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American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately

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The giant spiders are Australian. I mean, it's Australia, everything has two health bars. That said, there is a harmless but creepy-crawly-looking giant grasshopper-looking thing called a giant wētā that - like actual grasshoppers - likes to live in and lay its' eggs in people's backyards. Here, educate yourself!

If you hate bugs, I'd recommend heading to South America (make sure to check local political stability of each of the nations) and staying in a city, or heading to northern Canada and buying a tiny shack to ride this all out away from everyone else. Japan is a possibility but... fucking murder hornets. Literally in Tokyo suburbs.

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That's fair, just realize some of us are tired of online pessimism to such a degree that an AI - telling me there are in fact potential solutions and to keep trying - is actually good for our mental health. I only use Perplexity for research and musings that I sometimes post here to be discussed, not to completely replace human interaction on the Fediverse.

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I mean, you're both kind of right. I'm no doctor but it seems like something doctors (good doctors, anyway) would seriously consider in regards to this. On the one hand, they're leaving people to the wolves. On the other, there is nothing you can do in the US if it gets that far that will outweigh the good you can do elsewhere. But then, is that actually true? This isn't the literal same as WWII, it's just extremely similar, a pattern we are able to recognize this time around because it happened before and was well-documented. It's possible that this time, leaving would in fact cause more harm than good. But if you have a family... Well, I can't blame you for protecting your own kids over your patients and their kids, as long as you don't throw someone else under the bus.

It's complicated. When there's that many variables, all you can do is trust your gut. No one can predict the future that well, if at all.

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Data Removal Services or just Google myself and remove my own data

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Yeah, sounds like you had awful digital hygiene. Not that it helps to have good digital hygeine like I did. All it takes is the majority of people's opinions becoming sufficiently extremist for your life to be irrevocably ruined.

Unfortunately, emailing people won't actually get your data removed. They are supposed to, legally speaking, but they have already sold your data to those who maliciously make use of it. That's the only reason they let that law be in place, because once they sold data, the new owner is not obligated to delete their copies of that data. And they sell this data multiple times, meaning there are now countless owners of data about your personal history. Not just for advertising, either. It is increasingly obvious it's being used to sway elections. If you value democracy, get an ad-blocker and refuse to disable it for any reason.

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Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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Was annoyed, then confused, then I see what you mean. Yeah, he's got no intention of actually bringing dignity back to the workplace, but some people would be willing to work if jobs were treated in a dignified way. As it is, tipping alone has ruined any possibility that the US would ever let the people "take away" the ability of rich people to have servants.

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Fortunately, no. But they will probably eat the harmless giant grasshopper-things (wela) that also live in New Zealand backyards.

There's also giant crickets in Africa, and several giant beetles in Japan. I swear I don't remember where I learned all this, I've never even been to New Zealand or Australia or any of the other places (aside from South America).

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Why did Mojang make a whole new edition instead of just rewriting Minecraft in C++?

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At this point, micro transactions for cosmetics are like candy. Kids will resent you and the values you try to impose if it makes them less able to participate in group activities. Restricting it to an allowance makes sense, disallowing it does not. I say this as someone who was banned from playing any video games as a kid for bullshit reasons.

There's a reason that, when people realized smoking was toxic, they petitioned governments to ban them in increasing amounts and thus eventually de-popularize tobacco, rather than try to get kids to not smoke. If all your friends are allowed to, fuck whatever the reason is that you can't.

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Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

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Time we started making anti-money instead. The more you invest per period of time, the less privileges and opportunities you are allowed depending on how much anti-money you're saddled with until you die.

Oh, you don't like that this penalizes tall poppies? I am a tall poppy. The rich cut ME off. Why? Because I was never rich but I had skill and talent and I hate people who abuse authority. Because the rich don't care about tall poppies, they care only about THEIR legacy. Fuck the shears and the gardener, everyone.

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This friday i show you Top 5 Roguelike Mods

Does anybody remember a mod for java which had something like "magic door to the Backrooms but it's eldritch stone passageways"? And if you dug too deep you'd get stranded in an infinite darkness dimension with no light and only useless black voxels that break if you mine them. Would love to see that in Bedrock.