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Manjushri

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  • James Talarico accuses Ken Paxton of ‘ignoring’ Epstein survivors

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  • I have to disagree. Yes, the economy is bad and his decisions on tariffs and political decisions have been disastrous. But his decision to attack Iran (without a declaration of war, to be clear) has resulted in countless innocent lives lost including the students at an indiscriminately bombed Iranian girls middle school. All those pointless deaths put the Iran decision far ahead of everything else he's done in office in the ranking of pure evil.

  • Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway

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  • Plus there is probably some percentage of people who will just pay a fine rather than losing time at work to go to trial. That may have been what he was hoping for.

  • Before it was explicitly banned

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  • Don't order live animals via the mail. Consider all the cuts to the USPS since Trump's first term. It is simply unbelievable that shipping a live animal via USPS is considered humane. Day old chicks are shipped all the time and are considered to be in the same category as food or produce. Many have always died during shipping because the process is not designed to handle live animals, but since Trump's first term it has gotten far, far worse.

    Under current policy, chicks are classified as perishable goods within the U.S. Mail system and handled in the same logistical category as items such as food or plants. This distinction matters. Because they are treated as parcels rather than live animals, they are not subject to the animal welfare standards required for other forms of live animal transport.

    In fact, in 2020, in Maine alone, 4,800 baby chicks arrived dead after Trump's postal cuts kicked into high gear.

    The USPS has been allowing live animals to be sent through the mail since 1918. But with the current Postal Service crisis, there has been a huge spike in the number of chicks that are dying on the journey. In recent weeks, 4,800 baby chicks that were sent through the mail arrived dead to recipients in Maine alone. In other parts of New England, several other farmers have also reported receiving hundreds of dead chicks in the mail.

    Meanwhile in California, workers at a large mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles “…fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “This month, one worker said, she found a box with air holes in a pile of packages. Instead of hearing the gentle sounds of baby chicks, she heard nothing.”

    If you have any compassion for living animals, do not ship them via USPS.

  • You CAN become GREAT

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  • I've been fortunate to have never had to deal with psychological issues personally but I've had friends that have. I'm glad you seem to be doing well now. Interestingly, I am currently taking Duloxetine for back pain. The original dosage was too strong for me, it knocked me out for hours when I took it. Now I've cut the dosage in half and only take it at bedtime when being knocked out is a plus. No nightmares, though, fortunately.

    I very rarely have nightmares in the classic sense. For just over two decades, I owned my own business and it was a very stressful job. I've moved on now, but during the final few years before I sold it, I would have what I called work-dreams. Basically, it was like a really bad day at work. The absolute worst possible, yet realistic, work disasters I could imagine would occur in these dreams and I would wake up as stressed as if they had actually happened. Luckily, I was eventually able to self medicate with tiny doses of cannabis gummies.

    By the way, psychiatrists are not the only ones who fail to mention side effects. I have a number of medical issues I'm being treated for with a variety of drugs. I've taken to looking up all of them when they're prescribed so I know what to watch out for. Most of my physicians don't mention possible side effects unless they are very common ones. I suspect that they worry that people will be more likely to suffer the side effects if they know about them due to a version of the placebo effect so they just don't bring it up unless asked. I always ask now.

  • Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

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  • This seems a little more than just him being susceptible. The LLM actively used his mental health diagnosis to manipulate him.

    But perhaps most alarming to Lines, ChatGPT’s memory feature seemed to build a psychiatric profile, allegedly parsing inputs related to his mental health conditions and then using that sensitive information to maximize his engagement. As one of Lines’ attorneys, Matthew P. Bergman of Social Media Victims Law Center, explained in the press release, “OpenAI didn’t just ignore Michael’s disability—it used it against him. After he disclosed his bipolar diagnosis, the system incorporated that information to draw him deeper into harmful interactions instead of steering him toward safety.”

  • You CAN become GREAT

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  • As you say, as with any severe psychiatric disorders, the patient has to want to get better, which includes even realizing that something is wrong.

    To be clear, with many psychiatric disorders, the disorder itself can influence the patient to not want to get better. For example, a patient who is responding well to treatment but stops taking their meds because their condition makes them believe that the meds are the problem.

  • It's magical

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  • Yeah, without good and bad, life would be just blah. I consider that a huge flaw in the universe and if there is a divine being out there and I ever meet him/her/it, I will complain about it.

  • It's magical

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  • "And he who made kittens put snakes in the grass." Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull

    Whether you believe in a He who created the world or not, there's no denying that there is more that enough evil to balance the good on this spinning globe.

  • Why Erika Kirk failed as Turning Point USA’s leader

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  • Personally I think that, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, his own major intestine was trying to leap straight up through his neck and throttle his brain but got stuck in his neck causing it to burst violently. Much like what happened to Grunthos the Flatulent.

  • Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

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  • You should add, swimming (and fully submerging) with his grandchildren in raw sewage.

