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  • You shouldn't be downvoted, but this isn't true. While partially funded by Congress, the VOA's mission is not propaganda.

    Since its creation in 1942, Voice of America has been committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the news and telling audiences the truth. Through World War II, the Cold War, the fight against global terrorism, and the struggle for freedom around the globe today, VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press.

    VOA is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government agency that oversees all non-military, U.S. international broadcasting. It is funded by the U.S. Congress.

    Now, we can debate how much this is true in practice, and I'm sure the governmental structure of the organisation means the government can put their thumb on the scale somewhat, but the mission means they're at least meant to keep the pretext of being independent and free.

    But Trump doesn't understand that. In his eyes, he's paying for it (not Congress nor the American voters/taxpayers) and if he's paying for it he gets to boss them around.

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • I voted in Florida and it was really creepy that all the electronic voting machines were managed by a Republican, but not Dems.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • The main thing this article is talking about is supermarkets in the UK that lock all their sale offers behind the loyalty card. Until about a year or two ago, you could go in and buy things on sale or buy one get one free or whatever offer, and then use (or don't use) your loyalty card on top (to collect/spend points), but now you don't get any discounts if you don't have a loyalty card.

    The article/campaigners are spinning this up into something about smartphones, because that's how most people use these loyalty schemes now, but they still have the old style cards so that's a bit of a red herring. The real issue is the way they're tying their standard offers to the loyalty program, and making it more difficult for consumers not to get caught out paying full price.

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  • Ologies is one of my favourites. The host Alie Ward is always so enthusiastic, and the guests always seem to genuinely enjoy being on her show far more than others.

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • Yes but there needs to be some appetite from politicians, Dems seemed completely unwilling to entertain the idea it may have been rigged, perhaps out of fear they would be compared to Trump in 2020. All the noise about election rigging has been about people voting when they couldn't or dead people voting and the like, no one is really talking about simply not counting votes. Meanwhile, we're told that turnout for 2024 was relatively low, and yet the lines out of the polls that I saw were always heaving.

  • Trump reveals 'big, big surprise' for ailing Democrats as he warns Blue states will 'totally disappear off the map'

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  • I also strongly believe that the last election was rigged, and am worried that no one really seems to be looking into it. Between Trump's own claims that he would win no matter what and Elon "It's just one line of code" Musk there is enough to be concerned with. Most likely, I think they simply didn't count a bunch of Dem votes.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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  • You don't need an app to use a loyalty card...

    But yes I am against supermarkets that only provide discounts if you use their loyalty program, which in turn allows them to track your purchases. Especially since many items are priced with the discount as the "fair" price and the full price is really just a money grab.

  • Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

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  • In announcing the change, Twitch cited the "costly" indefinite storage of these highlights, which it says are responsible for "less than 0.1% of hours watched" across the site.

    I don't know how many hours are watched on Twitch, but I bet it's so many that 0.1% is still a fuckton of hours.

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  • Google Confirms Android SafetyCore Enables AI-Powered On-Device Content Classification

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  • You can definitely configure NLP if you install MicroG.

  • Google Confirms Android SafetyCore Enables AI-Powered On-Device Content Classification

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  • Lol Mountain View... Elon Musk has a bunch of satellites that can communicate directly with your phone via 4G almost anywhere in the world.

  • Google Confirms Android SafetyCore Enables AI-Powered On-Device Content Classification

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  • Did you read the article? The GrapheneOS devs are saying the exact same thing as Google here...

    Personally though I wouldn't trust the GrapheneOS devs much, they're a bunch of divas.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • The statement was

    What is it about the lemm.ee domain that produces accounts with the most cringe, awful takes?

    Now, I wouldn't say that's really appropriate here, Dagwood222's comment above that wasn't cringe nor awful. However, apparently UnderpantsWeevil already has this perception of lemm.ee users, and hexbear users making up a chunk of the userbase is my explanation for that.

    No one ever really spoke bad of lemm.ee users before the hexbear defederations, and it was a clear echo of the complaints about lemmy.ml users that also started at the same time. It's just a bandwagon/circlejerk, really; a cheap way of getting upvotes from other users not on those instances that only has a pinch of truth. But that pinch is what I was describing.

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  • The two devs themselves are massive tankies. They also run lemmygrad.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • lemm.ee has one of if not the best admin, and was always running more smoothly in earlier versions. More than that, when other bugs were taking out .world and many others, lemm.ee was already immune and the admin helped the other instances sort theirs out too. lemm.ee has a lot of good users.

    However, when hexbear was banned, users on that instance started moonlighting on other instances. There were very few instances that were still federated with hexbear but also with the others, where all the conversation was - many wanted one account that could browse both. Several went to lemmy.ml, the instance run by the formal lemmy developers, and there was a noticeable shift in user behaviour from the instance. But lemm.ee never really was targeted by the hexbear brigading that led to their defederation with everyone else, perhaps because lemm.ee doesn't really have any massive communities itself, not as big as the others.

    So yeah, lemm.ee can still browse hexbear, and with that you get a sizeable chunk of their userbase spilling over. So some lemm.ee users do indeed suck. It's not as bad as .ml, though, and I think that's in no small part thanks to the lemm.ee admin team keeping the more extremist users in check.

  • Tumblr discusses at-home mental health management.

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  • So the cats had it right all along.

  • Malwarebytes "AI detection" giving false positive from pirated software?

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  • You could always take the performance hit and install it on a virtual machine. I've even heard of people who have an APU (CPU and GPU on the same chip) along with a discrete GPU, or just two GPU's, and they run the base operating system on the weaker GPU then run the VM and dedicate the entire good GPU to it, which gets near to bare metal performance allegedly.

  • Biden is withdrawing his broader student-loan-forgiveness plans that were set to cancel debt for over 38 million borrowers

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  • Trump said he was going to reinstate all the debt anyway.

  • Donald Trump rejects bipartisan plan to avoid a government shutdown, sets up debt ceiling battle

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  • Trump wants to increase the debt ceiling, not so they can finance government projects, but so he can raid the taxpayer coffers to pay his backers.