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  • Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

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  • That's how it goes sometimes. The Mines Act of 1842 in the UK didn't get passed because a bunch of children (some as young as 8 years old) died in a horrific mining accident. It was passed because during the investigation of that accident it became known that the women working in the mine were wearing trousers, and due to the excessive heat in the mines, were working topless in the presence of men. Victorian England wasn't scandalized by a pile of children's corpses, but goddamn it, something had to be done about those bare tiddies.

  • Cosmic Christmas Tree

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  • I can only see a Vogon.

    Edit: I lied, I can also see Rygel from Farscape.

  • Strawberry Short-Fuse

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  • Is Strawberry Shortcake still a thing? If you'd have asked me to bet money I would not have guessed that anyone under the age of 40 would have recognized that character.

  • Donald Trump brags about eliminating over 270,000 federal jobs since taking office for his second term

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  • Report Warns Millions of Americans Are ‘Functionally Unemployed’

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  • Usually when the news media talk about "the economy," they're not talking about the financial well-being of workers, or the average citizen. They're talking about how much extra money corporations and the ultra wealthy are making. If every time you read about the economy you mentally transpose the words "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" what they're writing about becomes a lot clearer.

    1. "Everyone is being paid such ridiculous poverty wages that they are functionally unemployed."
    2. "Rich people have tons more yacht money."

    They're not actually opposing statements. One is a direct result of the other.

  • My momma said, girls are the devil.

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  • I want Devo to do a cover of it.

  • what was the anime before anime?

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  • It wasn't so much that there was a stigma against watching Monty Python per se. It's that it became sort of inextricably linked with a certain type of kid who became obsessed with it, could (and frequently would) recite all the lines of the movies from memory, and would tend to be a little obnoxious about their fandom. They were usually nerdy kids who already weren't well liked by the more popular cliques, and aggressively shouting lines from Holy Grail at people wasn't helping matters. Like, my friends and I loved those movies, but I guess not as much as the theater kids who were galloping around the school on imaginary horses shouting, "Ni!" at people and demanding a shrubbery.

  • What movies or TV shows do a good job of representing your particular identity or life experiences?

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  • I've never lived in Utah, and we had goths instead of mods, but SLC Punk was a fairly accurate representation of how I grew up, and the people I grew up with. Right down to how the singer (who was straightedge except for his bi-polar meds) in my first band died.

  • It's Obvious the US Healthcare System Isn't Working, So Why Not Try Medicare for All? | Common Dreams

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  • I think the real reason is that the bleeding second that people's access to healthcare is no longer tied to their employer there's going to be a mass exodus from the workforce as people go out and start their own businesses, or move to a job with a better work/life balance, or to a job that just isn't soul-crushing. This will make it much harder for businesses to underpay their employees, and I think there are very powerful business interests who see Americans having unrestricted access to healthcare as an existential threat to their profitability.

  • This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like | Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.

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  • If we go to war I'll be very surprised if they'll announce it ahead of time. I think it's far more likely that we'll just wake up one day and already be at war.

  • How long until Avocado smells real bad?

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  • It really shouldn't be that bad. At worst it'll be moldy, but it's entirely possible you'll come back to find it just kind of shriveled and very squishy. It depends on how ripe it was when you left, and how warm and humid your apartment is. But even if it smells, it won't be the kind of smell that hangs around for very long after you throw it out.

    Of all the food you could have left out and forgot about you really lucked out with it being an avocado. If it were milk or raw fish you'd probably be coming home to something truly horrific.

  • What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

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  • I'm a machinist.

  • Get ready for...

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  • A lot of engines have a big plastic trim piece that sits on top and doesn't really do anything except make the engine compartment look tidy. I guess you could call that a topper.

  • FBI disrupted alleged terrorist bombing plot in Los Angeles, according to officials

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  • This group sounds like something that would have been made up in a Hollywood writers room for a mid '00s comedy police procedural. Like someone who would have been foiled by Shawn Spencer on an episode of Psych.

  • Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ?

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  • Gorn.

    Only way to get rid of it is to build a makeshift cannon out of some random stuff you find laying around.

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  • I bought one of those on a whim a while back, and I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Quality control is always kind of a crapshoot with those cheap Chinese pen brands so I don't usually get my hopes up, but even though the pocket clip on mine feels loose and pretty janky, the actual pen itself is really solid, and has a surprisingly good nib for its price point. I ended up carrying it with me a lot because it's not only a nice compact size for a pocket pen, but it's cheap enough that I won't be devastated if I lose it.

  • The Fuck Jar

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  • And to think, this whole time I was using the rubber band trick like a sucker.

  • Ex-Obama Aide Says Holocaust Education Is ‘Confusing’ Young People Into Sympathizing With ‘Weak, Skinny’ Palestinians

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  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.