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  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • Mate, it's a cheese quesadilla. It's two tortillas, cheese, and heat...

    Joking aside, there are a few out there. A lot of people are surprisingly into figuring out copycatting popular fast food.

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  • There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there's a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven't signed back in for years.

  • Miller tells Republican leaders Trump will strip protections from career civil servants.

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  • So I'm not sure where you're from, but the feds don't run local governments in the US, with some exceptions in DC.

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    Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case

    www.nytimes.com /2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html

  • House Republican threatens to withhold disaster aid from California amid deadly wildfires

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  • Never mind that California probably has more conservatives than most conservative states...

  • US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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  • While China is considered part of the global south, its economy is so massive and it is so influential globally it really shouldn't be.

    Edit: Also in China's case, that was the UK, not the US.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • Lieberman wasn't a Democrat.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • Yeah mate, he tried. Congress didn't pass single-payer and he didn't anticipate that level of Republican hostility because it hadn't happened on that scale in the modern era of politics. So we got the ACA instead, which has likely saved thousands of lives just through no denial of coverage for preexisting conditions, let alone everything else it did.

  • Elon Musk’s Threat to Primary Democrats Spurs New Urgency to Ban Super PACs

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  • Didn't Fetterman's views change after a major medical incident? It really just seems like he had an actual personality change after having a stroke.

  • House passes bill to avoid a shutdown, sending it to the Senate hours before the deadline

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  • The RFK Stadium bill unanimously passed the Senate separately.

  • Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

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  • Right but if they don't count primary votes that were cast, then there's a cause of action because they're breaking their own rules. It's basically a breach of contract. There's no cause of action for some votes being more valuable than others because those were always the rules. I don't love that system, but it's a private entity and those are their rules for picking a candidate to run in the general. It's true that they're not required to have a primary, but that's irrelevant right now because the Dems do have a primary under their own rules.

  • To be fair, Daytime Me is no saint, either

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  • If you can, find a neurologist who specializes in sleep disorders. I know someone who described something similar after self-referring to a sleep doc and the doctor's first words were, essentially, "you're on an adjusted sleep cycle naturally, but we're going to start tackling things in order of importance based on your symptoms and needs." Was fantastic for them to get a doc who took it seriously, was sympathetic, but also realistic that biology might not mesh with what the world required of that person.

  • Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

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  • They can't legally ignore primary votes. It's not necessarily a crime, but there is definitely a successful and very expensive lawsuit if someone wins a primary by the rules and the party just picks someone else instead.

  • Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds

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  • It's true, Sabra's zero-day exploits must be stopped!

  • Biden Slammed After Commuting Sentence of “Kids for Cash” Judge

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  • I don't think he can. This is a former county judge who oversaw state cases. It would require the governor and/or state AG to pardon those kids. I actually think there was a commission set up specifically for that purposes, which led to hundreds of vacated convictions and a class action lawsuit that recovered millions in damages.

  • Study: Republicans respond to political polarization by spreading misinformation, Democrats don’t

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  • What is the point you want to make?

  • Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg runs for Democratic committee post: ‘We can’t win without young voters’

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  • PSL are basically tankies now and the Greens are fully captured by Russian oligarchs. Both are small enough that you're right, maybe it'll be easier to change them. However, I doubt it because in some ways they're more radical than the Dems so more set in their beliefs. Dems might be easier to change from within because there's already so many camps, it'll be easier to form a coalition.

    Also, as much as I like Sanders, people need to let 2016 go. He knew the rules, he'd been in the Senate since 2007 and in politics since the 70s. Superdelegates were not some secret, Sanders knew he had to win them over too. Democrats didn't like him because he ran as a Democrat for the funding and platform, but was an Independent before and an Independent afterwards.

    Ultimately, he wanted to use the Dems but didn't want to work for them. I have zero problem with him doing this, but I'm also not surprised the party leaders didn't line up behind him as the nominee. Same deal as Clinton and Harris, they knew the rules and that the game was rigged in Trump's favor through the electoral college (and sexism), and they lost. I don't have to like the result, but I'm also not going to say any of them were robbed. The only person that can legitimately claim to have a modern presidential election stolen from them is Al Gore because he actually won the nomination and electoral college. The Supreme Court changing the results is not in the rules that anyone agreed to.

  • Watchdogs say world’s richest man Elon Musk has ‘declared war on social security’

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  • Plenty of unelected people have a massive say in policy. We wouldn't get anything done if every bureaucrat had to be elected.

    This specific unelected soon-to-be bureaucrat is fucking towel though.

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • Ok but no one is arguing Windows is encrypted. Google is specifically stating, in a way that could get them sued for shitloads of money, that their messaging protocol is E2EE. They have explicitly described how it is E2EE. Google can be a bad company while still doing this thing within the bounds we all understand. For example, just because the chat can't be backdoored doesn't mean the device can't be.

  • Trump says he plans to enact 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and add to existing tariffs on China on his first day in office

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  • In the U.S., the IRS collects all federal taxes and deposits them in the Treasury. The President submits a proposed annual budget and Congress spends entirely too much time appropriating the money from the Treasury to fund those parts of the budget it approves. There is no way to know what your tax dollars went to specifically because they go into a comingled fund that pays for all federal appropriations.

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    Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/18/trump-election-georgia
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    Meta Plans to Ban the Russian TV Network RT From Its Apps

    www.nytimes.com /2024/09/17/technology/meta-rt-russian-tv.html
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    AOC launches effort to impeach Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/article/2024/jul/10/aoc-articles-of-impeachment
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    Ohio voters add abortion rights to state constitution

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/nov/07/ohio-issue-1-abortion-rights-vote-result