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Rule the futures of monsters [CW: mentions of SA]
If these were 25 year old black dudes at a house party the president would be lining up the televised firing squad.
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Rule the futures of monsters [CW: mentions of SA]
If these were 25 year old black dudes at a house party the president would be lining up the televised firing squad.
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Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe
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And yet you see 30 year old Subarus all over the PNW.
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Adopting Claude speak in regular life
"why didn't you do them?"
"That is a good question and it merits further explanation. When you made your originally inquiry I determined that the answer you wanted to hear was "yes." so that is the answer that I provided. Upon further reflection it is clear that your question required a more thoughtful answer. If you would like me to provide more truthful answers in the future, please amend your queries with "no cap" and I will do my best to remember that preference."
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Do it for your country's debt!
If we emptied the account of every rich asshole like this we would achieve the same thing AND lose a whole class of dickbags that think they should be in charge.
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Wake up sheeple
Russian capsules have returned to land since their very first launches.
The decision has more to do with geopolitics than physics. Russia does not have a robust Navy with access to equatorial waters on which to land a spacecraft, the US does. Given the historical accuracy of landing a capsule it is actually a hell of a lot easier to drive a big ship to the eventual location than it is to drive a big truck into the middle of a desert. The reason western nations return capsules to the sea is because its easier to recover them there.
Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.
In other words this post is completely inaccurate.
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ICE shoots paintball gun at face of protester point blank to surpress protests against killing of female protester
Protestors need to start arming themselves.
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Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?
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It was a NEST camera from Google, which is only a meaningful distinction because it means they ALL do this shit.
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ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes during immigration operations without judicial warrants: 2025 memo
So just to be clear. The EPA cannot make regulations despite full congressional authority to do so because that is "creating law" without a direct legislative process. But ICE, an agency that doesn't even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?
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Actual theft
Weird to think that there is some percentage of this world that still goes to BestBuy, GameStop, and watches ads on TV and that its big enough to be worth marketing to.
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Renee Good Not an Activist, Had Just Dropped Son at School
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The original narrative was that she was a protestor / legal observer. i.e. that she was actively engaged with the ICE activity in some capacity and that she had placed herself in harms way in the course of doing so.
This new information reveals that she was just a normal person going about her normal business before being randomly murdered by ICE.
Neither version says its OK to just murder someone, but the information that she was just a person in the wrong place takes even more out of the narrative that she somehow initiated the encounter at all.
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Kristi Noem Refuses To Answer Whether ICE Disarmed Alex Pretti Before Fatally Shooting Him
We literally saw it happen. Why does the media pretend that this is a reasonable answer?
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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
None of the companies pulling this shit are offering a good enough product to be worth it.
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I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings
Well, the first step was making a machine that does every step of the process to make it easier. Then you combine those machines into one big machine, hence "combine".
No one starts from zero and builds a machine like this. Each of those processes was its own problem that got solved first.
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Las Vegas sees sharp visitor drop as leisure spending wanes
Vegas forgot the entire reason it was popular in the first place:
Because it was CHEAP. You could go to Vegas and get a nice hotel and go out every night for less than you could go anywhere else because they made their money on gaming instead of the accommodations.
During Covid they pivoted to trying to be a "destination" by ripping off everyone at every corner. The rooms are loaded down with fees, the food and drinks are ridiculously expensive.
The reason to go to Vegas was that a regular middle class person could FEEL like a rich person. That doesn't work when you are priced out of everything.
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PBS is "the propaganda"?
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Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don't want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don't want people giving them inconvenient values.
You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.
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Secret Service shoots armed suspect near White House after brief lockdown
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I mean, that seems like a good reason, but its being given to you by the same people that said that Alex Pretti drew a gun and attacked ICE agents and Renee Goode tried to run over someone with her car.
If the statement is true then it makes sense. But I see no reason to believe that it is true until someone who isn't part of this administration corroborates it.
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Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
Who knew that spending billions of dollars to put a cognitive shit generator into every corner of the world was a bad investment?
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Minneapolis mayor tells ICE to “get the f— out of’ city
They need to start deploying resources to protect their citizens from ICE invasion.
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Well OK, Olive Oyl!
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Context is actually pretty much what we see here. She wants to get wrecked by a big strong man:
It actually gets pretty weird from there:
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I would call it a major Turing point
It was mostly women, which was actually a bigger problem because despite a massive headstart, the British computer industry basically fired every early computer scientist they had the moment the boys came home and sent the ladies back to the kitchen.
Then they couldn't navigate the conflict created by their class system: only gentleman received an education, but only working class men could work with machines, so who was supposed to work with computers?
In the end a big lead on computer development never really materialized into a real advantage for the UK because their culture just wasn't ready for it.
This is literally what breaking down social barriers (you know, DEI) is supposed to address, so maybe we don't waste the next opportunity.