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  • Elon Musk demands all federal employees say 'what they got done last week' or be ousted

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  • This information is at the ready — for the people who actually need to know it (i.e., the actual chain of command, not self-appointed billionaires of made up departments).

  • Judge extends freeze on Trump's unprecedented plan to get millions of federal workers to resign

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  • They don’t plan to fill them. They plan to eliminate the position of anyone who takes this option.

  • Soldier found dead at barracks feared ‘psychotic and possessive’ boss, inquest hears

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  • Oh geez. I’m so used to reading sexual trauma records from the DoD that I just assume immediately. Sorry about that, my bad entirely.

  • Soldier found dead at barracks feared ‘psychotic and possessive’ boss, inquest hears

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  • In-service death tends to be an almost automatic grant of service connected death benefits, likely only burial in this case. DoD failed this person. That doesn’t mean that the VA will.

    Edit: I managed to read the article and still get the country wrong.

  • Rupert Murdoch loses battle to control succession to his media empire

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  • Not much of one, but…

    1. He’ll appeal.
    2. Even if it’s permanent and the other kids are less shitty than the eldest, at the end of the day they’ll probably keep the propaganda going because they like being rich.

  • US Republican politician must resign after pleading guilty to sexual assault

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  • Awaiting sentencing — here's the relevant bit:

    Jessup on Monday told the Guardian that he must fill out certain paperwork before he could step down. The county council chair had mailed him those papers, but they had not immediately arrived, said Jessup, who is awaiting a sentencing hearing tentatively scheduled for April.

    According to what Jessup told the Daily Reporter, he was prepared for prosecutors to argue that he deserves between eight and 20 years in prison. Jessup reportedly said that his attorneys were going to seek a sentence of probation.

  • Nevada on verge of voting Republican for first time in two decades

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  • Even if voters may not expect any better from Trump, Gaitan said, “they feel they can trust him on the economy.”

    So...they're stupid?

  • Interstate is closed outside Atlanta as residents evacuate due to a chemical plant fire

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  • I've done some (grunt-level) work in chemical packaging. I didn't see in the article if it specifies, but the place I worked handled tons of different types of chemicals and they'd all have their own precautions needed. If this place was the same (big if), the sprinklers are probably standard for fire, and the chemical in question should be delivered sealed in watertight drums and only opened/handled inside a small room-sized fume hood. We had specialized rooms for things like spontaneously combustible chemicals and poisonous inhalation hazards — those chemicals were never unsealed outside those rooms.

    All that goes out the window I assume if this is the only chemical they handle.

  • Kentucky sheriff charged in judge’s death allegedly ignored deputy’s abuse of woman in his chambers

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  • Has anything reputable reported on this? Everything I've read has said motive is under investigation, but it'd seem a bit clearer if this is actually true and not just facebook being facebook.

  • The Amount of Police Civil Forfeiture is Now More than All Civilian Theft and Burglary Combined

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  • If Wikipedia is accurate, it varies a bit by state, but it seems like your memory is accurate for many of them.

  • Some basic info about USB

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  • I completely forgot the 12-inch one existed.

  • Some basic info about USB

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  • Okay, the old ones that apparently have both do have the Thunderbolt symbol on the ones that are, though, so what's the problem?

  • Some basic info about USB

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  • Why would you need them on a MacBook? They're always* Thunderbolt.

    Edit: Better explained by GamingChairModel below. I entirely forgot one series of MacBook, and also forgot when the older ones did have the Thunderbolt symbol on them.

  • Rule

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  • Parts cleaner should do.

  • Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem

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  • And maybe I'm using it wrong, but it just...doesn't work. I use spotlight search on my MacBook to find programs and things and it just finds them. It's fast enough to be faster than me opening things off the dock.

    I try to use the search on my wife's Win11 computer and half the time it sends me to a website for a program she already has installed.

    Like if you want to imitate, even badly, the imitation should at least be functional.

  • Gunman who was killed by Yellowstone rangers had planned a July 4 mass shooting, park reveals

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  • Fair amount of biblical references in it; I'd guess the poster is drawing a parallel between that and the rather unhinged nature of Christian fundamentalism. I haven't seen anything yet to indicate motives, so we'll all see I guess.

  • IDF Soldier Confesses That in Gaza, 'It's Permissible to Shoot Everyone'

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  • Do you care about internet points on Lemmy of all places?

    Not particularly. I agree with you on that; I assume not many people care about them, but when someone gives me a button to push for things that don't add to conversations, like, say, repeated instances of aggressive ignorance and lies about what an article consists of, it's really not a lot of effort to push it, so I'm going to keep doing that 'til either you stop with the bullshit or I get bored.

    A contradiction. I repeat: I either verify stuff myself or outsource that verification to a source I can trust. I’m surprised you don’t do that too, or put it in the bad light for whatever reason. Maybe that’s why you have a long conversation defending questionable sources. I decided not to trust them. It’s more of an effort than blindly consuming whatever someone posts.

    A lie. There is no evidence that the source is questionable. There is abundant evidence that they are a real journalistic source (remember when I linked you some? Those were good times).

    You decided not to trust the source based on nothing. This is a stupid thing to do. You decided to comment on it anyway, with no knowledge or interest in discovering the truth. That is a harmful thing to do.

    I'm going to keep having this conversation because you've decided to..what are we at now, quintuple-down on this? We're far past the realm of where most Lemmy apps will even display comment chains this long. It's just you, me, and anyone bored enough to dig into a slap fight about how difficult it is for you to read.

  • IDF Soldier Confesses That in Gaza, 'It's Permissible to Shoot Everyone'

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  • I mean first let me thank you for speaking on behalf of all of Lemmy. Super kind of you.

    The rest of this is a lovely set of excuses, but this...

    In a polarising context of the Israeli-Palestinian war we already had a lot of fake or complicated stories and as I'm not myself able to verify each piece myself, I prefer big news media I can somehow trust because they do verification for me.

    I really can't resist the bait there.

    No one is asking you to verify every piece of information you read. In this polarizing context of the world we live in, you should at least try to make an effort to know what you're talking about before you comment, though, or you're adding to that misinformation you seem so keen to avoid.

  • IDF Soldier Confesses That in Gaza, 'It's Permissible to Shoot Everyone'

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  • I'm sorry, you can't even read what you wrote?

    At the very least, basic level, I don't see any mention of them being in that region and IDK how they report without that.

    Source is linked in the article within the first few sentences from people who are yes, actually in that region. You also indicated you trust "big" sources, who...also aggregate content from sources like this one that are actually in the region.

    You skipped doing a simple internet search on any of that, which would have told you this, so I don't have to.

    They refer to even less known sources, them quoting anonymous individuals

    It requires a very determined level of aggressive ignorance to both blow right past why anonymity might be quite necessary here, and to at the same time completely ignore that not all of the sources are anonymous.

    I understand that this will not make you happy, and it probably won't convince you, either. Neither of those factors makes these types of things less stupid to say.