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Brave Little Hitachi Wand

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  • In order of recall,

    Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

    Why Nations Fail

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    God Is Not Great

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    The Smartest Kids in the World

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  • It's usually clear from context whether you're being offered a piece of round bread or a gluey calorie bomb that makes you feel brain-dead for eight hours

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  • There are really no options I like at this point. Feels like America is in Russia mode, i.e. the story always goes, "things got worse". I can imagine some possibilities that have some hope, but not a lot.

    A popular revolt with a significant percentage of the population could do it, but it would have to be like twice as big as the October No Kings protest to hit that 3.5 percent rule. Does that seem possible?

    Short of that, the military could always display some backbone and decide it doesn't like being told to follow illegal orders. In order to appear impartial it might vacate each branch of government and refill the seats in turn, probably Congress and the house first, and hold snap elections, then have the new crowd put in new judges, then get new electors to hold a new presidential election. That would be a dangerous quagmire with permanent damage to our norms of self governance, but a hard reset done right could feasibly save some of the baby, as long as it gets rid of all the bathwater. I mix metaphors to cheer myself up sometimes. But you'd have to get rid of a lot of bathwater, and the geopolitical situation would go insane the whole time. I can't even begin to game that part out.

    Sadly I don't see a normal "business as usual" way out. Voting harder in a broken system only gets you further into the casino, and the dealers are playing good cop-bad cop with us. Personally running for office is just an invitation to have your life ruined, either by financial ruin, death threats, stress, and/or losing to someone funded by oligarchs. I wouldn't wish a life in politics on anyone these days.

    So yeah. Backup plans?

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  • Knowing that, it's important to note that you still have to try. Losing faith in the rule of law can be a self fulfilling prophecy.

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  • Exactly. Now is not the time to criticise people who are in your side imperfectly, now is the time to go on strike in a big way, and protest, and raise a little hell while we're at it!

  • House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders

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  • 16 years of Nirvana fallacy and literally nothing else.

  • Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck

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  • Exactly, I don't play my games to finish them. I gnaw on them for hundreds of hours like a dog with a dinosaur bone. I'm the bane of the game industry and proud of it.

  • Curt's new hat

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  • Not working for me 😭

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • For a minute I thought you meant Tartakovsky, was all ready to throw down for Samurai Jack n shit. Where's my coffee at

  • F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email

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  • Lemmy has something of an irony deficiency, don't you find? 🫤

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    TIL why María Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing

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  • You cannot possibly be serious, that anyone should defend that man on the pretense of any principled stance. He is 'at best' the most useful idiot in American history (which is saying something) and more likely he belongs on a short list of the worst people to come out of the 20th century.

    Principles? I would not piss on the man if he caught flame. I would not stop him from solving the puzzle box from Hellraiser. Nobody owes him any measure of decency or common feeling, and he is no rightful claimant to the sentiments of humanity. He is an avowed malignant narcissist with no love, no charm or sense of humour, no empathy, no wit, and nothing but proud scorn for his many victims. You could hardly create a more loathsome being from whole cloth, and any ill that befalls him is a genuine cause for joy. Under no circumstances should you allow your principles to comfort him.

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • I think you have sense on your side there about outlawry. It existed as the photo negative of the golden rule, and it's a great way to make an example of people who break the social contract.

  • And then everyone stood up and clapped

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  • That's the best thing anyone has said all day as far as I'm concerned

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • Based

  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • Seems like the consensus taking shape in these comments, the way I understand it anyway, is that the only new thing is pathologising neurodivergence and beginning to actually accept such people into society. Treating it as something new or out of control is merely a reaction to new norms.

    A lot of kids are not neurodivergent, still. But there are enough that school budgets for special needs in many or most places are very badly under-provisioned. I worry that if schools are not going to get massively higher funding, they will be faced with either under-serving neurodivergent kids like they used to, or fundamentally rethinking some things.

  • Guys, have you ever been asked this question: "If your mother and your girlfriend are both drowning, who would you save first?" How would you answer this question?

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  • You notice how car people never ask themselves if a given speed is unsafe

  • Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

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  • I could see that working. The great thing about password managers is that your codes are always intensely random and secure. The bad thing is that once you're into them, it would take several hours of work to make them all into something a human can memorise.

  • Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

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  • Sounds fun, but you keep it. I have a kid to put to bed.