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Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups – Smoking on a Bike

I don't love the title. They have continued to block pop-ups. They didn't keep up with the arms race when websites designed something new that acts like a pop up and is a lot harder to block. And even then, an ad blocker, which some browsers implement does some of the legwork

The title to me implied the initial blocks had been removed which seemed odd since most browsers still offer that per page

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YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows

The more eyes the better and this seems to be the recommendation:

If an adult or child can still cough, cry or speak clearly, then they are still able to clear the obstruction themselves. Get them to lean forward while encouraging them to cough forcefully.

If the person goes quiet, cannot speak or cry, or can only weakly cough, you want to start with five strong back blows first. With the person bent forward at their hips, deliver firm glancing blows between their shoulder blades using the heel of your hand up to five times.

If the obstruction does not clear, switch to abdominal thrusts. Continue alternating five back blows and five abdominal thrusts until the obstruction is cleared or the person becomes unconscious.

I'm still looking for what to do if I'm alone and something happens.

The article also uses the text "In the updated guidelines, our Canadian study was cited to inform this critical change, and was the only study directly comparing different choking techniques." to link here:

https://cpr.heart.org/en/resuscitation-science/cpr-and-ecc-guidelines/adult-basic-life-support

But I see no mention of any of these directions there. If someone does, let me know where I'm scanning over.

Edit: Failing at adding an underline to signal the actual link while having the URL readable.

Edit: Added the preceding "then they are still able to clear the obstruction themselves" paragraph that I'd mostly scanned over when reading the article

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40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research

Downvoting not because the topic is unimportant but because the new study is run by this news agency without publishing their questions or methodology. That seems like running for a headline with little concern for accuracy or scientific methods. I could be wrong but until they are more open we don't know

Edit: If you ignore the authors then the above is a pretty reasonable interpretation but it was written by some university researchers. They are surprisingly unclear (to me) in the body for what study exactly they are referencing to, at least in their opening paragraphs. Still, it doesn't seem to be a survey from the conversation so I'm going to remove the downvote

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What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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A related peeve of mine is stateless URLs. When backend engineers built UIs they were terrible in a lot of ways but the URL would often reflect the state of the UI so you could refresh and get back to the same view. I think web frameworks and people specialising as frontend engineers helped kill this being something that was added as you developed

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Australian senator removed from Parliament's Sports Club after denouncing gambling industry

I would have added these quotes with the title since I think think the title is misleading

Independent senator David Pocock, a former captain of the Wallabies, has been declared persona non grata by the Parliament Sports Club, after he complained about its sponsors including a gambling lobbyist.

Pocock, who represents the ACT, said on Friday he had recently brought to light that lobbyists were “buying access to parliamentarians” through $2500 club sponsorships. The club was on the official lobbyists register, he said

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Trump ends support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid growing Epstein feud

https://www.comicsands.com/aoc-mtg-revenge-tour

AOC on a livestream:

Marjorie Taylor Greene wanted to run for Senate in Georgia. She wanted to run for Senate earlier this year in the state of Georgia. She wanted to be the Republican nominee for Senate. So she was gearing up for that statewide race, and Trump told her no.

Trump said no. And the White House and Trump Land shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for Senate, and she has been on a revenge tour ever since.

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Japanese woman convicted of hiding daughter’s body in freezer for 20 years

Keiko Mori’s eldest daughter, Ms Makiko, 29, was killed about 20 years ago by her husband.

Judge Shizuka Asakura said Mori hid the body in a closet and later moved it to a freezer after it decomposed, adding that the daughter had behavioural problems and had committed acts of domestic violence.

I hit a paywall then but I found another article and it seems like both sentences could do with some editing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-mother-hiding-body-freezer-jail-b2887538.html

The court acknowledged Mori’s testimony that her daughter had struggled with “illegal drug use” and had been “physically violent towards her parents”, local media reported.

Makiko was killed by her father, Mori’s husband, who died in September, but the court noted that when he had tried to report the murder to police, he was stopped by Mori’s mother.

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Fed Chair Powell says he's under criminal investigation, won't bow to Trump intimidation

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A lot of those methods involve completely ignoring people's interests or the legal system, the international order, deliberately trying to kneecap institutions that get in your way, filling the government with people of one political view while trying to remove those of the other political views, threats, bribes, and weaponising the justice department. I can see how that worked to get more done but I think even with noble goals thats a pretty expensive cost to get there