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  • Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel

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  • It's easy to rage against the machine on a moral pedestal. It's harder to actually steer the machine in the right direction.

    To be clear, I am supportive of putting things to a vote even if there's no chance it succeeds. Get the votes on record. I think that's an important archive that can be used later in election season to hold politicians accountable for their votes.

    I like what Bernie and AOC are doing when they push for these kinds of votes.

    But make no mistake. They can only do this from a position of being unable to effect any change. Under normal conditions, moves like this poison the well and make others on both sides less willing to work with you.

    They have the luxury of grandstanding specifically because they have zero hope of garnering support.

    Someone like a president can't really do something like this without completely burning their political capital.

  • Elon Musk’s popularity plummets to 6% among Democrats, poll finds

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  • Musk bought one of the biggest social media platforms expressly to manipulate news, which in turn manipulates politics and markets.

    He's basically like a narcissistic Rupert Murdock who wants to make his manipulation all centered around how cool he is.

    That's news.

    Taylor Swift is just filler content. It's taking the place of worlds largest cookie stories. But the reason it gains traction is that she has taken on a bit of a counter persona to the Right's habitual sexism. She's an influential woman. The Right can't stand that shit.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • Man, that sounds familiar. I gave up on Escape from Tarkov for the same reason.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • I did this with Blizzard/Activision years ago.

    Zero impact.

  • Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99

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  • I know CA voted for more humane living conditions for egg farms years ago. That seemed to have a direct price impact that slowly came down a bit.

  • Florida's new COVID booster guidance is straight-up misinformation

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  • Same with the rest of their culture war.

    It has never been about governing or public health. Ever.

    This is about latching onto fear and hate and further polarizing people. Because feeding that hate is what their base wants, and raises your status in their hate group.

    It has always been about selfish attempts at taking the reigns of the hate train. The destruction in their wake is just the cost to play to them.

  • Selective rage

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  • I also thought Liam as ra's al ghul was a really bizarre pick during the movie, too. But I guess I got over it quickly enough, because Liam Neeson.

  • Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

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  • As demonstrated by the same kind of barrage of insane shit Trump and his administration did when they were in power. It was just rapid for crazy shit to drown out whatever bad story they wanted attention away from, constantly.

    It amazing that half the voting population wants that back.

  • 'Deranged': Experts tear apart Trump's 'ludicrous' plan on grocery prices

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  • Sure. He's an idiot, no argument. But I think he understands leverage, and what tariffs means to domestic leverage over their consumers because of lack of competition. But ultimately, his understanding doesn't matter, the voters understanding does. And I doubt many who are considering voting for him understand that tariffs are worst for them personally.

  • 'Deranged': Experts tear apart Trump's 'ludicrous' plan on grocery prices

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  • It's certainly possible, but I don't buy that level of ignorance.

    Trump was savvy enough to keep interest rates low to heavily inflate real estate as the obvious money dump for free money. As a real estate mogul, this directly benefited him personally.

    And don't give me that nieve nonsense that the president doesn't control the fed reserve. Trump's corruption was thorough and complete.

    Trump absolutely understands basic economic principles of supply and demand. He is constantly trying to manipulate competition to give himself more power so he can gain from it. It's the same as raising tariffs to give domestic producers more power so they can raise their profits at the cost to the consumer.

    He just doesn't give a shit about the consumer, only the kickbacks he gets from the producers.

  • 'Deranged': Experts tear apart Trump's 'ludicrous' plan on grocery prices

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  • I don't know how you can miss that, though.

    Tariffs on imported goods means the price raises to cover the increased cost to import it.

    Tariffs are a mechanism to encourage domestic production by making foreign competition more expensive.

    It's literally the opposite of reducing the cost to consumers.

    Trump has to understand this. But he knows his rabid base do not. So he says it like it's going to help consumers, rather than exclusively the domestic producers that are already overcharging.

  • “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs

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  • Both can be true.

    Preserved and curated datasets to train AI on, gathered before AI was mainstream. This has the disadvantage of being stuck in time, so-to-speak.

    New datasets that will inevitably contain AI generated content, even with careful curation. So to take the other commenter's analogy, it's a shit sandwich that has some real ingredients, and doodoo smeared throughout.

  • Don't be hatin', this is what American Culture looks like

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  • You seem to be ignorant of the subject matter. Google "full english breakfast".

  • Don't be hatin', this is what American Culture looks like

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  • Eh. I've had it, and it was fine. I've had the meat heavy full breakfast version too, and it was fine.

    Certainly nothing I miss after leaving, nor something to avoid while there.

    5/10, bland but sufficient.

  • AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses

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  • Shift-left eliminated the QA role.

    Now we have AI generated shit code, with devs that don't understand the low level details of both the language, and the specifics of the generated code.

    So we basically have content entry (ai inputs) and extremely shitty QA bundled into the "developer" role.

    As a 20 year veteran of the industry, people keep asking me if I think AI will make developers obsolete. I keep telling them "maybe some day, but today's LLMs are not it. The AI bubble is going to burst, and a few legit use cases will make it through"

  • MAGA are more angry about this "shooting" than they are about school shootings. Why is that?

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  • Could have been one of them newfangled Libertarians, who align 100% with Republicans, but are independent thinkers because they consume "alt" media instead of Fox News.

    They might even be mildly against Trump because they're such independent thinkers (translation: contrarian), and may vote 3rd party. That way all of the worlds problems are someone else's fault.

  • Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says baseless claims about Haitian immigrants are 'garbage'

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  • Yep. He doesn't give a shit. It's just that the leopard is currently eating his (state's constituent's) face, so he has to go against the party narrative. That's it.

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  • You might have just triggered someone to kill someone. How dare you say those aggressive triggering words.

    You see how dumb that sounds?

  • You shall not pass!

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  • For the first half year, I had to escort my now-wife down my hallway with a broom or towel to fend of my cat who did not like sharing me.

    And she had several cats of her own. When I warned her up front about my crazy cat, she was so cocky.