chuds are gonna have a BIWOC as their president and they can just cope and seethe and dilate

!khive

'My heart is broken by France's Olympic hijab ban'

Konate came up as a rising star with the French national youth team, winning medals including silver in 3x3 basketball at the 2018 Buenos Aires Youth Olympics - an experience she describes as the "best memory" of her career and something she dreamed of recreating at the Paris Olympic Games.

But she has mixed feelings about being back home - because she's banned from competing in France.

The reason? She wears a hijab.

Last year, when Konate came home for the summer break to play a 3x3 tournament, she discovered she wasn't allowed to step on court - due to a rule change made by the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) in 2022 which expressly bans any kit "with a religious or political connotation".

Sylla is keen to challenge "ignorant" mindsets, saying: "They think if you wear the hijab, you're just in the kitchen and doing nothing with your life.

"But I'm the example: I'm not just a Muslim, I'm not just a woman wearing the hijab - I'm an entrepreneur, I work in marketing, I have a masters degree, and I play basketball as well - so why are they putting me on the side?"

Over the three years since France's controversial "Islamist separatism" law was passed, it has gradually permeated aspects of French society, including competitive sports. The rule applies not only to players but also to coaches and referees - officially excluding anyone wearing a sports hijab from the competitive space altogether.

"Some of us are becoming activists because of this rule, but what I also want to emphasise is most of us are left without anything - especially younger Muslim women because they don't know why they're being excluded. They don't have any other alternative so some of them just stop playing sport altogether.

"Once a rule targets a minority group and creates discrimination and infringes on people's rights, it should be everyone's concern. And so today it's us - but tomorrow it may be you.

"We grew up without any role models and we will never have - if these rules stay in place - a French hijabi athlete representing the national team."

Then even more blah-blah-blah about how oppressive this is with absolutely no mention of the other side of the coin. Good work, BBC!

!maBIPOCs

They are a nation state run by an unchallenged leader. They can afford to throw up to 10-20 million people into the meat grinder by the end of the war.

The only downside is that their male to female ratio is already 87 men to 100 women.

That ratio is only going to get worse till the end of the war.

None of that has an impact on Putin.

The war goes on.

Scene wasn't covered at all and the rider was fricking splattered, hard to unsee. Was a young guy, just graduated high school, going too fast and tboned a car. Wasn't wearing gear, head was basically gone, torso cut in near half. 2nd time I've seen a road death from a motorcycle, the other time was Harley VS semi and I saw it happen, fricking brutal.

Ride safe bros, wear gear, don't die like a dumbass.

!jews

!khive

https://newrepublic.com/post/184249/78-year-old-criminal-kamala-harris-roasts-trump-press-release

!animalposters

This roaming robotic jammer was first contemplated after a child sexual abuse suspect used his doorbell camera to see FBI agents at his door serving a search warrant. The gunman opened fire on them from behind the closed door with an assault-style rifle, killing two veteran agents and injuring three more.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the Boston Dynamics Spot robot.

According to the transcript of the speech by DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) director Benjamine Huffman, acquired by 404 Media, NEO is equipped with an antenna array that is designed to overload home networks, thus disrupting devices that rely on Wi-Fi and other wireless communication protocols. It will thus likely be effective against a wide range of popular smart home devices that use wireless technologies for communications.

Aside from taking out smart devices, law enforcement can also use the robot to communicate with subjects in the target area, and to provide remote eyes and ears to officers on the ground. "NEO can enter a potentially dangerous environment to provide video and audio feedback to the officers before entry and allow them to communicate with those in that environment," says Huffman. "NEO carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow officers the ability to create a 'denial-of-service' (DoS) event to disable 'Internet of Things' devices that could potentially cause harm while entry is made."

This roaming robotic jammer was first contemplated after a child sexual abuse suspect used his doorbell camera to see FBI agents at his door serving a search warrant. The gunman opened fire on them from behind the closed door with an assault-style rifle, killing two veteran agents and injuring three more.

Aside from the NEO, the DHS also built the 'FLETC Smart House', which is designed to train law enforcement about smart home devices and how they could be used against them. Huffman explained, "A suspect who has been searched and is under the control of officers can cause these actions to happen with a simple voice command which can start a chain of events to occur within a house, such as turning off lights, locking doors, activating the HVAC system to introduce chemicals into the environment and cause a fire or explosion to take place."

This development shows how law enforcement is catching up with technological advancements. Smart home devices started becoming common in the mid-to-late-2010s, with many users installing them to automate several aspects of their houses and bolster security. So, anyone with a little bit of technical know-how and ingenuity could potentially create a hostile environment using readily available wireless electronics. While NEO might not be able to affect hard-wired smart devices, it would still be able to disable the radio frequencies most wireless IoT devices use, thus reducing the risks for law enforcement officers.

!chuds