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Rentlar

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  • I hope Lemmy gets big enough to make the mainstream news...

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  • I can recall two instances of Lemmy making the news...

    One, IIRC is of some person who carried out political violence or some other nasty thing who also just so happened to host a Lemmy server in the years pre-Reddit-exodus for unrelated reasons. I can't remember enough details to find the article if someone can help.

    The second is a 404media article crediting @silence7@slrpnk.net for spotting missing sections of the Constitution on the White House website (article, discussion)

  • Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

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  • The Price of American Authoritarianism

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  • Reversing the United States’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism. On the one hand, underestimating the threat posed to democracy—believing that the Trump administration’s behavior is simply politics as usual—enables authoritarianism by encouraging inaction in the face of systematic abuse of power. On the other hand, overestimating the impact of authoritarianism—believing the country has reached a point of no return—discourages the citizen actions required to defeat autocrats at the ballot box.

    This puts succinctly the complex thoughts in my head about the US's fate. On Lemmy there are arguments where people accuse each other of being fatalistic or apathetic with no in between.

    In November 2024 my heart sunk hearing the news of Trump's win from Canada, I don't know how Americans were feeling okay with it. Yes it is worse than I expected but I knew at least some bad would happen.

  • What is corn meme all about?

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  • currently the pinned post in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

    The rules are pretty much anything (within reason) goes, but at least one person is fed up with seeing news and politics on shitpost, so is protesting by posting corn shitposts. Some others are joining in, a couple are posting more news out of spite.

  • A Democratic mayor for Miami is not just Trump backlash – it’s a seismic shift

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  • Exclusive: U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada: ‘I can count the number of Canadian visitors on one hand’ | Fortune

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  • Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers

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  • In Canada: Vancouver, BC. Just don't go beyond the city limits.

    Kingston, ON: if you can get past big box suburbia near the highway, the downtown is small and charming.

    Montreal, QC is also very cool. Downtowns of major cities in Canada are generally very nice places to be, but outside there it depends on the city how sprawling the suburbs are.

    I've never shopped at a Walmart in Japan. It's really fun to visit.

  • Trump veers off-message in economic speech, calls affordability a ‘hoax’

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  • The imbecile needs to use the banner props around him as a secondary teleprompter to remember what he's there for.

  • Congress strips right-to-repair from military spending bill

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  • Listen, it's military contractors we're talking about.

    Their entire business is about how to efficiently incapacitate a target to bring down enemy operations. That enemy is any threat to their profits, their weapon is lobbying money, and the targets they fire at are the two Congresspeople who have the power to remove the provision over everyone else's objection.

  • Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse

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  • The writing style of the linked article reeks of AI prose... even if I agree with the point the author makes, and there appear to be linked sources, the article makes me retch a bit.

    People can chop wood to heat their home if they want, and is great to see people come together volunteering to help cut and store firewood, I don't think the existence of woodbanks are a bad thing. It's just when people are forced to rely on the work of volunteers when government could have easily stepped in to provide affordable alternatives. Instead people who don't have the ability to source their own firewood depend fully on the whims of the heating fuel market or on charity.

  • Bullets in Luigi Mangione’s bag convinced police that he was UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect

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  • For the record, it's Altoona's pig department testifying here.

  • Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

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  • I'm pretty sure it's because Republicans are distracting Republican women from the party's misogyny by being extremely cruel to transgender and non-binary people.

    ETA: Just take President LBJ's quote, replace white man for woman and colored man for any LGBTQ+ person, and you'll get the idea.

  • Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'

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  • I can't say never because that's quite a long time to make guarantees but I imagine it would take at least a couple generations for the international trust in the US to return to comparable levels.

    2017-2020 could have been a blip on the timeline. 2021 we had some progress but the US leadership was practically asleep at the wheel in terms of dealing with the open preparation of fascist takeover in 2025. Now in 2025 the largest military force in the world, its highest internal court, both its governing houses, the various departments that were supposed to serve the public interest are all led by a gaggle of self-serving clowns. And the country's commander-in-chief can barely remember what they said a minute ago and has trouble staying awake in public meetings.

    So I think with a major reversal of fortunes and a program to de-Nazify itself at a scale unseen since WWII, the world could take the US seriously again after 2028 at the earliest. The trust will take a lot longer to come back.

