That's an interesting way of saying statutory rape.
'Where's our money?' CDC grant funding is moving so slowly layoffs are happening
Health departments around the country have noticed there's something strange happening with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: It's not showing up on schedule and there's been no communication about why.
The federal public health agency doles out most of the money it receives from Congress to state and local health departments, which then contract with local organizations. That's how public health work gets funded in the U.S.
According to two CDC staff members with knowledge of the agency's budget, the CDC has yet to receive its full funding for the 2025 fiscal year. NPR agreed not to name the staff members because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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"If they can delay until the end of September, then that's it," the staffer adds. "Those projects are not going to happen. That money goes straight back to Treasury."
That's why both CDC staffers who spoke with NPR say this amounts to impounding the agency's funding.
Murders are down nationwide. Researchers point to a key reason
The number of homicides is falling dramatically nationwide.
In 2024, murders fell by at least 14% across the U.S., according to analyses by the data firm AH Datalytics and the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank. Official data from the FBI goes only through 2023 but shows similar drops. Early analyses from AH Datalytics suggest the drop will be even bigger in 2025.
Environmental groups sue to stop 'Alligator Alcatraz' from operating in the Everglades
Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit in a South Florida federal court on Friday over the immigration detention center under construction in the Everglades that has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
They later filed a motion for expedited relief, seeking entry of a temporary restraining order by July 1.
The environmental groups complain the plan has not gone through any environmental review as required under federal law, and that the public has not had an opportunity to comment.
“The site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by the Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered Florida Panther and other iconic species,” said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades. “The scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect.”
What's funny is a character isn't necessarily a byte now. It could be 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes. Or only 2 or 4 bytes if we include utf-16 and 32. Character encodings are fun!
There was one point in time when Intel's website only allowed up to 14 characters and disallowed certain special characters. If I had to guess why, fear of inadequate error checking and fear of sql injection.
This is from 2 months ago.
It's a legend, but a fun one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan#Legends
Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or 'dung chair' containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two and they dangle nicely"),[17] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.[18]
@tias@discuss.tchncs.de ☝ the chair
I shit you not, it took the Catholic Church until the 1800's to finally accept that the Earth revolves around the fucking Sun. Maybe the 1750's if someone's feeling generous, but they were still censoring Galileo's and Copernicus's books at that time.
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Narrow, old, and irrational!
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Technically they didn't make DOS but bought it, rebrand it then had to support it.
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I'm just going to acknowledge rather than celebrate.
This is how you treat wanna be despots and dictators. Remove them from power, put them on trial then throw them in jail for their crimes.
Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes
Spoilers work like this:
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You need the word "spoiler" after the first colons and the colons have to be at the start of the lines.
Tuesday’s decision temporarily stops the bill from moving forward.
Tuesday’s decision temporarily stops the bill from moving forward.
The Florida Senate Committee on Criminal Justice has struck down a proposal to allow guns on college campuses.
The bill (SB 914) sponsored by Brevard Republican Senator Randy Fine, failed to get enough “yes” votes on Tuesday after one Republican rejected the idea.
The rollback would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work full-time, including late nights and days longer than eight-hour even on school nights without required breaks.
Florida lawmakers rolled back some of the state’s child labor protections last year. Now, a proposal is advancing in Tallahassee that would strip them completely for those 16 and older.
The rollback would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work full-time, including late nights and days longer than eight-hour even on school nights without required breaks. The proposal would also waive those same protections for 14- and 15-year-olds who are enrolled in home school, virtual education, or those who have already graduated and received a high school diploma.
Well, a piece of shit can become liquid shit, and liquid shit can become aerosolized. So, yes it's possible for someone to be shittier than a piece of shit.
!196@lemmy.world is still active. Just not as active as this one.
The right to repair. It's going to require the ability to make changes to the software on the vehicle. At a minimum the ability to replace the public encryption keys used to communicate with the servers. The bootloader and software is probably locked behind signing keys; so you need to be able to disable or add your own keys. I doubt anyone has access to the full protocols used to communicate with the servers. So, the full technical standard need to be released (which is never going to happen) or reversed engineered through unencrypted traffic analysis and reverse engineering the software.
A good right to repair law could require some of that be releasable while the company is still active or all if the company goes belly up. IIRC there was a smaller EV company that went bankrupt and there was a concern that once the servers were shutdown the vehicles would be bricked. Not sure what happened in the end. In any case, cars as IOT is the stupidest idea ever created.
"Accidentally." After the third time other wizards start asking how accidental it is.
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Neat buuUUUuuut.
Does Revolt have federation?
As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.
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What can I do with Revolt and how do I self-host?
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You can self-host Revolt by:
- Using Docker Compose and our recommended guide.
- Building individual components yourself from the source code.
It's basically a bunch of islands.
People used to do the same thing for SpaceX. The advice engineers were giving each other was go work there for a couple of years then get out before they burn you out.
Proposal to make vast changes to ballot petition process draws huge opposition — but still advances
A bill that would radically change Florida’s citizen-led constitutional amendment process received its first hearing in the Legislature on Thursday, where dozens of Floridians warned it would deal a major blow to direct democracy.
The measure (HB 1205), sponsored by Fort Myers Republican Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, was approved mostly along party-lines by the House Government Operations Subcommittee, although Osceola County Democrat Jose Alvarez joined committee Republicans in voting yes.
