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FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
He shoulda just said he was training an ai model!
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FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters
He shoulda just said he was training an ai model!
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‘Forever chemical’ bans face hard truth: Many can’t be replaced
Asbestos. You know how long they knew that was killing people? Lead, they knew that was toxic, kept using it. Business, under capitalism, is designed to find the cheapest path to pull in more money. Regardless of the consequences. Changing might not even mean all that much more, in cost. They would still act like they can't at all, because any back slide looks bad on their charts. They have no financial obligation to the environment and or people. Change that and they'd become innovators overnight.
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world tour
There's an error there, Tasmania is coloured red. They never visit Tasmania. You live in Tasmania, you want to see your favourite band, it's a plane ticket and a hotel stay, plus ticket. So close and yet so far. I hear the Tasmanians have given up and just built a huge ear horn, to collectively use.
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$50 bucks says they didn't even think of that.
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very upsetting
Piracy / stealing content is ok for big corps Piracy / stealing content punishable by life in prison for us proletarians
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Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
He wants to indict Biden, whilst simultaneously creating / wanting freedom to never be charged with anything when you're president. Which has to happen before he's able to become president again.
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Are remakes ever for a new generation? Aren't they just for the original people who liked it, and they hope a new gen will like the new content,, but they never do?
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Trump says it was 'my decision' to try to overturn 2020 election results | CNN Politics
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I mean. There's always been a very different justice system for the rich v poor. I'm not expecting much. Slap on the wrist, a little community service that he can pawn off or do in some cushy way. Maybe I'm setting my hopes low, so as to avoid the fall of it does actually turn out that way.
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Paywalled acceleration rule
So much evil. Just so much. And it's expanding, exponentially. Where are the evil levels going to measure at, in another 15 years. I'm too old (cbf learning) to make a meme, but I see lilo and stitch, but over stitches face is all currently existing corporations, and that drawing of the bad levels she drew.
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Brazil’s Lula compares Israel’s war on Gaza with the Holocaust
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It doesn have to have exactly the same number of people die. It's a genocide and they're literally trying to kill all of the Palestinians. It's not about matching numbers, it's about the definition.
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Autism Linked With DNA Our Ancestors Inherited From Neanderthals : ScienceAlert
We all contain ancient DNA, we all come from a set of people that evolved, saying people with ASD socialize like Neanderthals is problematic because phrasing it like that implies they haven't evolved past their ancient roots.
Just because we're detecting Neanderthal DNA at higher rates in people diagnosed with ASD, doesn't mean they're unevolved, autism is a different brain structure, a different way of viewing and experiencing the world.
The double empathy problem is just that both very different neurotypes, don't understand each other's unique way of feeling, seeing and experiencing the world, it's essentially a communication issue.
That communication issue is relative to the fact that autism, while it has existed since the dawn of people, as this study is seeking to delve deeper into, is only relatively newly discovered, as a diagnosable existing neurotype. And if you add onto that the fact our current rates of diagnosis only serve Caucasian boys, that becomes even further problematic for recognition, and communication. Women, and people of colour are just starting to become included and aren't adequately included. They are currently not in the dsm5.
For the double empathy problem to not exist, we would have to understand and respect both neurotypes and provide the space and needs both require. Currently we only do that for one neurotype. And as a society we aren't even, yet, capable of adequately, expansively or comprehensively, diagnosing all individuals who have the asd neurotype. Essentially we as a society are only set up to provide for one neurotype.
Let me explain it like this, two types of imaginary people have to exist together, all of one type walk and breathe air, all of the other type, swim and breathe water, currently our society, in this thought experiment, is set up for the walkers, and the swimmers struggle to breathe or even get around in this environment. There shouldn't be a world where those swimmers are told to suck it up, as is reflective of our current society. The swimmers shouldn't be expected to evolve to breathe air and walk on land, equal space and provisions should be made for both. In an evolved society, that's the direction we would go.
So implying their Neanderthal DNA is why they can't socialise, is also problematic because saying they need to catch up to "us" and learn "our" ways. That's the opposite direction for resolving the double empathy problem.
People with ASD can't and shouldn't be expected to exist in an environment that doesn't provide for their basic needs. It's hard to see how cruel and uninclusive that is, without including the lived experiences of people with ASD. I would argue, in all due respect, that if anything is unevolved, it's that current societal expectation. Because that is what is currently being done to people with ASD. Specialists are engaged to, essentially, help them cope with conforming. But it's not a changeable thing, it doesn't stop their brain perceiving the world in the way it does, it just forces them to shove the pain down till they burn out and can't function. But that could, arguably be blamed on capitalism.
So to end my point I say, the answer is eat the rich.
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After decades of climate deception, Shell uses Fortnite to court demographic most concerned about climate change
So many evil villains in this timeline.
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The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died
Unregulated God complex, and sickening leaves of wealth surely that can't become harmful in any way.
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Cunk on bodies
Wait. Have you met the lactose intolerant tho?? They'd be all in, regardless.
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PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s
Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.
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Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough
It will never be enough. That's the model of capitalism.
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People tend to take out of shows what they want it to say. It's very consistently acknowledged, House is an asshole. People are openly terrified of becoming like him. They consistently work to fix him. So he's not like that. That said, I love House, I've been watching it repeatedly since it aired. I still find new layers to the subtext and relationships of the show. And the reason people tried to help House, not be like he is, is because he has a richly developed character with deep endearing empathy and sympathy for others, he consistently puts others before himself, sometimes risking his own life, just to save someone else. He might say the asshole thing, but it's calculated and planned for a good outcome, he might be helping someone face an uncomfortable truth that will ultimately save a life. Like how he spoke to the family of the guy in the wheelchair who pushed himself into the pool. He needs answers that politeness wouldn't allow, like the guy who refused to admit he was taking steroids. But was. He thinks his meanness is purposeful, even towards his team. He has that old school boomer gen attitude of toughing people up to motivate them. Which, during his character growth he comes to realise isn't right. He deeply cares about the people closest to him. Often giving them kind and endearing comforting words when they need them. He is a balance, and he is in a lot of pain. Even the kindest person is a bit of an asshole when in constant pain. The show is a little dated, in the sense that we as a society have realised those jokes are beneath us and we strive to be better, so don't make those references that hurt others when we realise. But there's not too many spots like that, it does well for its age, mostly.
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Sovereign citizen receives mail, has opinions.
Sovereign citizens are a hilarious little delight to break up the drudge that these times bring. There's always a balance.
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Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution
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I'm Australian and I acknowledge the levels of racism. I think it's the racists who think it's not racist here. One guy told me he wasn't racist, his hatred and disdain for ALL aboriginal people was valid because he had had traumatic experiences, first hand. (makes me so freaking angry even typing this) his traumatic experiences were absolute bullshit. Racists justify thier racism as "a valid explanation" so they don't call themselves racists. So if people are saying it's not racist here you're probably talking to the racists. And Facebook. I also blame Facebook for this.
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson Wants Women to Pop Out 'Able-Bodied Workers' to Fund Social Security
That's them saying the quiet bit out loud. They see population growth stagnating to dangerous levels and they need more poor people to feed thier capitalism machine, while not acknowledging that low population growth is occurring because they've starved people of the necessary resources to keep a child alive and enjoy / be able to afford parenting. The choice was provide adequate resources or force people to have babies without resources.