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Mostly a lurker.I read books to pay the bills.She/her/theyUK

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  • yeah I know! But it was very common for a long time. Retard was voted worst by British disabled people in the early 2000s (and of course the Spastics Society had to rename to Scope in the 90s because of the misuse of the term, so it's significant if R is worse). Currently both on the "strong" column in the ofcom list (which is a sometimes fun, sometimes horrible reference guide). https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand-research/tv-research/offensive-language-quick-reference-guide.pdfIt took the US a lot longer to recognise spastic/spaz as offensive too.

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  • @NotLemming @MountingSuspicion fellow English and I would say it's even more offensive here than in the US! Maybe that's why you've not heard it.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • @fakemeows @Polderviking they cut loads of things that are a small (comparative) expense that bring in, or save, a lot of money, or support the economy. Like the national parks and USAID, and all science. Those new expenses won't be realised for a while but in the mean time they're paying off sacked staff left and right, paying the DOGE team, and fighting legal rulings. It's a ridiculous way of going about anything.

  • Amazon alternatives

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  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • @clonedhuman @BedSharkPal worth noting that those people have also spent their time since 2020 accusing Dems of rigging elections. Seems bizarre to me that nobody's looked into it. All the swing states when he couldn't fill a stadium? With the lowest approval rating of any president ever? With Elon paying people to send in their voter registration details? Yeah ok, let's not check anything before special elections and midterms...

  • Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

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  • @RejZoR @floofloof yeah AI will get worse and worse the more it trains on its own output. I can only see "walled-garden" AIs trained on specific datasets for specific industries being useful in future. These enormous "we can do everything (we can't do anything)" LLMs will die a death.

  • Even though it's Swiss: Fuck Nestle.

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  • @Sturgist it's absolutely rank 😂 that gives me more confidence to bother buying some kewpie. Think they sell it in Sainsbury's...

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  • @Sturgist yes I am!I have heard good things about kewpie! But I have also heard British people say it tastes just like something we have here called salad cream, which is bewildering as nobody under about 70 would generally admit to liking salad cream

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  • @NotSteve @alphabethunter the funniest ones are people who go "to Europe" on holiday and then get confused when they can't get exactly the coffee they are used to. I do think the algorithm pushes this stuff in people's faces though. I left after the day the US wasn't on it and I suddenly got shown Aussies and Canadians and English-speaking Africans and Europeans. Made me realise quite how bad the feed was normally.

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  • @NotSteve @alphabethunter spent some time on TikTok between the election and the inauguration and the defaultism is reeeeally apparent on there. There was a big thing about Robbie Williams being "some guy who was big in the UK" at Christmas, and recently another one about how jacket potatoes and baked beans are "war rations". And endlessly recurring takes on how the US is more culturally diverse than Europe because it is ... bigger. The video element makes it all so much more out there.

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  • @Sturgist honestly I like the sound of the sandwich more than the glass of milk! I've never really understood big cups of milk (my kids love them though). But as a marmite aficionado I am totally on board with you-do-you sandwich combinations.

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  • @Sturgist @IsoKiero no, these are literally just bananas, cooked in a dish with some other random ingredients.

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  • Elon Musk is paying voters again ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election

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  • Elon Musk is paying voters again ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election

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  • @Raiderkev @MicroWave the Election Truth Alliance have found some weird numbers (as have Smart Elections) and are currently asking for people to sign a petition for Pennsylvania to hand recount three specific counties https://youtu.be/LBDqYxZoc14

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  • @Sturgist @IsoKiero my Swedish friend introduced me to Flying Jacob and that stuff is so wrong and yet so right. What is it with Swedes and weird banana recipes

    Also, a vote here for Goodfellas pizza (Birdseye). Very average but better than Dr Oetker by a country mile and the gluten free one is pretty decent

  • America should be paying attention to what happens with the judges

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  • @Aliktren @ininewcrow I think they've been packing all the little local committees for elections and education for years. It's not a coincidence that so many black people got kicked off voter rolls at the last minute in certain states.

  • "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..."

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  • @GoofSchmoofer @Bronzie I've been watching and I think quite a lot has already been happening, it's just not well covered by the news. A lot of big, furious town halls are just organically happening (Rs are scared to turn up). 50501 and Indivisible have organised a lot of stuff. And some of the Tesla Takedowns have been huge.