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  • Beach Day [admiralwonderboat]

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  • Just had a weeklong beach vacation. We sat on the beach once for about half an hour before the sun was too much. We mostly just took morning and evening walks on the beach. We're not really swimmers either, which was good because the surf was fucking lethal pretty much every day. Once day the waves were reaching the dunes and pooling past the high-tide line. Kids were constantly swimming and it was incredibly dangerous. I think most days were red flag and the "nice" ones were yellow.

    The beach is pretty awful these days and we aren't even that far south.

  • Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested

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  • Yeah. That's the real answer to this: exploiting this fuck-awful SCOTUS decision plunges the US into an authoritarian state.

    The choice is: do you let Trump and Republicans do it if they win and turn American into a christo-fascist state? Or do it yourself to prevent that and turn into a "better?" abusive state? There's really no winning here but we have to do something or we're screwed.

  • Senators unveil bipartisan deal on stock trading ban

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  • YES, FUCK. How do we let people with some of the most insider knowledge profit off of that at the expense of the American people? Making money in the market isn't just printing money: that money comes from others who lose out because they aren't cheating.

  • Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested

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  • I've been hoping Biden would do this since the SCOTUS decided he can't commit crimes as POTUS. Just have a list of every Republican and SCOTUS justice who has been credibly accused of crimes. Then just send those to the FBI to have investigations, charges and arrests fast-tracked.

    Afterall, those are the positions where criminals can do the most harm and investigation should be taken serious and done quickly.

  • Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL

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  • Those were unreachable Trump supporters to start with. Hopefully it doesn't motivate them to do anything.

  • [Discussion] What is your price range when you get a new phone?

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  • $3-400. Upper range if I can't get anything for a trade-in, which is rare. I generally only get Pixel a-series but would definitely look at motorola again. It's what I had before a-series existed.

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  • When I got a vasectomy, it was like 20 before they wanted to do a fertility test.

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  • Who needs to turn their sperm release on and off so quickly? I understand wanting it to be easier than surgery but no one needs it so fast that you flip a switch. Deciding to have kids is a huge decision that often takes months of fucking to succeed at.

  • Putin bestows Russia’s highest civilian honour on India’s PM Modi

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  • Why would anyone accept this if they are trying to not seem like a fascist? I thought modi was trying to appear normal.

  • NATO getting tough on China for backing Russia's war effort

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  • Except in this case it's accurate? It's calling out Russia's lack of appropriate casus belli.

  • 3rd hiker dies in Grand Canyon in last 3 weeks

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  • Holy shit. That seems like Death Valley temps.

  • US heatwave tied to four Oregon deaths as temperature records are shattered

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  • A Driverless Car in China Hit a Pedestrian. Social Media Users Are Siding With the Car

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  • Why would you hold self-driving cars to a standard that we don't hold drivers? If you are a driver and realize you are about to harm a pedestrian, there is no circumstance when the law suggests you ram a car into a building or pole instead of the pedestrian. Your insurance would rather you hit the pedestrian, usually. Because in an animal strike, hitting the animal is comprehensive (in America) and swerving to hit a fence is collision. You can't be at fault for comprehensive. A pedestrian is a different mater and not comprehensive, but they'd rather you mitigate liability, and then mitigate cost. And there's a chance the pedestrian was at fault, at least partially. The building/pole can't be.

    But all of this is a moot point. Self-driving cars will NEVER be programmed to harm the driver before an outside person. Simply for the fact no one will ever buy or ride in a car that chooses to kill the passenger over others. No one will ride in the Suicide Car.

  • Rulecestors

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  • Caveman absolutely proud of you. Hunter-gatherer lifestyle was closer to how most animals live: most of their lives are spent resting. Periods of hunting take up a lot of energy and most animals spend most of the waking hours conserving energy. Humans weren't that much of an exception.

    A descendant who rests the majority of their lives is living the dream. Especially when pretty much all prehistory threats are eliminated: predators, neighboring tribes killing you (for most of us anyways...), starvation, prevalent disease, infant mortality, extreme seasons, etc.

    Contrast that to the founding father's age in America: those rich assholes hated and feared the working class. They had incredible animosity directed at any non-owner class people. They even created a nation and had the gall to say "every man is created equal" and then most states denied voting rights to non-landowners, non-men, non-white people, and often based on age and religion. It could be as low when the Constitution was ratified as 20-25%. So it's safe to say the white-haired ancestor would find the average person's lack of hard work and life of some leisure a good thing, in general those asshats were closer to modern billionaires.

  • French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

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  • A leftist hat trick would be amazing.

  • Trump World ‘panicking’ as Project 2025 gets on the radar of voters

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  • It's more of a thing so you aren't constantly fighting with your family.

  • SMBC [2011-10-28]

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  • Indeed! New thoughts and ideas all the time.

  • SMBC [2011-10-28]

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  • I'm getting old and I'm getting swirlyer every day.

  • Circle of AI Life [MonkeyUser]

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  • Yeah. We're probably the only civilization that can arise on earth. Unless new species develop something truly unique.