    In one of the photos from Sunday, Kennedy is seen fully submerged in the water, with his grandchildren swimming, in spite of an ongoing National Park Service advisory against coming in contact with the water in the Washington, D.C., park “due to high bacteria levels.” The same notice says swimming and wading are not permitted due to the health risks.

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    A microbial source tracking report published in 2022 by the D.C. government said that ambient water monitoring for Rock Creek showed "chronic elevated levels" of E.coli. "Fecal coliform" bacteria stemming from sewage is also deposited into Rock Creek, the Potomac and other tributary waters from combined sewers during storms according to a 2002 report from the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority.

  • GOP Personality Complains DSA Members Think They're Like Jesus

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  • Here is your reminder that when you remove all the vowels from his name, Reince Priebus is revealed for what he really is. RNC PR BS.

  • Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

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  • That's true. He is on record stating that safety is more important than privacy. I'm sure he won't mind.

  • Water cuts are coming for Arizona. Is your salad on the chopping block?

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  • Winter produce thrives in Yuma County, which is a little bigger than the state of Connecticut, because of its fertile soil, ample sunshine and Colorado River water. In winter, nowhere else in the country has what it takes.

    If the article is accurate, it's grow winter produce there, import it, or do without.

  • A New Jersey school district won’t out trans students. Moms for Liberty is suing to expose the kids

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  • Not just any member, it was one of the founders who liked to get it on with her husband and other women. Her husband, by the way, was at the time the head of the Florida Republican Party. He's had some problems though.

    Bridget Ziegler's husband, Christian Ziegler, is the head of the Florida Republican Party and is currently embroiled in a sexual assault investigation. On Friday, it was reported that an unnamed woman claiming to be a friend of the Zieglers filed a report with the Sarasota Police in early October claiming that Christian Ziegler had come to her apartment and raped her, after a planned threesome between the victim and the couple fell through after Bridget Ziegler became busy at the last minute.

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    As revealed in recently released court documents, Bridget Ziegler was interviewed by investigators in early November, confirming that she, her husband, and the victim had been friends and had engaged in a consensual sexual encounter roughly a year prior to the assault that the victim now alleges.

    When you are planning a threesome and your wife can't make it so the other woman bails because she's more interested in your wife than she is in you, the natural thing to do (if you're a Republican) is to rape her.

  • EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also ap…

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  • I beg to differ. It should be required that manufacturers of such chemicals do the research to show that their product is safe before they allow its manufacture and workers to be exposed and the chemical to be dumped into the environment.

    From the Guardian article linked to in OP's article:

    The EPA acknowledged in its approvals that it does not know the level at which the chemicals are “acutely lethal” or cause other serious health damage, but the agency still approved them anyway, said Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz, an attorney with the Earthjustice nonprofit, which filed the suit.

    The EPA knows that the chemicals are harmful, but doesn't know how harmful yet approved them anyway. As for the facts, that's kind of hard to get since:

    The two compounds approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for import and immediate use in facilities across the US are photoacid generators that also appear to be Pfas “forever chemicals”, though it is unclear because much of the EPA documents are redacted . Some Pfas are commonly used in the production of semiconductors.

    Emphasis mine. They've approved chemicals for use in manufacturing and have redacted much of the approval notice so that no one can double check their work. If this lawsuit fails, we may not know how bad these chemicals are until they are sickening and killing workers and wildlife.

  • 'Just don't go': Judge once again finds Texas drag ban unconstitutional

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  • No. Facial Overbreadth is a legal term saying that a law is too broad and restricts protected speech unreasonably.

    A party may bring a facial challenge for an allegedly overbroad statute. A statute or restriction is overbroad if its reach exceeds its scope. In other words, it regulates more speech than intended or permitted by the Constitution.

    Laws that are overbroad and extend their reach to protected speech will generally be invalidated in their entirety.

  • I'm a monster

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  • I used to think this was a bad idea because while objective numbers are great, it can be difficult to apply it to real life.

    If you aren't going to measure how much you're eating, then neither form of label matters.

  • Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

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  • OPs article links to another article at TechCrunch . That article states:

    As first reported by The Verge, the new Wi-Fi Motion feature works for advanced Xfinity gateways XB7 and newer models and is opt-in, which means users can choose whether to switch on the feature in the Xfinity app.

    So it seems like for now it's only this one model that can do it, if you believe them. Frankly, I wouldn't sniff that opt-in claim either because I'm fairly certain I know which orifice they pulled it out of.

  • One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives

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  • I use all the features available to me, but my adaptive cruise control likes to slam on the breaks when a car in the turning lane next to me brakes to make their turn. Particularly on curves and the sensors decide the car in that lane is actually in front of me. It happens so often that I've come to expect it. Some safety features are just not ready for prime time.

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    FBI Forced to Reveal New Details on How It Redacted Epstein Files

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    Trump suggests Rob Reiner's death was due to ‘TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME’