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Ed Sheeran songs removed from airwaves over Macklemore Palestine row

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You are technically correct; people can absolutely be racist against white people.

Now I'll explain why you're being downvoted anyway.

"Black Lives Matter" became a slogan because police disproportionately target black people. They stop and question black people at a far higher rate than is warranted by actual crimes, they arrest people at a far higher rate than white people, and they kill black people at a far higher rate than they kill black people.

The statement is very obviously not just a literal statement on the value of human life; it's an accusation that police seem to think black lives don't matter. "All Lives Matter" simply pretends to be ignorant of the entire background and reasoning behind the phrase.

Israeli's have been massacring Palestinians and leveling their cities. They have inflicted orders of magnitude more suffering on Palestinians in the last years than Hamas has during its entire existence. The only way to equate the two is if you believe that Palestinian lives are worth significantly less than Israeli lives, and yes, that would be racist.

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Trump threatens to blow Iran ‘off the face of the earth’ if it attacks US vessels

This train wreck is as painful to watch as a B horror movie.

This numbnut is walking into an obvious trap. They're baiting major assets of the USN using ratty little fast boats.

Now that they're in striking range, their defense have to be lucky every single day, multiple times per day. If the Iranians are lucky once, they destroy billions of dollars in hardware, get major bragging rights, and thousands of GI families at home get to look up the lyrics to "Fortunate Son."

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Nuclear consent switch on an F-16 Fighting Falcon

I love the implied message in various switches.

Your average wall switch is about convenience. It says that it's ready to go on or off with reasonable effort.

The "emergency stop" switch is designed to be as easy as possible to hit. If you're barely hanging on to consciousness, are missing your hands, and have only a vague notion that you really need to push that button, you can smash it with any available body part and it will switch.

The nuke switch is the opposite. It says that you really really really better be sure before you flick this switch. If you aren't alert enough to solve a bit of a puzzle, the switch stays off.

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Can someone explain why this isn't actually a solution to an old problem? We used to have issues with various forms of harassment that were not addressed because they relied on unreliable testimony. Now we actually have people creating hard evidence of their actions.

The behaviors described in this article are banned in every school I or my children have ever attended. How difficult would it be for the parents of any of these victims to hire a lawyer to absolutely wipe the floor with these people? Don't these videos basically put the perpetrators heads on silver platters?

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Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it's not training on your faces (really)

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The average Windows users isn't making the OS decision at all. They're told by their boss that the company uses Windows and they're given a Windows laptop.

When they get that laptop they sign something with fine print that tells them not to mess with the OS or they'll get fired.

How do those suckers support themselves or their families when they get fired for violating the corporate IT policy?

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Not as evil but waaaaay sexier

Scale matters.

Squid guy's atrocities were always limited to what he could do with a Kraken and a single ship.

EIC turned exploitation into an organized system that empowered hundreds of vessels and spread the suffering to entire continents.

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WSJ going after hydro homies?

It has some grains of truth but it's mingled with too much personal opinion.

There are studies on how much water humans really need. If you want to calculate it the scientific way, you need to factor in at least lean muscle mass, total mass, surface area, ambient temperature and humidity, activity levels, and diet. There's no magic number of ounces that's correct for everyone.

Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.

So if you want to stay properly hydrated, drink whenever you feel even a little thirsty.