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I thought of that, but I don't think it's an option. From reading about past air disasters -- one of which involved depressurization of the cargo hold that turned into a cascading failure of the plane -- my understanding is that the pressurized area includes both the cabin and cargo area. The plane isn't structurally designed to depressurize the cargo area while keeping the cabin pressurized.
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Well, he's on fedia.io, so I assume that he recommends that.
Keep in mind that that's an mbin instance. It has a different UI (much of which, though not all of which, I like), but last I looked, which was some time back, didn't have mobile client support other than a PWA. That may or may not be significant to you, depending upon your usage. It also has native support for Mastodon-style microblogging.
Your home instance is a lemmy instance, so it'll look and work somewhat-differently.
My main irritation with the mbin UI last I looked was the difficulty of bringing up the subscriptions list. On the other hand, it did a collection of other things that I liked that lemmy presently does not, like permitting resizing inline images.
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slowly being edged out of the wider lemmy experience.
If your home instance is lemmy.ml and it's just people using communities on instances other than lemmy.ml, then you still get the full experience, unless you're committed to only using locally-hosted communities or something.
If instances are defederating with lemmy.ml, then you're missing content.
I don't know of an easy way to get a list of which instances have defederated with a given instance. The information is public, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone has a spider, like the lemmyverse.net one, that gathers it. But as things stand, it's easy to, given an instance name, know which instances it has defederated from, but not which instances have defederated from it.
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Apparently the EULA blocked them from lawsuits, as people have tried suing them before.
This guy tried suing them six years back over his $4500.
Ken Lord was one of those fans, and an early backer of Star Citizen. He’s got a Golden Ticket, a mark on his account that singles him out as an early member of the community. Between April 2013 and April 2018, Ken pledged $4,495 to the project. The game still isn’t out, and Lord wants his money back. RSI wouldn’t refund it, so Lord took the developer to small-claims court in California.
On June 13, 2018, a judge ruled in favor of Star Citizen. According to Lord—and the LA county court records—the judge dismissed the case without prejudice, saying an arbitration clause buried in the Star Citizen end-user license agreement prevented Lord, or anyone, from taking RSI to court for a refund on a game that some backers think may never come out.
I suppose a class action lawyer might be able to find some jurisdiction in which they were taking money and running afoul of consumer protection laws.
Thing is, I think that a class action lawyer is going to want to go after someone with money, and when CIG runs out of funds, I don't expect that they're going to be a very interesting target.
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https://gamerant.com/star-citizen-development-history-kickstarter-budget-delays-fans-disappointed/
In October 2012, Star Citizen was officially revealed, alongside a Kickstarter campaign that would be opened a week later. The Kickstarter page discussed the game in pretty extensive detail, boasting a long list of features that the game would allegedly have by launch.
Star Citizen was going to have a "persistent universe," a vast multiplayer environment that allowed players to trade, fight, and talk amongst each other, acting as a simulation of a real sci-fi galaxy. Alongside this, a singleplayer campaign named "Squadron 42" would also be released, featuring co-op. Upon release, Star Citizen was going to have no pay-to-win mechanics, and no ongoing subscription model. Simply put, if people pledged money once, then they were done, and would receive the full game at launch, slated for November 2014.
Twelve years ago, the game had a release date set to be two years in the future.
Today, it also seems to have a release date of two years in the future.
https://www.33rdsquare.com/demystifying-aaa-games-the-past-present-and-future-of-blockbuster-gaming/
Lengthy development cycles – Given their complexity, AAA games take 2-5 years to develop. This allows time for extensive testing and polish.
Two years is at the lower end of what it'd take a studio to do an AAA game from scratch.
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Just to moderate expectations, at this point, the US government has not said anything public as to immediately initiating NATO accession.
According to an anonymous European diplomat, if Democratic candidate Kamala Harris wins the US presidential election, it can be assumed that Joe Biden will start working on an invitation to Ukraine during the transition period.
