!


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