A Black woman in Ohio was charged after miscarrying in her bathroom. Experts warn of the dangerous precedent.

In America, people of color are poorly treated by police, the justice system, and the healthcare system. It is important to point out examples of this when we see it, because our system usually starts treating marginalized groups unfairly as a test to see how badly they can treat everyone. It is very common for police to look for chargabe offenses they pin on a Black person, but not so much for white people. Once there are charges, prosecutors typically focus on conviction at all costs, especially for Black defendants. Here we have the trifecta: a Black woman has a miscarriage and call for help, and the police show up and immediately look for reasons to arrest her. While she’s recovering from a miscarriage, she’s hit with charges of abusing a corpse because she had the audacity to miscarry in a toilet. Now she’s facing felony charges related to a miscarriage in a state that has passed such draconian anti-abortion laws that even miscarrying could lead to murder charges. So we absolutely have to say exactly what is happening, because if we don’t, this woman and countless others will end up locked in cages with their rights stripped away from them for daring to exist in a way that didn’t satisfy the white supremacist / christofacist factions in this country.

$15 an hour == $100k a year, Apparently.

I wouldn’t go quite that high right off the bat, but… Just peg a full time, min wage, locally (metro area locally), to ~~1/3~~ 3x (EDIT, whoops, mathed backwards) the median price of renting a studio apartment. Would this be an economically perfect policy? Fuuuuck no. Would this actually enable, at least theoretically, an 18 yo kicked out of the family house upon high school graduation, as is the cultural norm in most of America, to actually be at least theoretically capable of providing for themselves and starting their own life? Again, assuming jobs actually exist, yes. This would be the bare minimum needed to make the insanely out off touch asshole boomer logic even mildly line up with reality. … For my next policy: All those with student loan debt, where those students were goaded into that student debt by their parents saying they’d never have a good paying career without a college education, where those students have also been underemployed (a job or jobs not actually crtitically reliant on their degree) for a period of 5 years or more… Congrats students! That debt is now dischargable in a bankruptcy, and it becomes the responsibility of said parents, for whom it is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Unrealistic? Yes. Fundamentally legally impossible? Also probably yes. … Morally correct, in spirit? Oh, oh hell yes, yes. … For my third policy: Graduated municipal landlord taxes based on how much a landlord charges a rental tenant for rent, in addition to existing property taxes. If you are renting out a property for say, double area median rent for comparable sq ft, num bedrooms, etc? Well, now the landlord pays additional tax on that exorbitant rent. Doesn’t totally murder the profit motive, but highly disincentivizes putting high value homes and condos on the market for rent (and would thus incentivize putting them on the market actually for sale, at a reasonable price), incentivizes building modest new apartment buildings instead of only ‘luxury’ apartments. All the proceeds of this tax of course go into funding housing subsidies for the poor, or directly building new, municipally operated, non profit apartment complexes. … Just play the uno reverse card on the landlords, tax their rent extraction.

What is a useful or interesting product under $100 that you wouldn’t normally think to buy?

