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  • Bio-Engineered “Super Glue” Sets New Strength Record – Could Transform $50 Billion Industry

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  • Ok first of $50 billion! Second... Fuck what else is there except to see a YouTube of someone super glue their asshole with this new stuff and why he, because it will be a dumb guy unfortunately, needs us to donate to his gofundme for an asshole transplant

  • Interesting book store

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  • I think the church would spread it all over the world, into every little nook and cranny

  • Interesting book store

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  • Yeah South African here, it's a Christian book shop franchise here, not sure if they have spread to other countries yet. Primary school the store name was the butt of the joke for a short while

  • Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"?

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  • Oh no I disagree, I would rather be the richest person in a poor country than be the poorest person in a rich country. But I grew up in a low-ish, not nearly the lowest, income country so maybe I am just used to it.

  • How Sinclair Sneaks Right-Wing Spin Into Millions of Households

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  • And yet the Americans will be like; Oh, anyway...

  • Arch-Based Distros Dominate the Linux Gaming Scene

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  • Green Ubuntu squad is here and ready to serve

  • Lego is the captain now.

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  • On our mine we have a lot of systems to protect the tyres, and they are inspected regularly. Like if you overload your truck the truck will go automatically into creep mode to protect the tyres. We also have specialised services on site to inspect any damages and wear to ensure safe usage of the tyres, scrapping them way before the expected life span, usually at 50-60%. Repairs are also done but only if the tyres are not structurally damaged.

    But proper standoff distance usually prevents any people or machinery coming into any dangerous situation of a tyre blowing out. The real danger of these huge trucks, we have the 350 Tonnes version, its collisions, can so easily drive over almost anything without knowing, so that is why we have a very far standoff distance, 80-100 meters to ensure no one gets too close. Also we have a collision avoidance system where the truck switches off when anything gets nearby

  • Dutch population must stay below 20 million, ministers say

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  • No! Who will control the Congo then...

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    What was your public school infamous for?

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  • The one kid smashed a kid's face into a toilet till it broke, toilet and kid's face, and news crew came filming where we found out almost all our classes are made out of asbestos, late 2000s

  • Any meteorologist that can help me figure out what the heck this line is?

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  • So disappointed that no meteorologist said: "a meteor probably".

  • Vote!

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  • Ok it is your choice fully, and is in my opinion a good choice, but as a non American I thought of this funny hypothetical question.

    So even during the first civil war you were against the Republican party?

  • Mexico supreme court judges resign over reforms to allow voters to elect judiciary

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  • Well I was not even focused on the USA in my reasoning of why in Mexico it is a bad thing to extend the democratic process to the election judicial branch of government or generally every decision to the public.

    The USA has issues in their democratic elections, gerrymandering in certain states being one, the electoral college giving most or all the electoral votes to the winner and not a portion in relation to votes, propaganda being openly discussed on "entertainment" news channels. Then there is even lobbying that is allowed, politicians being able to buy and sell stock based on insider information, paid speaking events.

    And the ruling by elites will in any system be an issue, even oppression by the majority can be an issue, that is usually why you have a good constitution, that lays the foundation of how government should work, the different spheres and how it should protect the most vulnerable in society. It has mechanisms to protect against an interest group gaining power to basically twist the system to their will and finally the last resort is the democratic vote of the people to ensure accountability.

    After these mechanisms have failed there is no pretty answer on how to easily get back to a fair system. In my country South Africa, where we had a system that disenfranchised the majority of the population, I am glad that we had a bloodless coup d'etat and now we have one of the most progressive constitutions in the world, but even that wasn't enough again from a connected small majority from almost ruling the country. Luckily in our last election, in the first time in 30 years the ruling party lost their majority and now we have a 10+ party coalition ruling majority government, and in my opinion things are going good, but we know how fragile our democracy is and try to be as engaged as citizens can be.