"Dane-geld" by Rudyard Kipling
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
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To call upon a neighbour and to say:–
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"We invaded you last night–we are quite prepared to fight,
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Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
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And the people who ask it explain
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That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
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And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
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To puff and look important and to say:–
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"Though we know we should defeat you,
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we have not the time to meet you.
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We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
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But we've proved it again and again,
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That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
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You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
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For fear they should succumb and go astray;
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So
Proposed US law slammed as “censorious” and an “Internet kill switch.”…
US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS providers to block sites.
Lofgren said in a press release that she "worked for over a year with the tech, film, and television industries" on "a proposal that has a remedy for copyright infringers located overseas that does not disrupt the free Internet except for the infringers." Lofgren said she plans to work with Republican leaders to enact the bill.
Lofgren's press release includes a quote from Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). As we've previously written, the MPA has been urging Congress
These nine laws go into effect on Jan. 1
Floridians have no right to bodies of water 'free of pollution,' appeals court rules
A health care provider that faced dozens of prisoner lawsuits is filing for bankruptcy
For years, Wellpath, the largest commercial provider of health care in jails and prisons across 37 states, has been the target of federal lawsuits and scrutiny by lawmakers for its practices that have been alleged to cause long-term health problems and the deaths of dozens of incarcerated individuals.
As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, a federal judge in Texas granted a pause in all lawsuits that involve Wellpath. Legal proceedings in such cases can take years in normal circumstances, but Wellpath's bankruptcy means dozens of those cases, like the Capaci case, are on hold for the foreseeable future.
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due to a patchwork of regulation.
Reporting Highlights
- An Insurer Sanctioned: Three states found United’s algorithmic system to limit mental health coverage illegal; when they fought it, the insurer agreed to restrict it.
- A Patchwork Problem: The company is policing mental health care with arbitrary thresholds and cost-driven targets, highlighting a key flaw in the U.S. regulatory structure.
- United’s Playbook Revealed: The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health care coverage as United targets them for cost savings.
Around 2016, government officials began to pry open United’s black box. They found that the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate had been using algorithms to identify providers it determined were giving too much therapy and patients it believed were receiving too much; then, the company scrutinized their cases and cut off reimbursements.
By the end of 2021, United’s algorithm program had been deemed illegal in three states.
But that has not s
‘Giant bronze poop’ statue ‘honoring’ those involved in Jan. 6 riot appears on National Mall
St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in 24 hours.
Hurricane Milton dumped so much rain over parts of Florida’s Tampa Bay area that it qualified as a 1-in-1,000-year rainfall event.
St. Petersburg had 18.31 inches of rain — or more than 1.5 feet — in the 24-hour period during which the storm made landfall, according to precipitation data from the National Weather Service.
That included a staggering 5.09 inches in one hour, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET — a level considered to have roughly a 0.1% chance of happening in any given year.
If you’re familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.
In a randomized controlled trial, the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis—used in many probiotic products, including Dannon's Activia yogurts—did nothing to improve bowel health in people with constipation, according to data from a randomized triple-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
Exclusive: Watchdog finds Black girls face more frequent, severe discipline in school
Black girls face more discipline and more severe punishments in public schools than girls from other racial backgrounds, according to a groundbreaking new report set for release Thursday by a congressional watchdog.
The report, shared exclusively with NPR, took nearly a year-and-a-half to complete and comes after several Democratic congressional members requested the study. Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, later with support from Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, asked the Government Accountability Office in 2022 to take on the report.
Over the course of the 85-page report, the GAO says it found that in K-12 public schools, Black girls had the highest rates of so-called "exclusionary discipline," such as suspensions and expulsions. Overall, the study found that during the 2017-18 school year, Black girls received nearly half of these punishments, even as they represent only 15% of girls in public schools.
A woman who lives at the home thought trespassers were on her property, authorities said. Her boyfriend was arrested in connection with the shooting.
Under a new White House rule proposal, Chinese exports subject to U.S. tariffs would no longer be eligible for the de minimis shipping loophole.
- A new rule proposal from the Biden administration would prohibit products that are subject to U.S.-China tariffs from being eligible for a special customs exemption.
- The de minimis loophole allows packages with a value of less than $800 to enter the United States with relatively little scrutiny.
- Officials say a recent explosion in the number of de minimis shipments is due largely to Chinese-linked online retail giants like Shein and Temu.
DeSantis veto of free prison phone call appropriation disappoints criminal justice reform advocates
Responding to reports that prisoner contact with loved ones helps reduce the recidivism rate, state lawmakers last year approved a $1 million pilot project to allow inmates with good behavior to make one free 15-minute phone call per month to the outside world.
Pleased with its rollout, members of the Florida Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations came back during the 2024 legislative session with a budget line item expanding the program to $2 million from an inmate trust fund, and not from general revenues.
But Gov. Ron DeSantis slashed that line item in June. Advocates for prison and criminal justice reform say that’s a problem.
“Keeping families connected is very important for re-entry and so is the education,” said Karen Stuckey, who’s had to deal with escalating phone bills as both her son and husband have been incarcerated in Florida prisons. “If you want somebody to be successful, you have to keep them connected to their families or their loved ones. Because when yo