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  • U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year

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  • That reminds me of when Silicon Valley VCs started telling us, "We don't fund software startups anymore. You need what, two, three million dollars in funding? We can't distribute a 50 billion fund in 2 million increments, we need some meat on the bones!"

    They found the meat in AI, which explains why AI companies are so insanely bloated. Ukrainian drones are to US interceptor missiles like DeepSeek is to OpenAI.

  • Big difference

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  • Was about to say: the cat wouldn't be resting by the side of the human, its butt would be right on the face! 🤣

  • Europe’s far right is lost in Trump’s war against Iran

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  • The eternal dilemma of the International Cooperative of Nationalists, only surpassed by the plight of the Cordial Consortium of Religious Fundamentalists.

    It's so, so hard to ally yourself with people that think of you as the enemy, by definition. Didn't Europe's Far Right hear the part where MAGA is all about America?

  • Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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  • Sadly, it's not usually those that make the decision not to vaccinate that are infected. It's their children. Most parents have had mandatory vaccination.

    I think that puts an additional degree of ick to the whole thing. You can do your "research" and decide that "the vaccine is worse than the disease it prevents," but don't do so while you are protected, endangering others that you claim to love.

  • U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot

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  • It's a bit odd to blame low literacy rates for the fall of the Roman Empire. It took centuries for that Empire to fall, and throughout that time the literacy rates within were way ahead of most of its enemies. Historians like Gibbon largely blame economic and political factors: disruptions in trade routes due to constant warfare, depopulation of entire regions due to internal and external struggles, and lack of internal cohesion / constant infighting.

    Now, at least the disruption of trade routes and the constant infighting are afflicting the USA right now, although not because of war. The USA is still so powerful that it takes a monarch's unilateral decision to impose tariffs for trade to be rerouted, and it's his doing that the country is as deeply divided as it's been.

  • Texas’ Anti-Trans Attorney General Declares Psychologists Must Impose Conversion Therapy on Trans Kids

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  • Posturing before the Republican primary runoff.

    It's disgusting that this man issues an opinion like this. It's worse that some Texas voters would prefer him because of this B.S. The party of limited government, of parental rights, of individual responsibility: right there at the forefront of telling people who they can be, against their own will, that of their parents, and that of medical professionals.

  • New filing alleges MSP supervisor knew about alcohol in deadly trooper crash

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  • Ah, so the short story is this would have flown under the radar if it hadn't been for a person that was accused of murder that needed dirt on the arresting officer.

    What do you know, an accused murderer is today's hero.

  • U.S. Embassies Tell Americans in the Middle East They’re on Their Own

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  • That was to be expected. How was the State Department supposed to know that (checks notes) its boss would start a war in the middle of peace negotiations?

    The story goes that Philip K Dick, the notable sci-fi author, wrote his famous novel, The Man in the High Castle in part by choosing plot twists at random, using the I Ching. I see his fine opus at work here, too. 2026 is the year of the random plot twists.

  • Trump Has Made the U.S. War Machine a Spectacle—And It’s Spectacularly Unpopular

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  • I would wager the guess his war machine is still more popular than his involvement in the Epstein affair and his brutal mishandling of the US economy. Or the fact he is delusional about both, being completely exonerated by the release of the Epstein files and having created the best economy in the history of the universe, according to him.

  • What do you think of this plan to switch from Instagram to Pixelfed?

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  • I think the big question is what kind of IG user are your contacts. If they are on the platform to look at what the Kardashians are up to, or the big influencers, then lack of monetization on Pixelfed means your contacts will miss the content from IG.

    If it's people that exchange pictures and don't care what famous people do, then maybe switch to Pixelfed and continue posting a reduced amount to IG, with the information that most of your posts are on Pixelfed. And maybe, once in a while you could post a screenshot of your Pixelfed feed on IG, so that people can see the quality of other people's content.

  • Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students' transgender status

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  • From the post body:

    The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

    So, yes, it is a religious issue. And I would have totally bought a framing that says the law infringes on the teachers' rights or those of staff to notify the parents. I don't know why they would frame it as the parents' right. I suppose it's because they couldn't find school personnel willing to go to court over this.

    I totally get your point, and you are right. But the court went out of its way to frame is as the parents' right based on exercise of religion, which seems bonkers to me.

    I suppose the post body might be wrong, too.

  • Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students' transgender status

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  • I agree, and they have more or less always been that way. If you wanted to shrink the reach of religion, you brought a case about the rights of Muslims or Native Americans. If you wanted to expand it, you brought a case about Catholicism.

    I think what changed is that they were more roundabout about it and they tried to find some reasoning that got them where they wanted but not for the reasons they wanted. Sort of like the decision to let the baker discriminate, which was formally decided on the grounds that the State of Colorado discriminated against his religiosity.

  • Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students' transgender status

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  • See, that's what makes SCOTUS's argument so insidious. If the right to be notified is religious in nature, then the conflict with the child that doesn't want to tell the parents also is religious in nature. In particular, the child asserts the freedom to be free from the parents' religion.

    If the decision were based on the free speech rights of the school, or on concern for the well-being of the child, I could have understood. But basing it on the religious rights of the parents is in direct contradiction with the fact that the child clearly doesn't want their parents to know, which means the child is aware the parents would disapprove for religious reasons, which means the child does not share that particular religious belief.

  • Is It Just Me – Or Are Outages Everywhere Lately? (Claude, GitHub, Supabase)

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  • Hate to say it, but when you vibe code your service with billions of users and fire everybody that knows how it works, you'll have frequent outages.

  • Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students' transgender status

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  • The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

    That is very troubling. I could have understood a First Amendment justification for the school and the staff, although they have to live with restrictions on what they say all the time.

    Basing this on the parents' free exercise clause means that the parents have a religious right to know the details of their children's lives, which implies they have a right to force their religion on their children.

    That is a monstrous claim, as children have a right to their own religion and exercise thereof under the First Amendment, too.

  • More Americans disapprove than approve of U.S. strikes against Iran

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  • Nearly half say they would be more likely to support continued military action if it led to a government in Iran that is friendly to the U.S. or puts an end to the Iranian nuclear program.

    The downside risks are also evident: 54% say they would be less likely to support U.S. military action if it leads to U.S. casualties. Many also indicate their support would decline if U.S. actions led to a broader conflict in the Middle East.

    "If this goes well, I will have always been behind it. If it goes poorly, I was always against."

  • U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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  • It goes both ways. If the artist has to do 30% of the work, what about collages? Do we have to count the square millimeters of each cut and paste item to ensure they are above the threshold?

  • Barron Trump barred from military service as Iran war sparks outrage

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  • For all we know, every single athletic program in the USA tried to get this one. But can you imagine even one of the Trump family doing actual work? No, thanks, coach!

  • Wow wow wow... European Gas prices just surged 50% after Qatar said LNG infrastructure is under threat

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  • But think of the fireworks! /s