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On September 12, 2025, Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old father of two, was fatally shot by an ICE agent during an attempted traffic stop in Franklin Park, Illinois.[1] Multiple news reports and released footage show the killing occurred shortly after the vehicle stop, prompting public scrutiny over the use of lethal force.[2]

Happy Casual Tuesday. This is from Chinafake Wiki, which documents the origins, features, and variations of knockoff toys. And they're on Lemmy, too! !chinafakes@lemmy.world

This "Amvsing Truck" plays some unknown music and has a Mickey Mouse and Minions variant. And it's definitely not a truck.

(I sure hope these toys don't need Special Containment Procedures)

The phrase comes from a joke that spoofs the simplifying assumptions sometimes used in theoretical physics.

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the physicist returned to the farm, saying to the farmer, "I have the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by winning four gold medals, setting Olympic records in each event.[4][5] He is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in track and field history.[6][7][8]

Memetic warfare is a modern form of information warfare and psychological warfare that involves the propagation of internet memes on social media. While different, memetic warfare shares similarities with traditional propaganda and misinformation tactics, becoming a more common tool used by government institutions and other groups to influence public opinion.

Interesting Millenarian cult from the early 16th century

CODIS consists of three levels of information: Local DNA Index Systems (LDIS), where DNA profiles originate; State DNA Index Systems (SDIS), which allows for laboratories within states to share information; and the National DNA Index System (NDIS), which will enable states to compare DNA information with one another.