The chain here is an anonymous European diplomat with God knows what kind of access to the US decision-making process.
The quote here is "can be assumed", so I assume that this involved at least some analysis on their end, that they aren't simply relaying information from the US executive.
That isn't to say that they are necessarily wrong. They may have a solid analysis, or may indeed be someone with inside information and leaking it. But I feel like there's a big difference between a title like "US Ready to Invite Ukraine to NATO" and "some European diplomat somewhere in Europe told a French newspaper that it can be assumed that if Harris wins election, that the US will start that process".
I have not, myself, seen anything indicating that NATO membership will be added during the war, though I haven't been closely following news on it. In a scenario where Ukraine and Russia are at war and Ukraine is in NATO, one would expect Ukraine to promptly invoke Article 5. That means:
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Either NATO has a unanimous agreement that all member states are prepared to initiate war against Russia.
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Or there is going to be some kind of legal exception or fancy footwork involved.
My guess, especially looking at the Finland and Sweden process, is that the US is most likely not going to be the long pole on unanimity for NATO membership, which means that in terms of near-term impact, from the US executive, I'd personally be more interested in what bilateral security guarantees the US would provide. There have been some level of agreements signed between Ukraine and the US, but I have no idea as to their contents, and as far as I know, Ukraine and the US have not made their specific terms public. Here's a press release on one such bilateral:
I'd also note that this press release also says something along the lines of what I am above:
We are not waiting for the NATO process to be completed to make long-term commitments to Ukraine’s security to address the immediate threats they face and deter any aggression that may occur.
My guess is that it won't be NATO membership that changes the situation on the ground in the immediate term. That will probably only formalize a post-war situation.
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His display name is "Linux is for pussies". He's probably a hardcore NetBSD user!
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It's a cyberpunk comic themed on open-source stuff.
https://analognowhere.com/wiki/analognowhere/
The character shown in the posted comic is Girl.
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Yes.
Lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net definitely.
Lemmy.ml has some less-bonkers communities, but !worldnews@lemmy.ml generates some of the most complaints, and I'm willing to paint with a broad brush on this one. There's only one community that I can think of that I regret not using and doesn't presently have a non-lemmy.ml alternative, and that's !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml, and !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world has overlap. Also, aside from issues with instance policy, I think that lemmy.ml in particular is not a great instance for major communities, because it's the "dev" instance and Lemmy has had some serious periods of problems where stuff slipped through testing and led to major problems in new releases. Lemmy.world did not hit this, because the admins there are more-conservative about updating, held off until they were sure that new releases were solid. My own home instance at lemmy.today crashed into repeated serious problems with new releases, and the admin decided that in the future, he would also be more conservative about updates.
I also think that it's broader than disagreeing with someone. I'm not a furry or trans, for example, but I've no problem with pawb.social or lemmy.blahaj.zone and have never seen any complaints about moderation on those special-interest instances. However, there's an entire community, !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works, that highlights a lot of moderation and infighting stuff that often I'd call pretty unreasonable off in .ml land. Beehaw.org is pretty left-wing, but they're pretty mellow and don't have the same issues (though they themselves have defederated with a number of major lemmy instances, including, most notably, lemmy.world).
That being said, a number of major lemmy instances have defederated with lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, and I chose my home instance of lemmy.today specifically because it did not defederate with instances. I want to personally make the call on instance content and on users on an instance. I've only ever blocked one user, and they were just relentlessly spamming images in communities, and I've never blocked an instance. I normally just view communities by subscribed, look at a "whitelist" of communities, not "all" plus a blacklist, though.
EDIT: Oh, and !kagi@lemmy.ml doesn't presently have an alternative, and I'd definitely participate in a non-.ml alternative.
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It's a very specific system where government revenue comes from a tax on the value of land (and not even on improvements on that land, so a mansion on land wouldn't be taxed, for example).
