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  • BREAKING: Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

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  • Is there actually any evidence of a "massive crime being committed" other than a right-wing youtube video?

    The department had not confirmed Shirley's allegations of fraud at the time of this writing, nor could Snopes independently verify the figures his report used. Snopes also could not independently verify Shirley's claims that the daycares committing fraud were run or owned by Somali Americans. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/12/30/nick-shirley-minnesota-daycare-fraud/

    And, even starting on the assumption that this fraud was happening, why on Earth would that be Tim Walz fault? Is anyone claiming that he was in on it somehow? Was he running a fraudulent daycare? Or are gonna pretend like he's to blame for something happening "on his watch" as if he's some kind of omniscient deity?

    It's not the Governors job to prosecute crimes, let alone somehow prevent them from happening in the first place.

    If a massive fraud was being committed, it would be up to the Minnesota or US AG to prosecute based on available evidence.

  • BREAKING: Tim Walz Drops Out of Minnesota Governor Race

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  • Man, what a bad move... what a terrible fucking move...

    Tim Walz was an incredible disappointment who didn't live up to the hype in a slightest. His "aww gee shucks" nice guy football coach routine was just embarrassing, he performed god damn terribly in the debate against JD Vance, and now he's dropping out over some bullshit that nobody with a brain is paying attention to right now?

    All he has done here is show that he is weak, imply that he was somehow culpable for the daycare fraud, and proven once again to the Republicans that they can just harass our spineless politicians out of office by making up some nonsense whenever it's convenient to them.

  • What is it about technology that fascinates you?

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  • Whether it's hardware or software, I like technology that enables me to do things. Playing fun and impressive games, painting, animating, sculpting, making music, making my own video games, and so on...

    One of the simple reasons I really dislike AI slop is that it removes humanity from the process. In fact, there isn't much of a process at all. It's all about plopping out an end product and there's no "art" to it. As someone who values my own creativity, loves the process of making things, and doesn't believe in exploiting others for my own gain, generative AI is the last thing I want out of technology.

    Of course, a lot of technology is "fascinating":

    The complex and intricate boards with even more complex and intricate chips and parts on them.

    Storing data with electrons in RAM cells or on magnetic, optical and audio media.

    How chips are basically printed on to wafers.

    How we turn high level ideas into source code, compile it down to machine code, which is then interpreted as a series of numerical CPU instructions.

    And even though I hate how AI is being used and humans are being abused, how "machine learning" works by essentially biasing a data structute a certain way is also fascinating.

    How fast and small all of this has become over the last 100 years.

    How we power all of this stuff by harnessing river currents and the sun, and by splitting the atom, is also fascinating.

    There's a lot about technology to enjoy and find interesting. We just have to remember that it should be there to make life better, not worse.

  • 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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  • Entering my room: all the time.

    Entering my closet: all the time. (My mom would do my laundry, even as I started getting older and asking her not to. 😂)

    Searching my drawers: practically never, to my knowledge. (Usually only if they had an actual reason to. They weren't doing monthly random searches like a drill sergeant or anything like that.)

    Backpack: Rarely. Only if I got in trouble at school when I was younger.

    Electronics: never, to my knowledge. Having said that, today's younger parents are probably more aware of the internet and technology risks.

  • [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server

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  • I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

    1. The main data drive(s)
    2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
    3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
    4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

    So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you'll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

    As for how you build it, I think it doesn't matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)

  • Removed

    Remember this when you think about buying from Modretro. (Palmer Luckey, being the founder of ModRetro, Oculus VR, and Anduril Defense)

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  • If you are willing to abandon your self-proclaimed "principles" at the first convenience you never had any to begin with.

    We wants to appear like he believes in checks and balances when in reality he doesn't give a damn.

  • I recently started using Mastodon. Which people or accounts would you recommend to follow and why?

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  • First and foremost, I recommend follow topic #hashtags and using that as a springboard to find interesting people to follow.

    Follow your hobbies and interests. Follow your favorite shows and games. And so on.

  • Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law

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  • Weak and cowardly.

    The current UK labor party doesn't seem to have any concrete values or plans beyond censoring internet pornography.

  • After Venezuela Attack, Trump Says Something Must Be Done About Mexico

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  • They like money and power as much as the next fascist politicians.

    Let's not pretend like the US armed forces aren't full of right wing militants just waiting for their moment to kill.

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • True. But at least we don't have to continue to pretend like there's even a shred of credibility there anymore.

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • "Sexually impure"...? He could have every freaky kink in the book and I wouldn't care at all...

    He raped and trafficked children.

    It's not exactly "puritanism" to be mad about that. And we can still be mad about the imperialist invasion of Venezuela.

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • Ah yes, let's ignore the fact that he spent the bulk of his adult life grooming and raping girls (not "women", but minors) with his best friend, the world's most notorious pedophile sex trafficker, because he is starting an unprovoked war over oil.

    Genuine question: are you really incapable of being angry about multiple things at once, or do you just have a generally laissez-faire attitude towards violent sex crimes against kids?

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • Well on the bright side, thank fucking Ares we no longer have to listen to Tulsi Gabbard's smug performative "end the forever wars" bullshit.

  • How to make Linux Mint recognize controllers with extra buttons

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  • From what I've heard some of those 8bitdo controller buttons are just remapper on the firmware level and aren't necessarily accessible on the OS level to be arbitrarily mapped.

  • Wafrn, a fedi software that also connects with bluesky

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  • Cool! This one is new to me. Nice to see that it has good bluesky integration, too.

  • Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence

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  • I'll assess them: they are incompetent and talentless.

    That'll be $20.

  • Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland

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  • Be gone, fucking losers.

  • We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human

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  • The supreme irony of that message coming from Windows Central...

  • Featured

    Meta: disallow AI-gen posts?

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  • Agreed. I'll go one further and say disallow "AI" anything...

    Soon the internet will be so full of sloppy shit that we need to start creating spaces dedicated to genuine human arts and communication right now.