TIL: The first gay character on TV was from Australian soap opera Number 96 in 1972
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TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining
TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining - Lemmings.world
I was reading how China had started to test unmanned trucks [https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-unmmaned-trucks-world-highest-mine], and in researching found that Australia was already a decade ahead. (2014) Rio Tinto: rolling out the world’s first fully driverless mines [https://www.mining-technology.com/features/featurerio-tinto-rolling-out-the-worlds-first-fully-driverless-mines-4831021/] (2018) World-first autonomous trains deployed at Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations [https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2018/world-first-autonomous-trains-deployed] - This one is also apparently the ‘worlds biggest robot’ (2021) Rio Tinto to deploy world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at Gudai-Darri [https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2021/rio-tinto-to-deploy-worlds-first-fully-autonomous-water-trucks-at-gudai-darri]
TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill
TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill - Lemmings.world
The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity. Once labeled in this way, people were placed in psychiatric hospitals where they could be held for long periods without legal protections. Harsh treatments were often used to break their resolve. The collaboration between state security organs and compliant psychiatrists created a system where political imprisonment was disguised as medical care, letting the Soviet regime suppress opposition while pretending it was addressing illness rather than silencing critics.
