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  • In 2026, Will Americans Finally Turn Against Oligarchs?

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  • How the "Marvelization" of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking

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  • There's no "how" explained in this article. It's a few paragraphs saying very vague, abstract things, with just one somewhat concrete example in the lightsabre that I didn't really get because they didn't go into any real explanation. Is this article written by a movie critic for an audience of movie critics? Because I definitely don't seem to be the target audience.

  • Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel under September agreement

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  • U.S. ‌antitrust agencies ⁠had cleared Nvidia’s investment in Intel, according to a notice ‍posted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission earlier in December.

    Are they even giving reasons anymore? Or is the "antitrust agency" just a guy napping in a corner they periodically wake up just to give a thumbs up?

  • Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded

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  • Earlier this year, mosquitoes were found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes it more hospitable for insects. The country was until then one of just two places that did not have a mosquito population, the other being Antarctica.

    Welcome to the club. It sucks.

  • How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

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  • Arcades have to charge more than a quarter per play now due to inflation. The price isn't just you renting the machine for the duration of the play, it's you paying a small slice of the rent on the arcade location, the income of the workers, the maintenance of the machines, and the electricity for the lights, AC/heating, and so on. No arcades would exist today if they could only charge quarters.

  • China parents buy AI clips of regretful single women to urge childless kids to marry

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  • What ghouls. Let people live the lives they want.

  • Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining?

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  • It doesn't matter. Even if it were constantly streaming the current volume level, the energy to transmit the value "100" is the same as to transmit "5", so your phone doesn't drain any faster to constantly tell the earbuds the volume is high versus low.

  • I'm afraid of my neighbors calling ICE and breaking up my family

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  • Simple answer: no. We're beyond that now. ICE's latest strategy is simply to move so fast, courts and lawyers don't have time to do anything. There are dozens of credible news reports of them deporting US citizens, which means there are dozens, or hundreds or thousands, that haven't been reported on. They don't have to follow the rules if there's no practical way to hold them accountable, and they're leveraging that heavily.

    If you don't have your papers, they deport you. If you do have your papers, they lie and deport you faster than anyone can stop them.

  • Agriculture uses 98% of humanity's land usage

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  • You can see this very clearly flying almost anywhere. It's most obvious in places like the Midwest US, but even between cities in more densely populated regions, there's so much farmland. Islands of concrete in oceans of ordered crop fields.

  • New California law bans federal agents from wearing masks in showdown over immigration raids

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  • Expect the feds to invoke the Supremacy Clause and claim being arrested interferes with them executing their duty as a federal agent. They are going to blatantly ignore this law. We're not going to win this by pitting just state laws against unjust federal agents.

  • Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic.

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  • I interpreted that as for soups and stews. Peel the clove and plop it in. Once the cooking is done, take it out, like you would do with a bay leaf.

    I personally would never use garlic that way. I absolutely put it crushed into my stews. But that's how I read the image.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • My original comment? I just answered your question as to what that other commenter meant by "amendment 2." I didn't say anything else? Did you not want someone else to answer your question and only want that commenter to?

  • Women's rights vary

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  • Yep, I definitely think the whole phrasing of that comment is unusual. I understand the basic facts they are stating, but not the point of stating them.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • The right to bear arms.

  • Women's rights vary

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  • Men's rights to what, exactly? There are plenty of rights that affect men that vary state to state. Off the top of my head I can think of firearm rights that vary dramatically state to state. Or are we talking about rights exclusive to men because of different biology between men and women? I feel like other than a vasectomy, I'm not sure what other male-biology-related rights I have. Honestly there's less technology related to reproduction on the male side.

    I get the point of the message, that there are rights women should be universally guaranteed that aren't, and I totally agree with that message. But the phrasing seems ambiguous at best.

  • Americans are struggling with everyday costs including medical care and food, worrisome poll finds

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  • I don't know. People keep talking about what to do when we "make it out of this" like the whole situation was thrust upon us by nature, and we just have to wait and tough it out until it passes, like a storm. People made this happen. The people with wealth and power in our society chose this reality for the rest of us. They aren't just going to stop one day. And they aren't acting like this is a storm that will pass. They are acting like this is the next step in a transition they want and intend. We have to figure out how to instigate a change from this path, and I don't know how to do that.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • We’re about to face a crisis nobody’s talking about. In 10 years, who’s going to mentor the next generation? The developers who’ve been using AI since day one won’t have the architectural understanding to teach. The product managers who’ve always relied on AI for decisions won’t have the judgment to pass on. The leaders who’ve abdicated to algorithms won’t have the wisdom to share.

    Except we are talking about that, and the tech bro response is "in 10 years we'll have AGI and it will do all these things all the time permanently." In their roadmap, there won't be a next generation of software developers, product managers, or mid-level leaders, because AGI will do all those things faster and better than humans. There will just be CEOs, the capital they control, and AI.

    What's most absurd is that, if that were all true, that would lead to a crisis much larger than just a generational knowledge problem in a specific industry. It would cut regular workers entirely out of the economy, and regular workers form the foundation of the economy, so the entire economy would collapse.

    "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

  • internets gone

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  • But do you really want them touching it?

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • Eh, average is an ambiguous term. While in statistics it often means "mean," it can also mean "median" or "mode," and I would argue the layperson saying "average" intends it to mean "typical," which is closer to median (or even mode). And in that case, those 85 percent would not be smarter than average.