The Lemmy Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Fort_Strategy

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Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with “rising costs” and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

If a creator’s project is affected by tariffs, they can submit a request through Kickstarter and then apply per-item surcharges to backers with US shipping addresses. Kickstarter will include the extra fee in a separate line on a backer’s payment page. The platform says the tool is “weeks away” from rolling out.

“We understand that asking backers to pay an additional fee — especially after a campaign has ended — can be sensitive,” Kickstarter writes. Backers who decide not to pay the fee will have to reach out to creators directly to come up with a solution, such as adjusting their pledge or getting a refund, according to Kickstarter.

Larger campaigns have addressed the tariffs head-on, like the one for Peak Design’s Roller Pro Carry-On, which says it has “made the decision to not add any additional tariff charges to your pledges.” But this campaign has received more than $13 million in pledges, and smaller projects might not be able to cover import fees with pledges alone. Several Kickstarter board game projects, such as ones led by Curt Covert and Gap Closer Games, have already warned backers that tariffs could result in delays or higher prices, as reported by Fast Company.

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transcription: come be dramatic and gay with me (were going to eat ice cream and cry in bed)

Everyone in our apartment is a bit short on cash right now and we are getting ready to move. Found out my roommates tags were already a month out of date on top of all of that. Need to raise $219 to renew registration (fucking ridiculous cost btw).

We have cashapp and paypal, DM for info.

While they may look delicious please do not eat the little guys! Decoration only! They do look like banana with chocolate though... 😳

Whenever I stumble across a song I like on youtube I download it into my personal music folder, I started this practice more than 4 years ago and I accumulated a large amount of socialist music from very niche spaces, spanning across a wide variety of languages. Because I see that nobody else is doing this specific thing on this site, I feel compelled to share this collection track by track, maybe it will lead to someone else also feeling the same inspiration that I felt when first listening to it.

Song 2 is my favorite from bANDİSTA, Haydi Barikata, it is a modern version of A Las Barricadas sung in Turkish. For context, A Las Barricadas was the anthem of the CNT-FAI, the anarchist organization that fought at the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War. The lyrics are quite faithful to the original, but modified to be more upbeat, combined with the new instrumentation it gives the song less of a "we are about to die" type of energy and more of a "we will win and dance to celebrate" sort of energy. I wish I could find more bands like bANDİSTA that did this.

I think that the title "Posting Socialist Music Daily From My Collection" might be a little too cumbersome to read, I wonder what would be the best way to change it while also explicitly including the language of the song...

"The Social Cost of Automobility, Cycling and Walking in the European Union" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.016

(I can't link directly to the article due to lemmy.world rules on piracy)

If you say that you’re “nuking” something, pretty much everyone will know that you mean you’re heating something in the microwave. It’s technically incorrect, of course, as the magnetron inside the oven emits only non-ionizing radiation, and is completely incapable of generating ionizing radiation such as X-rays. Right?

Perhaps not, as these experiments with an overdriven magnetron suggest. First off, this is really something you shouldn’t try; aside from the obvious hazards that attend any attempt to generate ionizing radiation, there are risks aplenty here. First of all, modifying magnetrons as [SciTubeHD] did here is risky thanks to the toxic beryllium they contain, and the power supply he used, which features a DIY flyback transformer we recently featured, generates potentially dangerous voltages. You’ve been warned.

For the experiment, [SciTubeHD] stripped the magnets off a magnetron and connected his 40-kV AC power supply between the filament and the metal case of the tube. We’re not completely clear to us how this creates X-rays, but it appears to do so given the distinctive glow given off by an intensifying screen harvested from an old medical X-ray film cassette. The light is faint, but there’s enough to see the shadows of metallic objects like keys and PCBs positioned between the tube and the intensifying screen.

Are there any practical applications for this? Probably not, especially considering the potential risks. But it’s still pretty cool, and we’re suitably impressed that magnetrons can be repurposed like this.

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Goals

Arsenal:

Paris Saint-Germain:

Competition: UEFA Champions League

Kickoff: 19:00+UTC

Venue: Emirates Stadium - London England

Arsenal form [old → recent]: ✅️➖️✅️✅️➖️

Paris Saint-Germain form [old → recent]: ✅️❌️✅️➖️❌️

Head to head [recent → old]: (ARS-PSG): 2-0, 5-1, 2-2, 1-1

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