DrunkEngineer

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Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data (www.reuters.com)
 

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data.

The terminations by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were effective February 28 and communicated on Tuesday via email to one of the panels, the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which assisted with inflation and employment gross domestic product (GDP) data.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

1 in 1000 given a working hospital system. Without the vaccine, hospitals would be completely inundated with patients.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks (meidasnews.com)
 

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a prominent Republican congresswoman and a staunch ally of Trump, suggested a return to "measles parties" for children. She criticized contemporary attitudes towards vaccination, stating, "Now, they demonize parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids."

A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, and such intelligent systems can also optimize for pedestrian traffic,

In the US, these types of "intelligent" systems almost always degrade pedestrian traffic quite severely.

Philadelphia Schools Refuse to Comply with Anti-Trans Executive Order in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Or just eliminate the athletic programs altogether.

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'I was tired' — Serbia's president apologizes for accidentally backing Ukraine's UN resolution (kyivindependent.com)
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Serbia was supposed to abstain from voting on the Ukrainian resolution, Vucic said.

"I believe that Serbia made a mistake today. I apologize to the citizens of Serbia for that, and I take the blame for that because I was probably tired and overwhelmed," he said. "I didn't have time to deal with this (issue) enough, maybe I'm too tired, maybe I have too many things (to deal with)."

Kyiv’s White House wooing implodes as Zelenskyy tells the truth about Trump in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

What Russia means by "elections" is a referendum held in Donbas -- where most of the the native Ukraine population can't vote because they were killed or displaced. And anyone still left who doesn't vote the right way gets tortured or disappeared.