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Slashme

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  • “Would you believe if I told you I voted for this man?” she said, referring to Trump.

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  • First they came for the gays, and I said nothing, because I'm a fucking homophone...

    Wait, I don't think that's what Niemöller said.

  • Greenland PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion

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  • *whose citizenship / whose people

  • Reader maturity

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  • When I was a kid I absolutely loved the Narnia series, to the extent that I was depressed when I finished the last one. As a young adult I tried to reread the books and was stunned at how heavy handed the Christian propaganda was.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Ah, OK!

  • Germany is questioning the future of the European project

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  • There's a big difference between warning that nationalists are a risk to the European project and expressing doubt about the future of the European project.

    The person they're quoting is a green politician, not the chancellor in the picture, and she's absolutely pro European.

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  • You were bornAnd so you're freeSo happy birthday

    -- Laurie Anderson

  • The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

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  • Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.

    The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.

    In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word "Magd" (a cognate of "maid").

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Second hand ThinkPads are absolutely brilliant value.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • garlic and basil in the same pot. They all three

    Wait, are you counting garlic, basil and the pot, or how are you getting to three?

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Wait, you didn't know this before getting into it? That's the first thing I ever heard about it, and I've never owned any 40K anything.

  • What do you wish you'd have known before you started your hobby(s)?

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  • Lenses maybe, camera bodies, nah.

  • Germany, Sweden, France and Norway confirmed sending military personnel to Greenland | DW News

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  • And Russia rubs its hands in glee at having divided the West. Great job, MAGA.

  • Closing programs

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  • "apt install

    <program>

    " is just so much nicer than running some weird installer.

  • An unraveling Justice Department appears to be coming apart at the seams

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  • Republicans: "We have to drop DEI and start hiring based on merit."

    Also Republicans: fill departments with people hired based on no merit whatever.

  • Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland | Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security.

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  • Ruel

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  • As a massive Wikipedia fan and a longtime editor, the comments in this post make me very happy. You're my people, Lemmy!

  • Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world

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  • In the 80s and 90s, America was massively involved in destabilising Central America and the Middle East.

    Iran-Contra / Nicaragua, Panama, first Gulf war, Afghanistan...

  • Christian dad sued school to keep his son from knowing that LGBTQ+ people exist. He just won.

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  • The case isn't finished yet, I see, so maybe sanity can yet prevail. So far it's just a preliminary injunction.

    “The question presented here is not whether the viewpoints of plaintiff, or those of the school officials, are ‘correct’ as a matter of religious faith or political or social belief. Nor is it whether the materials should be part of the kindergarten curriculum for other students,” Saylor, a George W. Bush appointee, explained. “Instead, this case presents a narrow question: whether these specific defendants have provided the required notice and opportunity to review materials that this specific plaintiff may find objectionable, so that he may opt his child out of classroom instruction that violates his religious beliefs.”

    In granting Alan L.’s request for a preliminary injunction, which will remain in place while the case proceeds, Saylor ordered the school and district to “make reasonable efforts to ensure that J.L. is not taught or otherwise exposed to the content of the Identified Books, whether in the classroom or any other school setting” and to ensure J.L. receives “reasonable age-appropriate alternative instruction.”

    Lawyers for Lexington Public Schools, however, said the district looks forward to “aggressively defending against these claims.” In a statement, attorneys Douglas I. Louison and Alexandra M. Gill noted the district’s existing religious-based opt-out program and that the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud decision “made it clear that depicting the mere existence of potentially-offensive values or lifestyles is not enough to warrant an opt-out, and that it is the messaging associated with those potentially-offensive materials that determines whether an opt-out is warranted.”

    “In this case, the materials are not associated with any LGBTQ+-focused curriculum or paired instruction, nor was the student even exposed to the two books at issue,” Louison and Gill added, according to the Herald.

    Louison and Gill also noted the burden opt-out demands like Alan L.’s place on schools.

    “This is not like a student with a peanut allergy, where the implementation of an accommodation to protect the student is reasonably clear,” they wrote. “Schools are burdened enough without having to scour the pages of a storybook for potentially gay-appearing characters. At what point, for instance, is a character’s haircut too short to presume they are a woman? Are two men sitting together at a restaurant presumed to be gay, or might they just be friends? There are innumerable scenarios like these, and schools are now being forced to make near-impossible judgments.”

  • Xiaomi's timer app tries to be cool and fails at functionality.

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  • It happened to me quite a few times before I realised what was going on. You click the time and then click "go". It takes less than a second.