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The graphic in #2,259 shows individual cells all the same size. But what % of laptops on the market today use that same standard?
It would have been prohibitively more difficult to accomplish this same UPS construction using each of the many different standards of Li ion cells in use today.
The pic doesn't say anything about who he is but if I have to guess he's got some sort of relationship with a computer shop or battery recycling facility. That way he'd have access to all the batteries that are being returned and could pick the ones he wanted.
 
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No idea where to put this but did want to share it

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Faith rituals make a fine punchline: costumes, processions, altar call theatrics. But satire hardens into an ethical obligation when those rituals cloak real harms — suppression of inquiry, communal scapegoating, institutional cover-ups, and policies that curtail other people’s rights. This essay argues, from an atheist vantage that prizes reason and evidence, that certain practices rooted in organized religion deserve to be described not merely as quaint or silly but as socially harmful — and it outlines sober, non-coercive remedies to rid public life of those specific harms.

By Religion: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

I. Old trials, new echoes: when belief polices inquiry

History gives us stark examples where religious authority actively blocked scientific investigation and punished dissent. Galileo Galilei’s 1633 trial by the Roman Inquisition for supporting heliocentrism is a canonical case: his house arrest and censure were explicit attempts to subordinate empirical inquiry to doctrinal certainty. The social lesson is simple: when a belief system claims epistemic privilege over observable reality, progress stalls and people suffer.

II. Moral panics and scapegoats: the witch-hunt template
Between roughly 1450 and 1750, Europe and colonial America witnessed witch trials that combined religious rhetoric, legal coercion, and community scapegoating — producing thousands of executions and imprisonments. Scholarly work (e.g., Levack’s detailed studies) shows how a mix of superstition, patriarchy, and religious legitimation produced....

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star Bill Murray in scene from Groundhog Day #2,268
I have wondered whether Bill Murray's Groundhog Day is a cultural / ideological sleeper, scoring higher on the scale of importance than standard cinematic analysis might suggest.

Many of us have lived through an experience that in retrospect we wish we'd handled better. Groundhog Day embraces, explores that common human experience.

“When I was in Bangkok, I was eating at a restaurant with a friend when Bill Murray passed by, took a French fry from our basket, dipped it in ketchupate it, and said "No one's ever going to believe you" before walking out.” chatchy

"Trump lied today" #2,268
Today Trump lied addressing the U.N. General Assembly:

Edited by Brandon Livesay and Caitlin Wilson, with Bernd Debusmann Jr at the United Nations in New York

London mayor's office calls Trump's comments 'appalling and bigoted' published at 10:23​

Asked to comment on Trump's claims about Sir Sadiq Khan trying to impose Sharia Law in London, a spokesperson for the London mayor's office said: "We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.
"London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we're delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here."
And UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting has also pushed back, saying Khan, who is the first Muslim mayor of London, is not "trying to impose sharia law" on the UK capital.
Streeting wrote on X: "This is a mayor who marches with Pride, who stands up for difference of background and opinion, who's focused on improving our transport, our air, our streets, our safety, our choices and chances.
"Proud he’s our Mayor," Streeting added.

Loud gasps at UN as Trump denies climate changepublished at 10:20​

The reaction from delegates here at the UN to Trump's speech has been relatively muted, with only smattering of applause and laughs at various points.
The most audible reaction, it seems to me, took place when Trump spoke about what he termed the climate change "scam", the fighting of which he believes is holding nations back.
At that line, I heard a loud gasp from various corners of the General Assembly floor. Several delegates shook their heads visibly, and I saw others turn to their neighbours and whisper some commentary, which I couldn't hear.
 
Orbán is poised to follow Trump's lead in designating "antifa" as a "domestic terrorist" organization ...

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So translating this to English

"The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will say that anti-fascists are their enemies".
 
"Orbán is poised to follow Trump's lead in designating "antifa" as a "domestic terrorist" organization ..." S2 #2,272
Thanks S2 #2,272.

"Antifa is just short for anti-fascist." Luke Baumgartner: George Washington University Program on Extremism in PBS interview 25/09/23
From that same broadcast:
"The term antifa originates from the German word "antifaschistisch", a 1932 multiparty effort against Nazism in Germany." PBS NewsHour 25/09/23
 
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