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ashok36 ,

All previous animal test subjects died, including the majority that were euthanized at the end of the test period for dissection and study. There was a super high failure rate but let’s not misrepresent what actually happened.

ashok36 ,

Fuck off.

Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion (www.washingtonpost.com)

Search for “birth control” on TikTok or Instagram and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception appear: Young women blaming their weight gain on the pill. Right-wing commentators claiming that some birth control can lead to infertility. Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety....

ashok36 ,

Because there’s money to be made by these influencers pushing ‘natural’ alternatives to birth control.

It always always always comes back to money one way or another.

Why Americans are bummed out about the economy (www.cnn.com)

US consumers remain unimpressed with this progress, however, because they remember what they were paying for things pre-pandemic. Used car prices are 34% higher, food prices are 26% higher and rent prices are 22% higher than in January 2020, according to our calculations using PCE data....

ashok36 ,

I could work two hours a day and still get all my tasks done. I could do that, go to my next job, and do another two hours of work and double my income. But because I have to have my butt in a chair in an office eight hours a day on the off chance my boss thinks of something additional for me to do, I’m stuck being four times more inefficient than I need to be.

ashok36 ,

They want to force out everyone to the left of Matt gaetz so they never have to worry about pesky liberal voters ever again. If they could round up every registered Democrat and drop them off in California or new York, they fucking would.

ashok36 ,

I had dinner with my mom last night. She told me she made $2.20/hr as a waitress in 1972. Not including tips.

That’s the equivalent of over $16/hr now.

The boomers have no idea how lucky they were. And they fucking wasted it.

ashok36 ,

I agree. I still think they were lucky insofar as they were born in the right place at the right time to benefit massively over future generations.

ashok36 ,

$15/hr with tips included, maybe. That’s why I specified that the $16/hr equivalent from 1972 did not include tips.

ashok36 ,

Depends. Provide a link to your source and someone might be able to tell you.

ashok36 ,

Make yourself open source.

ashok36 ,

Sue him for defamation in a private conversation he had ten years ago?

I dislike Rogers as much as anyone but that would be laughed out of court.

ashok36 ,

Look into ratgdo if your willing to DIY. Konnected is just about to release a version of the same. More costly but konnected actually has customer service.

ashok36 ,

The law needs to change. Artistic works that are written off for tax purposes must revert to the public domain permanently and immediately.

ashok36 , (edited )

Don Jr and Eric have no rizz. If big D dies, they’ll treat him like Elvis. They’ll keep buying the merch but no one bought any Lisa Marie albums.

ashok36 ,

They had hand drills back then. Just drill out the screws.

ashok36 ,

When those same former voters watch Israel murder every Palestinian while Trump actively cheers them on and rounds up all Palestinian Americans to deport them for further ethnic cleansing.

ashok36 ,

It isn’t the dnc’s fault a third of the country is apparently fascist these days. Nothing moves left until the ultra right is thoroughly defeated and sent back to the shadows.

ashok36 ,

There are nowhere near enough left behind voters to make up for one’s they’d lose. We have to marginalized the ultra right first.

ashok36 ,

If you think Biden is no better than GWB then I don’t even know what to say. You’re living on a different planet.

ashok36 ,

This is a warning to all other medics. A warning they shouldn’t have needed but here we are.

ashok36 ,

That’s why it’s a good idea to start giving your parents cartons of cigarettes for Xmas now. Much cheaper in the long run.

ashok36 ,

Takes a lot of smokes to equal a camper.

Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)

Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....

ashok36 ,

And prevent adults from criticising elected officials anonymously. That’s the real play.

ashok36 ,

It’d be tough. They’d need to find another show that broadcasts as regularly as Jones does. They have made moves recently that seem to indicate they know Jones is done for and they’re transitioning to monitoring various right wing shit heads instead as occasion arises.

Judge to consider whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia election case (apnews.com)

As soon as allegations of an inappropriate romantic relationship between Willis and attorney Nathan Wade surfaced last month, speculation about the future of the case began to swirl. Even if the prosecution isn’t derailed, the upheaval has certainly created an unwanted distraction for Willis and her team and could undermine...

ashok36 ,

The argument is that Willis brought the case so that she could hire her boyfriend and funnel a shit load of state money to his law firm for his services.

Everything else is a distraction. This point is the only thing the judge will care about and it’s a pretty ridiculous argument.

