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  • Stop the stigma

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  • It's marginally less confusing when you see the whole series instead of just this one grandmother poster. Each one has a list of bullets describing a person, with the one thing they all have in common being "Uses drugs".

  • AskMenOver30 - a place for supportive and friendly conversations among adults over 30

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  • I guess the upside of dedicated communities like this is not having to explicitly tell people "If you don't fall into this specific group, go die in a fire, I don't want your input." Which, as far as I know, is the most polite way you can phrase that.

  • Bluesky now has its own Fediverse chick too!

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  • Eventually the messages started coming with crypto addresses to help her with her sick dad and college tuition.

  • Linus Torvalds - that commit is not mine

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  • Cook's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by screwing up git commands."

  • GIVE ME EVIL OR GIVE ME DEATH

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  • NSFW Deleted

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  • They were conceived on an adult film shoot.

  • Who is a celebrity you used to really like, but don't anymore?

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  • His Tenacious D bandmate, Kyle Gass, made a joke about assassinating Donald Trump. Black put out a statement criticizing and distancing himself from Gass while also placing the band on hiatus, cancelling a then-ongoing world tour. People feel he threw a longtime friend under the bus in order to protect his public image.

  • Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown

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  • It also supports community migration, where the old content (that the PieFed instance knows about) remains available but the community is now local to that instance instead of elsewhere.

    https://peertube.wtf/w/vq9GtVwjVUG2xzC5owADR8

  • AI Transcriptions Doing Their Job Well

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  • The Picture of Dorian Grok.

  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?

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  • I think of it as, if you got shot halfway through telling me the date of something, "December" on its own is more useful information than "12". Technically, "12" narrows it down to fewer possible dates, but it could be at any time of year, while December only happens once a year, in March or whatever.

  • Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second?

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  • Perhaps the most relevant of all: time of day. 9:30. Hours first, then minutes. I'm not from a location that does month-day ordering, but I think largest to smallest works excellently for time measurement, hence ISO 8601.

  • Sorry, Cthulhu -- you'll always be my number 2

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  • or for thinking that other people would buy that bullshit.

    Look around. Religions exist. Cults exist. Plenty of people have found great success by starting a religion/cult, whether that means access to power, money, wives, children, etc. If they got what they wanted out of the deal, then I'd be more keen to hone in on greed or selfishness as their most prominent character flaw rather than question their intelligence.

  • It's a very rare find

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  • To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

    (Joke stolen from Red Dwarf series 2, episode 2, "Better Than Life".)

  • Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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  • It appears that the complicated nature of newspaper publishing is a confusing factor here. The Sun-Times did not generate/"write" this piece at all. It was written completely externally to the Sun-Times by a separate entity, King Features Syndicate. The CST incorrectly assumed that King Features or its owner, Hearst Magazines, would have their editorial teams vet the material they authored/"authored" before publication. Since this is self-evidently wrong, the CST has changed its policy and now editorial staff will have final approval over externally-authored pieces, which they did not have before.

  • Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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  • Perhaps I wasn't clear. The journalists and editorial staff at the Chicago Sun-Times aren't media enterprises, they are human persons. I'm not asking you to imagine yourself as a corporation, I'm asking you to imagine that you are a person. If you were a person and your boss did something bad without your knowledge or consent, are you, a person, to blame for your boss' actions?

  • Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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  • Well then you are lost. "Fuck the people in charge who did this and fuck their workers who had nothing to do with it." If your boss sucks, should I blame you for their mistakes?

  • Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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  • It's worth knowing that this was in some kind of externally-authored, paid advertising insert. It's a bad look regardless, but this isn't AI writing the news, but AI writing the ads in-between the news.

    It reflects poorly on the Sun-Times as a business, but shouldn't directly affect your feelings about their journalism and editorial staff, who weren't responsible for this.

  • List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games

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  • You seem like you might like osgameclones.com. It's absolutely massive because it includes projects even if they're unfinished or abandoned, but you can sort by playability, development status, even programming language if you're looking to contribute.

  • Not fair

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  • This beats the approximations used in ancient Sumer (3.1065) and China (3). Try contacting their respective records bodies.