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DomeGuy

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  • Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to

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  • Except in the first US gulf war, back in the early 90s. (Kuwait was attacked by Iraq. The USA spent months preparing and then three days attacking. Then stopped when Iraq surrendered.)

    Or the fall of the USSR. (Happened in about a month, no major fighting.)

    Or the Russian annexation of Crimea.

    It isn't that short military exercises never yield results. It's that wars persist until both attacker and defender believe peace is the best tactic.

    The USA bombing a country for whom fighting the USA is essentially their national myth is possibly the dumbest thing that my country has ever done.

  • TIL: The United States Has 10x More Serial Killers Than Any Other Country on Earth

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  • China and India are also rather substantially less likely to portray a serial killer as a notable scandal deserving of infamy.

    AFAIK they also have a less rights-respecting criminal prosecution system, meaning their native serial killers are more likely to be incarcerated or executed if identifed.

  • Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve

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  • The NY AG doesn't generally bring criminal suits. And "was a rapist in FL and a private island" may not be enough to give anyone standing to empanel a grand jury and indict.

    If you live in NY and then take a vacation in Texas during which you open carry a AR15 and then "self defense" somebody at the Alamo who called you a Yankee, there wouldn't be much NY could do if the local DA accepted your defense.

  • A line going all the way back to first life

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  • "Feminism is nothing more than the radical belief that women are people."

    The differences between men and women are largely just fashion and custom. Women have interests, wants, lusts, and dislikes that are as varied as those of men.

  • Within a religious narrative of your choice, what are some attacks humanity could engage in to break the system?

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  • It's probably not wise to try and annoy a being not bound by causality, physics, or conservation of anything. Especially when said entity has previously near-eliminated our population and discarded essentially all of us to our own folly.

    (Thankfully She got bored, picked the most stubborn group She could find to remember Her, spent a thousand years trying to teach them to be good, and finally said "oh fuck it, just watch Me")

  • Katie Couric confronts Gavin Newsom on his shifting views on transgender youth

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  • Newsom isn't a democratic nominee running against Trump. He's a Democrat who wants to be chosen over other Democrats to be the 2028 nominee.

    Calling out any apparent backsliding or bigotry is relevant, be it transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, sexism, or racism.

  • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

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  • That's why bsky's pseudo-federation isn't as big a deal as some ActivityPub boosters claim.

    As I understand it, if lemmy.world shuts down or starts demanding cash my only resource would be the same as if Facebook decides I'm too critical of billionaires -- start all over elsewhere with a new account. Sure, I could get close to the same experience with a different node, but I'd be a brand new account with no history. I might as well go someplace else entirely.

    Bsky's "portable user" idea fixes that. There are accounts my bsky account follows who switched to blacksky, and if they hadn't said they'd changed I wouldn't have noticed. The essential identity of their account shifted almost seamlessly, and they "federate" with everyone else, aside that their appview shows accounts that bsky's ordinary moderation hides.

    I don't have any illusions about how altruistic the cryptobro VC's are. But the entirely of their value proposition is that "leaving bsky" should be about as painless as porting your number from Verizon to AT&T.

  • 'So Be It,' Says Schumer After Trump Issues Unhinged Threat Against 2026 Voting Rights

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  • Not really. Congress is constitutionally "in session" except when they themselves deliberately and formally pause for at least a weekday. And to do that requires the exact same two-chamber majority that is required pass a bill. ("Pro forma" sessions with just one senator and one house member are common.)

    Until December 21st Congress is essentially immune to the "pocket veto" unless they specifically choose to be.

  • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

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  • The claimed reason for that is to highlight "referrer" links for the sites people go to from bsky.

    My understanding is that if you click like https://www.themarysue.com/ the website operators would see a "feddit.org" or "lemmy.world" referer if you're using a web browser and don't have a defeating option enabled, but not if your browser is locked down or you use an app. The immediate redirects, however, do consistently show in the web site's access logs.

    It's possible bsky could fuck around with this in the future, but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.

  • dumb dumb fart hammers

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  • Because it was created by an act of congress and renamed twice by acts of Congress after ww2.

    If the Republicans want to rename DoD they could have put it in their "big beautiful bill", but they didn't. So it's still DoD and should be referred to as such.

  • dumb dumb fart hammers

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  • The "Department of War" was changed to the "National Military Establishment" by the National Security Act of 1947, and then to "Department of Defense" by the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958.

    Absent an act of Congress changing its name again, the official and legal name is still "Department of Defense". Journalists accepting the new nickname uncritically are endorsing an unconstitutional power grab, and should be ridiculed and shamed for doing so.

