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yesman

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  • What are some words that you have or had troubles spelling and made up funny ways to help remember them?

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  • I can't spell anything without a dictionary or, these days a spell check. I usually know where the vowels go, so I cycle through them until the word "looks" right, or the red squiggle goes away.

    I don't like grammerly bc I know how to write, it's just the spelling that vexes me.

  • Unusual disbelief

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  • There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.

    It's almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.

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  • The terminally online debate-me-bro brand of atheism.

    It's always been curious to me that you can define yourself by something that your not. I'm also vexed why an atheist would proselytize. They're not saving souls or capturing 10%. What's the motivation? And please don't say it's because atheists are better people. Because all the famous "new" atheists were regular cast members on Epstein Island and the whole movement had deep ties to the alt-right and Gamergate.

    I'm not saying they're wrong, I'm saying they're obnoxious, belligerent, and annoying. To be clear, I'm atheist. That's half the problem. These MFers are making me look bad.

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • You can't solve systems by focusing on individuals.

    None of us a free moral agents. We're surrounded by systems of family, culture, and law that compel and coerce us. And all of that is built in to the signifiers "employment" and "labor". It's incoherent to slice off a traunch of all these interconnected systems, strip it of all context, and pretend it's a free moral choice.

    Changing systems requires collective action. Individuals are weak and the Western obsession with individualism is no coincidence.

  • I love my Bluetooth keyboard — liquidbrain

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  • Later versions of Bluetooth do encrypt data, but not all hardware developers use the feature. Those 2.4Ghz keyboards usually broadcast your keystrokes in plain text.

    If you're going to buy a wireless keyboard, you should be aware.

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  • I got called for the penalty phase of a capital murder. (death penalty).

    The parties settled before anyone was selected. It took 2 days. I found out later that the convict was already on death row, but had gotten a re-trial because of a recent SCOTUS ruling. I was in no danger of being impaneled.

  • DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent

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  • I'm unfamiliar with AI chatbots that you pay for. What is a token?

  • Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"

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  • This is just more proof that law enforcement doesn't need age verification or backdoors to fight crime.

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • I don't deal in absolutes, but one move I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Predator: Badlands (2025).

    Like a Verhoeven move from the 80s, Predator sneaks in genuine and interesting themes into an ostensibly crappy sci-fi movie. The Thia character is good feminism that reminds me of Lewis in Robocop (1987). That is to say she's powerful without being coded masculine. And her relationship with Dax is as a partner and eventually a mirror. Dax's character arc can be summed up as overcoming toxic masculinity. Just delightful, I watched it twice in two days.

  • Ivanka Trump ‘targeted in Iran-backed assassination plot

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  • The Kennedy brothers were pretty eager to use assassinations as foreign policy. I hope the Trumps don't get the same "live by the sword" lesson that the other American royals got.

  • Trump to skip son’s wedding that he labeled a ‘no-win’ for him: report

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  • I take comfort and occasional joy at the knowledge that these people are small and miserable.

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    Democrats finally release 2024 election autopsy after criticism

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  • Kamala lost because she didn't have a penis.

    If you squint your eyes, you can kinda see how Gaza might have hurt her in Michigan, but if you think that cost her GA, your high on your own supply.

    Honestly it's easier to believe that the Pillow Guy stole the election than it is to believe millions of Americans care about genocide in Gaza.

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  • Complaining about bitching. Wow! Is that ironic or meta?

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    Not Just a Moral Crisis, Israel Is Now a Political Liability for the Democratic Party | Democrats appear unable to grasp how dramatically public consciousness around Israel has shifted.

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  • I just look at vanilla lemmy.world on a browser. I'm not really sure what an "instance" is, other than .mil sucks.

  • This is mine now.

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  • That's why we're invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.

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    ‘F**k You, You Go’: Joe Rogan Rages Over Call To Bring Back The Draft

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  • By cultivating radical individualism conservatives shoot themselves in the foot. In their vision of freedom any obligation on the citizen is an outrage.

    America is weak.

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  • Fred Hampton. I don't mean to pass over other civil rights martyrs, but the Black Panthers were something special. Real revolutionary politics, organised, and taking direct action; the high-water mark of leftest politics in modern America.

  • Why Ben Shapiro’s Media Empire Is Collapsing

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  • It's a good theory, but Shapiro's problems pre-date this. Shapiro's problems seem to really start in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing. The Nick Fuentes, anti-Semitic faction of the Right has become ascendant and they don't like Ben. (for some reason).

    You could even argue it goes back to the friction with Candace Owens, and her firing from The Daily Wire behind her support of Kanye West.

    In any case, the American right is splitting up over the idea that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. They believe that and therefore cannot support Israel.