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Cethin

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  • Halftime rule.

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  • Thinking that's low is insane. What other thing can you get more than 1/3 of the nation to participate in? Personally, I didn't watch it, and I never do. From my perspective, 1/3 seems high, not low.

  • YSK how to report ICE sightings

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  • This is literally just the same thing the military uses, but with descriptions changed to LEOs. Still maybe useful, but not as useful. The utility here is the most relevant information comes first, and it keeps things organized. You can start responding before all the information is relayed. It's important for radio communications in a battlefield setting. If you're making a post online we'll after anything is actionable, you can safely ignore this. Just post the information in the most informative way you can.

  • Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?

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  • It's funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it's only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they're now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

  • AOC breaking down ICE in plain English. (Queens, NY - 2/6/26)

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  • That's not really ever going to be a politician. Any figurehead for a social movement, that I know of, has not been an elected official. They have a role to play, but it isn't that one, and I don't know why you people keep expecting it to be. You can't really be an elected official and a figurehead of change. They are practically mutually exclusive.

    For an example, MLK Jr. was viewed pretty poorly by society at large. The media said he started riots, and things like that. He'd never be elected if he ran for office (at least, above a minor local role). You can't be divisive and get elected, and it is divisive to say many things we think of as common sense. Her job is to make that more normal, not to take the extreme stance we want.

  • At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building

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  • I don't think anyone is expecting them to. They are probably hoping they will though. I don't even live there, but I have heard their leaders say things that sound like they would use the police to protect them. I don't know if they actually want to or not, and the police aren't cooperating, or if it was just words. I'm sure most people expect the police to do what they always do though regardless.

  • Dutch authorities allegedly seize VPN server without a warrant — company claims that law enforcement will return it after analyzing the device fully

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  • The point is that it skirts the law. You can't really make it illegal because it is a way of subverting legality. If they legally obtain the evidence then it's legally obtained. If they happened to get to that point through extra-legal means that doesn't really matter, as long as the end result is legal. Maybe you could argue in court that they only got there because of extra-legal actions, but they can argue the opposite. If this helps them look in the right spot for illegal actions, who's to say that them looking there couldn't have happened purely by chance?

  • What am I, a handbag to you?

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  • I had foxes where I lived before, and some nights you'd just hear this horrible scream. It would always startle me, and there was this deep mental effect that made it so I could never get used to it. They legitimately sounded exactly how I imagine a young girl being stabbed would sound.

  • What am I, a handbag to you?

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  • You've never heard a fox then. They sound like a little girl being murdered. It's horrible.

  • So close

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  • That the definition of a horrible person. Most of these people don't, for example, rape children because they're evil. They do it because it makes them feel powerful, and they don't care about the harm it does. Rarely are there people who's actions are actually inspired by doing harm. It's much more common for it to be done for their personal benefit and not giving a fuck about what happens to others.

    The other common form of evil is the banal kind. People who are just doing what they're told, not questioning it. They're told their doing things that are great for their nation/society, but they have horrible consequences for many people. They aren't doing it out of malice, but out of ignorance or complacency.

  • Under a new ordinance passed by Houston, riding an e-bike between 8PM and 4AM is now illegal. The Mayor of Houston says they are a major security risk

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  • The thing is, they want poor people to have cars. Sure, they can't reasonably afford them, but they have to have them, so they take a loan and are stuck repaying it. This means they can't quit their jobs or do anything that could hurt their income. The banks also get to make extra income off of the loan.

  • I am looking for a Linux OS

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  • One thing to note is that Linux can read your Windows partitions. If you have data on drives you'll still need, you can leave them and Linux can access them fine. (Windows can't read most file systems though, so the other direction of this mostly doesn't work. Windows can't read most Linux partitions).

    If you're reasonably technologically competent, I'd recommend CachyOS or Garuda. These are Arch based, so the Arch wiki and Arch User Repository are available, and great resources. They come with everything you need for gaming though, unlike base Arch. You don't need to fiddle with things or set things up. They just work out-of-the-box.

    If you're not really technologically competent, but want to learn, the Mint recommendations are fine. It's one of the most used distros, so there's still plenty of help available. Alternatively, and I think better, there's Fedora. For either of these, choose KDE versions, not Gnome or anything else. KDE is more customizable and closer to Windows too. (Though it can be customized to be more like anything else, or whatever you want too.)

    If you really don't want to learn, Bazzite or maybe Zorin are there.

  • slop rule

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  • Isn't it already?

  • Valid question

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  • If you've ever read an AI email, they aren't capable of that either. It's a meme at this point that people use AI to write an email, which becomes far too long, and the reader uses AI to make it shorter. AI does not do concise and to the point.

  • 'Canada, better the 28th EU member than the 51st US state'

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  • I don't like the thought that the EU is limited by semantics. They started out as an alliance of European nations, but why should they be limited to that just because of their name? (Also, I'd argue Canada and the US are European by culture, but not by geography.)

    If you can make an actual argument about it being useful or not then do that. The US proximity thing is the start of an argument, though I'd argue it isn't a smart, forward-thinking reason. If the US expands (or another antagonistic nation), should membership be rejected or removed to satisfy them? That's how WWII started.

  • The Diggers were Based

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  • It's both heartening and disheartening. It's good to see the people of the time didn't accept the bullshit either, but it also hurts to see we've been fighting the same fight for hundreds (probably more like thousands, or tens of thousands) of years, and we're not much closer to winning.

  • Kyiv bureau among those axed by Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, hundreds of journalists laid off

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  • You're absolutely right, and, as an American, I encourage it. These people don't stand for us, and they need to face consequences. One thing I'll always disagree with though is treating all the people as the same entity. No matter where it is, this is a class war. We need to work with people in every nation to fight against rising fascism, wherever it is. We're in this together, against them. We need allies to fight it though.

  • Nope, not visiting that

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  • I know exactly how time travail would work; forward only. Backwards time travel isn't happening. In the imaginary world where it does work though I don't see how radio waves wouldn't work. I don't know what heliocentric math has to do with it. You can tell where they're coming from no matter where you are in the universe, not just around the sun. Then you adjust to that position and you're done.

  • AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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  • Yeah, it's something everyone has to consider. That can't really be compared though. It's different for everyone. I think there's also an opportunity cost to buying pre-built to. You won't have as good of an understanding of your hardware.

  • AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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  • I have to be pedantic, but I always hate it when people say "free" for something they paid for. It's included in the price, not free.