Afaik the US and UK deposed the previous government and installed the Shah. Who was then overthrown because, well, Iranians had low quality of life while money was flowing out of the country to US and UK.

People arguing about lid closing when clearly the biggest sin is a laptop on a carpet. Please put a hard surface under to stop it hoovering up all dust and particles possible and having appalling airflow

Because society has decided that we need to shame women for everything they do. Particularly as related to sex.

On the one hand, a paternity test is pretty reasonable, especially at a young age where it can have massive implications.

On the other hand, they are often weaponised to use as accusatory slut-shaming.

The only thing you did wrong was maybe not being careful enough, but God knows we've all been there, and it's always possible even if you are very careful.

Best of luck and most importantly, keep your head high.

Yep. It's awful. And then you have the occasional other situation when it reinforces that women can't be "real engineers" so a few of my friends and colleagues have been at booths at events and have to deal with awful sexist nonsense because of this being the awful sexist norm.

Interesting article, clearly written with an extreme bias.

It definitely makes some extravagant claims that are not thoroughly backed up.

This definitely doesn't belong in TIL. It is not an established fact, and if it is an established fact, a medium article from a strongly biased author is not a reliable source for it.

TIL the US committed mass war crimes in Korea resulting in a 20% population reduction is maybe more apt. But it still requires a better source than this article. Such as an academic paper or article which includes references to reliable sources.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Helped me get through my engineering degree. Absolutely the best maths education I've ever seen.

You are correct that the protests are specifically about the group Palestine Action. Which while they have committed crimes within the UK haven't committed any acts of terror. And therefore should not be classified as terrorist.

The terror act was extremely controversial when it was enacted because it grants the government far reaching authoritarian abilities which are fundamentally against our standard of human rights.

It is only acceptable for extreme cases of groups which are in fact committing acts of terror against civilian population.

Therefore, it is protesting against the decision to designated a group which is not terrorist as terrorist

Its 100% worth it to clean and regrease the bearings in your bike's axles (if they are open bearing). And it's really not a hugely intensive process.

I've been going down a massive rabbit hole of bicycle stuff, and it's really similar to the older days of pc building, lots of possibilities for upgrades, lots of brands, compatibility is pretty wide but also needs to be paid attention to.

It's loads of fun.

Ps everyone should go watch centaurworld. It's a masterpiece.

The old world broke when the US and UK invaded Iraq illegally in 2003. This is the natural consequence of that. If the people claiming to uphold them don't follow the rules because they are strong enough, then if we are strong enough we can do anything we want.

Rapist gets along with rapist

I'm so annoyed at coverage of these issues and the economy as a whole. Journalists have to use the biggest numbers they can to make people think it's important.

Ok a 64% reduction in profits is not good. But that also means that the company is still profitable and wants to fire the thousands of people, and in so doing harm the local economy, that gave it massive profits for decades.

A 64% reduction in profits cannot be the company making a loss. Yet the article claims that BMW and Mercedes are "also making similar large losses".

Shareholders have been robbing employees blind for decades, and the second it gets a little bit less profitable we have to fire thousands of people?

And yes, I understand there must be some consideration of future proofing costs against a shrinking consumer base, but such drastic measures are solely aimed at preservation of shareholder dividends and value (see Boeing).

The others have put good descriptions of why calories are an accurate measurement for food energy.

However, you are absolutely correct that calories are not a perfect measurement, and different types of foods are not one to one replaceable. 1500 calories of sugar is NOT the same as 1500 calories of protein!

Burning the food produces a reasonable and useful approximation of the available energy.

Does the human body burn food? Of course not. We transform food into useful components and then pump them around the body to be used by cells.

If you eat 1500 calories of protein, your body will use some of those calories simply as proteins, rather than breaking them down into energy (via sugar). Which means you will have less food-energy in your system and are more likely to run a deficit.

Again with protein, the transformation of protein into sugars which can be used as energy takes energy, so you end up with a smaller amount of calories actually being available.

TL;DR Calories are not perfectly interchangeable. However, they are our best, and most useful, quick way of approximating energy intake from food.

The audiophile community keeps them kicking around! Whathifi usually have good reviews and recs. Let me find a link

They literally were married, and unfortunately he died just in January, but her green card had not yet been issued so she didn't know what her actual immigration status is.

Read the article.

The large vehicles he's referring to are industrial large vehicles. Which require special licensing. Even the big ass pickup truck they showed could make the turn with no issues at all going at a reasonable speed.

As another commenter said, Israel is still attacking Lebanon, so, as usual, they ignore any and all ceasefire agreements

Absolutely it should be celebrated.

Once enough users are here, you can join a niche small instance that doesn't federate with as many mainstream ones to get that small community vibe. (Or better yet, make your own instance to build what you want)

The more people using federated social media instead of single-entity controlled social media the better for society.

He did it twice. And it was very clear.

Lots of great software already posted, but with some complaints about windows inefficiencies I can't believe no one has posted:

Microsoft PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

Basically, it's a suite of tools that windows devs have made to make their lives easier while working in windows. Some features have made it into actual windows releases over the years, but most not.

It has an always on top, batch rename, customisable window snapping, better search, keyboard key remapper, mouse across multiple devices, colour eyedropper, and many many more.

Absolute must have for anyone that uses windows regularly.