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  • stability rule

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  • Yeah "rich" starts at way less than a billion dollars. Someone with a paltry 10 million in the bank is already absolutely loaded, and has won the game.

  • Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives

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  • “If you do not agree to sign this document, we would appreciate it if you could provide detailed reasons, which we will forward to our legal teams.”

    The equivalent of not letting you unsubscribe from a spammy mailing list unless you provide a reason.

  • I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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  • Thanks. I suppose I should add I'm not American. Perhaps the takeaway is no two-party political system, such as in the US, can have a "political center" because the respective "left" and "right" parties seem inevitably to become opposed to each other on every issue? Things are different in Europe, where multiple parties can support the same policies, but to different degrees or funded differently.

    Plenty of EU political parties which are labelled center-right on Wikipedia aren't completely dead-set on destroying the entire social safety in the same way the Republicans are in the US, for example. Although they simultaneously might call for reduced benefits and lower taxes.

    Also, many EU countries have what I would consider actual left-wing parties in parliament. On some issues I would consider myself slightly right of Germany's "Die Linke" for example.

  • I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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  • Being in favor of mixed economies, with stock markets, venture capital firms, but also universal healthcare and protection for unions. Being against American style basically unregulated firearm ownership (which seems quite popular on both the far left and far right, yet maybe not so much in the middle). And I feel free to criticize the actions of parties or politicians across the political spectrum, not just those on one side. I understand many people, especially the political left which I sympathize more with, are very angry these days. Justifiably. So am I. But being accused of being dishonest just for having a different point of view is annoying.

  • I am shocked, I say. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

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  • On the other hand, the kneejerk of labeling every even remotely centrist viewpoint as inherently dishonest is pretty annoying. My own views lean SocDem and I've found voicing any opinion which is neither solidly left-wing or solidly right-wing, especially if it does not align with very American-centric views of the political spectrum, often elicits unpleasant reactions. Nuance is hard, I guess.

  • 'One-of-a-kind' girl born with heart outside chest has pioneering surgery

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  • Modern medicine is pretty incredible and those doctors did good. I'm glad they're being recognized for it. Reading this story really was uplifting.

  • Soviet-era probe to re-enter atmosphere this week

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  • As far as I can tell this was intended to be a Venera probe, possibly it would have been Venera 9, but because it failed in earth orbit it was classified as "Kosmos".

  • Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will

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  • Yeah, that's a more nuanced take than mine. I sadly doubt this country will actually do anything to improve pay equality however, which I would agree lies at the root of the unpopularity of those jobs.

  • Soviet-era probe to re-enter atmosphere this week

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  • It's a Venera probe! The probe missions of the Soviet space program were remarkable. What a technological feat to get these machines all the way to Venus (of all places) and send data and pictures back, in the 1970s!

  • Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will

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  • You mean like the White House and Congress?

  • Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will

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  • Americans mostly don't even want to do the manual labor jobs which have always been available in the US, like residential construction or picking crops. And the oligarchs want to both reduce immigration and re-industrialize? It's going to be comically unpopular.

  • Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway

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  • KDE has almost perfect fractional scaling, that was the real chadfeature for me.

  • Skype was shut down for good today

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  • I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I'm sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.

  • Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15

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  • It's the new trend in software engineering: Turd-Driven Development

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    A Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager – David Edmundson's Web Log

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  • That's great news. I can't wait. While KDE Plasma 6 works near perfectly SDDM has given me so many problems. I hope a homogenized architecture between KDE and the login manager will make it behave more consistently.

  • US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns

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  • I believe administrations like FDR or JFK would’ve tolerated none of this shit. Biden looked weak as hell. I like the guy and I support the democrats but you can’t take the high road indefinitely. I take your point though and I’m not happy about it either. But I would’ve preferred a bad boy Democrat administration over whatever the fuck this is…

  • US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns

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  • You’re right of course. On the other hand this policy of strictly following established laws and precedents is in part what got us into this mess. Democrats could’ve been ruthless but they were meek. And now they have become almost entirely sidelined.

  • 1999 Columbine school massacre claims another life as paralysed survivor's death ruled homicide

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  • 1999 Columbine school massacre claims another life as paralysed survivor's death ruled homicide

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  • Europe @feddit.org
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    US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin

    www.cnn.com /2025/02/13/politics/us-european-relations-trump-putin-analysis/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin

    www.cnn.com /2025/02/13/politics/us-european-relations-trump-putin-analysis/index.html
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    USPS temporarily suspends accepting packages from China and Hong Kong

    www.cbsnews.com /news/usps-suspends-packages-china-hong-kong/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for US consumers

    apnews.com /article/trump-tariffs-trade-china-mexico-canada-inflation-753a09d56cd318f2eb1d2efe3c43b7d4
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    Germany: Nationwide protests against cooperation with far-right AfD party

    www.dw.com /en/germany-nationwide-demos-against-far-right-afd-cooperation/a-71483400
  • Amateur Radio @lemmy.radio
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    33' Verticals - Why they Work and Why they Don't

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

    www.intc.com /news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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    Austria says Russia's Gazprom will cut off natural gas supply this weekend

    apnews.com /article/austria-russia-gazprom-gas-supplies-8851d55ac8bb8621a1ee11ae9e476d68
  • News @lemmy.world
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    New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption investigation

    abc7ny.com /post/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indicted-following-federal-corruption-investigation-administration/15356402/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

    mashable.com /article/windows-bsod-crash-crowdstrike-update-worldwide-outage
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    Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue

    mashable.com /article/windows-bsod-crash-crowdstrike-update-worldwide-outage
  • theNetherlands @feddit.nl
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    ASML to stay and grow in Eindhoven area, creating up to 20,000 jobs

    nltimes.nl /2024/04/22/asml-stay-grow-eindhoven-area-creating-20000-jobs
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    Dutch train fares could rise by over 10% next year as NS posts €191 million loss

    nltimes.nl /2024/02/27/dutch-train-fares-rise-10-next-year-ns-posts-eu191-million-loss
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the CIA trains its spies not to slouch and lean, as that's an American tell

    www.cpr.org /2019/01/03/cia-chief-pushes-for-more-spies-abroad-surveillance-makes-that-harder/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

    arstechnica.com /cars/2024/01/higher-vehicle-hoods-significantly-increase-pedestrian-deaths-study-finds/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Yemen's unconventional naval threat to world shipping in Red Sea explained

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

    arstechnica.com /information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Senate Republicans block Ukraine, Israel funding bill

    thehill.com /homenews/senate/4345952-ukraine-israel-funding-senate-republicans/