The GMO gene in Golden Rice is patented. It's just licensed for use for free in developing countries on small hold farms. A monoculture of golden rice would be less diverse than the current wide range of heritage rice varieties, and there could be over reliance on it which could case issues if there was a blight. Theres some concern that spread of the genes could catch unaware farmers with legal issues, but it's harder for rice genes to spread than most other crops, as they're usually self-pollinating. The risks dont seem to outweigh the benefits in this case, but it is more complex than it appears on the surface level. Greenpeace doesn't seem to be able to use scientific research to back its claims here, and is instead just staying true to it's anti-GMO message.

I appreciate your viewpoint, your garden looks great, but that short grass is a barren wasteland for biodiversity. You have to work out what's important for you, and all sides should respect that decision.

It would be possible to maintain some of it as a native wildflower meadow instead, and keep the overall length managed without using weed killers and poisons and huge amounts of water like grass requires. There's no such thing as a native weed, but you do have to remove some individuals for diversity and soil health if they grow too large. I do this with brambles and other large light blocking species, as I don't have the space to support them, even though they're great for wildlife, they end up having a short term negative biodiversity impact in a small space. Even a small corner or container of native wildflower would support native pollinators and vastly improve the health and biodiversity of your entire garden. Get a solitary bee hotel, if they exist in your country. Leave a pile of sticks/logs somewhere for insects. Get a pond if you can. You already compost so that's good. Nature isn't meant to be tidy, neat or uniform. But I understand that not everybody can appreciate the value that could be gained from millions of gardens improving thier biodiversity, and that conforming with others and past practices and traditions may be a stronger factor for some people to want to keep their gardens neat. You're clearly a good gardener, but no wildlife conservationist, you can have both though. It's not about being intentionally messy, it's about creating conditions for wildlife to be invited in. Those fully overgrown gardens are probably great for nature, but you are right that they have to consider the size of the space and the proximity of neighbours before doing that, and not being considerate of that can make them a bit of an asshole.

Below is a fact-checked inventory of every documented instance in which Donald Trump either spoke about, objectified or admitted behaviour toward girls under 18, plus verified problems tied to his family’s modelling ventures. I have excluded rumours or claims that remain wholly uncorroborated.

1 | On-the-record words sexualising minors

Year Age of girl(s) referenced Verbatim or close-paraphrase Where & when Trump said it

1992 ~10 “I’m going to be dating her in ten years, can you believe it?” — to a child riding an escalator in Trump Tower Entertainment Tonight segment, filmed June 1992, released by ET in 2016 1994 (Tiffany, age 1) 1 After praising the baby’s legs, Trump gestured to his chest and quipped: “We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.” Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous clip resurfaced 25 July 2025 1999 17 (Ivanka) “She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her… so the field is getting very limited.” Howard Stern radio show, reported by Washington Post, 3 Oct 2016 2003 12 (Paris Hilton at the time he first met her) “I’ve known Paris from the time she’s 12… she was beautiful.” Howard Stern interview, confirmed in Reuters fact-check 2003 21 (Ivanka, but still his child) “She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body,” and OK’d Stern calling her a “piece of ass.” Howard Stern, collated by People, 9 Oct 2016 2004 18 (Lindsay Lohan) “She’s probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed.” Howard Stern interview, transcript via Vanity Fair, 14 Oct 2016 2006 24 (Ivanka) “If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” ABC’s The View, 6 Mar 2006, widely quoted; original quote archived by People

2 | Self-described conduct giving him access to undressed contestants

Year of remark What Trump admitted Source

2005 “I’ll go backstage … I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. They’re standing there with no clothes… I sort of get away with things like that.” Howard Stern interview, audio aired by CNN, 13 Oct 2016

Note: The interview referred to Miss USA/Miss Universe (adult) events, but Trump owned Miss Teen USA as well during the same period.

3 | Corroborated eyewitness accounts involving minors

1997 Miss Teen USA (ages 15-18) – Four contestants, led by Mariah Billado (Miss Vermont Teen), told BuzzFeed and were later profiled by PolitiFact that Trump walked unannounced into their changing room while some were nude. One recalled telling Ivanka, who allegedly replied, “Yeah, he does that.”

2001 Miss USA (18+) & 2000 Miss USA – Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon and Miss New Hampshire Bridget Sullivan separately told CBS and BuzzFeed that Trump entered adult contestants’ dressing rooms; Dixon’s account matched Trump’s own 2005 boast.

