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China develops iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can last 16 years. It provides a budget-friendly, high-endurance answer for the world’s massive energy storage needs.

This is a content farm/copy of a copy (rule c)1), but I won't remove this due to the immense momentum this post has. Additionally, the linked ScienceDirect paper appears unrelated.

Instead, I'd recommend one of the following high-quality sources:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3351111/china-unveils-ultra-cheap-all-iron-battery-renewable-energy-storage (paywalled!)

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202506734 (paywalled but has abstract, and your local library may have access) —thanks [email protected]!

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sounds like we should get off telegram! (or at least the official client?)

WebP is a pretty awesome format with awesome compression, both lossless and lossy. It's only behind JXL which is not widely adopted.

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Scandal as Wikipedia’s founder edits Israel’s genocide out of online entry

Where is the headline substantiated? Where does the article say that Wales removed the relevant article content? He has not. Check for yourselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gaza_genocide&action=history&offset=&limit=500 It saddens me that news outlets are making false headlines like this. All he did was what the article mentioned about talking on the talk page.

A handful of outlets I thought reliable (from Al Jazeera to Jerusalem Post, both sides of the spectrum) also at least initially said that Wales blocked non-admins from editing the article. What is this nonsense? Wales has no extra permissions besides what anyone with 500 edits has. The "Founder" user right is purely decorative.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Is there something I'm missing here?

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‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms

I would’ve removed this post if I saw it earlier. It’s an interesting article (that surprisingly hasn’t been posted anywhere else yet) but it documents another problem in our society, not any sort of progress or resolution. I would remove, say, “The fight to release the double-tap boat strike video” even if we didn’t have the toxic politics rule.

pinging some of the other mods for their thoughts: @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected]

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Victory for students as universities admit errors caused by flawed AI plagiarism detection.

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I don't think we should ban until IamNobuddy shows a pattern of continuing to post things from utubepublisher.in. They's seemingly-habitually posted these links for a very, very, very long time and their posts two weeks ago here were the reason I issued the utubepublisher.in clarification. But I think after this warning we should remove the user's utubepublisher.in posts on sight.

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I am once once again asking for your bars—what should be the bar/criteria for removal?

I think we should ask for and respect the decision of the community instead of imposing our own judgements. And of course, we still remove personal attacks (not that your admittedly negative-ish comment counted as one /gen).

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YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with only a minority of the votes

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The Conservative government response to a 2016–17 parliamentary petition demanding proportional representation said that "A referendum on changing the voting system was held in 2011 and the public voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the FPTP system."[209] Tim Ivorson of the electoral reform campaign group Make Votes Matter responded by quoting the petition's text that "The UK has never had a say on PR. As David Cameron himself said, the AV referendum was on a system that is often less proportional than FPTP, so the rejection of AV could not possibly be a rejection of PR."[210]

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i think a lot of news from months ago has quite a bit of relevance to the current day, and i haven't seen much posts about things that happened years ago. for the latter case i think it really depends on community sentiment reflected on the comments of said posts.