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Rentlar

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  • Republicans are mad about Trump’s awful Rob Reiner post. Something is changing here.

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  • If Republicans don't want people suggesting that Charlie Kirk died of Gun Violence Affinity Syndrome, then they all shouldn't be supportive of Trump's words here.

  • Bitter Trump feud cools as Elon Musk eyes handing GOP 'huge boost' for midterms

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  • It doesn't have to be that way. On the west coast the Seattle mayor election went to Katie Wilson, a staunch progressive.

  • ‘I didn’t vote for this’: A revolt against DOGE cuts, deep in Trump country

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  • Vote Republican if you want someone to represent you that runs away from accountability.

  • More redistricting bad news for Republicans: Texas may not net five GOP seats like they planned

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  • I think that Donald Trump doesn’t need to convince people that he feels their pain, but I think he does need to make the case that Democrats are too weak to fix it.

    The GOP pollster/strategist is correct. Democrats cannot rest on their laurels and grin at this news hoping to sail through the midterms. These potentially Democratic voters have to be presented with real solutions to the issues of affordability and getting rid of authoritarianism, and candidates with real conviction to do that.

  • New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics

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  • I'm sure Bubba is talking about his mouth.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • Not bad but I'll call it a "stopgap" rather than a solution.

    Safe places for homeless people need to be offered more widely, secure parking lots could help others as well in the short term.

  • The Price of American Authoritarianism

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  • Reversing the United States’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism. On the one hand, underestimating the threat posed to democracy—believing that the Trump administration’s behavior is simply politics as usual—enables authoritarianism by encouraging inaction in the face of systematic abuse of power. On the other hand, overestimating the impact of authoritarianism—believing the country has reached a point of no return—discourages the citizen actions required to defeat autocrats at the ballot box.

    This puts succinctly the complex thoughts in my head about the US's fate. On Lemmy there are arguments where people accuse each other of being fatalistic or apathetic with no in between.

    In November 2024 my heart sunk hearing the news of Trump's win from Canada, I don't know how Americans were feeling okay with it. Yes it is worse than I expected but I knew at least some bad would happen.

  • What is corn meme all about?

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  • currently the pinned post in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

    The rules are pretty much anything (within reason) goes, but at least one person is fed up with seeing news and politics on shitpost, so is protesting by posting corn shitposts. Some others are joining in, a couple are posting more news out of spite.

  • A Democratic mayor for Miami is not just Trump backlash – it’s a seismic shift

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  • Trump veers off-message in economic speech, calls affordability a ‘hoax’

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  • The imbecile needs to use the banner props around him as a secondary teleprompter to remember what he's there for.

  • Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse

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  • The writing style of the linked article reeks of AI prose... even if I agree with the point the author makes, and there appear to be linked sources, the article makes me retch a bit.

    People can chop wood to heat their home if they want, and is great to see people come together volunteering to help cut and store firewood, I don't think the existence of woodbanks are a bad thing. It's just when people are forced to rely on the work of volunteers when government could have easily stepped in to provide affordable alternatives. Instead people who don't have the ability to source their own firewood depend fully on the whims of the heating fuel market or on charity.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • I'm pretty sure it's because Republicans are distracting Republican women from the party's misogyny by being extremely cruel to transgender and non-binary people.

    ETA: Just take President LBJ's quote, replace white man for woman and colored man for any LGBTQ+ person, and you'll get the idea.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • I did see someone write a post about Chat Oriented Programming, to me that appeared successful, but not without cost and extra care. Original Link, Discussion Thread

    Successful in that it wrote code faster and its output stuck to conventions better than the author would. But they had to watch it like a hawk and with the discipline of a senior developer putting full attention over a junior, stop and swear at it every time it ignored the rules that they give at the beginning of each session, terminate the session when it starts doing a autocompactification routine that wastes your money and makes Claude forget everything. And you try to dump what it has completed each time. One of the costs seem to be the sanity of the developer, so I really question if it's a sustainable way of doing things from both the model side and from developers. To be actually successful you need to know what you're doing otherwise it's easy to fall in a trap like the CTO, trusting the AI's assertions that everything is hunky-dory.

  • YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

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  • My rational thoughts are telling me this is just so Google can stream video at doo doo resolution to save their server bandwidth and get a simple AI model and upscaling filters on device to blow up the image to a suitable level.

    My emotional thoughts and conspiracy brain are telling me this is Google getting users used to AI slop by making legitimate human content look more like AI slop. I've noticed these filters occasionally and it really makes videos I know are real people more slop-like.

  • 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

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  • So this is essentially a dotted line which after the first simulation step expands into 2D space, but after a particular number of steps collapses back into its original 1D pattern, possibly translated some distance from its original position.

    You can imagine the thing being comprised of smaller 1D lines, aligned on an axis with a certain amount of space between each other.

  • Can anyone confirm? Am British so idk

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  • I went in January, cold but nothing I'm unaccustomed to as a Canadian.

    Clam chowder was decent at least what I tried. Public transit was usable. People were nice there in your typical American sense, but NYC shops had more heart for strangers and visitors comparatively. But I was only able to really scratch the surface from my day trip there.

  • Trying to learn Linux, coming from windows

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  • Bazzite is a great distro if you want to jump in and start playing games and getting the software you need to use your computer. The intent behind bazzite seemed to me that it should be accessible enough for non-technical users but provide access to a large library of programs in just a few clicks. It has a few quirks that make it different than other Linux distros if you pick it apart.

    Have you ever used command prompt, batch scripts or PowerShell on Windows? That's what BASH, shell scripting or 'the terminal' is equivalent to on Linux (and mac sorta). It's the virtual scalpel you can use to tinker, fix, control, or totally screw up your system. If you don't have important data to lose, then feel free to just try whatever and learn from mistakes you make along the way. If not, then backups are your friend, and be EXTRA careful doing anything as the root user (that's the admin account with total access over the operating system) or any command like sudo (it might even lecture you about it once)

    For self-hosting, if you have a spare machine you can just try experimenting on it to your heart's content. If your search-engine skills are good enough then you should be able to fumble your way through install instructions or tutorials. Another alternative is you could rent a VPS and optional domain for <$90/year, which then you can learn about SSH (secure shell) and fiddle with a computer remotely for fun.

    People here can probably give you advice or support, if there's a specific problem you're having and you've couldn't figure it out from the documentation and search.

  • Trump’s poll numbers slip amid concerns over economy

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  • Highest disapproval poll numbers of his career, congratulations.

    Or, highest poll numbers of his career of people who want to see the full Epstein files on him.