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Lyrl

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    Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?

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  • If you define failed movements as either "not wars" or "not dedicated", sure. A recent depressing example I am assuming is definitioned out of your view is Hong Kong, which is firmly under the control of mainland China. A slightly more distant example is Northern Ireland, which is firmly part of Britain.

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    Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?

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  • It's kind of like how many people are afraid of geese. An angry goose can give significant bruises and is basically impossible for an average person to restrain without killing the goose, so the only option is to run away. Because the easy win of breaking the goose's neck is not on the table for most people.

    The US lost in Afghanistan because the goal was to turn it into a functioning democracy, and the local culture did not support that. If the goal had been "winning", the Army was entirely capable of slaughtering the large majority of the population and then importing settlers to numerically overwhelm the remnant population. Like our ancestors did to the Native Americans.

  • A Snowy Owl in Volkel, NL

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  • What a ham!

    Interesting it's all the way in a corner, I would have guessed the blocked retreat would be a deterrent, but maybe top predator that can fly doesn't worry too much about that.

  • X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries

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  • Lumafield scanned 1,054 batteries – around 100 from each brand – and found 33 of them had a serious manufacturing defect known as negative anode overhang. The defect “significantly increases the risk of internal short-circuiting and battery fires” and can reduce the overall life of the battery,” according to Lumafield. All 33 of the batteries with the defects came from the 424 sold by low-cost brands or brands selling counterfeits...

    For two of the counterfeit brands that were reporting impossible specs, the percentage of tested batteries from those brands that were found to have the defect were even higher – upwards of 12 and 15 percent. None of the name brand OEM batteries were found to have any problems...

    Defects like negative anode overhang and bad edge alignment don’t mean an affected battery is guaranteed to explode or catch fire, but they can increase the risk of those incidents occurring, particularly when combined with other factors such as being left in a hot car or an accidental drop causing additional damage.

  • Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place

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  • I have read some analysis that right-wing propaganda gets the most engagement when there are liberals in the community to provide the "liberal tears". Yes, there is a core group happy to be in an echo chamber with only imagined liberal tears, but the majority find substitutes unsatisfying. Potentially the diminishing of non-right content volume will also diminishing the right content by making the comments less interesting.

  • Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place

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  • Somewhat encouraging at least some public community is being built elsewhere, instead of the only widespread options being X and group chats. Hopefully the momentum keeps going and more types of users also make the switch.

  • Cause and effect

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  • The increase in diagnosis has happened in less than one generation. Genetic drift from altered reproductive behavior would take multiple generations. The speed of the diagnosis shift rules out social changes to mate selection and childbearing rates.

  • Protection

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  • VBA for Word is bad, but VBA for Excel graphs is worse. At small companies that can't justify the cost of any software outside Office, people will go to great lengths to get Excel to support data analysis. Not being in that situation anymore is one of my top satisfaction items with having changed jobs from a small to a large company.

  • Protection

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  • I used to work at a place where one of their test machines generated a cert in Microsoft Word with test results. They were having their lab technicians manually type in something like eight fields of information to flesh put the cert. I managed to hack together a Word VBA plus Python script to interface with the OpenOffice database I had set up so the techs only had to type in one field, and the script filled in the rest.

    It was kind of a monstrosity under the hood, but it worked pretty slickly, and given the available tools I was glad the option existed.

  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you are feeling less miserable now.

  • They're Always After Me Lucky Charms! 🍀

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  • Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | Fortune

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  • The CEOs in the article cite multiple things they like. The article portrays them as way more mixed in feeling than the headline. I am flabbergasted there are only cracks in party unity and no breakage... but I'll take cracks over nothing. Hopefully they grow quickly.

  • AOC is plotting a run for president in 2028: report

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  • She might run if she believes it would steer the conversation in a productive way, even if she didn't believe she could win a primary.

  • AOC is plotting a run for president in 2028: report

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  • I suspect poor headline editing. The article is about multiple options (Senate, President, other party-promoting path) where the navigational use of the term ("plotting a course") is reasonable. But then the headline couldn't fit even two options, so it got reduced to just President and no one on the team connected that plotting has a negative implication with a single subject.

  • AOC is plotting a run for president in 2028: report

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  • Since the article is about her considering multiple options - Senate or President - that she'll have to narrow down to a single path, the navigation implication seems relevant.

  • AOC is plotting a run for president in 2028: report

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  • He'll be 78, it would be reasonable for him to retire when his term is up in 2028. Hopefully the fiascos with Biden and multiple Democratic Representatives dying of old age this term (and the Republican Representative who went missing because her family put her in assisted living), and just slightly further back Feinstein being too sick to make critical votes, all push people to stop hanging on to their seats all the way to the bitter end. Pelosi leading the way here, showing it can be done.

  • Chaotic

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  • Before it was collected as a compendium of official parts, sure, but most of the individual books (both the ones that made it into the current version and additional ones that ended up being rejected) were around. The Old Testament ones were already written down, and most of the Gospels were at least oral tradition very early on.

    I believe it was over one hundred years before the Gospels were all written down, and early Christian sects had passionate disagreement over which texts were official or hearsay, but it's not like they were completely without religious texts.

  • Those were the days

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  • Mob violence has been a thing for all of human history. Before humans, even: chimpanzee groups, if they get large, will split into two groups. After a few months apart, if the groups encounter each other, the stronger group will murder every individual in the weaker one.

    I think we had settled on a regulated and normalized system in pre-internet media that moderated the mob violence tendencies. Our current polarization is not really that social media created this new thing in society, it's that it removed the guardrails in traditional media that were suppressing natural human tendencies. I hope we can figure out and implement some new guardrails sooner rather than later.

  • Those were the days

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  • Our brains are hard-wired to be susceptible to specific patterns. Ancestral humans who stayed in good graces with their social group, even when the leaders of that group were factually mistaken, survived at higher rates than humans whose respect for facts drove them to reject or be rejected by the group. The details of which and to what degree we have these triggers override our rationality varies by genetics and environment, but we are all susceptible.

    That a very significant percent of humans respond to their system by adopting specific harmful behavior is not something we can fight by moral condemnation. Labeling them as bad people is unproductive. If the goal is to actually reduce the harmful behavior, addressing the system - not the individuals - is the only effective strategy.