First a coverup:

alarmed by a spike in suicides among transgender youth following severe restrictions on care in the aftermath of the Bell v Tavistock ruling. This information was never made public, with administrators concerned that it could cause reputational damage

Then a coverup to disguise the coverup:

the UK government commissioned a report, known as the Appleby Report, that claimed there were only a handful of suicides and denied any increase, with many anti-trans political figures and activists then patting themselves on the back and absolving themselves of any blame.

Yes that’s how to run public health services! These people are disgusting. 🤢 🤮

BYD has yet to submit vehicles for FMVS certification.

And why would they do that? Kind of hard to compete with 200% tariffs on.

Absolutely, the Russian economy is doing very poorly disregarding exports may hold better than we thought.

You didn’t write that it was against the Ruble previously. The US dollar has definitely deflated when seen against other international currencies. So what you probably mean is that the Ruble has deflated more than the USD. But that’s irrelevant, since the export numbers are given in USD.

I think you mean deflated, as it has lost value.

https://tass.com/economy/2084701

Exports of goods from Russia decreased by $16.2 bln to $418.3 bln, while imports declined by $3.8 bln to $279 bln

That’s a trade surplus of $139 bln.

These are of course official numbers, so they may be doctored.

Why the fuck would a US congressman worry about monarchy?
I thought it was a no Kings reference, but the idiot is talking about the UK monarchy!
To which I say his opinion on that is completely irrelevant.

Being spineless is not corruption.

If you consider it crazy to fight fascism, maybe you are a fascist.

AFAIK you can’t get BYD Atto3 in USA or any other ordinary BYD car, because USA won’t allow competition, and has posted steep tariffs on cars from China and EU.
So how the fuck would BYD have received carbon credits for 10 years where thy haven’t been able to sell cars in USA?

Tesla is every bit as protected and subsidized as any Chinese brand.

Very interesting article! 👍

The combination of lower oil prices and the oil price cap has done relatively little to dent Russia’s overall export earnings from selling goods to the rest of the world, which were $420 billion in 2019, $425 billion in 2023, $434 billion in 2024, and about $413 billion in 2025.

This is a huge surprise to me if true, I tried to check the numbers, and I couldn’t find anything to show them wrong, on the contrary the numbers I can find seem to confirm this?
This is very strange since we hear all sorts of Russian exports are collapsing. First and foremost oil, which is now worth half what it was 4 years ago, natural gas to EU is at most a fourth, and was considered a major source of income for Russia, but also I’ve heard coal to China has declined steeply, and of course their weapons export is almost halted as they need the weapons themselves.

Those are all major export sectors, so how can it be possible for Russia to maintain stable export numbers?

Yes, and I commented on it, as being a tad old even if this isn’t c/news.

I know this isn’t c/news but still this story is 7 years old!

Mark Tramo:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ucla-professor-profile-removed-university-201231282.html

UCLA professor’s profile removed from university website after appearing in Epstein files

I made a digital MIDI drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.

Yes he does have that childlike look. 🤣

I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.

That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.

A lot of countries have stopped at least some of their dealings with Israel, especially weapons export and import.
Mind you we don’t have an official source that this is true for China, only 1 company that wants to get out of a deal in Israel.

It looks to me like they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.