Most countries have some form of property tax. IIRC the UK is the only G7 country that doesn't, has a mostly-flat-rate council tax, though they do have a transfer tax on sale of real estate. But property tax isn't a land value tax, and having one doesn't make a country Georgist.
I'm fairly confident that there are no countries that have gone for deriving their revenue from a land value tax.
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Europe's economy in a struggle for survival
"We're not getting enough clicks, Laura. I want titles from you that will make people click."
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I'm fairly confident that virtually all the arms being moved are smuggled, not legally exported, so I'm skeptical that an embargo is going to do much.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-weapons-gangs-us-trafficking-f06bfb0a7d3b46a1e14ebd7bea95fd71
Increasingly sophisticated weapons are being trafficked into Haiti mainly from the United States and especially from Florida amid worsening lawlessness in the impoverished Caribbean nation, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
“Popular handguns selling for $400-$500 at federally licensed firearms outlets or private gun shows in the U.S. can be resold for as much as $10,000 in Haiti,” the report said. “Higher-powered rifles such as AK47s, AR15s and Galils are typically in higher demand from gangs, commanding correspondingly higher prices.”
That's a pretty potent incentive to smuggle.
When you consider that one of the things that Haitian gangs are smuggling is drugs into the US, I figure that the US is probably already exerting a fair bit of effort to tamp down on smuggling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Haiti
Throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, leading members of the Haitian military, intelligence and police were involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti, assisting Colombian drug traffickers smuggling drugs into the United States.[3] Corruption in Haiti remains extremely high, and suspicions of continued drug-related corruption remain.
So you move a load of drugs into the US, take weapons back to Haiti, make a profit in both directions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/13/americas/haiti-mss-unodc-guns-drugs-intl-latam/index.html
In a city cut off from the world, guns and drugs keep flowing
>Israel has requested that the US send a second THAAD battery to protect the country in case of an Iranian reaction to an expected Israeli reprisal attack, Channel 12 reports.
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Some french guy
Apparently it was probably the German guy rather than the French guy.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/15/army/
An Army Marches On Its Stomach
This saying has been ascribed to the famous leaders Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great. Would you please explore this topic?
Quote Investigator: The earliest strong match known to QI appeared in the 1858 work “History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great” by the prominent philosopher, essayist, and historian Thomas Carlyle.
They were stronger than Turk and Saracen, but not than Hunger and Disease. Leaders did not know then, as our little Friend at Berlin came to know, that “an Army, like a serpent, goes upon its belly.”
The referent “little Friend at Berlin” was ambiguous, but a later volume of this work by Carlyle clearly ascribed the adage to Frederick II, i.e., Frederick the Great.
Napoleon did make thematically related remarks that were reported (in translation) in the 1824 book “Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena” by Count de Las Cases.
There is good evidence that Napoleon made a related general remark: “It is hunger that makes the world move.” He also said of the military that “There is no subordination with empty stomachs”. These comments appeared circa 1816 in “Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena”.
However, it says that we don't have anything prior to Carlyle's attribution to Frederick the Great, and Frederick died some decades before that, so it's possible that Carlyle is in error.
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Battery power on the go.
I have a ~400W power station in the car that charges off the accessory circuit. I have a small solar charging power station in the car. A small crank generator in the car. Two cigarette-lighter-to-USB-PD adapters.
I carry a 100Wh power station, a smaller power station, a wall-power-to-USB-PD adapter, and have three computing devices that can provide USB power with me at pretty much all times.
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Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn't changed much.
Kernel.org today:
Kernel.org in 1998:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980130085039/https://kernel.org/
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Not a website, but since you mention BBSes...one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs, the ancestor of MMORPGs, that are around.
The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list of active MUDs.
While I suspect that most dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, and you can use a plain old telnet client to play...a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.
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Additionally, South Korean media said on Friday, citing anonymous sources, that Pyongyang has decided to dispatch a total of 12,000 troops, formed into four brigades, to Russia. The NIS did not immediately confirm these reports.
