The development comes after Fender secured a landmark ruling in Germany, in which the Regional Court of Dusseldorf established a legal precedent to protect the Stratocaster body design.

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It established the Stratocaster as a "copyrighted work of art” based on “original creative expression”, and any firms operating or selling Stratocaster-inspired guitars in the EU were believed to be at risk of falling afoul of the ruling.

S for Stratocaster.

The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.

Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).

Ad from 1932

This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don’t think it’s healthy. Also with print media, you saw it once or twice in a magazine; you didn’t have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.

Edit: female ad, same era:

Senior Post-Privacy Guru (SPPG)

That one sounds plausible…

It’s yo’ fridge

Do what you wanna do.

I ain’t gonna tell you

How to stock it, too.

It’s a real website!

https://growingjewelry.com/can-a-bad-wax-ring-cause-sewer-gas-smell/

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/gjfq-k9dv

Abstract

When a photon traverses a cloud of atoms without scattering, how much time does it spend as an atomic excitation? To address this question, we used the cross-Kerr effect to weakly probe the degree of atomic excitation caused by a transmitted resonant “signal” photon by measuring the phase shift induced on a (separate, off-resonant) “probe” beam, postselected on cases when the signal photon is transmitted. The time integral of this observed phase shift, properly normalized and averaged over many runs in which the photon is detected after transmission, is the excitation time of interest, in a weak-valued sense. We measured mean atomic excitation times ranging from (−0.82±0.31)⁢𝜏0 for the most narrow band pulse to (0.54±0.28)⁢𝜏0 for the most broadband signal pulse, where 𝜏0 is the non-post-selected excitation time, given by the scattering probability multiplied by the atomic lifetime 𝜏sp . Across a range of pulse durations and optical depths, our results are consistent with the recent theoretical prediction that the weak value of the atomic excitation time caused by a transmitted photon equals the group delay experienced by the light. Our experimental results show that negative times are not limited to describing the shift in the peak of a reshaped wave packet (as resulting from group delay), but they also provide the appropriate description of the weak-valued time the photon spends as an atomic excitation.

Atomic excitation refers to the process where an electron in an atom absorbs energy and moves to a higher energy level or orbit.

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

Way more Waymos (Way mo’ Waymos) than expected.

So, if you are like me, you scratched your head going, “Where?”

Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) and locally as Pridnestrovie,[d] is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova.

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

There aren’t many technical details, but the vulnerability is simple in practice: run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine. Macs are rarely servers, so the practical impact is limited. However, the exploit remains concerning, as it’s relatively easy to trick a user into running it and, with full system control, also hard to find and remove.

“the practical impact is limited.” but if it’s your Mac…

The site was formerly occupied by several Phelps family residences, one of which was sold to J. P. Morgan in 1880.

1906 - Completed as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan.

1924 - The library was made a public institution by J. P. Morgan’s son John Pierpont Morgan Jr., in accordance with his father’s will. Since this time it has seen numerous expansions and renovations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Library_%26_Museum

With European governments bucking Windows, sure, it’s likely to have some growth.

Power toys and remap it?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4098471/how-can-i-change-my-screenshot-hotkey-(from-window

Open a new account at your bank. Shove $10 bucks in it. Don’t touch the cash. Let OpenAI watch your $10 stagnate.

I like that the site gives a lot of detail.

Dimensions: Overall: 7/8 x 11/16 x 3/8 in. (2.3 x 1.8 x 0.9 cm) bezel: 1/4 x 1/8 in. (0.6 x 0.3 cm)

So if width is 11/16, that’s 0.68 inches, which this calculator puts as a US size 7.

https://goodcalculators.com/ring-size-converter/

‘Symbolism of a cut watermelon’

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency names “relevant actors” in the “secular pro-Palestinian extremism” world, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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It then goes on to a section on “symbols and identifying marks”, which includes the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and the “symbolism of a cut watermelon”.

“The watermelon, alluding to the colours of the Palestinian flag, is a symbol of solidarity with Palestine. Here, the outline of the entire state of Israel is depicted in the colours of the Palestinian flag (as a sliced watermelon), thereby denying Israel’s right to exist,” the BfV says.

hmmm…

I’m not sure this one checks out 100%…

Your question is broader than you think.

For one culture to have an idea and share it to others isn’t uncommon. Pyramids are in Egypt and Mesoamerica. Giants exist in many cultural myths (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giants_in_mythology_and_folklore) as are ghosts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghosts).

You see, an idea that’s communicated is a meme.

" A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. "

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

If you’re considering spirit as a soul

https://www.planksip.org/the-concept-of-the-soul-in-ancient-philosophy-and-soul-1763067454225/

TL;DR: So, why does it exist across cultures? It’s a meme.

“Roots” was among the first widely read works of fiction to offer a detailed account of the Middle Passage, the horrific transatlantic journey to America endured by enslaved Africans between the 16th and 19th centuries.

“Prior to its release, the impact of slavery was easy to diminish or deny by those that benefited the most from that system,” said Annastasia Williams, bookshop director at The Bottom bookstore and cultural organization.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2026/05/15/knox-county-schools-bans-historical-novel-roots-by-alex-haley/90080042007/

𝄞 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥. 𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 #𝅘𝅥. 𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥 𝅘𝅥𝅮 𝅘𝅥. 𝅘𝅥 𝅗𝅥.

Someday we’ll find it, the erection connection…

Sorry, Kermie.

No. I may not be on the same OS as you, and I may not have visited the same sites.

The 78-year-old issue is readable online.