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Thank you very much.
I looked up maker spaces as well, found some but they’re about an hour away sadly.
But, it’s something.
Thanks again!
This is relating to requesting additional clinical trials, but maybe I don’t understand?
Could you elaborate?
Edit: looks like it’s actually a request for approval for commercialization/use of the vaccine. Not sure what I was doing when I looked the first time.
And the article linked in the OP states:
"Pfizer said it will seek regulatory approval for a Lyme disease vaccine candidate despite failing a late-stage trial.
Pfizer said not enough people contracted Lyme disease to be confident in the results, but cited “strong efficacy” for its decision to move forward."
Which is sort of different wording of what the OP does still say, so, yeah, some doubt’s about it. I can see some desire to have additional studies at least.
Would these work outside of Europe, say in the U.S. or Canada?
TLDR: poor education, poor medical industry/insurance system, poor economy, propaganda/misinformation, everyone has a mental limit; and unfortunately many Americans can’t differentiate between anything they’re having pushed at them/taking in.
Most of the U.S. population can’t afford regular medical care. For some who can, interactions with doctors can at times feel almost hostile (rushed through 15 minutes of a doctor hastily reading from a computer screen, visibly upset if you ask any questions, spoken to like a child), generally physically limited, and an additional financial consideration (new births reporting bills for ‘$1,000+’ for an anesthesiologist literally only leaning into the room the day after birth to ask “feeling alright?” and then leaving.
So, even outside of “anti-science” and/or “anti-vaccine” perspectives, hospitals and doctors are viewed to have a profit seeking motive, and patient interactions can sometimes be incredibly rude (see huge understaffing; partly for that profit seeking from most hospitals; and then just general ‘being an asshole’; because working in medical care doesn’t preclude someone from just being overall inconsiderate and cruel).
Therefore, some may only barely be able to afford being at the hospital for any reason, were possibly treated ‘less than kindly’ by hospital staff somewhere at least once, already have a generally poor U.S. education, living in near squalor like conditions, and are being bombarded from multiple avenues with misinformation regarding almost every aspect of reality. Then, they’re still needing to justify; to themselves and significant portions of their own society; why they deserve food, shelter, housing and any other thing at all because of some idea pushed at everyone that you’re inherently worthless and only those who “prove themselves ‘enough’” are justifying in getting or having… anything.
People are animals, they’ll shutdown and perpetuate into basic survival when overwhelmed enough. A significant amount of the U.S. population sees medical care as a luxury and a nearly illicit money hungry one at that. I fucking hate justifying this type of behavior, but it’s a reality for the growth of many perspectives here. They are cattle and they’ve internally shutdown or don’t have the time, physical resources, or education to differentiate between anything they’re having pushed at them/taking in; and (idk what generalized quantity to use here; most, some? because god damn it feels like most) it’s quite possibly rare for any random U.S. Citizen to read… at all, not even getting to the point of ‘articles online’.
So, generally, no, people in the U.S. may not treat the statements of a doctor with high regard. I try to be empathetic… but it can be really difficult when they can be such fucking assholes.
Have you heard about Tuxedo computers?
European, iirc. Default Linux focus. Possibly repairability focused (an expectation, but I don’t recall).
Looks like they have a link talking about this, and someone commented that they use a service mentioned for contactless payments.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/
I haven’t reviewed this myself as it’s not a concern for me.
Yeah, I get that for sure. It’s totally unlikely this would have been the result without their prior relationship with the Police Chief.
What I’m confused about is how anyone in that chain of interactions knew how to get in touch with those specific ICE/CBP people; as it supposedly was a phone call directly to them which had them turn around and take her to the police station.
So, I’m hypothesizing either the local police had some amount of knowledge of what ICE/CBP people were in the area and contact info for them, or a beneficial enough relationship between the chief or the local LE that contacting someone higher up in ICE/CBP/DSHS resulted in such a quick turn around (or any at all, based on their refusal to cooperate with seemingly every request anywhere else).
Sorry, does that make more sense?
Some of the refugees taken to Texas have been released from custody. But instead of being flown back home, they were released in Texas “without money, identification, or phones,” CNN reported.
