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  • U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day

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  • TIL 2000 and 2008 were just fluctuations due to big changes.

    Stock market peaked 19 feb, 1.5 months ago. It has lost 17% since then.

    That's an awfully long and persistent fluctuation.

  • U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day

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  • The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

    What a party, what a party.

  • Senate Democrats overwhelmingly reject restricting US arms sales to Israel

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  • But alienating our base so that we can lose elections to MAGA republicans is perfectly OK.

    Obviously, the problem is with the voters, not us, say the Democrats.

  • German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy

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  • People really don't understand that climate change is worse for life on this planet than a million Fukushima accidents.

  • German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy

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  • Even Japan is restarting their reactors

    Solar and wind are great, but major industrialized nations will need some nuclear capacity.

    It's going to happen sooner or later.

    The question is just about how long we delay it, with extra emissions and economic depression in the mean time.

  • Trump administration sued over Chinese import tariffs

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  • They are (or were) the biggest producer of Fentanyl (allegedly).

    But I have also heard experts say that Fentanyl manufacturing is just moving to the US for domestic consumption, so I don't know if it's still true.

  • "Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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  • It's mostly the other way around: Americans want products from the rest of the world.

    But to answer your question directly: there are products which only the US makes, but more importantly, if American products become cheaper due to a weaker dollar, then people will buy them. That's what Trump is hoping for.

  • "Liberation Day" Trump’s Tariffs on Europe

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  • The countries with the lowest tariffs will become connector economies. Whether governments want it or not, there is just too much profit to be made.

    This is why Trump is specifically targeting those countries, but then other countries will take their place.

    And the end game is, Trump can succeed, but not without a global recession and much higher prices for Americans.

  • European payment platform Wero, major competitor of US's Paypal and other payment service providers, reached a record 30 million users at the beginning of 2025.

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  • Correct. Wero is basically iDeal and the main Dutch banks are part of the consortium pushing it.

    The Wero consortium prioritized expanding towards the broader European market first.

    Transitioning from iDeal to Wero in the Netherlands is a lesser priority.

  • Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendors

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  • I've said it often before.

    LLM's are really great for many use cases. Transcribing, translating, summarizing, editing, code generation, etc.

    But the marginal difference between the cheap models like DeepSeek and the top-of-the-line is low.

    So take transcribing, translating, summarizing and editing. Why would anyone spend top dollar when DeepSeek does it basically free?

    The potential market for the state of the art models is very limited and will never recoup the 100s of billions being invested.

  • Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

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  • Not if a trade war can destroy it first!

  • Technological Suggestions for LGBT+, Immigrants, Protestors, Anti-War Activists and Other Marginalized Groups

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  • And how will they know if you're a fundie or not?

    What they're doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they'll get you.

    So don't do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

    But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won't be able to tell the difference.

  • Technological Suggestions for LGBT+, Immigrants, Protestors, Anti-War Activists and Other Marginalized Groups

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  • Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

    I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

    I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It's not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

    This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn't killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting "godless heathens" in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

    And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

    Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

    Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

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  • It is quite safe. What I heard about this case is that the victim was happy with the outcome.

    They met at a party, she was drunk. He said he asked consent, she said he raped her. There was no evidence or allegation of force, just that she couldn't have consented in her drunken state.

    He had a clean record.

    He got convicted and ordered to pay €3500 and if he commits another crime, then this one will count too.

    She was satisfied with the outcome. She especially wanted recognition that it was rape.

    I think this is a good outcome. If he ever rapes someone again, he'll be a serial rapist and get the book thrown at him.

    And on the flipside, I find it difficult to throw the book at people under the circumstances in these kind of cases.

  • Judge rejects Trump administration’s bid to move Mahmoud Khalil’s legal case to Louisiana

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  • Another reason to live in a blue state if you can.

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  • There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.

  • Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows

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  • People really don't understand how much wealth is being siphoned off the middle class.

    Our technology is advanced enough that we can provide everyone on the planet a very comfortable life. Basically a European middle class lifestyle, but with less meat and air travel than the average European has today.

    The fact that we don't is because of greed.

  • Germany seeking to deport two Irish citizens for taking part in pro-Palestine protests

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  • Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to expel an EU citizen.

    Germany, like really WTH is wrong with you.