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PumpkinSkink

@ PumpkinSkink @lemmy.world

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  • Democrats block bill to reopen Homeland Security amid 27-day shutdown

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  • Unfortunately we've lumped a bunch of agencies under DHS, notably FEMA, but also some other things like cybersecurity, customs, and WMD mitigation agencies. So, while I would love for ICE, and a bunch of other fascist-ass agencies to be deleted, thia particular route to doing that also shuts down some agencies that are undeniably important.

  • The U.S. unexpectedly loses 92,000 jobs, adding to worries about the economy

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  • Yeah, but the trend has been significant revision downward for months now. Anyone who's been watching was expecting this.

  • racist ai

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  • I mean, for clarity, I'd be here for socialized housing. My point is more that paying one month of mortgage (in this scenario) would not materially change anyone's situation with the whole "can't afford the mortgage" thing. It just happened to be a good metaphor.

    My point is more that, I hear a lot of people talking about bailing out OpenAI, and I would just like for people to stop and realize that the situation is different and a (one time) bailout isn't an option. The government would have to continuously subsidize them.

  • Canada PM Carney says unable to rule out military role in Iran war

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  • I have a growing suspicion that the NATO crowd is planning on using this to "keep America in".

  • Aurora ICE detainees are malnourished and forced to work, advocates report

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  • Lets also not forget that Nuremberg was woefully inadequate and failed to push Nazi collaborators out of power.

    "The Nuremberg trials could try only a small sampling of major Nazi war criminals. German restitution negotiations were bound to have an unhappy ending, since no payments could possibly erase the harm or painful memories. No problems related to the Holocaust could be resolved quickly or adequately. Nor could they be swept under the carpet and be expected to disappear." ~Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the US Army for the Einsatzgruppen Trial"

  • Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

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  • This will be a great ThinkPad upgrade in 5 years when they start finding their way onto EBay for sub 500 bucks.

  • Bill to require factual teaching about U.S. Capitol attack clears Va. General Assembly

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  • If the choice is "be poor" and "sign up to be on call to murder brown people", surely we can agree that "be poor" is the better choice.

  • racist ai

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  • I don't think you can really bail OpenAI out tho. The bailout worked in 2008 because the government could just buy the 700 billion of "toxic assets" and the financial institutions would return to a self-sustaining state of affairs, like they had been before making a bunch of really risky bets on mortgages. If you gave OpenAI 700 billion they would burn it at an unfathomable rate and still lose money because their underlying business model isn't functional - they only lose money. OpenAI is the toxic asset here. A bailout of them would be more like if the government had paid all of the delinquent home-owners' mortgages for one month; Next month they would be unable to pay again.

  • Trump Admits He Has No War Plan in Bombshell Letter

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  • Good to hear. Now I'm confident that the US definitely won't succumb to mission creep and get sucked into an interminable war that will end countless thousands of lives.

  • Trump says he’s cutting all trade with Spain for refusing his Iran war request

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  • This is really what I'm wondering. Like, he definitely doesn't understand this, but since when has "not understanding something" stopped Trump?

  • Game over

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  • In the tea? I just stuck a leaf in a cup with water and microwaved it for a minute or two.

    In food? I usually put it in as soon as I start the simmer on a liquid part of the dish. It takes a long while for the flavor to really become significant.

  • Tesla is exiting consumer space because Self-Driving has hit the same fundamental limits as LLMs

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  • Maybe, but the other guys with lidar are using 1.8 RDP'd in Filipino drivers (without US driving licenses) per car... so maybe its a pipe dream either way.

  • Game over

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  • I wasn't sure myself, so i made a "tea" out of bay leaves to check, and i can confirm that they do in fact have a pretty distinct flavor.

  • It's 2026, how are you playing Battle.net games these days?

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  • Lutris works best in my experience for running it. I have battle.net running through proton 10 in it. I think I ended up installing battlenet.exe through steam, then swapping the prefix to the steam-created one in Lutris because Lutris was having issues installing the launcher for me. Wow and D2R work fine, but I haven't tried D4.

    Steam was a pain in the butt by itself for me.

  • I twisted m'knee a wee bit..

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  • The patient is built like Cotton Hill

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • Thanks for the insight.

  • Pick wisely

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  • Noam Chomsky advised Jeffrey Epstein how to dodge the pedo accusations

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  • Epstein was first convicted for sexual abuse of children in 2008 (11 years prior to this exchange). I, personally, will not extent the benefit of the doubt to Chomsky, (especially considering the age of his wife), but if you did, it would seem, to me at least, that you would have to conclude either that he was a phenomenally bad judge of character, and naive to a childlike degree; or so enamored with the level of access to people like the former prime minister of Israel which Epstein had that he was willing to not think about it too hard.

    Parenti's books were always better anyway...

  • xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula

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  • I mean... there's a C-H bond in there somewhere.