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  • Chinese apps face scrutiny in US but users keep scrolling.

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  • They aren't looking to sell you stuff or serve "more relevant ads," they are mapping our network infrastructure and human resources to find avenues of exploitation. Maybe they don't care about your data, but maybe you're in some position where you might harm your country, or you might be able to help someone who could harm your country, or harm some business with competing interests in China, and because you're using their apps, they know just how to turn you into an agent of chaos.

  • Gulf of Make a Report to Apple

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  • Google disabled reports and editing for it.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Any lawyer, law firm employee, private investigator, insurance adjuster, or credit industry can get it easily. I operate under the same presumption.

  • Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts | Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.

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  • These are unamerican people.

  • Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it?

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  • I had a dream that he was at one of those low budget fundraisers where they serve ziti and chicken marsala, and he was seated across from me, and I got to yell at him. It was so satisfying.

  • George Carlin spent nearly his entire life trying to warn us of what is happening

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  • My father was a Carlin fan, I would take his albums and started reading his books when I was maybe 14. It was a part of my education that I wish every American shared. We'd be much better off. Al Franken's books, too.

  • AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force

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  • It's intentional. They want America to be like Russia. And to do it they're willing to harm the country.

  • Trump is flat-out lying about the ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris

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  • Half the country is functionally illiterate.

  • Trump is flat-out lying about the ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris

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  • By stupid people.

  • Trump is flat-out lying about the ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris

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  • People who think Trump is qualified are stupid. Zero dispute.

  • Discontent with Sen. John Fetterman bursts into the streets among Pa. Democrats

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  • Wonder what Putin has on him.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • It goes through rounds of lawyers and actuaries long before an insurer changes coverage policies. It's absolute fantasy to think they threw this change together practically overnight.

    I remember reading that it was coming before Luigi, but like the person you're replying to, I can't find it after the enshitification of web sesrching. It's buried behind a billion articles about Luigi.

  • Donations to Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund slowed, then surged

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  • You have to have a good education to realize how fucked we are.

    I listened to a clip a minute ago on the radio of dumbass Trump and his dumbass supporters from the show he made on inauguration day, signing orders, and the one withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord stuck out to me. "Could you imagine Biden doing this?" Raucous applause. "This is going to save $1,000,000,000,000." Raucous applause.

    No, I could not imagine Biden doing it, because it's fucking idiotic. The world is burning. The air is turning to poison. Only cutting greenhouse emissions in half will provide any hope of anything resembling social stability over the next several decades and the only way to do that is to reign in the dozens of corporate poluters who are responsible for such desolation. It will save a trillion dollars for corporations, which savings they will absolutely not pass on to Trump's gullible, stupid supporters, but in fact they will use to live lifestyles marked by even more greenhouse emissions, yachts and air travel. Even the capitalists who are self aware enough to see what's coming will use their savings to build lavish prepper bunkers and hoard medical technology. When shit hits the fan, and MAGA rubes are chanting "let us in" outside the bunker while wild fires close in, maybe as they suffocate and burn to death they will realize they should have done more.

    One good looking kid with an education going into politics isn't going to overcome the power structures that have these donkeys cheering wildly for the missteps towards their own demise. You have to have the education to know that we are past that. Their kids will be dying of small pox, and they'll still be blaming their grief and anger on the woke left and diversity, equality, and inclusiveness, on immigrants and the unhoused. The oligarchs own the government and the media. Only the people at large can depose them, one by one. We have all these mass shooters looking for infamy, maybe after Luigi they will see they can get actual fame, adoration, if they choose a culpable target instead of rooms full of innocent kids.

    I think that's what Luigi's supporters are saying.

  • 'Sounds like a call for insurrection': Dem declares 'war' on GOP — dividing internet

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  • Yeah I said when we say it, nobody is trying to remove the metal detectors from around the Capitol building and stockpiling guns in nearby hotel rooms, placing pipe bombs in the streets. Nope, that's just Republicans. And that's why they have their motto "we are all domestic terrorists."

  • Senate Republicans Shrug As Unelected Musk Seizes Their Power

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  • They have always wanted to break the government. They are okay with what's happening, they knew it was going to happen, and they wanted to continue.

  • Has anyone tried this?

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  • I got a degree in criminology about 25 years ago and can confirm that there was no dispute in the science at that time that this was the way to reduce crime.

    Everything else had been tried and tried again and proven not to work. It was around that time that my (then) field realized that the DARE program increased drug use.

    It was almost 25 years after the St. Louis (maybe wrong city, it's been a while) Crime and Control study proved that flooding the streets with more police officers only pushed crime into other neighborhoods.

    When I studied, it was almost a joke to read new research coming out, because every serious study was just confirming what everyone knew. Guest lecturers would come in to talk about their latest theories in criminology. and, it was basically everyone just sitting around saying oh yeah that's obvious. The field has peaked, and it was up to society then to catch up.

    We looked at three strike's laws, truth and sentencing laws, asset forfeiture laws, mandatory minimums, and every time we found that these policies increase violent crime. They further fracture communities and destroy families at the generational level.

    It may not be intuitive to think that, but would a little thought, a little reflection, it is hard to say that this would not be the obvious result.

    The methods to reducing and ending recidivism have been well known to science. People who talk about harsh law enforcement and punitive corrections are either ignorant, emotional blowhards, or not serious about reducing crime.

    We have in America a well-established cat and mouse model of policing. And indeed it does Trace its history to slave patrols, a reactionary force of violence, dispatched into the community to capture offenders. The entire model does absolutely nothing to prevent future crimes from occurring.

    Maybe they catch some guy who's a serial offender, and get him off the streets. And they call that a win. But until the root causes of crime are addressed, all they're doing is playing serial offender whack-a-mole; the next one is just going to pop right up. And maybe they'll say, oh sure, that's because we have a "catch and release" system.

    Well, if we literally did nothing at all to stop crime, and totally abolished the concept of a police force, the science is absolutely clear that most people are going to age out of crime by the time they turn 25, and the rest, save for a few people who are likely mentally disabled, will age out by the time they hit 35. But instead, we're kicking down doors and locking people out in cage for decades on end, making sure that their families are broken and locked in a cycle of poverty and trauma, and we end up sometimes with three generations of men sharing a prison together.

    And while we're on the subject of prison, the science is also absolutely clear that the way to reduce recidivism to almost nothing is to provide good health care, good mental health care, and to teach people marketable skills, all in a safe environment. When I got my degree, the field was shifting to a program evaluation approach, because we had figured out what programs we needed to have, and the only thing left to do was to fine-tune those programs to get the most out of them.

    But then 4 years would go by, or 8 years would go by, and some new tough-on-crime politician would come and wonder why we're spending so much money to hold people in a cage, and they'd start cutting the programs.

    And despite that, and despite the emotional reactionaries who just want to see bad guys be treated badly to make themselves feel better about crime, virtually every type of crime is the lowest it's ever been in my lifetime.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • Nazi truck.

  • 'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story

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  • Bet $100 it's because he hates himself because he is queer.

  • 'You are making it hard for us!' Black Americans for Trump member rips president on CNN - Raw Story

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  • They were hate filled dirt bags before the propoganda, that's why they fell for it.