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  • Kid Rock Mocked For Lip Syncing Through MAGA Super Bowl Stunt

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  • I used to hang with a lot of hard-partying night-owls. Combining poor sleep, cigarettes, and alcohol can age a person pretty damn fast. If you add hard drugs to the mix, or even some legitimate prescriptions, it happens faster.

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • As they say: "never meet your heroes". Two out of three ain't bad.

  • Sir Sean Connery was a selective actor

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  • This is why his performance in The Rock is pitch perfect.

  • White House’s chilling warning about midterm elections: ‘Can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around polling locations’

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  • That's the neat part. This device is designed such that "out comes the lead."

  • Pentagon warns Scouts: Ban girls or we will pull your funding

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  • Does Hegseth know that the scouts aren’t part of the military

    Eagle Scouts get advanced rank after basic/boot. That translates into pay. Kicking girls out of the BSA is basically denying them a valuable head-start.

    Fun Fact: Did you know that being an Eagle Scout is recognized by the United States Military? Upon graduation from Basic Training in the USAF, USMC, US Army, or US Navy, an Eagle Scout is advanced to E-2. Be sure to tell your recruiter that you are an Eagle Scout!

    https://www.hoac-bsa.org/blue-elk/eagle-scout

    https://www.29palms.marines.mil/Articles/Article/499378/eagle-scouts-a-road-to-military-service/

  • The clues were right in front of us.

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  • When someone had to explain that "sideloading" meant "run whatever you want on your device", I knew right then we were in trouble.

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • As someone who is inside the IT industry, and has been for a while, I have some insight here. Yes, it's stupidity alright, but a weird focused kind of stupidity like having a blind-spot. Money and ethics, IMO, are the only divisions that explain it.

    We like to think of tech as being this rebellious, counter-cultural place. And that tracks when you start talking about "information wants to be free" and "the internet circumvents censorship", but also "market disruption" and "move fast and break things." But there's this problem where that rebellion is actually multiple groups moving in a similar direction. If you look at the decisions people make, there's a clear tradeoff of ethics in line with freedom and liberty, for cold, hard cash. The people we're talking about went for the money. It took me a long time to reconcile this, and I'm now comfortable concluding that the rebellious spirit here is less "damn the man" and more "fuck you, got mine." Nevermind that it's not sustainable and always ends in a death-spiral of everything they built.

    To put it another way, technohippies and conservatives agree about the broad strokes of personal liberty and rebelliousness right up until things like empathy all others get involved. Once you surrender those kinds of ethics, or figure out that having few/none is seen as an asset, bigger paychecks are on offer; its too good to pass up for some folks. It should come as no surprise that aligning one's self with authoritarianism and even fascism is a small step from there.

    And my personal experience - take with salt - there's also a lot of people in security that are just VERY pessimistic, if not outright fearful, of their fellow man. A lot of them vote to the right, despite depending on an industry mostly fueled by left-thinking labor. They're highly skilled, competent, and intelligent people in every other way. Once again, I think the fat paycheck smooths a lot of this over.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • Yeah, that move was far more conventional though. "Big industry fat-cat buys major newspaper" is right out of the 19th century cartoon villain playbook, which seems to be Elon's whole bag.

  • Erika Kirk Under Fire As Husband's Pal Leaks Audio Of Her 'Giggling' About 'Event Of The Century' After His Death

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  • I'm becoming increasingly of the opinion that some groups of people care more about the packaging than the message.

    As long as a person says the right kinds of things, is of the right pedigree, or has the right support and/or accolades, they can get away with damn near anything.

  • Farewell, half head of cabbage

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  • Pickle it. Sauerkraut makes a nice side-dish.

  • He's not even a dad

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  • Whoa, let's not get hasty.

  • He's not even a dad

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  • Laugh it up, Geordi. Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean stuff like that out?!

  • I love it

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  • Or you'd get lucky and some other program you installed happens to have the right dependencies. Just copy them to the application install dir or to C:\windows\win32\ and off you go.

  • I love it

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  • Yeah, stuff like that continues to be the best use-case for windows virtualization. Sounds a lot like trying to upgrade the BIOS or Firmware on an older PC; often the installer is some binary that only runs on Windows of the same vintage.

    Backwards-compatibility with older web browsers so engineers can build websites for them, is another. I've also heard of industrial automation (e.g. CNC machines) being married to Win2k or WinXP, so being able to run an old OS on new hardware is crucial.

  • I love it

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  • Windows, can I run this 25 year old software I just installed?

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • Yup. It's hard to look at this and not imagine de-platforming the left sphere as deliberate.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • Oh, the moment that fucking congress was involved, I knew they were all upset that millions of people were using a communication platform that they had zero eyeballs on. Worse yet, the only party that did was a foreign superpower. All of that is very bad news for entrenched politics, with people able to collectively invent a different mindset and/or get swayed by outside interests. The only way to fix this was ban it or own it somehow: the very two options floated at the time.

    Meanwhile we narrowly avoided a precedent for a great firewall of our own.

  • Democratic Lawmaker Says 'I Failed' After Voting To Fund ICE

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  • Ugh. This DINO is talking out of both sides of his mouth. Let me explain.

    So, Democratic voters have some spine when it comes to the integrity of their representatives. There, an apology is the bare minimum one can do to acknowledge a bad decision or take on something. In past years, that might have actually worked, but I think things are changing.

    Meanwhile the Republicans have demonstrated that acting in accordance with party values - hierarchy, racism, brute force - is all that matters. Say whatever you want and lie your pants off since "the Democrats are probably cheating just as bad, and we're the chosen people to lead anyway." Being this duplicitous is a-okay on team R.

    So what we have is someone that is trying to keep his seat cozy, both through lip-service to the left and voting like a right-winger at the same time.