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  • New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex)

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  • Seems like a lot of the early LTT crew were chaffing a bit under the LTT contract for a variety of reasons and opted to leave and start their own channels. I hope most of them succeed because honestly I always liked the other hosts on LTT far more than Linus who usually came off as more comic relief than actual tech news. As the old technical crew left I've found myself watching Linus Drop Tips very rarely.

  • Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump (spiritual) adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse

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  • Considering everything we know about Trump, yeah this guy would 100% be his spiritual advisor, they're cut from the same cloth. He would have fit right in alongside Trump in Epstein's club.

  • Serious: What is going to take to face the fascist threat in America?

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  • Hey silver lining, Trump seems to be doing a really good job of pissing off the military leadership and the common soldiers as well. The only ones that are actually supporting him are nut jobs, the grifters who think they can use him, and executives who think they can squeeze more profit out by crawling up his ass.

    As for farmers that's kind of a mixed bag. The problem isn't so much that they'll support him as it is that there might not be many of them left. Trumps policies are bankrupting farmers at a record rate and their farms are being snapped up by foreign holding companies. Most of them are going to end up working farms they no longer own.

  • Serious: What is going to take to face the fascist threat in America?

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  • The two key turning points are going to be the midterms and when it comes time for the next election. Depending on how those events go, and if Trump hasn't died at some point in the next couple years (either from natural causes or because someone learns how to aim), things will likely go one of two wildly different directions.

    If we actually have elections, and if the gerrymandering isn't so horrendous that it's impossible to overcome we'll hopefully see a Democrat elected and we'll start the incredibly slow crawl back to normalcy, hopefully with some significant reforms to make sure this shit doesn't happen again. The process is going to take decades to unwind all the damage Trump has managed in just a few years, but in theory we'll get there eventually.

    On the other hand, we could go the opposite direction. Republicans retain the majority in the midterms, and then when the next primary comes around either we just don't have an election or Trump "wins" a 3rd term despite that being unconstitutional. At that point we're likely looking at either a civil war, or the US being defeated in a 3rd world war like Germany was in order to undo all this crap. Neither option is good and if things get to that point the world is fucked, the US doubly so.

  • Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

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  • That's why I specifically said non-Republicans.

    Edit: here, I'll walk you through the math. The article says 70% of Republicans approved of him and 33% of everyone approved of him. Republicans make up ~30% of the population. 70% of 30% is 21%. That leaves 12% unaccounted for (33-21). So 12% out of everyone both approves of him and doesn't identify as a Republican, while 21% out of everyone both approves of him and identifies as Republican. The remaining 67% of everyone doesn't approve of him whether or not they identify as a Republican.

  • Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

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  • Hmm that suggests the remaining ~10% must be from non-Republicans which is really depressing. I suppose he might have fans in the anti-vaxx movement still and a certain percentage of those are non-Republicans so maybe that explains it.

    Edit: Just did some napkin math and it comes out to ~12% of non-Republicans approving of him.

  • Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

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  • That works out to what, something like 20% of all Americans?

  • Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock | When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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  • They may not have a choice of their grand jury cases recently are anything to go by. They can try to get a biased jury, but if the majority of people are against them they won't be able to.

  • Fox Legal Analyst Tells Maria Bartiromo ‘I Don’t Think There Is a Case’ Against Comey

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  • Lol, not even Fox can find a way to spin this as a valid case. Wonder if we're about to see more of Trump's pet lawyers get disbarred.

  • New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule

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  • Fully expecting chip makers to just manufacture a bunch of cheap garbage here that eventually ends up in a landfill in order to avoid the tariffs on their expensive chips. With a 100% tariff and prices per-chip in the $300+ range if they can make a chip for less than $300 even if they immediately chuck it in the garbage they're saving money. Imagine a whole tray of cheap 500nm chips that are full of defects because they were made with wafers that failed QA. They manufacture them, document that they exist, dump them in a bin in a warehouse, then just throw the bin away in a year as unsold inventory and write it off as a business loss.

  • Former FBI Director James Comey indicted on criminal charges

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  • No, Andrew McCabe testified that he decided to leak the investigation and then told Comey about it after he had already leaked it. Comey testified that he didn't authorize the leak or know about it before it happened but that McCabe told him about it after the fact. Their testimonies corroborate each other.

  • U.S. Threatens to Bar Foreigners Over Remarks About Charlie Kirk

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  • The vast majority of those commenting about him are citizens not foreigners so this is just a bunch of hot air that won't change anything.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • Reported view counts are also important for sponsorships as sponsored video payouts are often tied to hitting specific view counts, and even getting sponsorships and their rates are also typically conditional on view counts. So yes, even though it doesn't directly impact ad revenue it still directly impacts total channel revenue for anyone that accepts sponsorships.

    All that said, Google caused this entire mess by bundling their view counting in with their telemetry. If they just reported the raw download stats for the streams instead of trying to determine every last detail of who is watching the video (for all that juicy advertising data) this problem wouldn't have happened in the first place.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • Basically Youtube instead of counting views via actual requests for the videos instead uses a separate call that essentially says "hey, someone watched this video". All the ad blockers rather than use a hard coded list of URLs to block which would quickly go stale instead use one of a couple different 3rd party lists the most popular of which is EasyList. EasyList decided to block the URL that youtube uses to register views on the principal that it was a privacy violation because it not only registers "hey someone watched this" but also captures exactly who watched it which allows Google to track your viewing habits.

  • Charlie Kirk’s Image Could Be Printed on New U.S. Currency

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  • If this ever actually happens I will be drawing little hitler mustaches on every one I get.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • Literally the only reason old school gamers play on CRTs is because old games were designed for the blurry low resolution displays they provided and so look kind of bad on modern crisp displays. You could just smear vasoline on a modern LCD and get roughly the same effect, but using a CRT is less messy.

  • The Impending CRT Display Revival Will Be Televised

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  • It's also utter garbage. We abandoned CRTs because they sucked. They're heavy, waste tons of space, guzzle power, and have terrible resolution. Even the best CRT ever made is absolutely destroyed by the worst of modern LCDs. The only advantage you could possibly come up with is that in an emergency you could beat someone to death with a CRT. Well, that and the resolution was so garbage they had a natural form of antialiasing, but that's a really optimistic way of saying they were blurry as shit.

  • Trump Tries To Stick Up The New York Times With A Water Gun

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  • It's not about sanctions, it's about what could become public. It's basically a free pass for the new york times to demand Trump hand over whatever documents they want and answer any questions they have under oath. Trump could of course ignore them, but that would also cause problems for him. Remember this isn't an individual he's up against at this point, it's a corporation. Corporations are just about the only ones that can actually make our corrupt legal system work because they can dump millions of dollars into legal motions and drag things out over years or even decades.

  • Trump Tries To Stick Up The New York Times With A Water Gun

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  • I saw an analysis that claims he screwed up massively with this lawsuit because the way he filed this waved his recently granted presidential immunity and opens him up to discovery and deposition. Even worse because all his recent scandals (like his very close relationship with Epstein) are relevant to the case he can't wiggle out of answering those questions. I really hope the new york times actually uses this opportunity to squeeze him rather than just sweeping the whole thing under the rug.