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admiralteal, (edited ) to upliftingnews in Animal shelter in Pennsylvania empty for first time in 47 years

Does "reunited with their owners" mean these were lost animals whose owners were identified? How does the SPCA help with that and why were there hundreds?

Or does it maybe mean companions that were taken from homeless people and then held hostage with a fee.

Alto,
@Alto@kbin.social avatar

Im assuming it's primarily through microchip tracking and just dogs getting out. Dog runs out the house, gets lost. If they don't have a chip or tags, the shelter has no real way of contacting the owner unless the owner sees a post about it/someone at the shelter sees something about the dog being lost. Lost pets are more frequent during holidays due to traveling, running out the door when letting family in, etc.

Why9, to privacy in Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian

You have to renew your driver’s license every 10 years. That means in the worst case scenario, the image they’re using of you could be 10 years out of date.

Those images are also not detailed enough to be used for facial recognition. Sure, it could help narrow down the list of suspected people, but they’re crazy if they think they’d be able to pinpoint someone based on what they looked like 5-10 years prior.

I suspect these powers are being used for something else more sinister. Immigration, for example, to clamp down on people who have licenses and are delivery drivers, or taxi drivers for example.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

It’s not the kind of search where they need to be very precise; certainly not pinpoint accuracy. t’s just another tool to narrow their searches that rely on other details.

And if you’re a fully grown adult, not undergoing radical facial reconstruction, it seems unlikely to be that the relative distances and orientations of your eyes, nose, and mouth are going to change very much. My driver’s license photo is at least a decade old and even though my face looks different on the surface due to age, changes in weight, and changes in hair color and length I’d bet my key features are still in relatively the same places.

Of course they could also be using this for more sinister purposes. No argument there.

CJOtheReal, to privacyguides in EU fingerprint checks for British travellers to start in 2024

Good. Fingerprints are in the passport so checking them isn’t a problem. Outside EU means Outside EU.

Pratai, to upliftingnews in Almost £300,000 raised for delivery driver who intervened in Dublin attack

Shouldn’t the 300,000 serve more purpose being sent to the victims?

Maiznieks,

Empty, useless, rhetoric, sounds like You’re trying to shame either those that donated or the receiver. There’s no good way to confirm it would (serve more purpose), but anyway - people donated to the cause that was set. There’s nothing that would prevent to create another fund raising for victims too.

Pratai,

The fact that you think I’m shaming anyone speaks volumes about how there’s things you need to fix about yourself.

I said nothing about the quality of character of those donating, or the man that received donations- only that maybe the actual victims could use the money more…

You know- for hospital bills and therapy?

Fix yourself.

Meowoem,

They won’t have hospital bills, this happened in Ireland not capitalist hell

Pratai, (edited )

You think their future treatment won’t come with a cost?

Flexaris,

Are you having a stroke?

Pratai,

Fixed it. Didn’t pay attention to autocorrect. Thats what I get for typing in 30° temperature.

Jdreben, to news in Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets

Does this mean Tutanota is compromised?

coldredlight,

Potentially. They are denying it’s true, and I don’t think any more evidence has come out besides this one claim.

SplashJackson, to news in Canadian former intelligence chief found guilty of leaking state secrets

What a cockjob

senseamidmadness, to news in What do we know about forced labour in Xinjiang?

Nothing firm or substantial, according to the article.

livus, to news in Suella Braverman accuses police of double standards on rallies
@livus@kbin.social avatar

This is that psycho who wants to make tents illegal.

uthredii, to fuck_cars in Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs? [The Observer]

Link to the tyre extinguishers website: www.tyreextinguishers.com

bit_thanos, to fuck_cars in Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs? [The Observer]

Time to buy SUVs :)

MrFlamey,

Dude, you misspelled “burn”

Hirom, to news in Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

Posting this on c/usnews should be enough.

sqgl,

Sorry, am new. I saw this other relatively trivial Trump post approved here so I thought it was OK.

I won’t leave it to the mods. Will police myself in future.

Hirom,

Mods appears to be flexible with rule and take gentler approach when it’s not abuse. That’s a good approach.

The line can be blurry between US News that’s relevant at the local/national level and fit better within c/usnews, and relevant globally and may fit better in c/worldnews readers. Here I’d argue it’s the former.

sqgl,

I put it in both this time. There is so little content on Lemmy. Still early days. Why c/ prefix? c for community? (vs r for Reddit)

andrew_bidlaw, to upliftingnews in US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

HeMan and the Soap against Melanoma

java, to news in Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025

Swedish city tries to reduce pollution and noise

How does this help reducing noise? I think with modern cars, tires generate notably more noise than the engine unless the speed is below 30 km/h. I hear no difference between a petrol car and electric when they’re driving past me at 50-60 km/h.

ampersandrew, (edited )
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

That's true, but presumably in a city, the average speed is far lower than that.

Auzy,

Depends on the car. Unfortunately, you always have people who want their cars and motorbikes to be loud (small penis syndrome).

lemillionsocks,
@lemillionsocks@beehaw.org avatar

They make make more noise while accelerating which I would presume would be something that happens often in a city center with lots of stops and starts.

Xylight, to privacyguides in School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds
@Xylight@lemdro.id avatar

woah no way, spying on kids makes them feel unsafe??

🤯🤯🤯🤯

I_Has_A_Hat, to longreads in Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

Says he stepped away in 2018. Interesting to note that’s about when conspiracy forums took a hard turn right and went from “everyone is secretly out to get you” to “liberals are evil and the only uncorrupt bright spot in this world is conservatism and our lord, Donald J Trump.”

I guess the party just wasn’t as fun anymore after everyone stopped talking about aliens and started talking about things like The Storm™️. This isn’t a story of someone breaking free from Qanon or the Cult of Donald. This is an OG conspiracy theorist who saw his spaces get taken over by this new wave of partisan conspiracies and went “yikes, you guys are crazy! I’m getting out of here!”

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