Futurology Today

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Puginator on 2025-01-09 01:21:31+00:00.

...surprising no one...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious fervour.

The procession to the Philippine capital's Quiapo Church, which started before dawn after an open-air mass, was expected to swell to more than two million participants from across the heavily Catholic country, church officials said.

Barefoot men and women in maroon shirts -- the colour of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus the Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious icon, believing it would bring good health.

The giant religious parade commemorates the arrival of the wooden statue of the genuflecting Jesus the Nazarene from Acapulco, Mexico in the early 1600s, shortly after the start of the Spanish colonial conquest. Its colour -- which has led it to be popularly known as the Black Nazarene -- was believed to have been caused by a fire aboard the Spanish galleon that was transporting it.

President Ferdinand Marcos said the annual celebration of the icon was a "testament to our people's solidarity and camaraderie".

"It also speaks of the immense power and compassion of God who walks with us and hears our prayers, especially in our time of need," Marcos said in a statement.

Police said about 14,500 security personnel had been deployed along the procession's six-kilometre route as a precaution.

Mobile phone signals were also blocked to prevent the remote detonation of explosive devices during the parade which is expected to last up to 18 hours, police said.

Emergency response teams were stationed along the route.

The Red Cross said it provided first aid treatment to more than 100 participants in the first few hours of the procession, mainly for cuts, dizziness, nausea and body weakness.

Edit: Just to clarify, my stance here is not "ignore everything Trump." He has done and will do quite a lot of things that warrant attention and concern. He's also a serial liar and world class bullshitter. A human testament to the phrase, "actions speak louder than words." Donald Trump's political success has always hinged on the fact that people are quick to forget that. He's already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

Last year I bought a knife sharpening set for the first time and it made a world of difference. This year I'm trying to establish an annual sharpening to keep them nice and sharp.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/M_ida on 2025-01-09 03:01:46+00:00.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24584782

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Hiba Yazbek, Abu Bakr Bashir, and Lara Jakes
Jan. 8, 2025 Updated 1:19 p.m. ET

https://archive.ph/mNW2O

A group of collegiate basketball players in B.C. say they will not play a pair of games against another team in their division this weekend due to alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of a transgender teammate they say has not been addressed.

All 13 players on the Vancouver Island University Mariners squad have signed a letter saying they do not feel safe playing at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, B.C.

Mackenzie, who is transgender, said the visiting team's coach, Taylor Claggett, went on a "tirade" after losing on Oct. 25, yelling at a Mariners staff member about how Mackenzie shouldn't be allowed to play against women. A social media account linked to Claggett also posted anti-trans messages after the game.

The two sides played again on Oct. 26 and Mackenzie claimed her opponents physically targeted her. She shared a video from the game where, away from the ball, a Columbia player tosses Mackenzie to the ground.

I run half a dozen Duet but one of them started to give me a lot of headaches and only this one (unique hardware + configuration so no other to compare to).

issue: tool head 3 heater is always enabled. The software detects a thermal runaway but the heater stays enabled. The only option to stop the machine from catching fire is to remove the main power.

Hardware:

• Duet 2 wifi
• Due5X

troubleshooting done (hardware):

• measuring the mosfets => good
• checking the driver for obvious issues with a multimeter => no issue found
• moving toolheads hotends around. Issue persists on #3 spot (4th toolhead) so it is unrelated to the tool head. disconnecting it entirely also causes the heater to stay on
• removing the SD-card => issue is gone.
• sometimes it works like it should. Most of the time it doesn't.
• on this particular unit there were some other minor anomalies regarding the WIFI earlier (wouldn't connect to the network) but those fixed themselves after a few rounds of resetting the wifi module, adding it to the wifi network again, waiting a few days for it fail once more.

**TL;DR Is my assumption correct that this indicated an issue with the Firmware from Duet which isn't just on this device but also on the newer Duet 3?

Did anybody has run into a similar issue and was able to resolve it?

In the wider picture: Is every duet product unsafe?** This is an older Duet 2 but it runs the same/similar firmware as the current generation Duet 3. So one of the big questions is if all of the Duet products are unsafe. Would be bad as this has been my controller of choice meaning a lot of work to replace all of them.

Btw. If you buy a duet: don't expect ANY support from the manufacturer.

Here is the main config file:

config-overwrite:

Summary

A YouGov survey revealed 39% of Germans are concerned about the country’s political future ahead of the February 23 federal election, with frustrations centered on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD-led government.

The SPD is facing "trust and competence problems," with 50% opposing its return to government and 46% blaming it for economic challenges.

Support for the SPD has dropped to 16%, while the CDU/CSU leads with 29%, followed by the far-right AfD at 21%.

Stay safe out there, my dudes