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Midnight

@ Midnight @slrpnk.net

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  • First They Brought Back Dire Wolves. Next Up Is the World’s Tallest Bird

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  • Realistically, she's right they're not truely the same, however thats not really the point either. The goal is that something fills the ecological niche that was destroyed by human activity, ideally bringing back more balance and robustness to the ecosystem.

  • How to defend against tear gas | infographic

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  • I have had Maalox dumped into my eyes on many an occasion and haven't suffered any ill effects, but maybe if I become addicted to throwing rocks at cops it'll start to take its toll.

    But I can also say with certitude the thing that will probably deal horrible long term damage to your eyes is repeated untreated exposure to all the fun varieties of tear gas the police have. Rinsing with bottled water or LAW is going to do far less harm than that so I wouldn't discourage anyone from it.

  • Rule

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  • Feral horses are a problem in the American plains and west with one of the issues being the fact their carcasses will attract grizzlies or black bears which can then encroach on humans. Hiking out, digging a massive pit, and then burying a horse really isn't an option so they blow them up to increase the speed of decomposition.

    They also degrade and destroy native grassland and the whole problem could be easily solved with a cull of the herds, but some dipshit-wanabe-cowboys are obsessed with "saving" "wild" horses so now the federal government has to spend over a $100 million on horse contraception to keep the population vaguely in check.

    TDLR: We blow up a bunch of horses corpses every year because of a politically connected nonprofit.

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  • Don't eat the onion.

  • Last Week In Collapse is a weekly newsletter which recounts important world events in the ongoing Collapse of Civilization.

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  • /c/collapse is perhaps a good place to drop this.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?

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  • Fellas, is it gay to speak Gaulish?

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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  • I'm all for sanctioning them too. Economic sanctions are the bare minimum we should be doing to genocidal authoritarians.

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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  • Political agenda is a funny euphemism for imperialist invasion and genocide.

  • Utah wants your public land — for more roads

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  • The Federal Government actually owns most of the west. Its the reason why there's more land for public recreation and national parks in that region of the country.

    You can typically hike, camp, or explore BLM land, which is the majority of it, as much as you want so long as you don't start any fires or litter.

  • Ukrainian soldiers suspected they would invade Russia when they got new rifles, but still thought it was a joke when the orders came through

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  • The US wasn't conducting a genocidal war in Afghanistan. The Russian government is explicitly attempting to erase Ukraine as an entity and anyone who calls themselves Ukrainian with it.

  • At the center of the right-wing revival? Hating immigrants

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  • neither party when elected do anything meaningful to secure the border or deport illegals.

    It might shock you to learn the best way to prevent immigration is to make the countries experiencing outflows more stable and liveable, but I'm gonna take a wild guess you don't like foreign aid.

    maintain demographics

    There sure was a lot of hand wringing before you wrote down what your actual problem with immigration was.

    Pray tell what is the ideal demographic make up if the United States?

    monero icon

    Imagine branding yourself with the image of a way to circumvent state authority only to lick the boot at the first opportunity.

  • Who will pay for the cost of overheated humans in the age of climate change?

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  • Sadly, this is probably true.

  • Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome

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  • How about we get someone who can win in a swing state so we can avoid Trump? Because right now from the polling it looks like Biden can't.

  • Post-Debate Poll Shows 72% of Voters Say Biden Doesn’t Have Cognitive Health to Keep Serving as President

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  • Saying that Biden needs to be replaced is not the same as saying don't vote for whoever is the Democratic candidate. I've been screaming into the void telling people to vote on Lemmy and even I think he needs to be switched out. The post debate polling is that damning.

    If the dems shove it down our throats I'm still voting for him, but there's still a narrow window to get a better candidate and we should take it.

  • Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting

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  • The point of an armorer on set is that they ensure that the guns aren't dangerous. The typical rules about "don't aim at something you don't want to destroy" doesn't apply in a movie because otherwise all the action sequences would look dumb with people firing wildly at the ground. How stupid would it look if John Wick shoots at the floor and blood spurts out of the guys face.

    That said, anyone who hires a scab armorer gets what they pay for and deserve to be prosecuted.

  • Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims

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  • Now when I'm lazy and don't support some standards in my open source projects, I'm just going to say its for security.

  • Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

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  • 404 Media is worker owned; you should pay them.

  • Free Markets

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  • Vertical integation and scale are not inherently monopolistic. Some monopolies formed because they exploited these advantages, but there are competative industries today where several vertically integrated companies compete.

    Monopolies in econ 101 are not called inefficient because they extract profit. They're inefficient because they don't respond to market forces. Since they control all supply, they can disregard demand.

  • Free Markets

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  • I mean if central planning can be redefined to mean decentralized capitalist markets, I've got a book gor you to read too.

    My dude, did you even read the Peter Theil article you linked? His entire speil is in no way congruent with your point. He's basically just saying the rent seeking from a gaining a monopoly can make high risk investments worth it. His argument is still grounded in market logic. He leaves out the people who started high risk companies they thought would be monopolies but turned out to be undesireable.

    And I don't even agree with his point, neither Google nor Amazon needed massive capital to hit the market, they needed massive amounts of capital to operate at a loss to squash their early competition to create a monopoly; something that can only be done by the horrible market distortions of a governmnet or rampant late-stage capitalist billionaires with equivalent piles of money.

    Edit: I would also point out Theil is a believer in autocracy, known widely for literally owning a company whose product is disinformation, and is shilling to prevent the breakup of his monopolies. I wouldn't trust him under any circumstances.