I bought a pocket sized mini keyboard the other day. Here are some other good buys under $100 -Used graphics cards and computer hardware in general, sometimes you can get 1070s and 1080s for under 100 bucks and they still play most modern games just fine at highish settings. If you don’t have the budget to build a powerful new system. -Some cool tool kits -Mini projector that is pocket sized. -Pocket sized arm computer consoles. Made for emulation. Most run android which is a big downside but a surprisingly capable little computer if your cell phone isn’t enough. -Accessories, necklaces, wristbands, earrings, etc. Never a bad time to improve your looks. -Buying shirts on eBay, it’s a good place to find actually cool shirts. -Rotary cutter and high quality scissors - good for modifying clothing to get a style you like, crop your own shirts to turn guy shirts into girl shirts, i got into this when I transitioned. Looking nice really helps with being trans. -A large battery or battery case for your phone. -Some used phones which have open bootloaders, which greatly increases the utility of your device. Be careful about devices which require signing. I made this mistake with buying a moto G. The unlockable bootloader on the moto G is mostly false advertising. -Smart lights, led strips. -Wifi mesh extender. -A good set of Bluetooth headphones. I like brands like Sony. -A wireless Xbox controller. You need stupid windows to update the firmware to make it work on Bluetooth often times, but it’s nice to have a wireless controller to play PC games with. -Old laptops to throw Linux on -Microcontrollers with gpio, probably has enough processing power to get you to the moon and back if you are clever. A cool way to learn a bit about electronics. -A nice high quality blanket, I spent 120 on a blanket many years ago, and it’s amazing in the cold. Improves sleep quality significantly. -Colored/RP contact lenses, upgrade your cosplay. -Greek drachma coin, carry a bit of silver history in your pocket from 2000 years ago. Can be useful against the undead -Handheld audio recorder. In many states you are allowed to record conversations and can use these in courts to force companies to honor their promises and verbal contracts. Phone companies have tried to make it impossible to record these conversations with corporations, but you can still do it. -An old MP3 player. -.22 revolver. Good for hunting and ammo is cheapish and lightweight. -Folding chair/portable hammock - never be without a chair or bed! -nice backpack, there are some cool ones with built in solar panels that can put out a few watts, when coupled with a power bank or two then you can always have a bit of portable power for charging your devices. -used handheld ham radio, always a useful tool to have in uncertain economic and political times. -Scout hat/ranger hat/sunscreen - take care of your skin if you work in the sun alot. Mineral based sunscreens are the least invasive even if they are kind of gross sometimes. -Pinetime watch - cool little smart watch for 20 bucks that is open source, and you can easily write your own apps for -cheap impact drill + adapter bits - once you use an impact with bits to fit all your sockets and screwdriver bits, you will hardly ever have to use screw drivers and sockets again, you will cut all of your repair times in multiples, go from a 1 hour repair to a 10 minute repair. Wallmart has some cheap ones that are plenty good for light duty use and will last many years. -VPN subscription - Make it harder for people to spy on you, steal your keys, and censor you. Protect your IP from snoops. -A domain + cheap webhosting - create your own website and buy at least a year if webhosting, you can find some cheap options for under $5 a month. Have a off-site cheap little virtual server that you can use for many things. Storing files, hosting websites, reverse proxy and reverse ssh behind bad routers. -A good toothbrush -Rechargable AA batteries - make sure they are 1.5v and not 1.2 v -Pepper spray and/or a nice knife. -Youtube premium subscription - more then 100 a year but get your time back with no ads, offline playback, free music streaming, and support creators more than ads do. -ChatGPT+ - more expensive than 100 a year but nearly invaluable as a resource. The chatGPT5 model is excellent for many tasks and is significantly smarter and more aware of context than the free models. Use it for anything from helping you write scripts and bash, to understanding Linux. Use it to research and educate yourself. -Better pillow, you spend 1/3 of your life sleeping, don’t cheap out on