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TriplePlaid

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  • Mexico Warns of Diarrhea Risk When Visiting US

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  • Allowing continued spreading of PFAS contaminated sludge is beyond horrible because those chemicals will stay there permanently. Around 1/3 or so of USA cropland is already polluted from spreading of sludges. There is nothing in nature that can break PFAS down, so all that polluted land will have to literally be removed and stored similar to hazardous nuclear waste.

    When we finally realize the damage and start work to repair it, it will be the largest remediation project in human history.

  • Trump approval rating hits all-time low with uneducated Americans

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  • ...among voters with a high school education or less...

    The title of this article is misleading and lowkey offensive. People with highschool educations are not "uneducated" as the title suggests. Shit like this is why these folks are skeptical of main stream media. Show some respect NewsWeek, come on.

    Also, I want to know the statistics for voters with NO education. Show me the true uneducated statistics!!!

  • Trump administration tells federal employees to wear "Freedom" pins—or else

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  • Have you ever met an actual dumb person?

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  • Have you ever met an actual dumb person?

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  • In my experience I have come across people who presented as "stupid." I have worked with rotating casts of temps at a couple of jobs - the "stupid" people are just as common in management as in the temps.

    Usually I think it is because they are not present in their moment/don't care about what is happening, so they aren't really stupid but are just... vacant. Once you get them talking about a project they are actually passionate about, you can see the light of their intellect. Some folks however really do have a hard time understanding the world through logic, even when they are really trying.

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • To add to bougie birdie's reply, a doctor would be able to actually diagnose you and determine if this is a nerve related issue, repetitive stress injury, or potentially early signs of a degenerative disorder such as arthritis, etc. The treatment for a repetitive stress injury, if that is what is causing your pain, could include things like specialized brace to immobilize certain parts of your hand so they can heal properly (especially important during sleep).

    My partner had a repetitive stress injury that she had diagnosed and then didn't see a therapist for (at first). Her injury did not heal even though she was not using that part of her hand until she finally went to an occupational therapist and got an appropriate brace (and instructions for tendon gliding exercises).

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • If either of your hands is getting sore from clicking with any sort of regularity you should probably mention it to your doctor - it sounds like it could be a repetitive stress injury in the making.

  • There is another.

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  • I can definitely see how a race of superintelligent industrialized beavers could be a bad thing for the world, so as far as the comic goes you are right lol.

    As for real life beavers - whether beavers are conscious of it or not, the way they relate to the ecosystems they inhabit in some ways sets an example for humans to follow. We don't need to limit ourselves to only living in North America and Scandinavia/Eastern Europe, but maybe we should try to farm in ways that intentionally promote species diversity. There could be other lessons to take as well, such as spending more effort farming appropriate locations (beavers spend considerable effort finding the right place to set up shop) - many farms around the world are located without much thought toward how they will relate to neighboring ecosystems.

  • There is another.

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  • I think on average beaver ponds promote more biodiversity than human farms, allowing for a larger number of specialized species to find homes. This article gives a breif view of how beavers help to boost biodiversity, including hosting beaver pond specialists. Some methods of farming promote biodiversity, but monoculture largely prevails - 80% of arable land plots are used for monoculture globally.

    So we need to do better and strive to do as good of a job as the beavers do.

  • Do you use tor for everyday things?

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  • IIRC the government has actually always had a large number of nodes because the government helped to create the Tor network. I don't think they operate "most" of the entry and exit nodes though. With appropriate precautions it is still a hugely effective tool to preserve privacy.

    For example, the person who ran the "Silk Road" (formerly the most famous website marketplace on the darknet) was only caught because of revealing personal information theough forum posts and on the clearnet, not because the government can see the traffic of anyone using Tor (which they cannot if you are using https). There are way too many curious high schoolers out there for it to make sense for them to monitor like that anyway. The more people who use it, the more effective of a tool for privacy it becomes.

  • Do you use tor for everyday things?

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  • Am I being overly paranoid?

    Yes, simply connecting to the Tor network is not a sketchy thing and browsing the clearnet using Tor is a smart way to preserve your privacy if you aren't in a hurry for your pages to load.

    I used to browse the clearnet with Tor regularly but eventually I decided it was overkill and stopped (Tor really is slow a lot of the time so it isn't always a walk in the park).

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  • Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.

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  • Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!

  • What is your funniest case of misheard song lyrics?

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  • I had to go and listen to this song because of how outrageous I thought this interpretation was... But it's real!!!!!

  • What is your funniest case of misheard song lyrics?

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  • From Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss: I want to rock and roll all niiiite, and part of ev-er-y day!

    My childhood best friend absolutely loved this song and sang it out loud ALL the time with these incorrect lyrics, I was totally convinced and would sing along with him. My mom thought it was HILARIOUS and so she never told us lol 😆

    (The correct lyrics are and party ev-er-y day)

  • Judge presses DOJ lawyers for a precedent for Pentagon to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over video - ABC News

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  • Ah, the ultimate insult in 2026: accusing someone of behaving like an LLM. In hindsight my original comment probably had less value than the average LLM comment would smh 🤦

  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.

    https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal

    The EPA estimates that more than 65%, or over 13 million tons per year, of SO2 production in the U.S. comes from electric utilities, 93 percent of which is produced by coal power plants.

  • ‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel

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  • "Miners with black lung disease, meanwhile, have had to the Trump administration’s move to roll back safety protections for the coal industry..."

    From OSMRE website:

    Each year, OSMRE transfers more than $1 billion to the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds to support health care and pension benefits for eligible coal miners and their beneficiaries.

    The US spends billions every year subsidizing coal and paying for the toll it takes on coal workers' health. And yet, the MAGA folks I know seem to be more supportive of coal than they were 5 years ago. Like a lot more.

    I don't get how this plays in MAGA favor when the coal miners themselves are getting shafted and when coal energy represents a complete and total grift - exactly the same type of stuff that had these same folks so excited about Trump and Musk cutting government programs. Any argument for coal falls apart immediately because natural gas is better in almost every way.

    Why are these "coalfare kings" getting away with it?

  • Judge presses DOJ lawyers for a precedent for Pentagon to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over video - ABC News

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  • I understand the downvotes on my comment, I guess it was in poor taste, not every joke is a good joke. I am however genuinely confused by the intent behind your reply.