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Bustedknuckles

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  • US confirms its three F-15 fighter jets shot down, says Kuwait did it mistakenly

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  • What's a few hundred million USD crashing into the earth due to incompetence and selfish short-sightedness? Not like there's anything to use the money on at home

  • Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai [ME-CENTRAL-1]

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  • Epstein class cares a lot more about profit than it does about soldiers

  • welcome back to 2003

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  • Diablo II also!

  • Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump’s Strikes on Iran

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  • They don't think they need to answer to anyone. No cabinet members or generals doing the Sunday shows, just a couple of Trump's social media posts. We're pulled into war and the attitude from the executive is "what're you going to do about it?"

    And from the opposition party leadership? "Tsk tsk, but ask us nicely next time"

  • Read a draft of the emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections

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  • The language of all these stories bothers me. Executive orders don't "grant" any power at all. They Claim power but are not a law. States run elections. States with fascist governments can point to an EO and play pretend that it has some force and weight and then choose to do what Trump wants.

    Media is framing this like if Trump signs this BS EO, that it will give him control over anything - and it feels like their framing is designed to soften the ground, trying to get people to go along with it

  • Israeli military tells residents not to share locations hit by Iran

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  • My understanding is that it's common for Israel to tamp down on damage reports - both to limit OSINT for adversaries and to hide the retaliation cost from citizens

  • Half of Americans Struggle to Pay Rent or Mortgage, With Gen Z Hit Hardest

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  • Seriously. I already don't have streaming anything (except dropout), barely ever eat out, brew my own coffee, wear decade-old clothes, don't drink or smoke, get movies at the library, etc... It's like I'm involuntarily boycotting the elective economy

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    According to NBC News, U.S.-Iran Talks Were Nearly Finalized—Israel Disrupted Them to Prevent a Deal. Trump, Who Warned for Years About This Scenario, Ultimately Started the War Himself

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  • I think Trump wants a win and regime change but highly doubt he has the stomach for a real war with a real country. This really feels like Bibi pulling the strings

  • Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years

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  • Now, now, I've been assured that CO2 is not a pollutant

  • Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?

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  • This is the right answer. USA is first-past-the-post voting, so vote/campaign for who you love in the primary and vote for outcome in the general

  • Republicans are freaking out over Texas Senate race

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  • Didn't Betoblose by only like 2% or so? That's very close. If California had a republican within 5%, the GOP'd sell their moms to buy ads.

    Texas is a suppressed, nonvoting, fairly purple state. There's always a chance and this year is probably as good as it could be since reformation.

  • Crockett leads Talarico by double digits in Texas Senate poll

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  • They both have an honest shot of winning the general - I hope whoever loses the primary doesn't poison the other

  • Crockett leads Talarico by double digits in Texas Senate poll

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  • I like him better, he seems less performative and like a good man with the courage of his convictions. In TX, he'll probably have broader support while crockett might have more enthusiastic support. Both would be miles better than Paxton/Cornyn

    Oh, I also don't like Crockett 's AIPAC support or that she jumped into the race after talarico

  • Biss leads, with many undecided, in 9th Congressional District poll

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  • I've liked what I've seen of Kat online but she's faced accusations of carpetbagging by locals. Biss sounds decent, so I won't be too sad if he beats Kat even if I'd prefer another brash progressive voice in congress

  • [Video] Gavin Newsom blames progressive language for Democrats losses

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  • Presidential primary? He's already governor but term limited. Fortunately, the more people see him and not his social media team, the greasier he's revealed to be

  • Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?

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  • Any men seeking to learn Japanese from their local girlfriend, be warned: you will sound a bit gay to everyone for awhile. Fortunately, this is common enough that most Japanese won't razz you for it

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • There's already speculation that handlers at the DNC knew at the time and knowingly chose to risk losing rather than risk offending AIPAC

  • Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare

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  • This is kind of a dumb calculation. Maybe we're weird, but 28k in childcare can be handled by letting it be more than 7% of our total expenditures.

    I mean, we'd still love more help! Childcare is acutely expensive because it a) only affects a subset of the population for b) a small amount of their lives and c) requires high staffing ratios (~5 kids per career (who make far too little money for what they are entrusted with)) Want more kids as a society? Universal childcare to spread that expense around. Safe and walkable third places would be great too

  • xkcd #3211: Amperage

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  • Eh, ~zero impedance house circuits won't do anything bad to normal electronics - it'll just make sure no fires happen in your walls. I do almost all home wiring in 12 gauge and larger for this reason

    Actually, the comic only has 500A breakers and don't say anything about wires. Recipe for fire!

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    Poll results depend on pollster choices as much as voters’ decisions

    goodauthority.org /news/election-poll-vote2024-data-pollster-choices-weighting/
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    Kamala Harris Wins Nickelodeon’s ‘Kids Pick the President’ Poll With 52% of Votes, Trump Grabs 48%

    www.thewrap.com /kamala-harris-wins-nickelodeon-kids-pick-the-president-poll/