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  • Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after performers’ backlash

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  • I don't think this one is about Epstein, but instead an excuse to cover up all the artists canceling gigs there because of trump's illegal renaming.

  • Some people think because human history exists on a macro level they play some part in shaping it because they made a meme once.

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  • "Give me a meme and a message board on which to post it, and I shall move the world"

    -Archimedes

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    Musk's Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train AI

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  • The policy includes new details stating that unless a user opts out, Starlink data may be used “to train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models” and could be shared with the company’s service providers and “third-party collaborators,” without providing further details.

    Its still shitty of Musk and Starlink to even approach user data they're paying for to train AI, but for those that have no other choice for connectivity, I wanted to call out the opt-out exists.

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    Colorectal Cancer Becomes the Top Cause of Cancer-Related Death in People Younger Than 50

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  • Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

    There's also a version of the prep that is only 2 liters. Its more concentrated, but I can do that easier for me than the 4 liters.

    Another vote for getting colonoscopy screening. I had two precancerous polyps they found. Confusingly, precancerous doesn't mean they are cancer, but rather the type of polyps that turn into cancer. Both were removed during the procedure. With that there's no more actions or risk needed except a followup colonoscopy in 3 years. If they found no polyps its a followup in 10 years.

    Also if its a colonoscopy screening, and because of the ACA, the entire procedure is covered by insurance as its a wellness screening. If they are doing a colonoscopy because you're reporting problems, then its a "diagnostics" colonoscopy and you can get charged for it. The price tag on mine was slightly over $2500, but was 100% covered because it was a screening. Get your colonoscopy before you have problems and spend your $2500 on something else you want in your life!

    Call today and get an appointment for this. When I called the soonest appointment was about 5 months out. Call today to get yours booked.

    We lost a family member to colon cancer. She was 34 years old.

    Don't put this off. Get it done, people.

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    People named in the latest Epstein files s far

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  • In Lemmy, if you put two spaces after the last letters, THEN go the next line it will make the vertical list you want

    This text has two spaces afterThis text does tooThis text does not This text does not

    Odd markup, but here we are.

  • Who Is Anthony Kazmierczak? Ilhan Omar Attack Suspect Identified

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  • Also this gem: "In October 2021, he posted a political cartoon criticizing Omar’s security spending."

    He criticizes her security spending, then acts out showing exactly why she should be spending even more on her security.

  • The real meaning of those ICE masks, as blurted out in a WA hearing

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  • “I don’t recognize your authority to impose these controls over me.” There you go: “I don’t recognize your authority.” That’s the masked-up mentality, as bluntly put as can be.

    Here's the oath of office for Pierce County Washington where Swank is the sheriff. Presumably he took this oath when he took the position of sheriff:

    "I, (state name), do solemnly swear that I am a Citizen of the United States and a resident and registered voter of Pierce County; that I will support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Washington, and the Charter and Ordinances of Pierce County; and will faithfully, impartially, and honestly perform the duties of the office of (insert title of office), as such duties are prescribed by law, so help me God."

    source

    Bold is mine. Doesn't this mean the sheriff is admitting he will violate his oath of office?

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • Mesh back haul can get some distance connecting some communities aa well.

    I don't think community driven mesh networks are a realistically sized solution for the entire continental connectivity .

    Ideally, to me, that would multinational orgnization building common infrastruture for the collective benefit.

    Certainly that would be best for the many nations of the continent. However, that hasn't happened and high speed internet as a basic utility has been commonplace as a utility in huge parts of the world already for decades. So without the ideal of a coalition of NGOs, are the under served nations on the African continent just supposed to go without instead of the tech companies building the infrastructure, and maintaining the ownership that comes with that, to bring these services as is detailed in the article?

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • So WISPs and 5G networks address "last mile" access. According to the article Google and Facebook are building undersea cables which don't compete with last mile services, and in fact can help them as the existing backhaul circuits become saturated from continued new WISP and 5G users being added.

