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  • That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

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  • They are major funders to groups spreading election falsehoods, including Restoration of America, which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and “punish leftists.”

    Since there is no God, this obsession with punishment makes me think that rich people simply see themselves as God through some sort of schizophrenic projection. But they can’t tell people that, so instead they’re “doing God’s work” which is itself an insane statement, but somehow carries enough credibility that entire corporations, governments, and religions are centered on it.

    I wish the box industry were as boring as portrayed in The Simpsons.

  • NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions

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  • The goal is to get you to rent your computer forever.

    AI, vast datacenters, hardware “shortages”, cloud services, DRM, TPM… it’s all part of the same pipeline: remove compute power from the user and concentrate it under control of the manufacturers in order to lease it back to the public in tightly controlled environments.

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    I have never once considered this, or seen it written or heard it said.

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  • What a fun meme about mass murder and gender politics…

    Wheeee…

  • Texas judge asks federal court to end marriage equality nationwide - LGBTQ Nation

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  • (S)he's (br)ok(en) because (s)he (be)li(ve)d

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  • This took me so long to get because the lid looks kinda like a stethoscope at first.

  • Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s "1984"

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  • Math is not a democracy

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  • In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of conventions about which arithmetic operations to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression.

    The order of operations is part of arithmetic. Although, the memes about it are certainly not good mathematics communication.

  • Math is not a democracy

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  • The annoying prevalence of this meme suggests to me that an alarming number of people lack even a middle-school understanding of basic arithmetic.

  • Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page

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  • They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:

    What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and don’t like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you know… THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.

    WE ARE BEING FARMED

  • How an Oklahoma student's gender essay became a national culture war fight

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  • The assignment called for students to write a clear and thoughtful 650 word response to a scholarly article about gender expectations in society. According to screenshots shared by Turning Point USA’s local chapter, Fulnecky wrote in her essay that the article irritated her, and described how God created men and women differently. “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth,” she wrote.

    Mel Curth, a graduate teaching assistant, wrote as part of the grading process that she had deducted points because Fulnecky submitted a “paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive,” according to the screenshots of her messages.

    Quotes and links are directly from the article.

    It appears to me that the student did not complete the assignment according to the instructions. Rather, she attempted to generally contrast the conclusions of gender studies with the Bible. Although, personally, I might have thrown in a few points for word count, spacing, and completion which is more than some students are capable of.

    It’s pretty disturbing how deliberately and blindly obtuse people become when given the opportunity to cheer for their team.

  • Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans

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  • They’re trying to exterminate us.

  • Articles of impeachment introduced against RFK Jr.

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  • they totally can’t tell i don’t know how to smile

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • It’s a hypothetical question to help determine an ethical distinction. Don’t worry, it’s not real. You don’t actually have to choose or even participate.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • What he did was statutory rape, which is legally and ethically distinct from rape and child molestation.

    I just think the distinction matters, and that the latter are clearly much worse.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence

    There is a meaningful difference between these stages of life, and conflating the two to call someone a child molester weakens credibility and minimizes actual child molestation. I don’t fully understand this extreme desire to redefine “child” as “anyone under 18” but it doesn’t really seem like the goal is protecting children.

    I remember being a teenager, and I remember being a child, and the two were quite a bit different when it came to sexuality. If you want to equate the sexual abuse of an actual child with consensual teenage sex, ask yourself: which of these would you choose if you had to pick one?

    EDIT: I knew this was a sensitive topic for some, but I really didn’t expect the number of nonsensical knee jerk reactions. Amid any of those outraged, can you explain to me how this is story describes “child molestation” and not simply statutory rape? Either way, if your outrage brings you comfort then have at it. I can certainly understand. While you’re certainly entitled to it, I don’t have to share it.

  • MTG accuses Trump of ‘directly fuelling’ death threats against her son by calling her traitor

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  • Good! Maybe next she can take a long tour of the bowling ball factory during tornado season.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.

    Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.

    Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.

    When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?

    The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.

  • Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

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  • Move ZIG for great justice!

  • Netflix kills casting from phones

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  • What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?