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Rentlar

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  • America Needs a Mass Movement—Now | Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

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  • I think now is the time for No Kings to start floating the idea for fundraising a general strike fund and signing the general strike cards.

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  • The penalty of doing it wrong needs to be higher than the cost of doing jt right.

  • How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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  • The trial judge in the Chicago case came to an even more serious conclusion, that the testimony of the entire executive branch can be unreliable.

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  • I don't get it? Why can't car companies just release software updates that get deployed with the regular service interval, like once every year or two? That way the repair service or dealership will be close by if problems arise.

  • MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

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  • Threadiverse... on ATProto?!

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  • On the topic of 'hills to die on', I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.

    We might disagree on the best way to do things. I'd witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you've stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.

  • Whats the deal with tesla theorizing we can transmit electricity through the air? Are we too dumb to figure it out or is it an exaggeration?

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  • Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

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  • Japanese has no uppercase/lowercase. Italics (oblique type) is generally unused as a standard. Bolding can be used but uncommon in most writing. Underlining is commonly used for emphasis. Quotation marks are sometimes used to emphasize in the way "air quotes" would be. It's rather antiquated but dots or Japanese commas above or beside (in vertical writing) can be used where italics might be used in English.

    Sans-serif and serif have their equivalents in CJK langauges - in Japanese they are called Gothic and Mincho type respectively. With Gothic every line maintains the same width. Mincho uses the traditional standard where line widths vary according to each stroke, the rules are derived from how it was written by brush. Calligraphic writing takes this to an extreme and is more of an art-form on special paper, depending on your intent you can follow the traditional rules or be a bit more creative.

  • What was your craziest psychedelic experience?

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  • I've tried a few substances but none that were too far out.

    My roommates peer pressured me into taking way too much weed one night after dabbling in it lightly a handful of times before. I then quickly found myself lying in bed. Somehow, abstract art made sense to me there in the ensuing moment of contemplation. I was seeing it form in my head, splotches, lines and colours and space, it all clicked together. I felt changed the next day. Of course it wore off after, but that experience gave me a new appreciation for the depth of art that seems simple and meaningless on the surface. Like I had an idea of where it came from.

  • Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

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  • Hooray for cancer, asthma and bronchitis! Make America Healthy Again. Lung health is like Karate -- black is the best!

  • 'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

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  • So from what I can surmise in these last couple weeks, Trump and Hegseth are going to use Idaho towns as "training grounds" for the Qatari military.

  • GOP senators worry Trump is undercutting their shutdown strategy

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  • For once, Democrats have got the framing right... and even then they stumbled into it and found their footing after a week.

    Congress is one of the few government institutions getting paid, it's the Republican leaders setting the business of the day, and if they are limiting it to their unpassable bills then that's their fault. Johnson also isn't doing any legislative work at all when he is being paid to, because that would lead to the new rep getting sworn in and more Epstein files being released.

    So yeah, no matter how much Fox News spin is put on it, the fact that Republicans have been in charge of every federal government branch this year, the courts, the House, the Senate and the Executive yet they are still stumbling to an opposition that merely asks for a couple minor concessions should be apparent.

  • Do you spend more time on lemmy than you did on reddit?

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  • I do feel bad for the few users that have found some niche lemmy communities and asked a genuine question, only to get no replies. If it were in my sphere of knowledge I would answer them.

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  • I do a *literal translation where I want to preserve the original context of words. Otherwise I generally just go for stage 3 to get the gist of what a writer or speaker means, and usually it's a combination of the two, I don't try to use different idioms.

    So "I'll punch your lights out" might likely become "I'll beat you so that the lights in your eyes go out" if I were to translate to Japanese (*translated back).

    It's a neat way to show how each person translating has their own style. (And how Japanese news and diplomatic translators have had a rough time with Trump, forced to sanewash a lot).

  • 2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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  • Right so he has permanent Covid brain fog, except just caused by an old age illness instead of covid.

  • 2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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  • The other day I happened to watch a video of him speaking for a minute in 2019, and no, it's night and day compared to now. Sure, even then he had trouble staying on topic, but he had a mental clarity about him that was more recognizable as a speech than a ramble. He's slurring most of his words nowadays, you didn't see that back then. 2019 Trump wouldn't get lost and find himself on the roof of the White House...

  • Gifted children are special needs children

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  • Putting all the kids of a certain age together and teaching them all the same won't work. Plain mix-streaming with status-quo curricula is an idea born from penny-pinching education departments pretending to do it for "equity". We need more comprehensive ideas with more nuance and complexity to achieve equity for children while letting each individual child succeed to the best of their potential.

    The education system should be tailored to be able to challenge each kid at their ability level. If that means that a few grade 1 kids should be given grade 3 assignments, and some grade 1 kids should be given kindergarten assignments, it would be better.

    As an analogy: Does it make sense to have swimming or skating lessons always at the same pace for everyone? They should offer it equitably, but not unnecessarily slow down or speed up kids on their progression to fit a one-size-fits-all model.

  • Bessent Unveils Illegal Plan to Put Trump’s Face on U.S. Coins

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  • Thanks. "Unelected" would be better word to substitute for "Acting"