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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social Sounds like he's been working for a company which gets (illegal) things done internationally for clients who pay them very large amounts of money. I wouldn't be surprised if German state secrets are a useful currency in many of those operations.

@VATVSLPR@c.im @cpm@spore.social @datum@zeroes.ca @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org But shops can still intervene there too. Instead of parroting manufacturer messages of it just being an ebike your kid will look really cool on (or even elaborating on it), they can be required to inform potential buyers about the limited legality of the bike. That won't stop all parents, but it will make them think twice at least. And it creates a clear liability with the parents who have been appropriately informed that it's illegal for their kid to ride that machine.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org How has it taken them more than two months to track such a typical and obvious source of an outbreak? 😬

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org "I pulled random statements off the internet which were related to this search phrase, threw them in a blender, then re-constituted them into something obeying the laws of grammar. I am very smart!" 😏

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It literally feels like a sauna when going outside here in the Netherlands. Our backyard shed-top weather station values work out to a heat index temperature of 49C/120F. I don't see how anyone finds it bearable without AC to retreat to, yet I know most people don't have that 😬

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org When your uber finally arrives but the driver runs away screaming 😔

@Jazone@theforkiverse.com @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Oh, you're one of those centrists who wants dems to win elections by pandering to conservatives who will never vote for them anyhow. Chuck Schumer alt-account, or just a bro? 😂

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org There's a review at https://breathesafeair.com/ikea-alpstuga-review/ It can tell you if PM2.5 is going up or down, but values are drastically (~50%) lower than on factory calibrated sensors and not particularly consistent even between different Alpstuga devices. Getting consistent CO2 readings takes a week after plugging it in, not the 12 hours advertised, due to the weekly calibration schedule which can't be forced. And due to using a cheaper type of sensor, it becomes rather inaccurate if room temperature deviates from 25C/77F. It uses the Sensirion SEN63C.

@deirdresm@hachyderm.io Hate speech is not free speech. It explicitly seeks to strip the fundamental rights of others.

@MHowell@kolektiva.social @Nead@social.vivaldi.net @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yeah, at this point I'm pretty confident that squirrel defenses are just advanced training for them, with the protected vegetation being offered as the reward for learning 😐

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cR0w@infosec.exchange I'd blame the people who haven't yet figured out that AI is even stupider than they are 😂

@meganL@mas.to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yeah, I'd like to see how those did-it-all-on-their-own asshats would cope with their real citizenships being revoked and having to live on their liberty mudflat without the infrastructure and other resources of civilization.

@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Would it? Establishment DNC is totally cool with funding Israeli war crimes, and has been viciously attacking their own progressive challengers who are opposed to AIPAC funding.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It doesn't list any accuracy parameters, so it's safe to assume the sensors suck 😂

@rivm@social.overheid.nl Obviously the existing heat plan which merely tells vulnerable people to try harder is grossly insufficient. When will there be a heat plan which involves actual assistance, such as the coordination of local cooling centers to keep vulnerable residents alive? Alternatively, consider advertising euthanasia options in the runup to heatwaves. Dying from heat illness is an extremely unpleasant way to go.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Okay. But when do we start hunting them for sport? 😐

@KittenKoder@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Not just that, but centrists will actively block action from being taken to rectify wrongs. They're a massive source of inertia.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Lolz: 'Trump is expected to speak outside at a 4 July celebration on Saturday, despite the predicted high temperatures. The president has maintained that he wanted to gather outside for the celebration. "I'm gonna make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything," he said.'

@whvholst@eupolicy.social Surely central coordination and resources are relevant? Matters of life and death should not depend upon every village having the expertise, personnel, and spare funds to handle this on their own.

@rivm@social.overheid.nl @knmi@social.overheid.nl Where are the neighborhood cooling centers for vulnerable residents and everyone else who needs to cool down? Merely telling vulnerable populations to try harder not to die is not an acceptable plan 😡

@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org Lolz at the "Why?" from the OP in the Karen group. Less lolz at the post about a bicycling meetup where the Chads discuss the best way to run over as many kids as possible in their trucks 😐

@jackmjenkins@mastodon.online @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org This was our first one, and it's pretty good, aside from VOC being finnicky (generally not a very useful measurement anyhow). That might be overkill but they also have simpler sensors which can both display values and be integrated into Home Assistant and such. https://www.mcohome.com/ProductDetail/10456992.html But mostly we buy the components and Mr Valentijn assembles (welds?) stuff together and mounts them into little 3D printed boxes 😂 Main thing for buying any sensor is that there should be technical specifications on their website documenting accuracy. If they can't even bother with that, it's bad. And the ones integrated into air purifiers always seem to be the cheap and inaccurate PM2.5 sensors.

