has been coined the “Franklin Fire”.

“Dubbed” or “named” or “termed” or such.

To “coin” X is to create a new word X rather than to name a thing; it’s not a synonym for the above words.

He coined the word “spork”.

There’s that cartoon about the outbreak of WW1 showing the escalation from Serbia to Austria-Hungary to Russia to Germany to France and the UK:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/cade1c1b-60b9-4206-98c4-09bfc5a271eb.jpeg

It’s what the Hubble found, but not what our model predicted.

Apparently we really do still have something wrong with our model of how physics works.

I suppose that this is the basic spoon set that excludes things like the grapefruit spoon.

Yet changing circumstances may require a new approach. One difference is that economic growth is back in focus. Last year Ursula von der Leyen, the commission’s returning president, asked Mario Draghi, a former head of the European Central Bank, to write a report on the continent’s waning competitiveness. The resulting tome pointed to Europe’s weakness in tech as a cause of its woes.

Heavier regulation might not help, but as I have repeatedly commented before, I believe that the dominant difference between the EU and US on large, business-to-consumer tech companies, the reason that the US has had more startup tech companies that grew to become giants, is not heavy regulation in the EU, but rather market fragmentation in the EU.

The EU has companies that make tech products. What it doesn’t have a lot of is large business-to-consumer tech companies that started in the EU.

A lot of those large business-to-consumer tech companies have large fixed costs, and small variable costs. Whether Google has one customer or a billion customers, they still have to pay their engineers to create their products; that’s a fixed cost. They just need more servers as they scale up. For a company with large fixed costs, being small is really bad, as you still have the large fixed costs, but you don’t have the revenue from many customers. That means that scaling up quickly is important. The US has a comparatively-homogenous market, so it’s easier to quickly go from zero to a fairly saturated domestic market.

The report mentioned in the above quote from the article that Draghi put out also mentioned market fragmentation as an issue.

US paper

The Economist is a British publication.

checks eBay

Those things are apparently going for ~$250 today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikinews

I have a black-and-white Brother laser printer. My toner isn’t expensive.

I also get generic copy paper. My paper isn’t expensive either.

My printer also doesn’t clog up if I don’t print with it for six months or whatever the way inkjets do.

That’s emacs.

IIRC from earlier reading, Russia was issuing them Russian rifles for the conflict.

I don’t think that the thumbnail is from the current deployment.

“It’s a little bit tricky because this species makes their nest under the ground — more than 30 meters — so it is not easy to find,” he said. “We are trying.”

30 meters seems kind of unlikely to me. 30 centimeters, maybe?

kagis

https://www.orkincanada.ca/blog/the-asian-giant-hornet-murder-hornet-what-you-need-to-know/

Unlike other species of Vespa, V. mandarinia  Asian Giant Hornet prefers to nest underground. With rotten pine roots being a common nesting material for these hornets, however, snake or rodent tunnels that have already been dug up  have also been used to nest.  The depth of these nests are between 6 and 60 centimetres (2.4 and 23.6 in).

Yeah, that seems more like the right range.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/netherlands/2040/

As things stand, the UN expects the population to peak at about 19 million before entering decline, so that should be a pretty easy goal.

You don’t want the “/c/” prefix – take that off and it’ll produce a home-instance-agnostic hyperlink automatically for people reading the comment.

Just:

!community@instance

Like [email protected].

Yeah, trying to blacklist everything you don’t like seems like an endless game of whack-a-mole. Easier to just whitelist what you want.

EDIT: Another reason to subscribe is that you will only see traffic from a remote community on All if at least one person on your home instance has subscribed to it. So if you just browse All, you may never see some stuff at all, and if all the people subscribed to a community unsubscribe and the community isn’t on your home instance, you’ll stop seeing new material from it. If you subscribe, then it’ll show up and keep showing up.

Microsoft closed Arkane Studios after the disaster that was Redfall when most of the poor choices came from Bethesda and Microsoft

Bethesda and Arkane had a common owner, ZeniMax. Bethesda itself didn’t own Arkane.

Based on the fact that I see a lot of posts complaining about Call of Duty on the Threadiverse, I’d imagine that there are at least some people who would be interested in an alternative to CoD.

a former SEC commissioner

Eh, that’s a pretty vanilla pick. Like, not another Gaetz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S._Atkins

He was a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2002 to 2008

From 1990 to 1994, Atkins served on the staff of two former chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt.

He was in a closely-associated spot under Bush Senior, Clinton, and Bush Junior administrations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act

Sunshine Protection Act of 2018: Died in committee in House and Senate

Sunshine Protection Act of 2019: Died in committee in House and Senate

Sunshine Protection Act of 2021: Passed Senate, died in committee in House

Sunshine Protection Act of 2023: Referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce

Numerous polls have found that most Americans believe that a standard time should be fixed and permanent—as many as 75% favor no longer changing clocks twice per year.[18] One of the most common observations among researchers of varying backgrounds is that the change itself causes most of the negative effects, more so than either standard time or daylight saving time.[1] Researchers have observed numerous ill effects of the annual transitions, including reduced worker productivity, increased heart attacks and strokes, increased medical errors,[19] and increased traffic incidents.[3]

The debate over the bill mainly concerns whether it is better to have more sunlight in the morning or the evening. A 2023 YouGov poll found that half of Americans supported permanent daylight time, 31% were in favor of permanent standard time, and 19% had no preference or were not sure.