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  • Chuck Schumer faces growing calls from House Democrats to step down

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  • It's still good for the House Dems to be doing this, though, calling attention to the problem so more people will call their Dem senators demanding that they take action as well.

  • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • I'll check and see if I can do that with this one!

  • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • I should have thought of that. Thanks! Ironically, I have a very old lead-acid UPS in the basement that I've been kind of afraid to plug in again after all this time.

  • When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?

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  • Why removing the battery? I was thinking that could be one good thing about using a laptop is that in a way it has its own UPS.

  • Did you (like me) take up drinking Earl Grey because it was Picard's beverage?

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  • Good question. I've been drinking Earl Grey for so long I don't remember which came first, that or STTNG. It's possible I first tried it because of the show.

  • Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions | Autocar

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  • My car armrest has physical buttons (edit: I guess you'd call them "rocker switches") that I can push forward or backward to raise/lower the windows. It would be absolutely ridiculous to make me navigate a menu on a touchscreen to do that--please tell me newer cars aren't doing that?

  • Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions | Autocar

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  • It's been a long time since I looked but I hope most cars still have physical buttons/controls for all important functions! Besides being easier and faster to use, without them if a touchscreen malfunctions (hardware or software) everything is gone and you wouldn't be able to drive the car. Then there's the tracking and spying, and sometimes bugs and UI changes after updates--and now ads!?# Cars are becoming as enshittified like everything else now.

  • 4 Cybertrucks on Fire in a Seattle Holding Lot… Investigators Uncertain if Fires Caused by Arson or Spontaneous Battery Fire

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  • Good point unless they only had the ability to access a particular one, some code or something.

  • 4 Cybertrucks on Fire in a Seattle Holding Lot… Investigators Uncertain if Fires Caused by Arson or Spontaneous Battery Fire

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  • Looking at the videos and reports, first the dumpsters I mean trucks were not actually that close to the fence where they could be reached through it or have something thrown through it to reach them. The fence is heavy duty dense chain link and wasn't tampered with. A witness who saw the fire start said no one was nearby, first it started sparking then burst into flames. So unless someone did it via software or some other clever way, I'm assuming this was a spontaneous battery combustion that spread to nearby vehicles.

  • Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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  • Offered to? Shouldn't he just go ahead and do it?

  • When i vote R, i didn't think voting for conservatism would conserve to a time before gay marriage

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  • doing this will only push me and other people like me out!

    That's the point. Next, to the camps for you.

  • Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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  • Tim Walz should theoretically be good at that. While most politicians are well to do, he's never made much money and has a reputation of being a regular person, for the regular people. But since he was running for VP he had to parrot Harris' stance on everything.

    If he could go out and speak plainly with a clear message like Bernie does, be himself and tell us what he really thinks, at least we'd be able to make a judgement call on whether to support him. I don't know if he has that in him though. Unless he really did learn that "playing it safe" (i.e. acting like a Dem) does not work any more.

  • This Trump Voter Is Having Second Thoughts After ICE Agents Detained Him at Gunpoint

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  • The two men with him were taken into custody. Machado said he does not know why.

    Hey, reporter. Hey journalist. You just gonna leave it at that? Not an ounce of curiosity about the the two taken into custody? Did you follow up with ICE on their status? What did Machado know about them? Are they citizens? Here legally? Illegally? If so, why was Machado (who voted for trump because he's against illegal immigration) driving them to work? Is he picking up day workers, is he a hypocrite? Did you think that might be an interesting angle for the story? You're a reporter, or... maybe not. I guess you got your feel-good FAFO story about Machado, so you're done, that's all you cared about doing.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks

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  • I don't think it's that. I think they've been brainwashed by anit-vax propaganda into truly being afraid of vaccines, combined with not understanding how severe these diseases are and how serious the consequences of not vaccinating can be.

    We need to make it a priority to teach critical thinking skills in schools.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks

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  • I was a kid when they were first developing the vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella (we called it German measles). So my brothers and I all got every one of them. I remember being sick with them, and with one of the measles types (don't remember which) I was so sick I though I was gonna die. I'll never forget lying there, even thinking of certain things made me puke (or dry heave) so I had to concentrate on not thinking of anything. I remember puking so hard it came out my nose. One of my brothers was so sick, his fever was so high, they took him to the hospital.

    Do parents really want to put their children through this instead of a shot? WTF

  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • Well said.

  • I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

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  • As someone who grew up before the negative effects of computer/internet technology became apparent, and who was excited and impatient for it to develop, I agree with the points made in the article. It didn't have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone. But in our society all the benefits of good things are appropriated by the powerful so they can more readily exploit the less powerful for profit.

    So many wonderful possible benefits that might have come from these technological advancements, to help people lead better lives, to address many of society's issues (hunger, climate change, disabilities, education, etc) simply never happened, because in our society money must be invested to develop them, so only things that would make more profits for the greedy were able to be developed. Yes, some things did get funded by governments or foundations, but they're only a drop in the bucket to what could be done.

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  • Not random, masks make it harder for the facial recognition cameras.

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  • Exactly.