it. -Nice coat/shoes/gloves/etc - you spend 2/3rds of your life wearing clothes, don’t cheap out on them. -Reusable razor, clippers, maybe a waxing kit - Again, looks are important, how you look has a significant effect on how people treat you and effects nearly every aspect of your life and happiness. -Old books, knowledge is increasingly being erased and manipulated by current regimes, don’t rely on the internet for all your knowledge, pick up old reference books from thrift stores, medical, language, engineering, history, and anything else. -Medkit, and then expand it, get stuff to do emergency surgeries. Keep a notebook in it with notes and also references for common things and instructions to use them safely. So e good emergency recipes to have are lidocaine from aspirin, a local anesthetic, and chloroform for emergency surgeries, dangerous but potentially life saving in some situations. Keep some extra stuff in there if you come across it, opiates, wide spectrum antibiotics, antipsychotics, benzos, iodine tablets whatever. Gauge and medical tape, stitches, Tylenol, alcohol, and other useful things. -Survival seed banks, water filters. -An offline battery device configured with offline AI models, can be useful for looking up information, even if it’s really slow. Good for conversions, medical advice, and just general knowledge. -Geiger counter - always a useful tool to have around, just to be sure, it also detects Radeon gas emmisions usually. -Good quality pen, sketchpads, charcoal, erasers, colored pencils. -Flute - make sure it’s well designed -Sex toys - life is too short for shame, be happy and practice good hygiene and don’t do things you wouldn’t want others to do to you, like touch your things after they have been weird. -Good quality sunglass -OBD reader - very useful for working on cars -Serial bus to USB - If you are inclined to white hat hacking. -A few high quality tools if you have the money to spend, get a good high quality set of magnetic screw drivers and some decent rachet wrenches but don’t break them! Have a set of regular wrenches for breaking bolts first. Other useful tools are things like, magnetic parts bowl, mechanic gloves, safety glasses, extendable magnet. -Nonplastic eating utensils, cut down on micro plastics! -Glass bowl pipe - I don’t smoke weed anymore, but when I did I always preferred a fine glass bowl to keep exposure to plastic and metal low -A good quality belt or two -Logic analyzer/good quality multimeter -Mini vacuum - upgrade your cleaning -flags - hang a flag to represent! -Mini statue of Athena or whatever you choose - Improve your aesthetics, while making little offerings and prayers -Compass, humidity detector, barometer - Never get lost if you can’t remember the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and predict the weather yourself, low pressure and higher humidity, and higher temps means its more likely to rain, high pressure, low humidity, lower temps on average means your weather is likely to be more stable. -Laser carpentry level, used surveying level, be careful that it’s calibrated - can be useful to have various levels for any construction tasks. -Political pamphlets - hand out pamphlets to people to inform them that they have voted consistently for years to fund mass surveillance and genocide and brainwashing, hand out pamphlets at the courthouse to inform people about their right to nullify unethical legal proceedings as a juror, even in the face of jury intimidation and manipulation by the state. Make sure they know that the state belongs to the people, not billionaires, not stuck up moralists, not corporations, not to foreigners, it belongs to us, the citizens who work and build this land, and pay taxes, and are not corrupted by power. -Old moniters or tvs from thrift stores - often damaged or has dead pixels but you can find some gems occasionally -USB long range WiFi adapter - improve your life when using Far away internet. -Laundry baskets/higher quality trash cans/storage containers - little micro optimizations add up over time to improve your happiness and time efficiency. -Portable SSD - much faster than SD cards especially for random read and write. -High quality large thumb drive - through a very well built Linux distro on it, perhaps hirens boot CD for windows repairs, some disk images, a few Linux distros, reference material, ebooks, documentation, old video games that are small so you can pack many on there, emulators with roms, offline copy of Wikipedia, AI models, if you have the space or multiple drives then make copies so your data doesn’t get corrupted.