@coloradosun@mstdn.social ICE really seems to have a magnet for the abusers of women and children these days. Do they have special recruitment posters for that demographic or something? 🤔

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Oh god. Solving the "problem" of severe mental illness in a prospective military recruit by getting him to go off meds for a year 😬

@patrick@social.seattle.wa.us @QasimRashid@mastodon.social By abolishing ICE and replacing it with something which isn't ICE. ICE is too far gone to be reformed, thus the calls to abolish and replace.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Same area that got slammed a year ago? 😬

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Quite possibly pre-meditated as well, based on the motivation suggested by the podcast timing and using a fundraiser to profit from the deaths. When people do have a reaction to a vaccine, it sure as fuck doesn't look anything like delayed asphyxiation.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It's looking hot af at the fair on the AP livestream on Youtube. More than a few people looking wobbly as well.

@mattblaze@federate.social So this is the big chance to steal a bunch of fancy cars without anyone noticing? 😃

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org That one is a stock photo which has been around for years. Other angles are AI slopped and may be violating copyright 🤔 ETA: Actually it looks like at least some other angles are legit, also dating back to 2020. So someone did a photo shoot with variations.

@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Eh, more likely a lifelong raging narcisist and sociopath, looking at his disciplinary record as a cosmetic eye surgeon. It also seems his campaign contributions bought him some local influence in the past, and he might still be counting on that for getting out of his current trouble as well. But yeah, the FAA needs to ground him regardless of his exact diagnosis 😂

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yes, the people using stock photos to advertise their garage sales are lazy assholes. Showing up and wasting their time while pushing them to the brink of insanity would be a completely legitimate reaction 🤗

@newsguyusa@flipboard.social Presumably after his PAC sues his government for a free payday. Also, it's pretty damned illegal for a politician to directly collaborate with their super PACs.

@rivm@social.overheid.nl Cool. Maybe RIVM can start by doing something about being politically weaponized itself to provide misinformation. Eg, your lethal lie that masks don't work, when you damned well knew they do. And were you guys involved with that temporary bullshit new way to calculate excess deaths, or was CBS on their own with that one? Such organizations should not be trusted. If you want trust, RIVM must show a commitment to integrity and science. It cannot simply be a convenient tool of whoever is in power.

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Ah yes, it's probably just one of those tragedies where things randomly collapse and kill a bunch of people despite everyone fulfilling their legal obligations regarding maintenance and such 😐 If there is industrial equipment which actually does that, it probably shouldn't be allowed to exist.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org No confirmed rabies, just an assumption based on aggressive behavior 🤷‍♀️

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Replacing a generic conservative shitbag candidate with a MAGA swinger who can't run a business or handle filing basic financial forms is probably the best way to try to turn a red district blue.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org In the Netherlands it's finally been revealed that ONE Microsoft data center is using more than 1% of the national energy, with bigger ones (Google) withholding data and more already permitted in the future. Meanwhile, new homes literally cannot get hooked up to the grid in some regions because there's no capacity left. And the state-funded news won't even mention the impact of data centers in articles about the current "exceptional" water shortage 🤬 https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/14/microsoft-data-center-uses-1-dutch-electricity

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social So if we're to believe Pirro's bullshit, she's actually just too stupid to do her job in a legal manner 😑

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It's only a bunker if you can survive on wine for an extended period of time 🤔

@bruce@darkmoon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org No big deal to lose vacation properties, if they can afford to replace them. And that's nearly the entire peninsula.

@rivm@social.overheid.nl What is the government actually doing to protect vulnerable people? Why are gemeentes not being encouraged to implement cooling centers in local public buildings?

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org These tactics are VERY bad news for the countries downstream which rely on river water for irrigation, drinking, and transportation of people and goods. The worse the drought gets, the more water will get diverted upstream, and the faster we run out of it downstream 😬 We already have sections of river shut down for irrigation and transportation in the Netherlands. https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/31/national-drought-measures-yet-despite-historically-low-water-levels

@mattblaze@federate.social No one can afford the healthy bats in this economy 😔

@mattblaze@federate.social Maximal CPET is where the real fun's at 😏

@mattblaze@federate.social We have window vents and a house ventilation fan for that in the Netherlands. We also have a substantially lower homicide rate than Germany 🤗

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Shrek really gutted the lyrics. My favorite Hallelujah cover is by Kurt Nilsen with some backup singers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPza0xG0hA

@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social The Democratic attacks against anti-AIPAC candidates are literally everywhere, Astroturf Joe. And while vocally supporting Israel isn't popular lately among anyone who wants to win an election, accepting AIPAC funding sure af is 🙄 ETA: If you're tired of people getting worked up about genocide, maybe that's a "you" problem. The DNC does not get to dictate what voters are allowed to care about. https://abcnews.com/Politics/dnc-votes-dark-money-resolution-singling-aipac-defers/story?id=131897410

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org At least it's not AI? 🤷‍♀️

@rivm@social.overheid.nl The Dutch heat plan relies entirely on pushing responsibility for staying alive to vulnerable people and is grossly insufficient. It is absolutely essential to open local cooling centers in public buildings for people to escape from the heat. Other governments around the world can handle this. If there's no will to do it here, then the responsible politicians and bureaucrats must be replaced.