While the teen-pageant claim rests on witnesses rather than tape, it is consistent with Trump’s own “I’m the owner” explanation above.

4 | Modelling & “pipeline” red flags

Year(s) What happened Age(s) involved Source

1998-2016 Trump Model Management actively recruited girls “as young as 14,” according to its website and court filings. 14-17 ABC News investigation (Alexia Palmer lawsuit) 2011-14 Jamaican teen Alexia Palmer was brought to New York at 17 on an H-1B visa promising $75k/yr; suit alleges she earned $4,985 in three years while the agency deducted 80 % in “fees.” 17-20 ABC News, federal docket Pageant-to-agency pipeline A modelling contract with Trump Models was a prize at Miss Teen USA, meaning under-18 winners went straight to his agency. 15-18 Same ABC piece & Miss Teen USA prize lists

No criminal trafficking charge was ever filed, but the business model put foreign and U.S. teens under binding, often-exploitative contracts controlled by Trump-owned entities.

5 | Why these items are considered “proven”

Primary evidence – All quotes above come from broadcast video/audio, court-filed transcripts, or mainstream outlets that published the raw recordings.

Multiple corroborations – Pageant dressing-room entries are buttressed both by Trump’s own 2005 admission and by contestants’ contemporaneous or on-the-record stories.

Documented business records – Trump Model Management’s visa filings and lawsuit exhibits are part of the federal court docket, not hearsay.

Anything not meeting those thresholds (e.g., the withdrawn “Katie Johnson” lawsuit or social-media rumors of a secret Epstein list) is omitted here.

Bottom line

From joking about “dating” a 10-year-old, to bragging that his ownership let him enter dressing rooms, to steering 14-to-17-year-old models into restrictive contracts, Donald Trump has repeatedly placed himself — in word and deed — in sexualised proximity to under-age girls. None of these facts has yet produced a criminal conviction, but they are documented, on-camera, in court, or from firsthand witnesses and therefore represent the “proven” record to date.

I block DOGE, Trump and Elongated Muskrat as keywords, because Lemmy sometimes thinks it's AmeriLemmy, and I just don't care. But the blocks don't work on comments or pictures. Using Voyager app, anyone have any ideas?

Have you ever seen Amsterdam? About 60% of people ride a bike daily, and it accounts for about 40% of all traffic movements in the city.

If you replaced all of these bike journeys with cars, the yearly economic burden would be around €750,000,000 (~$785,000,000) from congestion alone. Are bikes good for all journeys, no. But it's hard to say that most cities wouldn't benefit from design that allows more short bike journeys.

If you're willing to walk somewhere then the idea of the bike is to make that trip quicker and expand the range of the trip in the time you have. Not to replace all car journeys.

Serious question, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy it?

I think this is a classic case of "The complainers are way more vocal than the life enjoyers", combined with modern technology being set up to promote controversial content. When someone's enjoying this life and being chill, they also don't usually care about spreading thier message. The complainers are either memetic or often political and seem to enjoy a much greater platform. Also more controversial content generates more negative engagement, and most social media promotes content that has high engagement, because it benefits them to have users engage and stay on the site longer.

Below is a road-map of concrete, lawful steps that different actors can take—from prosecutors to ordinary voters—to address the documented pattern of Donald Trump’s sexualised behaviour toward girls and the exploitation risks inside his pageant / model businesses. Each item points to an existing mechanism or a bill already on the table so that the path forward is realistic rather than rhetorical.

1. Re-open (or newly open) criminal inquiries where statutes allow

Level What can be done Why it is still possible

State grand juries (e.g., FL, NY) Subpoena pageant and modelling payroll + visa files, interview the four Miss Teen USA eyewitnesses, and test Trump’s 2005 audio admission against state “voyeurism” or “endangering the welfare of a child” statutes. Many states have no limitation clock for felony child-sex crimes, and others have brand-new revival windows (MI, CA, NY, NJ) that explicitly cover past child-porn or voyeurism offenses. Federal DOJ could convene a trafficking task-force review of Trump Model Management’s H-1B / F-1 filings, comparing promised wages with actual pay in the Alexia Palmer docket. DHS’s 2025 visa-integrity rule now treats chronic under-payment as fraud against the government, not just a civil wage dispute.

