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ExtremeDullard

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  • Trump’s MRI scan raises specter of secrecy in presidential health

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  • You’ve obviously not done a full round of cognitive testing.

    Correct. You know why? Because unlike the POTUS, I don't need to: nobody has any doubt about my mental faculties.

    Many people are surprised at how poorly they do the first time.

    I suspect part of the test is remembering the first time, and doing better the second time 🙂

  • Trump’s MRI scan raises specter of secrecy in presidential health

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  • He's really proud of having undergone - and aced, according to him - two cognitive tests in one year. But he totally fails to see that this many such tests at such short intervals is a clear sign that his doctors are worried he's actively going gaga.

    Not to mention, acing a cognitive test is about as difficult as acing a patellar reflex test: it's not a sign that you're smart, it's just proof that your noggin' is still working correctly at a basic level.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

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  • That's not quite what she said: she basically said she openly believes in batshit religious nonsense, and as such would have no trouble believing unknown phenomena are figures appearing in her batshit beliefs.

    The keyword in all of this is batshit. How she won an election, I'll never know.

  • Bill would give hackers letters of marque against US enemies

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  • First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There's a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

    Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there's no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you'd see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

    As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

    If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

    But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.

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    Bill would give hackers letters of marque against US enemies

    www.theregister.com /2025/08/21/congressman_proposes_bringing_back_letters/

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • It's almost like socialism. In the name of preserving national corporate interests.

    A kind of national socialism if you will...

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • This is where the very word Fascism comes from: fasces in latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private sector together. The government and private companies in cahoots is one of the core features of any fascist regime.

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • Hmm nationalization... That's so Republican...

    If you ever needed proof that MAGA ≠ GOP, this is it. The Republican party has disappeared off the radar.

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I can well believe that.

    Whoever it was, it wasn't Dubya, anymore than any of the shit Trump is doing was his idea: both are much too dumb to come up with any of this.

  • El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man

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  • I left the US 24 years ago. I saw all this coming when Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act.

    The US has been a fascist country for decades. Just ask any Gitmo detainee... Now it's official.

  • Trump to discuss potential suspension, cancellation of military aid for Ukraine on March 3

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  • Except he doesn't give a fuck. Haven't you noticed?

  • DOGE releases updated "wall of receipts" with more discrepancies

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  • I think that ship has sailed.The country has been quite comprehensively fucked over at this point.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • That's the exact kind of messy migration I want to avoid.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • Agreed. I wish I could transfer my SDF communities over here but it's not possible, sadly.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • Whatever they once were, they suck now.

  • Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count (Update: It's back)

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  • Whatever it is, as a SDF member, I curse the day I decided to support them. I paid SDF because I believe in paying for what I use, and it turns out to be the worst service I use by a long shot. Why I didn't open my first Lemmy account on a more reliable instance for free, I'll never know...

  • Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism

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  • In fairness, what meaningful review of the Gulf of Mexico can there be realistically? "I visited it and it's wet with a slight aftertaste of crude oil. Would not recommend..."