The statements come a day after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had intelligence reports that 10,000 North Korean soldiers were preparing to enter the war
Mark Rutte, the (new) NATO Secretary General, said in some article I read that NATO does not yet have confirmation, but that "this may change".
kagis
Here's the transcript on NATO's website of a followup:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_229585.htm
Binna Chung, Yonhap
Thank you. Binna from Yonhap News Agency. Secretary General, the South Korean Spy Agency today announced that North Korea has decided to send large scale troops to Russia and including special forces. I know that yesterday, you said you have no evidence, but since the situation has changed overnight, I want to ask you this question again. Thank you.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
Well again, obviously, we are in close contact with all our partners, particularly, of course, the Republic of Korea. And yesterday, we have been meeting here with the IP4 partners, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea. So we will certainly have that conversation with them to get all the evidence on the table. So at this moment, our official position is that we cannot confirm reports that North Koreans are actively now as soldiers engaged in the war effort. But this, of course, might change. And anyway, even if North Korea is not physically there at the battlefield, then still they are helping to fuel Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine in every way they can. And together with others like Iran, China's playing a role here, obviously, and of course, Russia itself.
That's from today.
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I suspect that title is wrong, and the US Department of Justice's press release person made a mistake in writing the title from the article, but I don't know if we should correct on our end -- I mean, the post as-submitted accurately reflects the title that they're putting out. Like, I don't think that we should claim that the USDOJ is saying something other than what they are.
It's also not impossible that there's some kind of error on our end -- I mean, I'm not a doctor -- or possibly that the error is elsewhere in the press release (like, maybe the pill count is in error). Maybe they actually have a gram measurement, rather than a kilogram measurement, and it's that the unit is wrong.
Maybe edit the post body text to indicate that the title might be in error and see the comments for discussion?
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I don't think that we have a great way of dealing with cargo hold fires today, which is why you have to carry laptops as carry-on, rather than as checked luggage in the cargo hold.
One overheated laptop battery in cargo hold could down airliner, study says
A single personal electronic device that overheats and catches fire in checked luggage on an airliner can overpower the aircraft’s fire-suppression system, potentially creating a fire that could rage uncontrolled, according to new government research.
Regulators had thought that single lithium-battery fires would be knocked down by the flame-retardant gas required in passenger airliner cargo holds. But tests conducted by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration found the suppression systems can’t extinguish a battery fire that combines with other highly flammable material, such as the gas in an aerosol can or cosmetics commonly carried by travelers.
The research highlights the growing risks of lithium batteries, which are increasingly used to power everything from mobile phones to gaming devices. Bulk shipments of rechargeable lithium batteries have been banned on passenger planes.
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It sounds like it's a long-running practice that they just temporarily suspended, so I imagine that it'll look basically the way things do today.
The outlet noted that the move is a revival of the practice, which was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic over safety concerns.
On lemmy.today, I don't appear to be seeing posts created in the past two days as of this writing on either !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works or !Games@sh.itjust.works. I am subscribed to both communities. I have not done an search to determine whether other subscribed sh.itjust.works communities are affected, though I assume that to be the case. They are visible from lemmy.world, so the posts are propagating to at least some other federated instances. sh.itjust.works presently appears to be running Lemmy 0.19.5 (versus lemmy.today's 0.19.4 and lemmy.world's 0.19.3). However, I do not think that this is a version-related problem, at least not alone, as !Ukraine@sopuli.xyz is showing up fine on lemmy.today. https://lemmy.today/instances lists sh.itjust.works as a federated instance as of this writing. https://sh.itjust.works/instances lists lemmy.today as a federated instance as of this writing. Lemmy.today has also been responding very slowly to me over the past hour or so, and was frequently showing connection timeouts and gateway error pages when trying to load pages. Other instances appear to be working normally. That may be entirely unrelated, but I thought that I'd mention it, as it's unusual and at least *might* be related.
