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  • Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t

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  • I truly think that a good amount of these people could be personally executed by Trump shooting them in the chest, and while Trump says "I know what you are and I hate you" they would lay there dying and say "Oh it's okay, I know you didn't mean that. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I still support what you're doing overall." or possibly even "I guess I do deserve to die if you say so".

    Now I will say the majority of even the maga team is not this nuts. But some definitely are. Many humans have unfortunately had the privilege to never interact with the kind of person who will truly never change their mind. I've known one or two, and it's a really mind-expanding experience, almost like you're meeting an extraterrestrial. It's hard for people who haven't seen them to believe 👽 lol

  • Alternative to Spotify - Linux client?

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  • What about the other way around? Are there artists on Bandcamp that aren't on Spotify? I would imagine that Bandcamp has more small indie artists and Spotify has more major ones, right? That's great that they have the editorials. But what I really crave is some sort of "tracks similar to this" feature - a lot of times I'm in a very particular mood or looking for something very specific where I know one or two songs that hit the mark and want more.

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • Yeah this is the kind of thing where you really need statistics. This sticks out because it's a prominent example of something new, an autonomous vehicle, doing something notable - killing an animal for the first time (or at least one of the very first well-publicized times on record).

    For people's reaction to this to be that this is because it's an autonomous vehicle is the same sort of cognitive bias that causes things like, " The first person to get a math problem wrong in class was a girl so it seems like girls are bad at math". When of course it could be that the probability of boys and girls getting problems wrong is equal, and that the girl was simply the first one to get a unlucky roll on the dice of the universe. It could even be that boys are more likely to get problems wrong, and the girl was especially unlucky. It could in fact be that girls are more likely to get problems wrong, too, but this single instance doesn't give us enough evidence for that. It could be that boys actually have gotten more problems wrong, but we only hear about the girl getting the problem wrong due to sociological biases, or vice versa. Etc.

    I get that we shouldn't trust corporations, and it's not fun to defend a corporation, but it is important to defend rational thinking. And the rational way to approach this is to employ statistical methods to judge whether a vehicle being autonomous truly makes it a bigger risk to animals in the road or not. Any other line of reasoning is not right for this kind of problem.

  • Alternative to Spotify - Linux client?

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  • I've been thinking about this too. Does anyone know if band camp is any good for this sort of thing?? I know that you can listen to some music there.

    Music is one of the few things where I actually like for the service to have a recommendation algorithm. I don't think Bandcamp has anything like that. I'm not opposed to switching up my ways of discovering new music and instead just finding it by engaging with communities... But let's be honest that isn't quite as effective nor as plentiful as a good algorithm. If bandcamp doesn't really have any way of discovering artists then it just seems sort of supplementary.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • It kind of sounds like you're talking about it purely as a thought experiment or as something to inspire other philosophical thinking. But I think the issue most people have with the simulation theory is when people think that it's actually the way that the world is or think that it's worth investigating the way that the world is just because it theoretically could be the way the world is. But theoretically the world could have been created by the god of the Bible or any of the other million explanations proposed by the million other religions that have existed. Almost every religion proposes a hypothesis that could indeed explain reality, but just because it could explain reality doesn't mean it's reasonable to investigate it.

    I agree with you that all the questions you raised are interesting and worth thinking about, but none of that really relates to thinking that we actually live in a simulation. You're just using the idea that we live in a simulation as inspiration to start thinking about these other ideas. But actually thinking that we live in a simulation is much less reasonable.

  • Texas Judges No Longer Required to Marry Same-Sex Couples

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  • Fuck Christianity. We all have an obligation to stand up to Christians wherever they start trying to spread their bullshit, even when it appears innocuous. The harmless proselytizing of the 2000s is what lays the groundwork for this. No more tolerance for Christians.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • Yep, even on the side of the right ideas, half the people still got there via the same wrong methods that the people on the wrong side use. They just coincidentally happened to land on the right side instead. It is quite disheartening, exactly

  • The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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  • Yeah I feel the same way. The last No Kings event in my area seemed like people were treating it almost like a street festival or parade. There was no confrontation, but had there been, I think everyone would have immediately complied and gone home. "Hey guys, the police said we have to turn the music down" type energy.

