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Ok, we all owe George Lucas an apology.
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And is Melania's patois really any less grating than Jar Jar's?
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Ok, we all owe George Lucas an apology.
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And is Melania's patois really any less grating than Jar Jar's?
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So, Google can just randomly uninstall apps from my device? What will happen after developer verification comes into effect?
Welcome to 2010. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html
Remote installation via the web has been exposed to the user since 2011. https://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/02/introducing-android-market-website.html
This also means users can remotely uninstall. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-uninstall-button-3614548/
Yes, it's possible that Google will abuse this, but it would be an easy antitrust case.
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The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA
The article would be better if it linked to the reasons for the no votes and critiqued them. Otherwise, it's just low effort outrage bait. To be clear, I don't think the no votes were justified. I just don't like low effort outrage bait.
Edit: Not https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
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The UN Voted to Make Food A Human Right, Only Two Countries Voted No: Israel and USA
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No, it's not. This resolution was adopted with a vote of 186-2-0. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3954949?ln=en&v=pdf
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You know who I haven't heard of in a while? Edward Snowden. I hope he does well.
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And anybody who disparages Putin gets poisoned. It's such a wonderful system, right?
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Chad Mamdani moment as usual - don't worry about how your enemies see you. Worry about how your potential allies see you!
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I, for one, learned something from this response. Thank you for posting it. You've saved maybe dozens of people from having to search themselves.
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Trump DOJ says LGBTQ+ legal protections are "anti-Christian," pledges to erode them further - LGBTQ Nation
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And the law to follow said that it was up to doctors to decide whether a treatment was necessary enough to be covered government insurance. Now Trump is rewriting the law to make it illegal for doctors to give gender affirming treatment at all, let alone for it to be covered by health insurance.
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You know who I haven't heard of in a while? Edward Snowden. I hope he does well.
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It was revoked before he left China. https://apnews.com/general-news-587786e6e63b4dc2b70c471606d7f584
That didn't stop China from ignoring his asylum request following his release of documentation of hacked Chinese systems and kicking him out of the country because whether you have a valid passport doesn't matter for geopolitical issues. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1259508/edward-snowden-us-government-has-been-hacking-hong-kong-and-china
Russia was under no obligation to keep Snowden instead of letting him continue to Ecuador. Putin just wanted to use him as a bargaining chip with the U.S., but the U.S. understood that all his documents were already public, so Putin hasn't been able to play that card well yet.
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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.
This will actually be solved in a week. All it takes is to add the current time to each input.
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Switzerland has 1/4 the number of guns per capita as the U.S.
Switzerland requires a permit to own a gun. This permit is also required to own daggers. This permit requires a clean criminal record and no mental health problems. Any guns acquired with this permit must be registered with the canton. Automatic firearms and tasers are banned.
You are not allowed to carry a weapon in public unless you have a separate permit that is issued sparingly.
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Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday:
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The US messed up most of Latin America. USAID makes things better. Removing USAID makes things worse. It doesn't matter whether it is out of benevolence (the real reason is that making Latin America better means the US doesn't have to deal with a migrant crisis). What matters is that it's better than the alternative.
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Plant-Based Mince Now 29% Cheaper Than Beef at Tesco as Meat Prices Climb
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If the meatless option is 29% cheaper, the meat option is .29/(1-.29) = 41% more expensive, not 29%. Meatballs in the article are .41/(1-.41) = 69% more expensive than plantballs, which is close to your target number.
I remember the days when a veggie cheeseburger was a grilled cheese sandwich. Progress.
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The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.
Of course not. It needs to be legislated, just like the 40 hour workweek and worker safety laws. Is there anybody who really thinks companies will voluntarily disadvantage themselves against their competitors?
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Orbán’s 16-year rule over Hungary ends in crushing election defeat
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Orbán was pro Palestine genocide. https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/13/israel-loses-key-european-ally-as-viktor-orban-defeated-in-hungary/
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lets stop thinking guys
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as if genocide wasn't a big deal.
The point is if that's your issue, your choices haven't made things better. In fact, it made things worse. On day 1, Trump removed Biden's sanctions on West Bank settlers. On day whatever it was this week, Trump said that Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire agreement despite the country that brokered the agreement saying it was.
I want to stop the genocide too, but I'm smart enough to know what my choices are. There isn't a choice to stop the genocide immediately, but there is a choice to slow it down and get on a path where we stop it faster.
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Father and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree
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New London School is joke to you?
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Newly-elected Hungarian PM says Orbán was paying CPAC, calls it a ‘crime’ that ‘will have to be investigated’
And the US used taxpayer money to send Vance to Hungary to stump for Orbán there, right out in the open. In Hungary, using taxpayer money to fund an extremist foreign political party is a scandal. In the US, this matter is too deep in a flooded zone for anyone to care.
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Louisiana congressional primaries suspended as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling
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The DNC doesn't give money to any primary candidates.
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Chad Mamdani moment as usual - don't worry about how your enemies see you. Worry about how your potential allies see you!
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SEO spam makes searching hit or miss. I might search for a policy description and get clickbait opinion pieces. It's a hassle that I'm happy to avoid if someone else does it for me, especially for something that I care only vaguely about.
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"Google AI summaries"
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I asked about the Strait of Hormuz, and it summarized information from Al Jazeera, the BBC, and Wikipedia. It added the following disclaimer:
Disclaimer: This information is based on reports from April 18–20, 2026, and the situation is highly volatile.
This seems reasonable.
When I asked about ICE illegal operations, it summarized and linked to the American Immigration Council.
This is not as good. If I'm asking about something done right now being illegal, I would like to see ongoing cases challenging the legality of the actions. I'd hesitate to call that bias instead of just bad results though.