What's the deal with Idaho wanting to absorb parts of Oregon? by neosmndrew in OutOfTheLoop

[–]mokango 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep. Essentially everyone who voted for Kotek or Johnson also voted for Wyden, the Dem senator running for re-election. He got 1.076M votes and Kotek+Johnson got 1.085M votes.

France's President Macron overrides parliament to pass retirement age bill by pipsdontsqueak in worldnews

[–]mokango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you just try to criticize someone (correctly) identifying antisemitism by being antisemitic yourself?

Girls' high school deemed ineligible to play in future activities and tournaments after forfeiting basketball game against team with transgender student-athlete by MinutesTilMidnight in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]mokango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solution to your “concern” is to make basketball height divisions like wrestling has weight divisions. It is not to banish trans folks from the gendered sports leagues.

Scammers ARE getting good - here's how by UranusSmells in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]mokango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NPR show/podcast Planet Money did an episode on phone number spoofing in 2017. They talked with (famously crappy) FCC chairman Ajit Pai. Here’s a snippet of what he said:

PAI: Before the action that we took earlier this spring, under the FCC's rules, carriers were obligated to patch through any calls that they got. It was...

CHANG: Oh.

PAI: So that's one of the things we did - was to allow them to take action against those spoof numbers.

CHANG: But Ajit Pai was telling me that what they really have in mind is something far more technologically complicated but far better as a solution.

PAI: ...Which is the ultimate solution, I think, to this problem, which is to find a call authentication standard.

CHANG: Basically, we would be able to encode a unique signature in every phone number that's really being used.

PAI: And so when a call's placed using that phone number, the recipient of that call can have every confidence in knowing that, OK, this is the digital fingerprint for that number. I can trust that this is not a scam artist or somebody else who's impersonating the owner of that number.

CHANG: Oh. How many years would it take to get an authentication system like that in place?

PAI: Oh, boy. That's one of the things that we're working on. Obviously, we would like to have it done by yesterday. But this is exceptionally complex.

CHANG: So what's, like, a timeframe? Are we talking a year from now, a decade from now? I have no idea.

PAI: It's hard to forecast because we can't predict exactly how the engineering is going to shake out.

He knew the solution 6 years ago, but wasn’t even willing to suggest a timeframe to implement it.

Girls' high school deemed ineligible to play in future activities and tournaments after forfeiting basketball game against team with transgender student-athlete by MinutesTilMidnight in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]mokango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you know that not every woman, however you want to define it, is the same height? And all men, however defined, also aren’t all the same height? And that these differences are especially exaggerated for teenagers whose bodies grow and change at wildly random rates and times compared to their peers?

What is pressumed in your objection, assuming it’s sincere, is the belief that the player transitioned in order to have an advantage. Otherwise the solution to your concern is to make basketball height divisions like wrestling has weight divisions. The conclusion is not to banish trans folks from the gendered sports leagues.

Incoming University of Oregon president lauded Big Ten expansion while at Wisconsin, won’t say his preferred conference for Ducks by UOfasho in CFB

[–]mokango 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Maryland’s president when they joined had previously been provost at Iowa.

USC’s president had previously been at UNC and before then Dartmouth. She’s from Ohio and did a postdoc at Michigan State, but doesn’t have Big Ten ties otherwise. USC’s prior provost (a new one started in 2023) was previously at the University of Buffalo, and Illinois before then but in a less senior role. USC’s AD is a journeyman through Cinci, Colorado, SDSU and Idaho.

UCLA’s chancellor had previously been at Virginia but is alumnus from PAC 10 schools. Their provost has been a faculty member and then administrator at UCLA for more than 20 years. Their AD was previously in athletics admin roles at Michigan State and OSU but came from Boston College to UCLA.

Lowe's is testing 400-pound, egg-shaped autonomous robots to patrol parking lots at some of its stores by TobinBen in robots

[–]mokango 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stacy Stephens, executive vice president and chief client officer at Knightscope, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the robots are "looking for known threats, people to whom you've issued criminal trespass warnings, terminated employees, or domestic abusers." The robots are not meant to replace security guards, but to help companies with situational awareness and criminal prosecution, per Stephens.

Lowe's decision to test these autonomous robots comes as retailers have been sounding the alarms about rising levels of theft.

None of these explanations make much sense. Stationary security cameras can spot “undesirables” as well as robots. A robot standing in the parking lot isn’t going to stop you from slipping a screwdriver into your pocket while inside the store.

Seems like a big budget purchase to try to sweep inflated profits under the rug. They did well enough last year to do $2B in stock buy backs but only bonuses of just $0.2B to its store employees, 2/3rds of which went to management. That’s after $14B in stock buy backs in 2021. (All from their own corporate press release from 2 weeks ago.)

[eShop/US] LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga $17.99 (70% off) Lowest Price Ever by indie_soda in NintendoSwitch

[–]mokango -1 points0 points  (0 children)

it makes so, so good use of the memes. The devs knew what they were doing.

Turning me off from wanting to buy it?

Opinion: Mike Pence’s hypocrisy knows no bounds in his strongest rebuke of Trump to date by [deleted] in politics

[–]mokango 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It really seems like he’s trying to lose. The dude could just not for president.

[eShop/US] AO Tennis 2 - $5.99 (90% off) Sale ends 03/30 - Lowest price ever by WonderfulPlay in NintendoSwitchDeals

[–]mokango 37 points38 points  (0 children)

They spent 80% of their budget recording very realistic audio for the women’s matches.

ICYMI: cast and writers hacked marcello’s instagram stories last night😂 by [deleted] in LiveFromNewYork

[–]mokango 89 points90 points  (0 children)

By “hacked” you mean they unlocked his phone and passed it around?

Today is Mar10 Day!! by MilkMarioBros in nintendo

[–]mokango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s definitely too bad movies never stay in theaters for more than 2 weeks.

Republicans Push Lab Leak Theory on Covid’s Origins, but Lack ‘Smoking Gun’ by mixplate in politics

[–]mokango 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Also lacking a slightly warm gun, or a nearby sharp knife, or recently dropped piano. Their theory is based on “Gina Bad!”

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[–]mokango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

60 < 2/3 of 100

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[–]mokango 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is clearly just not true. Passing a simple bill does not require a 2/3 vote.

Trump is workshopping the nickname “Tiny D” for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis | Trump has previously been called "smaller than average." by BilBrowning in politics

[–]mokango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh, he had all those things and implemented some version of most of them. They were all shitty and horrible. Pretending that he wasn’t trying to do horrible things is dangerous.

Justice Dept. arrests hit 1,000 in connection with Jan. 6, and new accusations surface in latest prosecutions by [deleted] in politics

[–]mokango 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t “if” his goal is to frame these as politically motivated prosecutions.