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Oh my gods they weren't lying about Human Domestication Guide being a cognitohazard for trans girls
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I do
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Oh my gods they weren't lying about Human Domestication Guide being a cognitohazard for trans girls
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I do
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President Trump calls on New Mexico to change its name to ‘New America’
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Because apparently no one in this godforsaken shithole of a country can aim properly.
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Elon doesn't like committing crimes in a game. He would rather commit crimes irl...
He'd rather kill hundreds of thousands of children in real life by cutting off international food aid through DOGE 💀💀. I hope his ass gets cooked at Nuremberg 2.0
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While preparing for his U.S. citizenship exam, mathematician Kurt Gödel believed he had discovered a loophole in the U.S. Constitution.
I mean yeah, duh. The US constitution is fucking stupid. "Yeah lets have a bicameral legislature where states with a population of 6 get as much representation in the upper house as ones with a population of 60 million" said no one ever with a fucking brain in their skull. I spent my entire life growing up being told how the US constitution protected our "democratic norms" (as if this wretched shithole ever paid more than lip-service to democracy), while I watched hordes of illiterate racist degenerates continue to elect fascists and the systems I was told were supposed to protect democracy actively aided and abetted them.
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**this seems to be the theme of the season mateys**
I haven't had this happen using ublock origin, but if they do figure out how to block ublock origin, adnausiem (ublock origin fork) might work. It's a fork of ublock origin that tricks the ad providers into thinking you clicked on every ad, which not only bypasses a lot of adblock detectors, it Actively costs them money by polluting their ad data with garbage.
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I bet they're all ghosts. Getting yourself frozen just screams "unfinished business"
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I doubt it. Cryogenic preservation is probably possible, but current methods likely do too much damage to the person's tissue to ever be salvageable, especially since most of them were dead for hours before being frozen. Their brains were unrecoverable before they even entered the pods. Ideally you'd want to be frozen more or less immediately. As in "the process begins while you're still alive and they euthanize you on the table inside the cryogenics facility" immediately.
Plus a lot of these companies experience regular refrigeration failures, which is probably what caused the corpses in the meme to liquify like that.
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Hmmmm
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I mean, the US sucks, but they don't just support settler colonial states for its own sake. They support Israel because it's strategically useful to have a US friendly state in the middle east that's small enough that they will basically do what we say (unlike Saudi Arabia). Also a significant portion of Republicans in congress think that Israel/Palestine being controlled by Jews is a necessary precondition for the Rapture. The US is more indifferent to the genocide of the Palestinians than anything, which imo is just as bad, but it's important to look at the material causes for things instead of just saying "these two countries have similar ideologies so they'll be allies".
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Just heard about the "folder leak" and thought it was funny
Just looked up a screenshot out of morbid curiosity, none of it looks loli to me, but there is what seems to be a woman getting mounted by a Literal Horse, so that's something 💀
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China's Memory Maker CXMT Used Stolen Samsung Tech to Skip Years of R&D, Former Engineer Testifies
Good. Fuck intellectual property, I just want cheap RAM lmao. Hope they start exporting.
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Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania are first measles-related deaths in US this year
If it weren't for immunocompromised people and children, I'd say that I welcome all anti-vaxxers to stick with their beliefs and learn first-hand why we invented vaccines to begin with (plus a society with fewer belligerent cranks is more stable and less prone to supporting authoritarian/far right ideology). It's a shame they have to hurt innocent people with their bullshit too
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The other side of Linux shutdown
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I'm ngl if I see this shit, I just hard power-cycle the machine. I ain't got time for that.
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How British patients were infected with HIV by US prisoners who donated blood for a few dollars
Do they not still test the blood for HIV regardless of how "high risk" the donor is? You should be tested immediately prior to donation and the donation rejected if you test positive, this is a fuck-up on whoever took the blood. Also, prisoners??? Why in the fuck are we paying prisoners for their blood? Every private prison company should be nationalized and have its leaders tried for their crimes istg.
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*landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch".
Do landlords not understand that pulling this shit is why tenants poor grease down the sink😭
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Why is openSUSE so... weird?
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Slackware's package manager doesn't even do dependency resolution. I respect the fact that it's managed to keep existing this long and that so much of what it did inspired other distros, but I honestly have no idea why anyone would use it in 2023. Imo dependency resolution is the main reason to even have a package manager, without that I might as well install everything by cloning random git repos. If you want packages compiled from source, why not just use Gentoo (or Source Mage? Idk much about it, but I read through their website and it seems neat).
That being said, if anyone uses Slackware, I'd love to know why. It's survived this long, surely it must be doing something right.
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Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper
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This is because dedicated consumer AI hardware is a dumb idea. If it's powerful enough to run a model locally, you should be able to use it for other things (like, say, as a phone or PC) and if it's sending all its API requests to the cloud, then it has no business being anything but a smartphone app or website.
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Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race. What effects will his decision have?
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I agree completely. I think the strong move for Harris will be to focus her campaign around abortion rights and promise to fight for federal laws guaranteeing the right to an abortion, even to the point of openly defying the Supreme Court if they reject the law. She also needs to focus on court reform, push for a strict code of conduct to be enforced against the supreme court, and either impeach/replace Alito and Thomas or (if there aren't enough votes for that) eliminate the fillibuster to pack the courts with only a simple Senate majority.
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The mother of tattoo artist Shani Louk who was paraded semi-naked on a Hamas truck makes a public plea for more information
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You can, Hamas is fucking terrible, you should just add the context that the only reason Hamas even exists is due to Israeli policy. Trapping millions of people in tiny, resource-poor ghettos as part of an ongoing ethnic cleansing, you've gotta expect some of them are going to get desperate enough to join a religious fundamentalist terror organization.
Also Netanyahu's government literally sent them money because a democratic, secular, progressive resistance to Israeli occupation would make it harder to justify their aggression towards the Palestinian population, and a strong Hamas makes that less likely.
Same way 9/11 is pretty objectively a consequence of US intervention in the middle east, but the people who did 9/11 are still terrorists who (imo) deserved to die, the reason it's good to mention that it was a consequence of US policy is so that we can avoid creating the circumstances that lead to terror attacks like that in the future, and to avoid causing massive amounts of suffering as a result of military interventions in foreign countries.
Hamas is one shitty side effect among many of genocidal Israeli government policy and imo serves to aid and abet that policy by giving the Israeli state an excuse to crack down harder on Palestinians.
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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.
If you really hate flatpak just make an arch distrobox and download off the AUR. Or install Nix or something
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CAH at it again
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No it's not, annexed is the common term for when a town expands its borders. That's just what the word means.
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r/piracy is now open, let's save all the useful posts
Now that most of r/Piracy seems to be on the fediverse now, maybe reddit's advertisers would like to know that they endorse digital piracy. Might fuck up their IPO.