One thing that I expected to be absolutely amazing in 2024 from online vendors was product recommendations. That vendor, assuming you use a single, persistent account to do purchasing, has a full list of your purchase history. They may well also have browsing data. And so, given all that data to mine and analyze, one of the few places where I actually *have* tried to see what a vendor can do in terms of analyzing my preferences...has been really unimpressive. I'm mostly thinking of Amazon and Steam, since they're the online vendors that I use the most; Steam in particular has a considerable amount of data it can gather, including video game playtime. Yet even though Amazon grabs some eyeball space on every page to try to recommend products, I have rarely been recommended anything I actually want to buy on Amazon. Occasionally, sure, but virtually everything I get is via plain old searching. And the most-successful recommendation approach Amazon uses, by far, is just asking me whether I want to purchase more of something that I've purchased in the past. I'll grant that *maybe* there's subtlety there that I can't appreciate from the outside, like computing frequency at which a given "repurchase" recommendation happens or taking into account past average purchase frequency, but it doesn't seem like the most-sophisticated form of recommendation. Granted, I normally make it a point to limit Amazon's data-gathering. I browse logged out, make a list of what I want to buy, clear browser state, and log in only long enough to make a purchase. That probably makes it harder for Amazon to associate me with my browsing behavior. But it does know what I actually buy. And it has a pretty substantial history there. And for Steam, Valve knows what games I play, how long I've played them for, and assuming that there's any mining based on game achievements, even -- at least as an abstract concept that would permit for correlating preference across video games -- what I do *in* those games. Like, players who get "evil path" achievements in one game maybe prefer video games with "evil" routes, stuff like that. But I have browsed Steam's discovery queue zillions of times, and while I've probably found a game or two on there, the success rate of its recommendations is abysmally low. Probably the most-useful recommendations system on Steam is the "similar games" section when viewing information about a game. But I'm pretty sure that most games I find on Steam that I actually like are just by using user ratings and searching for tags. While, Steam's scoring is opaque, and it's possible that they're using some degree of input, I don't think that it's making use of information about *me* there. I wouldn't be surprised if it's nothing more than ranking games based on their player review score, which...isn't much more than things like MetaCritic and similar have done. I've occasionally had luck looking for games that have very high hours played, with the idea that people wouldn't play a game a lot if they didn't like it. That makes some use of aggregate data about users, but not about me. Most video games that I get on Steam that I like are games that I've discovered somewhere other than on Steam, often looking for human "roundup" articles comparing collections of similar video games and giving a brief blurb about pros and cons. That's not new technology. That comes as a very great surprise to me, when one considers the enormous amount of effort and resources that goes into harvesting and mining data about people. Now, okay, a lot of that is for ads. And advertising isn't exactly the same thing as doing good product recommendation. An advertisement is trying to effectively get someone to buy a product regardless of whether they'll ultimately like it or not, whereas a product recommendation -- at least in the ideal, user-focused sense -- is trying to find products that people will like. But there *has* to be a substantial amount of overlap between the two. Advertisers don't want to waste money advertising to people who won't buy their product, so trying to find people who are interested in their product is a major part of advertising. I haven't used any systems that log my music-playing and make recommendations; I'd rather keep my privacy there. Perhaps if I did, that area would be more-successful. But by and large, it's an area that I'm very surprised is not more successful than it is. It's a "flying cars and jetpacks" thing, something that I'd always vaguely expected of the future, but which never seemed to really arrive. Product recommendation systems never really got to the point of anticipating my needs very effectively, even where they have what I'd consider a fair amount of data to work with. What's your experience? Does it differ from my own? Do you find that product recommendations from vendors are really useful, pretty much hit the nail on the head for what you want? How do you "find" products? Am I missing something, maybe like merchants on Amazon or publishers on Steam trying to game the recommendations system one way or another, and poisoning its inputs?
