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hadleyburg writes:
For a user with an Android phone, and happy to stick with the Google environment, an Android tablet might seem a more obvious choice than an iPad. Of course iPads are a lot more popular, and asking about Android tablets is likely to invite advice about sticking with what everyone else has.
The Slashdot community on the other hand, being a discerning and thoughtful crowd, might have some experience in this area, and willing to share the pros and cons they have found.
The use case is someone not requiring any heavy usage — no video editing or gaming. Just email, browsing, youtube, video calls, and that sort of thing.
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hadleyburg writes:
President Trump has directed the Department of War to restart nuclear testing.
The directive appears to be a counter measure to rival nations catching up with the US. The last US nuclear test was an underground test, on September 23, 1992, in Nevada.
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hadleyburg writes:
I recently had a look at Ground News. It's a site which displays a rating indicating how much any given story is published by left, centre, and right-leaning media. The idea is that you can avoid being in a "news bubble" by seeing what the other side is saying.
Wanting to avoid bias, the idea appealed to me. But after a few visits to the site, it seemed somehow unsatisfying. The site offers you "blindspots" — stories which are missing on one side of the political spectrum. You have the chance to look into these blindspots, and see the news you might be missing if you remained in your news bubble. But it dawned on me that the blindspots might actually be precisely the corners of the news I want to avoid. Yes — I want to avoid bias. But I think that means I want a politically central (less biased) news source. It doesn't mean I want news from each extreme.
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hadleyburg writes:
The memecoin launched and promoted by the US president is prompting major, first-of-their-kind ethics questions.
Transparency International's "Corruption Perceptions Index" ranked the US 28th as of 2024. It is difficult to see how developments in 2025 would show an improvement.
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hadleyburg writes:
The official account for the visa branch of the US Embassy in Tokyo posted an important note for those applying for a nonimmigrant visa — or DS-160 — for the States. According to the notice, applications must include accurate information regarding their SNS accounts that they have used within the last five years. Anyone who fails to comply with this request won’t be allowed to enter the country.
The embassy announcement has sparked concern among Japanese citizens who regularly travel to the United States.
According to Jeffrey J. Hall, a lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies, “The threat of having a visa denied over one’s political social media posts feels much more real in 2025.”
