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  • Selective rage

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  • I like to think of it like a broken bone. Yes, your overall health is important; no one is questioning that. But if you go into the ER with a broken bone and the doctor tells you that they're going to ignore your injury in favor of telling you to take your vitamins, they're an asshole who doesn't care about your pain or healing your injury.

    Systemic racism is the broken bone. No one (except, perhaps, assholes and billionaires) disagrees that all lives have value. Saying "all lives matter" in response to "black lives matter," though, is saying "let's wilfully ignore the problem because I am clearly okay with the status quo."

    Edit to fix typo.

  • Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

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  • This guy read Foucault's discussion about the panopticon and took it as instructions. Ugh.

  • After charger, Apple removes USB-C cable from the box

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  • Agreed. The life of a phone includes multiple cables (unless someone here knows some trick I don't), so including OEM hardware that's tested and recommended for the device is great and I wish it were still standard. Phone manufacturers not including parts that they still sell separately seems to have little to do with environmentalism/conservation and much to do with profits.

  • JD Vance says GOP should threaten a shutdown: 'Why have a government if it’s not a functioning government?'

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  • They do this almost every year. It's not even really a threat, anymore, just an expectation.

    Vance is dumb* to come out and say it out loud because it makes him an easy possible scapegoat for the inevitable fury that a shutdown fight causes.

    *Shocking, I know.

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  • And lo, Lemmy's next meme of the week was born

  • Early polls say Harris won the presidential debate

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  • My condolences to your liver

  • What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)?

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  • The Princess Bride is one of my favorite examples of this, especially because the "story within the story" is the main story, which is unusual.

  • Harris puts Trump on defensive in fiery presidential debate

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  • I agree, but I'm glad that some big news outlets are reporting it this way. Less not-so-subtle sane-washing and acceptance of Trump, more making him look like the weak weirdo he is.

  • Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot

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  • Really? I got a paywall when I opened it.

  • Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot

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  • No paywall

    Anti-abortion groups had tried to block the measure by arguing that proponents of the ballot measure had failed to meet constitutional requirements that the people who sign ballot-measure petitions be fully informed of the proposal’s legal ramifications.

    I expect their argument would be that people can never be "fully" "informed" unless they decide abortion should be banned. What twatffles.

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  • No, it got stuck because it's dark, so I had to look for it with my flashlight.

  • Someone dumped her, soaking wet, in the lobby of a restaurant today

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  • That's unfortunate, but I'm so glad she (and Niniane) have someone like you to care for them!

  • Someone dumped her, soaking wet, in the lobby of a restaurant today

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  • Also so new kitty can be vetted* for diseases. I hope OP takes new kitty to the vet before really introducing, if they can.

    *Pun absolutely intended.

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  • Why kissing is objectively kinda gross, exhibit A:

  • Donald Trump Falsely Claims Taylor Swift’s Endorsement with Garbage AI-Generated Posts

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  • There'd better be a Swift response.

    ^^^Sorry ^^^not ^^^sorry.

  • The partisan fight over “weird” is becoming a proxy war for LGBTQ issues

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  • I always thought some men's irrational fear of menstrual products to be weird. It's really bizarre that this is such a big deal for the trumpies.

    It's a tampon, not a snake. It's not going to bite you.

  • A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

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  • I've unlearned much of it, but it remains an ongoing process; it's similar to how recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, many of my (I'm guessing our, but don't want to assume) compatriots don't feel the need to unlearn it or don't see it as an issue to begin with.

    Assuming everywhere else is better

    Nowhere did I say that I assumed everywhere else was better. I can see how you inferred that, but that wasn't my implication; I suppose my sarcasm didn't come through well enough. Rather, I am just so used to that type of gun rhetoric here and not used to that from what I hear about NZ that it was a surprise.

    Power tripping assholes exist everywhere there's power to be had.

    Fully agreed with you.

  • A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

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  • I'm in the US and did a double take when I saw that it was NZ; it's the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood that led me to automatically assume, based on the headline, that it was a story from here.

    It could easily be one of dozens of similar stories here. People here can get rabidly protective of their firearms. Threats/offensive comments like the one the employee in this situation made are common enough that I think this would only be considered a fluff piece in the states, if it made the news at all.

  • A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

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  • Is he secretly an American? Because that sounds far more like something I'd hear here. Atrocious.

  • What is your favorite dinosaur?

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  • I love this question! This made me really happy. My favorite has always been (and remains) the brontosaurus. (Probably can blame "The Land Before Time" for its influence.)

    I remember in the early/mid-90s being corrected that brontosaurus wasn't a dinosaur species, but was actually the same as apatosaurus. Being a stubborn child, I refused to accept this and always considered the brontosaurus, not the apatosaurus, my favorite. I felt so vindicated when the study came out in 2015 that brontosaurus and apatosaurus weren't the same.

    Perhaps that's why I still stubbornly refuse to let go of Pluto: the minute hope that my favorite planet will be recognized again someday. Alas.