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  • Republican declares second "civil war" has started in US

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  • How would a civil war be fought in the US in 2025? Where would the battle lines be drawn? It seems like if any skirmishes were to break out anywhere, the police and the military would come in and reestablish order very quickly. Maybe if there was fighting within the military itself, but then whichever side controlled the most strategically important military bases would win quickly and easily. I just don't see it happening.

    I could see some kind of guerilla action, however. I could see assassinations, shootings and bombings, kind of like what happened in Northern Ireland in the 90s. Maybe cyber attacks as well.

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  • I want my taxes to go to ensuring that everyone, even those who live in poorer areas, have good schools, including colleges and universities, at low or no tuition; good quality well maintained infrastructure, and quality universal healthcare, at low or no cost at the point of service. I also want my tax dollars to go to public sanitation and public safety services, so that everyone can live in clean, safe neighborhoods. I do not want this out of pure altruism, I want all of this for selfish reasons. I know that I am better off when EVERYONE has a clean, well maintained, safe, healthy and educated community to live in. I benefit from that, so I am more than willing to pitch in my fair share for it.

  • Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do

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  • Deflation would be bad, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that debt defaults, both public and private, would skyrocket. So, no, we don't want lower prices, as that would certainly mean a significant recession, if not depression.

    What people, desperately, desperately need is for their income to AT LEAST keep up with inflation. Any household that doesn't see their yearly income increase at least as much as the rate of inflation, are getting a pay cut. And when you consider that housing, a ubiquitous, universal human need, has increased in price much faster than the overall rate of inflation, really people probably need their income to increase much more than the base inflation rate.

  • Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety

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  • The US is the dictator of the world, and has been for some time.

  • Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs

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  • Yeah, Trump's an idiot, but the American people are bigger idiots for voting for him, twice.

  • The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming

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  • I really think we'd be better off just reducing GHG emissions as quickly as possible. I realize we're not doing that, but that fact doesn't necessarily make solar geoengineering (or solar radiation management, whatever you want to call it) a better idea. In fact, it might make it a worse idea. Geoengineering should only be done (if at all) in conjunction with rapid reductions in GHG emissions and carbon capture and sequestration. Doing geoengineering without GHG emissions reductions and carbon capture is at best a complete waste and at worst a total disaster.

  • Workers inside Department of Education say Trump’s latest bid to dismantle agency ‘makes no sense’

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  • And the neoliberals/libertarians/anarcho capitalists cheered. Of course people who worship the "free market," and who believe that governments can only ever do harm and that taxation is theft, want the government to be dysfunctional. Because, ultimately, they don't want the government to function, at all. Why would they? Why would someone who adamantly believes that governments are always bad want a functioning government?

  • The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia

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  • It's the tragedy of the commons. However, there are solutions to the tragedy of the commons, but for the solutions to work, we need to hold each other accountable. If we don't rein in these out of control, egomaniac billionaires, we will succumb to tragedy. No longer can we celebrate, indulge, or even tolerate the actions of people like Musk. There must be accountability.

  • Now that I've learned some German

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  • No one who speaks German can be an evil man.

  • developer of game 'Rust' talks about anticheat on linux

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  • If Valve's expanding hardware lineup helps increase SteamOS adoption, they'll change their tune.

  • This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change

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  • Who was projecting that global energy related CO2 emissions would increase from 34 gigatons to 50 gigatons between 2014 and 2040? Was that a reasonable projection? What was it based on? Is this evidence of "progress" or inaccurate projecting into the future?

    I can project that the murder rate will increase 50% between now and 2050, and then when the murder rate only goes up 10% I can say, "omg, we've made such great progress on the murder rate," even though it still went up, because it didn't go up as much as I projected it would. But was my projection likely or even feasible in the first place?

  • Government Reopening Hits a Snag After Rand Paul Throws a Wrench in Shutdown Deal

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  • A deal to end the 41-day government shutdown is running into turbulence, thanks to a single Senate objection: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

    Senate Republican and Democratic leaders say they need to resolve Paul’s objection to a provision in the government funding package before they can accelerate consideration of the bill. The provision would restrict the unregulated sale of intoxicating...hemp-derived products like Delta-8 at gas stations, corner stores, or online without federal regulation.

