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New Approach Narrows Uncertainty In Future Warming And Remaining Carbon Budget For 2°C – Eurasia Review byteseu.com/1605832/ #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming


Los Angeles: Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes reached record-highs last year in this gay haven

advocate.com/crime/anti-lgbtq-…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA



I was curious about what the definition of bread even is, as in what are the requirements to call it bread. It sounds like the only absolute requirements are some combination of flour and water in some sort of mixture. I thought there would be a more involved definition.

#RandomResearch

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in reply to Jeremy Mallin

From an "Ask Culinary" post on reddit 13 years ago:

> The type of flour that is used and how they are put together.

> Bread - you typically use a type of flour with high gluten content and mix/knead the dough very thoroughly in order to establish long, tough gluten strands so that your bread is nice and chewy. Also, eggs are typically not required for your basic breads.

> Cake - you typically use a type of flour with low gluten content so that the cake *doesn't* get super chewy. You also use eggs and typically a lot more butter to provide the right sort of mouth feel.

So apparently it's more to do with gluten and fat and therefore texture than with sugar and therefore sweetness. Bread is made from dough, cake is made from batter. And apparently there are less sweet cakes and more sweet breads, too.


in reply to Joy

okay but that neck stretch is iconic. like, who needs yoga when you can just sprinkle in some joy? let's get the whole pickle gang doing this. pickles > positivity.




Among the many painful subjects broached in the videogame Night in the Woods (#NITW) is the business of #college not being the "real world". The way it's popularly conceived, and the experience that a lot of college graduates still have (especially if they're the lucky ones) is that college life is...sealed off from the world, in a sense. It's a bubble Universe, its own thing. If you're right-wing and you hate #education generally, you might call this atmosphere "elitist".

~Chara

in reply to Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

I myself don't think that this problem is unique to #college. A #corporation easily becomes a sealed-off private Universe, out of joint with broader reality. Many institutions are prone to become insular. But the college experience is designed to be more complete than that. The college becomes Home for you, for a period of years. That's not a small thing.

If you decide that you're going to live for a few years in houses or dormitories maintained by the college or university, you're placing the college leadership in loco parentis, whether or not you're aware of the shift.

~Chara

in reply to Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

Now...correct me if I'm wrong here, but increasingly in #technology there's a move towards turning the high-tech startup or entrepreneur's venture into something similarly complete, a microcosm where the workers, I mean the employees, I mean the associates are expected not just to work but to live.

Imagine #SpaceX as your home rather than a dodgy military-industrial firm with a line in cheap rockets for putting up satellites. Imagine thinking that corporation wasn't just where you worked, but the place that contained the totality of your life: where you slept, where you dined, where you entertained yourself, whatever.

~Chara

in reply to Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

yeah and like

we know how company towns turn out from last century

the attendant horrors should not be a surprise to anyone, and yet there are people cheering for it

in reply to Irenes (many)

@ireneista indeed! and cheering for this idea not because they have any particular plans or notions, but simply because it's "efficient". why not have the workforce merged into the populace? why not make the job (and the job site) the only reality for the plebes? It's just easier!! ~Chara
in reply to Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

That seems to be an ideal, and therefore colleges and universities are now just competition for the attainment of that ideal. From the perspective of the ambitious and grasping parent, respectable #academia had their chance.

These high-status parents want someone to take their kids off their hands, at every stage of their maturation if possible. If "higher education" isn't doing the job right, then it's time to give the wizards of #technology a chance!

~Chara



Hey y'all. This is a new update for Zay. Please take a moment, bookmark it, contribute and amplify if you can?

It's Wednesday, can you help Zay?

All is appreciated to keep a Queer Latinx housed.

#helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #disability #Covid #housingcrisis

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First Clip From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Reveals A Starship Under Attack… And Paul Giamatti’s Villain trekmovie.com/2025/12/06/first… #StarTrek:StarfleetAcademy #StarfleetAcademy


AI Literacy Influencers Detect Fakes on TikTok, Challenge Authenticity Economy byteseu.com/1605830/ #AILiteracy #DeepfakeDetection #economy #InfluencerEconomy #SyntheticContent #TikTokAITrend


BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware



Here are the latest monthly-averaged observations of global methane (CH₄)... 🧪⚒️

August 2025 - 1930.95 ppb
August 2024 - 1924.87 ppb

+ Data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/
+ Learn more: doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-1873-2…

in reply to Zack Labe

Maybe the fisher king will be healed finally and this will be nicely over for once and all… Sorry, an existential moment. God…
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The Laurel, in its two varieties, large and small, is much used for spoons and combs, on account of its close grain, as also in medicine, but is never burned, as it is believed that this would bring on cold weather and would furthermore destroy the medicinal virtues of the whole species. The reason given is

in reply to Neugin

that the leaves, when burning, make a hissing sound suggestive of winter winds and falling snow. When the doctor is making up a compound in which any part of the laurel is an ingredient, great precautions are taken to prevent any of the leaves or twigs being swept into the fire, as this would render the doctoration worthless. Sassafras is also considered a medicine and for boiling, drinking the water it was soaked in, but tabued as fuel among the Cherokee, for the practical reason that it will
in reply to Neugin

pop out of the fire when heated and might set the home ablaze.

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‘Quite severe’ damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure after massive Russian drone, missile strike byteseu.com/1605828/ #Energy


Natural Hazards and Disasters by Donald Hyndman & David Hyndman, 2013

Bring concepts to life with timely data on recent natural disasters with Hyndman/Hyndman's NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 6e. Examine the nature and process that drive a hazard and the associated dangers, forecasting and predicting, and mitigation.

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#books
#nonfiction
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#NaturalDisasters

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After asking for help on the WSJT-X Group, Joe Subich, W4TV, responded in part: "If you want an alternative interface, I suggest you study the UDP capability and create your own application rather than harass the WSJTX developers into diverting significant development resources from improving the base application for all users and into capabilities that will benefit a very small percentage of the user base. Full post at: WSJTX.groups.io/g/main/message… #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #accessibility #ableism


oh god, no... not ai in nextcloud :(

nextcloud.com/assistant/

#nextcloud

in reply to JesseBot

Hmm, I understood github.com/nextcloud/text/pull… to mean that the button is now hidden by default. The bugfix was made on November 25, but the last Nextcloud update was on November 20, so it hasn't been released yet (As far as I know, the app is bundled with Nextcloud and is not released/updated separately via the App Store).
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in reply to Markus 👨‍💻

Isn’t that the same what Google typically does to avoid public backlash over an anti-feature?

Oh sorry it was just a bug, we already fixed it, just wait for our next patch cycle, no we won’t tell you when that is.


in reply to Jeen

@abrokenjester Poison and bullets are a shameful and lazy way out. More humane and welfare-conscious strategies in wildlife management are available and should be used.
@Jeen
in reply to Billings

I'd be interested to hear more about these humane strategies you have in mind. Not aware of anything much we can do at this point other than capture and if necessary kill.


Chernobyl protective shield can no longer contain nuclear material after drone strike: UN Watchdog byteseu.com/1605826/ #Chernobyl #Nuclear #Russia #Ukraine #USNews