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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording (apnews.com)

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media Monday. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should return “to a place of godliness.”...

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Hail Satan

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Oh THAT should work, LMFAO

Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020 (apnews.com)

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020....

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Brainwashed moron or a Russian plant, this fucking dumbass right here.

Everyone grab your popcorn, they’re gonna say stupid stuff for ages, mumbling around Trump’s balls in their mouth.

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Well, that’d be the second best thing after throwing them all into a volcano, I guess

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This guy is the whiniest fucking baby. How is it that so many “tough guys” in the States are such big fans of this weakass soft boy. He’s pathetic.

It’s really easy to avoid sentencing, I’ve done it all my life by following one simple rule: Don’t Do Crimes.

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Nobody said anything about trusting the cops, lol

Don’t Talk to the Police

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All good! Sounds like we’re on the same page anyways

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Nah, I mean don’t do crimes.

Don’t get caught doing crimes is, by definition, infinitely more risky.

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When you’re right you’re right! Not all laws are good laws. Unfortunately these days we’re heading in the wrong direction on that front too…

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We're Watching Facebook Die (www.wheresyoured.at)

In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family...

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All I need are good alternatives to:

  • find or coordinate local events
  • post used things for sale

and Facebook is totally irrelevant to me. The way people switched from Kijiji to Marketplace absolutely screwed me over for leaving Meta.

The People Deliberately Killing Facebook (www.wheresyoured.at)

Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people that...

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All I need are good alternatives to:

  • find or coordinate local events
  • post used things for sale

and Facebook is totally irrelevant to me. The way people switched from Kijiji to Marketplace absolutely screwed me over for leaving Meta.

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LOL, helping Texans is against everything Abbott stands for.

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I fly mine all year to make sure the nutjobs don’t get to claim it.

Now if you’re flying a flag off a car? Completely nuts.

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)

A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....

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Boy, South Dakota really challenging Tennessee and Texas for shittiest State in the Union eh? Haven’t even heard about Florida in months because of these bozos.

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Can you suggest a good write-up / walkthrough for how to shift to gaming on Linux? I’ve installed and run it before so I understand the basics, but that was basically just to keep an old laptop alive to watch YouTube.

Fucking Windows…just purchasing one big DIY spyware package these days.

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Finally my Radeon works better out of the box than Nvidia? Amazing.

Glad to hear Mint is the way to go! That’s the one I already have some very basic experience with.

Is Steam necessary? I also use GOG because I prefer no DRM, but maybe that’s not possible in the same way? I’ll Google this one too.

Thank you for your help! And for the confidence boost to think this might be more intuitive than I fear…

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Oh that looks great, thank you!

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Dear corporations,

Your current higher profit margins were my former lunch money. You kept all my raises for yourself, and then gave yourself some nice bonuses for fucking me over.

Quit blaming ME for ruining the economy.

Sincerely, The (former) middle class

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It absolutely, 100% is the only way to reverse the power of corporations. It worked fantastically for our (great-)grandparents to even out the scales; we need to organize to restore order.

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Anyone who enjoys the protection of their union and also votes for the Ontario PCs or the Federal CPC is absolutely fucking braindead

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If the stupid motherfucker brushes his teeth twice daily, he’s already introducing loads more fluoride to his body than any of the trace amounts they add into the public water system, which is still standards of deviation less than anything that would introduce fluorosis of childrens’ teeth (since that’s not possible for adults with developed teeth), let alone get to a level of toxicity for an adult.

Now, if he regularly consumes full tubes of toothpaste as a health supplement, then maybe that’s a reason to be concerned about fluoride.

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Dude, that’s for the odds someone might have hypothyroidism, not at all related to toxicity.

And as noted by the authors:

“Hence, the application of standard household water purification (such as reversed osmosis, electro dialysis, activated carbon filter, and other adsorption/ion-exchange methods) is recommended for patients with hypothyroidism since they have a higher consumption of drinking water. The purification systems can help remove fluoride that interferes with thyroid functions.”

So, if you have a family history of hypothyroidism, and you care at all about trying to avoid this incredibly common and easily treatable issue; use a water filter. It probably won’t help since family history and regular exercise are much more highly correlated with the incidence of hypothyroidism, but sure, why not.

Also, and this is fun, they conveniently ignore the fact that the people drinking the most water (5+ cups group) have a lower adjusted-odds-ratio (OR) of hypothyroidism.

How about the part where the level of fluoride in the water being in the higher end of the spectrum (0.3-0.5 mg/L) gives you a checks notes oh yeah, 3.4% higher incidence rate of hypothyroidism. Right.

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The information in the hallucinogenic section about acid flashbacks is incorrect. This was a false rumour spread in the 70s to demonize the political opponents of Nixon.

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Oh, HPPD is definitely a thing, but extraordinarily rare.

I may have misspoke about the brown acid - this was a legit warning resulting from “home-brew chemists” attempting to make their own LSD and failing to create it properly. Most of the supplies back then were direct from Sandoz (Novartis) and basically were being given away to the scientific community for novel testing. Fun stuff.

I’m talking about the hyperbole of “acid flashbacks” which was a narrative introduced to discourage and demonize LSD usage by the political and intellectual opponents of the Nixon administration. “Rots your brain permanently” and all that other garbage.

Turns out regular LSD usage by the “hippie” community and by many people involved in high-level education (particularly college and university professors) was making people feel more connected and empathetic towards one another, and that just didn’t do for the Republicans who needed everyone to fear “the other”.

What they also did with marijuana and heroin, and subsequently with crack cocaine, was truly abhorrent.

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying “woke”, “critical race theory”, ““grooming””, and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

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Hating people never leads to logical outcomes. I’d rather accept that they’ve been somewhat brainwashed and battle against it, than hate my neighbour.

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LOL, new financial exchanges popped up without following AML or KYC rules, trying to skip by all the checks and balances put in place for every other financial institution, and they thought they’d just…get away with it?

Contracts that clearly have no intrinsic value and are tradeable between individuals and corporations - those are derivatives by definition - and all of these companies and “coin” issuers thought that the SEC and CBOE wouldn’t come kick down their doors?

Fuck the crypto industry is as dumb as all the AI shills are right now. Goddamn this is funny to watch, and Gensler is no joke when it comes to squashing illegal or unregulated activities.

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For a really good riff on this same idea, I like “How to Lie With Statistics” by Darrell Huff, and it’s all illustrated!

Great, easy to understand breakdown of how statistics can be manipulated.

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I’m okay with him bankrupting his supporters too

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Just so it’s not lost on anyone why they were arrested:

“We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the crowd.

“This is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism. Not in our name. Let Gaza live.”

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Ah, a modest variation of the mushroom forager’s creed

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Texting on a WiFi iPod, amazing

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Like how they explain the way he’s started shutting down the seep of information in the article?

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Sounds like a pretty big win to me? Who answers emails after hours, yuck

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Congrats! That sounds like a great change.

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It’s a start. Its a modest increase in capital gains inclusion (66% instead of 50%) for all capital gains over $250,000 per year

So, good, normal people won’t be affected at all, but only super wealthy folks triggering a quarter million in gains every single year are going to feel any effect. And unfortunately, there’s more than a few ways to just avoid triggering gains anyways.

Eh, at least it’s a start.

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You’re right, and this is an excellent idea. If you’re turning an asset into a cashflow, it should be taxable under all circumstances.

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Nothing quite like waking up to the dulcet tones of a sarcastic trombone, and you’ve been revving that thing like a Harley these past few mornings

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LMFAO, easy answer - because those countries are demonstrably better than the shit hole that is the United States.

God this fuckin turd just doesn’t shut up and the rest of us are forced to hear about it. Enough already.

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This is our chance to make this person’s dreams come alive by downvoting them into oblivion!

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That’s because every day is torture in this late stage capitalist hellscape

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Hasn’t been a good castrati in Opera for fucking years smh

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Ding ding ding

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Ahh, Business Insider, the most eager place in the world to let managers talk their book and frame it as news.

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HL-2040 gang represent!

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Uh, the for-profit prison system would like a word

Trump tightens grip on US Republican Party as daughter-in-law takes key post (www.reuters.com)

Donald Trump cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills....

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Gotta keep that unskilled nepo-baby train a-rollin’! Chooo chooooo

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