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Comment Re:normal matter decay produces antimatter? (Score 1) 44

I'm curious how the nuclear decay of sodium 22 produces antimatter to begin with. Does something transmute, for lack of a better word, into antimatter when its nuclear bonds are broken?

Bananas create anti matter. From Ten things you might not know about antimatter (also mentioned, but not explained here DOE Explains...Antimatter) :

Bananas produce antimatter, releasing one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes. This occurs because bananas contain a small amount of potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope of potassium. As potassium-40 decays, it occasionally spits out a positron in the process.

Comment Re:You'll own nothing and you'll be happy (Score 4, Interesting) 20

it's no longer possible to create new Arc accounts as of today

Why does using a browser depend on an "account"? And why is an already-installed application (not tied to a single service provider) going to stop working ever ...

According to the Wikipedia page for Arc an account is required with an email address. I'm guessing it's for the AI features - and to mine more information about you. This is probably also why the browser will stop working.

Users are only able to use the browser after signing up to an Arc account with an email address.

I'm imagining that Dia will also require an account and personal information for mining your data - I mean, using the AI "features".

Comment Re:Misleading way to phrase this much? (Score 1) 221

Since you seem to be all about the conspiracies, let’s try this on for size. Shut down ALL electronic voting. Mandate everyone in every state show a valid form of ID to ensure only valid citizens are casting votes. Then declare that you want all votes counted in public. In the Town Square. Twice.

What do you mean by all electronic voting? In my city, we fill out paper forms which are scanned by a machine. It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote, and people already have to show valid ID in most places to vote (I did), but those IDs don't prove citizenship -- not even a Real ID (except, optionally, in a handful of states). Not everyone has a passport or access to their birth certificate, and getting them costs money. Also many places provide viewing of the ballot counting and all places allow observers from the political parties and media -- a Town Square isn't a secure area for vote counting.

When America finds only ONE political party bitching endlessly about these “unfair” demands, you will then KNOW who the fuck has been cheating.

For decades.

Democrats complain because most efforts by Republicans are unfair or onerous to at least some people, usually poor(er) people who don't usually vote for Republicans. As far as cheating... Republicans are the ones gerrymandering states to squeeze out democrats, trying to get the federal Post Office to manage state mail ballots, threatening to send ICE and/or military to polling places (which is illegal), talking about nationalizing elections, which is contrary to the Constitution. Republicans have nothing to run on to entice voters, so they have to resort to tricks to stay in power.

Comment Re:Misleading way to phrase this much? (Score 1) 221

You mean that they wouldn't know if a vulnerability found on in-service hardware would be patched in the future?

This attempt to acquire a voting machine was from the beginning of the second Trump administration, which started in Jan 2025 - almost 2 years before those machines would actually be used. And since the plan was to acquire a machine secretly, who knows how hard they'd try, or would be able to, to keep it up-to-date.

Comment Re:Misleading way to phrase this much? (Score 3, Informative) 221

Is Trump allowed to vote? I understood convicted felons aren't allowed the vote in free America.

It's up to the individual states and in this case, yes. From Trump is a convicted felon. Here’s why he can still vote today

: Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will defer to that state’s laws for how a felon can regain his or her voting rights.

For Trump, that means he will benefit from a 2021 New York law that allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they’re not serving a term of incarceration at the time of the election.

For other Floridians with felony convictions, the rules are not so simple.

A successful 2018 ballot initiative restoring voting rights to those who had completed the terms of their sentence was gutted by state Republican lawmakers. They passed a law requiring that all the fines and fees associated with a conviction are paid – a process that can be cumbersome, as there is not a centralized system for tracking such outstanding fees.

Had Trump been convicted in Florida, he'd have to pay all the fines and fees associated with his conviction (if any) before getting his voting rights restored, although I imagine (R) Governor DeSantis would have found a way around that for Trump in any case.

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