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SuddenDownpour

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  • 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

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  • The Judiciary has decided that the Executive must not be beholden to neither the Legislative nor the Judiciary. This is terrible, because it breaks the separation of powers. Now, if only the Executive wasn't beholden to any of the other powers to force the Judiciary to go back to reason... Oh, wait.

    Irony aside: no, this isn't a matter of not having standards, this is a matter of making sure that democracy is capable of perpetuating itself. If the organism gets infected by a virus that intends to mutate the whole thing into a degenerated parody of itself, it must send its antibodies. Not doing so means letting the last line of defense fall all by itself, which is even against the very spirit of the law.

  • On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?

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  • "Redditors of Reddit, how do you sexily sex the sex out of sexy sex???"

    Serious response: you can't really make a very general rule. There are a lot of people who write quite maturely since their teens, and a lot of people who are morons since their teens and have endless dedication and determination to remain in that state for as long as they breathe.

  • Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?

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  • If anyone needs proof about what you're saying: just compare the backlash against the EU taking in 1 million Syrian refugees (which lasted for years) vs the backlash against the EU taking in 4 million Ukrainian refugees (of which I've heard virtually no complaints).

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

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  • Homo Sapiens develop a mutation XYZ that makes them not be attracted towards Neanderthals -> Neanderthals go extinct -> XYZ is NOW vestigial.

  • French parliamentary election: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) projected to win first round, beating the leftist NPF alliance and Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble

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  • The real news is that Melenchon has finally managed to make it to the second round. And the question now is whether Macron's voters are as compromised about stopping fascism as they've claimed for years to the point that they'll vote to horrified gasp raise their taxes.

  • French parliamentary election: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) projected to win first round, beating the leftist NPF alliance and Emmanuel Macron's centrist Ensemble

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  • Conservatives need to stop projecting their kinks into real life. It ain't healthy.

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

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  • No "till", plenty of living beings have vestigial elements that were positive at some point of their history, yet no longer are, but are still maintained because there isn't evolutionary pressure to get rid of them.

  • Tip?

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  • That's a great argument against patronizing the business.

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.

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  • Because otherwise you might be mating with a Neanderthal.

  • France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis

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  • Please remember to report before blocking.

  • Supreme Court says cities can ban homeless from sleeping outside

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  • Can you solve the equation?

    Homelessness becomes illegal + For-profit prison system that's allowed by law to force prisoners to work + increasing cost of rent + lower relative price of labor =

    Situation of dog eats dog, increasingly pauperized labor market where the poorest layer of the population gets enslaved, and the second poorest, and the third poorest, and the n-th poorest all will also fall one by one, because guess what? Free workers now have to compete in wages with prisoners.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.

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  • Look. Bitcoins might be useless at a societal level. But if we're going to use excess renewable energy to drive out of business the crypto-miners who get their power from coal...

  • To all you outside of the US...

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  • The vibes I get from the French left in social media remind me of the days when Podemos (in Spain) was soaring. It gives me a bit of hope. Good luck.

  • To all you outside of the US...

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  • "The scary socialist madman" accompanied by the Democratic Party apparatus? A presidential candidate Sanders along with a moderate liberal VP would have gotten both the traditional Democratic vote (as long as the party collaborated with him, rather than giving him the Corbyn treatment, which I don't trust liberals not to do) and a considerable chunk of the electorate who doesn't feel represented by either party. The day you guys understand that you don't have to fight the Republicans in traditional terms, but rather, to change the coordinates of the fight, you'll force Republicans to choose between evolving or getting buried. But the real problem by this point is whether it is too late.

  • Lemmy is the best social media

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  • Look, you haven't sold me on the idea, but I'm going to upvote you because, if nothing else, this is an original take.

  • MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden

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  • The typo will stay.

  • South Korean military says 350 waste balloons detected from North Korea overnight as tensions flare

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  • Welcome to the shittiest timeline.

  • MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden

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  • As far as I know, Adderall for people without ADHD induces the self-perception of higher performance, yet increase in performance isn't actually statistically noticeable, so it might be useful for someone who feels emotionally stuck (afraid of failing, tired), but not for someone who does not have the capacity to do well, much like caffeine only gives you the self-perception that you're less tired than you actually are.

  • MAGA panics before Donald Trump's first debate with Biden

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  • Both of these guys are ancient. I wouldn't care if any of them used drugs (as long as they don't pose long-term risks for their health) because they might as well be medication. Or are we going to be so dense that the idea that two 80 years olds are likely taking some medication is going to fly over our heads? Furthermore, where do we draw the line of what a "drug-enhancing drug" is? Coffee? Most adults take it to function under inhuman schedules. Adderall? If you do have ADHD, you do also need it to function; if you don't have it, it's going be even less useful than coffee. Anything else that they bought at a pharmacy? I don't care.

    All in all, this looks like a talking point made up by people who want to treat politics like a sport, where we're supposed to watch "athletes" compete with equal opportunity for performance, which is definitely not what a presidential debate should be about.