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SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction, earning the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title that remains uncontested.

MacOS 15 is too new and not supported on my machines.

EDIT: if you’re curious, these are the devices supported by Sequoia. My macs are much older than that and the hardware still works great, which is a testament to the build quality. I just wish they still got security updates.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120282

No, apple devices tend to have good hardware that lasts a long time.

I have several apple computers at home that still work fine except they don’t get software updates any more because they’re old :(

Just because windows does the same thing doesn’t mean it isn’t sad that I’d have to buy new hardware just to use mac OS again.

Google pixels have pretty long support.

Not sure how we got so lucky with Apple support on old iphones. The situation is not so good on old computer hardware. Neither is windows.

You can use an Apple product without being in the cult, but the cult still exists.

There are two different mechanisms involved in the production of a tan by UV exposure. Firstly, UVA radiation creates oxidative stress, which in turn oxidizes existing melanin, leading to the rapid darkening of the melanin. UVA may also cause melanin to be redistributed (released from melanocytes where it is already stored), but its total quantity is unchanged. Skin darkening from UVA exposure does not lead to significantly increased production of melanin or protection against sunburn.[9] In the second process […]

Huh… I can paste images from this account on piefed

Trying a different piefed blahaj account

The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)^[2][3][4] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia files and other data across the network. The term Fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe.^[5]

Proposed symbol for the Fediverse from 2018, the “fedigram”^[1]

Works fine here.

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It makes internal sense because they named the blog-post without using 3.

But it doesn’t make sense to me either, because they are releasing the 3rd of something, and i have no context re: why they wouldn’t count to 3, unlike with valve.

A few days ago i saved a post from someone who recommended In Ear Monitors with a Bluetooth Adaptor as the ideal solution. I can’t find my saved post, but they even recommended specific brands.

The theory is that you get more bang for your buck because in ear monitors are a more competitive market? I wish i knew more

Cyclosporiasis is a disease caused by infection with Cyclospora cayetanensis, a pathogenic apicomplexan protozoan transmitted by feces or feces-contaminated food and water.^[1] Outbreaks have been reported due to contaminated fruits and vegetables. Because the oocysts of Cyclospora must sporulate in the environment for 1–2 weeks before they become infectious, direct person to person transmission is very unlikely,^[2] but it can be a hazard for travelers as a cause of diarrhea.

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Cause

Cyclosporiasis primarily affects humans and other primates. When an oocyst of Cyclospora cayetanensis enters the small intestine, it invades the mucosa, where it incubates for about one week. After incubation, the infected person begins to experience severe watery diarrhea, bloating, fever, stomach cramps, and muscle aches.^[1]^

The parasite particularly affects the jejunum of the small intestine. Of nine patients in Nepal who were diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, all had inflammation of the lamina propria along with an increase of plasma in the lamina propria. Oocysts were also observed in duodenal aspirates.^[3]

Oocysts are often present in the environment as a result of using contaminated water or human feces as fertilizer.

Hearty, K. (2025). ‘Standing with Soldier F’: Bloody Sunday, disrupting the degradation ceremony and the court of public opinion. Punishment & Society, 27(1), 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745241264297

There’s an edit war taking place about putting Soldier F’s name in the article. It’s pretty easy to find with web search including in an Irish magazine that editorializes against him but is still probably RS. I won’t get into it here myself but the magazine also accuses the trial judge of presiding over a cover-up. ~2026-38271-65 (talk) 19:36, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit war would imply wrongdoing on both sides, when only one side is at fault. The name is a BLP violation per Talk:Bloody Sunday (1972)/Archive 5#RfC about naming “Soldier F” in the Bloody Sunday (1972) article, and will not be mentioned in any article without explicit consensus (meaning a new RFC, but given the not guilty verdict it’s unlikely the result will change from before). FDW777 (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

The RFC was about a single article, not “any” article, and it was inconclusive, but thanks for the link. I’d say that if the name becomes widely published (right now it’s published but not widely) then continuing to suppress it would be pointless. On a separate matter, I’d be interested to see more in the article about the legal particulars in the trial (I’m in the US and don’t know how UK trials work). E.g. why wasn’t there a jury? Anyway I just heard about this case and don’t want to linger on it too much since it’s outside my usual topic areas, but there are things that could be said. It’s interesting that Soldier G’s name is also still suppressed. Soldier G participated in the incident alongside Soldier F, but he died sometime later. ~2026-38271-65 (talk) 20:05, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Per WP:ONUS it’s up to those wishing to include to obtain consensus, and the idea that the RFC somehow doesn’t apply to another directly related article won’t fly. The trial was non-jury as a result of the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007. Essentially, there was a fear that any nationalists would automatically vote to convict whereas any unionists would vote to acquit. So rather than end up with a deadlocked jury it’s seen as fairer to let a judge decide. FDW777 (talk) 20:15, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ATrial_of_Soldier_F#Research_article

