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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies
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The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it's a start
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Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies
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The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it's a start
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is this employee in the room with us right now?
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I like my coworkers. I mean it; they're nice people.
But I want to spend time with the people I deeply care about, who share the same hobbies or have a similar vision of the world. I can't express myself freely around coworkers as I can with people I choose to be around in my free time.
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He took it literally
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No it isn't. Just say nothing. It's better to end up in jail right away and have a lawyer than to say something "non-incriminating", which later turns out to be incriminating anyway, and then end up in jail after all with evidence against you, that you provided yourself.
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I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought....
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If you'd bring a German flag to an anti-nazi rally, people will look at you weird. At more radical ones, you'll get smacked by a guy carrying an "Antifaschistische Aktion" flag.
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OpenAI hard work got stolen...
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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
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IIRC She earns around 400+k per year. Which is a nice salary, but rather low compared to other execs.
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HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron
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Name and shame! That sounds like a horrid experience.
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Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service
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That's not entirely correct. The Ultra-Orthodox spectrum is composed of different factions/sects that hold widely varying beliefs and interpretations of Judaism.
While a majority of Ultra-Orthodox are represented in the current government, there are also some Ultra-Orthodox factions that reject the Israeli state completely. Some won't fight due to their religious studies, some due to their pacifism, some due to their pro-Palestinian sentiment, and other will fight because of their convictions or their desire to settle in the west bank.
The infighting between these groups and their sometimes messianic beliefs and discussions are sometimes very intransparent from the outside. Sometimes internal feuds even erupt in street riots between groups or police.
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14 pages of dead babies
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You know, you can find the unjust bombardment of the Gaza Strip (and now also the West Bank unfortunately) wrong, and not compare it to the Holocaust at the same time?
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17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
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Doing 50 that close to other cars would also be very uncomfortable.
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Here we are
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The German system is what the US would have been if they would have regularly updated their constitution.
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5 years of experience, yet still not clue what "Underfull \hbox" means
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Just let me use the university wide template everyone uses instead of having a dedicated template for your department that looks like shit, uses a shitty ass font, and integrates packages I despise. god fucking dammit
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A lesbian couple was brutally beaten by group of men in Halifax. Police still haven't filed charges
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Yeah, sure, European reactionaries are so well known for their inclusive position towards the LGBTQ community; it's those damn immigrants protesting drag shows and criminalizing abortion.
Stop instrumentalizing the discrimination minorities face to legitimize discrimination of other minorities, you xenophobe.
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Ich🐮⏰💉iel
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Hartes Nein, Psilocybin und LSD sind definitiv eine einmalige, bewegende, teils sogar produktive Experience. Wer Psychodelika gut verträgt und ein passendes Set und Setting produzieren kann sollte es im Leben mindestens einmal in Erwägung ziehen.
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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws
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To some degree you could, but you'd either rely on Tier1 transits to access the entire internet (costly), or you'd use IXPs (keeping your traffic local to other IX participants).
This doesn't account for how'd you'd actually go into purchasing a port for your residential home, which would probably entail laying your own fiber to a data center nearby.
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Google's WebP
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We live in a public transit hell
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Same in Paris.
"What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?"
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just one more thing
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I'm anything but a big fan of Jehova's witnesses, but the story surrounding August Dickmann's execution really made me appreciate their commitment to pacifism.
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Peasants
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It's so incredibly useful, especially with the Better BibTex plugin
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How I date
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How dare you