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You're deranged

The pool is just memetastic and simple to explain. Classic clickbait fodder. It also has direct links to an area of Trump's supposed expertise.

The other more important things like the Epstein files, oligarchs, genocide, graft, corruption, fascism, inflation, affordability, and idiotic wars of aggression are still getting coverage and will still get coverage after this. They're just not as easily condensed up a meme.

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This is a combination of why we shouldn't have cash bail and why effective representation is so critical.

Removing cash bail stops the pre trial incarceration of those without significant assets.

Effective representation means that your rights to a speedy trial can be reasserted of your want and reduces the misapplication of state sponsored violence.

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Automation

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Maybe not the hardest, but still challenging. Unknown biases in training data are a challenge in any experimental design. Opaque ML frequently makes them more challenging to discover.

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Another ICE murder in Minneapolis

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Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) voted for it. They should be primaried and vilified. Jefferies didn't whip the vote, but he did vote against it.

Now it's important to pressure senators to not pass the bill.

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Truth is a complete defense to defamation in the US. The problem is SLAPP protections don't go far enough when there is a large disparity in resources.

It's especially problematic when the consequences to victims go beyond lawsuits (reputational, mental, and physical well-being are all potential threats.)

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All baking recipe ingredients should be in weight, not volume.

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Ain't nobody in the US got a fancy kitchen scale.

Lots of us have them. (Well, basic scales which weigh a tenth of a gram.) They're useful when weighing compressible dry ingredients like flour and brown sugar, and viscous wet ingredients like molasses and corn syrup. They're also helpful when you're multiplying a recipe by a factor that doesn't result in useful units; it's annoying to figure out how to measure out fractional cups that involve teaspoons.

They also help with portion control if you're watching calories.