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For Amusement Purposes Only

The question is mine or yours?

The High Corvid of Progressivity

Chance favors the prepared mind.

~ Louis Pasteur

  • New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

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  • The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.

  • Amy Acton says Ohio police should work with ICE, backs qualified immunity

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  • Great. So now the choice is between Nazi and Sugar-free Nazi.

    Ohio, once again earning its title as America's toilet bowl.

  • ICE arrests jump to nearly 50,000 in July, highest monthly total of Trump’s crackdown

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  • 50,000 broken lives, punished for the crime of being born on the wrong side of the border.

  • Judge denies Minnesota bid to extradite ICE officer from Texas, paving way for his release

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  • Sounds like it's time to send in the bounty hunters.

  • 💘Tim Curry [the little world of liz]

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  • It's not easy having a good time. 💋

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  • Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows

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  • These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)

  • Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows

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  • Nice investigative work - this is the first I've heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.

    This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.

    Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:

    Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.

    There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.

    Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.

  • Nitter receives Cease & Desist from X/Twitter

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  • Sounds like Elon's Bitter.

  • Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now

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  • Welcome to America, where the laws are made up and your vote doesn't matter..

  • Let there be peace

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  • If you want to see some of the most amazing dogfights in your life, put up three or four, all within sight of each other about 30' - 40' apart. This attracts multiple birds, and the distance is too great for one bird to dominate the food source, but just close enough to keep them pissed off at each other.

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    Trump is a Plant Whose Sole Purpose is to Usher in the Apocalypse

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  • Now what if i told you had insider knowledge, and know this for a fact? By May 17 2027, the world as we know it is ending.

    I'd ask for proof and real detail, of which you've provided none. This doesn't mean I disagree with your overall point, but invoking the apocalypse without evidence isn't going to earn my upvote.

  • Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations

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  • The content has taken a nosedive in the last three months - just take a look at /r/all and you'll see duplicate postings appearing on the feed within the first 100 posts.

    The quality of the conversation has plummeted as well. Most comments are one or two sentences, and usually just reaction posts. You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.

    It's no longer a discussion forum. It's a reaction machine, pushing a narrative that has been stripped of anything original that could be disruptive to the status quo... in other words, stripped of the very humanity that made it valuable for ChatGPT in the first place.

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    TIL that in Massachusetts, white families have a median net wealth of $549,000. For black families, it is just $7,800

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    2/3 of Americans live in a "constitution-free zone"

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  • At this late stage of the game, assume that if it's a Fed that's set his eyes on you, you don't have any rights.

    State and local still might respect them if you're north of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Rockies, but don't count on it if your state begins with the letters A, I, M,O or U and you're not in major metropolitan area.

  • Deleted tweets show now-Trump aide Natalie Harp’s zealous support on Jan. 6

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  • she thanks him for her “coming of age,” whatever the fuck that means

    C'mon, let's be honest. We all know what that means.

  • "This guy knows his stuff"

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  • 5 is being generous. At Netflix, you're lucky to last one season.

  • Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

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  • True to some extent on point one, but because an android is a physical manifestation, the aging process can be simulated through mechanical means. This isn't quite the same as the limitations placed on a hologram, which are entirely programmatic.

    I'm gonna confess that I didn't make it all the way through Picard, so I'll absolutely give you that point - but I'll also point out that this makes it exceptionally cruel, because as far as I know, Picard doesn't go back and give Moriarity a replacement body.

    Back to point one - the hologram should in theory be easier to age than an android, as its entirely programmatic. But then this brings up the question, if you program in aging and death to a hologram, how is that any different than a death sentence?

    In Moriarity's case, if he is programmed to age and die in the simulation, Picard has become his executioner - although a random number generator for M's lifespan might ease his conscience a bit. If not, Picard becomes an absent jailor.

    The only moral decision that supports Federation principles (or at least TNG principles) is to let Moriarity go free as soon as the technology is available. He is, canonically, the first member of a newly discovered intelligent species.

  • Given the argument that Data has Free Determination, Voyager is about how The Federation enslaves holograms

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  • Except that there's not, canonically, until Starfleet Academy. The Doctor from Voyager develops it roughly 200 years after the end of the Voyager series - and that only ages his appearance on a voluntary basis. He's still effectively immortal.

    Plus, previously to this "final solution" in TNG, when they turned the holodeck off for a number of years, Moriarity was still conscious, frozen in a dead world and aware of the passage of time, but did not age.

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    Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To | Wired

    www.wired.com /story/doge-data-access-hhs/
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    RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People

    newrepublic.com /post/194245/rfk-jr-disease-registry-track-autistic-people
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    Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights

    www.wired.com /story/hundreds-of-video-game-workers-join-new-union-as-trump-attacks-labor-rights/
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    Americans Are Preparing for When All Hell Breaks Loose

    www.nytimes.com /2025/04/09/us/prepared-citizens-guns.html
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    EU takes revenge on Trump’s tariffs as countries approve €20B+ retaliation

    www.politico.eu /article/eu-takes-revenge-on-trumps-metals-tariffs-approved-as-countries-close-ranks/
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    DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for sexual orientation, gender identity | Snopes

    www.snopes.com /fact-check/dhs-surveillance-lgbtq/
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    Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion | Common Dreams

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-medicare-advantage-payments
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    US marshals were mobilized to warn fired DOJ lawyer over congressional testimony, attorney says

    www.reuters.com /world/us/us-justice-dept-mobilized-armed-marshals-warn-ex-lawyer-over-congressional-2025-04-07/
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    Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk

    www.eff.org /press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk
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    Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees

    www.axios.com /2025/04/07/schatz-holds-more-than-300-trump-nominees
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    DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father

    lawandcrime.com /high-profile/this-order-is-remarkable-doj-urges-scotus-to-stop-judge-from-forcing-trump-to-return-wrongfully-deported-father-who-had-protected-legal-status/
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    The First Victim of Trump’s Trade War: Michigan’s Economy

    www.wsj.com /economy/the-first-victim-of-trumps-trade-war-michigans-economy-ea6ff8b2
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    Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run

    newrepublic.com /post/193634/donald-trump-treasury-scott-bessent-tariffs-quit
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    Hundreds of law firms back Perkins Coie in fight against Trump sanctions

    www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2025/04/04/perkins-coie-law-firm-trump-targets/
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    The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order - The administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states

    newrepublic.com /post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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    Bloomberg: That Smashing Sound Is Piggy Banks Around the World

    archive.is /20250404052001/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-04/tariffs-fallout-that-smashing-sound-is-piggy-banks-around-the-world
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    ‘This unlawful impost must fall’: Conservative group sues Trump claiming tariffs are ‘unconstitutional exercise of legislative power’

    lawandcrime.com /high-profile/this-unlawful-impost-must-fall-conservative-group-sues-trump-claiming-tariffs-are-unconstitutional-exercise-of-legislative-power/
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    Of course

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    Churches would get protections from IRS punishment under new bill

    www.newsweek.com /free-speech-irs-church-religion-lankford-johnson-amendment-2053109
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    How private equity's increasing role in health care is affecting patients | PBS

    www.pbs.org /newshour/show/how-private-equitys-increasing-role-in-health-care-is-affecting-patients