    I mean, do we really need this provision, right now? I'm not necessarily opposed to federal regulation of Delta-8 products, but can't we address that at a later date? Let's get the government open and worry about Delta-8 later.

  • Minisforum launches its first ARM-based Mini PC with a full x16 PCIe slot for discrete GPUs — The MS-R1 packs a 12-core Cixin P1 SoC with up to 64 GB of RAM and generous IO, starting at $500

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  • I don't think ARM based hardware makes much sense for a desktop, even a mini PC. There are plenty of x86 based mini PCs that are doing just fine. But, ARM based makes so, so much more sense for mobile devices, and just anything that runs on a battery, like a laptop. I would love to see an ARM based Steam deck, for instance. Sure, it wouldn't necessarily be as powerful, but it would be lighter, quieter, and the battery life would be much better.

  • Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’

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  • People who believe strongly in hierarchy, especially what they believe are "natural" hierarchies, are, obviously, opposed to democracy. Democracy is inherently egalitarian, because all voters have exactly the same number of votes: one. In a democracy, the billionaire CEO and the $30,000 a year cashier, have one vote each. No more, no less. The billionaire CEO is more likely to dislike this arrangement because it doesn't properly respect his "superiority." It's ludicrous to the billionaire CEO that a mere cashier should have the same number of votes as him. He might even believe that it is "unnatural," because he believes that his superiority is something that is innate. He was born superior and he will die superior, and his greater financial success is proof of that innate superiority, and it was inevitable, in his mind.

  • society

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  • People want validation not advice, even if that advice could fix their problem.

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    This is going to be the origin story of a Punisher character if they keep this up.

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  • How do I know this isn't just a pic someone snapped of guy in parking lot crying because he just lost his job, or because he was just informed that his mom died?

  • AI stocks head for more than $800 billion in losses this week

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  • It'll get worse.

  • Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo

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  • In his memo, Gates wrote that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise”. This misunderstands climate scientists’ warnings, said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy.

    “I have not seen a single scientific paper that ever posited that the human race would become extinct … it’s a straw man, the way he’s proposing it,” she said. “He’s speaking about it as if scientists are saying that, and we’re not: what we are saying is that suffering increases with each 10th of a degree of warming.”

    The memo from a “very influential person who controls a lot of money” hinges on “inarguably a false binary” between a world where everything is fine and “literally the end of the world”, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

    “In reality, there’s a whole hell of a lot of bad things that can happen in between,” he said.

    Exactly. So many people act like there are only two possibilities: climate change is a hoax, everything's fine and growth and prosperity will not be affected by global warming. Or climate change is real and it's going to kill us all. Neither of those two scenarios are likely. We're not going extinct, but everything isn't just going to be hunky-dory, either.

    The thing is, no one can tell you exactly where we'll be by 2100, because that depends on what we do between now and then. If we get our act together and bring down emissions rapidly, we will be in a better spot in 2100 than if emissions remain elevated for longer.

    Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that emissions will stay elevated for a while. I don't see us decreasing our GHG emissions significantly any time soon.

  • Does Terminal use actually make sense in the real world?

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  • I fixed a family member's Windows PC once. Stuck in an update boot loop. Had to rebuild the bootloader to fix it. It took ten minutes once I looked up the commands online. He had already taken it to a PC repair shop and they said all they could do was reinstall the operating system. Honestly, these Windows people are like handicapped because they never really interact with their computers. They only interact with a kind of software nanny that keeps them away from the scary stuff for their own good.

    I love my terminal.

  • Tesla’s European and Chinese customers are staying away in droves

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  • EV adoption in the US is going to suffer as a result of the industry being dominated by tech bros. It's unfortunate that buying into the EV industry in the US also means buying into a toxic culture. I just want a car that happens to be electric, I'm not interested in joining a techno-utopian cult.

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