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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

  • Your mileage may vary

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  • But don't pray to it. Pray to Joe Pesci. He gets things done.

  • Simple, Stupid, and it always works

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  • That's old, but how many here recall the old car radios where you manually set a station preset by pulling the selector out, then pushing it back in? I can't even find a picture of one because of the age and trying to find the right search words.

    I wouldn't classify how it worked as simple though, still seemed like magic.

  • Trump says he’d endorse Jake Paul for political office

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  • Don't Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.

  • Elevating injured Mojtaba Khamenei to supreme leader shows Iranian war machine can run on autopilot

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  • Was going to make some Titanic analogy jokes, but in trying to do so it's just depressing.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

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  • A number of weeks ago I noted that one app I use through Lutris for the various settings needed had stopped loading. So I did a lot of looking around to figure out what was going on (didn't know it was Lutris, I searched mention of issues with the app, with Wine, etc.)

    Finally ran across a bug report in the Lutris github that sounded like my problem. And part of it was how slow some updates filter out, so I ended up doing an uninstall from the manager and manually forcing an update. And all is good now.

    I wonder if the bug was AI driven (don't even recall what it was, it was a small update that broke things for some people).

    Great to know I should probably expect more fires later. I probably need to see if I can make this app run on my own in Wine. A shame, it's working fine as is. But I need to be ready.

  • Trump administration estimates Iran war cost at over $11 billion in six days, source says

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  • This winning kinda sucks, not going to lie.

    Imagine what anything could have been done constructively, domestically or internationally, with this money. But hey, we got to blow things up. Yay.

  • Anyone play EGA Trek in the late 80s?

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  • Had a C-64 version of it. Not quite as many windows, larger grid. Same objective: bring peace to the galaxy. One photon torpedo at a time. :D

    A friend had a game on their TRS-80, same concept, but zero Trek references.

  • Cargo ship catches fire in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels hit by 'unknown projectiles'

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  • Money.

  • Andre the Giant with Lee Majors, on the set of "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1976)

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  • If I remember correctly (and lord it's been a while) there is a good reason it would be a scifi premise. At least one of the episodes, anyway.

    I liked the Venus probe that crashed and thought it was on Venus. That show had some wild stuff.

  • US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now

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  • Can't risk sending military equipment into places where it might be attacked.

    Can't make this up.

  • Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links

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  • Why DID is the correct phrasing? And there were reasons then. More bad than good, but that's the advantage of being first, then biggest.

    Why trust them now? It's not trust when it's what's embedded everywhere, required by most large companies. The licensing that was Microsoft's key into everything became dependency. And dependencies can be broken, but that takes time and effort. There's been movement...

    If they keep doing this Co-pilot shit, they'll be helping the cause.

  • YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable

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  • I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can't find a workaround, then I'll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it's just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they'll leave.

  • What do you think of the name Cliff?

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  • What's old is new again. I'm pretty sure I've heard some recent baby names that I would place more in the turn of the 20th century. Reusing older, creating totally new, or taking known names and spelling them oddly. They'll all have critics.

  • I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?

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  • Aside from the several good twists, what gets me about this story is thinking about the scale of time. If a normal person likely can't remember what meal they ate last year on this date, imagine that x1000 (and more). Such a great concept.

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    Americans aren't ready to wake up and recognize religious pedophiles own their country

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  • This may be a common human thing to do. The difference is the buffer zone that someone has before things become unbearable. Not an excuse, the right thing to do in a society that's interconnected and educated is not to wait until that point to take action. But... we could probably argue how interconnected and educated people are with echo chambers and propaganda designed to keep them in control.

    At some point things do break, regardless. Hopefully sooner than later.

  • U.S. orders staff to leave Saudi Arabia as war spreads; Iran rules out immediate ceasefire

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  • Eisenhower warned us. The US took what it learned from how WWII sparked the country's growth and embraced it fully. And then it became even worse, looking for opportunities. Creating them even.

    The point we're at now is making the past exploits look tame. WTAF are we doing?

  • "Oh Deep Thought, what is the ultimate answer to the problem of the climate crisis?"

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  • Deep Thought: "LOL"

  • I like trains

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  • "AI slop" or just "slop" has already broadened its definition to mean anything you don't like or agree with. Think of it as the modern "r/thathappened" or "photoshopped".

  • Mojtaba Khamenei, son of ayatollah killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, named Iran's new supreme leader, state media reports

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  • Not at all equal time measures.

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