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  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • Protests can be peaceful and armed, FWIW. That’s what started the Black Panthers. People realized that unarmed peaceful protests got violently broken up… But heavily armed peaceful protests had cops politely watching from across the street.

    Cops were more than happy to fire into crowds when everyone was unarmed. But the cost/benefit ratio suddenly changed when the entire crowd could return fire. A cop may be able to hit three or four protestors, and in an unarmed protest, the rest would quickly scatter and disperse. But when everyone was armed, the rest of the crowd could immediately return fire instead.

    It’s also what started modern gun control laws. When lawmakers saw a bunch of heavily armed black people on their front porch, and saw cops unwilling to break it up, they got really fucking sweaty. So Ronald Reagan (yes, the same Reagan that conservatives put on a pedestal) and the NRA (yes, the same NRA that lobbies for looser gun control after school shootings) co-sponsored the Mullford Act, which was the most restrictive gun control bill the country had ever seen. It was literally the start of modern gun control laws.

    This is what drove the Black Panthers underground, as the lawmakers and police worked to criminalize and track them, so they could kick down doors during dinner time, instead of busting up the peaceful protests directly. And we still see that tactic being used today, with police setting up cell phone trackers and facial recognition cameras at protests, and raiding suspected attendees’ homes days or weeks after the protest.

  • 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far

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  • I mean, I’m not mad about why they removed so many videos. They had a massive CSAM and revenge porn problem, to the point that you could often find it on the front page. They also had really ineffectual methods for victims to report offending content, to get it taken down. There was also the whole “victim can only begin the takedown process (which likely won’t even get the video taken down) if they know it has been posted” problem. And their fix was to only allow uploads by verified users.

  • BBC 'bans' journalists from saying US 'kidnapped' Venezuela's Maduro

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  • Control through legal threats is still control. The BBC is afraid of getting sued again, which means Trump has some impactful control over them.

  • Judge orders Lindsey Halligan to explain why she's still serving as U.S. attorney after previous ruling against her

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  • or unbound and unprotected

    This is where the term “outlaw” came from. Basically, the local authorities would determine that someone had committed so many crimes that they were no longer protected by the law. They could be killed on sight, because the laws against murder no longer protected the outlaw.

  • State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin

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  • It’s learned helplessness. They hit a roadblock they couldn’t figure out, and instead of trying again, they just went “well I guess this tech stuff isn’t for me.” And now that’s the attitude they fall into every time.

    It’s like if someone lost their first board game, and just wrote off board games entirely because they aren’t any good at them. And any time they do need to play a board game, they can just call their favorite nephew to play it for them.

  • Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

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  • My dad brought poppyseed muffins in to work at his bank. Corporate HQ was baffled when every single person at his branch failed their surprise drug test later that same day.

  • Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

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  • And most ADHD meds will make you piss hot for amphetamines… Because ADHD meds are amphetamines.

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    Elon Musk’s X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children

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  • But we are just an absolutely lawless country.

    I disagree. We have lots of laws to protect billionaires. We also have lots of laws to oppress the poor. The lack of prosecution on this is because the laws are working exactly as intended.

  • State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin

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  • Yeah, the Tizen app will be huge for me. I’ve been dual-running Plex and JF specifically because a few of my users have Tizen devices. And there’s no way I’d be able to explain sideloading to my “throws up their hands and says it’s too complicated as soon as they see anything unexpected” relatives over the phone.

    Luckily, I got a lifetime PlexPass like a decade ago, before JF even existed. So it’s not like supporting Tizen is costing me anything extra.

  • Satire rule

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  • That was the entire point of the show. The writers wanted to see if they could get people to root for a villain, if they knew why the villain was bad and if the shift was gradual enough. It’s literally the title; they wanted to break the concept of what people consider “bad”, and see if the audience would go along with it if they felt the reasons were justified.

    and he reveals how much more of a piece of shit he really is

    That’s the thing though. From many peoples’ perspective, he wasn’t always that piece of shit. It wasn’t “revealing” as much as it was “changing”. He took on aspects of every person he killed, for better or worse. The idolatry was certainly a problem with the fans, but (again) that was the entire point of the show. By the later seasons, even the writers were baffled at how people were still rooting for Walt, because he was inarguably a monster. But because people watched his descent into madness, they were still hoping for him to come out on top.