Key point: none of the items above require new laws—only willpower and survivor cooperation.

1. Bolster survivors’ ability to sue, even decades later

Pass the bipartisan Statutes of Limitation for Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act, which offers grants to states that wipe out criminal & civil time-bars and open a “look-back” period for lapsed claims.

Support state-level “window” bills modelled on Michigan’s 2025 package extending civil cases against private actors and governments.

Ensure any federal window explicitly covers visual-voyeurism and grooming, not just physical assault—a gap that let earlier claims against Trump lapse.

1. Regulate the modelling and pageant pipelines that put teens at risk

Problem revealed by the record Targeted fix

Unsupervised backstage access (Trump’s own 2005 boast; Miss Teen witnesses) Require pageant owners to obey the SafeSport standard already used in youth sports: separate changing facilities, roving safeguarding officers, and a hotline with power to suspend licenses. Visa-tied debt bondage inside Trump Model Management (80 % fee deductions) Amend H-1B final rule to cap “management fees” at 20 % and ban salary deductions that push net pay below the prevailing wage for minors or first-year models. Lack of industry oversight Revive the 2012 Senate proposal for a Federal Modelling Bureau to license agencies, publish complaint tallies, and share data with state labour boards.

1. Close the digital-evidence gap

Enact the STOP CSAM Act of 2025, which forces social-media and cloud providers to retain and disclose CSAM evidence on court order—crucial because Trump’s 1990s–2000s pageant footage now circulates mainly online.

Fund NCMEC & RAINN’s hotline expansion; RAINN is already backing the bill.

1. What journalists, researchers and everyday citizens can do right now

2. Archive and cross-reference the primary files you already collected (black book, flight logs, docket 1320) on redundant mirrors such as the Internet Archive and Perma.cc; link them whenever you post so readers can verify.

3. Use FOIA: request DHS visa-fraud memos on Trump Model Management (2000-2016), FAA incident reports for the seven logged Trump–Epstein flights, and any FBI 302s created during the 2005 Palm Beach probe.

4. Support outlets that litigate for more disclosure—e.g., the Miami Herald FOIA team whose suit pried loose the Epstein–Acosta NPA. Subscriptions and legal-fund donations move the needle.

5. Contact your representatives with the specific bill numbers above rather than generic outrage; lawmakers track constituent requests by docket.

6. Signal-boost survivor resources rather than unverified rumors: link RAINN (1-800-656-HOPE) and state programs whenever sharing the story.

1. Safeguard future elections from undisclosed misconduct

Mandatory release of candidate–owned NDA settlements involving sexual misconduct above $30 k (a draft bill was floated during the 118th Congress but never brought to a vote).

Ethics-in-Candidacy Act (proposed by civic groups in 2024) would tie public campaign financing and debate access to full disclosure of backstage credentials, modelling-agency holdings, and private-aircraft passenger lists going back 20 years.

The takeaway

The evidence already on the public record is sufficient to trigger fresh subpoenas, survivor lawsuits, and targeted rule-makings—if citizens, prosecutors and lawmakers choose to act.

Waiting for a single “smoking-gun” file before moving is a trap; the legal levers above work because the behaviour (voyeurism of minors, abusive visa contracts) is already admitted or corroborated. Focus on enforcing the laws that exist, fixing the ones that don’t, and keeping every document in daylight so the window for accountability stays open until justice is finally done.

In Europe this would likely be 30 mins commute on a train if you work in any sizable city. And you can take your bike on the train and finish the rest of the commute on the bike.

CTRL+SHIFT+L to sync my room lights to the screen using huenicorn. Plan on hooking up openrgb as well when I can be bothered to write a script.

I'm not trying to cause offence, but is there an ethical way to eat animals, or does it become unethical as soon as we have the means and ability to not do so?

It seams like for a lot of people, thier traditions and culture outweigh thier personal ethical benefits and thats the biggest problem that has to be overcome. Some places do not allow for growing sufficient and complete protein to feed the population, for example Egypt or Bangladesh. It seems that the cultures might be harder to overcome in these places.

I was thinking maybe insects as a protein source would be a positive step for these locations. But thats obviously hard to overcome culturally. What do vegans think of eating insects?

