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  • What to Know About the 25th Amendment as Lawmakers Call for Trump’s Removal

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  • Firefox +uBlock Origin works on old Androids. I'm not sure about new versions, iOS, or other phone OSes tho.

    I don't think I could go back to using browsers with ads, or videos with sponsors.

  • cern cats waffle

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  • Democrats could win House as Republicans quit in numbers not seen since Depression

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  • Fetterman hit with brutal 108-point polling swing: ‘He is below the lowest of the low’

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  • “Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.

    Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans.

    So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

  • Former Trump official admits that their goal is to impose their Christian values on other Americans - LGBTQ Nation

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  • by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible

    "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor" Mark 10:21

    "You cannot serve both God and money." Luke 16:13

    "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39

    "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27

  • College Republicans Chapter Sues School for Right to Make Nazi Salute

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  • ACLU affiliate NYCLU (New York Civil Liberties Union) sued the private ivy league Columbia University over the "suspension of pro-Palestinian groups" so the ACLU of Florida could choose to help these neo-nazis; since the ACLU has in the past helped neo-nazis, Republicans, the KKK, and other horrible groups.

  • send thoughts and peer review

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  • True, and the scientific method and results have made wars more intensely deadly; but science doesn't make ridiculous claims like religions and other scam-artists who claims that if you say some magic words you can have absolutely anything you want. The scientific method is by far the best way we've found that lets us figure out what is real and what is nonsense - no other method comes anywhere close to it.

  • send thoughts and peer review

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  • I've twice asked Christians to pray in Jesus' name asking for the immediate and permanent end to torture, rape, murder, and war. They prayed, and when I next met them they were still Christians despite none of those things ending.

    I think religious people are dishonest and/or unable to differentiate between reality and fairytales.

    Matthew 7:7-117 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

  • Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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  • To prevent the script from spreading further, all Wikimedia projects were set to read-only for about 2 hours, and all user JavaScript was temporarily disabled.

    The NoScript extension in Firefox makes the web so much nicer. It turns out sites that don't require JavaScript tend to made by vastly better humans than sites that do. More so for sites that require cross-site scripting and cookies to just show text.

    Can't search on google.com without allowing JavaScript, but it turns out Lite.DuckDuckGo does, and for me at least gives vastly better search results.

    Wikipedia can be read and edited without allowing JavaScript, and I personally don't like the crap that the scripts provide. It's also usable without cookies, tho the idiotic UI options column on the right is a hassle without cookies.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • If Firefly is about the little people, then Serenity is about James Bond.

    Lots of people liked Serenity, but I think it was like a studio-made sequel: more, bigger, more, for no good reason.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Yeah Firefly is amazing, even for people who don't normally like its genres. Avoid the movie Serenity tho.

    Occupied, a Norwegian show about Norway trying to stop being a petrostate.

    Already mentioned: Chernobyl, Deadwood (avoid its movie), Six Feet Under (the finale is amazing).

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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    • Nina Simone - "Strange fruit" Invidious (which I prefer to the Billie Holiday versions)

    Honorable mentions:

    • The killers - "Goodnight, travel well" Invidious
    • Maiya Sykes, Postmodern jukebox - "Boulevard of broken dreams" Invidious
    • The rolling stones - "Paint it, black" Invidious

  • Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

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  • Looks like the videos are now gone.

  • What do y’all think about Cloudflare?

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  • Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

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  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • Bill Hicks (video):

    By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. [...]

    There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers, OK, kill yourself.

    Seriously, you are the ruiner of all things good. [...]

    No this is not a joke. You’re “There’s going to be a joke coming.” There’s no fucking joke coming. You are Satan’s spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourself. It’s the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself [...]

    I know all the marketing people are going, “He’s doing a joke” There’s no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend – I don’t care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. [...]

    I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too: “Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart.”

    Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking, evil scumbags! [...]

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • You can instead try a distro that just works on most hardware, like Linux Mint or other easy-to-use distros suggested in this thread. That way you can slowly learn how to use Linux if you want, while using Linux, so you can later use a more finicky distro more suited to what you want.

    For years I used Ubuntu, but when GNOME 3 came out I changed to Xubuntu, and then when Snap came out I changed to Mint Xfce. I've used several 2nd-hand desktops and laptops over the decades, so brand-new hardware might be more problem-prone.

    I started off trying Slackware, SUSE, and Mandrake; but struggled too much with them so I stayed with Windows. Ubuntu just worked for me, so it allowed me to easily ditch Windows. Years later, I had update problems when I tested MX Linux and Debian, but instead of trying to fix it, I personally found it easier to just look for a distro better suited to the way I want to use my computer.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • ‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’

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  • "per passenger per km"