  • When you were living with your parents, how often would they go through your personal space? (aka; enter your room, search your drawers, your backpack, your electronic devices, etc...) Is this normal?

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  • Basically never. Once I was old enough to walk to and from school on my own, my parents basically left my shit alone. They’d do the “I’m knocking to let you know I’m at the door, but asserting my authority as a parent by coming in without waiting for a response” thing for a while. But once they caught me jorkin it at my laptop, that went away too.

    It probably helped that I was a pretty boring kid. I didn’t have a ton of interest in smoking or drinking, so it’s not like I had a lot for them to take even if they did go through my shit. I think they found condoms once, but it’s because I left the box out, and it’s not like it was a surprise; they had already met my girlfriend. They tended to take the “we’d rather they do it here where they can at least be safe” approach to things.

  • So annoying

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  • If the person trying to bring back thorn really wanted to be pretentious, they would start using y instead. Y used to make the “th” sound, (the same way they’re trying to use thorn), which is where “ye olde” stuff comes from. It was pronounced “the old” just like modern English, but was spelled with a y instead of th.

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    PCSX2, the free open source PlayStation 2 emulator, is thrilled to release a major update 🥳

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  • Yeah, this post was right below the one about Anna’s Archive losing their .org domain. I started reading this one and was like “oh god a second takedown has hit the towers…”

  • Mom with the real questions

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  • This is pretty much what we did in my first apartment. There were four of us, and we all just circled our monitors around one end of a dining table, and the other end was kept clear for eating, projects workspace, etc... Every night was like an old school LAN party. I’ll admit, it wasn’t the worst setup. It was definitely “college kid in a cramped dorm room” vibes, but that’s pretty much what we were. Getting around the back of the table was kind of a pain, but the only people who ever realistically needed to get back there were the two people who sat on that side.

  • Hate it when this happens

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  • Hate it when this happens

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  • Only with cold water. Semen has a lot of protein in it, which means it will curdle and harden like scrambled eggs when it gets hot. Lots of women make the mistake of trying to use hot water, (because hot water cleans better, right?) but that has it immediately gumming up and getting sticky before they can even get the shampoo lathered.

  • For my older Millennials

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  • Maybe they were thinking of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome? That’s when you take an NSAID and then your body rejects your skin and it all starts falling off. You go from perfectly healthy to spontaneously looking like a critical burn victim in about two days.

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet

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  • Other side of the same coin: I work for a municipality, and I can’t even connect my phone to the intranet because they use MAC whitelists for the entire network. The only thing non-whitelisted devices can even connect to is the (really shitty) public WiFi. Many cities used to be pretty lax about cybersecurity, but a few high profile attacks have made most of them (at least anything larger than a small town) rethink that stance. Hell, one city a few miles away had a ransomware attack that left their city services entirely unavailable for like three weeks. That was actually studied by lots of the local cities, to see what they can do to prevent similar attacks.

  • Kentucky woman who ordered abortion meds charged with fetal homicide, police say

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  • And yet Texas has allowed individuals to sue out-of-state companies/residents for providing mail-order abortion pills. Everyone involved in the manufacture, packaging, and delivery could be sued. Claimants could win up to $100k per case. Lawmakers specifically made it a civil issue to keep it out of the criminal courts, because that allows them to skirt the interstate commerce clause. It also allows them to crowdfund the enforcement, because it’s two citizens duking it out in court instead of a state prosecutor having to handle every case.

    They also want to avoid coming into conflict with the liberal states’ shield laws, which basically says the liberal state will defend a person/company if they’re criminally prosecuted by a conservative state for facilitating an abortion. Because if two states have a disagreement about a criminal case, it goes straight to the SCOTUS. And those conservative lawmakers know the conservative SCOTUS would rule on their favor… And they specifically don’t want the SCOTUS to rule in their favor on this. Because it would open the floodgates for liberal states to prosecute gun/ammo makers whenever shootings happen with weapons that were purchased across state lines.

  • ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners

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  • Tired of those annoying cookie banners? They’re not just frustrating—they're a lazy response to GDPR.

    They’re not lazy, they’re maliciously compliant. The sites know how to comply with GDPR, but wanted to throw a fit instead. So they came up with the annoying cookie banners, to make users hate GDPR instead of hating the sites that were stealing and selling all of their data. And the worst part is that it worked. Many people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners, instead of the massive leap in privacy rights that it represented when it was passed.