    It's not like Republicans don't have majorities in both houses of Congress sufficient to change the name, or even that congressional dems would waste their political energy opposing the vain renaming of a post-WW2 agency.

  • Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

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  • You're right about the effect (lawsuits and the threat of the same are more common in America than Canada or the UK) but not at all about the cause.

    The USA has had a decades-long choice to have our industry regulated primarily not through government bureaucracy but instead judicial liability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_through_litigation

  • What are some good stories about anti-heroes?

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  • Daredevil has been a "blind batman" for so long a satirical fanfic-turned-unofficial-spinoff got a cartoon, three movies, another movie, and a CGI revival that multiversed back to the cartoon and the original.

    Matt Murdock's no more an anti-hero that Peter Parker was when he tried to break into the fantastic four's building in hopes they would hire him. (Which they didn't, mostly because they didn't actually pay themselves)

  • 40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete

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  • Hydrogen is terrible for energy storage, and even worse for energy transport. Especially if you're doing electrolysis to split water that you then re-generate with atmospheric oxygen in order to produce electricity. A battery, flywheel, or just pumping water upstream gets you far better efficiency, and shipping literally any product of a hydrogen reaction is likely to be more efficient than shipping a heavy H2 tank back and forth.

    Solar power in the EU seem to be increasing by 20% year-over-year. It's hard to see a situation where shipping hydrogen to supply thermal energy to an existing factory would be cheaper than just building a local electrolysis plant and the necessary solar panels. (Unless, of course, you're already invested or employed in selling hydrogen as a direct fossil fuel replacement.)

    https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/wind-and-solar-generated-more-power-than-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-for-the-first-time-in-2025/

  • Three questions about California AB1043 C. 675

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  • So, if I understand right, basically they assume its correct unless given significant evidence otherwise?

    That's how it reads to me this morning. Assuming by "given" you meant "they have at all".

    So like, if this flag is enabled and I visit a website and don’t directly provide personal information, then they have to assume I am a child under CCPA and thus can’t share my data. Right?

    Based on the CA AG's page at https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa , I don't see how "the browser reports the user as a child" gives a substantial additional burden on website developers. Presumably, the most they'd have to do to comply is use the flag to change "do you agree for yourself" to "PARENT OR GUARDIAN: Do you agree for the user of this account..."

    I'm missing the part where an adult setting their age category incorrectly for themselves would do more than get a stronger porn block and a bunch of "go get your parent" pop-ups instead of "click here if you're over 18."

    Presumably, if Microsoft and Google and Apple don't get the Digital Age Assurance Act blocked in court, we could see a broad adoption of it as a way to skip paying for third-party age validation for sites like Reddit, BlueSky, and Lemmy, and all of the porn sites on the internet would just ask for the flag in lieu of their current "do we have a cookie where this user clicked that they're at least 18" code.

  • 40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete

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  • Did you perhaps mean hydrocarbons (organic compounds used for fertilizer and fuel) instead of hydrogen (most common element in the universe, 2/3s the atoms and 1/9th the mass of water)

  • Three questions about California AB1043 C. 675

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  • Not a lawyer, answers based on https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025

    1. Under section 1798.501. (b) 4A, wouldn't this make collection of almost any system information illegal?

    No. Because the terms are defined in 1798.500. They can ask your system directly whatever they want; they just can't ask Microsofg, Apple, or Google for correlating specifics.

    1. Since 1798.501. (b) 2A seems to require that developers that receive this age flag treat assume it is true, this would at least apply to CCPA, and California Civil Code, right?

    Yes, but only insomuch as laws that protect minors impose additional constraints on those who have "actual knowledge" that a user is actually a child.

    It doesn't mean they need to trust the OS flag if they have suoerior knowledge as to someone's actual age. If I ask a child to contact Imgur to delete my account they'd block out my porn stash but otherwise treat the request as any other "delete an adult's account" request.

    1. Would 1798.501. (b) 2A also apply to COPPA? I know this is state versus federal law, but...

    Statr law can expand upon federal law but not contradict. And it smells like AB1043 is more "add a more explicit signal of user age" than anything affecting data retention relating to children.

    What part do you think is contradictory?

  • Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

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  • "Actual coverage is less than what's theoretically possible" is a hell of a way of saying "these things aren't good enough (yet) to actually replace real people ".

  • If you can’t respect people legally changing their names, then don’t get mad when people ignore ‘they/them’ pronouns and misgender people.

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  • Maybe @OP didn't realize this is "unpopular opinion", and not "virtually universal opinion"?