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Thrashy

@ Thrashy @lemmy.world

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Laboratory planner by day, toddler parent by night, enthusiastic everything-hobbyist in the thirty minutes a day I get to myself.

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  • There’s a series of photos from a wildlife photographer that are essentially selfies of him with a litter of cheetah cubs that the mother cheetah literally dropped in his lap while she went to go hunt. It’s been theorized that the only reason cheetahs have never been domesticated is that that they’re very difficult to breed in captivity.

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • I think Gen X went from "invisible" to "the enemy" in a lot of folks' minds when exit polling showed that they broke for Trump in 2024 by a greater margin than any other age group. Before that point most millennials just knew them as their cool older cousins, whose childhood was shrouded in a warm haze of half-remembered, half-imagined 80s nostalgia.

  • Lumps in Trump's Pants Revive Health Concerns as Speculation of 'Leg Braces' Grows Days After Tumbling Up Stairs

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  • Time to bring back gibbeting!

  • T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.

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  • Sorta yes and no. T-Mobile US is its own corporate entity, but their majority shareholder is Deutsche Telekom, and they take their name from that company’s mobile service brand.

  • Ask A&W

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  • YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • Architect, so in the neighborhood… I mostly interact with UL in the context of fire-rated assemblies, though.

  • YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • I recently switched phones and forgot I didn’t have an adblocker installed yet. Clicked on an article and holy shit the modern mobile web is a toxic hellscape without it…

  • Things at Tesla are worse than they appear

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  • In fairness(?) Ford bet big on small cars in the wake of the Great Recession, and that worked well for a while, but by the time they decided that the only non-truck (from a CAFE standpoint) that they were going to keep selling was the Mustang, they were losing money on every Focus and Fiesta they sold.

    A lot of that was their godawful automatic transmission that was forcing them to spend zillions in warranty repairs, but at the end of the day the margin on economy cars is so slim that you can't afford to make mistakes. Rather than bet on perfect execution in a market that was already shrinking in the US, they decided to focus on higher-margin products... and that's fine in the short term, but as you mention it's going to leave them exposed once nobody can afford to spend $50k+ on a horrifically overpriced big pickup anymore.

  • Trump vows to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status: 'It's what they deserve!'

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  • Well then I hope I can have your vote, because my platform will be to use the sweeping new executive powers carved out by the current administration to throw every member of said administration along with every employee of ICE ERO into the “unextraditable foreign gulag detention” black hole, and only then work with Congress and the courts to make that impossible again.

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  • In AEC work we’ve moved almost exclusively to a competing PDF tool called Blubeam, which is proprietary but very worth the price, with tools for scaling, dimensioning, and producing material takeoffs from PDF drawings. Much of what you’d use Acrobat for in a more typical office environment are absent or limited, though.

  • DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says.

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  • Got a reference? Pro-UBI and anti-billionaire as I am, I’ve done the math and I don’t think that checks out. Meaningful UBI has an annual price tag in the trillions, and even if you assume 90%+ top bracket tax rates there aren’t enough billionaires in the US to foot that bill. Other programs would have be discontinued and/or rolled in, and tax rates increased across the board.

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  • Microscopes, too!

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  • All the people mentioned in the article are alt-right lunatics and/or Trumpworld grifters. The only other place they might conceivably take their schtick is Truth Social -- this is really only interesting as confirmation that the thin-skinned and insecure FrEe SpEeCh AbSoLuTiSt running that shithole is absolutely willing to silence anybody who annoys him, over the pettiest of disputes, regardless of political affiliation.

  • MAGA Republicans get ready to gut Medicaid to help Trump

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  • As ever, working to build the post-apocalyptic wasteland that would finally justify their insistence that they need 500 guns and a fleet of milsurp Humvees to traverse the miles of crumbled roadways between their compounds and the last operating Fortress Hospital in the Dakotan Oil Wastes.

  • MAGA Republicans get ready to gut Medicaid to help Trump

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  • And of course this would be a massive harm to their own voters, because Medicaid expansion has been the only thing keeping most rural community hospitals afloat for a long time. If they cut it, then it's likely that many small towns are going to lose their only medical providers within a hour's drive or more.

  • There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster | America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

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  • Can't wait for the inevitable companion pieces: one from Conor Friedersdorf entitled Actually You Are Wrong And I Am Very Smart and the other from Jeffery Goldberg, with the headline This Will Be Catastrophic For Israel's Capacity To Bomb Palestinians.

  • Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession

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  • We already can't economically build ships for the navy because we've so dramatically hollowed out our steel refining and commercial ship-building industries. We're looking at a future where the US military is primarily a client of the international arms industry for everything but guns.

  • Trump approval falls to 43%, lowest since returning to office, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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  • Eugh, daylight.

  • Trump approval falls to 43%, lowest since returning to office, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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  • When the base is mad enough to throw them out if they don't. The Florida special elections didn't flip any seats, but they showed a 15-point swing away from the GOP in deep red parts of the state. That's gonna make them sweat. Unless they can sufficiently rig the midterms or sway Trump off his current "crash the economy for lulz" trajectory, it may well be a bloodbath, and that's the sort of math that starts peeling sycophants away from Trump.

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  • Back in my day us hermit types just did our grocery shopping after 9PM, this is a whole other level.

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    Thrashy @lemmy.world

    It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum!