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Smiling may not always make you happier, and new research suggests that forcing yourself to smile repeatedly could actually make you feel worse. In a University of Florida study involving more than 1,100 participants, researchers discovered that while a single artificial smile can provide a small mood boost, repeatedly faking smiles can erase that benefit or even reverse it.

It sounds like I was born yesterday, but this really helps protecting my electronics, tapes, tools and trinkets from dust. I can also mark the boxes with category tags and the exact contents. They look really ugly though... Maybe if I buy a bookshelf or other kind of shelf on which I could organize in a more... Symmetric and displaying fashion?

Give me the Death Note, I can be trusted to act rationally. The only "undeserving" to end up on it would be people who step through Metro doors and immediately stop, even though there's people behind them.

More seriously I know the author has said it's about power corrupting, but if that's the story he wanted to tell then he should've chosen a different protagonist. Its also a silly mantra, we do not live in a Tolkien novel, power isn't some supernatural force.

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In September, comedian Huang Yi-hao was involved in a car accident, something that could happen to anyone. But one thing stood out: the men in the other car were unusually polite, and even offered to cover his medical bills and the damage to his car.

Huang later received a call from Taiwanese police telling him it wasn't an ordinary accident.

Taipei prosecutors in October charged five men for deliberately attempting to injure Huang in a case that has drawn attention across Taiwan. Authorities say it is part of a growing trend where operatives paid by China harass or attack people on the self-ruled island who are seen as critical of the government in Beijing.

“In the beginning, it was verbal harassment, then it morphed to pouring paint and property damage ... to the level of causing a fake car accident," Chiu Shao-Chou, the commissioner of Taiwan's Criminal investigation Bureau, said. "There's a trend of increasing severity, and that's something we have to take seriously.”

[...]

China's tactics to harass, spy on or even harm dissidents abroad have come to light in recent years. In 2023, authorities in New York made arrests in connection with secret police stations set up on behalf of the Chinese government to surveil Chinese dissidents.

[...]

At the end of October, the rights organization Safeguard Defenders publishes a new report detailing how the Chinese party-state has been expanding its global network of illegal overseas police stations in dozen of countries.

In its new report, the NGO Safeguard Defenders finds nearly 1,250 formally designated liaisons in at least 91 countries which exist to carry out domestic grid functions abroad.

This number is based on a conservative methodology, and a likely underrepresentation of actual activity. The Party numbers its affiliated associations abroad in the tens of thousands, every one of them a potential grid liaison in the waiting.

[...]

Berlin Squatters Battle Police (1990)

Wed Nov 14, 1990

Image: The Battle of Mainzer Strasse, with large groups of police gathered on the street

On this day in 1990, German squatters battled with approximately 1,500 heavily armed police officers who were attempting to evict squatters from a tenement neighborhood in eastern Berlin.

The officers went in with tear gas and water cannons and fought squatters for nearly six hours through a block-long stretch of Mainzer Strasse. Gangs of squatters on rooftops, some masked, bombarded police officers with cobblestones and gasoline bombs while the police retaliated with tear gas and water cannons.

According to the NY Times, the squatters, mostly from western Berlin and western Germany, had first fought with the police late Monday night, then constructed a veritable fortress throughout the area, digging deep ditches with a stolen excavator, stringing barbed wire and storing stones, gasoline bombs and railroad flares as weapons.

On the evening of November 14th, thousands of squatters and their supporters marched through Berlin to protest the action. The government claimed that at least 85 people, including 70 police officers, were injured, and 350 people were taken into custody.

• Date: 1990-11-14
• Learn More: www.washingtonpost.com, www.nytimes.com.
• Tags: #Tenant.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

Board games have gained popularity among 16- to 25-year-olds, who are now putting them "at the heart" of their social life, Koegler said.

An international barometer compiled by Asmodee and Kantar in 2026 showed that 74% of the so-called "Gen Z" thought that in-person experiences were more important than digital ones.

Rainbow lorikeet having a feed

Sorry if the heading is not correct, I couldn’t think of the exact words.

What I mean by "how to understand hardware" is that I want to purchase a PC for my home-lab, and I can’t really tell what hardware is best. I’m not asking for suggestions on specific PC parts, instead, I want to learn how to identify hardware on my own. For example, if we are talking about RAM, then I can figure that how much ram it is and what it can do and stuff. Basically, I want to learn how to truly "know" hardware.

If you’re still interested in my homelabbing post then here: https://lemmy.world/post/54103147

https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-november-14-2026

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cézanne

Category: Gamer Gulag

Keywords: harry, de, disco, elysium, egoism, stirner

I'm on my second year of CS on southern Spain and I want to move to another country when I get my diploma. I also have low level autism and a B2 English level, in addition to native Spanish, and in the future I'm also thinking of getting some certs.

I want to see wether place I can just have a better future and if possible to make a startup

In short:

More than 600 kayakers took to Newcastle Harbour as part of "Paddle for the Planet", protesting coal exports.

No arrests were made after NSW Police had tried to block the event.

What's next?

A larger protest is being planned for February 2027.

Proposée à 1 000 dollars par mois, la fonction permettrait de lire les boîtes Gmail depuis le panneau de contrôle en interceptant des sessions actives dans la mémoire d'une machine déjà infectée. Aucune faille côté Gmail n'est démontrée : en cas d'infection, c'est la machine qu'il faut assainir, pas seulement le mot de passe.

I stumbled upon trek, trip and AdventureLog. You can track your travels. They all look good but I'm not sure how to evaluate which one is good to use. Are they all save? Which do you use?

• https://github.com/liketrek/TREK
• https://github.com/itskovacs/trip
• https://github.com/seanmorley15/AdventureLog