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Talarico is trying to win back Hispanics along the Texas border who swung toward the GOP
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If they fought half as hard to protect existing children as they do the unborn ones, we'd have the full Epstien files by now.
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Talarico is trying to win back Hispanics along the Texas border who swung toward the GOP
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If they fought half as hard to protect existing children as they do the unborn ones, we'd have the full Epstien files by now.
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I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job
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Man, I'm a laid off dev too. You really should know by now how scrutinous people are about AI anything.
You're not even getting the 100 dollar monthly payments off steam. Forget "just use google translate like pre-AI", why not just focus on one language and look into localization later if this game catches on? Now instead all languages will be scanning your game with a fine-toothed comb.
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I know he means "without the use of LLMs.". That's the big thing being forced down People's throats that they don't like.
I doubt people are rebelling against reinforcement learning for physically based animations, or prediction engines to forecast the weather
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Itch is right there down the street. GoG is generally decent too (but has the same cut).
But these kinds of things are never about litetal options, it's about market capture.
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Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Sadly, our fascism is a really, really stupid form based around a teenager's fantasy of a dictatorship. Trump doesn't care about the potential of large private corporations usurping the throne so he let's then run free as long as they kiss the ring.
If this managed to extend to decades instead of years (and somehow Trump lived that long), it'd be such a predictable ending for him.
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They really will do or say anything but their job, huh?
If we're being real, Mamdami hasn't even gotten his big plans rolling yet. He passed an easy tax (for people owning houses that don't even live in NYC) and fixed some potholes. His biggest win was bartering with the state government to get more support (instead of the dreaded "tax the rich"). The rest was normal stuff with good PR aimed at the 21st century. That's it.
But these relics spent decades minmaxing for cable news and can't look human on social media at all. They are used to saying words then doing nothing. The bar is that low and they are scared at a dude bending his knees (he hasn't even jumped yet).
At least they are finally breaking their fake decorum and sayong the quiet parts out loud. Makes it so much easier to tear down in the long term.
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The issue is the low information voter isn't hearing the reasonable thing at all. The media will spin Mamdami's point ("mamdami hates jews!"), then top it off with this quote. So Tubeville sounds "strong" and "defending America". They won't ever mention Netanyahu at all, nor the genocide.
Low information voters won't ever look farther than the spin anyway.
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What I Learned Debating Fascists on a Phone Sex Hotline
Definitely a new lens. I'll admit even then I was surprised reading about someone treating leftism as a kink, as if Tue idea of agreeing that the gig economy is unsustainable in a public setting is an absolute taboo.
On men's porn sites—including gay porn sites—there is a complete absence of any kind of explicit politics. The only exception is the rare importation to support free speech." Though there are far fewer female-targeted sites, the authors say the ones that exist contain an abundance of messaging around issues like inclusivity and feminism.
I guess that's not surprising. Unless the site itself is in danger, it's not very "sexy" to care about politics. And sexuality should (but definitely doesn't) run on a different axis to political philosophy. Everyone wants love in some form.
But alas, that was 2012. So much changed so quickly.
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Fascism is heavily contradictory. Maybe Joe' shop is watched carefully for making gay cakes, but WalMart will do whatever they want as long as they donate a ballroom every few years
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6 dollars a minute to talk about politics on the phone. And then complain why no one wants to cuck them politically (and maybe literally in bed) while being a meek submissive woman in public. Truly a mystery.
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Judge questions why Pete Hegseth can give testosterone to cis men but not trans men
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for reasons I choose not to understand
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The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
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Its both to some extent. Removing trump won't fix the core issues but will stop the bleeding. Just look at how he's still trying to get tarriffs in. That's not a popular decision, even among MAGA these days. But it's a cult.
Put it another way; cigarettes aren't your core issue, but it sure does help a lot to stop smoking.
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Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.
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Most the pieces of shit usually don’t also insult their customer base on a regular basis on top of being pieces of shi
These day? Yeah they do. Sony is in the fuck around stage as we speak. Microsoft was long into the Find Out stage.
Valve's credit is that they are pretty good at not saying the quiet parts out loud. But that should have been the bare minimum.
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Its a stupid legal argument too. Why can't we just say "Nintendo chose to pay the tarriff cost, they don't deserve a refund"?
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AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update
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ahh. I might have mixed up threads.
Yeah, the age thing doesn't matter as much. You can technically be 30 and still be seriously hospitalized like this. You can be 80 and genuinely have the best interst for the country. it's just more likely at 80 that you end up this way, on tubes and bitter at the world. T
he issues here is that represenatives have no incentive to actually do their job, or at least have minimum accountability from not doing their job as long as they are "the right people". I beleive other countries have either recall processes for situations like this, or require X days per quarter in session before special elections can be triggered.
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Seriously. Sony went mask off and is killing goodwill, Microsoft wasn't ever serious outside of the early 360 era. Steam has its own legal battles in court over how it abuses it monopoly.
Maybe Sonic was right. There truly is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
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AOC says Mitch McConnell should resign if he cannot provide health update
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really hard to say. We first need to stop breaking our government and get adults back in the room. Then we need chains of actions that rebuilds trust amongst all of us, or enough of the apathetic to rule out the inevtiable MAGA propoganda. It's not impossible because term limits are generally a positive topic (very few people like the idea of career politicians to begin with), but still an uphill battle
Alternatively, we could somehow garner massive support that even Trump can't ignore. But that's a harder order than the above.
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These ghouls do their dardnest to make sure remove voter choice as is.
Besides, term limits don't need to be 8 years. Make it 3-4 terms for Senate and 10 for House. The main idea isn't a revolving door, but to make sure fossils older than my dead grandpa aren't still in Congress controlling my (theoretical) kids future.
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Mitch McConnell’s staff refuse to answer basic questions on his health
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He's "legally" alive, so the risk on saying he's dead is technically slander.
He is not in any shape to perform his duties (or really any duties but existing on a technicality). This is yet another loophole being exploited that needs to be addressed. Likely in the future because this admin sure won't address it.
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NoJ is great and you're basically set for life if you get in.
NoA is mostly contractors, if you're not high management or extremely specialized consulting, it's no better than any other American AAA gaming studio. Really shows how culture and regulations keep companies honest.