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ThePowerOfGeek

@ ThePowerOfGeek @lemmy.world

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  • Do people get progressively less happy as they age?

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  • It can be a factor for some. Personally, I think I'm happier now overall than I was a couple of decades ago. Not to say I don't get cranky and irritable sometimes, because that definitely happens. Maybe moreso now. But I think that's because I just don't have the tolerance for nonsense.

    But I'm fairly content with life. And my attitude towards people who have different lifestyle to me had mellowed out, because life's too short. I think that has helped with my overall happiness quite a lot.

    I'd be even happier if the wider world wasn't going to shit. But eh, it is what it is.

  • Why this disillusioned Trump voter spends hours searching Epstein files

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  • I now have a mental image of this guy rushing home after class each day, jumping on his computer, and going "maybe Trump won't be mentioned in the files at all today!...... No, nevermind. He's still in there, a lot. Damn. Well, maybe tomorrow!"

  • Trump's peace board faces cash crunch, stalling Gaza plan, sources say

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  • Donald Trump's Board of Peace has received only a tiny fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, preventing him from pushing ahead with his plan for the shattered Palestinian enclave's future, sources told Reuters. to embezzle the money for his own personal goals.

    Fixed.

  • What made you choose Signal over WhatsApp (if applicable)?

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  • I've been down this path. Getting people to switch was a mixed bag. Some did and have stuck around using it. But others either refused ("another messaging app?!") or wanted to but ran into problems using Signal.

    I've also run into problems connecting with people on Signal. They just aren't findable, even with their privacy settings relaxed and with me trying several formats of their number. After troubleshooting and having other people try, it seems random and makes no sense.

    So the three biggest downsides of Signal are: a) users having to juggle yet another messaging app (because their friends/family are scattered across several and they find this overwhelming already); b) Signal looking a bit 'ugly' of not as useable to some people; c) people getting frustrated at not being able to connect with friends who are already on there.

    The biggest upsides to Signal are a) it's not Meta or some other corporation trying to profit from exploring its users; b) it's a clean and simple UX (IMO) that doesn't try to do too much extra; c) the organization behind it takes security very seriously.

  • Fox News doc says not enough ’15 to 19′ year-olds are having kids: ‘The fertility is down’

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  • lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.

    Wait, they want 15 year-old having kids?!!

    Oh wait, it's Faux News. Yeah, gotta keep them young'uns overwhelmed with babies so they don't have time to do horrible things like express their concerns, or educate themselves, or aspire to their own dreams. Makes perfect sense.

  • A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

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  • Alex Jones says Melania "breaking with Trump" after Epstein statement

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  • Given how bad that fat-headed clown is at analyzing information, Alex Jones' claim is the biggest evidence you need that she is NOT breaking up with Trump.

  • Melania Trump says rumours linking her to Epstein 'need to stop'

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  • First Lady Melania Trump has denied connections to Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters at the White House that any claims linking the two "need to end today".

    There are numerous photos of her and Epstein hanging out together and acting very friendly together. So these 'claims' are not going to end today or any time in the future, Melania. Because they aren't 'claims', they are documented facts!

    If you don't want to be associated with creeps then maybe don't hang out with them for years on end. It's far too late for her to heed that advice. But she wouldn't anyway, because she's a shitty person, and shirt people tend to congregate together.

    Edit: typos

  • Donald Trump says US military "loading up" for next conquest

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  • 'Conquest'? By basically every measure Iran was not a conquest.

  • "God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board.

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  • No it's okay everyone, because that one school board guy is going to pray about it, and that'll fix everything! /s

    What a fucking joke. This is the third time the guy has done this. He, and the entire board, should be fired.

  • Schumer Takes No Action As Even Far Right Calls for Impeachment Over Trump’s “Civilization” Threat

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  • This guy is more useless than a solar-powered flashlight with no battery.

  • What is up with reverse phone number lookups/people search sites?

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  • Great point!

  • What is up with reverse phone number lookups/people search sites?

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  • They got monetized by corporations, just like so many other specialized information sources.

    Like you, I remember earlier days on the web where you could find all sorts of stuff for free, if you knew how to search. That included reverse phone number searches, finding people online, etc. Now it's all trapped behind paywalls. I get that maintaining it costs money. But it's still a bit disheartening. I guess the silver lining is that it makes it a bit harder for people's sensitive information to be accessible to everyone (unless they pay for it, of course).

    Another information category that's gone down this route is genealogy information. Most of the good stuff there's is being held hostage by ancestry.com and similar sites. And most online newspapers now hide their articles behind paywalls of one kind or another (there are ways around them usually, but it's still a hassle).

  • Is Trump trying to lose the midterms?

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  • If he goes full authoritarian (which he's trying to) he won't need the elections. He or his stooges would just place sycophants into those empty spots. Given the way he's angling to rig the elections, and the lack of resistance to that so far, he definitely doesn't need the elections as we know them now.

    That's the thing some people aren't getting: we keep thinking he needs to operate within the checks and balances of the current system. But he doesn't need to if nobody has the will or the ability to enforce them. At that point the constraints of the current system mean nothing.

  • Is Trump trying to lose the midterms?

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  • Yeah, I think he is. I think he's doing the most outrageous things possible to rile people up, so when they react he he can then declare Martial Law and cancel the election.

  • Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War

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  • Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?

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  • Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?

    Yes. Next question!

  • Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general

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  • BUT THE DOW IS ABOVE 48K!.... Oh nevermind! 😂

  • Supreme Court seems poised to reject Trump's birthright citizenship limits as he attends arguments

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  • This point I read in a related CNN article made me literally go WTF:

    During a somewhat awkward exchange with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, Solicitor General D. John Sauer struggled to say definitively whether he thought Native American children born today would be entitled to birthright US citizenship under the type of ruling he’s asking the Supreme Court to issue.

    Native Americans are the ORIGINAL Americans!! As if the murder and suffering of their ancestors, the theft of their land, and the discrimination many of them face today isn't enough... now these suited clowns in DC are questioning whether newborn native Americans should automatically get citizenship?! The fucking audacity!

    Of course, we all know why these scumbags want to disenfranchise native Americans: because they aren't white and Christian enough for their liking.