  • Mexico supreme court judges resign over reforms to allow voters to elect judiciary

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  • Agree, but there are many flavours of it. For example we began the discussion on how Mexico extended their democracy to now include the judicial branch of government, others can be how they vote, for example electoral college in USA, ranked choice voting in some European countries like France or my country, South Africa, we have proportional representation and cannot even vote for our president

  • Mexico supreme court judges resign over reforms to allow voters to elect judiciary

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  • This example was exactly the issue Socrates had with democracy actually, saying that a demagogue would be elected as a president or leaders of government the majority of the time. His solution was just as vague, so let's just say there is no perfect system yet. All have their benefits and drawbacks.

    Look it is messy, my feeling is you vote or don't vote for a party based on their policy and track record, but after elections they have the will of the people to act, so they should then focus on the technical issues of government by being guided by their election promises, policy and the country's constitution to ensure that minorities aren't discriminated against for example.

  • Mexico supreme court judges resign over reforms to allow voters to elect judiciary

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  • This example was exactly the issue Socrates had with democracy actually, saying that a demagogue would be elected as a president or leaders of government the majority of the time. His solution was just as vague, so let's just say there is no perfect system yet. All have their benefits and drawbacks.

    Look it is messy, my feeling is you vote or don't vote for a party based on their policy and track record, but after elections they have the will of the people to act, so they should then focus on the technical issues of government by being guided by their election promises, policy and the country's constitution to ensure that minorities aren't discriminated against for example.

  • Mexico supreme court judges resign over reforms to allow voters to elect judiciary

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  • My opinion is, not based on Mexico, that the public is uninformed in the majority of decisions. Basically delegating power to the common person, especially technical decisions to the public will mean the most popular choice will win mostly, not the best choice. That is basically populism in a nutshell. Imagine you had to choose in this example a food policymaker, the one is the charismatic Willy Wonka that will say he wants everyone to eat sweets all the time, he wants you to eat whatever you want to eat, give you choices by subsidising all the sweets, worse he will attack Dr. Grouch, because he wants to tell you what to eat, force additional taxes on sweets to try and guide people to eat more gross vegetables, in fact basically force you, the poorest to have no choice but to eat these "healthy" foods. And unfortunately Dr. Grouch will agree, he wants you to eat "healthy food because in a couple of years you and your children will reap the benefits.

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  • Well it's too far for Netanyahu to turn around now. He is being rewarded politically and I feel like he has already put all his chips into the destroy Hamas and Hezbollah, no matter the collateral. The sad truth is that October the 7th basically was a golden ticket for Netanyahu politically.

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • I think it is the crash of Tesla, its evaluation is based on being a silicon tech startup, not as an automobile company. So when the shares finally fall in line with other car manufacturers valuation, shit is going to hit the fan. And I think he knows he needs a government bailout and sanctions on foreign EVs specifically to price the competition out of the market. His entire empire is basically being propped up by the Tesla share price. He needs to go all in, it is survival mode for him right now

  • This is why I still use an Android custom ROM in 2024

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  • Some of us like to tinker. We really get satisfaction of having a weird niche filled and even if it comes at the cost of stability and other issues. Heck my Custom Roms used to be more up to date with security updates than phones that were older than one year.

    I could use kernels that undervolts my processor to give me better battery life. It allowed features that even 5 years ago were on the custom ROM scene still very absent from modern phones.

    But the most important part for me was learning, discovering. If I tried a new ROM I would spend hours going through certain roms settings. If there is a glitch, learn how to diagnose and try to fix it, or learn to send a logcat to the developer.

    It was like a fun hobby. I learned how to fix some of my old phones, like screen replacement, and learned how to cure uv reactive glue. So many other things and I was just a noob.

    But it gave freedom. I understand iPhone and the other high brands are easy to use, have gimmicky features and all, but dammit I have freedom to have my weird niche phone, with multiple breaking features and I loved it because it just worked.

    If Google truly did hold security as its main concern, it would have opened the play Store, yet we know now they only wish to protect their monopoly