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voracitude

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  • The White House wants someone to replace Maine Senator Susan Collins

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  • Has he learnt his lesson yet, Susan?

  • "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to".

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  • Context is as important to language as syntax. If you see a box marked "inflammable" and the box is made of cardboard, you know it's quite inflammable. If it's made of metal, most people would think it's inflammable, but if you're in a lab you've probably got a few ways to prove them wrong.

  • "Source code file"

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  • I'm a minute in and I'm a fan, thanks for the link!

  • Trump's IRS payola for churches will backfire on evangelicals

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  • Well yes, but not because of this. The literal Ten Commandments in classrooms, or maybe "under god" on our money and in our official oaths, sure. This? The solution to this is easy: tax ministries that spout politics from the pulpit.

    It won't happen, but it's an easy solution.

    (Edit) I guess it could be worse: https://assembliesforall.org.uk/about/law-on-assemblies/

  • People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people

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  • But it's three syllables shorter! That's like 75% of the syllables. Won't you think of the savings?

  • Clarence Thomas has long tried to undercut the Voting Rights Act. Now, he may finally have the numbers

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  • It's been six months. How long did it take in Germany? We have at least until World War o'clock.

  • Furor over Epstein files sparks clash between Pam Bondi and Dan Bongino at the Justice Department

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  • "Führer over the Epstein files" seems like a pretty good headline for the happenings, all by itself.

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can't hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn't have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it's easiest and works best)

    Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I'm keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • Yes, I've used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on "exploit protection compatibility mode" for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it's just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don't play games on my phone, so I can't report back on how those work.

  • there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

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  • Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it's great; it's the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I've ever used, and I've been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

  • What's the worst you ever hurt yourself as a kid?

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  • I was skating at the local ice rink, and tripped. I think it was an Olympic-sized rink, but that might have been the pool... it was pretty big, anyway. I bounced my head off the ice so hard I saw blue and red fireworks (only time that's ever happened to me), and slid half the length of the rink on my face wherein I crashed into the barrier. That shit hurt, I still remember it vividly 30 years later, but luckily nothing broken. My mum was simultaneously aghast, and relieved and amazed I wasn't more injured. She was convinced I'd have fractured something in my face when she saw me fall.

  • Do you have a vertical mouse? What model do you recommend (preferably wired)?

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  • Honestly, my only issue was the lateral force of a click jiggling the cursor, but that can be sort of compensated for using the thumb to brace the mouse. Actually moving it around was fine, it's not too heavy, it positively glides across my mousepad. But check the sizing guide; they are indeed bulky compared to a normal mouse as you note. I don't think the bulk affects the comfort at all though, for me anyway.

  • Do you have a vertical mouse? What model do you recommend (preferably wired)?

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  • I do! I was developing pretty bad RSI from my traditional keyboard/mouse setup so I got:

    For me, the keyboard was the fix for my wrists. The vertical mouse didn't help at all and was much more frustrating to use than my Deathadder because clicking now jiggles the cursor a bit (because the force of the click is now sideways, rather than down into the desk). However, it did help a lot when I started getting elbow pain from the regular mouse. Of course, I later discovered that it was just transferring the strain from my elbow up to my shoulder, once that started to hurt...

    Nowadays I'm just back on my exercise plan, and nothing hurts anymore 🙌 Obviously working out won't fix wrists though. If I recall right you're using Colemak on a regular board for your wrists? May be time to try the "full swoop" or whatever the style of the Kinesis is called. Or if I misremember and you're already using an ergo board, I hope the vertical mouse helps!

  • does anyone else sleep with no blanket on?

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  • You’re basically saying that everyone that can have anything to do with the database and systems around it are corrupt and working together.

    No, just the person in charge has to order it. People do what their bosses tell them. Rules and procedures don't matter if the people in charge ignore them. And again, you're not getting access to any of the data we're talking about in the first place, because the government would have to grant that access, and you're not a person as far as they're concerned in this scenario. What organisations have you worked for that would just give out information to a person they can't verify the identity of?

    That’s a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

    No, it's happening now in the US. You seem woefully under-informed to be trying to comment on current affairs. Maybe stick to your own country until you're up to speed.

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    Latina Regrets Voting for Trump After Her Sick Father Is Detained by ICE and the Internet Has No Sympathy

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  • Exactly. People are capable of changing and the left is supposed to believe in redemption. This purity-testing dead-to-me bullshit every time someone forgets a pronoun or whatever is a cancer that's setting our movement and message back every time we fall into the trap.

    Changing yourself is hard. We all deserve acceptance and support when we pull it off, for the good of all.

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  • Logs, eh? You know those are just text files, right? And how do you plan to get access to them to prove any kind of mistake or malfeasance, exactly?

  • It is even possible to "imitate" the voice of a fictional character without AI?

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  • "illegitimately" is the key word there. I'm not interested in what you think happens if everything is working as intended, or your poor reading comprehension. F-, rewrite your answer and address the question or you'll fail the class and be held back a grade.