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

that table is thoroughly fascinating. i mean all of them, there's more than one table on that article

apparently walking is the most energy-efficient transport mode of all?!?!? apart from bicycles

what i find mind-blowing is that airplanes consume approximately the same amount of energy as cars and trains. I mean i can easily see cars and trains being on the same level, but i always thought that airplanes consumed like an order of magnitude more fuel than cars. considering how everybody keeps saying that "airplanes consume so much fuel" and such. crazy.

and also boats are less efficient than i thought? boats consume 16 L/100 km while cars, trains and airplanes consume 6 L/100 km?

I was thinking all the big name critics from the 90s had all passed, but Shalit is still around.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2020/08/23/2003742128

His name is Ahmad Vahidi.

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ar/en/announcements/news/argentina-demands-arrest-iranian-minister-ahmad-vahidi-responsible-terrorist

So for background, I'm an IT Consultant, and mostly work in the development space, but one area I've never touched before has been mobile app development. So today, I spent the day getting a new GitHub repo sorted out, put together a pretty simple Actions workflow with SonarQube integration and basic test gates.. on that note, got a new VPS up and running and deployed SonarQube there. Then finally just got my first Gradle project running on Android Studio, and after dealing with a corrupted keystore (fixed by just nuking the keystore, cleaning the project and rebuilding), I finally got technically my first Android app running on my S25 😄😄

Chartreuse (US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz, -ˈtruːs/ ⓘ, UK: /-ˈtrɜːz/, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) is a French herbal liqueur that has been made by Carthusian monks since 1737, reportedly according to instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605.[1] It was named after the monks' Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the Chartreuse Mountains north of Grenoble, France. Today the liqueur is produced in their distillery in nearby Aiguenoire. It is composed of distilled alcohol aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers, and sweetened, though the exact recipe is known only to select monks. The color chartreuse takes its name from the drink.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17474967

there is a site called "fedimap" which displays approximate physical locations for each fediverse instance. super cool if you want to connect to people irl and want to find physically close organizations :)

What the fuck 💀

Now I'm gonna go to sleep worrying if my mother would murder me in my sleep lmfao

And worse, would my dad help hide the body?

Would my older brother help cover it up?

Or like if my older brother murders me, would my parents cover it up?

So many intrusive thoughts lol

Here are some highlights:

On January 9, 2017, Ashley Zhao (born December 30, 2011) disappeared from Ang's Asian Cuisine, a restaurant owned by her parents. She was reported missing on the same day at around 9:00 PM. Her parents told the police that she may have "wandered out a back door". On the morning of January 10, authorities issued a Statewide Endangered Child Alert for her. While searching the restaurant, police found her body "concealed" in the kitchen, close to the freezer.

Chen and Zhao were arrested for their daughter's death on 11 January; at the Massillon Municipal Court, their bonds were set at $5 million each because the judge believed that they posed a flight risk. Although her parents had reported her missing, the police believed that Chen had repeatedly punched Ashley in the face until she died.

Ming Ming Chen taped a video with the police in which she confessed to beating Ashley to death. She talked about how she was exhausted by working at the restaurant and that Ashley had become disobedient.

After informing her husband that Ashley was dead, she tasked him with hiding the body.

During a hearing on October 12, 2017, Chen pleaded not guilty to the murder charge by reason of insanity.

According to Zhao, when he found Ashley, she was lying on the floor with head injuries (that Chen presumably inflicted) and "green fluid" coming out of her mouth. He took her to the bathroom to clean the fluid off her face; by that point she had stopped breathing. He tried to perform CPR, but did not successfully revive her. He also confessed to helping Chen hide Ashley's body in the restaurant following her death.

Chen and Zhao were sentenced to 22 and 12 years in prison respectively.

From one of thed cited sources:

The detective pressed her for more information, asking “What happened? How did she die?”

Eventually Chen answered, admitting to the officer that she had killed her daughter.

“I just killed her and then she died,” she said.

Chen said that she became frustrated with Ashley and hit her in a moment of rage.

The little girl had reportedly returned from a trip to China to visit her grandparents and, according to Chen, she had become disobedient while she was away.

“I don’t want to do that to Ashley, but you can’t control yourself sometimes,” she said.

“I need to take care of everything from the restaurant. I only have two hands. I’m not four hands girl, I’m two hands.”

When she realised she had killed Ashley she told her husband, Liang J. Zhao, to “take care of it”.

The "co-conspirators" were largely led by Queen Hsinbyumashin, who was determined to see her daughter (Supayalat) and son-in-law (Thibaw) take power. To muffle the sounds of the executions, they reportedly kept a troupe of performers playing music and beat large drums throughout the palace grounds.

“On 13 February 1879, five royal relatives were killed.

On 15 February 1879, Maung Maung Toke and six other confidants, accompanied by 400 soldiers, removed the royal prisoners who had been confined prior to King Mindon Min's death. They claimed that the Kyedaik (Bronze Hall) was located in front of the King Mother's palace and that suitable apartments for the prisoners had not yet been completed. Nineteen members of the royal family were executed that day. On the following night, another nineteen were killed, some by having their throats crushed with bamboo poles and others by the sword. The decision to kill them by crushing their throats with bamboo poles was made to prevent royal blood from falling on the ground.

The bodies of the princes and princesses, enclosed in red velvet bags, were interred in a pit. To compact the burial ground, elephants were used to trample the earth. During the time of the massacre, the king and queen were watching a traditional court troupe perform a drama in the palace, and they did not notice what was happening because of the noise from the performance.”

One of the benefits on not being on monetized social media like Tiktok is I never heard about Turkey teeth until reading this news article:

• BBC News - Drug dealer busted after sending picture of new 'Turkey teeth' to friend

(Note: the arrested man made sure to smile for his mugshot!)

Explainer:

The Mirror - 'Turkey teeth' are leaving Brits toothless and in pain but UK dentists can't help

(TL;DR: British users of Tiktok & Instagram are travelling to Turkey to get cosmetic dentistry to achieve "that grammable look" on the cheap. Often there are negative consequences like chronic pain & infections, and treatment is not covered by the NHS because these geniuses chose to fuck their teeth up.)

Of course, rap group Goldie Looking Chain got there before me with a hilarious track about Turkey teeth.

Source is the file EUCOSMETICS_Decision_96-335-EC_all.csv under the name 'Trisodium 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonate (CI 59040)'. Followed the link provided by PubChem to the NORMAN Suspect List Exchange. I mean it makes sense.

And the home directory is aliased to ~ in UNIX-like systems because the tilde key doubled as the Home key.