Awesome, thanks for the offer. Do you know if it works OK on all the 4g/5g networks? I generally try to get Telstra via a cheaper provider like Boost, but they’ve become to expensive so I’m on Amaysim now (Optus 5G).

How much did it end up costing with postage etc from EU?

Finally, any dramas with it so far eg hardware or software problems?

The Nazis tried their best to hide the crimes of their Third Reich from the world, because even they knew that many of their people and the world at large would be appalled.

It amazes me that Israel’s leadership has no such concerns apparently. Thus is the strength of belief in their control of the narrative.

There is nothing new about denial of the crime of genocide or silence about genocide. From the beginning of the war, mainly for political reasons, Nazi Germany did everything they could to keep international public opinion, and above all the Allied and neutral countries, but also the potential victims, in the dark about the extermination of people in the occupied countries.

Among themselves, however, the narrow circle of the Nazi ruling elite did not conceal these criminal acts.

Addressing high ranking officers in Poznań on October 4, 1943, Himmler, the head of the German police and the SS, said that “Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when 500 lie there. . … This is an honor roll in our history which has never been and never will be put in writing” (IMT translation).

(From https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/holocaust-denial/denial-of-the-holocaust-at-auschwitz/)

Well, this certainly changes things. Seems like another story of ego and greed blowing up (potentially) good research.

The most useful quote in the article for me was from the sole administrator of the company that will be owning the license to the new drugs (if and when they materialize) and their comments were far more reserved about the ‘cure’.

“The probability of this working out well isn’t high, to say the least, but if things go well, we estimate that in two or three years we could begin trials in human volunteers.”

I’m curious to see how this develops, like please give me Chel from Portal jump-legs at some stage, please.

But after speaking to physios and doctors and hearing how like just a couple millimeters of difference between your gait positioning or hip flexion while you walk or run over time can lead to major consequences with joint wear or tendon damage (etc)… This feels like it’s bound to go wrong with the machine aggressively forcing your knee up and foot down every step.

Same. Was denied them by parents (probably wisely, I don’t judge).

Imagine my disappointment when I could finally buy them with my own money at 17yo, only to find out that models don’t exist in anything but smaller kids’ sizes.

I replaced the glass screen and digitizer on my daughters iPad over the holiday break so I share your pain.

Took almost a whole day, mostly clearing out all the glass shards without doing any damage to the display.

I’d buy one in a flash but they’re not yet supported in my country officially (Australia).

Side note this is the first legit silver lining I’ve seen posted regarding the AI memory crisis, nice to see.

I’m on a 255GB de-Googled Pixel 8A that I’m hoping will last me several years, at least until memory pricing has returned to sane levels.

I’m in agreement that the privacy grab-bag of age verification services is a big concern, but in my mind the remedy to that is strong privacy laws and protections like GDPR - with harsh punitive penalties for any companies that break them.

Companies already process and control huge amounts of private data so the best approach to increased potential for them gaining more access is strong privacy protections.

I’ll add that the laws that have been implemented in various US states to mandate porn sites validate ID are the ones that have generated this new industry of digital checks and privacy concerns, not the under-16 laws. There are 25 states with these laws now, going back to 2022.

Ironic. The article does not frame the outcome as the fault of Gen Z. It in fact goes to great lengths to point out that the fault almost certainly lies with how they were educated, and the parenting environment they were raised in.

I’ll highlight the framed factors for you and where the blame gets pointed.

Horvath took the same message to Capitol Hill during a 2026 Senate hearing on screen time and children. His framing skipped the generational dunking and focused on exposure. “More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen,” he told lawmakers. Human learning, he argued, depends on sustained attention and interaction with other people. Endless feeds and condensed content don’t offer either.

Schools leaned hard into technology during the same window. Educational software replaced textbooks, long readings, and extended problem-solving. After class, students returned to phones, tablets, and laptops, bouncing between social feeds and bite-sized explanations of material they never sat with for very long.

“I’m not anti-tech. I’m pro-rigor,” Horvath told the Post. Rigor, in his view, comes from friction. Reading full texts. Working through confusion. Spending time with material that doesn’t immediately reward you. Take that friction away, and cognitive skills dull. Brains adapt to the environment they’re given, and this one prizes speed over staying power.

The same decline appears outside the United States. Horvath told senators that across roughly 80 countries, academic performance drops after digital technology becomes widely embedded in classrooms. The timing alone raises serious questions about how learning environments affect cognitive development.