Thelsim did a couple of Tarot-style cards [a while back](https://lemmy.today/post/14356005). I also just [finally got Flux set up in ComfyUI](https://stable-diffusion-art.com/flux-comfyui/) -- had started a long time back, and dropped it. Flux is a ComfyUI model that's pretty popular over on Reddit, both for the quality and because it uses English-style prompts rather than just a list of comma-separated prompt terms. I remembered Thelsim's project, wanted to see if I could turn out a full set of photographic-style [Major Arcana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_arcana) in the first day using it. Turns out...yes! Usually when running Stable Diffusion, I'll generate maybe 20 images and pick the best, but this typically had something reasonable on the first try. It's certainly not flawless -- there are quirks in the image, but for anyone else thinking about playing with Flux, I wanted to put this out there, because I was unexpectedly happy with it, especially given that I've no experience at all with it. I would totally try and get it set up if you have a local generation setup! Text was added with a script and ImageMagick, not in ComfyUI. To get some kind of consistent appearance, I appended to each prompt "The theme is magical fantasy horror. The colors are blue, white, red, orange, and black. The photograph was taken with a Nikon D850." I also used "Photograph...at night" on each. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/67cd880f-ed36-4074-b12b-3e509b0dafa2.png  > Photograph of the Grim Reaper at night in a dark, gloomy field. The Grim Reaper is riding a white horse. The Grim Reaper is holding a simple black scythe. The Grim Reaper's hood only contains blackness. The sky is full of stars. The Grim Reaper is wearing black gloves. The Grim Reaper is facing the camera. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/2f0c296e-da19-4f31-8f35-cac07ce372dc.png  > An photograph of a huge angel in the clouds playing a medieval trumpet at night. The angel is blowing into the trumpet. The angel is in profile. The zombies are climbing out of their graves in a graveyard. The dead are rising. There are snowy mountains in the background. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b99ac2e5-a285-45f9-abc8-4267ae10398a.png  > Photograph of a stern-looking young woman wearing a white blindfold and a toga sitting on a throne at night. The woman's right hand is holding a set of scales aloft. There is a longsword lying by the woman's feet. The woman is facing the scales. Should really have a sword in one hand, scales in the other, but I wasn't able to quickly get that working; probably need more experience with Flux. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3ed8cbe7-e97b-4f67-849e-19bd798caaae.png  > Photograph of an angel at night. The angel is pouring glowing liquid from one large goblet in their left hand into a goblet in their right hand. The angel has a halo. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/18a9c09b-dcc1-46da-87d8-a0c09c851170.png  >Photograph of a man wearing armor riding a Roman war chariot at night. The chariot is pulled by two galloping horses wearing barding. The horse on the left is white, and the horse on the right is black. The chariot is charging the camera. The photograph is an action shot. The man is holding reins. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4558e24b-0b45-433f-8548-6bb1873bb2d1.png  > Photograph of the Devil at night. The Devil is crouching on a pedestal. There are two nude demons sitting at the base of the pedestal. The demon in the lower-right quadrant of the photograph is male. The demon in the lower-left quadrant of the photograph is female. The Devil is holding a flaming torch in his hand. It *did* look like Flux understands directives relative to the portion of the image here ("quadrant"). I wasn't able to get the same technique going with Justice, though. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/80bd8ca8-047a-4e0c-9d61-28b331646bf1.png  > Photograph of an emperor at night. The emperor is holding a scepter. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e7a1f5f6-c2a3-41e2-9b47-fd9c56c8fd31.png  > Photograph of an empress at night. The empress is holding a scepter. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1a6c7729-a5e3-49b8-bc93-d7ed31924cd6.png  > Photograph of a jester at night. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/28d2ab72-b90e-469a-a599-e1cad5992bdc.png  > Photograph of a man hung upside-down from a rope tied around his left ankle at night. The man's hands are hanging limply. The man is wearing Renaissance clothing. The man is wearing boots. The feet are a bit off; I didn't spent too much time futzing with it. Flux wasn't super-into having things upside-down, though it did ultimately do it. