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mfed1122

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  • Texas Supreme Court rules judges can refuse to marry same-sex couples

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  • If my religion forbids flying in airplanes, that means I shouldn't become a pilot. And if I do become a pilot, I can't suddenly start demanding that all the planes I'm in charge of just taxi across the country instead. My religious freedom means that I don't have to be a pilot and I don't have to be on a plane. It doesn't mean that I get to decide how planes work for other people.

    Many such cases of religious people "accidentally" "confusing" the difference between these two scenarios.

  • MySafeSpace – whitehouse.gov

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  • This is a new level of crazy. I'm surprised this is the first I'm hearing of this

  • Texas Judges No Longer Required to Marry Same-Sex Couples

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  • Fuck Christianity. We all have an obligation to stand up to Christians wherever they start trying to spread their bullshit, even when it appears innocuous. The harmless proselytizing of the 2000s is what lays the groundwork for this. No more tolerance for Christians.

  • Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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  • Stupid rebuttals for stupid ideas tbh. Simulation hypothesis should never have been taken seriously

  • Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled

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  • Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.

  • YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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  • Yep, even on the side of the right ideas, half the people still got there via the same wrong methods that the people on the wrong side use. They just coincidentally happened to land on the right side instead. It is quite disheartening, exactly

  • Master chef

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  • Wow, what a weird suggestion too. Most people are avoiding cream because it's fatty as fuck. Tahini is made of nuts, so...it's ALSO extremely fatty. It's probably better for you than heavy cream, but let's be real, most people are just trying to lose fat.

    Really interesting because you could also make a nice thick soup by pureeing root vegetables for instance and that actually would be healthier than cream.

  • Best game ever

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  • At my local symphony the crowd always applauds between movements 😭 it doesn't really bother me too much but I do wish they'd make a polite announcement about it or something. But on the other hand I get that they don't want to make things seem stuffy and imposing.

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • If my experience with mashing the random article button is any indicator, you could reduce the size by 30% just by removing articles on sports players. I doubt I'll need those

  • Early morning appointments are best

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  • Does anyone know what the "cause" of this is? Like, why does the brain do this? It's one of the things I most wish to change about myself.

  • The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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  • Yeah I feel the same way. The last No Kings event in my area seemed like people were treating it almost like a street festival or parade. There was no confrontation, but had there been, I think everyone would have immediately complied and gone home. "Hey guys, the police said we have to turn the music down" type energy.

  • The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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  • "You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They are organized, and someone is funding it."

    As always they make accusations to mask the truth of the accusation on their own side. The No Kings people aren't the ones with giant professionally printed custom flags and actual corporations creating the merch they wear to their events. Crazy

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • Journeyman Troll perhaps

  • Multiple airports refuse to play Kristi Noem video that blames Democrats for government shutdown

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  • Young Adult Dystopian literature, imo, is really under-respected. It captures realities of politics and power in a way that is understandable and relatable to even people with only partially developed minds, and simultaneously it depicts those realities in a way that is often more accurate to reality than the more subtle "adult" approaches. Reality ain't always subtle or complicated. In fact, it's often such a repetitive tune that anyone who really cares to listen to the music is driven nuts by it and wishes it would play a different melody for once. Novelty is a lot more necessary to make entertaining media, but reality has no obligation to be entertaining. Ultimately, I think YA fiction is often great "by accident". In being a product for developing minds who are only hearing the endless hymn of humanity now for the first time in their life, it is able to be entertaining without requiring creativity on behalf of the producers - in the same way that gimmicky toys that sold well 50 (or even 500) years ago can still sell well today: there's a child born every minute who hasn't seen the gimmick yet and isn't old enough to be tired of it. But in the case of YA fiction, the exploitation of this dynamic actually frees authors from the constraint of catering to so-called refined tastes that demand things like subtlety, nuance, creativity, unwillingness to rehash the same old ideas, and so so on. These tastes are really just demands for more stimulating entertainment. As a result, YA lit may not be very entertaining to the perceptive adult reader, but by shedding this need for "lowly" entertainment it can ironically begin to function more like "true art", or at least one flavor of true art: holding up an undistorted mirror to the world regardless of whether you find the reflection entertaining to look at.

  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • ICE Will Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynecological Procedures

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  • Who said Republicans don't want to help minority women with birth control?

  • A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s plan

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  • Yeah, far be it from me to rush to the defense of religion, but this is not quite as scary as it sounds. You could very well have a religious person answering this survey who absolutely hates Trump and thinks he is a force for evil. Like you said, most Christians believe literally every event is part of God's plan (which is quite reasonable given their axioms tbh).

    In fact the article clarifies this:

    "That survey, of a nationally representative sample of 8,937 Americans from across the U.S., found that overall, 4 percent believed God chose Trump because He believes in his policies, while another 32 percent think Trump’s election is part of God’s plan, although God may not necessarily agree with his program. Nearly half, 49 percent, said God doesn’t get involved in elections, while 14 percent said they don’t believe in God.

    When it comes to white evangelicals, those numbers are much higher, with 8 percent believing God ordained Trump because He agrees with his policies, and 63 percent thinking his election is part of God’s plan, whether the deity agrees with his policies or not. Their beliefs held firm with regards to Joe Biden’s election in 2020 with 67 percent of white evangelicals believing his victory was part of God’s plan – but with the stark difference that a negligible percentage believed that God agreed with his policies."

  • 500 National Guard troops arrive in Chicago area amid resistance from Illinois governor

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  • Did the "resistance" in question take the form of saying "nooo don't"? If the governor of the state doesn't want them there, they have their own national guard to facilitate that.

    “This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.”

    Yeah! Speak up so that....so that....hmm. Maybe so that people with more power and authority than themselves individually deploy their power and authority on behalf of the people? Like some sort of... representative... Intriguing concept

  • Having fun by the end

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  • Real