Public naming

Soldier F was granted anonymity by a judge concluding that “a real risk does exist” to Soldier F’s life and that he was right to “feel genuine fear”.^[36]

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood controversially used parliamentary privilege to name Soldier F in the House of Commons on 13 July 2021, stating that “for 50 years he has been granted anonymity and now the government want to grant him an amnesty”, and that “no one involved in murder during the Troubles should be granted an amnesty.”^[37][38] Eastwood stated that he received death threats for doing so.^[39] Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, said that Eastwood “broke no rules” in doing so.^[38] Soldier F’s name “appeared on the Bogside’s iconic Free Derry Corner and was widely known in Derry” when Eastwood named him.^[40]

On 9 February 2022, Peadar Tóibín named Soldier F in the Dáil Éireann, stating that “we need to make sure that people know” the names of “the alphabet of British Army perpetrators of murder”.^[41] Dáil privilege protects him from being sued for defamation.^[42]

News media such as the BBC and The Journal did not name Soldier F for legal reasons.^[38][41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Soldier_F

Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre,^[1] occurred on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry,^[a] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later has been attributed to his gunshot injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers and some were shot while trying to help the wounded. All of those shot were Catholics. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to protest against internment without trial. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment (“1 Para”), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months earlier.

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The incident became one of the most significant events of the Troubles. It was the highest number of people killed in a single shooting during the conflict and is regarded as the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. Bloody Sunday fuelled Catholic and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army, intensified the conflict and led to a surge of support for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), especially in Derry. The Republic of Ireland held a national day of mourning and crowds besieged and burnt down the chancery of the British Embassy in Dublin.

Two investigations were held by the Government of the United Kingdom. The Widgery Tribunal, conducted shortly after the event, largely accepted the soldiers’ accounts and was widely criticised as a whitewash. In 1998, the Saville Inquiry was established to reinvestigate the killings. Its 2010 report concluded that the shootings were “unjustified” and “unjustifiable”, that none of those shot posed a threat and that soldiers had given false accounts to justify their actions. British Prime Minister David Cameron formally apologised on behalf of the United Kingdom.

Following the Saville Report, police opened a murder investigation. One former soldier was charged; after a series of legal challenges the case was resumed. In 2025, the former paratrooper known as “Soldier F” went on trial for two murders and five attempted murders and was found not guilty.

Chewbacca defense

Nonsensical diversionary legal defense

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In a jury trial, the Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which a criminal defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor. It is an intentional distraction or obfuscation. As a Chewbacca defense distracts and misleads, it is an example of a red herring. It is also an example of an irrelevant conclusion, a type of informal fallacy in which one making an argument fails to address the issue in question.^[1][2] Often an opposing counsel can legally object to such arguments by declaring them irrelevant, character evidence, or argumentative.

Johnnie Cochran uses the Chewbacca defense against Chef in the South Park episode “Chef Aid”.

The name “Chewbacca defense” comes from “Chef Aid”, an episode of the American animated series South Park.^[3] The episode, which premiered on October 7, 1998, satirizes the O. J. Simpson murder trial, particularly attorney Johnnie Cochran’s closing argument for the defense. In the episode, a fictionalized version of Cochran bases his argument on a false premise about the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. He asks the jury why a Wookiee like Chewbacca would want to live on Endor with the much smaller Ewoks when “it does not make sense”. He argues that if Chewbacca living on Endor does not make sense—and if even mentioning Chewbacca in the case does not make sense—then the jury must acquit.

Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is an organization of LGBT members of the Republican Party and straight allies who work to increase inclusion within the party, and to voice Republican values among the LGBT community.^[2] LCR has over 30 chapters from about half of the states and the District of Columbia.

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LCR began in 1977 during opposition to an anti-gay ballot initiative in California, defeated in 1978. The organization has endorsed or withheld endorsement of Republican presidential candidates based on perceived agreement on varying issues regarding equality and inclusion.

Log Cabin Republicans filed a federal lawsuit against the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) government policy, which went to trial in 2010. The presiding judge ruled in favor of LCR in September, finding the policy unconstitutional, though the decision was vacated a year later after DADT was repealed in December 2010.

LCR has no official position regarding abortion, believes in a strong national defense, and supports national equality for transgender people, with some “guardrails”. In the 2020s, several state chapters took positions against transgender rights, which brought criticism from broader advocacy and rights groups. Other critics say LCR is too centrist regarding party principles. More recent criticism involves LCR’s continued support for President Trump after his administrations’ actions against certain rights for transgender people.

What3words (stylized as what3words) is a proprietary^[4] geocode system designed to identify any location on the surface of Earth with a resolution of approximately 3 metres (9.8 ft). It is owned by What3words Limited, based in London, England. The system encodes geographic coordinates into three permanently fixed dictionary words. For example, the front door of 10 Downing Street in London is identified by ///slurs.this.shark.^[5]