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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
I'm honestly surprised that he lasted this long
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Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
I'm honestly surprised that he lasted this long
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Proud Boy Jan. 6 defendant who shot at law enforcement is sentenced to prison
I really enjoyed this little tidbit "Pelham paced outside, holding a gun and yelling at police. He eventually went back inside and fired the gun several times. For their own safety, police left the property that night, and let Pelham sleep off his drinking." He shoots at police and they "let him sleep it off", any POC would be dead as a doornail if they so much as thought of the word gun in the presence of cops. But a white male insurrectionist can just sleep it off. This country is truly fucked.
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Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
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You could have answered them in the time it took you to write that comment.
Just... why? It's like you want to be an asshole.
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Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They ‘Did Cancel Culture On Us’
As someone who has received one of his pillows as a gift, it does not surprise me in the least that the company is going under. Aside from his crazier than a shithouse rat politics, the lumpy sacks of industrial waste he passes off as pillows are the most uncomfortable thing I've ever laid my head on.
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Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts
Sub 10 micron. Jfc, this idiot doesn't have a clue about auto manufacturing. Even the most precise parts of auto manufacture don't require "sub 10 micron" tolerances. Engine bearing journals are about the most crucial fit in a car and they are generally on the order of 50 microns. Electric cars can use even wider margins because they mostly use ball and roller bearings instead of babbit bearings.
But... Since were talking about the body panels on the worlds dumbest truck the point is even more moot. John Delorian was stamping out stainless panels in the 80s on a shoe string budget,
but the worlds richest dipshit wants to make it out to be the automotive equivilant to brain surgery.
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Trump Isn’t Bluffing. We’ve become inured to his rhetoric, but his message has grown darker
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Not really, even if you put aside the big orange idiot, our country is quite fucked.
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America has lost its f*****g mind.
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Sadly they are not, the people that do it are the worst kind of asshole. They generally like to "roll coal" while passing electric or hybrid cars, covering them with soot. The spend thousands of dollars to be as obnoxious and wasteful as possible, all to spite "the liberals".
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Ohio, Michigan Republicans In Released Audio: "Endgame" Is To Ban Trans Care "For Everyone"
It just goes to show that "saving the children" has always been a stepping stone to a total ban. Just as attacking attacking the trans community is a stepping stone to attacking the entire lgbt community. These bastards will never stop till there are only straight white Christians left, and then I'm sure they'll start going after anyone "not christian, or not white" enough. Fascism never stops its march to trample the other, because without someone to persecute they have nothing. These attacks on lgbt people and other minorities will never end until we stamp out fascism like we did in 1945.
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Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts
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I'm well aware of how tolerances work, I've worked in automotive manufacturing since 2016 and currently run the maintenance department at a tier 2 manufacturing facility.
Injection molding is able to have tolerances in the hundredth of millimeter range true. But metal stamping is not as precise.
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Biden Sets Internet Alight With ‘Dark Brandon’ Super Bowl Reaction
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He should be like Jimmy Carter and start building them homes himself, by hand. /s
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Ohio transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions
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Seeing how you immediately suspect someone of lying rather than simply misunderstanding something speaks volumes to the the objective fact that you are a moron.
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Panama Canal reduces the maximum number of ships travelling the waterway to 31 per day
Why do they need to use fresh water to fill the locks? I get that pumping salt water may come with a bit more maintenance but it just seems like a waste to use all that fresh water.
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Trump lawyer tries to discredit E Jean Carroll in bizarre exchange during trial
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Public service announcement that this poster is a literal Nazi.
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Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
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RCS stands for Rich Communications Suite. Its a standard developed by google to make texting more feature rich like dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Pretty much any stock android app uses it these days. If you want to know more here's a pretty good explanation of it. https://www.androidcentral.com/what-rcs-and-why-it-important-android
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The Cybertruck Must Be Huge—or It Will Dig Tesla’s Grave
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Don't kid yourself, these things will never be used as an actual truck. The only use for one is as a status symbol to show the world just how rich and stupid the owner is.
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US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles
About time Ford is held accountable for their dogshit engines, although investigations should have started in the early 2000s. The Ford triton v8s of the late 90s and 00s were prone to blowing sparkplugs out of their cylinder heads (taking all the threads with them) so often that parts stores advertised the repair kits prominently. Ford never recalled a single engine for the problem and faced no repercussions.
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NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon, Water
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NASAs budget in 2021 was $25b, but their economic output was $71.2b. NASA actually puts more into the economy than it takes to run. Between providing nearly 340,000 jobs and leasing patents on materials and technology developed in house, NASA more than pays their own way. Not to mention all the advancements in material science, medical technology, and engineering that they provide. NASA is well worth the investment we put into it, and IMO deserves much more.
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Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Trans Kids?
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Cisgender kids have been put on puberty blockers to treat disorders like precocious puberty for decades. We know the long term effects of the these drugs and they are minimal. Surgery is only an option for 16 year olds at the youngest and that's only with the consent of both parents. All this outrage about "saving the children" is BS that is only manufactured to draw the uninformed over to the bigots cause. Every major medical association in the US and Europe has proven time and again that gender affirming care saves lives. Whether you're just ignorant or a willfully hateful bigot I don't know, but taking time to learn the actual facts of the matter would probably be a good idea.
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Aerial photos reveal work progressing on The Line megacity
I give it less than 50 years before global warming turns it into just another desiccated ruin, half buried by the sands.
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TIL that the white stuff that sometimes appears on chocolate is called "chocolate bloom".
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Sitting in a poorly climate controlled warehouse, or spending too long in a truck/shipping container are probably the most common cases I would think.