Something seems to be missing here…
After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.
How did the call to the police chief result in these people receiving a call…? This is seemingly stated as a determining factor in them turning around and taking her to the police station. But… how did this happen like that without some type of cooperation between local police and the feds?
Knowing what individuals were working in the area, where they were, what type of vehicles they were using (another article stated the police chief, on the call with the husband, described the vehicle the woman was taken away in to confirm it with the husband), and how this all resulted in a supposed phone call/the woman being taken to the police and turned over to them.
A personal relationship with the police chief is one thing, but the rest I can’t make out at this point.
Amid tensions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota and beyond, federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
The shift comes as the administration has deployed thousands of masked immigration agents into cities nationwide. A week before the memo, it came to light that Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of the agency, had issued guidance in May saying agents could enter homes with only an administrative warrant, not a judicial one. And the day before the memo, Mr. Trump said he would “de-escalate a little bit” in Minneapolis, after agents fatally shot two people in the crackdown there.
The memo, addressed to all ICE personnel and signed on Wednesday by Mr. Lyons, centers on a federal law that empowers agents to make warrantless arrests of people they believe are undocumented immigrants, if they are “likely to escape” before an arrest warrant can be obtained.
ICE has long interpreted that standard to mean situations in which agents believe someone is a “flight risk,” and unlikely to comply with future immigration obligations like appearing for hearings, according to the memo. But Mr. Lyons criticized that construction as “unreasoned” and “incorrect,” changing the agency’s interpretation of it to instead mean situations in which agents believe someone is unlikely to remain at the scene.
Seems like a strange way to spell hostage.
I recall the statements that some dumbassshitLLM was going to be used for military actions or whatever.
Got it. They’re playing Risk and whatever else.
From the article, it seems like it’s been sent to:
Hello. Sorry, I couldn’t find an immediate source when I did a web search with the text you quoted. Do you have a source for it you could share, or recall when you saw it?
Thanks!
Stepping aside is also their formal instructions based on their policy, which this individual would have known about as, supposedly, they are part of a longer standing division of this department, specifically meant for aggressive engagements.
Additionally, it may have recently been found that back in 2012 a report was created of maybe 60+ incidents of Customs and Border agents placing themselves in front of moving vehicles in order to create the circumstances to justify the use of force. This supposedly was when the policy was changed and officers were instructed on being officially forbidden from moving themselves in front of a moving vehicle, and from using force to stop a vehicle if the option to move out of the way exists.
I’ll start going back to find sources and update with them, anyone feel free to post them as well if you find what I’m referencing.
Edit:
First written piece describing what I heard about.
Apologies. This doesn’t contain the report itself. One moment. Supposed leaked report, listing 67 shooting incidents from January 2010 to October 2012.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-killings-20140227-story.html#axzz2uY0W5Do8
Links to the report seem to reach dead pages now.
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2013/OIG_13-114_Sep13.pdf
There seems to be a copy here, I’m currently reviewing it myself. Supposedly, with redactions, possibly of substantive amounts to have caused additional requests for data; if it is the redacted copy originally sent out but which withheld useful data.
ACLU discussing the same report.
Supposed Archive of the report in question.
https://archive.org/stream/798751-oig-use-of-force-report/798751-oig-use-of-force-report_djvu.txt
Is ladybird even out? I saw something about it but I thought looking it up got me to something about it being set for some release this next year?
Sorry about that.
I’ve used one or more extensions for this purpose, but only on desktop and it was so short lived I don’t recall the names. I quickly shifted to using the Dev Tools as it didn’t require trusting an extension.
So, I guess one of the main focuses or concerns would be open source to help provide some slight reassurance regarding security and privacy.
Minimal permissions is also an aspect I look for when considering apps or extensions, if that matters for anyone else as well.
Otherwise, just having the option to download images from a page, which I suppose more specifically focuses on pages which don’t allow a long-press context window option; as I’d just do that if it was available.
I don’t really need bulk download options. For any such large datasets I’d use a desktop. But hopefully an extension available on mobile would save me from needing to screenshot a bunch of image text posts I can’t just download normally.
Wow, thank you very much!