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jibeon Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2

Here is a link for the first article: https://archive.is/mlzx4

Not sure what the outrage is,

Chinese scholar from UM Chengxuan Han expected to plead guilty in smuggling case

"During the secondary inspection, Han made false statements that she had not sent packages to members of the UM Lab," an FBI agent wrote in the court filing. "When pressed, Han admitted that she had shipped packages to members of the UM Lab. Han initially stated to (Customs and Border Patrol) officers that the packages were plastic cups (rather than petri dishes) and a book (omitting the envelope with suspected biological materials concealed in it)."

The FBI counterintelligence case against UM scholar Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, involves allegations that Jian received money from a Chinese foundation funded largely by the Chinese government to conduct post-doctoral work. That includes research on a fungus known as Fusarium graminearum, a biological pathogen that can cause devastating diseases in crops.

Maybe these students are getting overcharged, but they were clearly caught smuggling.

jibeon How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale

By 1918, half of US streetcar mileage was in bankruptcy

jibeon Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

This hotel is a 2-3 story building, with sliding windows, and some balconies. There is opportunity for outside air to blow into the room.

jibeon Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

This boycott was run by Collective Shout, an Australian non-profit.

They aren't targeting all sex games on Steam, they were targeting rape, incest, and child abuse.

jibeon H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

Ok, so let's just do that then, sounds easy.

jibeon H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

H-1Bs are rare at bootstrapped companies , rare outside major tech centers, and basically non-existent in bootstrapped companies in LCoL areas. It is a benefit that almost entirely accrues to big corporations with legal teams. It is big corporate welfare.

jibeon H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022

The fix may take a long time, but the bigger problem is there are no workable ideas for a fix. It's not like better education hasn't been thought of, attempted, and tons of money dumped into it. Results have been mixed at best.

jibeon Young graduates are facing an employment crisis

It would help, because they’d be paying payroll taxes into the system even as they were collecting benefits.

jibeon Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

Their job is to enforce immigration laws inside the U.S. When illegal immigrants are travelling domestically, it involves ICE.

The crime starts when the border is crossed, it doesn't end once you are illegally in the country and travelling domestically.

jibeon AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone

Are you using the Claude Code plugin, or switching back and forth between Claude Code and the Jetbrains IDE?

jibeon A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

I can’t think of one

Here are two

Why only two?

jibeon A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

All large organizations are inefficient.

I agree, and that’s the case for dismantling as much of the federal government as possible - it is too big to work. Break up Apple, Google, Amazon, Washington DC.

jibeon US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

If you are sniffing out corruption, aren’t the ones flouting required procedures likely the corrupt ones?

jibeon Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT

If you are going to call it a collapse of the US, first understand that it is a UK jobs report, and second, the top line number is job growth. Also, why are you waiting for collapse?

year-on-year growth remained positive at +0.49%, marking the third consecutive month of annual improvement and suggesting a slow but steady recovery from the recent market slump.

jibeon Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O

But it is creating real change already? All you have to do is ask, apparently. Regulation is coming, but not going to complain that companies are preemptively taking action.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/hhs-fda-...

jibeon Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

Did they intentionally lie about it? Parent post didn't claim Meta has never broken a law.

jibeon Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard

His warnings were about the fuselage construction. This doesn’t appear to be a structural failure, of the type he was worried about.

jibeon Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways

When you vote away foundational freedoms, you are no longer a democracy, at least not a liberal democracy.

jibeon Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global

Not sure it would make sense to design cars to fail right when they get them back from the lessee?

jibeon How many supernova explode every year?

Wouldn’t the creation dates of stars be clustered around certain points in time. So the supernovas should also happen in groups?

jibeon A university president makes a case against cowardice

Yes, opposition to gay marriage was so mainstream that even Barack Obama campaigned supporting Clinton's Defense of Marriage Act. Even in the Democratic primaries, as late as 2008, being pro gay marriage was seen as a liability.

jibeon A university president makes a case against cowardice

gay marriage?

jibeon A university president makes a case against cowardice

I don’t know that Universities cower before leftist ideology. They are leftist, and are the generators of leftist ideology. It’s more like the wallow in it than cower before it.

jibeon Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union

By company owners, did you mean my 401k? Or is it more that it causes higher prices, and everyday consumers pay for it?

jibeon Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

Hitler?

jibeon Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard

Or a 12” MacBook - Apple is missing both 11” and 12” options.

Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.

jibeon Paxlovid: You'd have expected more

Checking GoodRX, Paxlovid ranges from $1,497 at CVS to $1,696 at Costco. Expensive for something that potentially has little effect.

jibeon U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

China has forced Apple to outsource iCloud in China to a state run company, so all data is just directly controlled by the government there. It’s an even worse situation.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

jibeon Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater

There is one, but requires another Casio watch to borrow the backlight from.

https://youtu.be/9-jd_7eXACU

jibeon Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

a basic revision of the scientific literature will show

Freudian slip?