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Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered
They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things ...
They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.
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Apple deadnamed the Gulf of America and conservatives are triggered
They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things ...
They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.
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Defense stocks drop after Trump says Pentagon spending could be halved
Who's to bet a load of shares get bought up, then suddenly this announcement is rescinded?
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The rental market is softening so fast in some pockets of the country that landlords have no choice but to offer concessions
What the fuck is it called a concession... rather than "fair market price"?
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Pessimistic young Germans turning to far right, says study
Young people were especially worried about:
Aaah yes, that classical list of things that a fiscally right party would solve ...
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So... Let me check I get this right on the timeline.
America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.
Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.
Next steps boys
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The "American Dream" costs far more than most people will earn over their lifetime
Health insurance is HOW MUCH!
And there are Brits here saying how great private care is and how much they want it... fucking turkeys to christmas.
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Musk: I’m closing entire federal department down right now
The party that wants to ban abortion to "save the children" has just condemned, quite literally millions of, children around the world to slow and agonising deaths from entirely treatable illnesses.
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Tesla plunged into Norway fjord before ‘screaming’ occupants rescued by passing floating sauna
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Too late... It's already ingrained in my mind as "of course they do"
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Winning
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When America gets sick, the whole world coughs.
Sadly we're all in the inside of this one
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MAGA is straight up losing it after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement
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Unless it's circumcision for religious reasons ... then chopping off body parts is A'OK.
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Yet the folks at Reddit told me there's "no activity here"
I wonder if all the bot activity on reddit makes it look so busy that people are confused when they come somewhere with far fewer bots around?
I notice significantly more positive interaction with (at least what I believe to be) real humans here than I did on reddit in my last couple of years there.
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modern psychiatry be like
Something I noticed recently
The same people who quickly bemoan "everyone wants a label now" seen to be the same people who say "all kids do this like that".
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Since his divorce my father has become clingy to the point of not wanting me to go to school anymore
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Emotionally pressuring you to step back from education.
There are plenty of people outside looking in, that would call this abuse.
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Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy
Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.
If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.
Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions
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Russian general admits Ukraine just a "stepping stone" to invade Europe
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I'm not anti US. But given the current state of the Russian forces in Ukraine, the rest of NATO doesn't need US support to defeat any Russian advance.
I highly doubt China wants all out war with NATO, so Russia would be largely alone.
The worst would be if the Cheeto supremo were to try and fight NATO. I'm not sure how much the US military complex would back that though.
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Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
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don’t expect that it will make them popular with anyone who actually uses Nvidia drivers on Linux
The group to be annoyed at are Nvidia. Plain and simple.
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At this point ... what stops the CVE foundation moving on as a foundation and working to find an alternative funding model?
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Theory: the only reason Meta cares about the fediverse / ActivityPub is so that threads isn't labeled a "gatekeeper" under the EU's new "Digital Markets Act"
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Microsoft did this with browsers.
HTML was a thing, that was implemented by other browsers at the time. Netscape Navigator (the precursor to Firefox) was a thing that already did HTML well. It could access the world wide web, and was the defacto standard.
Microsoft introduced internet explorer, bundled with Windows. At first, internet explorer was not as good/complete/compatible as Netscape Navigator. Over time, it got better almost to parity. But it also added new features, features not in the HTML specification. They were not added to the specification, and how IE would use those features was not made public. So Netscape could not implement them.
Users started to expect those features.
Over time, more webpages would break on Netscape than on IE. Web designers wanted the fancy new features of ie. So users moved away from Netscape.
If only a number of technical users care about something, that the "mainstream" (for want of a better word) doesn't care about. Then things work less and less for the techies.
Meta could do the same with the Fediverse. As they already have market domination in other markets, they can introduce a lot of users to our "safe space". But be real if posts stop working and you as a techie knows it's because Meta have done something funky, Grandbob Jim isn't likely to care. Grandbob Jim will continue to use what "works". And some of the less techie of us will be forced to move to the MetaFediVerse to talk to our Grandbobs.
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"almost"
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
And ... I'll pessimistically assume that forgetting one of those accounts is grounds for federal prosecution.
I've had dozens of reddit accounts over time. Some just for funny names, some for anonymity. Literally do not remember all of them. I have multiple accounts on platforms. Some for looking at porn and not conflating that with charitable work I do (and negatively impacting the charity) and some just to not be associated with being a lil'freak to my family. Again, I can't remember some accounts, websites etc. over time.
I couldn't list all my historical social media accounts if I tried. Maybe my use case is different to many people? But ... shrug looks like it's politically unsafe for me to come to the USA?