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  • Trump Reportedly Mulling Plan to Declare ‘National Emergency’ Paving Way for Major Power Grab

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  • The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.

    The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.

    There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn't vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.

    All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn't immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.

    Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.

  • Conspiracy theorists were wrong

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  • Until something is officially declared a crime and a legal accusation is made, people are officially, legally innocent. Which means everyone saying "Epstein didn't kill himself" or "Donald Trump is involved in a child trafficking operation", is a conspiracy theorist.

    Courts determine criminal liability withing the justice system. They do not determine truth itself. When properly designed and used, the legal system should trend towards truth, but actual truth is a separate thing entirely. The unifying aspect of conspiracy theorists is completely naive epistemology. You guys are actually doing epistemology but you just refuse to actually look at the thousands of years of work that's been done in the field across civilizations all over the world.

  • Trump Bored to Sleep During Board of "Peace" (Genocide) Launch

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  • Because people should know better than to vote for them but they don't.

  • FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler

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  • I think the latest iteration ironed out a lot of UI issues. Not all, but a lot. If you care at all about owning your own files and designs then you basically have to use freecad.

  • States Are Expanding Trans Bathroom Ban Bills to Encompass Private Businesses

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  • That is a potential solution for people looking to resolve the situation. They don't want to do that, they just want to effectively ban trans people from public spaces by making both bathroom options wrong/dangerous.

  • Emmanuel Macron: ‘The strategy of bowing down to the US doesn’t work’

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  • It's worth remembering specifically why appeasement doesn't work. The one trying to appease the egotistical bully thinks the bully had limited goals , so if you grant some fraction of that you can avoid their aggression. In reality, bullies don't have limited goals (they will take exactly as much as they think they can take and no less) and only see appeasement as weakness, which further drives their aggression. That is why appeasement always leads to disaster beyong the immediate short term - it shows you can be successfully leveraged and threatened and so it invites more leveraging and threats.

    I hate to use this example but Star Trek Discovery rather clumsily covered this concept in the first season in the Klingon war. The Vulcans realized that Klingons see war and conquest as an inherent part of their culture, and exploiting weakness in others is one of their core beliefs. So they adopted the policy of shoooting at any Klingon vessels on sight ("the Vulcan Hello") , and the Klingons left them alone.

    It's anathema for people who believe in peace which is why the Federation couldn't bring themselves to behave this way. It took ruthless logical analysis to arrive at that course of action.

  • Munich Security Conference

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  • You don't technically need a centralized authority to encrypt email. You can do it at the client level and use some form of public key encryption. You will however have to manage your own private key, and recipients will have to be willing to actually use the system you devise. That's always the hard part.

  • What's Behind the Rise in Colon Cancer in Young Guys?

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  • Even the old school chuds on bodybuilding.com would go for the chicken AND broccoli diet. Idk what the point is of completely foregoing fiber.

  • Orbán says the EU and not Russia is Hungary’s real threat ahead of April vote

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  • Why would he leave when he can use the mechanisms of the EU to fuck shit up on behalf of Russia.

  • [Combat] After exhausting its supply of AIM-9L/M missiles, a Ukrainian F-16AM launched its final AIM-120 AMRAAM to intercept a Shahed UAV.

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  • That AMRAAM costs what, 20x as much as the Shahed? Good that they stopped it but Ukraine needs more cutting edge drone defenses. Energy weapons.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • While you do that AIPAC is ensuring that your 2028 option will be Newsom and Rahm Emanuel or someone else they hand pick. That way they win no matter what happens and Americans remain pay pigs for genocide.

  • Nobody suspects the Spanish reconquest-iton

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  • It was definitely more conquest than colonization.

    The more interesting thing is that the Ummayads conquered most of Iberia in like 7-8 years. The Reconquista took 7 centuries and wasn't completed until 1492.

    Incidentally some of the hardened veterans of the late Reconquista were the ones who would go on to annihilate the Aztec empire (didn't help that the Aztecs had a lot of surrounding nations that they had subjugated that hated them) and commit some of the worst atrocities in this history of European colonialism including treating the natives of the new world as slaves in their race for resource extraction.

    The resources extracted in the new world would help build a lot of the nice architecture we see in modern day Spain, but it also cause inflation that destroyed Spain's productive economy.

    Here's a video that explains that last part (to be taken with a huge grain of salt - lot of absolutes stated here, but the overall thing did happen):

    https://youtu.be/Mqde3Oeo7Rg

  • FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’

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  • It also helps if they're actually guilty of crimes that the president can hold over them to ensure loyalty.

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  • It basically doesn't matter if she resigns or not. Whoever takes her place will be decided by Trump who will just want someone who will cover up the worst of the Epstein files, run cover to ICE misconduct, and never prosecute those who bribe Trump. Whether it's Bondi or not barely matters.

  • Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world

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  • They have the best place to view the night sky because it is undeveloped. How is this so hard for you to understand?

    Yeah that's not true bruh. Takes more than empty space. The only place even comparable is Mona Kea in Hawaii.

  • Being a good dad is a really undervalued quality in nearly every royal family, honestly

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  • Someone should make the same meme for the Ottoman Empire if they just fixed their leader's inheritance rules.

  • Noam Chomsky's wife called Epstein their "best friend" multiple times

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  • The"hype" around him is about the fact (yes it's a fact) that he made generational contributions to the field of linguistics (probably decades before he met Epstein) and a lot of people like his book "Manufacturing Consent".

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • Self-hosted options like Mumble also exist.

    Self-hosted is a pain to get started with but as everything enshittifies if will only get more important.

  • It Took Less Than a Quarter for NFL Fans to Be Sick of AI Ads During Super Bowl LX

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  • The funniest thing about this is that using AI slop for Superbowl ads is actually peak capitalism. The cost of the ad space itself dwarfs the cost for producing the ads, with AI or not. But the worthless MBAs driving this just can't help themselves.