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  i don't like how elections these days are so often either hard-right asshole who doesn't care about democracy or human rights or rule of law VS a left-winger who also has their share of scandals and might enact illiberal laws (like banning smoking or gambling or passing some internet safety law that hurts both small and large websites) because they're popular or hard-right asshole who doesn't care about democracy or human rights or rule of law VS a centrist who is unlikely to...

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  hot take: all those "the democrats would be right-wing in europe" takes (or pretty much anything else that tries to compare politicians or parties in one country against another) seem to imply that (1) political positions are easily transferable between countries with different rules and traditions of government, (2) that there is some sort of "center" of politics in each country that consists of specific positions, and that's just wrong, imo a "centrist", in m...

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  wanna find someone i can trust and shower them with all sorts of affection

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  please be more skeptical about news articles that validate your preconceived notions, especially when there's only a single source reporting them

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  some of my friends are on the butterfly website, but i'm not a fan of the idea that every post and every follow on there is public, with no way to properly hide one's presence

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  while it is well known that the chinese invented gunpowder, it is commonly believed that they used it for fireworks, rather than any combat purposes more recent evidence, however, suggests that they were also pioneers in use of proper cannons, with people arguing that some of its applications make it completely accurate to say that the Han shot first

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  terrible people in positions of power: concerned that they might actually be hated by the public and not allowed to retire peacefully in case they were to face uncorrupted legal accountability or if law and order were to collapse me: sickos.jpg

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  one password? sounds risky, i think you should have at least two

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  i hope #vim eventually switches from ~/.vimrc and ~/.vim/ by default to ~/.config/vim/vimrc and ~/.local/share/vim by default

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  this whole "i'm a trump voter and i'm surprised people hate me now" business is embarrassing how the heck there can be so many people who are so unaware that they would be held responsible for the very obvious results of their politics like, you can be surprised about some things, like the war in iran, but a lot of what liberals and leftists have been warning about come from things that either trump or project 2025 specifically promised you can't say "oh, i didn&#39...

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  i'd probably be scared of anarchists too back in the early 20th century, given that they were known less for distributing food to people in need or squatting in some long-unused buildings, and more for setting off bombs and killing people in cold blood (even if those people were gilded-age robber barons)

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  i miss the news for a short moment, and apparently keir starmer resigns as a member of parliament and some woman stabs two people in times square, one of which might have been the VP of bank of america?

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  i finally saw one of these "stanley cups" in its actual size it's huge probably even as big as that north american hockey league's championship trophy, whatever it's called

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  think the latest version of #wireplumber introduced a glitch, whenever i open the #GNOME sound settings app i see several duplicates of all the sound devices, including the ones that are disabled (such as the HDMI outputs, even when there's no HDMI monitor plugged in)

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  tired, wanna hug friends

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  pliiĝas humido, depremiĝas aer', sciigas ĉiu font', strangega pri afer': duonen post la deka unufoje en histori' aperos viroj en ĉielo kaj falos sur ter' de ĝi! jen viropluv'! laŭdu dion! jen viropluv'! diluv'! ho, nun mi volas ekiri al la ekster' kaj malsekiĝi en ĉiu er'! jen viropluv'! laŭdu dion! jen viropluv'! ĉia tipo eĉ! ĉia grando kaj kolor', kompleksio kaj humor'! klare, la naturo ankaŭ estas fraŭlin', ŝi iris ĉielen kaj plen...

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  🦆 social networking service for boring people who only know one foreign language and only learned things when they were necessary for work

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  weird #GNOME offers a 133% and 166% scale on my laptop screen, but not a 150% one

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  who the heck makes a 144 hz screen 144 is not divisible by either 50 or 60

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  random thought: names that are also regular words (like "jade" or "beryl") are useful for fantasy works, because they are familiar to the audience, yet imply the least about the language or culture of the fictional setting

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  The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the rich and the richer — mingled in search of deals. Conversations barely paused, except for the occasional glance at the track where drivers, sealed inside multi-million-dollar machines, chased the chequered flag. F1 weekend is a three-day affair, with the race as the finale. In between are kickoffs, soirées, cockt...

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  #HITMAN3 #HitmanWorldOfAssassination

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  IIRC is short for "in internet relay chat"

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  occasional reminder that just because someone on some committee or a single legislator said a thing, that doesn't mean it's the unanimous official opinion of the entire entity (city/country/organization) this person is part of

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  tired of being a passenger in a bus driven by one of several drivers who treats the road like a game of chicken

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  today i learned that the "a man has fallen into a river in lego city" line was voiced by david bateson, the same voice actor who also does 47 in the hitman games now i think that man might not have fallen by accident... (but seriously, guess the market for "english-language voice actors for works made in denmark" would be pretty small)

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  every time i read about sega's history in the 90s, i find out another shocking revelation that makes me wonder how the company even functioned the american and japanese branches acted more like rivals to each other than partners, even though in reality neither would have achieved success without the other but then i look at some of the decisions each branch made, and honestly i can see why sega of america, apparently, really liked meddling in japan's games -- not only did they replace...

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  whoever wrote those two characters clearly took inspiration from the edison/tesla rivalry, bc i'm pretty sure that's about the same thing edison did to make people doubt the safety of alternating current

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  don't forget to like that smash button!

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  the biggest problem with programming in C, Java or Rust is the risk of wearing out the keyboard, due to them all being strongly-typed languages