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AI Art
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But couldn't it be easily inferred from the right-side of the image?
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AI Art
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But couldn't it be easily inferred from the right-side of the image?
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lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
I prefer a more text based main post experience so this is gonna be good for me. Reddit used to be a fantastic discussion forum until every single post on /all was either an image post or video post. I wish there was a way to completely disable media posts so I could just view discussion posts.
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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
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I just buy refurbished or "New-Old-Stock" 2-year-old flagship phones off ebay for $100 or so bucks every other year.
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Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead
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The right seems to be blinded by the thought that the US Military would support them, but luckily the modern US military would never support any side of a civil war and would simply squash any serious attempt of a fascist rebellion. What are they even going to be able to do? They can't shoot down drones with their AR-15s.
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Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin
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The young scions of our age find themselves in a curious juxtaposition to their forbearers, who once trembled at the thought of world-ending calamities unleashed by the fiery engines of the Autarch's weaponry. These newer souls scoff at such fears, deeming them hollow echoes of a past era, perhaps because they have been raised in the shadow of subtler, yet equally inexorable, dooms. To them, the threat of slow ruin wrought by the invisible maladies that pollute our waters and air, or the gradual inferno that the Sun's ever-increasing wrath promises to our world, hold more tangible dread. For these youths, the prospect of instantaneous annihilation in a blaze of cosmic fire seems almost a reprieve, a quick severance of life's Gordian knot, sparing them the prolonged suffering promised by the ills that plague our slowly deteriorating Urth.
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Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
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There's an interesting academic book called Climate Leviathan that investigates four different ways in which the governments of the world might evolve into a single global government as the climate crisis intensifies. Interesting read, but it deals with topics like this.
anarch.cc/uploads/misc/climate-leviathan.pdf
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They would quash any serious attempt at civil war or revolt of or between any political extreme in order to maintain the current status quo. The government and the military are both owned by the corporate class. The left is a very very small minority in the US and they don't even have a mainstream political influence or party. The US just has the socially liberal right-of-center Democrat party and the far-right conservative Republican party.
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Biden says UAW should fight for 40% pay raise in Michigan strike visit
The 4-Day Workweek is more important.
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Well, I suppose we'll just have to disagree, but even though I find your opinions and perspectives to be mostly generalized embellishments and without nuance I still appreciate you for providing them.
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Got to find a leftiest place.
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Sometimes I miss the pre reddit migration times.
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Every dang day
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This is confusing. Liberalism isn't leftwing, it's right-of-center at best. Most often it's right-wing economic policies with socially left-wing ineffectual lip service. Especially with how far right the Democrats have trended since the 80s and their adoption of a corporate focused form of third-wayism. There are only a handful of representatives who could even be considered slightly left-of-center progressives.
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Shopping at Target
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Everything is a K-Mart these days.
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Breaking news: Millennial and GenZ women have standards
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Best guess is that young male nerds have been flooded with endless amounts of nazi propaganda on 4chan for the last 15 years.
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hootenannies
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Just start with the topic you want to talk about. I would never message someone with small talk nonsense like "what's up" or "how's it going", etc, etc.
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Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
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Resource wars are heavily covered in the work.
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The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it.
Let them get sick and die, then. Win-win
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Glad that you agree.
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Think of Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says
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Believe it or not, a lot of younger Taiwanese people want to rejoin the mainland. Not exactly a majority yet, but it's getting pretty close.
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Early Access: Become a tester for Boost for Lemmy and share your feedback 🚀
Is there an option for the comments where I can just long-press to select and copy text instead of needing to go into a copy menu and then using the select text option? That can be bit tedious, and I typically copy most longer comments and send them to my voice-aloud app for TTS. It's definitely the main feature I miss about the old RIF app - easy text selection and perfect Bluetooth keyboard/mouse support.
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It kinda sounds like you listened to the original run of the "It Could Happen Here" podcast series a few too many times. It could happen here, but the probability of it sparking is very low, and even then the probability of that spark growing beyond anything more than localized/isolated incidents is even lower.