The Mountain Man

Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer. He is best known for carving a 110-metre-long, 9.1-metre-wide, and 7.7-metre-deep path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel, from which his wife fell and died from injuries due to it blocking easy access to a nearby hospital on time. After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km.

It's true what they say, life is stranger than fiction

In 2024, Kwon posted a YouTube video about how she terminated her pregnancy at 36 weeks. The video triggered public uproar and a criminal complaint from the health ministry. Police then launched an investigation into her and her doctor.

The sheer stupidity...

Aren’t EVs mostly a thing to save the car industry, and not really in the end all that good for the environment?

No that's ICE talking points.

There's obviously no comparison to be made with public transit, public transit kicks the ass of everything else in environmental friendliness. But it isn't and won't be an option in many cities and countries, so cars are here to stay for the medium future at least.

Given that we acknowledge the need for cars, what about the higher environmental impact of manufacturing them? Research shows that based on the cleanliness of the power sources the grid is using, it takes an average of 6 - 24 months for an EV to break even and start overtaking an ICE vehicle in (reduced) emissions. That's not a long time in a car's lifetime, and that's not yet accounting for future economies of scale such as battery recycling that we don't yet implement.

Google is not the arbiter of knowledge, but the combined search engines are certainly a decent indexer of it. To claim something is 'common knowledge' when we're unable to find a hint of it anywhere online, and is based solely on something you read a couple decades ago, is pretty ridiculous.

Do you have a link I can read? I'm referring specifically to the part about centuries of built up excrement.

There's definitely some bad actors in food packaging, though. In some countries, it's insane how hard it is to differentiate between butter and some non-dairy spread at the grocery.

Had never heard of the game before, but the gameplay sounds really interesting

How is it defamation if it's true?

Tldr, rehash of news from 2024 (clinical trials) with no update since. Slow news day I guess

These people are whack

Is that actually a thing? I can find results on Google about their crappy sewage system being overwhelmed, but nothing like what you're mentioning.

She has received the explicit support of U.S. President Donald Trump: on Sunday, the tycoon immediately congratulated her on her “landslide victory.”

Really tells you all you need to know about her right there.

Japan “is heading for an economic and fiscal catastrophe, but Takaichi doesn’t seem to understand it,” Koichi Nakano, a professor of political science at Sophia University in Tokyo, observed last Thursday. He warned political spectrum was shifting to the right and predicted that Takaichi’s “bet” to “personalize politics” and “create a system for which she is barely accountable” would likely win. He was alarmed by Takaichi’s intention to cut consumption taxes while simultaneously increasing defense spending, which would in turn “antagonize China and militarize the tension.” What’s more, Tokyo has agreed with Trump to invest $550 billion in the United States. “It doesn’t make much sense in terms of security and economic policy,” said Nakano.

The WLTP is pretty accurate to the actual range I get on my BYD.

We're not discussing 'typical' workloads (whatever that is), we're discussing one specific person's use case, and you've somehow decided you know better than him without any information

So not the American diplomats, then.

So this comm approves of gaslighting, I see

I did! Most of the arguments against basically boil down to 'make it harder for the average user to do this'. In addition to the unequal access to information, sites like lemvote demonstrate how easy it will be for the average user to bypass the imaginary technical barrier. Sure, you may block it now, but as the Threadiverse grows so will the number of sites and such that do so. Even a browser extension ala RES. Even without the whack-a-mole issue, it's only a matter of time before somebody sets up such an utility for public access with an obfuscated instance that can't be easily blocked.

Sorry, as an Asian I honestly thought Mexico was in South America. I don't think we touched the americas more than one day in geography class.

Honestly if it was something you read 20 years ago and there's nothing about it to be found today, there's a chance it was nothing but racist nonsense. (Not saying you're racist or anything, just that the source might have been and you got taken in).