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  • 'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States

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  • I keep saying this and I'm honestly surprised that some of the educated sociopaths in the Republican party haven't pushed back. But maybe they can't get anybody elected without feeding the hate.

    The point is: Even if you remove all morality and you do not care one bit about the lived experience of other human beings who also only get to live once, it is STILL stupid to be ejecting people from the country. Our economy is built on infinite growth, and you cannot grow your portfolio of companies and/or stocks without a supply of laborers to underpay.

    Good on us for driving away both ends of the spectrum -- the cheap laborers AND the Ph.D academics!

    edit: I forgot to mention that this is happening in the context of the population of the entire developed world beginning to level off and even decline. I feel like one of the big social ills of the next generation could be developing nations still getting the shaft on the global stage as all the rich countries court their best workers.

    If you look at the list & map here, you can see that the only continent still adding to the world population is Africa.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

  • Raskin Says Trump's Name Appears in the Unredacted Epstein Files Over One Million Times: Report

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  • I bet some of the worst of them are psychopaths who don't directly enjoy it as much as they enjoy proving that they can do it and get away with it. Because they're special. They're better than everybody else. Clearly. /s

  • With great power...ignorance is bliss?

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  • If you do a search for something like "why is Rust safer than C++" you will find multiple examples of the fun ways we can screw ourselves in c/c++, lol.

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • Hello, friends in civilized lands, especially those of you who work at financial institutions...

    Some of us in the states are excited to watch you do some damage to the entrenched middlemen that have been skimming from all of us for so long. Please do consider letting us sign up for the new stuff. Our money is still worth something, for now!

  • Tastes like enshittification.

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  • I ended up on AnyType and still really like it.

    It's kind of open source even if not proper FOSS, it has effortless cloud sync on free accounts INCLUDING mobile apps, and it is focused on privacy and local first. Like I don't think I have a login and password - there's just a 12-word passphrase that gets generated on device and that lets me connect my other devices to my "account."

    I don't think it directly stores things in plain text, but the interface makes it easy to use it as an organized pile text pages, because that's what I usually want to do. You can of course export it as well.

  • Important Announcement

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  • What color are they now, what color are they now?

    A fine pink mist, oh a fine pink mist!

  • Still alive?

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  • normal people realizing he was never killed

    Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

    (I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

  • Top of the world, ma

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  • I feel like the third panel really captures the essence "I am angry about everything and you've shown me something I don't like, which I guess can exist as long as it hides in the shadows away from my righteous gaze, therefore you are SHOVING it down my THROAT and I am morally justified in attacking those people until they go away"

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  • Oh good. I would hate to make it all the way to lunch time without being reminded that this country is run by mid popcorn movie villains.

    This is not a complaint about the OP. This is a complaint about stupid evil people in positions of power, and their enablers.

  • fedi is my home

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  • When it comes to "traditionally geeky topics" I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.

    But for me, and I would wager it's the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.

    As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.

    Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don't even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.

  • As Trump’s DHS Ravages US, Schumer Says His Job Is “to Fight for Aid to Israel”

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  • We've had one, yes, but what about second genocide?

  • Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

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  • politicians argue "no one will want to be a cop if we hold them accountable for their actions."

    That sounds a lot like when they insist that nobody will ever innovate if they ever have to pay taxes when they get rich off their product.

  • Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?

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  • No, because I can't shake the feeling that I'll be watching a documentary in a decade or two and learn that these Nazis took multiple ideas from works of fiction meant to be a warning.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • Oh yeah agreed. Their role in the rat race makes up a significant part of their personal identity. That's part of the design, to keep you focused on your consumption instead of your life.

    I guess I should have referred to the noise as attention-grabbing things instead of serious things, lol.

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • offering up his apartment to fellow protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray

    Wow what a terrorist! When other citizens walk in with pepper spray on them he lets them wash it off?

    I bet he and his co-conspirators were involved with the undcheduled shut down of the Orphan Crushing Machine too!

  • Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre

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  • My son was the prime age for Baby Shark when it blew up a few years ago.

    I remember we were on a ride at a little local amusement park and some girls started singing Baby Shark.

    I was the dad that stepped in right on the beat and bellowed out "DAAAAAADDY SHARK DOOT DOOT..." with as much bass in my voice as I could manage.

    I grew up in a conservative household. Fuck that whole universe of attitudes.

  • Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene

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  • If you're putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.

    I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.

  • I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted

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  • Did anybody else here make the grave mistake of doing this in Oblivion, the game notorious for enemy auto-leveling?

    I went off doing random shit the moment that Captain Picard let me out of that sewer, and by the time I showed up to be the Hero of Kvatch I was this crazy invisible assassin of doom, and probably at the top of the thieves guild or the dark brotherhood or both.

    So then if memory serves, the town is under attack from monsters and is on fire. The game drops me into a small walled-in arena and instead of whatever lv 1 imps and cockroaches are normally there, I'm holding my bow and arrow and looking up the fiery eyes of half a dozen 12-foot-tall giga-chad linebacker demons from hell. Oh and look they are already sprinting in my direc-- DEAD!

    I probably took some creative liberties there but you get the idea.

    I think I had to lower the difficulty slider to get through that room. Then I put it back to normal assuming the worst was over, only to have the game put me through a CORRIDOR of hyper-strong enemies next! So twice I had to lower the difficulty.

    On one hand, this happened because my character was a min-maxed glass cannon, and a stereotypical one at that (stealth archer, how original! /s). But that same character had no problem with the entire game before or after that town because the whole point of the game is to have the freedom to approach encounters as you wish.

    So in many ways that situation was less about auto-leveling, and more about the meme-worthy situations where a boss late in the game requires completely new mechanics the player has never seen. Or even better, it was the anti-forced-stealth-mission!

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • I wonder, is hatred of advertising a common thing for folks with ADHD? They take away something you are giving your attention to because it interests you, and shove some other crap in your face just to serve their own interests.

    I remember being enraged at the scheduled commercial breaks in the '80s and '90s. The only benefit they had was that I always knew which segment of the show I was in and therefore roughly what time it was.

    But now? It is so much damn worse and the normies just seem more OK with it than ever. I just remind myself they are living in a society that conditions them to accept it and gives them a thousand more serious things to worry about.

    Edit: some words not have right letters