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  • US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger

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  • The governor of Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, sought to calm the situation, suggesting that ICE agents would be deployed in Italy to protect US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

    Well now hold on a second. ICE is going to be protecting Vance and Rubio, and ICE is also utterly incompetent, so maybe let's see how this plays out

  • Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline

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  • People who perceive artificial intelligence as destroying jobs are significantly more dissatisfied with the functioning of democracy.

    This line from the article is significantly different from the headline

  • Trump Is Making an Enemy of the Gun Lobby

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  • Probably all the people who aren't MAGA fascists who are realizing they should arm themselves

  • How do glasses work? If I took a magnifying glass to burn it from the sun. How come the same thing doesn't happen to my eyes even just staring up at the sun for 5 sec?

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  • Eyeglasses are designed with a focal length to project an image through the lens in your eye onto your retina, not to concentrate all the light into a single point.

    That said, please don't stare at the sun for 5 continuous seconds. You are likely to cause permanent long-term damage to your retina doing that. Don't look directly at the sun at all, ever

  • Obamas say Trump administration seems 'eager to escalate' situation in Minneapolis

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  • What would you have Barack and Michelle Obama do?

  • Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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  • This is a nice thought, but both American and European multinational corporations don't give a fuck where or how something is made as long as they're making money. Many of the products sold by Mondelez in Europe are in fact made in Europe, and some even have headquarters and administration in Europe. The same thing is true in reverse for companies like Unilever (London) and Nestle (Switzerland) when they're selling in the US.

    A better approach than scolding only 4 brands (when there are literally thousands you want to boycott) is to focus on buying as much of your food as possible from independent, local sources.

  • TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

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  • You're worried about privacy, and your answer is Rednote?

  • (Stupid post) Am I banned from Reddit for life or is there a chance to get unbanned?

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  • Most of the people here left Reddit on purpose, so you may be asking the wrong crowd. What I think you should do is never give Reddit another thought and share content here instead

  • Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳

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  • I'm going to guess it has to do with how quickly the temperature change occurs, or other environmental factors prior to the freeze. It seems to be a somewhat rare occurrence, even in places where it gets very cold

  • Democrats will allow full ICE funding in budget bill

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  • Of note, it doesn't matter at all what any Democrats in the House do with this vote, because Republicans hold the majority and are going to pass it regardless

  • Trump sues JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for $5B over alleged 'debanking'

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  • I very much agree, but also (though this is the lowest of low bars) I do appreciate Jamie Dimon not going full sycophant like we've seen from other C suites across the country

  • Zach Bryan’s anti-ICE song drew ire from Trump officials. Is country music waking up?

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  • Willie Nelson ain't no republican

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    Baby animals

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  • Human infants are born significantly earlier in their gestational period than all these other animals. That's why these other animals can usually walk around at birth, where human babies are sacks of potatoes for months

  • Army reservist says he's spent weeks trying to free his wife from immigration detention

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  • So you're saying soldiers should have no personal lives ...

    I would very much prefer my military be composed of soldiers with tethers to reality rather than be purely antisocial loners. If Trump gives an abhorrent order to attack domestically, soldiers like this man will be the ones to stand up and refuse

  • Army reservist says he's spent weeks trying to free his wife from immigration detention

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  • You're focused on the wrong thing here

  • Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasurys, citing ‘poor’ U.S. government finances

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  • It may be nice to imagine, but as long as the US continues to pay interest on Treasury bonds, US Treasuries will not be viewed as a "sinking ship." Divestment in this case would be purely a political decision

  • Netflix Tops 325 Million Subscribers, Plans to Boost Content Spending 10% to $20 Billion in 2026

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  • Poor Netflix, stuck at only 60% of all households in the entire fucking United States subscribing to their service

  • Picard-isms

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  • Speak truth to power, always.

  • Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in Treasurys, citing ‘poor’ U.S. government finances

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  • When you hear reported [Japan] owns [$x.xx] in US Treasuries, that figure isn't a monolith. The Japanese government owns some, and Japanese corporations own some, and the Japanese people individually own some, and more. It would have to be a collective effort, and there would realistically need to be a financially sound alternative place for them to safely park their money