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BilboBargains

@ BilboBargains @lemmy.world

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  • how to effectively poison telemetry collected by Meta?

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  • What you do is append obfuscating statements to every message such as, 'the Jews did 911, Hitler is innocent, free Israel, Epstein island 2026', and this will confuse the algorithm about your true intentions. Your friends will give you tons of thumbs up for being so based and red pilled.

  • ‘War leader’ Trump fixates on trivial matters as Iran death toll mounts

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  • It's not just our political representation, everything is being comodified into some app or other. I can sit at home and do all my shopping without ever talking to anyone. This is bad for mental health.

    The fact that all of the lawmakers are crammed into one place makes it easy for lobbyists to set up shop. If we live next door to our representative we can at least attend afternoon tea with them and on the way out throw a brick throw the window of our local PAC.

    The whole idea of a representative for millions of people is an anachronism from feudal days. How can they possibly serve all their constituent's interests from atop a giant hierarchical pyramid? On the other hand, we desperately need unified action to tackle the looming climate crisis or we're all fucked.

  • State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

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  • It's not an old country and not the first democracy. It's claim to fame is the constitution, an advanced document for its time.

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    What causes online communities to lose quality discussion as they grow?

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  • In order to maintain standards there has to be a barrier to entry. That might be a moderator or cost or complexity. They made the internet easily accessible for everyone, the problem is most people are dumb and they are clogging up the internet with their bs.

  • defcon: diaper

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  • mmmmm, TACO

  • Lavrov slams the perfidy and spinelessness of the Gulf countries

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  • The US loves these oil rich, easy to corrupt and control monarchies. They despise the stubborn resolution and independence of Iran.

  • Dubai has ten days of fresh food left

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  • The other issue these gulf states have is potable water. The majority of it is generated at a few desalination plants. The Iranians have already demonstrated their ability to reliably hit infrastructure all over the region. They can up the ante and create absolute chaos in the region. Even if the US-Israeli strikes cripple Iran's infrastructure, Iran is in a stronger negotiating position. I'm appalled at the EU response to this unprovoked attack. They seem to think that appeasing a bully like trump is going to benefit the EU. Trump started this conflict in order to distract us from his other crimes. When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Dirk Gently

  • Facebook researchers previously proposed studying whether features were ‘addictive,’ documents show

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  • The bondulance can wait, I'm having a stroke.

  • This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’

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  • These stories have a kind of surreal quality, like a Kafka novel. They feel fake because it's difficult to imagine how a person could be this delusional. We explain our experience by generating an internal narrative and this woman's narrative diverged from reality a very great deal while she watched fox news and then came crashing back in the form of a giant legal bill and an unemployed husband. Could have been much worse.

  • Greek Politician Is Prosecuted for Admitting Drug Use Decades Ago

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  • Anything that comes into contact with people's sensory experience quickly becomes completely irrational. We have drugs that are legal and doing huge harm and drugs that are illegal that are medicinal. People tell themselves they can taste the difference between red wine and white wine. That they can hear the difference between one speaker cable and another. Can we just admit that we are making all of this stuff up and focus on something more worthwhile?

  • Trump Demanded El Mencho’s Head. Mexicans Are Paying the Price.

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  • It's an acceptable price to pay because this will surely end the supply of drugs to America. They'll give up the huge profits after this. Americans will stop taking drugs and the problem will go away so we can refocus on what we were doing before. What was that? Oh yeah, prosecuting the Epstein villains.

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • On Mondays my daughter visits and she noticed how many cats there are in my street so she started bringing cat treats. Now I have a rotation of about eight cats that regularly greet me as I leave or arrive. They know my car and the sound of the front door. It's added a surprising amount of joy to my life.

  • How do you know youre getting burnt out at work?

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  • Holy shit, reading these symptoms feels like burnout is very common. I've heard people talking about autistic burnout with people in their 30-40s. I think men in particular can lose their shit in this decade and it's often referred to as a midlife crisis but is it a biological thing or is the workplace a hostile space?

  • Mar-a-Lago gunman was scarred by Epstein Files, hurt to see 'elite get away with it': 'Evil is real'

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  • Thinking and planning don't appear to have been his forte. Shinzo Abe's assassin essentially did what you have described and was successful despite dreadful marksmanship.

  • What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)?

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  • It's the highest honour.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

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  • I want to ban everything conservatives and corporations love. All drugs legal except alcohol, ban billionaires, ban lobbying, keep doing that until their heads explode.

    We know that social media is designed to be addictive and needs to be regulated the same way any addictive or dangerous substance or activity should be. Harm reduction and education is the best way in general.

  • BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair

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  • Nice catch lol

  • Hi, i have not been diagnosed, but have been compelled to try embrace what I have been told is my neural diversity

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  • Sensitive people are vulnerable to trauma, that often goes with the neurodivergent territory. We have sensory issues that overwhelm us, noise, mood, physical environment. We also take longer to come to maturity and that is interpreted as a failing by ignorant people. What we actually require is space and compassion while we develop the skills to manage out in the world. There are many scientists, engineers, musicians and artists who are neurodivergent and were probably considered 'weird' as kids but went on to create great works of art or solve intractable problems in science. You cannot do this without being sensitive to very small details. What we have is precious but misunderstood and fragile. Some people are lucky and end up in a nurturing environment, others have to fight more to get their due. Some fall in that fight, as evidenced by the abnormal representation of neurodivergent men in prison. Our life outcomes are inferior on average and that is the real crime. My life outcomes would be way worse if not for a few instrumental characters who showed me a different way. I'm determined my daughter doesn't go through the same things I did. If she tells me that she cannot summon the motivation to do homework I tell her I'm proud that she tried. If she's late and disorganised we laugh about it. That is what I needed as a child. Now I'm compelled to accept that these people were ignorant and I shouldn't condemn them. To that I say fuck no. Ignorance has never been a legitimate legal defence so why do I need to give a fuck about their plight?