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  • Gorka and his hard-right views on Islam head back to the White House

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  • Some would say the terrorists never left. People in Gaza are dead, regardless of sound bite quality and political correctness.

  • Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Can’t Happen If US Military Members Resist It

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  • Yep, all in. I feel there should be freedom of movement. I am in the minority perhaps. Most people want “reasonable restrictions”. In my experience this always raised my grocery prices and reduced my friends.

    I think most people really don’t care one way or the other. Some people want all them far away, but here in Texas this is normally older anglos who yearn for yesterday and are scared about Spanish. But even most of those don’t have too strong feelings about it

    Like trans rights, these are all blown out of proportion on national tv and newspapers. Most people really don’t care here

  • France gives Ukraine licence to fire long-range missiles at Russia

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  • It’s not that fine a line though, one can get on the wrong side in so many different ways. Today pro genocide stuff is mixed up in many messages that can otherwise be wholesome.

    For example: the daily pictures on masterdon about Holocaust victims. Good , yes. Where are the daily Palestinian images ? Once one starts asking questions, one can easily start to accidentally stray off the path of the righteous and get into morally ambiguous muck.

    That’s one problem with widely supported crimes, it’s not just the evil people who passively support bad things. When there is an undercurrent of pro genocide, many babies get thrown out with many bathwaters. And that is bad.

    It makes it worse when there are more zionist Christians than Zionist Jews in the USA, and to see that minority of Jews in the USA unite in crime with people who do not like them is heart attack inducing .

    The whole thing is a mess and maybe the only way to fight it is redefining boundaries

  • Better vaccinate them while you still can.

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  • A good percentage of my parent’s friends did not get to be adults ( 1930’s and 1940’s)

    They were buried with a lot of love but now days a lot of the people who took care of the graves are long gone too.

    It’s not like all the kids were in a rich and well maintained cemetery the last 4 generations, and it’s not uncommon to accidentally kick a small headstone in the weeds here and there, in forgotten plots.

    Antibodies would have helped many, but many were killed by diseases coming back. I’m sure modern medicine will help many survive today. But that just seems like a lot of needless pain and suffering

    Anytime I see an antivaxer I like to try to invite them to walk a bit

  • Some thoughts of mine about politics

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  • Democracy has two sides, the voting and the counting. Both are equally important, and the failures of one reinforces the failures of the other.

    The only difference I feel, is that proper ballot counting would fix the voting participation issue in a generation or two, but not the reverse. All the barriers to voter participation could be removed in Texas, and the results would still magically be keeping the same sorry lot elected in primaries and general.

  • From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k

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  • My gut reaction about lack of content in peer tube is because the platform is ethical. It’s my understanding that popular video platforms started by pirating content, marketing campaigns and other shady things . This obviously is a not a good thing here.

    This creates a cascading effect where only people who are more ethical ( rather than less ethical) post videos there. And only ethical ( more or less) people watch the videos there for more or less political reasons ( not national politics but belief how things should happen)

    There are probably ways for them to jumpstart content there , but are dismissed, never to be used because it’s against the spirit of the idea. Hopefully someone can solve this by doing something that fits into the vision !

  • Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed!

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  • It always amazed me that Reddit stopped adding new stuff to make it easier ; instead the only changes in years was all the stuff making commotions and scandals.

    It’s like they purposefully exist in a frozen tech made years ago and innovation is not something helpful to their business model.

    The enshitification and out of touch culture came from a deeply entrenched mindset in the Reddit offices years ago

  • Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse

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  • I have a conspiracy theory that most users who are an expert don’t post much about that.

    For example I am an expert on two things most people find obscure; and for all my comments I just avoid talking about them. It’s too hard to wrap up an idea without lots of background information, there are no short posts or comments I can make about it.

    Almost all the highly upvoted stuff are short. Were I to try to make an expert post it would be totally ignored. So why bother for me when I can snarky about things I know nothing about ? More fun !

    I think experts who write short terse pithy comments that hit the mark, at a timely fashion, are rarer than hens teeth

  • Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read

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  • There is a difference between the old fashioned scams with textbooks, and the new AI scams. Its true they have a lot of things in common. But the AI scams are more centralized, more powerful, can make more money. These are forging new ways to con people.

    But we have gone through several generations of new scams, they are not all bad. Such greed and kickbacks are probably healthier than realized and contribute to a stable society somehow in a way that escapes me, but I feel is valid

  • Hurricane-Related Deaths Keep Happening Long After a Storm Ends

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  • I first saw the NYT article a few weeks ago. It seems that the stats are accurate?

    After seeing 1% of the population die during covid, I was realized that huge amounts of the population can just die, and not many notice, and life continues without that much interruption.

    Ordinary people never make it into news: their births, their accomplishments, their deaths.

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • I think he is suggesting he himself will come under legal scrutiny, threatening him: ergo mars, humanity and everything else.

    It’s all about him

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  • Are they not separating bot logins from human logins ? I did not see a breakdown for that. I’m wondering if anyone knows

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • Omg I just realized AI is the new monkeys.. that is disturbing

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  • I tried to moderate in a large subreddit and all I did was protect people who I did not like, or who got into slap fights. Quit after a few months.

  • Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes

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  • They are a mindless organization, not one or a few using logic. Everyone working there can figure out the general issues, on their own, for sure. But it’s an out of control huge organization. Even the top leadership is along for the ride at this point.

    Every department is headed by competent and intelligent people, I assume. But they each only control a small slice of the environment, and even in each division there are many things the middle management cannot control directly. Too big

    It’s not like a car manufacturer, there is an exponential difference in the number of parts to control and the complexity.

    When the sales, and other parts are woven in, I doubt there is a dozen people alive who can explain how all the company structure works together

  • Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users

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  • I’m sure Reddit is gaming the investors

    I would like to believe actual laws are being broken, and one day certain people will go to jail. I am vindictive about that whole series of events. I liked Reddit before piggy and pals destroyed it

  • Why is it not grave robbery to take artefacts from ancient graves and put them in a museum?

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  • Might makes right, at least in many cases. Lots of stolen artifacts, and bones, stored away from the public, or the descendants

  • Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users

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  • I spent ten years on Reddit. I can use that to compare for myself the amount of engagement then and now.

    If most of the users are not bots I would be so surprised. I think they lost a huge percentage of traffic and are now knowingly faking live user counts

  • Am I insane?

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  • I think that is awesome