The existence of dinosaurs is well-established through a variety of scientific evidence. Here are some of the key proofs:

1. Fossil Evidence

• Bone Fossils: The most compelling evidence for the existence of dinosaurs comes from fossils. These are preserved remains found in sedimentary rocks that have formed from sediments laid down in ancient rivers, lakes, and seas. Dinosaur bones show distinct features, such as air-filled cavities that indicate they were adapted to support massive bodies while being lightweight, similar to modern birds.
• Tracks and Footprints: Fossilized footprints and tracks give clues about the behavior, movement, and size of these creatures. Sites like the Paluxy River trackways in Texas and others around the world show clear, sequential dinosaur footprints.
• Egg Fossils: Fossilized eggs have been found in many locations around the world, providing direct evidence of reproduction in dinosaurs. Some nests even contain embryos, which help scientists understand growth and development in these creatures.

2. Geological Distribution

• Global Spread: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent on Earth, including Antarctica. This widespread geographic distribution is consistent with the known plate tectonics and continental drift over geological time scales, supporting the timeline in which dinosaurs are said to have existed.

3. Radiometric Dating

• Age Determination: Radiometric dating methods allow scientists to determine the age of rock layers where dinosaur fossils are found. These methods typically use the decay of naturally occurring isotopes, such as uranium-lead or potassium-argon dating, to establish the age of rocks as ranging from about 66 to over 200 million years old—corresponding to the Mesozoic Era, the time period during which dinosaurs thrived.

4. Comparative Anatomy and Phylogeny

• Anatomical Similarities: The study of dinosaur fossils allows scientists to reconstruct their skeletons and infer muscle attachments and body shapes. Comparisons with modern animals can help interpret their posture, diet, and lifestyle.
• Evolutionary Relationships: Dinosaurs share many features with other groups of vertebrates, especially birds. In fact, modern birds are considered the direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs, a relationship supported by numerous anatomical and genetic data.

5. Soft Tissue and Molecular Evidence

• In some rare cases, soft tissues have been preserved in dinosaur fossils. For example, flexible blood vessels and cells have been reported in Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. While controversial and rare, such findings can provide insights into the biology of these ancient creatures.

6. Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

• Contextual Clues: Fossilized plants, pollens, and associated animal fossils found alongside dinosaur remains help reconstruct the environments they lived in, further validating their existence and providing context about the ecosystem dynamics of the past.

Collectively, these evidences from paleontology, geology, and biology robustly demonstrate that dinosaurs existed as real, living organisms on Earth millions of years ago. Their study continues to provide valuable insights into the history of life on our planet.

Can you middle click?

I like B the best

In the UK you can get on a train without booking a ticket for that specific train, for example an open return or just a day pass. The train company has no idea how many seats will be taken or how many people will get on the train. So say it's a 10 carriage train. Every seat is taken by someone, reserved or unreserved, and theres not a bit of standing room anywhere (this is very common). Which person sat on a reserved red light indicator seat should you kick out? And how do you know they didn't reserve that seat specifically before you do that? Or do you kick someone out of a green lit non-reserved seat, with thier proof that the seat is not reserved and they are allowed to sit there, and your proof that you dont even have that seat reserved. It will also be the old people and small children sat down, and you won't really be popular if you make them stand. Yeah you're not sitting if you have this ticket. You'll likely be stood by the entrance door for 3 hours instead. This seat reservation ticket may as well say, "sorry no seat today", and it's definitely infuriating to lean that you will be standing for your journey when you've payed full price for a seat, maybe £40 depending where.

Ignore me if I'm being stupid, but could you just not give it internet? A lot of TVs have high spec CPU/APU these days and complicated firmware, surely ability to update the firmware for these is necessary for patches/feature improvements. They probably think it's silly not to include software if they can, but I agree the software experience is often a bit of a let down. LGs been good, but admittedly I block all telemetry on my network so wouldn't notice any downsides.

Removes french language pack!

Sounds like you're well paid and your time is valued, I imagine most devs would be happy with that!

https://vger.app/

It's a web app but you can add it to your home screen if you go to "settings -> install".

It's really active on github with new features. Open source too. https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Kind of true, but it's more like an ant scent marking. They know this is a place that's safe (rats have been here). With good absorbent natural substrate in the cage, and wiping down their free roam area if needed, it's mostly unnoticeable. I like to compare it to a person needing to change their t-shirt every day, probably not a deal-breaker for interacting, unless you don't clean for way too long.