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NY Attorney General asks judge to reject $175 million bond in Donald Trump's civil fraud case
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NY Attorney General asks judge to reject $175 million bond in Donald Trump's civil fraud case
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Outrage as traditional Ghanaian priest, 63, marries 12-year-old girl
community leaders have said people do not understand their customs and tradition.
I think critics understand their traditions. They just don't agree with them. The law of the land doesn't agree with it.
The legal minimum age to get married in Ghana is 18
So he is breaking the law. So jail then? No?
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Linus reviewed (roasted) our phone | Fairphone reacts
Whenever I see Linus I feel like everything is rushed and not thought through. He barely knows what he is holding. He just doesn't care; he has 20 more reviews he has to record today. Or something like that.
"Deal breaker! It doesn't even do my laundry."
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Analysis: Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans
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Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
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That lab sample must have been a single diode emitting for a nanosecond or something.
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Depressive symptoms in US 8th, 10th, and 12th graders
When quality of life is decreasing for the average person and there is no light at the end of the tunnel, people get depressed. Hypercompetitive society and an ever widening wealth gap does not help.
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That sure is a lot of guns you got there. lolol
Quick googling let me know there are about 10 million households in Texas and 40% of those have at least one gun. Lets say that transfer to one gun owner per household. 4 million gun owners in Texas. Lets say 2% of those show up to die. That's gonna be a great army of 80k.
Assuming these bumbling fools will be about as effective as Russians in Ukraine, they will have a mortality rate of about 431 dimwits a day. I would say this is generous, considering what they would be up against. If they fight to the last man; they will last about 185 days. Though it is unrealistic they would fight to the last man. lets say they capitulate after 20% losses. That hypothetical conflict would last about a month.
I would like to believe they would just get cold feet before any violence sets in. It's easy to talk tough on social media, but when cold reality washes over them, they will do the smarter thing.
My numbers might be way off. It was just a fun little math exercise. Edit: I didn't take in to account that only about 39% of adults are republican voters.
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ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
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Your ISP should have no insight in to your traffic at all. Therefore unable to make any judgement on what traffic to block and what not to block. With the exception of volume of traffic and to where it is going.
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One at a time
We all need this cat.
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You're only as dead as you feel
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So you can continue to be shitty in family game night! Don't you also want to continue to cause disagreements and conflicts between family members?
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When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?
Since we are all going; here is my take. Breasts were always sexual in nature. For most species they signal fertility and what part of the cycle the individual is in at the moment. At some point human females evolved to have perpetually inflated breasts. There are a few different theories as to why that happened, but it is beside the point for this discussion. So considering they were evolved to attract or dissuade males, I say they certainly have a sexual function. In addition to this, breasts play a big part in sexual pleasure for the wearer.
Now consider people pairing up in monogamous couples. The male suspects that other males might be motivated to pursue his mate by the visage of his mates nice boobies. He asks his mate to cover them up so he feels more safe in his position. Now hundreds of years pass, and what do you know, it is in grained in the cultures. It's not really too bad for the women, so they have lived with it, for the sake of peace. Sometimes it is even convenient to be covered. For example in cold weather. I bet there is a correlation between climate and a cultures willingness to have boobs in the open.
Tribes have not only hidden their populations breasts, they have been known to hide their women all together, so the neighbouring tribes don't steal them. I feel that this is a bit similar. Put a gold bar in a glass display long enough, and someone will try to take it. Everything carries risk. If your society isn't good at maintaining law, then it's a bad idea to display the gold bar. In some places it might not be an issue at all. All women could go around topless as well, but the risk that they are approached by an aspiring male will probably be slightly increased.
So why do it now, in my amazing, functioning, egalitarian and lawful country? It is down to history and people being comfortable with what we have always done.
My humble opinion is that we abolish any law that prevent any boob owner from showing them anywhere. But I'm lazy, so I won't start a revolution over it.
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Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea
Let's make it mandatory that 15-20% of gross sales be given directly to developers, once sales start. That would fix this. Customers can choose within that range. But let's make it default to 20%.
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Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”
"exceeds human performance" .. in crushing whatever it is gripping, right?
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Female saboteurs who poisoned 46 Russian soldiers in Crimea are on the run after shoot-out with police, say reports
They just eat and drink the stuff some random people they just made war against brought them. Smert!
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IDF Allowed 100 Civilian Deaths for Every Hamas Official Targeted by Error-Prone AI System
IDF: "Where is hamas?"
Chatgpt: "I don't have knowledge of specific events or developments that occurred after my knowledge cutoff date of January 2022."
IDF: "is it where the food trucks are?"
Chatgpt: "I don't have sufficient information."
IDF: "just say yes"
Chatgpt: "yes."
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True to life
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Neither did I. I may still not understand it. But I googled salon article and found a site with that name that publishes progressive news and opinions. So I guess they are saying a lot of couples are opposite in opinion on these things. They might be joking about the one spouse being oblivious to their partners racism or having double standards or something.
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I understand it was legitimate, necessary even. But I will still mourn. She deserved better. Fuck Putin.
I saw this ship in The Kommuna - Russia’s Bizarre 110 Year Old Warship By Calum on Youtube. Guess she was finally put to rest.
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FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole
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The type of traffic shaping you are thinking off can still be done under net nutrailty and was never an issue.
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What kind of pride flag IS that, anyway?
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Spontaneously I thought it was some kind of boat signal flag.
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Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla