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Blu

@ Blu @sopuli.xyz

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  • Does Trump Have Momentum?

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  • I just remembered this thread. We were right. RIP 😔

  • Vatican “on the brink of Bankruptcy” due to dramatic decline in donations

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  • That cope from Conservative Christians™️ is always funny. Similar statements show up in the Talmud. A large animal passing through the eye of a needle was a common idiom in Jewish culture at the time to demonstrate impossibility.

  • Does Trump Have Momentum?

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  • You get downvoted for it, but it's absolutely true. She had a real opportunity to distinguish herself from Biden, and for a brief moment I thought she would. Then she shifted to the right to draw in centrists.

    Users here can stick their heads in the sand all they want, but like with the Clinton campaign, it won't change the election outcome.

    She's handing Trump the race by imitating Biden. I say this as someone who will likely vote for her anyway: this is becoming a disaster for her. She cannot afford to lose Muslim voters in Michigan, and the continued bleeding of Hispanic voters spells even longer-term problems for the party.

  • Does Trump Have Momentum?

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  • On this site? Users of Lemmy in denial of her alienation of voters. She started strong and then pissed all of that good will away by announcing she's just going to be a continuation of the Biden Israel policy.

    And before anyone says "oh, the Biden administration is pushing for a ceasefire". Nobody takes that seriously. You can't push for a ceasefire and rhetorically and materially enable the annihilation of Gaza and the invasion of Lebanon. Any ceasefire proposals are performative.

  • Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google bot algorithm

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  • Yep. I have access to everything else, just can't view Youtube while signed in.

    I disabled my adblock for YT, but I still use privacy badger and occasionally a VPN.

  • Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google bot algorithm

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  • Good to know. Even if it does get unsuspended, I'm taking it as a wake up call. If that was my gmail account I would've been in a bad situation. I use it for almost everything.

  • Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google bot algorithm

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  • Better late than never lol. They really are a shitty company. Bots run the show over there. I just never thought it would be this bad until it was...

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
    Blu @sopuli.xyz

    Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google bot algorithm

  • Arkansas Supreme Court Denies Bid to Get Abortion Measure on the Ballot

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  • The other shenanigans was that the secretary of state allowed other petitioners with the same issues to proceed on the ballot, namely marijuana and gambling referendums. The organizers should have been on their best behavior because the state was always going to selectively enforce the rules here.

  • Using your own domain for email?

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  • Thank you! That cleared it up!

  • Using your own domain for email?

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  • I see some providers support DANE. Is that different than either DMARC or DKIM? I looked it up, but the description was very technical and didn't clear up the differences for me.

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
    Blu @sopuli.xyz

    Using your own domain for email?

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  • I did the same thing. The first privacy-oriented service I heard about was Proton. And, to be fair, they're quite good. But the email search issues and struggles I had with their bridge eventually turned me off.

    I left for mailbox(.)org and haven't looked back. It's great Proton has so many cool services, but the last thing I want is to get dependent on one company again, not after how hard it was to get away from Google.

  • Russia's LGBTQ+ community is turning to Telegram as the government cracks down on them

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  • I kinda don't want to dip my toes in this, but here goes:

    I agree that it's occasionally a breath of fresh air. The issue I've always had with Hexbear is they've more or less replaced one version of American (and to a lesser extent European) exceptionalism with another. Where American nationalists consider America to be exceptionally great, Hexbear considers it to be exceptionally evil. They routinely attribute domestic incidents in different countries to American meddling--regardless of evidence--even when those events either achieve nothing for American geostrategic goals or actively harm them. America as the "great Satan," etc.

    Just an example because I remember it: Imran Khan lost an internal power struggle in Pakistan. He was probably the most west-friendly candidate left there, but Hexbear blamed a CIA coup https://hexbear.net/post/186331

    In the same vein, they permit or even encourage Chinese aggression against the Philippines, within the Philippines' own exclusive economic zone. You can't substitute one form of imperialism for another. It's a trap I see a lot of leftists fall into.

    I think most of 'em are alright. Just growing into leftist thought still and grappling with the moshpit that is international politics. Also they're funny lol

  • What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal

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  • Thank you so much for this information. Your passion is contagious. I'm going to dive into all of these sources in the morning!

    Have a wonderful day/evening/night!

  • What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal

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  • So, as someone who has used the Internet since its very earliest days, what would you say about what the Internet is like today versus back then? Was it better? Worse? Any major online events that you can recall from that period?

    I grew up at the very tail end of the old forums and certainly after the decline and death of old school chat rooms. Most of them died or went inactive while I was in high school/college. The version of the internet older adults used is almost alien to me.

    Hell, today's Internet is on its way to being alien too.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • EVs are also a major issue for firefighters. Lithium ion battery fires following an accident are ridiculously hard to put out and present a significant safety hazard in confined spaces, like tunnels or narrow streets. It takes close to 6 times the water to control EV vehicle fires.

    And while it's a more minor issue, EVs are heavier than ICE vehicles in the same class, which causes more road wear and more tire wear (and more micro plastics to enter the environment).

    And, I guess, finally, there's no established break-even point for carbon emissions over ICE vehicles. The estimates provided in the literature vary wildly--from 13,000 miles to 94,000.

    I love the technology, but I hope solid state batteries become a viable option for EVs.

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Blu @sopuli.xyz

    Term Life Insurance Policy Non-Guaranteed Rate?

  • Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll

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  • By virtue of having a disproportionately beneficial EU membership agreement, they actually caused friction with later EU members that received the standard agreements later on.

    It's hard to overstate how catastrophic the UK fucked up by leaving the EU. They joined on the bottom floor, had the leverage to negotiate a deal that gave them more benefits, let them keep their currency instead of promising to one day adopt the Euro, and had access to all the immigration controls they needed to deal with the 'problem' Tories perceived.

    It's incredible, really. Part of me still can't believe they tossed all of that away. It's got to be one of the biggest peacetime geopolitical fuckups ever.

  • Personal Finance @lemmy.ml
    Blu @sopuli.xyz

    Should I leave my credit union over account interest rates?