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  • Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

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  • Weird. I've tested on a desktop and mobile device. Both loaded the archive.is link via Tor Browser (no extensions) without a problem in both "Normal" and "Safer" modes. "Safest" mode fails at the CAPTCHA page but that's expected.

    Maybe the node(s) you were connected to were having issues with that domain at the time.

  • Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree

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  • I found a place in Colorado that does private autopsies for the entire continental US: https://www.postmortempath.com/

    I verified they're a real business. Here's an excerpt from their FAQ:

    How much does an autopsy cost?

    A private autopsy generally runs between $3000 to $5000, depending on the company that you use and how many additional tests and procedures you wish to be performed.

  • Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World

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  • What browser are you using and with what plugins?

  • YSK about 15 bean soup.

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  • YSK about 15 bean soup.

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  • Looking for Rock records amidst a trial pile?

  • We keep the entomologists in the basement.

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  • This is true! Saying figs is wasps is silly in the same way that saying plants are dirt is silly. Like... Kind of? From a certain odd perspective, "sure", with caveats. It's a reductive understanding that's neither literally nor technically true but who am I? A botanist? No. I'm not.

    I do know a lot happens between pollination and the fruit we might eat though and most fig varieties we grow for food or buy from stores aren't the kind pollinated by wasps anyway. I found a decent write up with more detail here: https://www.treehugger.com/are-figs-vegan-5203202

    Dirt is the byproduct of life after its been on a planet for a while. Plants figured out how to recycle life and death's leftovers. Then mushrooms came along and filled the gaps in weird ways. Animals eat the plants and fungi. Other animals eat those animals. Siiiimbaaaa, right?

    We typically don't think we're eating our ancestors when having a salad. We aren't beholden to the idea that we're eating wasps when munching figs either. Even in the odd case where we're eating those specific kinds of figs.

  • U.S. says it will defend 'every inch' of NATO territory after Poland shoots down Russian drones

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  • The despots wouldn't admit it but they only have power so long as they remain useful puppets for Oligarchs. Military industry is big business and the monied interests couldn't care less about national politics or allegiance.

    Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

  • Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo

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  • ¿Por qué no los dos?

  • Interesting theory

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  • Our health, in all aspects, is in our own hands.

    Finding a psychiatrist, general practitioner, oncologist, etc, who understands this and is interested in having a professional working relationship with their patients is the key to receiving tangible medicinal and therapeutic benefit from their expertise. The dehumanization and indignity common in that process isn't talked about enough and we're right to call attention to it and demand better.

    There's a whole separate conversation about the industry of healthcare hidden in the subtext here (and so much more so if you're in the United States) but the principal is the same regardless. Expert diagnosticians can provide immense value when given appropriate tools and the space to use them. Capitalization and Industrialization mandate standardization which leaves little room for complex problem solving and edge cases.

    I'm not arguing this excuses the constant malpractice. It doesn't because it can't. It can provide a framework for understanding and fighting back against its normalization though and I've found that helpful. At least in conversation.

    Another aspect of this that I don't think is reducible in the same way is our proclivity for taxonomic coherence. I think it's one of our species' better qualities and that we let it drive us to premature conclusions about the rightness of the models we construct. The DSM is no exception. An effort may be well intentioned and still fall into the same traps and hurdles that bias and ego litter about. I'm not an anthropologist or historian but I have a pet theory that this phenomenon is also the root of delusion and dogma. We're adept at self-deception en masse. Doubly so when protecting our perceived identities to avoid social shame.

  • Interesting theory

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  • If the school still exists, and you're interested in finding out, you could contact and ask for a copy of your school records. Any school(s) you transferred to afterward should have those records as well.

    The record keeping is mostly guided by FERPA (like HIPPA for public schools). How long records are kept varies by State but most of them mandate 50+ years or longer. Those that don't also lack enforcement for destruction and people are lazy so... You'll usually find something even if it's not all the info you wanted.

    They're obligated by law to provide the records you're entitled to within 45 days of the request.

    You may not be that interested but I figured if you, or someone else reading this, are sufficiently interested then this info might be helpful.

  • American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate

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  • American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate

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  • That's not a reasonable position. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, its interpretation, and the monied interests lobbying with millions of dollars to make billions selling firearms are endemic to the socio-political quagmire that is American politics.

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    my youtube algorithm kinda sucks rn, recommend me some

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  • Agreed. Check out Grayjay: https://grayjay.app/ https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

    It's a client for following creators across platforms while the user retains control. YouTube is one of the platforms Grayjay can access but you don't have to let YouTube play adverts, track you, etc. It lets users turn the screen off and keep playing audio, bypass intros or sponsored ads, download whole videos, and other quality of life features.

    You can also avoid YouTube entirely and only stream from PeerTube, NewPipe, SoundCloud, etc. You just tap the plugins you want and it respects your choices.

    It's still under active development during an ongoing arms race with YouTube but I've been using it for over a year and have only encountered two bugs that kept me from using it. It's been a refreshing experience overall and I find myself watching more of the stuff I care about, more meaningfully supporting the artists I care about, and disallowing Google to abuse those interactions.

    I'm not affiliated with them in any way. Just a happy convert.

  • Flag-Waving Russian Forces Troll Trump After Crumbling to Putin

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  • It is difficult to consider a greater rube than one who interprets open mockery as lavish praise.

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  • It's a practice at least as old as type itself. It seems the attention Trump garnered, and the highlighting of his stereotypical Boomer typing, have merged the two in some people's minds.

    We're at a unique crossroad where Gen X and Y grew up with their grandparents mostly refusing to use cell phones and their parents mostly fumbling with them. Now Gen Z and "Alpha" are growing up with grandparents who have mostly been shamed into acceptable text etiquette, and parents who are mostly as tech savvy as the next parent and who were there when the deep magic was written (so to speak).

    Mango Mussolini's narcissism is as pervasive as his parasitism so it's no wonder the lecherous rapist's sins against modern digital convention survived along with him. Some spin that as brilliant tactics but I'm not so sure. I'd wager it's a coincidence he leaned into because it garnered attention.

    Most of those now driving online discourse hadn't had the same exposure to that style of texting prior to the 2016 US Presidential election cycle as preceding generations. So it seems novel to them. It's history and perspective bring formed in real time.

  • Goals.

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  • Weird flex but... Ok.

  • Goals.

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  • That makes more sense. Thanks for the response! I'm not sure if can agree with your conclusions. It may be that I'm still missing context you're working within. My best guess is you're assuming some axioms that I am not. That doesn't necessarily mean I think you're incorrect. We might just be operating with different frameworks.

    I agree that strong emergence and weak emergence seem different by your definitions. I'm not convinced strong emergence is a thing. Is there a compelling argument that the perception of strong emergence is actually a more complex weak emergence that the observers have not fully understood?

    Something something Occam's Razor / god of the gaps something. I find these sorts of discussions quite compelling. Thanks again for engaging. :)

  • ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'

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  • Your comment reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2RXoqB1LjA

    A recent ~2 minute video from the ever-excellent Dr. Dan McClellen. The opening sentence is: "Every last attempt to identify divine commands in the Bible that are relevant to anyone today requires negotiating with the text."

  • Goals.

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  • I don't see how either sentence follows. Rephrasing your comment and supplementing it with context to explain your reasoning may better communicate your point.