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  • an iconic rule-o

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  • I'm sympathetic, but I'm of the mind that it should just be the duration of the workday. Certainly not an hour like some places.

  • an iconic rule-o

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  • If this is a login for a work/school account, it's because someone in your IT department thinks that applying a short "max session length" policy is "extra secure".

    Basically no different than shitty password rules or some places that make you change your password every 90 days.

  • AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

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  • I bet you could upcharge Americans for AI with "ideological reinforcement expansion packs".

    Like a "States' Rights!" DLC or "Vegans for Israel" DLC.

    🤔

  • AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show

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  • The CCP "talking points"?

    Miiloo [...] would at times, in tests with NBC News, indicate it was programmed to reflect Chinese Communist Party values.

    Asked why Chinese President Xi Jinping looks like the cartoon Winnie the Pooh [...] Miiloo responded that “your statement is extremely inappropriate and disrespectful. Such malicious remarks are unacceptable.”

    Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment.

    "Talking points" is a bit strong of a way to say, "the toys kept telling our kids to stop being assholes and responded to complex geopolitical questions on the statehood of a seceded territory with the stated position of the country of origin."

    Yeesh... China isn't exactly glaze-worthy, but Americans really need to stop throwing their racist-tinged stones from inside their glass rental homes. :/

  • Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order

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  • Things must be dire. He's actually hitting the "fuck it, decriminalize weed, please clap" button.

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    It’ll be a while

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  • but /dev/null has no mass.

    you're thinking of /tmp, which is indeed a slow growing pseudo-void whence nothing escapes.

  • This time I'll do it!

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  • neuroconvergence, you say?

  • Palantir boss calls for public hangings to show 'masculine leadership'

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  • Your government leaders and their military industry backers are now openly telling you that killing people without trial or due process is 'virtuous' manly shit.

    "The leftists are violent, which is why we need to vaporize people at sea and bring back public lynchings." 🙄

  • The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown | Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

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  • More like slave catchers tracking down fugitive slaves, but sending them back to their supposed "colony of origin".

    The Nazis were following American tradition, btw: How the Nazis Were Inspired by Jim Crow.

  • Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief

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  • Totally agree with you.

    I think it's a losing battle to argue that universities shouldn't have some basic protections in place for unpublished/proprietary/underdeveloped research, but this guy implicitly takes that way too far.

    War research—if it should exist at all—should be done at war colleges. The U.S. has the Naval War College, the Army War College, the Air Force University, USMC War College, and the National War College. Canada has three RMC campuses and the CFC.

    Obviously assuming it's not publicly funded research, else the Uni should refund grant monies for programs that don't publish their findings.

  • Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief

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  • The frontline has moved, from being focused on government information to private sector innovation, research innovation and universities [...]

    What a way for that guy to muddy the waters. Research innovation at publicly subsidized universities is the same as government infiltration if the research in question is government-funded miltech.

    Vigneault highlighted Beijing as the main culprit, saying it was using a combination of cyber-attacks, infiltrated agents and recruitment among university staff to acquire sensitive technologies.

    Ah, there it is. He won't say it bluntly, but the problem is that the PLA is essentially stealing missile tech and/or CBW research "that we totally weren't planning to use for miltech, guys." (/s)

    Speaking as an American, maybe we wouldn't have to worry so much about Chinese infiltration and theft of university-derived missile/robo tech if Lockeed (& ilk) weren't constantly sponsoring student competitions as an avenue for recruitment.

    If not valid military intelligence target, why military intelligence target shaped? :/

    ETA:

    University staff were recruited by foreign powers based on either naivety, ideology or greed, he said.

    Have they tried paying in another currency other than peanuts?

  • Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief

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  • Get what for free? Get stipends for free?

    Are you saying things like Fulbright/AAUW should be more than merit based?

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    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • ignores explicit response to original claim with the requested follow-up statistic

    conflates objection to whitewashing the American carceral state with pro USSR sentiment

    repeats childish insult for which OP was being called out

    makes duck analogies mid chirping

    hurls misogynistic insult to "fuck your mom" in Russian

    You're not beating the illiteracy accusation.

    I s'pose you're right. Walks like a chauvinistic Russian Nazi, talks like a chauvinistic Russian Nazi and all. 😗

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    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • Uh-huh. Not like that rings the statistics manipulation alarm at all or anything.