What happened to the Batteriser?

Because rechargable batteries before NiMH sucked for many use cases - they were good for the Gameboy as you charged and used them straight away at high draw, but try using one in a low power device like a remote or wall clock and you’ll find it is dead in a week despite minimal actual usage

What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?

I’d say for the oxymeter it depends on what you want it for. If your health depends on it, yes spend more for a good one. If it’s just for general interest the cheaper ones will likely be “good enough”. For batteries, generally true. Except the Kirkland non-rechargeable packs are very good batteries and good value too. Not that I often need non-rechargable. Just for those few devices that are not happy with the lower voltage of rechargeable batteries. Otherwise, definitely a good list. I’d also say in general for electronics, be very wary of Chinese brands you’ve totally never heard of selling items for less than half the price a reputable brand sells the same thing for. They are generally putting fake CE/FCC labels onto devices that are definitely not certified and will almost certainly be underrated for the requirement in a best case scenario. I am currently especially suspicious of the 100w+ PD supplies that are ridiculously cheap compared to known brands for the same rating.

Biden pardons thousands of US veterans convicted under law banning gay sex

i feel like it’s worse if you do remember it or don’t take it for granted; because those who never got experience it refuse to believe it ever happened. (and i’ve run into a few on lemmyverse in the last few days who are old enough to remember but still refuse to believe it). biden et. al voted for doma which ended up with the person i built a life with being deported and also they also voted for non-dischargable student load debt; that combined with don’t-ask/don’t-tell; forced me to take on permanent-for-life debt. seeing him touted as the most pro-lgbt or progressive president ever on social media (especially the lemmyverse) feels like a slap every time i see it and seeing him take these token actions only serves to reinforce it.

How to introduce a 12yo to photography?

I would be inclined to start a youngun with an older generation prosumer point and shoot, preferably one that takes normal AA batteries so that oodles and oodles of batteries can be provided (NiMh rechargables or those zooty new lithium ones that pretend to be normal AA’s) so that you’re not battling constant new-old-stock problems with eBay batteries that already arrive degraded. Something like a PowerShot SX120/130IS, maybe. The battle you’re going to face with the current crop of whippersnappers will be the, “why do I need a clunky old granddad camera when my smartphone/tablet already does everything.” Demonstrating the significant zoom capability of even a dinky midrange camera from a decade or more ago to frame distant and interesting subjects (i.e., animals) is usually sufficient. Long exposures are usually pretty captivating, too, like the ability to take pictures of the stars. These are not coincidentally the two things that smartphones are rubbish at, and therefore are the most interesting. Mountains, birds, cats and dogs, weather phenomena, fireflies, and the night sky were certainly what got me interested in photography when I was a kid, anyhow. Avoid the urge to incessantly demand that she constantly take and share pictures of people, especially family, as if this is some kind of obligation. Turning the hobby (or any hobby) into a chore will turn any kid off from it really quickly. Likewise, I think a much more important lesson than apertures and focal lengths and exposure times and math is the Ancient Knowledge: The path to good photography is in fact engaging in an awful lot of bad photography to get there. One should never be afraid to experiment, nor get discouraged if some – or even most – of their shots are not perfect. Especially shooting digital, when your film is infinite and free. Resist the urge to critique too much unless she asks for help on how to do better at taking a particular picture. Failure is okay, and you should probably also allow her to set the boundary (particularly at this age) that she can have private photos that others should not feel entitled to demand to see. If she takes to it, then you can consider getting a cheap used DSLR body. A prosumer point-and-shoot camera is a one time purchase and has the advantage of being totally self contained and incredibly versatile, but a DLSR/mirrorless can be an endless money pit of finding and throwing additional glass at it. It’s probably best not to go down that rabbit hole until it seems justified.

Never again

I have my portable folding 200w solar panels on the ground and run about 20ft of weatherproof cabling running along the ground through a small inlet hole into my residence. They connect to my battery system which is located in a good central spot for all my electrical stuff to comfortably reach. Everything I own that runs on electrical power that cant be powered with portable rechargable battery banks is located in the same room as my batteries. I can deliver DC power through car plug ports, USBC-PD 100W and regular usb A outlets. The 600w AC inverter is useful for brewing cups of coffee, running fans, and turning on a desktop pc for advanced GPU workload stuff. Its important to keep that ac inverter off most of the time especially at night so prefer using car plug adapters and USBC-PD to directly power most of my DC appliances with variable voltages instead. From the car plugs and usbc-pd charger ports, I run my dc appliance cords to my devices which are usually 6-10 ft long. My laptop is usually powered up through a car port travel adapter but I can also use USBC-PD and an adapter bit if the car ports are all taken up. Thank you for showing interest if you want to know anything else ill be happy to explain. lowtechmagazine’s “Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power” is a great read on the subject the info has been very useful for my purposes. They cover residential dc wiring like we are talking about and its located around the end of the article in the ‘How To Limit Cable Losses’ section.

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blasharga at 2023-07-24 10:53:17+00:00 ID: jt8fve6 Hmm, hvad med at tage ind forbi den lokale brætspil og aktivitets-pusher ? Her i Aarhus hedder den Games og ligger på Klostergade. Jeg har brugt en sommerdag eller to med at junglere/gøgle, blive god til et brætspil eller lægge puslespil. Det kunne der godt komme en dag ud af :)

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