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WesternInfidels

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    Obama says president ‘shouldn’t have a bunch of side hustles’

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  • This seems to gleefully conflate wealth and income, in order to claim that the infamously-always-grifting trump lost a fortune during his first term. Using percent to decide who had the "biggest increase" to their wealth is a sneaky way of excusing the grifting of the richest among us. It points out "Democrat" or "Democratic" repeatedly but doesn't use the word "Republican" even one time. Its supporting "according to Bloomberg" link doesn't even go anywhere.

  • Still valid

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  • It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.

    It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else's substrate.

    /bombast

  • The Centaur and the Mermaid [Pepper & Carrot]

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  • What a wholesome, heartwarming way to trick me into imagining a centaur and a mermaid fucking

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    Trump Reveals New Logo for Cringe-Inducing ICE Rebrand (ICE -> NICE)

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  • Nazis In Camo, Eh

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • That's great but technically: Not a car.

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • If the drive motor / braking motor isn't rotating, it's not inducing any current, so there is no regeneration happening. Whatever system is holding your car (someone's car) stopped on a hill, it is not 'regen'. Period. Full stop. No argument possible. To believe otherwise is to believe in free energy.

    I am about 99% sure your idea of "magnets" holding a car stopped on a hill is based on some kind of misunderstanding, but I'm not an electrical engineer. If you've read something that explains this, and you can link to it, I'll look at it.

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  • I never apply brakes when on a hill, as regen braking covers that to.

    But what about coming to a complete stop on a hill? There's no way for regen to do that, there has to be motion for it to work.

    Do you know for a fact that your car (in "B" mode or whatever it is you're using) doesn't engage mechanical (friction) brakes on your behalf when appropriate? Or is this an assumption?

  • Argument over how to carry out Trump’s deportation ‘master plan’ got so heated that officials had to ‘clear the room,’ report says

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  • "We had to destroy our constitutional republic in order to save it."

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    The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production

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  • In fact, according to BMW, drivers of current EVs pretty much never activate their mechanical braking systems, relying instead on their electric motors to handle the job.

    I didn't think the regen could bring a car to a complete stop, like at a stop sign or a red light. They're certainly not using the motors to hold your place on a hill, are they?

    Or are they just saying BMW drivers never stop when they're supposed to?

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    The moment you realize you’ve played yourself.

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  • Where is the line between 1) dealing with our frustrations with these fascist murder clowns by rendering them as trivial and ridiculous, and 2) normalizing these fascist murder clowns by making them funny and relatable?

    I don't know the answer.

  • What is this insect?

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  • I've had some success identifying bugs with Google Lens / Google Image Search. But it sure hasn't been 100%, and I'm sure some of us avoid Google on principle.

  • Kindred spirits

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  • Werewolf fitted helmets are a pretty penny these days

  • Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical condition: Spokesperson

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  • Why do we have to hear ANYTHING about this jackass again?

  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • Sure, you just have to finish the whole haircut in 25 minutes

  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • The "old" clock app already had a Pomodoro feature (which I did not realize existed until recently) and you can argue this is a logical progression, I guess.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • Are there pornos out there with multi-day narratives that are longer than feature films?

    There are. Streaming has apparently freed lots of genres of media from formatting / scheduling expectations.

  • AI may be coming to Windows 11’s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into a focus tool

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  • A system prompt hints at local AI-powered productivity features, specifically optimized for students. For example, the Clock app’s Focus session will act as a ‘Productivity’ assistant that breaks down tasks into clear, actionable steps, and it works by inferring the task category, then referencing the coursework of the student.

    It would be great if there were a way to use AI to help people learn more effectively. But this feels like a way to train young people to become dependent on AI assistance for tasks/skills we humans used to be able to do well enough without AI. An addiction, rather than an assistant.

  • Trump says it’s ‘treasonous’ to say US not winning war in Iran

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  • The truth is treason. Lies are patriotism. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

  • sunset

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  • I feel this happens to me a lot, that I see the best sunsets from some stupid parking lot.

    I think there may be actual geographical reasons. The land where I live is flat, the horizon is generally obscured by trees or buildings. But in the middle of the suburban Buy-n-Large parking lot, 10x bigger than it has any need to be, I can almost see the horizon for once. I can see so much more sky than I can from most other places.