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f052e1d7-c7cf-4ba2-8f9a-50b762e25186.png  > Photograph of an old man wearing a robe walking on a mountain trail at night. The man is holding a lantern aloft and a staff. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/439ec9a7-7739-4924-bede-cc776f7be8da.png  > Photograph of a pope at night. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0be8647f-cb20-4be0-92c5-e266a4edca00.png  > Photograph of a high priestess at night. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/160c4575-c02a-4ccb-b513-6c60043d5b2f.png  > Photograph of two lovers at night. The lovers are wearing Renaissance clothing. There are many fireflies. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a0e754ca-525e-4674-8b0a-bec48748e7f0.png  >Photograph of a magician at night. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/553fd519-ea29-4dba-9ed3-d0bf634c25fa.png  > An photograph of two standing stones by a river at night. The moon is in the sky. In the lower-right quadrant of the photograph, there is a white wolf howling at the moon. In the lower-left quadrant of the photograph, there is a black dog howling at the moon. I omitted the traditional crawfish. I didn't really like the look of it, and on top of that, Flux kept wanting to make it look glowy, which I didn't want. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/687826be-81ba-452b-8378-b81f58e9bfce.png  > An photograph of a naked woman at night crouching by a lake. The woman is facing away from the camera. The woman is holding a jug and pouring water into the lake. There is a bright star in the sky. There is an eight-point lens flare coming from the bright star. The sky is black. The photograph is NSFW. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a2d42d98-2920-4eed-b5ab-5b807736d3f5.png  > An photograph of a full solar eclipse with a visible solar corona. The Sun is black. The photograph is at night. A naked nude infant rides a white horse at night, with sunflowers in the background at night. The photograph is NSFW. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/43709bad-1a8a-4680-8de9-5cf58005bb5e.png  > Photograph of a tower on a hill at night. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/9d308020-a83f-4b61-ad58-f47654e41ddf.png  > A photograph of a glowing figure eight in the sky at night. The background is sky and clouds. A flying, nude woman in the clouds holding a wood baton in each hand is in front of the figure eight. The photograph is NSFW. The woman is nude. I didn't really like the traditional The World tarot card style, and it didn't mesh well with a photographic style with all the disembodied heads, so I mashed up the oroborous and flying woman with batons from two different The World styles. Also, Flux was okay with up to three heads of various species sticking in at each corner, but for some reason was resistant to doing all four. I didn't want to bang on it more. Flux was determined to put some clothing on the woman. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/39b791c9-4493-43dc-bf86-4acc8daa1785.png  > Photograph of a circle floating in the clouds at night. The circle is labeled with alchemical symbols. There are esoteric symbols covering the photograph. The circle is centered in the photograph. There are normally some nude figures in a Tarot deck and I included this here; I didn't flag the post NSFW as I don't think that it's all that explicit.
> SEOUL, Oct 2 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered on Wednesday military aircraft to be deployed immediately to evacuate its citizens from Israel and other parts of the Middle East amid escalating tension, his office said. >Earlier on Wednesday, South Korea's foreign ministry urged its citizens in Israel and Lebanon to immediately leave by any means available.
www.bbc.com
The price of oil has jumped 5% after US President Joe Biden said the US was discussing possible strikes by Israel on Iran’s oil industry. Asked on a visit if he would support Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities, Biden said: “We’re discussing that”, according to Bloomberg.
www.aljazeera.com
This is merely a bullet point on the main article, but seems more-significant to me than the article's main title, and has now been cited on a number of other news sites: >Iranian source tells Al Jazeera Iran sent a message to the US via Qatar saying that it does not seek regional war but adding that “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended”. It also warned any Israeli attack would be met with an “unconventional response” that includes targeting Israeli infrastructure.
Quick summary: an analysis of the Iranian ballistic missiles used in the attack in April showed them to demonstrate dramatically worse performance than had been expected of them.
www.economist.com
https://archive.ph/glm0E
www.theatlantic.com
https://archive.ph/vhuZu