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Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Come on, it's not like she murdered someone rich.

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Austrian woman is found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 (abcnews.go.com)

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Trump ally Laura Loomer called herself ‘white advocate’, audio reveals in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really don't understand your use of "far left" here.

Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My comment was just advising people to be media-literate and consider the source, though I also said that this in itself doesn't make the article questionable (I actually think it's quite credible). And I linked to Wikipedia's article about this news website. I wasn't trying to defend Israel or be controversial, and it was a bit of a surprise to see this get deleted.

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The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors (apnews.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28943365

Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions.

This violent death upset Mangi, who had already unearthed children’s bodies. The number of bodies kept rising in this community off Kenya’s coastline where extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of instructing his followers to starve to death for the opportunity to meet Jesus.

In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, at least 436 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite repeated warnings about the church’s leader.

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Springfield, Ohio faces 2nd day of bomb threats after Trump ‘eating pets’ rant (globalnews.ca)

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"Trump's embrace of a vile extremist troll is dividing the GOP" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who is "him"?

Why does one party keep interfering with voting? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The problem with the US system seems to be that it's partisan all the way down. It's too easy for the parties standing for election to influence how the election itself is run and counted. This is, I guess, an effect of the USA's highly decentralized approach to elections: if the Republicans run a county, they get to decide how elections work in that county. A more centralized system wouldn't leave the same scope for tweaking each local election to get the desired result in that locality.

Laura Loomer: Who is conspiracy theorist travelling with Trump? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've not heard it called that before.

Watch Stephen Miller have a full meltdown when asked to back up crime claim with facts in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Oh if only he had the power he craves, this journalist would be in a camp for making him feel uncomfortable. Nasty little angry fascist.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Do SSDs do that automatically in the background, or is all the data I'm not actively refreshing gradually rotting away?

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'Mega' El Niño may have fueled Earth's biggest mass extinction (www.livescience.com)

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'Mega' El Niño may have fueled Earth's biggest mass extinction (www.livescience.com)

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US activist was not near 'violent riot' when killed by Israeli fire: Report in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They have nukes too. It's sickening that the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, etc. are pouring money and weapons into a regime of actively genocidal fascists with nukes, and fighting anyone who questions this.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The problem is that USB flash drives don't keep their data intact for very long when they're powered down. It lasts long enough for everyday use, but not even as long as a hard disk for archival.

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

USB sticks and SSDs are no good for long-term storage. The data on them degrades rapidly if they're not powered up. Spinning disks last longer. So your process would be better done with those.