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  • [Mr Lovenstein] Volume

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  • FYI, I am not the person you replied to.

    The part where the comm it's from is trying to not be political is, apparently, political. Some people here seem to think that spending every waking moment inside a landscape of political doom is a necessary purity test.

  • Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer

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  • You would hope, but knowing how competent copilot is, it's just going to turn out like this:

    User:I'm running out of space, can you help me clean up?

    AI:Sure thing, I can help with that. You have some programs that haven't been opened since 2017. Would you like me to delete them?

    User:Yes

    AI: OK, let me do that for you.

    I apologize, but as an AI Agent, I am not allowed to delete files or uninstall programs automatically. You can remove them yourself, however. I have created the cleanup.txt file on your desktop, which you can run by renaming the file to cleanup.bat, right-clicking on it, and selecting "Run as administrator".

    User:Thank you, I did that but it only freed up a little bit of space. Can you find more?

    Error processing request: 0xC3E9A005.Unable to connect to copilot agent service:The system can not find the module specified: "kernel32.dll"

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • Username... almost checks out. It's missing the leading /nix/store/.

  • Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach

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  • Not that they will ever investigate crimes they started, but isn't it also a federal crime?

  • What do I do?

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  • Isn't that worse? Chocolate ain't exactly healthy for most animals.

  • he seriously doesnt know

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  • they can't offer such programs to try to win such votes because... reasons?

    It would undermine their entire anti-socialist and anti-Democrat rhetoric. They campaigned on the premise that social services and welfare are the sole cause of out-of-control government spending taking money out of the Average Joe's pocket (conveniently ignoring military and federal agency spending) and used it as a hook to sell their policies to the poor, stupid, and xenophobic.

    The depressing part is that they could offer such programs and they would still keep most of their voters as long as they frame the programs as helping the everyday American and don't call it welfare. A progressive Republican would still get votes, since their voters vote by party loyalty (tribe/team) and not by policy.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

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  • But, as you said, they're proud of being compared to Nazis. Calling them authoritarians would just give them a fuzzy, tickling feeling in their loins—because "authority" and machismo.

    If the goal is to describe their own behavior to themselves in a way that they both understand and will blow a gasket over, calling them communists is pretty much a guaranteed way to do it. Most of them don't actually understand what "communism" or "socialism" is beyond conflating them with Russia and China-flavored authoritarianism. Add on to that they grew up being indoctrinated into unquestionably believing that communism is the antithesis of America, democracy, personal freedoms, and all that is good in the world.

    They see themselves as the good guys fighting evil. Calling them "commies" is, in their own minds and in a single word, outright saying they are the pure evil they hate. The cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile that thought for even a moment would be agonizing.

  • Trump says any country doing business with Iran will face 25% U.S. tariff

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  • He threatens tariffs based on which day of the week it is. A country can deep throat the boot and thank him for the opportunity, and he would still find some new excuse to claim their exports will be tariffed.

    Any government that chooses to capitulate to his demands instead of finding new trade partners is just delaying the obvious and inevitable.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

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  • Or shot.

    The past week has shown them that the federal government will defend their claims of "self defence" using flimsy video evidence that shows the contrary. Just imagine how emboldened one of them would be in using disproportionately lethal force against an actual threat instead of a perceived one.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

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  • Call them commies. They hate anything related to socialism, but they're creaming their pants at the idea of the government giving handouts to the people who "deserve" it (a.k.a. themselves) while everyone else lives like peasants during China under Mao.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

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  • At least 1,177 people were killed by police in 2025. How many of them 1,177 are now domestic terrorists ?

    If you ask MAGA, Miller, Trump, or Noem, 1,178 of them.

  • Protesters decrying the killing of Renée Good know what they saw with their own eyes.

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  • It's not like that's an attack or anything

    Not that they seem to need court rulings to imprison people these days, but ICE jackboots are still U.S. citizens and federal agents. Someone pepperspraying a federal agent would set themselves up for a number of potential charges related to assault with a weapon and interfering with law enforcement.

    Don't forget that with law enforcement officers, it's "rules for thee but not for me." You are held to a higher standard than they are, and they have more rights than you.

  • They want you to "quit demonstrating"

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  • A lesbian, white mother was shot.

    They don't see her as part of the in-group, so they still think it won't happen to themselves. For at least some of them, that tune might change when an unarmed Good, MAGA Christian Girl™ is murdered in her own home away from any protests.

    Or maybe that is wishful thinking. A lot of them are simply hypocritical psychopaths who think life is a zero-sum game where they win by making others suffer.

  • They want you to "quit demonstrating"

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  • Americans think Republicans are too obsessed with trans people

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  • Not distraction, scapegoat. Fascism needs an "others" demographic to blame for citizens' hardships, and they have realized that it's more effective to have multiple of them so voters can cherry-pick whichever they feel more strongly about.

  • RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding

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  • This ad has been brought to you by GeForce Now. You'll own nothing because we designed it that way.™

  • Egomaniac Trump, 79, Gives Himself a Deranged New Job Title

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  • scorched from history.

    Wiping away history is how you end up with a repeat of history.

    His name should be in textbooks, right next to his misdeeds and the consequences of his rule. It should be taught to every student in high school as a lesson in history, civics, critical thinking, and cult indoctrination.

  • Trump declares himself president of Venezuela — and sends 'wake-up call' to world

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  • If I had a dollar for every time on Lemmy that I encountered a mysognistic CS student that thinks they know more than they do, I would now have a dollar. And that's quite a fucking shame, considering I've been here for years.

    The industry you're trying to break into was founded by women, LGBT folks, and people who envisioned technology as a path towards the betterment of humanity. Do better. You're acting like a disgrace to its legacy.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • No entitlement necessary.

    People typically welcome more competition in retail spaces. Having the freedom to pick between store A and store B allows consumers to choose whichever works best for them, whether for convenience or service reasons. Look at GOG. Nobody is complaining that they exist, or that they sell a subset of the games that people could instead purchase on Steam.

    What people don't welcome is companies deciding they want a slice of the pie, entering a market, and then making the experience worse1. Coercing people onto a platform by removing their ability to choose is consumer-hostile. People complained when E.A. and Ubisoft made new games exclusive to their own storefronts, but they begrudgingly sucked it up because those were developed by the platform owners and they weren't interfering with games they didn't own.

    What Epic Games did was make timed exclusivity deals with third-party developers2 and publishers in an attempt to stick their foot in the door, while providing the bare minimum service to consumers3. They made EGS for the publishers and offered little more to their customers than contempt and the occasional free game as a bribe to boost the Epic Games Store user counts.

    The cherry on top was Tim Sweeney acting like the messiah of PC gaming coming to save it from the Steam monopoly, only to start behaving like a petulant child on social media in response to people justifiably being pissed off at Epic Games for the monopolistic shit they were doing.

    If his decisions weren't openly hostile to the people he expected money from, there wouldn't be much of a reason for people to dislike him. But, through his decisions and actions both as the leadership of Epic Games and as himself on Twitter, he gave people plenty of reasons.

    1: See digital streaming services, for example. Everyone was happy to just pay for Netflix. Some of them even paid for Crunchyroll, too, since it provided a separate catalog. Now, every media conglomerate has taken their shows off of Netflix and moved them to their own separate services at the same price point. It's not a coincidence that digital piracy is making a comeback.

    2: Such as with Ooblets, when they paid the developer after the game was crowdfunded to release it on EGS instead of Steam.

    3: No user reviews, it took years to get a shopping cart, customer support being useless when people get locked out of their accounts, etc.