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  • Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds

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  • We can fix this! Quick, destroy the FDA so the problem will never be seen again!

  • Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda

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  • Well, didn’t hit 5%, so time to go home everyone. Many thanks to lemming6969 for letting us know so we don’t waste our time.

  • China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech

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  • Oddly, the DNC’s position on the republican candidate in the circus that was the 2016 primary wasn’t likely all that influential or determinative.

    trump figured out that running a political campaign as entertainment and leveraging the power of, well, just lying about everything was possible in the modern media environment. republicans had been working for decades on tilling the ground for an authoritarian that they could manage, but got themselves owned instead. Oops.

  • TIL former director of NASA said the Shuttle is what kept us from being on Mars

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  • There wasn’t the public interest or unlimited cash that the Apollo program had to work with, so this was never going to realistically happen in the 80s or 90s, shuttle or not.

    Given the technology, there’s no way that we’d have gotten the relatively quick sugar rush like we did for the Moon landings; it’d have been a long, very hard, and very, very expensive slog to get people there.

    There’s approximately a zero percent chance that the level of public enthusiasm for such an endeavor would have supported the amount of money and effort needed to make it happen.

    Heck, we even cut the Apollo program short because the public quickly got bored with it once we had the big shiny.

  • TIL former director of NASA said the Shuttle is what kept us from being on Mars

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  • There wasn’t realistically the public interest or unlimited cash that the Apollo program had to work with, so this was never going to realistically happen in the 80s or 90s, shuttle or not.

    Given the technology, there’s no way that we’d have gotten the relatively quick sugar rush like we did for the Moon landings; it’d have been a long, very hard, and very, very expensive slog to get people there.

    There’s approximately a zero percent chance that the level of public enthusiasm for such an endeavor would have supported the amount of money and effort needed to make it happen.

    Heck, we even cut the Apollo program short because the public quickly got bored with it once we had the big shiny.

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  • After all of the sketchy contracts that musk seems to be getting under this regime, the next administration should nationalize SpaceX. With their corrupt self dealing, perhaps give him a dollar or so for it.

  • Large Language Models are Unreliable for Cyber Threat Intelligence

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  • Large Language Models are Unreliable for Cyber Threat Intelligence

    There, fixed it.

  • Why plans are already in motion for a Trump third term – no matter what the law says

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  • His mind is already mush and in four years, it’d be a terrible Weekend at Bernie’s sequel.

  • Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

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  • Since it’s a money hole just like all of the other “AI” companies, who’s funding xAI and what are they getting out of being a slush fund for musk?

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    AP photographer testifies on White House’s ban: ‘We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories’

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  • I don’t know why not being lied to in the room at the WH would be a big loss for their reporting. Maybe just investigate and cover what they’re doing and tell folks that?

  • Man I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixties

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  • I don’t think that it’s like a patent where the holder has to defend it; Oracle can decide to go after a license violation if they want to.

    I’d imagine that if a real competitor or someone with deeper pockets shipped it, they’d be hearing from the throngs of lawyers that oracle keeps on staff in short order.

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  • That’s because Tesla’s stock valuation was always based on “revolutionary new shiny thing!” rather than “making and selling cars”.

    musk has to constantly come out with a new reason why the stock justifies a valuation so insanely high (was worth more than all other car companies combined). “Full self driving!” “Robotaxies!” “Fully automated manufacturing!”, etc….

    That’s also why musk can extort $50B payoffs from Tesla. So much of their value is based on his BS powered reality distortion field that they’re terrified of what might happen if he leaves.

    Now, there’s huge risk inherent in banking everything on the very stable genius musk as they’re learning.

  • Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal?

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  • It’s a valid question if you live in a state that will only accept forms of ID which cost money to vote. I don’t know if that’s really the case anywhere, but if it were it could presumably be the subject of a lawsuit.

    With the current SC, I expect that they’d find some bogus rationale why it didn’t count, but under a law respecting court, it’d be reasonable to require such states to provide suitable IDs at no cost.

  • Used Tesla prices tumble as embarrassed owners look to sell

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  • The EV1 was too far ahead of its time. The tech wasn’t there and to even accomplish what they did cost far more than they could hope to sell it for. An estimate that each EV1 cost GM around $100k to make in the early 90’s (so around $200k in today’s dollars).

    Battery tech has progressed massively since then and makes all of this possible now (even if it’s still expensive).

  • Musk says DOGE is in almost every federal agency and plans to double staff

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  • They're installing them into the agencies to act as comisars to enforce political purity and root out dissent.

    It's a pretty obvious next step after them gaining control of the treasury payment systems and people's private data. Can't have internal pushback on weaponizing these to attack Americans more broadly.

  • Judge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be removed from U.S. as protesters call for his release

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  • Executive orders can't make things illegal. They're not royal proclamations, they're just guidance to executive agencies.

  • DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires

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  • F*cking idiots.

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  • Don’t worry, I’m sure that he has concepts of a plan already.

  • Elon Musk calls Social Security ‘the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time’

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  • Yep. It’d be inconvenient for them to note that the funding issues are primarily driven by increasing concentration of income which falls above the Social Security withholding cap. If they’d just remove that cap, then no issue.