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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Except dinosaurs weren't taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.

    I think that's the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we're still around to do it all over again.

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  • This is great news considering that my boss is a dickhead.

  • Republican Official Accused of Drugging Granddaughters’ Ice Cream

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  • "Accused" is being used as a euphemism for "caught on camera".

    He complained to the restaurant that the ice cream had been drugged, so they checked the camera and saw him doing it.

    Immoral and stupid, a truly republican plan.

  • How would one confirm that the ashes in the urn are from who their supposed to be?

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  • There's a metal identification tag that goes with the body the entire time it's in the funeral home/crematorium, according to my partner who works at one. It gets taped to the outside of the urn.

    That's not foolproof though, the wrong ashes getting released to someone is rare but is usually easy to spot afterwards.

    There's no way for you to 100% guarantee that the ashes are your loved one, except that there's no strong benefit to a crematorium doing that and heads would roll if they did.

    There have been scandals where pets were cremated in bulk then the combined ashes divvied out, but not humans.

  • FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton

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  • John Bolton is a staunch imperialist who should've been in jail for his role in bush era war crimes and corruption. He collaborated with the first trump regime then had the gall to complain that their actions may not have been entirely above-board.

    If he ends up in jail for running afoul of his ideological proteges it would be as close to poetic justice as we get under fascism.

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  • A public awareness campaign to teach people about sophisticated technical tools would be incredibly expensive for limited effect. Awareness will rarely atop a sad person from engaging with a dopamine source.

    Addressing the issues at their source will always be much much cheaper and more effective.

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  • A lot of comments here focus on denigrating the users but that's like making fun of people for dying of flu. Many immune systems at many times can fight off the effects of flu. But even though flu doesn't want you dead, death is a small risk for everyone and a larger risk for certain populations.

    GPT (4 especially) is a system that will cause these effects in a certain percentage of people. It's similar enough to actual human interaction to produce the same hormonal responses for some people at some times.

    Instead of inspiring scorn for the afflicted, these stories should prompt much tighter regulations and penalties for the companies that produce these toxic effects.

  • Trump confirms US is seeking 10% stake in Intel. Bernie Sanders approves.

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  • According to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the plan would see the US disbursing approved CHIPS Act grants only after acquiring non-voting shares of Intel and likely other chipmakers. That would allow the US to profit off its investment in chipmakers, Lutnick suggested, and Sanders told Reuters that he agreed American taxpayers could benefit from the potential deals.

    "If microchip companies make a profit from the generous grants they receive from the federal government, the taxpayers of America have a right to a reasonable return on that investment," Sanders said.

    The plan is that instead of just giving Intel the public's money with no strings, the public would get something in return. I have to admit that doesn't sound awful to me.

  • The Democratic Establishment’s Shunning of Mamdani Is Disqualifying

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  • The same DNC chair who got hoag fired because the media liked hoag more than him? And supported keeping fossilized Dems over bringing in more progressive candidates? I think his actions speak louder than his praise of Mamdani successful campaign.

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  • One morning a few months after our first cat died I opened the door and there was a dirty, tailless cat with a long hairless scar running over his hips and wearing a blue bowtie. He put one paw up on the stoop, looked up at me and very politely asked, "Mrow?" So of course I said "Come in Sir"

    Turned out his name was in fact Sir, and he'd fled from the kittens he'd sired. He was our little deadbeat baby.

  • Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

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  • Pulling quorum is an ancient tactic. Republicans in OR were doing it last year to block climate change legislation so voters passed a law saying that anyone who's missed more than X sessions is ineligible for re-election. 10 I think?

    So it's worth noting that Rs do this more often, for bad causes, and when they do Ds respond within the bounds of the law, rather than with blatantly illegal moves.

  • Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

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  • what are the charges? Serious replies only plz

    That's just cruel. Succulently cruel.

    But in seriousness the charges are irrelevant, the fascists are long past pretending to care about the rule of law.

  • St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

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  • With no ransom demand it's gotta be a state actor probing defenses and testing responses, right? I think first guesses would be Russia, China, Iran or maybe North Korea.

  • TIL the words chocolate, cacao, avocado and chili come from the Nahuatl language (Aztec)

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  • Yeah I'd heard that there's a chance the spanish felt they needed a new word for it because the 'caca' is not an appealing sound for a drink in many indo-european languages.

  • Kamala Harris will not run for governor of California next year, she announced, leaving the door open to another run for president in 2028

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  • There's a 0% chance of her winning, but definitely a non-zero chance of her being the dem's candidate.

  • Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump

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  • Can we get an enough buttigieg spam magazine?

  • TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

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  • I believe some uralic languages do it too. I've heard some attempts to link it to a circumpolar bear cult that there's still scattered evidence for from groups as far away as the ainu, but I don't know how solid that is.

  • TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear"

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  • It's extra funny that "bear bear bear" would be considered the beariest bear, because "bear" doesn't even mean bear.

    Many languages had a taboo against saying the word bear - "bear" comes from the word for "brown", because people used to say "the brown one" instead. Some languages seem to have used "sweetpaw" or something similar.

    This is akin to the modern toilet-taboo, where except for terms like "shitter/pisser" all the words are euphemisms. Even "toilet" comes from towel.

  • Pete Buttigieg says Democrats should hammer home Trump’s Epstein cover-up

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  • I bet he bought that headline from the buttigieg 2028 funds he's already started collecting on the sly.

    He's a greedy grasping politician with burning ambition where his ideals should be.

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  • This behavior seems like a symptom, rather than something that would cause problems that wouldn't otherwise exist.

    I sucked my fingers when tired until I was 12, only stopping because I realized that's a weird thing to be still doing when you're starting highschool.

    I turned out to be a weirdo, but if my parents pressured me to stop before I was ready I still would've been a weirdo, just a slightly more anxious weirdo.