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  • More Shocking Footage Shows Federal Agents Raiding Minneapolis High School, Handcuffing Staff

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  • Half the country loves this btw.

  • Dutch Rule

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  • why are the dutch like this

  • My mouse needs internet to function

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  • I am using X-mouse on my MX master 3 just because I've become addicted to the Logitech scroll wheel and i absolutely hate having to deal with their dogshit software. Probably doesn't have 100 percent functionality of the mouse but enough for me.

  • US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

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  • Trump doesnt actually care about any of that since that is only going to matter long after he's gone. He's old and unhealthy and feeling his mortality. If he actually manages to increase US territory then he will have an actual tangible legacy, that's why he wants it.

    Instigating external conflicts to distract from domestic issues is a long-standing tradition of shitty leaders throughout history, and that is the other dimension to this.

  • Meta’s AI Problem: A Growing User Flight

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  • There have already been scams involving stealing a phone, finding the phone owners grandmother in contacts, and using AI-generated videos and images to pretend like they're holding her granddaughter hostage and getting her to pay.

    All the advantages of kidnapping for random with a fraction of the risk.

  • Meta’s AI Problem: A Growing User Flight

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  • How long does it take to verify that your AI multidimensional research is actually correct? What do you do if you are actually expected to understand what it gave you?

  • The White House updated its website to describe the January 6th attack

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  • Brain rot nonsense

  • US oil giants silent on Trump claim they will spend billions on Venezuelan oil industry

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  • This whole thing has been so absurd. Trump obviously has no message discipline so he blurts out whatever nonsense he thinks of on the spot. For oil companies to actually control Venezuelan oil infrastructure, they would need a US ground invasion first. Hundreds of thousands of troops. There is no such buildup at present and I don't really think Trump has the buy-in to make that move despite how culturally sick the US current is .

  • ‘It’s our turn’: gun-safety advocates are riding a ‘seismic’ wave to US legislatures

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  • Also is it really a good time to tell Americans that they need to be disarmed when the vast majority of us are having a hard time with a fascist federal government and police forces who refuse to do their job?

    It doesn't really matter. Even if all their candidates won and were in a position to not just propose but pass laws, there is no law that can be passed that will both work at reducing gun violence and also be found constitutional by SCOTUS. Guns won.

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    Don't ruin the magic

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  • The American People Don’t Want a Bigger Military Budget

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  • It's also not true in a relevant way. In the abstract, on its own, sure. If a presidential candidate argued for less military spending during an election campaign they would be painted as weak , and trying to weaken American increasingly dangerous world. Probably conspiracy theories about them being a foreign agent. And they would either lose outright or at least pay a significant political price.

  • NSFW

    MDs please verify.

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  • The one thing they could have made Shepard read that would make him invite the reapers invasion.

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    MDs please verify.

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  • Related question: where can I voluntarily get a lobotomy?

  • Two Handed Swerds

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  • Bottom left is my favourite. I want two dudes with those weird things to fight .

  • fantasy rule

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  • The middle drawing appears to be the end scene of Bladerunner 2049 where the protagonist lies on the concrete steps, not a field.

    https://youtu.be/bqFwDapu23w?t=3m50s

    Meme is 0/10 literally unplayable

    EDIT - Added spoiler tag. Also Snape killed Dumbledore

  • French Anatomy

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  • You know there's a Canadian sports exec named Dick Pound?

    Mr and Mrs Pound had a baby, looked at it, and said "were going to name him Richard, and he will be known as Dick. With a hard D".

    Really makes you wonder.

  • Corruption rule

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  • I disagree but it is interesting to note that your conception of corruption essentially doesn't make the distinction between extractive and quid-pro-quo.

    Extractive corruption is where one party uses authority to essentially shake down someone else. A cop pulls you over for a spurious reason and demands $200 in cash to make it all go away on the spot, or you can fight it and maybe win in court after significant inconvenience, cost, or just be met with immediate violence. In any case, in this case there is a perpetrator and a victim and the victim gets nothing out of it other than getting screwed.

    In quid-pro-quo type corruption, both parties benefit to some degree. So for example if you're applying for a permit at a local government office and you need it done fast, you slip them $50 to bump it to the top of the queue. They get paid, you get your permit faster .

    China's anti-corruption efforts famously dealt very harshly with extractive corruption while allowing a certain degree if quid-pro-quo corruption on the basis that 1) you cannot fully eliminate corruption so you have to prioritize and 2) quid-pro-quo corruption actually meets a market demand that isn't being met within the official system, as you noted. So long as the clerk continues to eventually process permits for people who don't pay the $50 bribe , there is a certain like of logic that says that you might as well let that clerk keep doing this since not everyone needs permits fast.

    This form of "allowed" corruption itself requires monitoring and regulation, though as it can easily turn extractive and such practices essentially require that the clerk have some reasonable fear of going too far.

  • Anger Management 😌

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  • I mean it's not like the kid killed a random person. In a sense he's the only character doing any kind of root cause analysis.

  • Critics Take Hakeem Jeffries To Task For Praising Trump's Latest Pardon

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  • He's acting exactly like a current established Democrat leader. He is proudly saying he doesn't take money from PACs, except AIPAC is the exception and if you ask why you're antisemitic. He cares about keeping the democratic unconditionally and uncritically 100 perfect behind Israel as his main policy goal, far more than any domestic concern. In that he has tons of company and is doing his job just fine.