This conversation feels uncomfortable because it doesn’t offer villains or easy fixes. Horvath summed it up bluntly during his testimony. “A sad fact our generation has to face is this: Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.” His recommendation focused on restraint, dialing back screens in schools, and restoring depth before the next generation is doomed.

Most frustrating for me is not just that many people read this article and take away an emotive framing that is completely counter to the text of the article, but that many people on Lemmy that read this article will just memory-hole it and continue to complain about phone bans in school, and the under-16 social media bans going on around the world that are very likely to have significant positive benefits for children’s learning and go some ways to resolving the problem.

They’re measuring lower across all the classical tests designed to measure intelligence. The skills they test for are all very much still needed in modern life.

That song is based on a real lady, and she didn’t just sell sea shells - they were fossils that were hundreds of millions of years old.

She and her family made a living off it, and she’s now known worldwide for the incredibly rare fossils she carefully extracted and sold to museums.

Not the worst idea, all told.

But first before you buy a new SSD don’t forget to go back to September of last year.

Heard you out… Now hear me out. Your suggestion, while it may seem logical on its face (ban all the doom-scrolling networks), is near politically impossible.

Meta, Alphabet, Tiktok etc… Banning their platforms is a utopian pipe dream presently.

Politicians act on reality - things they have the political capital (backing, party votes, public support) to achieve - and nobody has sufficient political capital to ban those giant companies. Can you imagine the years of court fights, the tarrifs threatened or imposed by the US to any country that wants to ban the big social media giants?

What they do have is a majority of experts in psychology, psychiatry, public policy and technology telling them “well a close second would be to minimise the damage to kids by banning under 16s”, so they do that instead.

By the principle of least harm, banning under 16s is a much more useful action than banning the platforms - as it’s actually practicable in short term timeframe.

Right… 5 page law. With literally no way to check if it’s being followed for any closed-source software (ie: all of the problem social networks & apps).

Bot summary heavily editorialises.

The 78-year-old outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party is a traitor to his motherland.

Bad bot.

Yes.

I certainly didn’t think I’d be reading a CIA document this morning, its a damn shame that the only thing they provide of value to society has been ended by Trump (the publishing of a wide variety of demographic data in their CIA World Fact Book), anyway I appreciate the response.

I was not polite in my request and looking back on it I want to apologize for being inflammatory. Sorry.

That being said, your data doesn’t show any comparison between the amount of grease (oil) in shallow fried foods vs deep fried foods, the chart you’ve shared just shows protein per capita per day changing over several decades.

Pan frying is healthier than deep frying for a host of reasons - it’s done at lower temperatures than deep frying, which means different oils are generally used, and healthier oils are used for pan frying vs deep, the high temp process destroys many food nutrients and generates higher creation and absorption into food of trans fats. These reasons (and others) with references are in the Wikipedia article on deep frying.

Nutritionist/dietician comparing the two methods with further reasons: https://blogs.bcm.edu/2023/04/25/the-truth-about-fried-food/

I’m yet to see any indication that deep frying causes foods to absorb less fat that pan frying, it is in fact reported as the opposite in all sources I’ve seen (but can’t find any studies directly comparing the two). I’m sure it could be found scientifically via looking at fat/oil measurements in deep fried foods in studies and the same measurments in pan fried and comparing them, but that would take more time than I have to spare today.

Hope you have a good one.

Source: ‘trust me bro’ (says with mouth full of chips and donuts).

Musk has been doing this since the start of the war. Playing like hes a general, or a senior military policy official. Its for personal gain.

Remember when Elon refused to give Starlink access to Ukraine troops over Crimea while attempting to retake territory, and disabled Starlink on Ukraine equipment on multiple offences to Russian positions, directly acknowledging he was playing god over which military actions were OK and which were not for Ukraine?

Remember in 2024 when USAID’s Inspector-General notified Congress they were launching an investigation into USAID’s establishing oversight of Starlink Satellite Terminals provided to the Ukrainian government, after many allegations of fraud and abuse?

Wait, remind me who funded over $250 million for Trump to win in the Nov 2024 elections, and subsequently went scorched earth on USAID with his new DOGE department - literally disbanding the entire agency in 2025?

It seems almost like there is a lot of money to be made in the Ukraine-Russia war, and being one of the main guys who pulls the strings gives you a huge amount of leverage.

FAFO fits here.