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  • Fully electric vehicle sales in EU overtake petrol for first time in December

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  • And all while the ongoing Tesla sales boycott is occurring.. Impressive.

    Volkswagen has now overtaken Tesla witj the lead-selling EV model in the EU. Love to see it.

  • Taiwan sentences Chinese spouse to 8 years for united front activities

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  • 'Spouse' is the wrong translation here. This is not Taiwan's Chinese spouse being sentenced.

    Should probably read something like 'Taiwan sentences Chinese immigrant to 8 years for United Front activities'. Seeing as they want to emphasize that the guilty party is a somewhat recent Chinese immigrant to Taiwan that explicitly had the goal of working for Chinese interests in Taiwan.

  • Girl Scientist

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  • Or maybe this MicroAggressions Killer product is completely harmless to her in this fictional comic.

  • My Linux distro tierlist

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  • There's the Linux Mint main distro build off Ubuntu and a separate Linux Mint Debian distro build directly from Deb.

    Specificity is useful, especially in the context that you said "Mint is built on Debian so it's stable as fuck" - well actually, not directly. It's built on Ubuntu, which a lot of people complain has a more bloat and thus less stability than Debian.

    Personally I've not had issues with any of the three, they're all good, but there are differences. Mint includes a number of packages that Debian does not (PPAs, Snap, Wayland infegration), because it's inherited them all from Ubuntu. Mint is 64-bit whereas Debian supports 32/64 and other architectures, because again.. Mint (standard) is based on Ubuntu, which is 64-bit only.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • Oh, they're not but I guess you'd have to ask him for the answer. Those videos are both still up if you want to watch a long stream of misogyny and logical fallacies dressed up as an 'owning'.

  • My Linux distro tierlist

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  • Only Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian. Linux Mint (main) is built on Ubuntu.

  • Not A Date To Celebrate

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  • Yes please. We go from ANZAC day in April to fucking December 25th before we get another public holiday in most of Australia.

    I dread that 'public holiday drought' every year.

    Move it to early September or something. Skips the worst of winter and breaks up the work year better.

  • New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline

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  • The "Why 'Feminism' is poisoning atheism", "Feminism Vs FACTS" chud?

    I'm surprised he still has an audience tbh. Well, sadly not that surprised.

  • Growing demand for local products in Africa's €1bn baby food market

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  • I'm well aware, another of Nestlé's evils. Nothing about either of our points in the article though, which assumes its purely a supply problem and doesn't offer the obvious solution: public education programs to encourage mothers to prioritize breast milk over formula. They speak of it primarily as a business problem.

  • If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?

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  • Kangaroo accidentally hops into the middle of the tour down under

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  • Poor roo, looks like their left leg is injured.

  • Growing demand for local products in Africa's €1bn baby food market

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  • Gosh if only there was some kind of breast milk 90%* of people could use instead of powdered formulated, sugary cow's breast milk.

    *I understand a small percentage of women cannot produce their own breast milk, or not enough due to medical issues - for them formula is a necessity. However, over 60% of babies under 6-months in Africa use formula.

  • AI-generated British schoolgirl becomes far-right social media meme

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  • TFW you can't find any young women to agree with your fucked-up worldview, so you invent one.

    Reminds me of the 'as a black man' Twitter idiots that used to out themselves accidentally by posting on main instead of their 'black' alts.

    I wonder how many PoC influencers promoting conservative views online are just AI nowadays.

  • Sooo We Arming Up Bois?

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  • The majority of the US citizenry have been convinced that strikes and unions are tools of communism, despite the USA's long history of successful strikes and industrial action, all due to ~70 years of red scare propaganda. Voting is a 'waste of time' or 'rigged by the EC' so a full third don't bother.

    So those tools don't exist to them, and now they've tried nothing and are all out of ideas.

    I think guns are possibly a deterrent at protests (as you allude), but with the heavily-armed govt as the adversary and the legal system largely on their side and their trigger-happy history.. I think it'll turn into a massacre. Trump will likely use it to seize additional emergency powers, and go full steam ahead with any fascist dreams he has for the next three years.

    Who knows, maybe wide violence is inevitable now to get out of the frog-in-pot incremental fascism the US public have been in for a long time now (at least 10 years).

    I wish them every success in overcoming Trump and his MAGA admin, and I hope they remember how poorly appeasement has worked out for them after winning the last civil war.

  • Prusentages

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    Wait no, I'm dumb.

  • Prusentages

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  • Protest performance art (article inside)

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  • I always upvote Kneekap, hadn't seen that one. Cheers

  • On AUKUS and the current state of the world...

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  • Biggest issue the Aus public has said they're facing repeately in surveys is the cost of housing.

    Labor have stumped up $10 billion in the stupid Housing Australia Future Fund. I say 'stupid' because a) if you need housing, fucking build it, don't write another cheque to the bankers and housing industry, and b) it's a scheme to benefit the bankers. We invest $10 billion we borrow from the banks (at literally the peak of interest rates for the last few years), then we make 6%+ interest (magically). We pay off the loan interes (slowly), and everything left over goes to new home builders as a once-off incentive payment of $25k or so. OK. Well you can probably see several issues with that plan, but for me the biggest of all is that if the govt just spent the $10bil on purchasing land and building govt-owned apartments, people could live there free, and the land and buldings would go up in value quicker than cash sitting in an investment portfolio.

    Nobody (demographically speaking) gives a shit about submarines yet we have agreed to pay $368 billion AUD for 11 nuclear submarines eventually, maybe. Labor inherited this deal admittedly, but that hasn't stopped the Libs from tearing up agreements they didn't like.

    Shows you who really gets their demands met, and its not the people.

  • Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

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  • I'll also say that if your only protection is BitLocker, then you have shitty operational security. Especially if you log in with a MS account and knowingly backup your BitLocker key with them.