    I think its fantastic that there are community built efforts to bring people online. However, it sounds like these are small pockets of efforts instead of national or continental efforts. If the WISPs or 5G service area are only in pockets, is it fair that millions of people should go without access to the internet just because they don't live in one of the areas served by those existing community efforts?

  • Ewwww

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  • That morning, the man's wife safely gave birth to their first child. He was stopping by Whole Foods to get that expensive fruit drink that she loves so much, but won't buy for herself because she say's its too expensive. Everything he looked at he saw with a shine of promise for the happy future for his growing family. He lost his mother to cancer when he was 14, and worried about what kind of parent he would be without being able to grow into adult with his mom in his life. Today though, he had no doubts. He looked in his newborn's eyes and knew he'd move mountains with focus and determination just to make her dreams come true. For a moment he felt his mother's fleeting presence, and her pride in her now adult son with a child of his own.

    He was standing in line to pay holding two small bottles of overprice fruit juice and notice the woman in front of him sigh as she pulled out one credit card out of her wallet, pausing, and then put it back pulling out another instead. He could see in his minds eye that years ago this woman's father looked down at her on the day of her birth and felt that immense love that he did for his own newborn daughter. He wanted to tell her just how much her father had to have loved her on that day and still did to this day, and would until he left this Earth.

    "How are you doing?", he asked her. She glanced at him.

    "Ok. How about you?" she said slightly annoyed as she gave him a side eye. He wanted to gush about how beautiful life was, and how happy he was to be alive. He opened his mouth and closed it again, catching himself and slightly smiling instead.

    "It is beautiful in my soul today" he said. She paid for her purchase without looking back leaving the man to his joy of life. He never knew if she could sense his joy or the intense connection to humanity he felt in that moment.

  • Hi.

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  • Or I’ll go all out and redirect Youtube to lemonparty.cc for his account.

    I wouldn't go that far. The goal is to cause him to complain to other employees/managers that Youtube is too slow. You want the question forming in other people's heads "Why is he watching so much Youtube here at work that this is a problem?"

    Even better is if he is using the company internet/equipment to consume content that isn't safe and appropriate for work. If it can be shown his behavior is legal liability then the company may decide he's more trouble than he's worth.

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  • He wants to sit on his ass and watch Youtube for another 5 years.

    Set up a bandwidth restriction policy against his devices. Choke it down to 100kps for video sites so that watchability is garbage with low resolution and constant buffering.

  • Hi.

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  • Okay, so you see what works to fix the problem, you could have a conversation with him about how his skills are wasted in HelpDesk and that he should be making more money by doing job X in department Y. If he has enough dirt on the CEO, he can get his promotion.

  • Hi.

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  • Reply with:

    "Teamsbot-AI v1.3 says: 'Hi! I see you're looking for user $User. They haven't seen your message yet. Go ahead and send the rest of the message about your need or what you want to talk about and I'll send it onto them to respond.'"

    You don't need a bot or software, just literally copy and paste this response in to them. They'd never know the difference.

  • Hi.

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  • There's an "office politics" solution here. Sounds like Ed needs a promotion to another department.

  • Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet

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  • What is the alternative to existing giant companies investing in the infrastructure? And why hasn't that alternative already addressed this issue before the tech companies arrived?

  • China’s top general removed

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  • So this new general is joining a long line of no-longer-useful 2nd in commands just like Trotsky, Ernst Röhm, and Prigozhin.

  • Why there’s no European Google?

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  • I don't see how that rephrasing changes the outcome of the question. What's your view on it? What is the difference you're seeing with that modified question?

  • “A Fraudulent Scheme”: New Mexico Sues Texas Oil Companies for Walking Away From Their Leaking Wells

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  • Even retail gas stations have to pay upfront before operating to have their underground tanks dug up and removed in case they go out of business. Why isn't this standard for petroleum extraction? If nothing else, the public government would benefit from investing those prepayments until the oil company successfully completes their properly secured inactive well and that money is returned to them.

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

    hackaday.com /2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs