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Louisiana sheriff retires after pleading guilty to beating podcaster who often criticized him

I have ignored hundreds of personal attacks directed at me by an individual who hides behind a computer screen,” Smith’s apology said.

Smith was said to have approached Couvillion from behind while the latter man was seated on an elevated stool at the restaurant bar celebrating his 59th birthday with his wife. Smith then, without warning, placed Couvillion in a chokehold and slammed him to the ground backward

Implying the guy's cowardly for talking "behind a computer screen" (as though that's not how most communication works in 2026) but also literally attacking the dude from behind. Whats a sensitive, hypocritical little bitch.

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Myrient is shutting down

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Direct downloads ensure full availability by allowing all content to be available for download, no matter how obscure it may be.

Until the site shuts down.

I don't think anyone's ever going to argue that direct downloads aren't more convenient, intuitive, accessible, and generally less risky for the downloader. But that comes at pretty steep costs/risks piled onto the host, which is why they're so much harder to sustain long term.

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ICE arrests former Kansas mayor who illegally voted for Trump in the 2024 election

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Yeah, definitely not a tragedy. Dude got what he voted for and doesn't regret the vote. If he means what he says about having no regrets, this is an objectively happy ending for him.

And, frankly, props to him for not changing his stance when it happens to affect him personally. I can't say I agree with or even really understand his decision-making process, but I can appreciate the consistency at least.

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Firm that worked on past Reflecting Pool renovation passed on Trump project after deeming it ‘unfeasible’

could further enflame mounting criticism that the project was rushed and potentially improperly completed.

Potentially?

We were promised a result that "will last for at least 50 years" and "if you had a knife, you couldn't even cut it" that didn't make it a month. This situation is my current litmus test to determine if I'm interacting with a propaganda bot or not. This job being improperly completed is potentially the most certain fact in the news today.

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Go Flock Yourself (Camera Bagger) by GovernorHat

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From the summary:

Simply stretch a rubber band around the tines of the GFY. Then put a grocery bag around those tines. Slide the apparatus over the spy camera and then pull down gently so the rubber band slides off the apparatus and cinching the bag to the spy camera. The screw head fits the typical handles for things like brooms, paint rollers, etc.

This device doesn't cover the lens directly, it helps you use a pole to get a plastic bag up to hard-to-reach places.

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Best dad 🏆

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LLM generated slop.

The good ones are. I best most are just the suggested auto-replies that appear under the post that people use because they're too lazy to read/type anything themselves. Comments on that site are nearly all just another way to trigger one's own profile to show up in others' feeds one more time than it would have otherwise.