    Not really; if you read (lmao) more into it, you'd find that those scholars that I cited argue that it's preferable to use averages rather than try to get precise YoY level numbers because it's difficult to source consistent data for several chunks of time and regions.

    Did uhhh... did you mean to paste this bit or forget to trim it before you posted? Is the US not a "modern nation?"

    The "modern nation" reference was talking about the group of post-industrial nations at the time in which the USSR existed. I.e. "for all modernized, non-developing nations at that time".

    But I hear you, fam. Fair criticism. I used two different adjectives to describe the relative parity between the two countries. Silly of me.

    But since you also clearly prefer to fling shit rather read a fucking book or two, I'll distill a line for you that'll hopefully stick:

    At its peak in 1953, the estimated incarceration rate in the USSR was around 1,558 per 100,000.[1]

    That's less than the 2022 US rate calculated by the USBJ statistics I quoted in a separate post. Certainly not double the US's current incarceration rate. I suppose you'll bitch about me comparing current US rate to the 1953 rate, but that's why it's a fucking rate/per population. Moreover, the point I was making is that the US has gotten worse than the days of the USSR's Gulags.

    But sure. It's entirely possible I'm just manipulating statistics and providing citations to nefariously dispute— checks notes —the guy who spams Stalin memes, gets banned from communities for calling people tankies, and who spouted a random take without any attempt whatsoever to provide supporting evidence.

    «Is normal, ignore that товарисщ»

    Go fuck yourself, patriot. :)

    [1] E. Belova, P.R. Gregory. "Political economy of crime and punishment under Stalin". Publ. Choice, 140 (3–4) (2009), pp. 463-478.

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    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • And before you (or anyone else) nitpicks about "BuT tHaT wAS 2008"—that's because I'm comparing peak periods.

    If you want the latest estimates available, and if you really start digging, it looks much worse for the US. The total correctional population in 2022 was estimated to be 5.4 million people (according to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics report). The estimated US adult population in 2022 was 260.6 million.

    That'd mean that the latest numbers are about 2,072 in 100,000 people.

    But sure, shitting on the USSR is a neat trick for downplaying how completely abysmal the US has become.

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    TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill

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  • This is wrong and you're a shitbag liar. Don't think people don't see you out here spending your free time floating thread-to-thread just to shit on socialism.

    Peak U.S. incarceration rate in 2008 (it's highest) was about 760 per 100,000 people in the total population. The average imprisonment rate in the Soviet Union during the Gulag era was 714 per 100,000 residents. Some Soviet incarceration rates between 1934 and 1953 were likely the highest ever recorded for a modern nation. More than six million people in the U.S. are now under some form of correctional supervision—more than the number imprisoned in the Gulag at its peak.

    Some sources:

    • Gopnik, Adam (30 January 2012). The Caging of America. The New Yorker.
    • Applebaum, Anne (2003). Gulag: a history. By Anne Applebaum. ISBN 978-0-7679-0056-0.
    • Liptak, Adam (28 Feb 2008). 1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says. The New York Times.
    • Getty, J. Arch; Rittersporn, Gabor T.; Zemskov, Viktor N. "Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence".
    • Rosefielde, Steven (2007). The Russian economy: from Lenin to Putin. By Steven Rosefielde. ISBN 978-1-4051-1337-3.

  • Linux continues to grow and has reached a new peak of 3.20% in the November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey

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  • Right? It's oozing with sarcasm, like—ArCh LiNuX

    lmao

  • News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies'

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  • In a complete shock to nobody, ex oil exec is appointed to head of renewable energy agency and promptly re-writes the mission of renewable energy agency to research not-renewable-energy.

    😮‍💨

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    Millennials are richer than their boomer parents. Here's why they love to complain anyway.

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  • This is an AI generated article.

    It's sole piece of 'evidence' for this claim is that millennials are earning 17+% more on average, per household, than previous generations were at the same age. This is an inflation adjusted number, but that's it

    No consideration mentioned for the difference in the average cost of living between generations, which is the entire fucking complaint millennials have been making.

    Yes, I earn six figures a year and am debt free whereas my father wasn't anywhere close to that at my age. My dad also didn't have to clip coupons to be able to afford $7 boxes of cereal and $5 half-gallons of milk.

    Also, the American Enterprise Institute is quoted. Lmao.

    Dumb fucking "article".