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  • How to say "Donald Trump" or "Elon Musk" without mentioning their names?

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  • Sounds like an automatic thing, so any nicknames or euphemisms that catch on would just get added to the list.

    That said, it all depends where you want to fall on the respectful/rude spectrum. I'd go with rude: "The most unpopular President in at least 150 years" is both accurate and specific to Trump. "The owner of xAI, the world's leading distributor of CSAM and NCII" for Musk. Longer descriptive statements are harder to auto-block without catching a lot of false positives.

  • How/why does Microsoft teams exist?

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  • There is no market Microsoft won't half-ass their way into.

    Purely as an expression. Teams is nowhere near usable enough to give it that much credit.

  • “This is a f—ing disaster”: Generational Republican family loses its 95-year-old Sawmill as Trump’s tariff chaos wipes out jobs

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  • "I lost my job, my house, and most of my friends. My kids won't talk to me, my retirement is wiped out, and I have to pass through 12 armed checkpoints to go anywhere in town.

    But I'm also seeing fewer people putting pronouns in their bio, so I guess it was all worth it."

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    TIL that 49% of americans believe the country is worse off under Trump than under Biden. 32% believe the country is better off. 19% say it's about the same.

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  • Based on a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,625 registered voters nationwide conducted Jan. 12 to 17.

    The full results are also linked in the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/22/polls/times-siena-national-poll-crosstabs.html

    Interestingly (or not, given the NYT refusal to say anything too negative about Trump), the headline numbers may be the most favorable to Trump. Other figures:

    Country is on the Right/Wrong Track: 37/562026 Congressional Race Dem/Rep: 48/43Trump Approval Strong Approve/Disapprove: 25/47 (40/56 with "somewhat" answers)Party of respondent Dem/Rep: 26/29

    And the 19% who think the country is the same as a year ago is bad news for Trump. Incumbents (or close proxies, in this case) don't get voted out when things are going well. People were generally unhappy in late 2024; 19% are still unhappy, and 49% think (recognize) it's even worse.

  • To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

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  • Donald Trump just casually creating more American leftists than an entire generation of Democrats could ever hope to create.

  • Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975?

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  • I wonder if they could have been inspired by the writings (and some illustrations) of HP Lovecraft? I'm no lore expert there, but a Beholder wouldn't be out of place by the side of some of the others.

  • Fighting words

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  • Post-Chaplinsky

    The Court has continued to uphold the doctrine but also steadily narrowed the grounds on which fighting words are held to apply.

    Not a lawyer, but the subsequent cases seem to limit the doctrine so much that it hasn't really been upheld at all. Basically now you can't be charged with assault if both parties literally agree to fight. Everything else sure seems to be covered as free speech.

  • Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything

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  • Unpopular opinion of the day: "The Force" isn't any more magic than Betazoid telepathy, replicators, or transporters.

  • In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone

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  • True. No argument there.

  • In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone

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  • Whatever you pay in insurance is unlikely to cover the damages won by an injured party. That money is coming out of the pockets of people who will never cause an injury.

    Good drivers subsidize the assholes.

  • LinkedIn homepage swaps the "sign in" and "create account" buttons depending on whether you're a new or returning visitor

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  • Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind.

  • CoPilot is a good feature and will be built into every major desktop OS

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  • retrieve information(that doesnt need to be correct).

    Perhaps I'm just one of "the olds" who doesn't get modern technology, and this is why I'm having a real difficult time imagining why I, or anyone, would ever spend time looking something up when the factual correctness is optional to begin with.

  • US of A

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  • And it was dated more than two weeks ago. Such a predictable man-child.

  • Locked

    Found this in an electrical box. What is this thing?

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  • Just be careful plugging in unknown devices.

  • Spider-Man and the X-Men #2.

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  • The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.

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  • The lid always goes down when not in use at my house.

    "It's a shit receptacle, not a water feature" has been repeated to anyone who doesn't know the rule.

  • What would happen to a werewolf in space?

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  • The ISS orbits at about 400km. The distance to the moon is about 385,000km. From the moon, and especially the sun, the Earth and ISS are basically in the same place, so the phase of the moon doesn't appreciably change in low earth orbit.

    A werewolf on Europa (and others) could be in a full moon much more often. Even on the side facing away from the sun, it may still have plenty of light due to the reflection from Jupiter.

    Maybe they would have to hide away from society once per month whenever they turn into a human monster?

  • "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph

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  • And Mortal Kombat hit consoles in 1993, so the big, controversial hits weren't limited to PCs in the early 90s.

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    why are so many alpha males talking about "male gays"? what is it? how do i improve my "male gays"? is it a good thing? why would they be interested in this stuff? isn't it contradictory to their ideo

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  • LPT: it's safe to tune out and ignore anything from unironically self-described "alpha (anything)."

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    Musk’s DOGE Failed To Slash Government Spending, Instead Leading To A 6% Increase

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  • It's still relevant to make it as big a story as possible, since that was the stated goal, we should yell from the rooftops how badly they failed according to their own metrics.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    What's your favorite thanksgiving pie?

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

    www.404media.co /anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
  • THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world
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    Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office

    cbs12.com /news/local/broward-county-to-vacate-convictions-for-people-who-bought-crack-made-by-sheriffs-office-supreme-court-reverse-sting-1993-ruling-state-attorney
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Did someone say "treat?"

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    JD is headed to Kentucky

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    "Optimizing"

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body