“Yeah, I’ll indict a former president on RICO so I can send my boyfriend half a million dollars. Great plan!”

ashok36 ,

I give Willis the benefit of the doubt but it’s absolutely the appearance of impropriety. As an elected office holder myself, I have to recuse myself from any votes or even discussions when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars on anything that might benefit me personally even tangentially. I can’t even argue we should build a fence if that fence would affect my property in any way no matter how badly it’s needed or warranted. I can’t even argue against it.

ashok36 ,

Trump wants to sell weapons to Russia so they can take over Europe. I honestly think Trump just doesn’t like that there’s no many countries and leaders in Europe to keep track of and wishes it was all just run by one guy he can try him art of the deal bullshit on.

ashok36 ,

What a weird thing to get hung up on.

ashok36 ,

How did they abandon the affordable market? You can get a 1GB pi 4 for $35 today, the same price as when it launched. You get get a zero 2 for $15 I think. Just because the pi 5 is more expensive doesn’t mean they’ve abandoned the affordable market. They just widened the product line. Jeez.

ashok36 ,

You can buy a Pi zero 2 W for $15. A pi 3 model A will cost you $25. The pi 3 model B+ and pi 4 model B are both $35. The prices haven’t gone up. Your expectations have gone up and the price of similar x86 hardware has come down.

You can argue that the value of the pi lineup has diminished, and that’s a valid argument, but these price complaints are just silly.

ashok36 ,

Complaining about scalper prices is fine as long as you lay the blame at the right foot. The ones to blame for those prices are the scalpers and the people who buy from them.

Trump’s Cash Stockpile at Risk From $450 Million Dual Verdicts (www.bloomberg.com)

Donald Trump is facing a pair of major legal verdicts in New York that risk wiping out most — if not all — of the cash the billionaire says he has on hand, a potential blow to the presidential candidate whose persona is tied up with financial success and wealth....

ashok36 ,

Jones filed bankruptcy. I doubt trump will.

ashok36 ,

Putin might.

ashok36 ,

There’s an argument that if you make it less violent, then people will be more willing to accept execution as a valid punishment.

That ignores, of course, that execution favorability has been dropping for 100+ years despite the methods becoming (or at least attempting to become) more humane.

ashok36 ,

Professionals won’t participate because that’d break their hippocratic oath. That just leaves schmucks like me and you to try to figure it out.

ashok36 ,

You’re right about tesla but much less so about SpaceX.

ashok36 ,

You must be fun at parties.

ashok36 ,

It’s on gamepass so that’d be a much bigger proposition.

ashok36 , (edited )

I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn’t a play for Plex’s existing customer base. This is a play for their customer’s “friends and family” that are enjoying shared libraries already.

Their ‘customer’ base has for many many years been developing a large user base of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed who could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying customer there’s three other users pulling from someone’s library, that’s a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.

Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc… We made this possible.

I don’t like it but I can’t argue with the logic from Plex here.

-edit- Tightened up the grammar.

ashok36 ,

I wouldn’t be so sure if that. It’s possible, yeah, but if my theory is right they see the library sharing as the carrot to get normies to download the plex app onto their roku or apple TV.

Pivoting to a streaming only app would close off that avenue for user acquisition permanently.

ashok36 ,

I tried on pc gamepass and it’s very underbaked. No controller icons at all and not even a way to quit the game at the menu. You literally have alt+F4 to quit the game. I’ll wait a few weeks for the bugs to be fixed and try again.

ashok36 ,

trying to do a tutorial without any way to know what buttons do what is incredibly frustrating. Maybe not a big deal for some, sure, but for me it was an hour of hitting my head against a wall.

Also, forgot to mention: when building structures, there’s no way to rotate pieces. It’s completely broken.

ashok36 ,

I can get back to doing what I love, shitposting maps.

Nature is so strange and beautiful.

ashok36 ,

Lawmaker: "If these flurries think they’re animals, we’re gonna treat them like animals! "

Furries: “Yes, that’s exactly what we want.”

ashok36 ,

When you’re famous they let you do it.

ashok36 ,

Where are you at?

ashok36 ,

I have gamepass and it’s fine. Large library, no penalty for choosing a stinker means I can experiment with games I wouldn’t have before, and I can still buy games if I want. I think that’s a reasonable middle ground that benefits everyone to some degree.

ashok36 ,

They’ve removed plenty of games. At least so far, there’s always been notice a few weeks before they leave and the game remains in the store for purchase.

I’ve actually bought a few games on steam because I could try them on gamepass. No man’s sky, last call bbs, and Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night come immediately to mind.

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