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EldritchFemininity

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  • ICE whines that protesters in Minnesota won’t even let agents take bathroom breaks

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  • Can they, though? How many of them actually changed, and how many simply went into hiding?

    One of the biggest issues that led us to this point was the tolerance of the racist uncle, the antisemitic grandfather just because "he's from a different time" or whatever. Many of these people never changed, we just started accepting it when it was couched in the right social rules.

    It's well known that Trump grew up around former Nazis and active white supremacists. His family's culture growing up was steeped in it.

    One of the things about cults is that followers fall into a sunk cost fallacy that means that the longer they've been a member and the deeper in they are, the harder they are to get out until there's a line beyond which it becomes basically impossible. Because to admit they were wrong is to admit that their beliefs were wrong, that their actions weren't justified, and that they're not the good person that they think they are.

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  • Canada and the UK, too, if the politicians ever get their way. They've been moving in that direction slowly for a long time now.

    And forget the hospital itself, just the ambulance ride there can cost $600+.

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  • As an American, I don't know what that first image is supposed to be, but it sure looks expensive.

  • Closing programs

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  • I literally had this happen with my desktop last night, and it's entirely down to Windows actively choosing to go into sleep mode or not. No activity on the computer, click on sleep, the monitors go off and I started to walk away except I noticed that my keyboard and mouse were still on (the first things to turn off when Windows goes to sleep for me) and the fans were still running. Wiggled the mouse and it had only turned the monitors off. I tried it 2 or 3 more times and Windows kept doing the same thing - putting the monitors to sleep and nothing else. I eventually just straight up shut it down with the power button.

  • As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

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  • Unfortunately for the US, the rich have spent the decades since the Civil Rights Movement convincing the general populace that their rights were won by holding a snarky sign on a street corner and not by burning down entire city districts after the murder of MLK by the government (which his family proved in court, by the way. Unfortunately, no criminal court would hear the case so it was only in a civil court, but the judge was convinced well enough to find the government guilty).

    Years of protesting and nothing solid was accomplished. Within a week of billions of dollars in damage to property and big business, the Civil Rights laws were drafted, voted on, and signed into law.

  • As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

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  • Unions are the peaceful alternative for negotiations that workers and their bosses agreed upon instead of dragging them out of the factory into the street and beating them to death.

    More people need to remember this history.

    Even MLK credited the success of his work during the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Panthers being willing to do what he could not, and the Million Man March on Washington - seen today as an example of successful peaceful protest - was a threat to every white American in a seat of power. If he could mobilize a million people to shut down the capital of the federal government peacefully, imagine what else they could do.

  • In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America

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  • Everybody thinks "it could never happen here" right up until it does. We said the same exact thing learning about Nazi Germany in school. Keep an eye out, because I'd say Canada is probably about 10 years behind the US.

    Your conservative party has been eyeballing the Republicans as role models for decades, and you had plenty of Trump supporters marching not too long ago. I've been watching the Canadian war on science since the conservative administration from 20-25 years ago shut down a decade-long study on the effects of UBI halfway through and sealed the documents because they didn't like the results that showed that there were noticeable drops in employment in only two groups - pregnant women and students - and that other effects included improved grade scores and graduation rates, increased college enrollment, and a general improvement in the local economy.

  • In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America

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  • So why haven't you marched down here yourself and taken up the good fight? Or are you just an armchair general making excuses for not protecting freedom and democracy in the world because you're too chickenshit to actually put your money where your mouth is?

    Guess what, everybody's a hero until it's their life on the line, and then the truth comes out: the average person is too scared to give up their homes, their food, and their lives. A cornered animal will bite, but if you leave it even one avenue of escape 9 out of 10 times it will bolt.

  • “This is what I voted for?”: Trump supporter loses farm and income to tariffs, only to be mocked online

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  • "So much for the tolerant left" they cry, after punching leftists in the face for 30+ years.

    All that's left is the consequences of their own actions, anybody who would've been willing to help them gave up long ago.

  • 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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  • Everybody and their mother will have recommendations on their favorite flavor of Linux, but as somebody else about to make the switch with similar priorities as you, I'd suggest also taking a look at Bazzite. It's built on the same distro as the SteamOS and comes in at least two flavors for what your use case is. One of its selling points is that it's an "immutable" version of Linux, which means that it's a lot harder to accidentally break it as a new user.

  • DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship

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  • At least in Massachusetts, they've been pushing back making it mandatory since it rolled out. Every time it gets close to the deadline for when it's supposed to go into effect, they push it back another couple of years.

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • I've seen one of these talked about before, and the mechanism seemed to be in that one that there's a gene in our DNA that triggers us to grow new teeth (that's how we replace our baby teeth with adult teeth), but that that gene turns off after we grow in our set of adult teeth. It's apparently the same gene that allows sharks to grow new teeth. What the drug does is it turns that gene back on, allowing us to grow new teeth to replace lost ones.

    This might not be the same study though, as I've also seen one previously years ago that was about a drug that turned on a gene in our teeth to allow them to repair the enamel in them and fill in cavities by putting biodegradable gauze soaked in the drug inside a cavity and letting the tooth do the rest.

  • you can just do stuff

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  • I've noticed this trend with "You Laugh You Lose" videos as well (yes, people are still doing those). Oftentimes they're 50/50 neat facts and incredibly niche brainrot memes.

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    How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • My problem is that I love the state/region I live in, but large swathes of the rest of the country are a risk to my life and my age, skills, and minority status don't make me appealing from an immigration standpoint, let alone that many places have just as much of an issue with people like me as the Republicans do.

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    How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • The thing is that it would take an extremist left wing government to bring it back to some level of normality. FDR was a Democratic Socialist (officially), and the New Deal was one of the best improvements for the country we've ever had (minus all the blatant racism and destruction of minority communities that the highway projects caused). It was American socialists and anarchists who fought a bloody struggle that won the world the 40 hour work week and weekends. And even that was merely considered a stepping stone on the path to a 20 hour work week. The Overton Window has been pushed so far to the right that we've forgotten what it truly looks like to have 2 sides in the government.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • The bigger and more intrusive screens have gotten, the more sales of new cars have flagged. People are sick of them, and lawmakers are starting to catch up on regulating physical controls back into vehicles.

    The last time I bought a car one of my stipulations was a car no newer than 2016 because that was the last year that RAV4s had the small screens in the middle of the dashboard instead of mounted practically on the windshield, and the guy at the dealership that I talked to said that practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car had similar sentiments. People generally hate the big, intrusive screens, it's just that car makers aren't making any other options and then claim that that's what people want.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • I'd argue that that's probably already the case. Sunk cost fallacy at play. Your posts, comments, blocks and stuff don't follow you from one account to another.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • You beat me to it. I was gonna say "non-political" means "make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans".

  • Supreme Court suggests Trump might use Insurrection Act

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  • Reminds me of the boyfriend of an old coworker. Before he turned his life around, he was an addict that the cartels used a few times to run drugs across the border. The way that worked was that they'd dress him up in some nice clothes, a pair of sunglasses, and throw him in a beautiful convertible with the top down and a load of drugs in the trunk. Border patrol would never bother to stop or check a rich white guy coming back from a 3 day weekend in Mexico, and he'd drop the car off at a gas station a few miles past the border.