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Dem Bosain

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  • What is a stance you hold that goes against your personal preferences but you believe is the right thing to do?

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  • The problem here is "abortion" gets conflated with "reproductive health care". There are all sorts of reasons a woman might require aborting a pregnancy that have nothing to do with birth control.

    My daughter had an ectopic pregnancy about 10 years ago. The procedure she underwent would be considered an abortion, even though there was no chance of survival. She was concerned the procedure would affect her ability to become pregnant later. But now I have 2 year old granddaughter that loves popcorn and 3d printed flexi animals and getting bopped in the head with marshmallow toys.

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  • My cousin committed suicide in 2018. A few months later, I had an extremely vivid dream that I found him working in a non-descript factory that didn't make anything I recognized. We were in the cafeteria, and I couldn't get him to respond to me. I knew I had to get him out somehow, without alerting the managers. All the doors were locked, big double-wide things with push-bars like you see in schools.

    Somehow, I found my way to a maintenance closet up high on a wall. I found out there that management was looking for me, but didn't know where I was (I had to fly to get to the closet, yes, if I'm aware I can fly in my dreams). In the closet I found a little bit of thermite, in a blister package like you would find in the checkout aisle at a supermarket.

    By this time, my cousin was back at his station, doing non-descript factory work, and still not responsive. I grabbed the thermite, found him, and led him to the doors. I poured the thermite into the lock, and tried finding something to ignite it. By this time management knew where I was, and they were coming toward us. I still hadn't lit the thermite.

    And I woke up.

  • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • Does he have a Patreon?

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    You have 300billion dollars to use for the good of the country/planet. What do you do?

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    You have 300billion dollars to use for the good of the country/planet. What do you do?

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  • Bounties.

  • Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy

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  • Is immolation illegal?

  • Communities for "someone should make this"? And does anyone have any general software project requests?

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  • I had this idea a few months ago, and found a thread discussing the same thing from several years ago. Seems like nothing came of it.

    I currently use Syncthing to keep a lot of items synced across a few of my devices. It's completely decentralized and fully encrypted. Instead of synching files, what if it could be used as an instant messenger? No central server to interrupt service. No single point of attack. No more requiring a name or phone number, just exchange a QR code to begin communicating.

    I think this would excel at group messaging, especially if some members are out of service occasionally. Reconnect, and all messages get distributed.

    There must be something out there that already works like this, but I don't know of a serverless system.

  • What causes random bouts of almost tears and increased skittishness?

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  • Sounds like PTSD to me. Your fight/flight mode is getting switched randomly to flight. For me it was "freeze".

  • Travelers Can Now Buy a Can of '100 Percent Authentic Air' From Italy's Lake Como

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  • It's canned in a factory that reeks of old cement and lubrication.

  • What's a type of location that you really like, and why?

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  • Downtown of a small town in the middle of winter, late at night when nobody's around. Cold enough that the snow squeaks under your feet as you walk, but no wind at all. Just the memory of the smell of sub-zero air makes me think about a destination with warm walls a nice cup of hot tea waiting for me.

  • TIL that by opening plastic items, between 14,000 and 75,000 microplastic particles are released

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  • I saw him in Marquette, Michigan in the early 90s. The only thing I remember about the performance was "don't call Natives 'Native Americans'. America sucks. Just call them Indians."

    Marquette's pretty much the backwater of Michigan, he must have been working on new material.

  • Hey Lemmy, what's a movie you think everybody should see at least once?

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  • To Kill A Mockingbird

    And read the book.

  • CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave)

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  • I enabled deArrow in my Smarttube installation, and it gave me the title as something like "Dry your dessicant before you use it."

  • It's the spooky season, what are your recommended movies (and other media) for the season that aren't gory horror or kids movies?

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  • The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982). Not gory, so much as gooey.

    The Babadook.

    The Mist. Based on a book by Steven King. King admits the movie ending is better than his own.

    10 Cloverfield Lane. It's standalone, don't worry if you haven't seen Cloverfield

    Annihilation. The bear freaks me out.

    Event Horizon. Sci-Fi/Horror

    Original Ghostbusters from 1984.

    Gremlins

    No One Will Save You. The ending is weird, but the suspense is top-notch.

    The 'Burbs. Classic Tom Hanks comedy.

    Tremors.

    What We Do in the Shadows

  • Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank

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  • Keep in mind this is "X, the everything app". Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.

  • four little weirdos (comic by Will Santino)

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  • Elrond: At least there are fewer this time.

  • TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam

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  • I don't like spam

  • I've invented a 100% efficient combustion engine

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  • There's no such thing as a 100% efficient "engine". But in this case, since the waste heat is put to use (heating the house), OP thinks there's a loophole.

    But, house would also need to be soundproof. Any noise leaking to the outside is lost energy.