Sorry, tonight I can only go as far as Wikipedia

If an upiór harassed a human at night, the remedy was to stop the upiór returning to its grave - at dawn it would disappear or change into black tar

There are two citations for that sentence but digging out the sources is too much for me tonight. Maybe there is the reasoning behind changing into tar and reference to some older sources

I think there might have been also some mention of power of the sun in some Mickiewicz work. But apparently not in “Upiór”. There it complains to Venus

But true, that is not exactly the express-sunburn OP wrote about

I’m pretty sure that before 1800s some things had to be dried on the sun because otherwise it goes bad. And it would be more in the form of folk wisdom. There I would search for connection “sun does good” -> “kills vampires”

Not necessarily. Punishing theft or manslaughter is not oppression. And it makes sense to have systemic safeguards against those

sunlight itself as something to cause significant harm to vampires appears to have originated with Nosferatu in 1922

I think it’s older than that. But you’d have to search for folklore about garlic, sliver and sun, instead of a book. And Stoker kind of merged together a few Slavic wights from different countries into his Dracula

IMO it made sense in the times when enforcing the law was harder to do. But a lot of time has passed since then, religions (as in whole communities, priests and followers) somehow made it their point to not change much

For all their “christianity”, republicans in the US are pretty hypocritical

No, no, you were indoctrinated by people with agenda
Jesus was saying, and everyone was obeying, like a good person does

/s in case it’s not clear

I 100% expect so. It’s much easier and cheaper to do it this way and also gives them data to train copilot further

I might be wrong, though

And if someone from That Company is reading this: you still have time to do the right thing. You’ve got the rocket science down. Now try ethics.

💋🤌

When a building needs maintenance bad enough that it doesn’t pass a set of regulations, it will get closed until fixed. Maybe we need something like that for IT infrastructure

Thank you for sharing that

But that ties you career to a stance. Which for sure often is a boon for many but not necessarily. The fact that one decides that something has to be spoken out does not mean that they for sure want to be from now on “locked” in politically involved jobs. I’m wondering if HR in some “just business” corp would not see such point in CV as a red flag, and if so if that would be majority, minority, 50/50?

I always wonder if those fired because of protests face some problems with finding another job?

That title went well

Reference
https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/91238

https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok

sometimes I want to read about, I don’t know, advancements in eInk paper, DIY gadgets, transmitting data using non-conventional media (e.g. FM radio), odd games (e.g. that you can play with one hand, with your phone), coding fun things in some esoteric language, or good news like schools benefiting from tech donations

I don’t think there is a one place for all of those at once. But I think some part of your interests might be covered by https://spectrum.ieee.org/ it also provides RSS feed

I think that methodology is wrong. If they analyzed only one instance, then the whole follwer-followee thing might be completely off. And while they measured how many replied frequently, it lacks the “how many replies they got” side

It’s like comparing engagement on whole network vs via only one edge

What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?

A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces!