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  • Vance says Kirk assassination led him and Second Lady Usha Vance to have a fourth child

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  • Made me pretty horny too, to be fair.

  • Washington priest removed as exorcist after linking UFOs to work of demons

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  • oh no who will perform the totally real and actually effective exorcisms now??

  • Whats the dumbest thing youve ever heard?

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  • Low hanging fruit, but "The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump". And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It's cartoonish in its absurdity.

    But the dumbest thing I've heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus' eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I'm atheist, but by default. Like, I didn't read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that's to say that I don't have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.

    Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what's going on - it's also beyond evil to tell that to believers who've lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, "don't abort the baby, or it'll be sent straight into Satan's Big Green Egg!"

    Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon's pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he's alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.

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  • I thought this guy was a legit scientist, but I read his recent book Quantum Supremacy and it was all shit like "with quantum computing, in the future you will be able to solve athlete's foot". Literally everything you can think of is going to be quantummaxxed by cubits, according to him. Need your car serviced but the garage isn't open on Sundays? Quantum computing. Need your mother-in-law to dial down the snarky comments about your new house? QUANTUM COMPUTING. Frequently walk into a room, forget why you went in there, leave, then immediately remember why you went in the second you cross the threshold? MOTHERFUCKING QUANTUM COMPUTING!

    I'm sure he is a legit scientist, of course, but as a science communicator and terminal book-hawker, he's no better than Joe Rogan.

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  • Does Lemmy have an equivalent to the Herman Cain Awards subreddit? We're definitely gonna need one.

  • Microsoft Edge loads your passwords into memory in plaintext, but Microsoft says not to worry

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  • 2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they're being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don't even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won't be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.

  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I use RSS Guard on my PC (works on Mac, Linux and Windows). Comes with powerful regex filtering, so I can really curate my feeds.

    RSS seems kinda oldschool, but it's still the best way I've found of keeping track of the things I care about. No fuss or social media bullshit, just information.

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  • Has he seen his own comedy specials?

  • Hegseth reads fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during Pentagon sermon

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  • Iranians in their thousands dying of pure cringe.

  • I'm doing my part!

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  • Even the freebies that I want to play, I almost never play through Epic, and usually wait until I get another copy on Steam. The overall experience of playing a game through Epic is just... bleugh.

    I think I've only completed one game on Epic, Layers of Fear 2. The other stuff I've played has essentially been like playing a demo, to see if it's worth adding to my Steam wishlist. That's how subtractive to the enjoyment of gaming Epic is.

    I also just dislike their practice of exclusivity and feel uncomfortable supporting it with my wallet. At least with Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar, it's only their own games they wall off like that, and they almost always have a Steam-connected version so there's at least the illusion of having everything in one place. Epic is a black hole. I don't even remember the games that have been or are still exclusive there, because I just never encounter any information about them apart from occasional news articles about how unprofitable they’ve been even after X-number of years. It's kinda sad, for the devs who work hard on something for years and 8 people play the fucker.

  • Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

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  • Sandra, cancel my 1 o'clock.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • The first rule of the internet I ever encountered back in the mid-90s was "don't feed the trolls". We've lost that piece of philosophy along the way, and now we all actively engage with cunts instead of just blocking them and moving on. Oblivion is the ultimate tool for dealing with anonymous people who behave like fuckheads. It's a win for them if you respond to their provocations, so just don't. Don't be posting shit like "I know you're trolling, but..." just don't even acknowledge them. Block/report/move on. It's really that simple. The simplest remedy is also the most effective. How cool is that? We just have to tell our limbic systems, because the urge to engage is overwhelming sometimes. But take pleasure in sending these bastards into the abyss, enjoy hitting that block button and growing your blocklist. Look at your blocklist from time to time, and bask in the glory of it. Delight in how many people have been stopped dead in their tracks from ever bothering you again. Get excited when you see a new cunt emerge, and how much fun it will be to add them to the list.

    As for 'reply guys' and general pissiness from curmudgeons (that is, people who are dickish but not actually harassing you) you can simply think of whatever anger or displeasure they're expressing as being very much their problem. If they talk to you like you're stupid, just know that they're struggling with their own issues and that's why they're behaving like a stone in everyone's shoe. Talk to them normally and without emotional language (if you need to talk to them at all), and keep in mind that anyone else who happens upon this interaction will see that you're a reasonable and cool person and the other guy is a wanker.

    If you knew the other person had a brain tumour that made them behave like a prick, you'd be much less bothered by them, but the thing is, that "brain tumour" exists in everyone. No one is really the master of their own behaviour, we're all dragging millennia of other people's genetic shittiness behind us, and our individual capacity to introspect and reflect on our shittiness and try to do better is also something we don't create within ourselves, we're all pretty much stuck with what we have, with our wiggle room for improvement being as preordained as our circulatory systems. So think of everyone as a tumour-riddled victim of circumstance and they won't be able to hurt or annoy you anywhere near as much. Be happy that your particular tumours aren’t making you behave like a dickhead in public. It's all about framing, just don't let the other guy do the framing and you're good.

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  • A lunatic confused by the moon. There's a certain poetry to that.

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  • Maybe that infamous copper salesman had selflessly excised all of his radioactive copper from his stocks so as not to rip off or harm the customer. Maybe he deserves an apology. Inferior copper that isn't full of syphilis or whatever is better than great copper that melts your face off.

  • JUST IN: Supreme Court Sides With Steve Bannon, Leading to Possible Dismissal of His Contempt of Congress Conviction

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  • Is there some way I can contact, perhaps via an open letter in some x-chan dungeon, the mass shooters of tomorrow and convince them to be a little more discriminating in their target selection when they decide to go out in a hail of bullets?

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  • It has always struck me as being the same impulse that makes hoarders do what they do. It's just that, because the rich are hoarding wealth, which everyone sees as a desirable thing to hoard, they're not treated like the fiending addict freaks that they are. I think it's simply their warped personalities, rather than some Machiavellian master plan.

  • Lilly would like a word.

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  • I would die for that kittlet.

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  • This is like me laying naked on my back with an erection and saying the shadow cast by the sun is a complex timekeeping device.

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • No, it's not desirable, but it's coming nonetheless. I was just curious if it's even possible to do it in a way that doesn't harm everyone.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    First responders of lemmy, do you ever find yourself hating the people you're saving when you're constantly dealing with easily-avoidable catastrophes?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the largest object one can buy for the least amount of money?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about the palaentological concept of an 'Elvis taxon' , where a 'lookalike' species temporarily throws off our understanding of the fossil record

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elvis_taxon
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Those in relationships with someone with whom they share a notable 'mismatch' in attractiveness, what are some of the craziest/most offensive things people have said about it?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the characters of Vasquez in Aliens (1986) and the stepmother in Terminator 2 (1991) were played by the same actor, Jenette Goldstein, apparently donning brownface for the earlier role

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Am I entitled to compensation?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the discoverer of radio pulsars - Jocelyn Bell Burnell - lost out on her Nobel Prize because her thesis supervisor took the credit

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I swear he's thinking this after every walk

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL about 'grid cells', neurons which constitute the brain's in-built positioning system, allowing us and many other animals to navigate Euclidean space (they earned their discoverers a Nobel Prize)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grid_cell
  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Running on fumes

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    The perpetual battle against pore-juice