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  • Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

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  • Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they're AMERICAN cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.

    With the extra irony being that many of those "American" brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn't even headquartered anywhere in North America.

  • ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

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  • From the perspective of the Kohler toilet camera being the sender and the Kohler shit-reviewing service being the recipient, TLS can technically be end-to-end encryption. As long as the shit-reviewing server is doing the TLS termination itself—and not Cloudflare or a reverse proxy—that meets the definition insofar as only the two communicating parties having the ability to see the cleartext. That's assuming the server has disk encryption and no employee has access to it while the disk is unlocked.

    Kohler calling it E2EE is still disingenuous as fuck regardless of my above hypothetical, however.

  • Feds forcibly yank woman in medical scrubs from car as she screams she's a US citizen

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  • they exist, in large part, because articles like this normalize it

    This complaint is missing the forest for trees.

    Special classes of people have existed for as long as civilization has exited. Leaders and followers, kings and peasants, the wealthy and the poor, etc. As animals, it's in the nature of some of us to desire a greater share of resources and luxury at the cost of depriving others from having the same.

    An article repeating the notion of people with specific skin tones are part of a privileged class isn't the problem, it's just a symptom of the problem. The problem is the bigots who put that into practice, singling out and causing problems for people with specific tones while providing benefits to those with other specific tones. Getting rid of public acknowledgement about class disparity isn't going to get rid of class disparity, it's just going to get rid of discussion about class disparity. The racists will still be there, being racist.

  • Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX's Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report

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  • The only way that username would check out is either if it was owned by a pushy and holier-than-thou social progressive with zero self-awareness, a conservative with a small world view that feels "owning the libs" is a personality trait, or a troll.

    Now, considering your account was created on this platform two days ago, just called the resident population of Lemmy stupid, and drink whatever kool-aid Musk is selling, it's a toss-up between the last two.

  • Cosmonaut removed from SpaceX's Crew 12 mission for violating national security rules: report

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  • Much like Musk himself, it seems.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform

    Don't forget the blatant scams called crypto games! He proudly announced Epic Games Store would happily sell games centered around NFTs and crypto after Valve said they wouldn't allow it.

  • Hi guys, how many of you are here as an alternative to Reddit?

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  • Many Mods are high on "authority" and ban for incredibly asinine reasons

    The recent drama around r/art exemplifies this.

  • Can someone tell Timmy to go F#@£ himself with an AI generated Pinapple?

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  • He's the same with EGS. "A store with a 30% fee and a price-dictating monopoly is not ideal" is a simple message to agree with. Yet somehow he's turned that into radioactive sludge.

    The somehow:

    • Creating EGS for the benefit of the seller, not the consumer
      • Lower fees are pocketed by the publisher
      • No public reviews
      • No forums or workshop equivalent
      • Refusing to add warning labels about things people care about (DRM, AI generation, etc.)
    • Failing to benefit small games
      • Poor on-platform discoverability for games
    • Using anti-consumer tactics to drive adoption
      • Paying third-party devs for permanent exclusivity
      • Paying third-party devs for timed exclusivity
      • Paying influencers to push narratives that "steam bad for you, Epic good"

  • FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics

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  • “It’s hard to understand why we would revoke a rule that simply requires companies to test for asbestos.”

    It's really not.

    1. Testing costs money.
    2. Sourcing talc with lower levels of asbestos costs money.
    3. Corporations only care about profit.
    4. The current admin is corrupt as hell.

  • Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060

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  • Title isn't the whole story.

    Intern won $400 GPU in a raffle while on a business trip paid for by the employer. The employer decides it's their property because they paid for the trip, and the intern disagrees. The employer essentially tells them to GTFO, the intern resigns in response.

  • Which one was supposed to be the "dictatorship hellscape" again 🤔

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  • OP frequently posts pro-Russia articles. I suspect they don't want to see the difference.

  • I signed up for Trump Mobile two weeks ago and I still don’t have my SIM

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  • What's next?

    • Trumpla, the EV manufacturer?
    • Trumpmart, selling nearly-rotten food at marked-up prices.
    • Trump Burder this one already exists.
    • Trumple Inc, consumer phone dropshipper.
    • Trumpazon, a marketplace where he takes a cut on all sales.
    • Trump Sauna, a PC games storefront.

  • IDF soldiers are doing speaking events in Canada. Some say they shouldn't be here

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  • clips shared by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Toronto show one of the IDF soldiers grabbing and shoving protesters.

    Oh look, a live demonstration of what they were trained to do—assault foreign citizens on their own soil.

  • Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

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    • A version of libc that has POSIX shims.
    • A filesystem with reflink support.
    • A consistent UI design across old and new programs.
    • Dark mode that works everywhere.
    • Respect for their users' autonomy.

    Need I go on?

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’

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  • After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”

    Derogatory use of the term aside, it looks like it's time to reset the counter back to "[0] days since Elon Musk actually said something true"

  • I voted for Trump!

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  • I'm not saying he deserves that

    You might not, but I sure will. In fact, I'll even translate a common idiom into terms he could understand:

    "You cut with the saw you intentionally dulled."

  • The rich will not like that she said this

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  • they are all Democrats....

    More accurately, Social Democrats and other progressives. Establishment Democrats are corporate-owned bootlickers that act against their constituents' interests in favor of their donors, much like Republicans but without the blatant -isms and -phobias.

  • House votes overwhelmingly to pass bill to force release of Epstein files

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  • If only it were that easy. A conversation with one of them would go something more like this:

    "It's not Trump."

    "Okay, prove it!"

    "I don't need to because THIS IS AMERICA, and it's INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY."

    "Like the people arrested by ICE?"

    "THEY WERE CRIMINALS!"

    "Even the 93% without criminal records?"

    "THAT'S FAKE NEWS, LIBTARD"

  • Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits

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  • No, no. It makes perfect sense from an investment standpoint. Their actual target audience would love to be able to pay for access to that catalog.