Agency hopes tens of thousands of people will log details of their flatulence on an app to help researchers better understand gut health
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15226006
> Finnaly I have something to offer my country!
Given rideshare driver (is this relevant?) this smacks of driving while black type discrimination.
I think you're on to something here. Any behaviour becomes 10x more threatening to the public/cops when the person doing it has brown skin.
Obviously the toy looks a bit real, but it seems to me all this needed was “hey we had a complaint, that looked real, why not hand it over and go home for a bit?”
Thing is, he'd already left the scene when he was arrested. They had to track this guy down to arrest him and confiscate his property, and it's not even clear that he was breaking any law. Seems like they would have had time to check that?
I also don't know why they keep saying it was "discharged" like that's a relevant detail. It's not like it made it more threatening, because if you see someone pull a trigger and it doesn't make a loud pop, then you know it's not a real gun (or at very least it's not a loaded gun). Unless this is a weird kind of water pistol that does make some kind of a pop? Also, if people are close enough to see the trigger being pulled then they're probably also close enough to see the spray of water. It'd be far more effective to just brandish it if you wanted to scare people.
In short:
NSW Police have arrested a man possessing a water pistol following reports that a replica gun was discharged near NSW's parliament.
About 1pm, officers were called to Sydney's CBD following reports that a white replica gun was discharged.
What's next?
It's not clear whether the man will be charged given the legality of possessing a water pistol.
Alex Jones owes $1.5 billion after defaming the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, claiming it was a hoax staged by crisis actors.
> In short: > > The satirical news website The Onion, which claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers, will partner with a gun violence prevention organisation to relaunch the conspiracy website, Infowars. > > Infowars' founder Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax conducted by crisis actors. > > What's next? > > Jones has vowed to file legal challenges to stop The Onion taking his site.
Alex Jones owes $1.5 billion after defaming the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, claiming it was a hoax staged by crisis actors.
> In short: > > The satirical news website The Onion, which claims to have 4.3 trillion daily readers, will partner with a gun violence prevention organisation to relaunch the conspiracy website, Infowars. > > Infowars' founder Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax conducted by crisis actors. > > What's next? > > Jones has vowed to file legal challenges to stop The Onion taking his site.
Republicans win majority of US House of Representatives seats, confirming an election clean sweep
It means the party has recorded a clean sweep in the US elections, winning the presidency, the Senate, and now the House of Representatives.
> In short: > > The Republican Party has recorded a clean sweep in the US elections by winning the House of Representatives. > > A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in California, gave the party the 218-seat majority needed to secure the House. > > What's next? > > Republican leaders are envisioning a mandate to up-end the federal government and swiftly implement Trump's vision for the country.
Why do you reckon it wasn't made up? Was it submitted through a public platform or something?
This year's Shonky Awards have been announced, with Facebook parent company Meta amongst the winners for its "inadequate action" against scams.
what aid group said that?
From the article:
Eight international aid groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, said in a report that Israel had failed to meet the demands by the Tuesday deadline.
If you want the full list, though:
Signatories
Anera
CARE International
MedGlobal
Mercy Corps
Norwegian Refugee Council
Oxfam
Refugees International
Save the Children
Source: https://www.nrc.no/news/2024/november/joint-statement-israel-receives-failing-grade-on-u.s.-demands-in-gaza (this page has the full text of the joint statement and a link to the full report)
Hamas infested unrwa
UNRWA - the organisation that Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Japan, Sweden and the European Union determined they should restore their funding to after investigations into allegations were concluded - were not one of the aid organisations referred to by the headline, no.
All my assets are in crypto. How will this affect my pension? | Sydney Morning Herald
Original URL (paywalled): https://www.smh.com.au/money/super-and-retirement/all-my-assets-are-in-crypto-how-will-this-affect-my-pension-20241112-p5kpys.html
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This has to be a fake question for clickbait, right?
US finds that Israel is not impeding assistance to Gaza; aid groups disagree
> Summary > > - State Dept says Israel made progress on humanitarian demands > - Aid groups say Israel missed Tuesday deadline for improvement > - US says humanitarian situation remains dire, more change needed
A train strike that could have brought Sydney to a standstill has been avoided after the government agreed to run 24-hour services.
> Commuters will get 24-hour trains in Sydney this weekend after the government caved to a union demand to stop potentially-crippling strikes.
New industrial action from 14 November
> The below actions come into effect from 14 November and are indefinite: > > - A ban on performing any work unless trains run 24 hours a day on Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights > - A gradual reduction in kilometres able to be worked by Train Crew on the suburban and intercity networks
The government has conceded to 24-hour services for now so there will be no strike: https://aussie.zone/post/15285174
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association says it is outraged after police were offered a 39 per cent pay increase earlier this week.
> In short: > > About 50,000 nurses and midwives have walked off the job across NSW. > > The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association have been in an ongoing pay dispute with the government, brought to a head this week after police were offered a historic 39 per cent increase. > > What's next? > > The NSW government is considering arbitration in the Industrial Relations Commission.
CFMEU workers have rallied in Sydney against administration, even as the embattled union warned its members not to attend the march.
