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  • How a Maryland prisoner’s 15-month quest for eye surgery ended in blindness

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  • Why do prisons get to run their own medical services? They've shown time and time again they are unwilling, unable, or at worst intentionally negligent as a form of torture.

    Same point to all of the following relationships:Police : investigation oversightPoliticians: spending oversightCEOs : corruption oversight(and many more)

    Gee, I wonder why all of those groups oppose oversight..

  • The U.S. labor market is shifting toward skilled labor as white-collar hiring slows

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  • Because white collar workers don't think they need to unionize, as their buying power erodes. An engineer today makes, inflation adjusted, drastically less than an engineer in previous generations. Many of my friends grandparents were engineers and were happily retiring at 40 years old. How often do you see that today?

    This trend will not slow. Engineers will work for McDonalds wages and not unionize because "I'm an engineer, I don't need to do that!"

    We shouldn't let perceived self-importance get weaponized against our own best-interests, but we do.

    (Apply same analogy to other educated fields, it's all the same bull, diff titles diff jargon. Same getting fucked.)

  • EPA earmarks $3 billion to replace lead pipes nationwide

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  • True, wish they'd add, "This will fix approximately x% of pipes across the nation!"

    But I know why they can't do that, "politics", because there is a considerable amount of people who would say, 5/10/15%! That's awful, I'm voting for the guy who founded the lead pacifier company! He's tall!

    But.. when you consider :1, We consider cave people to be stupid2, Not enough time has passed for the brain to evolve since we were cave people

    It makes a bit more sense, we truly are standing on the shoulders of giants. Or in other words, humans are real ducking dumb. We're all cave people.

  • A strong hunch

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  • Boop beep I got delete.

  • A strong hunch

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  • The entire conservative, pro cop playbook is "say silly things, pretend you don't know they're silly".

    And if anyone calls you out, act offended. Everyone knows if you are offended you are right. Growing up in a religious household it's incredible how many times I saw someone use, "You're rude therefore you are wrong" as a core tenant of "debate".

    The 'victim card' is the conservative 'race card'.

  • Nintendo pursuing Yuzu Forks on Github

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  • I am surprised there isn't a torrent version of Yuzu.A magnet string would be unstoppable.

    Pretty sure I found one, can magnet strings be posted here?

  • Campus protests over the Gaza war: How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words

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  • "If higher education faculty are beholden to saying what powerful people want them to say, and if they stray out of the line they're going to get fired, we are living in an authoritarian society," she said.

    Yep.So much for the first amendment?"These students are protesting, clearly illegal, arrest them."

    Before these protests, I truly didn't expect that type of response from universities to free speech, who are these fascist administrators? What country do I live in? Not one where free speech is protected, apparently.

  • EPA Proposes Ban on Pesticide Widely Used on Fruits and Vegetables

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  • It's so nice of the US to offload corporate responsibility to individual citizens. None of the money of course. But you all need to do your part to keep the quarterly earnings up!

    I'll sacrifice mine and my family's life to the line! All praise the line, line go up!

  • 'Horrific' violence at UCLA after counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp

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  • Supporters of Israeli genocide commit violence.I'm shocked.Shocked and appalled.This is so out of character for genocidalists.

  • Oddly specific question

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  • Two kinds of people.1I suffered to get where I am, no one should have to go through that, we can do better.2I suffered to get where I am, everyone should suffer like I did.

    The conservative mindset is #2, "No one should have it better than me!"

  • Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

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  • Boop beep I got delete. .

  • Educators under fire: Teachers targeted by Libs of TikTok

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  • I'm glad she's doing this, but for reasons opposite her agenda.

    I grew up long enough ago to remember the vitriolic hatred people had at even a suggestion that they might be gay. Kids would violently attack other kids to assert their straightness. And hearing the f-word was a regular occurrence. Literally any disagreement? F-word came out.

    I could be wrong about this, I'm not a kid today, but I assume kids today don't understand how bad it was. I'm glad she's doing this because the majority of kids are fine with gay and queer lifestyles in a way that would have bent my tiny brain when I was a kid. So they might have a hard time imagining how strong the hate for those things once was.

    This woman serves as a villain, to show kids that hate is still out there and that being an ally to the queer community matters. I think that her plan will eventually backfire, because the way to combat folks like her is to normalize being gay even more than it is now.

    She will go down in history as a relic of hate. A woman to be pitied and nothing more.

    How awful that she ruins peoples' lives as a game. What a horrid husk of a person.

  • Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads

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  • If this were to come to pass, it would be a massive hit to the middle class. Truckers make up a HUGE part of the American middle class work force.

    Also consider the economic impact to all of the gas stations and rest stops created primarily to service them, a huge amount of infrastructure exists to service truckers. That said, many could convert for autonomous service needs? I expect it to be a net loss for them also. RIP Loves?

    And from a technical point of view, it's a lesser challenge than generalized self-driving because point A and B are already known for each route, so more of the route could be "hardcoded" (not actually hardcoded but I think you get the concept).

    That said, I can't predict the timeline of when this would be feasible, but when it happens I expect it will cause a lot of anger from truckers.

    Anyway, the jist of my comment, this will route a substantial amount of middle class wages from the truckers to the truck owners, increasing inequality even further.

    This is the biggest catalyst to sway the public toward a UBI than anything else I can imagine.

  • Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

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  • Boop beep I got delete.

  • Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

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  • Boop beep I got delete.

  • Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes

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  • You're right, I'm certain that is their perspective. But I also believe they overestimate their ability to avoid the damage they are causing. Everything is interwoven.

  • Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

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  • Boop beep I got delete.

  • Immigrant with disabilities repeatedly assaulted by deputies at Calhoun County jail in Michigan, civil rights groups allege

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  • "We all are born the same, and die the same,” Martinez said. “It doesn't matter where you are born, or your origin, we are all people. If this happened to you how would you feel?”

    I have no doubt she's more intelligent than the people who did this to her.

    It's likely the people comitting these acts are mentally or emotionally damaged themselves. The reflex for empathy long suppressed. Striking out carelessly at anyone who they view as different, foreign. If only we knew about of a group of people stoking and encouraging harmful rhetoric that leads people to think this way..

    Like most systems in society, the incarceration system needs good people, but all it gets are power tripping, emotionally stunted, adult-size children. Because that's what it wants, hurt people hurt people, and in this case the system is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

  • Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester

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  • Given how the US is treating protesters on university campuses this month, I'd say we're not far behind.

    Remember when the Trump admin was disappearing people from protests in unmarked vans driven by anonymous people wearing no uniforms?

    This is what a lot of fascist politicians aspire to be, though they'd never say it out loud. After all, they only want to do this to the "bad" people.

    Sorry for making this US-centric, this is a shame for Iran and their society, both of which have great potential if they could get out from under the boot.