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  • A passport has waaaay more personal info than a driver's liscense. That's been part of the move to chipped passports, they can now have basically any biometric data.

    Personally I don't see an issue with height, weight, eye color, etc. None of that is exactly a secret, a fairly unobtrusive way to narrow down identification. The only thing I think is iffy is address but that's often out of date anyway. I've also only ever heard of that used to mail lost wallets.

  • 'No one can find him': Trump drops from public view again after 'slurring' military speech

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  • Oh he'll for sure be propped up and wheeled around indefinitely, but it's basically confirmed he's getting more frequent TIAs and worse recoveries despite his treatment. Real question is how bad is the next puppet going to be once he croaks.

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  • Well for starters that's not how you phrased it. No mention of Europe or Europeans, just "white" which is an overly broad modern invention. There are people we'd consider white who had minimal influence from that era of European/Victorian culture.

    Secondly, not all Europeans who wore such elaborate clothing were white. France, Spain, Italy, and most all of southern Europe had populations of varying degrees of melanin (not to mention foreign dignitaries, mixed families, etc...). The populations in their colonies sometimes adopted or were forced to wear these styles.

    Thirdly, AFAIK there's not much to back up the personal hygiene myth. It's true that city sewage infrastructure was far behind some peers at the same tier of development, but you don't need modern plumbing to wash yourself off when you stink. Other cultures did have different hygiene standards but there's many unique factors (access to hot springs, religious ritual cleansing, climate, etc...) which weren't mirrored in Europe.

    Taken at face value you turned "it's funny how people wore elaborate outfits and didn't have our modern hygiene concepts" into "white people have dirty ancestors"

  • Talk about mixed messages

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  • Hear me out: down zoning. We dig some deep ass bunkers and throw parks on top of them.

  • Serious: What is going to take to face the fascist threat in America?

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  • Librarians?

  • Ukraine’s Drone Blitz Plunges Russia Into Worst-Ever Fuel Crisis, Knock Out 38% of Refining Capacity

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  • And every war in history has been won by halting supplies to the front lines.

    Is that accurate? When your manpower is low enough your supply needs are met by looting any random villages you come across. For a long time wars were generally won by convincing your troops not to rout in a handful of battles.

  • Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

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  • IIRC there is exactly one variety of lentil that can supply B12, but otherwise it's mass produced via bacteria fermentation. At a certain age, most doctors recommend a daily vitamin supplement anyway so it's really a matter checking a few labels before you pick one to make sure your multivitamin matches your meatless diet.

    I appreciate the well wishes, my doctor is already much happier with my visits 😂

  • Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

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  • A luxury is something pleasant or enjoyable but not strictly necessary. It's not a matter of how much more enjoyable it is but just that it can be functionally replaced (Lambo -> Toyota Corolla; Designer bag -> any other bag; Meat -> Plant proteins). Unless there's some rare medical condition that prevents eating anything but animal proteins, we have the means to replace it (as a massive commercial industry at the very least).

    WRT alternative diets it really depends on what you replace it with. I believe there are technically some entirely vegan diets without supplements but if you're buying your meat from the store you could just as easily buy supplements from the same place and not worry about it.

    I went meatless recently and even as an unabashed meat lover it really wasn't that bad. Vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes have advanced a ton in the past few years when I do get the craving, but I don't notice a day-to-day difference. The main annoyances have been limited restaurant menus and rebuilding my recipe catalog.

  • Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

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  • As wasteful as our AI usage is it still has a function that couldn't be substituted. There's no other tool that could be used for, say, a certain subset of public health analysis or massive archival projects or image analysis.

    Granted if we were using it in only those cases we'd need a fraction of the capacity. But the emissions we'd cut are much, much smaller than the savings from the meat industry. Last I checked all US datacenters (not just AI) were less than 3% of emissions. Building and running a computer isn't as disruptive as constantly moving millions of tons of meat + feed + equipment and minutae.

    Commercial meat is a luxury because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements. And this is just a discussion on emissions but the other benefits of going meatless are just as notable (eg: agriculture is the #1 cause of ecosystem collapse; large public health benefits)

  • Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

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  • The other emissions are providing necessary value and not strictly producing what amounts to a luxury product. Cars move people, clothes need to be made, resources need to be shipped across the globe, etc... Yeah you can have deeper discussions about how to trim them down but that's a clean, easy 16% that could be won basically tomorrow.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes

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  • I'll take a crack at it:

