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  • Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

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  • You should seriously consider running for office. You might have the energy and wherewithal to reshape the liberal party into something halfway worthwhile 🤌

  • 'National divorce': Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Trump dissenters with secession

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  • "someone told me there's a girl out there, with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair"

    Damn is that a great little tune, such a warm sound too

  • Stop begging

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  • You actually saved me the trouble of doing that myself before sending it to my dog-loving pals. I appreciate you 🥂

  • "We Will Pass Those Tariff Costs Back to the Consumer," Says CEO of AutoZone

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  • The problem being that it affects those with less money much more than those who are rich, contrary to taxes which are usually progressively higher as people make more money...

    Funny how that works ಠ_ಠ

  • "We Will Pass Those Tariff Costs Back to the Consumer," Says CEO of AutoZone

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  • It's crazy to me that outsourcing labor is such a common practice that these mega-corporations can simply shuffle factories around to keep their labor costs soul-crushingly low. Bringing the factories back to the US is a laughable suggestion for these companies at this point. Stuff should cost a lot more, and the people who work the factories should also receive more. I suspect the only people getting more money out of this will be Trump and the mega corporations.

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  • But they'll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won't easily abandon, there are scores of people that won't even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.

    Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.

    I say this as someone who's drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)

  • Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze

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  • They don't care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there's no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.

  • Biden welcomes Trump for fireside chat as he prepares to watch his legacy burn

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  • That's been my thought the whole time--this is really just a play to get Project 2025 off the ground and Vance is one of "their guys"

    It's so fucking stupid but in this timeline it has to be as mind-numbingly stupid as possible. Attorney General Gaetz anyone? 🤣

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    Woman vows to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas after husband voted for Donald Trump

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  • So far. I'll be interested to see if she pens any follow-ups to this tale.

  • Republicans projected to win House majority, securing GOP trifecta

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  • Let them. They need to experience the world they apparently want, and there's nothing we can do to reverse course at this point ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Wait... What? Folks In Red States Google Searched 'How To Change My Vote' In Droves After Trump's Victory

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  • "womp womp"

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    How are you keeping cozy and jolly in this dark and cold time?

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  • Sounds cool!! Good luck with the project! EMI is one of those things I'd never even consider until i got way into a project like that, then have to reverse course and try a new approach with that in consideration. Gotta learn somehow though, lol!

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    How are you keeping cozy and jolly in this dark and cold time?

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  • Watcha soldering? Anything fun?

  • Trump's victory reveals secret Republicans: Joe Rogan-obsessed Gen Z men

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  • My biggest gripe is that science is really fucking hard and we're unbelievably lucky to have made so many strides in knowledge and technology on the backs of generations of brilliant people lending their genius to the greater good. Flat-earth and other pseudo-sciences degrade the amount of pure brilliance, luck, and hard fucking work involved in getting to where we've gotten. I love the idea that some randos on the Internet could fundamentally turn science on it's head, and perhaps it's still possible. Science is much harder than most of these people even realize though.

    Should we be skeptical of things in general--absolutely! Even if you truly believe you have a take that will change science at its core, you won't be taken seriously by the scientific community if you can't provide rock-solid proof that can be vetted and verified by other scientists. Is that unfair?

    People are most certainly making their own choices -- remember how hot ivermectin was for a minute there? Completely unsupported evidence of efficacy and guess what -- it didn't work. Personally, i think they should take science in their own hands and figure out why they're wrong about so much. The problem here is what i think is a defining difference between a scientist and a pseudo-scientist: the scientist will pay attention to the results and will even change their hypothesis/theory when new evidence to the contrary is discovered. The pseudo-scientist already knows the answer they are looking for and will disregard any evidence to the contrary out of hand.

    Remember the flat earther documentary where they set out to finally disprove modern science and failed spectacularly? Remember when confronted with hard evidence disproving their theory, they immediately started blaming the testing equipment and methodology, never yielding for a moment that they could be wrong. That is a problem, in my opinion. They regularly begin to reject real indisputable evidence in favor of 'vibes' or whatever leads them to believe hare-brained theories, and next thing you see people venturing further out into Lala Land where everything magically fits into their set of "theories" and they are further disconnected from reality.

    I really think we've let down generation after generation with degrading educational standards. Pet theories are one thing but outright rejecting science because you can't understand it or do it yourself is counterproductive. Pseudo science doesn't help anyone and deserves to be relegated to the tabloids like they used to be (of course I'm sure that people believed some of that shit whole-heartedly back then too, again despite lacking any credible evidence)

  • Millions at risk of losing health insurance following Trump's victory

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  • I don't think the timing is necessarily coincidence 😅

  • Trump says there's 'no price tag' for his mass deportation plan

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  • First thing i thought of too 🥂

  • Trump says there's 'no price tag' for his mass deportation plan

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  • I'd even wager that each time he mentions the cost it will be higher than last time. I suspect it will be measured in the billions and will increase 2-4 billion each time he talks about it. By the time it finally begins to get enacted, I'm guessing the estimated total to ship them all out will likely run in the hundreds of billions.

  • Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025

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  • All i really want to know at this point is whether or not Fuck Joe Biden flags are passé now

  • 24-year-old man punches election judge in the face while waiting in line to vote

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  • He may just be counting on a lifetime Trump dictatorship (complete with a pardon for his assault, since he did it for the "greater good")