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mdalin

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  • Brass piranha plants belching flames in Portland, OR.

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  • Greetings fellow Portlandian! I was at WLF last night too! Such a great atmosphere!

  • There should be smell museums

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  • Years ago I got to visit the perfume lab at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, where students learn about making perfumes.

    It was kinda like this! They had rows and rows of little bottles all filled with concentrated oils of different aromas. Probably the weirdest one I remember is "money". I cracked it open, and sure enough, it smelled just like a stack of well used bills.

    Was a really cool experience. Maybe see if there's a perfumer anywhere near you who would let you come explore their lab?

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    A Muslim-majority city banned Pride flags. A judge just ruled on its legality

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  • As an out and proud gay man.... I'm kinda with the city council on this one.

    I'm curious what flags that “represent the international character” means, but otherwise it seems like they're only allowing official government flags on government property and banning everything else. That seems fair.

    Representation is nice, but I don't need to see a pride flag hanging from every corner to feel seen. The only thing the government owes me is my civil rights, liberties, and basic human dignity. Slapping rainbows all over everything is just kinda performative lip-service, and is frankly cringy half the time.

    Also, fuck the misleading clickbaity title of this article.

  • What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?

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  • The live action Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers remake on Disney+ is SOOOOOO much better than it has any right to be.

    It should be terrible, unwatchable, irredeemable garbage.

    It is probably one of the best "kids" movies I've seen in the last decade.

  • Just can't pass a sign without defacing it

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  • Ugh.... Monogamists...

  • Trump lawyers tell Supreme Court that Constitution doesn’t apply to the president

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  • I agree with everything you said. You CAN draw a logical line from what Trump's lawyers are saying to the conclusion that "Trump lawyers tell Supreme Court that Constitution doesn’t apply to the president." That statement and conclusion is not, technically, factually, incorrect.

    However, I do feel like using that statement as a headline strips away all the context and nuance, leaving nothing behind but rage-inductive click-bait. That headline gives no meaningful information, and if someone takes it as literal truth, without reading the rest of the story, they will be massively uninformed about what's actually going on. It's a disservice to the reader.

  • Trump lawyers tell Supreme Court that Constitution doesn’t apply to the president

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  • I'm just as frustrated and horrified by what's going on as everyone else, but this headline is SUCH a stretch. Like, 98% click bait, 2% kinda-sorta truth. PLEASE read the actual article and not just the headline.

    This story is about a specific legal mechanism (universal injunction) that has been used by federal judges in dozens of cases throughout decades. It's a controversial mechanism that has been used on both sides of the political spectrum. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. It's currently being used to pause some of Trump's worst bullshit.

    Trump's lawyers are arguing that this very specific mechanism shouldn't be permitted in current cases regarding immigration. They've also argued that this particular mechanism is unconstitutional. His lawyers are wrong, and shitty, but they are in no way arguing that "the constitution doesn't apply to the president."

  • Encryption backdoor debate 'done and dusted'

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  • Important to note the "done and dusted" quote in the headline of this article (and most of the rest of the "content") isn't from anyone at any government agency. It comes from a guy who runs a "data encryption start-up" and is shilling his own product. Most of the "news" being covered here is just speculation from this one guy.

    The only "reversed course" from the government, as alluded to in the article, is CISA encouraging government employees to use E2EE messaging since our telecom infrastructure is basically perma-pwn'd by the Chinese.

    Government intelligence agencies would still VERY MUCH like to have backdoors in this encryption and there is nothing to indicate that has changed.