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  • Warner Bros. Discovery recommends investors reject Paramount's hostile takeover bid

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  • I'm confused. I thought the hostile takeover was supposed to work by appealing to the shareholders directly, presumably through some mechanism that allows a vote. If it just went back to the same board that had rejected their previous offers and accepted the deal from Netflix, how was this "hostile takeover" any different from a normal bid?

  • AOC leads JD Vance for first time in 2028 election matchup: poll

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  • I really want him to think he's going to run again so that he'll undermine anyone else that tries to run. And then he can croak or something after ruining the primaries and getting his followers to hate any would be successor.

  • Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic over 2025

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  • That's what he's doing.

  • TIL: A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus

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  • Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of "Fallout" Season 1 After It's Called Out for Being Full of Errors

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  • And yet, this article also screws up:

    As GamesRadar reports, the recap of Season 1 for the company’s popular series “Fallout” show was riddled with errors before being taken down by Amazon last week. For instance, the recap assumed that flashbacks from the perspective of the character Cooper Howard — also known as the Ghoul, played by actor Walton Goggins — were set in the 1950s, even though the show and the flashbacks are set in 2077 and the 2060s, respectively.

    The show is set in 2296, the flashbacks are in 2077. The article they cite got it right, so I have no idea where they got the 2060s from. Did they use AI to summarize an article about AI screwing up a summary?

  • Gone too soon

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  • It always felt like it was trying to be canonical but no one else wanted it to be. It was the little brother desperate to join the older kids only to get ditched at every opportunity.

    Which was annoying because most of the show was good, and all it would have taken is a tiny Easter egg to acknowledge it exists. As far as I know, the only thing we ever got was Jarvis in endgame being played by the same actor from Agent Carter.

    It's kind of strange that the Netflix shows are the ones that got folded into canon when they basically ignored the rest of the MCU after Avengers. But I suppose that disconnect and the more narrow focus means there's a lot less to clean up to make it fit. That and the fact that they were popular enough for Disney to see them as valuable.

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  • I buy groceries at an employee owned chain that pays its people well, keeps unnecessary costs down, has a massive selection, and is consistently cheaper than almost anywhere else. It's been interesting to see how some items have had minimal inflation while others have gone way up. And then to see those same items all massively overpriced everywhere else.

    Anything I can buy there, I buy there. I spend a lot of money there. They have my undying loyalty, and all it took was for them to not be evil.

    The people behind this shit? I wouldn't piss on em if they were on fire. If they were being fed feet first into a wood chipper one by one, I'd only complain about the noise.

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  • Rewards programs can make sense without this kind of fuckery. My local pizza place isn't adjusting their prices, they still match the paper take out menus and coupons. But they have a rewards program because it incentivizes people to come back, and repeat business is worth the slight discount.

  • Replace One Word In A Star Trek Quote With Sausage

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  • Temba, his sausage wide.

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  • On body-worn camera video played in court, Wasser was heard saying she wanted to check the bag for bombs before removing it from the McDonald’s. Despite that concern, she acknowledged in her testimony Monday that police never cleared the restaurant of customers or employees.

    Unless they had probable cause to believe there was a bomb, that's absolutely no excuse for a search. Might as well just get rid of the fourth amendment altogether if police can just imagine the possibility of a dangerous object and excuse searching anything at any time.

    If she really thought there was a bomb, she is recklessly handling this herself instead of calling in a properly trained and equipped bomb squad. But far worse, she claims she needed to check it so as not bring a bomb to the station, but apparently has no problem potentially handling a bomb around a bunch of innocent bystanders.

    That she is lying in order to justify what she knew to be an illegal search is actually the least damning interpretation. Either way though, the evidence should be thrown out along with her career.

  • Ford CEO Warns Europe Its EV Rules Are “Risking the Future” of Its Own Carmakers

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  • He says they need to invest heavily in EVs if they don't want to get dominated by China. And apparently he thinks that setting ambitious regulatory goals for EVs only to back off before they take effect is harming their ability to compete.

    And yet, he also lobbied hard for Trump to cut fuel efficiency standards. Funny how that works.

  • Good advice

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  • US supreme court to decide on legality of Trump birthright citizenship order

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  • It's an open and shut case. There is no rational legal argument for ending birthright citizenship.

    Unfortunately, this court doesn't seem to feel bound by little things like laws, precedents, the constitution or reality. If I had to bet on the outcome, I'd assume they will give Trump what he wants yet again. I want to be wrong about that, but at this point I think it's a safer bet to assume this court will always do the worst thing possible.

  • Chimes

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  • Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him

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  • According to Grok, the threshold is 50% of humanity. Apparently Elon Musk dying is as bad as or worse for humanity than a Thanos snap.

  • Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York | The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month.

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  • Judges should be part of the judicial branch, not the executive.

  • Nutrek remasters

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  • Of course DS9 had to lose the special effects data, they saw B5 do it first.

  • The fight for the Epstein files isn’t over - Salon.com

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  • The reasonable solution would have been to include a mechanism for quickly and efficiently overruling these decisions when needed. They have to report to congress about anything that is withheld, but as far as I know they didn't include a provision that would allow them to reject the given justification and order the release.

  • Trump strong-arms studio into making cop movie sequel: 'Dumbest possible state-control'

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  • Everyday that I look at the feed I am reminded of the old /r/theonion + /r/nottheonion feed I used to love back in the day. The guessing game got less fun when it took over all the news.