Thousands without power after earthquake rattles NSW Upper Hunter
With an epicentre near BHP's Mount Arthur mine site, it is the fourth earthquake above a magnitude of 4 to hit the region in recent months.
Why is it "virtually impossible to deliver on"? Higher education has been free in the past, right?
CO2 in bubbles locked away in Antarctic ice suggest Earth has almost reached 1.5C warming limit
Scientists behind a study of carbon dioxide within bubbles from Antarctic ice cores want policymakers to adopt an earlier baseline for global warming.
> In short: > > Scientists say data from Antarctica ice core shows world has already warmed 1.49 degrees Celsius due to human activity. > > The study calculates a pre-1700 baseline based off carbon content in the ice. > > What's next? > > Researchers behind the study want politicians and scientists to use their modelling as a baseline rather than a commonly used 1850-1900 time period when the Industrial Revolution had already started.
Investigations have begun after a worker died in an incident at a wind farm construction project at Rokewood, west of Geelong in Victoria.
> In short: > > A worker has been crushed beneath a turbine blade at a wind farm construction site at Rokewood. > > First responders tried to revive the man but he was pronounced dead at the scene. > > What's next? > > WorkSafe is investigating the circumstances and police will prepare a report for the coroner.
> "Just two weeks ago, union delegates from three different unions met with Vestas management to raise serious safety concerns, telling them it was only dumb luck that nobody had been killed on site yet."
Gaza’s civil defence agency says 25 people killed, including 13 children, as Israel continues attacks in north of territory
Yeah, I'm aware of the Gobbo case. But, like, lawyer-client privilege is a legal construct, so if the cops are willing to break the law, then, yeah, of course it doesn't protect you. If they're willing to illegally access your messages through an E2EE messaging app, then they are presumably willing to access it illegally through people you've communicated information to in cleartext. I could be being dense, but I just don't understand what point No1 was making.
The Greens have said they will wipe $81 billion in student debt — but how will they pay for it?
But don’t call it the “best Australian songs of the 90s” if you’re going to leave out so many of the best songs of the 90s.
Yeah, the title is intentional click-bait/engagement-bait
Madison Avenue - Don’t Call Me Baby
I had no idea this was Australian! Now you've mentioned it, though, there's a noticeable lack of hard 'r' in some lines (for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mRcnF5tSc).
Some classics in this list. Such a list can’t exist without people pointing out who was missed, though. This reads like a top 50 of what JJJ had on high rotation. It’s missing several acts that were bigger than most of the names on this list.
Agreed - and thanks for making your list of things it omitted - but the list was compiled by a poll of Double J staff, so it was always going to be biased towards deep-cuts, and it's a good thing to bring lesser-known and forgotten music to attention (so long as people don't take the list to be authoritative).
Joke's on them, though, because we'll all be dead in 30!
The blaze erupted on Wednesday morning and spread rapidly, fanned by fierce seasonal Santa Ana winds from California's desert interior.
> In short: > > At least 132 homes had been destroyed and 88 damaged by a raging wildfire burning outside Los Angeles. > > The fire spread rapidly on Wednesday morning local time and thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. > > What's next? > > California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency.
Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupted several times on Friday following an eruption on Sunday night that killed nine people.
> In short: > > Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano erupted several times on Friday, after an eruption on Sunday night that killed nine people. > > Friday's eruption saw Lewotobi Laki-laki belching volcanic ash that rose up to 10 kilometres into the sky, officials said. > > A spokesperson for the country's disaster mitigation agency said the situation is under control.
Crew member missing from bulk carrier Double Delight off Newcastle found alive
Marine Rescue, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and multiple helicopters were involved in the search until a recreational fisherman happened across the missing man a day after he vanished from his ship.
> In short: > > The seafarer went overboard from a bulk carrier off the coast of Newcastle around 11:30 on Thursday night. > > A multi-agency search had been underway since midday, about seven nautical miles offshore. > > A recreational fisherman found the man in the water while returning from a day out fishing.
Banning everyone under 16 from using YouTube really is the peak of stupidity amongst this bullshit.
Trump, unlike Biden/Harris, feels no need to pretend to be doing anything to stop Israel
The pretending is in some ways worse.
In practical terms Biden/Harris have given the Israeli government everything they wanted. Harris is participating in a genocide. Nobody should have voted for her.
But the Biden/Harris Whitehouse paying lip service to humanity/sanity (including ceasefire) seems to have given a lot of people a fig-leaf to vote for a génocidaire, and more generally to go about their lives as if their government is not committing genocide.
See also 'kids in cages'. There's a sizable number of Americans who, it seems, can only see the atrocities their government is committing when there's a Republican in the Whitehouse.
I don't see how - lawyer-client privilege applies no matter the medium of communication, surely?
Government departments definitely, probably banks, a bunch of legal and accounting firms.
Well, yeah, definitely all those, and that's always been the case. All those organisations can access the records you have with them, and the cops - and various other government departments - can subpoena them for those records. Any info you provide to any business or government department should never have been considered to be private from the government.
That's all quite different to compelling developers of end-to-end encrypted apps to introduce secret backdoors. If implemented as advertised (i.e. without backdoors), the platform provider cannot access the information you send though an E2EE platform, and you could reasonably expect it to be inaccessible by anyone except you and the intended recipients.