  • The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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  • "You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They are organized, and someone is funding it."

    As always they make accusations to mask the truth of the accusation on their own side. The No Kings people aren't the ones with giant professionally printed custom flags and actual corporations creating the merch they wear to their events. Crazy

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • Journeyman Troll perhaps

  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • Yeah, far be it from me to rush to the defense of religion, but this is not quite as scary as it sounds. You could very well have a religious person answering this survey who absolutely hates Trump and thinks he is a force for evil. Like you said, most Christians believe literally every event is part of God's plan (which is quite reasonable given their axioms tbh).

    In fact the article clarifies this:

    "That survey, of a nationally representative sample of 8,937 Americans from across the U.S., found that overall, 4 percent believed God chose Trump because He believes in his policies, while another 32 percent think Trump’s election is part of God’s plan, although God may not necessarily agree with his program. Nearly half, 49 percent, said God doesn’t get involved in elections, while 14 percent said they don’t believe in God.

    When it comes to white evangelicals, those numbers are much higher, with 8 percent believing God ordained Trump because He agrees with his policies, and 63 percent thinking his election is part of God’s plan, whether the deity agrees with his policies or not. Their beliefs held firm with regards to Joe Biden’s election in 2020 with 67 percent of white evangelicals believing his victory was part of God’s plan – but with the stark difference that a negligible percentage believed that God agreed with his policies."

  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • "Our end-to-end attacks simply measure the rendering time per frame of the graphical operations… to determine whether the pixel was white or non-white.”

    This is a prime example of something that is so simple, yet elegant, and brilliant. Fantastically cool and scary.

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    What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of?

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  • Depending on the social media in question, I'm not sure there's much difference! I may be misinformed about the state of Tiktok and Instagram though, as I don't use them myself. It's just my observations from seeing others on them

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    What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of?

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  • This is definitely not true. Gooning usually means like multiple continuous hours of masturbation, usually with the purpose of entering some kind of zoned-out trance state. I think it is somewhat niche, as I'm pretty sure most people just masturbate for 5-15 minutes, just looking at porn but not by any means "entranced" by it. The term gooning has gotten so popular because the activity itself has gotten more popular. Personally I attribute it to people's strong need to dissociate from the world in a way that isn't expensive, and that isn't so harmful that you can't do it really frequently. It used to be that drugs would fill that void for the populace, but now people need more drugs to cope than they used to, and they can't afford it anyways. Plus drugs fuck with your ability to stay employed, etc.

    Another major contributor to it, imo, is the deluge of horny-bait content on Tiktok and Instagram. Even things that aren't trying to market an onlyfans still are gonna feature people doing forced cleavage jiggles and whatnot. Sex sells, there's nothing new there, but nowadays it's almost like you NEED sex to sell. Basically anybody who is into vtubers or modern anime is an example of someone that just can't really engage with something unless there's constantly some ass or titties on screen, or some kind of horny undertone or subtext at the very least.

    Ultimately I think gooning is a better form of "indulgence" and dissociation than the alternatives, but its popularity is a sad sign of the times. All humans like to turn their brain off once in awhile, but if a large subset of the population is basically crying out to have their brain off every day for hours at a time, and for it to be in every form of media and relaxation, I can only see that as a sad situation.

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • For sure, I'm not saying Trump actually debates anyone. It's just that his specific way of being obnoxious and combative is so much more effective at goading people into engaging with him.

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • This is a good example of why I don't think Vance will be able to supplant Trump. Trump is a master troll, he does a way better job of baiting people to keep engaging with him. You have to be the right kind of frustrating. Vance is just irksome, but not in a way that baits you or makes you wish you could try your hand at debating with him. Trump manages to make it so enticing to keep talking to him. He makes it feel like you might be able to get a good own in on him if you just try. But Vance is such a tryhard and just reads as this annoying little fly that you can just swat away

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    How astroturfed is Lemmy?

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  • Probably not at all, it's just that humans have a wide variety of beliefs

  • Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don't really want to. Luckily I'm working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.