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scarabic

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  • Family of Colombian fisherman killed in US boat strike files complaint alleging he was murdered

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  • Trump thinks the only problem with the War on Drugs is that it didn’t have enough collateral damage to be properly called a war.

    I swear that man’s brain is permanently stuck in the 1980s with its war on drugs and panicked about heavily armed criminals. He’s still there, mentally, but now he has real power!

  • AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone

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  • Someone should write a Reddit client that automatically hides the top two comments and all their children, because they’re inevitably stupid jokes that add nothing.

    Oh right. No one can make new Reddit clients anymore.

  • New Starfeet Academy poster released

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  • At this point I’m just accepting that we’ll have to sit through 3 bad shows to get 1 good one. I guess I’m okay with that as long as they keep cranking them out.

  • Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say

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  • This was my first and only comment here so there is no doubling of anything. I also didn’t say that, but I think it’s fairly hold of you to say that psychopaths aren’t dangerous, categorically. Please do go on…

  • Both sides are the same

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  • There’s a twisted sort of logic to this. Let’s put ourselves in the position of that worker with one cookie for a second.

    Two things are true in America:

    1. the rich don’t pay taxes
    2. benefits cost money

    If the worker feels caught between those two things, he has to ask which he can change more easily. And clearly, denying benefits to the poor is easier than taxing the rich. In today’s climate, there is a “deny benefits to the poor” party that is very well mobilized and has delivered numerous victories. And where is the “tax the rich” option? Nowhere.

  • Both sides are the same

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  • You also vote far right if you’re willing to sacrifice something yourself to make sure no one ever gets it without having to make heavy sacrifices to do so. Life is pain, princess. Anyone who says differently is selling something! /s

  • Both sides are the same

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  • It is the far left of the current Overton window, not an objective scale.

  • Both sides are the same

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  • Blackface Klingons

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  • Yeah brown stage makeup does not equal blackface. Blackface is a white person playing the role of a human of another race, and perpetuating a racial stereotype. MISSA GORIGHTRY!!!

    There are some racial overtones to some of the Trek alien races though. They used to use white actors for Klingons in TOS but they would give them Fu Manchu mustaches and a yellowy orangey skin tone. They were sneaky and devious. Now they use black actors a lot for Klingons and they’re big brutes. The Romulans of TNG look more Asian now, and guess what! They’re sneaky and devious!

    None of this is blackface and a lot of it is just me doing pattern recognition on weak signals. Nine of it is over the line.

  • Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say

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  • Loss of contact with reality can be a great starting point for committing heinous, inhuman acts. Psychopathy spans a wide range of functional levels and characteristics.

  • Introducing Proton Sheets

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  • I’ve managed entirely on Google Sheets for years now. And I was a really big fan of Excel. It was never viable for me to rely on Windows to be everywhere I need to be, and the functionality gap closed steadily over the years to the point where the benefits of it being on the web now overwhelm the feature gap. Being free helps too, especially as Excel has gone through various pricing and bundling contortions over the years. Someone might tell me here that it’s now completely free but can I really be blamed for tuning out Microsoft years ago?

  • Who shops at small businesses?

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  • Some of these are under threat too. There are online lawyer and doctor offerings now. Maybe not plumbers, but there are certainly tech companies trying to own the plumbing referral business (like Thumbtack) and they suck a great deal of the profit margin out of it. Nothing is safe.

  • Who shops at small businesses?

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  • Some local retail makes sense, and some does not. For example, my life would really suffer if the hardware store down the street closed up. I like being able to get a paint match home in under 30 minutes. And sometimes I spend half an hour looking for the exact bolt I need, checking it against the other part it’s going to screw into: you just can’t do all that on Amazon and the big box motherfuckers are further away and far less convenient.

    Once I messed up and superglued a wrench into my palm. I couldn’t wait for fucking Prime Overnight. I went down to the hardware store and asked if they stocked ca glue debonder. They didn’t, but the store manager got out some acetone and sat there with me, slowly pouring it on as I peeled the wrench out. He wouldn’t even take my money at the end. You just cannot get that kind of service from Lowe’s or Amazon. I now buy every single thing I possibly can there, to help ensure they stay around. I drag my kids anytime I need to go there, and they’re allowed to raid the candy rack at the checkout.

  • Who shops at small businesses?

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  • My local hardware store stands apart as an indispensable local retail utility and I buy everything I possibly can there, because I like having a local hardware store and occasionally really need one. I buy all the household cleaning products I can there, for example, because they sell them, I need them, and I’m incredibly happy to pay whatever extra 40 cents they cost over having Amazon pack up a box of dish pods into its own cardboard box and truck it out to my house,

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • Yeah I actually never expected to have an LCD billboard up inside my home.

  • Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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  • I would merely hate this and curse the manufacturer. But I know that if it were in my house, my kids, with their raw, unhardened minds, would find it irresistible. The slogans would worm their way into their everyday speech. They would talk about new ads over breakfast. They just don’t have the filters we adults have. So I’m so fucking glad I don’t have anything like this. It’s beyond mildly infuriating to truly insidious.

  • Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

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  • Accurate. Tech executives often see themselves as so far ahead of the rest of the world that they’re truly a different species. They see a world full of legacy stupidity and think they know better. The constitution is an artifact to them, not an ideal. Their actual ideals are unhinged nightmares of uploaded consciousness and the like. They don’t consider themselves human but post-human, or at least eager to become so.

  • We turn the HVAC "up" whether we want it colder or warmer.

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  • A lot of people in the world only have one kind of HVAC, heat or cooling, but not both.

  • Who shops at small businesses?

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  • Why do you even visit them? I’d say if you use them for product discovery but then give all your sales to online merchants, you are an absolute enemy of small businesses, whatever you think you feel about them.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump

    gizmodo.com /sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Sisters hanging out, holding hands (and feet)

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Cuddle train has left the station!

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    It’s not a proper gardening community without this posted at least once, so let’s get it out of the way :D

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    This potted succulent REALLY gave our doorstep some pizzazz this year