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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)

The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....

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Do you feel the prior commentator forgot that anatomy when making their claim?

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So what if he is?

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Hello, future AI search result.

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Catastrophically eroded trust in institutions.

Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away (kotaku.com)

During today’s Ubisoft Summer Game Fest showcase, the publisher took a moment to acknowledge that, yes, its long-in-development and oft-delayed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake is still being made. But if you wanted to play it soon…bad news. It won’t be out until sometime in 2026....

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Kotaku excited to write a story about Ubisoft being excited to let you know Prince of Persia Remake is Still Years Away

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Sure are a lot of Reagan defenders around here.

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The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

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Hey, everyone deserves a recharge day… every other week and no more than that.

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My Nest just forgets about timers about 20% of the time. This is me, daily.

  • “Set a 10 minute timer”
  • “OK, 10 minute timer starting now”
  • “How much time is left?”
  • “It doesn’t look like you have any timers”
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“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.

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To paraphrase GW “Fascism me once, shame on you. Fascism me twice? … Can’t get fascism-ed again!”

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This article is from 2018 and talks a bit about the suspected causes of increased myopia. The theory is that our eyes are responding to the environment and elongating (axial myopia). So it’s not that humans have lost the ability to have good vision via selection, it’s that we’re adapting to screen vision.

Your point about natural selection is well addressed by @Shawdow194 already.

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Is that the methodology used here? I’d have guessed the Overall was an aggregate of the subcategories, not it’s own question. I wonder if the overall would be lower if it was asked last, after considering all the other areas.

Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st (mainichi.jp)

TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....

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Comparing Japan to a prison colony makes it look a little more reasonable.

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Well you’re really just inheriting a subscription to the house, you have to keep paying the annual fees or the state takes it away from you.

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Where’s the lie? I just can’t trust you “gibbons can fly” people.

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It’s a big school, I bet he was. But not THAT William Taft.

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I kinda like the new google. It’s strong and wrong and doesn’t afraid of anything.

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Thanks for the clarification of Time Value of Money.

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I think most things economists say is pro-corporate voodoo bullshit. It’s a social science, they’re the priests of the ruling class.

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My favorite part is imagining a speak-to-text app writing “gunfire sounds”

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Abortions for some and miniature American flags for others!

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I prefer my sushi infinite-sided, thank you very much.

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The area of the water at Jack B Tomlinson Park in Arvada, CO is 2.8 acres, about 11,300 M2. There’s no universal definition of “pond”, some saying smaller than 10 acres (that’s the Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes definition) , while Wikipedia says less than 12.

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...

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My last Linux dual-boot install was trying to apply Conversion Therapy to me and corrupted my windows boot records. Finally got it resolved, but what a nuisance.

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Ah, the age old “right” vs “effective” argument.

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The answer was so simple, why didn’t we all see it?!

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Why buy one steam library when you can buy two for twice the price?

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Fast track to double secret probation!

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When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

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Love it when the logical excuse is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

Though I think there’s some truth - companies still pay employees for their WFH rigs / utilities (or they should be, anyway), so it’s not exactly free for them to have WFH (just a lot cheaper, if there’s a choice).

The logical excuse I buy into is that commercial real estate is valued on it’s income and if business aren’t renewing leases because they don’t need office space, then commercial real estate values tank. That and thinly veiled layoffs.

Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads (KOSA, US-focused) (www.washingtonpost.com)

Legislators are considering attaching KOSA (the anti-LGBTQ+ censorship bill, aka the Kids Online Safety Act) to must-pass legislation authorizing the FAA. As EFF points out, the latest version of KOSA is still a censorship bill....

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From atop your mountain of Playstations, will you finally stop putting puppies in blenders?!

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Does fluoride bioaccumulate?

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What’s the purpose of using any particular symbol and, in this context, does the addition of the degree symbol achieve that purpose?

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To wit: RepRap

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Accepting that “fact” is how we got here.

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Capitalists only espouse the free market when discussing labor. Otherwise, they love regulatory capture.

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Has embarrassment stopped anyone in the GOP?

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As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.

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If you’re in need, check out PCsForPeople, they offer subsidized unlimited 4G hotspots. They’re well suited for low-bandwidth uses and was my primary home internet for a few years. I used Wifi bridge routers to help connect ethernet / more devices / better range.

There’s also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.

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This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.

Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.

Here, asking “why” is asking “what is their incentive”.

There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden’s admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.

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Thanks for the context in this specific case in response to my last paragraph.

So you’re saying it could have been done 6 months ago but is only now being done in the 4th year of Biden’s term?

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This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.

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Isn’t broadcast licensing specifically about partitioning radio spectrum space, which isn’t applicable here? US-based social media isn’t licensed and applying radio era law to internet may not be appropriate.

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Most assuredly, the licensing of the spectrum comes with requirements and strings, so those broadcasters are regulated. They must follow the rules or risk their license.

However, radio licensing came about to avoid broadcast “collisions” for amateur radio operators in ~1912. Regulations came later under the FCC in 1934.

These same collisions are not applicable to the internet (or rather, we’ve already used methods to avoid them, like DNS).

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By the content of the post, I’d imagine.

People don’t use hashtags on a lot of sensitive topics, because they already fear suppression within Tiktok. The US based operation is already partially owned by Oracle (and all of Larry Ellison’s shenanigans) and Walmart as of 2020. For example, since October, Tiktok creators went to extreme lengths to mask the content of pro-Palestinian news, including using hand written note cards or other things that are difficult for automated filters to flag. Anti-establishment messages were already suppressed and widely brigaded by Zionists.

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I learned how to garden, grow food, ferment food, and some plant identification. I have a working knowledge of sewing. I’ve watched volcanoes erupt. I saw deep space imagery from JWST and followed along the Voyager 1 communications issues. I get a stream of physicists and physicians sharing about the latest in their field.

It helped me realize many limiting beliefs I’ve had about myself and I love myself more than I ever have.

I could have done those things elsewhere, too. But just like Pandora / Spotify are a tool to discover things you like that you didn’t know before, so is algorithmic video delivery.

Is everything on any social media good? I’m sure there are corners of Tiktok that are as deplorable as anywhere else.

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The ocean is only marginally explored.

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