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  • I voted for Trump!

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  • It's kind of annoying that 51 people lost their jobs to tariffs and they only write an article about the rich guy at the top of the family empire. But I'm sure that the 50 other families' quests for food and shelter and medicine were pretty boring compared with the breakage of the boss's money-generating machine he inherited.

    Granted, he is the one who most deserves the leopardsatemyface recognition.

  • Spill

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  • Senate unanimously agrees to approve Epstein files bill - ABC News

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  • I might be wrong here, but judging by a clip I saw yesterday there wasn't an actual vote. Schumer stood up and said something like "I think we should just unanimously pass it through" and then somebody else asked if there were any objections. There were none so then it passed or something.

  • Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles.

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  • I can totally see conservatives processing it that way.

    You know how they are always looking back to the good old days when they may have had it worse but people unlike them had it a LOT worse? Well if you keep going back as far as they want to take things, to being ruled by nobles or royal families, taking a wife in her teen years was absolutely nothing. And true servants of God need not be limited by the laws of man or some bullshit.

    Consenting adult males, however, have penises and cannot make babies. So it is an affront to fragile conservative sensibilities as well as fragile conservative gods.

  • Which do you have today?

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  • Sending human sounding emails and IMs at work isn't difficult. Just remember that single exclamation point so that you don't sound like you're droning on! Then add a professional closing sentence to round out your completely adequate professional message.

  • Cry cry cry

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  • Somebody should describe the insane hack to these youngins where you can make a collect call to your parents from a pay phone and tell them your name is "HEY COME PICK ME UP!"

    It's like you can send information to somebody across town without having coins in your pocket!

  • Downdetector is down

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  • impossible! I checked!

  • AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

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  • Ah yeah, the perfect gift for a little kid, something with non-deterministic behavior that they can't make do the same crap over and over, lol.

    And yeah, the potential algorithm influenced flow of information into or out of the household is a big concern.

    But the saddest thought for me is toys like these taking the place of parent-child interaction in some of the most significant relationships in our lives (for those of us who have kids). I think we mostly all know that we mostly all spend too much time zoning out in front of screens. But I have really broken myself from constant phone + games + TV this year, and it makes it all the more apparent in those around me. (note that I still use phone/games/TV often, but I spend much more time on other tasks and hobbies)

  • "I never thought they'd eat MY face!"

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  • Yeah, even living in the US I'd say I am patriotic in that I want the best future we can manage for this fucked up place.

    I love my wife and my child even more, but that doesn't mean I pretend they are without flaw and always correct. I would be remiss in my relationships and commitments if I did that, actually.

    But I don't think I'll ever think or say "I am a patriot" because of exactly what you say. It sucks when awful people ruin innocent terms.

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  • I watched the Steam Frame VR headset video of his, after not watching for a long time.

    His voice was grating, sure, but the overall delivery was so much worse. He was like a cartoon character that couldn't decide if they were doing an advertisement or a school report.

  • Tinderule

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  • USian here and I remember knowing about this for most of my life, but I never looked into its origins. I still haven't, and right now I don't care to.

    But holy shit does it feel like racism must have played a role.

    edit to add: I ALSO remember on and after the Jan 6 insurriot how it seemed like hundreds of those people should be going down for felony murder. Funny how that didn't happen.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • Oh I'm well aware, that's why I threw in the part about needing to be utilized. Because even if the engineers are good with their finished product, some VP will eventually ask their director why the team's output has dropped or why they have so many people for so little work.

    I'm an engineer working on a new product right now. Fortunately we're a small outfit with niche customers.

  • Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty

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  • It's already been pointed out how wrong and gross this is.

    But for the sake of discussion let's give her the biggest possible benefit of the doubt.

    So then the president of the united states was ONLY a human sex slave trafficker. Super.

    unfortunately I think her handlers know that simply planting a seed of doubt will work on many in their audience.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • That's one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that's good at what it does.

    When it comes to any tech company's product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.

    Honestly it's like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.

  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • I'd say it's even more unique than a valuable competitive mistake/opportunity.

    Valve has the chance to grow the brand and make a bunch of money and all the other standard goals for a company, sure. But they also have the opportunity to benefit the world in subtle but significant ways while getting richer.

    A normal megacorp might not give a shit about that last part. But a company that is majority owned by one individual who is already a billionaire that looks like santa claus and presumably cares about his legacy and maybe even other people... it might just be possible!

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • That whole article reads like he was a reasonably intelligent person who was born into a christian family. So he's been conditioned to automatically see homosexuality as bad, and been educated in writing eloquent arguments to support his position, but he's just aware enough to not take a stand and actually say what he thinks because that would get him in trouble.

    Even just considering your snippet:

    I'm pretty sure there are genetic dispositions towards different kinds of sexual behaviors and patterns—just as there are genetic dispositions towards such things as alcoholism, racism, elitism, etc.

    This is just an opinion and the logic seems sensible. But why make the comparison to only negative traits and vices?

    A genetic predisposition towards homosexuality does not make homosexuality a 'good' or a 'right,' or even 'okay' for some people.

    Stating the obvious then referring to 3rd party opinions. Doesn't seem to do much other than keep up the negative tone.

    Just as with every other human behavior, a wider worldview must be used to judge the righteousness of a human action or behavior—including acting on homosexual tendencies.

    Whoa, I agree! And using my view of the world and society at large I hereby judge that we need to lay the fuck off of people who act on their homosexual tendencies and focus on actual problems! I wonder if the author can say the same.

    Also, I just want to point out and give a "fuck that" to the heavy focus on "choosing" and "acting" rather than simply existing. In my experience that is a very common step in the short process of dehumanizing somebody and mentally writing off their concerns and rights.

    Dehumanizing somebody for a trait they were born with is obviously doable, but it is still a tougher sell for some people than dehumanizing a person for an intentional act. Even if that act didn't hurt anybody or anything.

    I'll leave the whole train of thought of "how can you punish people for acting like the thing they were born as" as an exercise for the reader.

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • If there was one organization with the motive and resources to help develop an open phone hardware platform, Valve sure seems like a good contender.

    C'mon Gabe, make a name for yourself in computer history. Secure a place in the history books next to Torvalds and Stallman rather than Gates/Jobs/Zuck types.

    Make "steam compatible phone" become the new "IBM compatible PC"!

  • Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]

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  • When I look at this announcement, the hardware is very exciting, for sure. But it is Valve's dedication to Linux that really has me smiling. I don't see three hardware devices to buy. I see two big proclamations for which the hardware is the message:

    1. SteamOS on desktop! It seemed inevitable but it's still great to see.
    2. STEAM VR USING LINUX AS ITS TARGET PLATFORM?!?!?

    I will grant that it's very possible I buy all three pieces of the hardware, even though I like building my own PCs. I will also grant that Valve's support for linux probably would not be what it is without the enshittification of Microsoft's ecosystem. But in this world I'm gonna go ahead and accept the imperfect good news.

  • An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping A Billboard Chart, And That Should Infuriate Us All

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  • Metal is about sex, relationships, breakups, depression, addiction, war, religion, politics, freedom, dragons, and dwarves.