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  • Societal Collapse

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  • This doesn't seem like much of a solution to me, they're still being raised by people using social media, and will be thrown into it at some point. The obligatory age checks are going to make the surveillance state way worse.

  • Societal Collapse

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  • I hope it will be a situation of medical care being allowed to get somewhat worse, instead of the same standards and institutions being maintained despite not enough funding to keep hospitals open at that standard and so medicine is generally prohibited for the poor.

  • What's an artificial limitation you put on yourself that has improved your personal life?

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  • No caffeine multiple days in a row. I often enjoy it, and I don't think it's really that bad for you, but I don't like the way it adjusts my personality and state of mind if that makes sense and it's easy to get addicted enough to start feeling like crap if you don't have any.

  • Dentists

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  • It also bleeds when you floss yourself after not doing it for a long time

  • Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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  • And paid for by implied government subsidies even

  • USA should be sanctioned and boycotted

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  • A straw man argument is one where you are misrepresenting an opposing position, so I don't think the term quite fits here. I'm not trying to claim it's never done anything good, but even the arguably good things have always been more about calculated self interest than any real concern for human rights or welfare:

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

    The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after World War II and secure US geopolitical influence over Western Europe.

    The only major powers whose infrastructure had not been significantly harmed in World War II were the United States and Canada.[30][31] They were much more prosperous than before the war, but exports were a small factor in their economy. Much of the Marshall Plan aid would be used by the Europeans to buy manufactured goods and raw materials from the United States and Canada.

    WW2 left the country in a position of relative economic power, and in the following decades it used its greater influence the same way it had before (eg. the wars in Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba etc.), to advance the cause of global capitalist exploitation and brutally suppressing even democratic opposition to it.

    To me the main change here doesn't seem like the US becoming substantially more evil than the already substantial evils of the past, just getting worse at acting coherently in its own interests, acting against its allies instead of just geopolitically marginalized victims.

  • Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?

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  • Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.

  • Amazon to start blocking sideloaded piracy apps on Fire TVs

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  • I had to use one of these things in an AirBnb before, Fire TVs are impressively awful.

  • USA should be sanctioned and boycotted

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  • I'm skeptical there was ever actually a time the US empire was a positive force in the world or even neutral, we've been doing messed up stuff for our entire existence as a country.

  • With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil"

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  • My interpretation of Book of Job is God and Satan are in a toxic relationship where they egg each other on to fuck with people so you shouldn't trust either of them.

  • Steve Huffman is now a billionaire after a profitable quarter for reddit

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  • its popularity has exploded in the past couple of years. Daily active users have approximately doubled since the summer of 2023. Google searches increasingly surface links to Reddit: Organic search to the platform is up over 560% from two years ago, per data from digital marketing firm Semrush.

    So depressing, I sure hope these stats are bullshit.

  • Head of Swiss armed forces is sceptical of Microsoft Cloud

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  • This is from the autotranslated version of the article but

    He therefore calls for a separate, private cloud solution for classified documents to be examined.

    Why does a word processor need to involve the "cloud" at all?

  • Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

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  • There's no reason a robot vacuum should be even connecting to the internet

  • Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?

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  • I just want a way to save the chicken :(

  • What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

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  • I don't know but now I'm wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?

  • Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests - Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’

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  • This is the stuff candidates for congress should be doing, hopefully Illinois voters see it that way too

  • 'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

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  • I use local models, and it barely doubles the electricity use of my computer while it's actively generating, which is a very small proportion of the time I'm doing work; the environmental impact is negligible.

  • If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?

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  • To me the situation you're describing and the OP situation seem pretty similar; using threats to overrule the established system of property rights. But of course that system is how society decides what new people can move in, and something has to decide that.

  • “I have nothing to hide”: Why Privacy Matters

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  • This seems to be an advertisement for a subscription chat program.

  • antifa by Sophie Labelle

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  • Very practical stuff