I think there's a lot of development going on with the lemmy UI, for example the lemm.ee developer has next.lemm.ee for his new UI design beta. I'm looking out for a golden age of lemmy UI development where everyone's copying each other's functionality and they all continually improve until it ends up being about whichever interface personally prefer, like we had with 3rd party reddit apps.

To be clear to others, though, PieFed is itself its own lemmy instance first, but it's open source so works as an example UI that could be implemented by any other instance. Every instance of lemmy is potentially different, not just in which version of lemmy code they use but any number of modifications the instance admin may choose to apply.

Nah that's just Russia spreading its tenticles. Years ago Putin implemented a law that said 50% of all oligarch's wealth would be directed by the Kremlin - it was still their money, they get to keep the profits, but Putin dictates how it's spent. If they didn't comply they would likely fall out of a window. Nowadays we have Russian oligarchs investing in all sorts of political activities all over the world, but everyone just acts like it's an individual acting of their own accord and not foreign state interference.

The UK had US nukes at Lakenheath for decades up until 2007. Frankly, I think we've been a lot more vulnerable to Russia since they stopped - if anything removing the nukes coincides with Russia's increased aggression.

This is AskUK, we don't have HBO/Max over here. Most stuff ends up on Sky TV (satellite, although these days they're moving to delivering over broadband internet - basically charging you twice, once for broadband, and again for TV over the broadband, all while charging satellite prices), but sometimes HBO stuff ends up on Amazon. It's a bit like Dr Pepper, in the US it's owned by Pepsi, but in Europe it's owned by Coca Cola.

I was actually kind of guessing based on a vague memory of seeing The Pitt next to an Amazon logo somewhere, however looking it up it seems like it hasn't been released in the UK at all yet. Hopefully soon! I expect it will be a hit here also.

The Pitt was bloody awesome, I'm annoyed there won't be more until January next year. It's a hospital drama set in a Pittsburgh hospital A&E and it's been really well received. The first season is 15 episodes each spanning an hour of a single day. Unlike many other hospital dramas, it is actually a drama about a hospital, rather than a relationship drama in a hospital setting. I think it's available on Amazon Prime.

MobLand is going now. That's in my list but I haven't started it yet. Stars Tom Hardy and Piers Brosnan.

Last of Us season 2 just started, and Andor season 2 starts this week.

The issue here is people are trying to apply scientific reasoning in a legal setting. The two are not the same. There is a legal process for bringing in scientific reasoning - you can't just hash it out in court like you would in an academic paper.

I say the case needed a statistician. Incredibly, the prosecution deliberately decided to avoid using one to assess questions like “How unusual is this shift pattern for a random nurse?” or “How likely was it that said nurse was personally drawn to caring for the sickest infants? How were shifts assigned?”

Yes, it might have been better for Lucy if there was a statistician. However, it's not the prosecution's job to prove her innocence, it's her's and her solicitor's. If there needed to be a statistical analysis and sworn statement from an expert, it would be on the defendant to arrange that.

By definition, she was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

No mention of how he was always a massive Russophile, and how Dominic Cummings started out on the UK politics scene as his advisor after living in Russia.

This cunt was a key part in getting the UK out of Europe at the behest of Russia.

I haven't seen a thing about multiple accusers? The information I've read suggests it's one accuser, with multiple events in the 2000's and one recent accusation of rape in the 2020's. In particular, the police statement said "The victim is being supported and given access to any specialist help or support she needs.", which directly implies only one accuser.

and the police are confident enough in the case to have advanced to the arrest phase.

That doesn't mean much of anything.

For all we know he could have been stitched up.

Norris, 65, was elected as the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in 2024, defeating the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

I wonder who will be lining up to try to win the seat after Norris is gone? Because he's probably not going to be able to hold his seat, whether or not the charges stick.

Edit: In another article they mention that he also has a master's degree in social work. More and more I'm leaning towards this being a potential stitch up. However, we don't know what information the police have, none of that is public.

The USA detained her at the border because a) there was no direct way for her to go back home from the US/Canada land border; b) she had been refused entry by Canada, who have similar entry requirements, meaning the US should be refusing her entry also; and c) she had already been in the country for 3 weeks and they needed to investigate what she had been doing. That's an awful lot more than just "vibes".

But yes, as I said in my comment above, the length of detention is the real fucked up part. That's longer than needed to sort the logistics or perform any necessary investigations, and proves that this is just about filling private prisons at the expense of taxpayers.

Canada was not in the same position as the US, so the two responses aren't directly comparable. However, you're right that the US is not a safe country - I'd even caution US citizens against crossing the border right now.

That one was at the Mexican border, and I think the woman was German.

You might be right, I remember the tattoo one being a girl who was turned away at another border before being detained by the US on her way back. If that happened in Mexico as well it's easy to see why the two could get confused.

Like I say though the fucked up part is the lengthy detention. That doesn't benefit anyone except the private prisons, at the expense of American taxpayers.

There is some reason to arrest her. She had already been in the country for 3 weeks doing who knows what, so now that they suspect she was doing something wrong it's worthwhile to investigate.

There's even some justification for making the detention a miserable process, so as to deter others. It's very shitty, and I don't agree with it, but there is at least a rationality about it.

The real kicker is the length of the detention. This isn't in the interests of America, this is only in the interests of the private prisons padding their bill to the American taxpayer. The whole process is shitty, but this last part proves that they are only serving their own interests.

Yes that's my point. There's a bit more of a process from the Canadian land border than at an airport. At an airport, you'd just be turned around and paying for a flight. At the land border - particularly the border between two countries that don't want you - it's going to take a bit longer because the logistics are more complicated. Also, there might be some kind of investigation, as she has already been staying in the country for several weeks at this point.

However we should be talking about like 3-4 days at most (if that), not 3 weeks.

I wonder if the fake doctor's syringe had as much air in it as the one in the stock photo.

Apparently nearly every girl in Brazil has them, and they all encourage each other to have work done.

While I agree the time in detention was excessive, this wasn't at an airport, it was at the Canadian land border. So it's understandable that she wouldn't immediately get on a plane back home - she'd likely have to be taken to a central facility and then transferred to an airport. But yeah, that shouldn't take 3 weeks.

You're angry at America and ICE, but it was Canada that refused her entry and first took issue with her activity. After that, when she immediately came back across the border, America was pretty much obligated to look into things.

They definitely should have just deported her immediately, but she apparently did break the visa terms. I read somewhere it was to do with her giving tattoos, or at least that was part of the accusation against her.

3 weeks' detention is the fucked up part.

She narced on herself to Canada, then America overheard.