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  • It's no contest

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  • Except for that one transphobic episode that Graham Linehan has ruined his whole life over instead of going "Yeah, I'm sorry, that was a bit insensitive."

  • Bernie Sanders gets booed by crowd at Montana rally for saying Israel has the right to defend itself.

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  • Is it not obvious that this is the first half of a sentence and has been selectively edited to mislead?

    I don't have video of the Montana rally, but Sanders has talked about this issue repeatedly at the Fight Oligarchy rallies, and here is what he said in LA:

    “Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism, but it does not have a right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people… to kill 50,000 people, injure over 100,000 and destroy the entire infrastructure.”

    “And as bad as that is, Trump wants to expel the 2.2 million people in Gaza in order to create a playground for his billionaire friends,” Sanders added, referring to Trump’s proposal to “take ownership” of the Gaza strip. “That is beyond insane, and we will never, never let that happen.”

    Certainly, there are many who disagree with this half of the sentence, and that's fine, but it should at least be presented with context.

  • Fyre festival 2 ‘postponed’ just weeks before it was scheduled to start

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  • I can't see a way for this to be anything but a Producers situation. Calling it literally anything but Fyre Festival 2 would increase the odds of success, if the event succeeding was ever the plan.

  • Italian brand "Bialetti" is now Chinese

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  • Not a criticism, but that way of phrasing it is funny to me. Makes me imagine it was like a Doctor Who episode.

     
        
SCENE: INT. OFFICE BUILDING

Camera pans over standard office equipment, characters
making copies, having lunch in the break room. We hold
on a phone operator, female, Mediterranean appearance,
mid-30s. Her name is GIANCARLA. She is engaged in a
pleasant phone conversation in Italian. The other side
says something which makes GIANCARLA look confused.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Italian, English subtitles)
        Huh? I think something's wrong with the line, I
        can't understand you. Is that even Italian?

Wobbly blue energy wave (SFX) passes over GIANCARLA. She
is now female, Asian appearance, mid-30s. Other end of
phone continues speaking.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Chinese, English subtitles)
        That's better! Everything's back to normal, now.
        For a moment, it didn't even sound like you were
        speaking Chinese!

CUE OPENING CREDITS

  • Heads-up: my Fediverse blog has moved

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  • the old URLs (with the subdomain blog) will no longer work...

    if you're trying to open an old URL, just swap "blog" with "news" in the subdomain.

    This seems pretty fixable, doesn't it? Once the old blog shuts down, can't you just redirect the subdomain so that the old links redirect to your current blog and everything is fine?

  • Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

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  • Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we're slashdotting other sites now. /s

  • TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European

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  • Full disclosure, I upvoted and agree with you.

    Still, this leaves open the question of how you reached your idea of sensible defaults. Are these just the most popular in each category (e.g. most successful search engine, highest user-count Lemmy instance, etc.)?

  • Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

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  • Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits

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  • Both things are technically true: the article is primarily made up of content literally written by the company or people contracted by them for PR purposes, and it is a Good Article (Wikipedia jargon for having passed a review of certain quality standards around writing, coverage and sourcing, but not the higher standard required to be classed as a Featured Article).

    How much of a problem this is probably depends on the subject. Does Juniper Networks have any bad practices which the article omits because the people who researched it (i.e. Juniper Networks) didn't think they needed to go in the article? You'd basically need an independent observer to research anything that potentially should be in the article but isn't there, but how many people that aren't getting paid are invested in researching a corporate networking business?

    There's absolutely merit to Wikipedia having articles that are written by people paid to write them by their subjects, because a lot of it would otherwise be missing from Wikipedia entirely. But it's also good to know that many articles are not necessarily written by impartial authors.

  • Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says

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  • I don't know about Wisconsin specifically, but some jurisdictions legally classify explosives as WMDs, alongside all the nukes and chemical weapons and stuff that people think of ordinarily.

  • High road rule

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  • Right-wing Christian podcaster claims that airport body scanners can turn you gay

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  • In 1999, Craig became sharply critical of U.S. President Bill Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press, Craig told Tim Russert: "The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy – a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

  • Right-wing Christian podcaster claims that airport body scanners can turn you gay

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  • New Community - Theremin!!

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  • pushes up glasses, engages nasal voice Technically, the Beach Boys had an Electro-Theremin, which produces a similar sound but with less hand-waving. The Electro-Theremin used a pitch slider and a volume knob to control its output.

  • Does anyone know what's up with lemmy.zip?

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  • Here we go, I found lemmy.zip admin Demigodrick's Mastodon.

    marcusclaxton

    Hey what's going on with lemmy.zip? I'm getting host errors when I try to connect. I'm new to the whole fediverse thing so just trying to figure out what's up?

    Demigodrick

    hey, currently a substantial server error - I'm looking to restore a backup ASAP but need the time to do it, so hopefully later on today

    https://mastodon.zip/@Demigodrick/114313339395366563

    This was posted about an hour ago at time of this comment.

  • Does anyone know what's up with lemmy.zip?

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  • The last post in !announcements@lemmy.zip was for a scheduled downtime yesterday while they did server maintenance and possibly updated their Lemmy version. Did they ever come back up after that, or have they been down since then?

  • Disappointed

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  • Well, have you tried bending over in skinny jeans?

  • Disappointed

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  • I'm not the president of genetics, but dire wolves are apparently super different to present-day wolves. They're not even in the Canis genus. Regular grey wolves are Canis lupus and dire wolves are Aenocyon dirus. Canis and Aenocyon split off from a common ancestor 5.7 million years ago.

    To create these new dire wolves, scientists modified 14 genes to express traits they considered to simulate the appearance of dire wolves--I specifically say simulate because in at least one case (the white coat), they took a gene from regular ass-dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) rather than replicating the original dire wolf coat.

    I'm guessing, but there's probably more than 14 genes that changed since these two species diverged almost 6 million years ago. These wolves are almost certainly much, much closer to Canis lupus than Aenocyon dirus.

    Sources:

  • /r/BuyFromEU Soon we will going to have our own social media apps. I mentioned Lemmy as a reply to one of the top comments

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  • Yes, we definitely need, something like pixelfed, but with commercial model.

    Why?

  • Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager

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