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  • Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

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  • Canadians and Americans are wrong and it pollutes the discourse because it pretends that there's nothing other than liberalism on the left. Not sure about Canada because there's actually more than 2 parties, but the US Democratic party is not even left of center, it's left of far right, but using the term liberal masks that and pretends they're left. Doesn't Canada's "actually left from center" party still have a hard time getting recognized as a real alternative? Do they call that party liberal or do they distinguish it from that other "slightly more left than the conservatives" party?

  • Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany

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  • Piracy is usually free yeah but that really doesn't count.

  • Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany

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  • You are talking about the business extension that was already available everywhere, but it requires buying it. I haven't looked into it but I haven't seen anything saying it was free. The article is talking about Germany and the free version that Europe forced Microsoft to enable for everyone, even without a subscription - but only in Europe. That one is only one year.

  • Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

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  • A 2008 book. Relevant difference.

  • Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

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  • Counterpoint

    With a later addendum

    Disclaimer: I think this paper is still not much recognized because no one wants to double-check the translation, so this analysis is still in limbo AFAIK. Still a great read. Also still a meteor impact.

    Making a book to sell to people who don't know anything instead of a research paper that can get peer reviewed kind of tells you what the intention is.

  • The Democrats are the undisputed masters of gaslighting

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  • Pretty sure everybody was warning the Democrats about ICE when Biden was up, and all they did was... give them more power. They knew when they had the ability to curb it down.

    They're also still voting to give them more money.

  • Wow, I'm sure this will work out well

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  • A big river like the Rhine is usable as a border because it is absolutely a natural border easily defended for an army. Both armies come from their respective capitals and don't really care that the towns on both sides are friends and have deep cultural and economic ties. They only care how easily they can dunk on the soldiers or barbarians as they are waddling through the water.

  • Leaked Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Test Presentation Impreses After Cancellation

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  • The Sands of Time remake was announced years ago and a lot of players were really looking forward to it, it was one of their most popular games. That talked about it a couple times in recent years, but they announced its cancellation the other day.

    There was also the hope of reviving the franchise, since the alternative was no PoP at all after Lost Crown and Rogue apparently didn't make enough according to the bean-pushers.

    I liked the '08 game a lot more, and I'm not super fond of the designs they're showing in this leak, but it's clear that they were treating it as a decent remake but not AAAA graphics, just a nice upgrade making it look 10 years old instead of 20 years old, and the higher-ups want more of the next gen visuals slop so they called this "doesn't meet our standards". I'm sure they wanted a big return on investment for all the years they've been talking about this remake.

  • ‘I'm Not Giving ICE Another Dime’: Schiff Says Republicans Who Vote To Give ICE More Funding Will ‘See More Americans Die’

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  • To kill people.

  • For those who's country's national language is NOT English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language?

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  • French, I watch and read almost nothing in French. I never use French dub.

    Irish accent kicked my ass the couple times I went there. Scottish accent was tough too. I worked with people speaking with an Indian accent without much issues.

    No issue in US, Canada, England.

  • 17 per cent of Americans want the U.S. to annex Canada: survey

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  • Not American but I'll try

    1. It's cold
    2. don't mess with the moose or the geese
    3. ... ah fuck

  • Europe condemns Trump’s ‘new colonialism’ as Greenland crisis grows

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  • Popped blood vessel, he said.

  • Randezvous 📅

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  • The Normans just spoke French, it's everybody else who fucked it up by going halfsies about it!

  • Say hello to my little friend

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  • For the record, I'm basing this on the movie, idk if the comic is fundamentally different or mostly aesthetically so.

    The main difference was he didn't nuke various cities, but created some giant mutant psychic squid and teleported it on New York, killing millions (somehow, between the splash and the dying psychic squid causing mass mind liquefaction), and making the world think they were being attacked by some space alien, rather than making Dr. Manhattan the enemy. Movie version was quite a nice twist.

    Killing the people has never been proven to be a very effective way to stop a rogue government, if the government is not physically impacted by random civilians getting killed, however many of them are killed. But in Watchmen, he didn't simply kill civilians - he faked a common threat that the governments would be afraid of to divert their attention. Space squids in the comics, Dr. Manhattan going biblical in the movie. Depends how hard the governments buy it. In the movie, Dr. Manhattan siding with that idea means he could probably sell it well enough to make it believable - giving the world an ultimatum after someone else already pressed the button. Who knows about the squid version. The conclusion given in the comics / movie is that he was kinda right as long as Dr. Manhattan said screw it and supported it (mass slaughter notwithstanding, of course). The whole premise also does rely on the inevitability of shit hitting the fan, which... yeah, world with or without superpowers, it's hard to reject that notion. But today? Who knows if some sort of walking god nuke just glassing Moscow, Washington, and a bunch of other big capitals would even be enough to curb down the delusions of our major fascist nazi nutcases, outside of actually vaporizing the entirety of their armies, including the fascists in chief themselves in all countries.

  • Say hello to my little friend

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  • Learning Japanese

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  • Doitsu means whichever, or Germany (deformed from Deutsch)

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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

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  • No, it was a pun for "life" in the Sumerian original.

  • Removed

    And there was much rejoicing

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  • And that's why memeing about things not proven in court is illegal.