Another way to help: If you have an idea that someone could possibly patent, no matter how stupid you think it is, you can publish a defensive technical disclosure on tdcommons for free https://www.tdcommons.org/

Not the best example, the health risks from radium dials were mostly to the people that painted them, because they licked their brushes to point them.

Not temu, but I buy loads of stuff from aliexpress, from dice to entire 3d printers.

If your kid tries to eat their camera you have bigger issues to worry about.

Viral is no longer a strong enough adjective for headline editors, we now have MEGAVIRAL.

There’s no need for mastodon to be in the mix here, whatever software they are using can federate directly. I know wordpress already has a plugin to do exactly that. (I have no idea what CMS major news outlets use, hopefully not wordpress)

People have to choose a server with mastodon, and you can’t just pick any server because of the mess of defederations.

The Skripal thing? No amount of tanks or missiles can stop espionage.

I’ve volunteered for a few charity shops (UK version of a thrift store) in the past, the weirdest thing was the trash people would “donate”, like used diapers.

From an entirely selfish perspective, the UK has very few threats militarily, unless the French decide to invade again.

Well now I’m going to have to use it even more.

The article I linked says they’re unrelated.

The Pauli effect is not related to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a bona fide physical phenomenon named after Pauli. However the Pauli effect was humorously tagged as a second Pauli exclusion principle, according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room.

“don’t worry about it being perfect” and “stop being so self critical”

See also, the Pauli effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

The Pauli effect or Pauli’s device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.

An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.

R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli’s entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect

lab lab

Octopodes no longer die when they give birth, meaning they can teach their young and form societies.

I stole it from Babylon 5, but “assassin of joy” is one I’ve used a few times

Windows hasn’t added any features of value since Windows 7 XP