    • It's a massive privacy/surveillance concern. Look at the issues that come with doorbell cams and now multiply the number of cameras and scatter them all over
    • It's another platform for mega corporations to track and sell data to advertisers or any malicious actors, but at an entirely new intrusive level. They no longer have to approximate what's getting your attention when they literally know what has your attention. Good luck anonymizing or hiding your usage when you can't spoof the real world in front of you.
    • It's unnecessary e-waste, at best providing the exact same functionality you'd get from your phone with the added benefit of... not reaching into your pocket? You still need a free hand to use it...
    • It's a distraction in a way that other tech can't touch. Pedestrians/drivers getting notifications shoved directly into their eyes won't end well.
    • It probably has all the same inherent problems as previous generations of smart glasses. Primarily: your eyes aren't designed for extended/repeated focus on an image less than an inch from your face and at the edge of your vision

  • Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | Fortune

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  • For 20+ years it's been (de facto) against the law for the stock market to go down. The only exceptions are pump & dumps to keep the poors out, but otherwise any drop in our glorious free market will be manually corrected by Uncle Sam.

  • Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It

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  • Lol what? There's no profit/loss calculation between any number of consumers vs a fascist admin more than willing to chop you up and eat your corporate lunch. Their revenue could get cut in half and bending the knee is still the right business choice.

    Their business model is selling media, they don't give a shit if they need to write out every minority princess protagonist for a white Jesus. So yeah, kill the scape goat, get some brownie points and wait for the media shit storm to blow over by next month.

  • Russia tries to exploit divisions sparked by Kirk’s murder, researchers say

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  • I mean I can think of one thing: tell the truth one day and a bald faced lie the next. Repeatedly propping up a regime with one hand and denigrating it with the other causes deep fractures that you can't get from a simple one sided attack.

  • Russia tries to exploit divisions sparked by Kirk’s murder, researchers say

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  • If you're old enough to remember the internet as it was 15-20 years ago it's fairly obvious. Even in the early days of social media a narrative wouldn't spread a fraction as quickly or with as much explosive rhetoric. In a week after a major incident we might get 4 or 5 waves of conflicting or compounding narratives.

    You can imagine our social discourse as a massive pool of competing ideas going back and forth; a large disruption might cause a sizable wave. You'd expect rebound waves (opposing ideas) from the opposite fringe to naturally counteract and disperse the original and each other, keeping the water choppy but level.

    With a larger network (ie: Twitter in 2025 vs Twitter in 2008) you'd expect to see more inertia and more stability, the fact that we don't is damning. Forcing the mass uniformity of rhetoric that we see these days (massive waves sweeping across hundreds of millions on multiple platforms) is not something that could be orchestrated by anything less than state actors. It takes the planning and coordination of both the initial narratives and responses.

  • Whats up with reddit lately? Why is it so quiet?

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  • I assume it's more to push active subs up instead of letting the large empty ones stay on top. It's better to see 90k with corresponding activity vs a 30m ghost town.

  • Whats up with reddit lately? Why is it so quiet?

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  • I feel like they've been shuffling chairs on the titanic to cover up their falling engagement. Their default sort is now showing things from 4+ weeks ago, "Hot" posts with 0 upvotes on massive subs, hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count, etc...

    Not sure who they're trying to fool but it's not hard to tell that activity has dropped. Stale posts, niche subs have dried up, active readers in the single digits, deleted comments, etc... But their stock is higher than ever so that's nice I guess?

  • Retail spending is starting to look more and more like the labor market (only the wealthy are spending)

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  • ITT people confuse the mathematical limits of consolidating currency with the actual unbounded consolidation of power.

    No, the rich don't care about the health of the economy. Yes, they will run out of money that can be directly siphoned from your consumer pockets. That's just the beginning of the real endgame.

    Short on rent money? I'll be happy to write off your rents in perpetuity if you sign this contract granting rights to your organs upon death. Can't afford clothes? A lifetime agreed employment spent sorting trash will keep you in free, durable work clothes. Can't afford to raise your kids? We'll give you a sweet deal to cover necessities and they can pay it back later. Muggers and thieves got you down? Come sign on to our secure company commune!

    These are the exact conditions that historically lead to feudal systems. People didn't abandon their homesteads and independence to become serfs voluntarily. It was always out of necessity.

  • 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet

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    1. Apparently we can't disagree if your comments are anything to go by, regardless of how much reading we do
    2. Calling your highly touted T h e o r y a science is laughable. It's descriptive philosophy and as such has no predictive/prescriptive value

    There's a reason you have to call it theory and why that theory gets bent like a pretzel whenever something runs counter to it. It must be correct because at its core it's theology for the disillusioned. The material conditions weren't right bro, trust me bro, just one more vanguard party bro, we're gonna be stateless I promise, just need a little more critical support for these fascists bro...