  • Trump to announce $12 billion in aid to farmers

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  • Excuse me while I flip through the racist dogwhistle rolodex.....

    So, Trump cares about MAGA farmers about "three-fifths" as much as Argentina's president.

  • Stop scrolling and adore this animal for a little

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  • My e-bike was stolen in broad daylight in Seattle. Here's what happened next

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  • There is a "throw money/time" way to reduce bike theft as part of cycling infrastructure. Have a "bike valet" near major office areas and special events so that bike lockups and returns are properly vetted.

  • The Leaked Report Pushing Mark Carney Toward the F-35 Fighter Jet | The Walrus

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  • It is no secret that our DND likes the F35 a lot more for its capabilities...

    But do we want to tie our air force to another American digital subscription?

  • Why can't light rail use the same rollingstock and tracks as heavy rail?

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  • From my North American engineering perspective:

    The main thing is that when you look at a new transit project in isolation, the cheapest thing to design and build is a transit system that interacts with as few existing parts as possible. There are plenty of exceptions to this, such as using an existing rail tunnel through a mountain vs. digging a new one, or if an existing maintenance facility has enough spare capacity to avoid needing to build a new one. But in every place the new line interacts with existing infrastructure, it's a cost to determine how the design can best integrate it both during and after construction. Take an interchange station with another line. Will it go beside, above, underneath? Can it be made without needing the close the station or the entire line, or with as little disruption to existing service as possible? Interchange stations are great for usability, but planners and design bidders evaluate and present cost-to-benefit tradeoff scenarios that will get approved or denied for both fiscal and political reasons. Let's say between two distinct lines you want to have shared track. If the electrification type, rail gauge, signalling system, platform length, vehicle profile, boarding level height are different, you will have to spend a solid amount of engineering effort figuring out how to harmonize it.

    There are many examples of light rail vehicles using track or right-of-way shared with heavy rail in full or partial sections of the line. Waterloo, Canada's ION tram is one. Unfortunately it's much more difficult and costly to have it the other way around-- i.e. heavy rail vehicles on light rail tracks. The tracks and roadbed are not meant to handle the weight and vehicles may not make it through the smaller bridges tunnels, and curves. To make a light rail system compatible without knowing what heavy rail trains would use it, is a major cost incurred for no forseeable benefit.

  • The Well Watchers | There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.

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  • Classic conservative mindset of "I don't care about ruining the environment unless it's my local environment".

    But you know, sometimes you'll have to take the allies you can get in this fight.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Why is this number everywhere? - Veritasium

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Table of various levels of piracy

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    こんばんはー！ Fediverse いますかー？

  • Solarpunk technology @slrpnk.net
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    Ziga's van runs on solar panels, three lawn mower motors and 8,000 laptop and power tool batteries

    www.abc.net.au /news/2024-02-17/ziga-dorkic-solar-powered-van/103472376
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Not Just Bikes "JustCars" video on the Benefits of Car-dependent Suburban Living

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Humor

    Dunkey's Guide to Streaming Services

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Tribes 3 Rivals Playtest works on Linux - a personal report

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    On "Nostalgic" Reposts

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
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    On "Nostalgic" Reposts

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    What excites you for C:S2?

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    Behind the Scenes #1: Modding

    forum.paradoxplaza.com /forum/developer-diary/behind-the-scenes-1-modding.1602374/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft

    www.ubisoft.com /en-us/game/rocksmith/plus/news-updates/2aWHQHdEaMlORjQqmJwzmg/rocksmith-2014-leaving-stores
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The original rule

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    Development Diary #11: Citizen Simulation & Lifepath

    forum.paradoxplaza.com /forum/developer-diary/development-diary-11-citizen-simulation-lifepath.1596988/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Devs Announce FaceIT Anticheat for BattleBit will be compatible with Linux, Steam Deck

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Devs Announce Faceit Anticheat for BattleBit will be compatible with Linux, Steam Deck

  • [CLOSED] FediLore + Fedidrama @lemmy.ca
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    VLemmy .net's defederation and disappearance

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a 'backdoor' that allowed the CCP to access US user data

    archive.is /ap3on