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  • Trump Administration Withholds $260 Million In Medicaid Funds for Minnesotans

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  • Most people don't pay their taxes directly; they are withheld from their paycheck by their employer. State and local governments are employers; they withhold taxes from their employees. They can report that they have withheld those taxes from the taxpayers, but transfer those taxes to the state treasury instead of the IRS.

    The state could create a jobs placement program that operates like a temp agency. Workers participating in the program are employees of the state, not the business they are contracted to.

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts

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  • It was hard enough getting new contacts to install it and stay connected.

    Posted notices that I was shutting it down. Added links to a web page and a telegram channel.

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • That's a lot of words you seem to be putting in my mouth there friend

    Nah, I don't think it is your intention to say these things. I think that you didn't consider what you were actually saying when you tried to lay the blame on the voters instead of the candidate.

    My point is that just because action was taken by the voters does not mean fault for that action rests with the voters. Here, the candidate's advocacy for genocidal actions is the cause for her failure to win election.

    This is simultaneously an argument to disenfranchise ourselves from the democratic process

    That's a common error: Abstention is not disenfranchisement. The voter is not capable of disenfranchising themselves. Disenfranchisement is a concept that can only be imposed on the voter against their will.

    Demanding the voters select from two genocidal candidates is disenfranchisement: the only democratic choice remaining is abstention.

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • The fundamental principal of "democracy" requires that "The voters are always right".

    Any argument that the voters themselves are wrong is an indictment of democracy itself. It is a suggestion that We The People are incapable of governing ourselves, and require the external mandate of a benevolent dictator.

    You can argue that a candidate failed to appeal to the voters. You can argue that the voting system failed to accurately reflect voter sentiment. You can argue that third parties unduly influenced the voters. You can point out the paradox of Trump being worse for Palestine than Harris would have been. But in a democracy, the voters are the source of truth. Laying blame on the voters requires rejection of the very idea of democracy.

    To extend your metaphor, you want to go out to the movies with a bunch of friends. You and most of the group want to watch Oppenheimer. But most of the people who want Oppenheimer would rather just download it and watch it at home. We would only go to the theater for candy and soda and popcorn. Knowing that we aren't going to show up without all three, you vetoed two of them, and called us selfish assholes for wanting what we want. Now you're complaining that the people who did show up selected Barbie, and you're trying to blame us, even as you ignore that you're the reason why we didn't bother to go out.

    If Palestine is getting bombed no matter what happens, the only voters who are coming out are the ones who want Palestine bombed.

  • Secret Service shot and killed armed man who breached Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence

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  • Of course. It's very likely that things would be way worse, but it is not a certainty. The quoted statement is speculation.

  • Secret Service shot and killed armed man who breached Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence

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  • FYI Shooting Trump will solve nothing, and only just make things WAY worse.

    That's speculation.

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    TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years

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  • That's the campaign promise the Democrats are going to give us in 2028. Not "dismantle the camps, and enact universal healthcare" but "reduce the number of people sent to the ovens by 5% per year".

    And then

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    when Trump gets a third term instead of a prison sentence.

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    TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years

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  • Tastes like almonds.

  • Oh no, Intel is moving customer support to AI

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  • So are unicorns.

  • Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days

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  • They are locking down "certified" phones. You don't have to have a "certified" phone, but if it is not certified, a lot of sensitive apps (Google wallet, third-party banking apps, for example) won't work.

    So all the major manufacturers are going to push certified phones, which are going to make it difficult to use non-certified apps.

  • Red and Blue States Alike Want To Limit AI in Insurance. Trump Wants To Limit the States.

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  • Go ahead and bring it in. Quickly, please. Go ahead and do it right before the midterms and the Luigi trial.

    Go ahead, insurance industry: cut your own fucking throats with this AI bullshit.

  • Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say

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  • Top Democrats re-introduce trans bill of rights

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  • Because you, and people like you, won't show up to the polls if this is the focus of the next election. That's what you're trying not to say. You're reminding us that the MAGAts are going to show up, but that you don't find this issue compelling enough to actually turn out on election day, and you fear that too many others feel as you do.

    I'd like to see trans protections and support included in a Universal Healthcare bill that puts the entire medical insurance industry out of business. The Universal Healthcare aspect is why I'm going to the polls, and it would be nice if there were some guarantees in that to ensure that trans care is included in "Universal".

    Universal Healthcare is what I will be looking for when I go to the polls this fall. While I'm there, I'll support every trans issue I can find. Fortunately, there isnt much anti-trans horseshit from the people who support Universal Healthcare, nor anti-healthcare horseshit from the trans community. Support for either is support for both.

  • Help making sense of IPs and A records

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  • It depends on how you want to do it; how your reverse proxy server is setup. I use Pangolin running on a VPS as my proxy server. It uses a tunnel ("Newt") between web servers running on my home network and the VPS, so I don't need any open/forwarded ports on my home router.

  • Help making sense of IPs and A records

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  • I'll need to know a little more about your setup. Sending DM...

  • Help making sense of IPs and A records

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  • An A record maps to an IP address. A CNAME record maps to another URL. Since you are trying to map to an IP address rather than a URL, you will want an A record.

    If all of your sites will be served from the same proxy server at 204.230.30.104, you can create a single, wildcard A record for *.newexample.com. This will point every subdomain to your proxy's IP address. You don't need to create an A record for each subdomain.

    If you are planning on serving some subdomains from 204.230.30.104 and other subdomains from another proxy at 69.4.20.187, you would need multiple A records for pointing the subdomains toward their respective proxies.

    If you wanted to serve from proxy running on a dynamic IP address, and you're using a DDNS provider to point newexample.ddns.net back to your current IP address, you could use a CNAME record to point newexample.com to newexample.ddns.net.

  • If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time...

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  • Modulo is much easier to understand with clocks.

    Suppose It is currently midnight. What time will it be in 3 hours? 3 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00

    What time will it be in 27 hours? 27 mod 24 = 3. We go through a whole day (24 hours) to get back to midnight, then continue another 3 hours, for a total of 27. The time will be 03:00.

    What time will it be 48 hours from now? 48 mod 24 = 0. 48 hours from midnight will be midnight.

    What time will it be 6 hours from now? 6 mod 24 = 6.

    Conceptually, X mod Y means that instead of 24 hours per day, we are splitting the day into Y "hours", labeled 0 to Y-1. We start at 0, and pass through X "hours". X mod Y is the "hour" we finish up in at the end. 5 mod 2 means we have a 2-hour day, with hours 0 and 1. We pass through 5 of those hours. When we finish, are we at hour 0 or hour 1?

  • Trump Wrecked In Devastating Poll As Most Americans Say He’s ‘Worse Than Biden’ — With Whopping 18 Point Swing

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  • Anyone talking about action against ICE agents has lost the plot. ICE is the symptom, not the disease. You don't treat tuberculosis by targeting the coughing with Robitussin. You treat tuberculosis by targeting the bacteria with antibiotics. Address the cause of the problem, not the effect.

    The person you need to be registering your complaint with is your local oligarch. Any action you want to take toward ICE, redirect it to the richest person within driving distance.

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    Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders

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  • How long does it take to train, and how much would I earn while training, if I elected to quit after training, but prior to any operational assignment?

  • Army vet detained by ICE for 8 hours says he wasn't allowed to call an attorney

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  • Don't fight these ghouls. They are a symptom; oligarchs are the disease.

    Register your complaint with the richest person within driving distance.