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  • Japan's Chiba Pref. sees high number of teachers punished over sex crimes

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  • The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

    The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like "it's difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers" doesn't say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And "checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure" seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

  • Charlie Sheen “Assaulted In His LA Home By Neighbour Who Forced Her Way In”

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  • I wondered if the weapon was a Taser or cattle prod... But it says "deadly weapon" so maybe it was some kind of custom supervillain lighting gun.⚡

  • Charlie Sheen “Assaulted In His LA Home By Neighbour Who Forced Her Way In”

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  • Thanks for this fun thread. I think "nasal gazing" would be a good candidate for a list of eggcorns.

    There seems to be precedent on Twitter 2019, but I refuse to add the link here.

  • Armed robbers' car stolen during Colorado heist, police say

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  • Did Karma get a speed update? Lessgo!

  • Tesla recalling more than 2 million vehicles to fix autopilot safety problem

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  • Long ago "drive" meant urging an animal to move forward. And "dialing" a phone number meant entering the "digits" by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

    Words aren't as static as you seem to think.

  • After Water System Privatization, Consumers Get Hosed

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  • One thing that would help this whole situation is not living in sprawling suburbs and exurbs that require maintaining so many more miles of pipes per person.

  • Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

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  • So use that vehicle in austere places, and don't park it in Paris (or any other city).

  • Strange object found trapped near Uranus

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  • Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views

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  • Found the Omicron Male! /s

  • Chinese automaker BYD goes after Tesla’s throne with more than 300,000 electric cars sold in a month

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  • BYD has a factory in California where they make electric buses and commercial trucks.

  • 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.

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  • I think ebike, scooter, etc. usage will increase even more if we mod infrastructure to be safer for everyone.

  • Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C)

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  • A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

    But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

  • Shutdown standoff: White House preps for Johnson to fail

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  • Someone should look at how much porn downloading and streaming bumps up when government employees are furloughed and have idle hands.

    Maybe the evangelicals can be swayed to avoid a government shutdown with that kind of consequence.

  • Shutdown standoff: White House preps for Johnson to fail

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  • Off the ravine or into it?

    We've been in the ravine for a while I guess.

  • Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video

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  • Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

    What level is considered safe?

    Asking for a friend.

  • 'Accept that reality': Ex-GOP rep. predicts Republicans will need Dems to end infighting

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  • I guess for each rep it comes down to whether they think the folks in their district will be upset more because they let the government grind to a halt or they colluded with Democrats.

    I'm worried that in many districts, voters are so polarized that they would see working across the aisle as heresy. It's the same reason Jordan got 190ish votes publicly, but only 86 in a secret ballot.

  • AI and 10 seconds of voice recording can screen for diabetes, study suggests

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  • I didn't read it, but my first thought was they trained it to associate speech patterns with wealth and/or education, which correlates with diabetes for all the usually reasons in the US health non-care system.

    Edit: I'm probably wrong:

    The scientists analysed more than 18,000 recordings and 14 acoustic features for differences between those who had diabetes and those who did not.

    They looked at a number of vocal features, like changes in pitch and intensity that cannot be perceived by the human ear.

  • How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World

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  • I'm going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak...

  • Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

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  • Someone here is seeing this xkcd for the first time just now...

  • Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver

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  • I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I'm not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.