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This would break the internet
You're famous for being photographed shirtless on a horse. Is that because horses can't judge you, or is it a new Russian policy for reducing laundry costs?
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This would break the internet
You're famous for being photographed shirtless on a horse. Is that because horses can't judge you, or is it a new Russian policy for reducing laundry costs?
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'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees
I have zero sympathy for those who only regret their vote for Trump now that his policies - which were always obvious - come back to haunt them personally.
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Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today'
Trump's plan is to end support for Ukraine.
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Trump Cancels a Debate With Harris on ABC News and Pitches One With Fox News Instead
This was the obvious move - attempt to change the venue to Fox, Newsmax or worse. I'm surprised Tucker isn't a proposed moderator.
Harris should counter with a live fact check requirement regardless of venue, which Trump and Fox could never accept.
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FLOSS communities right now
Reply in thread
I recently went through these exact pains trying to contribute to a project that exclusively ran through Discord and eventually had to give up when it was clear they would never enable issues in their GitHub repos for "reasons."
It was impossible to discover the history behind anything. Even current information was lost within days, having to rehash aspects that were already investigated and decided upon.
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Democrats decry ‘sham for justice’ after prosecutors drop Trump charges
Democrats fear Trump will seek political retaliation, deepening national divisions.
No, it's not a fear. It's an acknowledgement of exactly what he has said he will do:
Trump has said repeatedly he will seek political retaliation, deepening national divisions.
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AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica
The argument for AM appears to be: the vast majority of adults will receive an emergency broadcast through their cellphone, but what happens if some event has already occurred which disabled large portions of the cellular network (which itself is an obvious target to create havoc)?
I'm fine with using AM as a redundant system for alerts.
Maybe make it more useful though for people in the car? I don't need an AM button I'm never going to touch. Instead have it monitor whatever the emergency broadcast frequencies are automatically, and put something on screen when there is an alert. That would make it a useful "modern" feature as opposed to appearing as a legacy holdover.
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A guide to Single Payer Healthcare
I'm all for single payer in the US but this diagram is a bit misleading.
What I assume you're really gutting are profits and shareholders for insurance companies. (Good, because healthcare in my opinion should not be a profit driven business in any respect.)
What I fear, however, is who is in power at any given time might change the care you receive if such a system isn't setup with safeguards and ironclad mandates.
For instance, Republicans would absolutely attempt, through legislation, executive order, and the courts, to implement an effective federal ban on abortion or healthcare for trans and LGBTQ groups by changing how/if a single payer system would cover these services.
I would also be worried about the public availability of coverage data such that lists of frequent providers for these services are easily obtained and become a tool for harassment by religious zealots.
Or, imagine an anti-vaxxer put in charge of the program during the next pandemic.
How do other countries deal with these issues? Or, have politics become so broken in the US that this is a somewhat uniquely American problem?
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Republicans dismayed by Trump’s ‘bad’ and ‘unprepared’ debate performance
What kind of lame equivocation is "second best?" If he's "second best" in a debate with two people, then that means HE LOST.
Are these GOP lawmakers and analysts so spineless and beholden to Trump that they cannot discuss this as just one more - in a long list - of his failures?
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Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’
Bash said: "But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”
Where was the question? That's simply a statement about what Trump said.
Politico's headline is outrageous, but what was Bash even trying to do here? Because it reads like she was trying to ask (without asking) if Harris is black, which is just as weird and absurd as Trump's original comment.
Harris's reply is great because it applies both to Trump's racism and the problem with journalists giving these comments anything more than ridicule.
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What about clicking a checkbox means I'm human? How does Cloudflare determine I'm human from that?
Proof of work, which becomes computationally expensive to scale, along with other heuristics based on your browser and page interaction. I believe it's less about clicking the box and what happens after you've clicked the box.
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Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious
This finally pushed me to stop supporting the platform with a premium sub and now here I am, checking out lemmy!
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fuck this
Well that's easy. The protests aren't illegal. Therefore this amounts to nothing.
Fuck this dude.
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Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord
Even if we accept the premise that remote workers "don't work as hard," so what? They're either fulfilling their job responsibilities or they're not.
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How the heck did we get here? Most best selling "cars" are now superzied pickups and SUVs.
We got here because fuel economy requirements are tied to the size and type of vehicle, and so it's easier to make and sell larger, less efficient vehicles.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10562
Why make a smaller vehicle with a smaller margin that requires more engineering time to reach fuel economy standards when you can sell a larger, often more expensive vehicle that has the same fuel economy as last year's model?
Consequently they have become best selling vehicles because there are increasingly fewer small vehicles on dealer lots to purchase.
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Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton
I am not using passkeys until it's possible to easily migrate them between providers (not just devices / browsers). If I used Proton Pass, and then later decided to use another password manager, could I export my passkey data?
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Must win
Can someone provide some context here? Why is he screaming at a coach?
Also side note: why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?
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Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with.
You're in the wrong Rochester!
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New House Speaker Mike Johnson Said 2020 Voting Software Came from ‘Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela’: ‘It Really Was Rigged’
Such a diverse representation of the People's House.
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Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising.
What if we just got rid of digital advertising altogether in the US? How many issues of privacy, health and personal finance would disappear or be greatly reduced?
It's hard for me to imagine what that would look like or the downsides other than to the digital advertising industry itself.