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  • Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass

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  • Tangent: Whenever the news reports a major earthquake somewhere, I like to remind people that Plate Tectonic Theory is "just a theory" and that some religious leaders confidently assure us that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.

  • Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI

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  • Ukrainian warplane fires weapon at target inside Russia for first time

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  • There's absolutely nothing wrong with reporting the facts that you do have when you have them and are confident of your sources.

    Acknowledging remaining open questions that you don't have answers to yet, is a bonus.

    A perfect example of reporting before the fog of war clears would be reporting completely erroneous information as factual. So unless you're suggesting that a Ukrainian fighter jet did NOT in fact strike a target inside Russia, then this isn't the "perfect example" you're looking for.

  • Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story

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  • How Lewis cleans up this mammoth of a mess that he has created for himself remains to be seen. Can he do it? One wonders what Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Post, who must be growing quite tired of constantly seeing his newspaper ensnared in controversy, thinks of the situation. Inside the newsroom, though, the sentiment is plain as day.

    “He’s really losing the newsroom on a large scale,” a staffer said, sizing up the state of affairs. “People don’t trust him, don’t believe he has the same values and ethics as our journalists and there are major concerns of how far he would go to censor or shut down coverage.”

  • Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

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  • Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.

  • Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

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  • That attitude/idea can lead to blaming the marginalized group for their own victimhood.

    Probably a dumb question, but how so?

    I just see it as beating the bully with their own stick. I can't imagine how anyone would see that and conclude that the bully's victims are somehow to blame. Probably lack of imagination on my part, so help me out.

  • Bannon put on notice that prison sentence may be 'the least of his problems'

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  • Trump aides Mark Meadows, Mike Roman enter not guilty pleas in fake electors case Friday

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  • Crowd boos Rob Schneider off the stage when he started telling anti-trans & anti-vaxx jokes

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  • My first thought in situations like this is that maybe he secretly wishes he were a she. It's true just often enough that I think it's worth considering as an option.

    And honestly, I don't care if it's true or not. If, whenever a public figure publicly tries to humiliate or demonize some minority group, public discourse immediately starts talking about whether said public figure secretly is, or wants to be, a member of said minority group, then it serves as a deterrent for others wanting to humiliate or demonize minority groups.

    A) You're in the closet and don't want people to know? Then don't ridicule people who came out of the closet.

    B) Oh, you're not in the closet and don't want people to think you are? What a coincidence. Also, don't ridicule people who came out of the closet.

  • Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

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  • How would they know now? It's the same answer. Stop being a dick.

  • Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

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  • ... that made any such interference a criminal offence. If the conduct continued, he added, “my office will not hesitate to act”.

    If they've already committed a crime... then what's with the fucking warning? This is why the rich and powerful think that they're above the law. It's because, apparently, they are.

  • Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

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  • IANAL, but I feel like if the heirs to an estate cared enough about the deceased's Steam account enough to get the court involved, Steam wouldn't have a leg to stand on. But that's probably what it would take to get them to do the right thing.

  • Louisiana set to become 1st state requiring 10 Commandments be posted in schools

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  • Yeah, I want to see the TST's tenets up there next to the commandments. That ought to stimulate some interesting discussions.

    For those not familiar,

    One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.

    The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

    One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.

    The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.

    Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.

    People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.

    Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

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    Billionaire hasn't heard of Streisand effect

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  • failed to apologise for or denounce

    Anybody can denounce another person's shitty opinions.

  • MIT-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency in 12 seconds in Ethereum blockchain scheme

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  • ETH abandoned the trustless part. Now you're supposed to trust the validators. Clearly, you can't.

  • Skill

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  • From my experience in both the workforce and reading the news, I feel like CEO is a strong candidate for "unskilled job". I mean, when someone can simultaneously be the CEO for a major car company, a major rocket company, a brain implant company, and an infrastructure company, and be the owner, CTO and Executive Chairman of a major social media company, while still having time to spend all day xitting out their unhinged thoughts to the world, CEO has to be the easiest job in all of humanity.

  • Yacht sinks after latest incident involving orcas in strait of Gibraltar

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  • ... with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!

  • xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

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  • I'm absolutely calling BS. I've never seen such a thing and wagering that you are just confused about what lanes can do what (or you're just making shit up). There are several roundabouts near me where an inside lane can turn out or go straight, but in all of those cases all lanes further out are required to turn out. The people that design traffic patterns aren't idiots, but there's no shortage of idiot drivers that can't follow even the simplest patterns.

    If you want to insist, all you need to do is link to such an intersection in google maps so I can look at the aerial view. I'm honestly curious how they would paint the traffic lanes to indicate what you're describing.

  • Pope tells Italians they need to have more babies

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  • And even if his statement were correct, he's got the cause and effect completely backwards.