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  • GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report

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  • The issue was the amount of illegal shit they did, that resulted in the various proceedings. The discovery for all the crimes went on too long, and as you've seen from the lawsuits that were thrown out... it's not wise to start one without rock solid evidence and a fully built case.

    On the other hand the moment SCOTUS ruled that any official act of POTUS is fully legal, regardless of technical legality, he should've had Trump shot. Period.

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • You're right. Brain fart moment.

  • What's the most impressive video game mod you've ever come across?

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  • To be fair, Garry's Mod is up there too.

    The amount of customisation that one "small project" opened up in general, is astonishing.

  • The tragic change a single year has made in America

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  • In limited numbers, sure.

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • The more people read this quote, the more they remember it and spread it.

    Good ideas die when people's attitude is "why write it down when I can remember it".

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • Nazis are regularly using the "muh freeze peach" excuse to continue pushing their crap and demand to be listened to, or be platformed in general (and not be punched in the face when they openly advocate for murdering fellow Americans).

    In more civilised countries (see e.g. Germany) this kind of shit gets shut down quickly.

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • Nazis are regularly using the "muh freeze peach" excuse to continue pushing their crap and demand to be listened to, or be platformed in general (and not be punched in the face when they openly advocate for murdering fellow Americans).

    In more civilised countries (see e.g. Germany) this kind of shit gets shut down quickly.

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • You Americans have a very weird relationship with the second first amendment - and the Nazis really took it as a "free from criticism" amendment, now, haven't they?

    Stop giving these assclowns the benefit of the doubt. Stop accepting the "it was only in jest" excuses when they push their agenda. Sartre said it right:

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    While he does specify anti-Semite, in the context it's clear that he means Nazis.

    Push back on Nazism and stop accepting excuses on why it isn't "really" Nazism.

  • Take the GOP’s Nazi Group Chats Seriously

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  • Like taking the literal Nazi marches seriously in 1938-39 while the war was raging in Europe?

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  • A combination of various renewables (solar, wind, hydro in its various forms), combined with sustainable high density storage and a global network of power delivery with multiple redundancies is the solution.

    But it will obviously not happen as it isn't in shareholders' interest to have sustainable, cheap energy.

  • The tragic change a single year has made in America

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  • True, but don't forget that the internet essentially destroyed the last guardrail against stupidity: social exclusion.

    Pre-internet (not even social media mind you as prior to that, BBSes and forums existed), if you were a dumbfuck, you got excluded. No friends, no hanging out with people, nobody wanted to spend time with you. And most people being social beings, you'd want to avoid that, therefore you either didn't voice those opinions, or learned to change them.

    Then came the internet and suddenly, the morons found brethren. First were the conspiracy theorists who were already excluded, finding safe havens to hide out at. But then slowly - and this is where mass social media, and easy access to it via smartphones and tablets, and affordable computing, comes in - the other morons, let them be racists, antisemites, homophobes, transphobes, etc., slowly discovered that hey, while they might be alone in their surroundings, they're not alone when you account for 7 (back then, today it's 8) billion people!

    And so the last guardrail was gone, and stupidity, a la Idiocracy, has begun to spread.

    Not to mention that the Nazis, coming out of hiding, were quick to utilise these new spaces to recruit people. Now with less overt racism and antisemitism, they preyed on the newer generation.

    Remember when around 2012-13-14, all the big meme sites - 9gag, iFunny, etc. - slowly became more and more extremists, racist, and overtly Nazi? That was a somewhat coordinated move, capturing the youngest generation knowing full well their parents aren't yet tech-savvy enough to do anything about it. Kids under 20-22 lack the reasoning skills older people do, this directly leads to lesser understanding on how bad their actions are, and how they're being influenced. Which did happen slowly but surely, and resulted in the Trunp win just a few years later.

    Mind you I'm not saying these people don't need to take responsibility for their actions - they most definitely do. I'm purely explaining the reasons why things unfolded as they did, so we can prevent it in the future.

    The real mistake was not finishing the job of getting rid of all Nazis back in 1945.

  • The tragic change a single year has made in America

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  • Can't put direct blame on Dear Leader, after all.

  • China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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  • Oh, good to know. Last time I checked around WASM this wasn't really an option.

  • China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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  • See the main issue with that is you need to bundle everything into the app.

    Modern computing is inherently cross-dependent on runtimes and shared libraries and whatnot, to save space. Why bundle the same 300MB runtime into five different apps when you can download it once and share it between the apps? Or even better, have a newer, backwards compatible version of the runtime installed and still be able to share it between apps.

    With WASM you're looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary. Which is fine for one-off small things, but when everything is built that way, you're sacrificing tons of storage and bandwidth unnecessarily.

  • Republicans grapple with shutdown – and why more are blaming the GOP

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  • Shoulda made the revamp of the constitution an enforced, time-boxed process then. Currently the approximate timeframe of getting an amendment through is what, 60 years or so?

  • Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?

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  • Doing a level of local computing on certain devices (especially ones you directly interact with and voice interfacing can matter, say, like, a TV) is useful.

    I think the best approach is connected edge computing - combining some local computing and the hub of edge computing, and changing which side takes care of business depending on the needs of the task.

    Say, having the ability to turn off the oven when you can smell smoke (or remembering you haven't set a timer and the food is ready), simply by talking to your washing machine while you're loading it, is a useful perk. Sure, an edge case, but the moment it becomes needed, even just once, you'll appreciate it.

  • Republicans grapple with shutdown – and why more are blaming the GOP

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  • Even the system of checks and balances were kind of a fuckup if you think about it - the whole system just presumes that most people are acting in good faith and bad faith actors are limited to a few positions or a single branch.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • No. If courts decide that the demolition was illegal, he has to put it back exactly the way it was. It's not a free pass to "rebuild it the way he wants".