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  • Linux rules! How do you like my desktop?

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  • It really kicks the llama's gnu's ass

  • James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in Texas

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  • I received a metric fuckton of texts that were like, "ZOMG YOU GUYS WE ARE SO REPUBLICAN AND CROCKETT HATES ICE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-ZORZ?!?!?!?" They seem to trace back to a shady republican group. Apart from a couple of milquetoast Cornyn ones, everything else I got was for various Dem candidates despite my living in a very red zip code.

    The campaigns have excellent lists, and somebody on the right wanted blue voters to know how very "terrified" they were of her. The only reasonable alternative is that she ran them herself as a low-grade false-flag, and in either case it made me go ahead and decide on Talarico, though I'd have happily voted for either in the general. I think he's made such a brand of being a blue christian that he'd probably feel obligated to make separation of church and state an important part of his brand, and he's speaking very explicitly to the wealth divide in a way she hasn't.

    I do tend to think the dust-up over the Talarico's Allred comment has at least some truth to it, but while I assume he's much more calculating than his public persona, even in the worst case the story hit my (admittedly white) ears like someone who assumed that his allyship exempted him from micro-aggressions, rather than his being some cackling hypocrite. He's got his work cut out for him, but if he can energize the base, recover Trump 2024 Hispanics, and get a couple of percentage points' worth of red voters to flip or even just say, "meh" and stay home, he's got a chance.

    Realistically, I think the most likely scenario is that we're looking at a pre-guns Beto campaign that comes close but can't get over the hump versus an unpopular Republican, but I think he's the best chance we've had since then to flip a seat. All of which is incumbent on elections happening semi-normally.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Imagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.

  • Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead

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  • Always grimly funny when you can basically suss out the lazy-ass prompt: "Now do the same message, but Spanish."

  • Marco Rubio orders US officials to stop commentary that could strain Iran talks

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  • Rubio's gonna get fired anyway. He made a speech that that didn't terrify people in Munich as badly as MAGA speeches usually do, so he got a standing ovation, and Trump HAAAAATES that.

  • Ads used to be different 💔

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  • Crockett leads Talarico by double digits in Texas Senate poll

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  • I think they've both had their issues with where their money comes from, her corporate PACs, him with the Adelson family that's trying to somehow get gambling legalized in Texas without any Native American reservations and with a Christofascist state government. That said, neither one is a Schumer-style appeaser. He wears a brand of class-conscious social justice theology on his sleeve, throwing the Christian Nationalists' so-called faith into clear focus, but because of that he's also very much pitching "electability," which in Texas right now means "I'm a cishet white guy so maybe some of the racists will stay home on election day."

    She is a firebrand who has made calling out Trump and the gang her full-time job, but her campaign seems to revel more in the idea of pissing off Donald Trump than in letting us know what she'll do. There is a zeitgeisty element to that, and I think she'd be a more prominent and powerful advocate in Congress, but I think either would slot more into the Progressive wing. Ultimately, either would also be an insane improvement over Cornyn or (gag) Paxton.

    Would be remiss of course without mentioning the dustup where a Tiktoker left the Talarico camp for the Crockett camp, saying that Talarico told her he was expecting to run against a mediocre black guy, not a talented black woman. He's admitted to using the word mediocre about Colin Allred's prior campaign, and TBF it was extremely mediocre (like Allred knew from day one he had no chance, so why knock yourself out?), but if Talarico did try to add in Allred's race as (one would hope) a rhetorical flourish, then it was a tone-deaf moment that harmed his credibility in promising to advocate for the black community. "Electability" with white people doesn't help if you simultaneously depress the vote of the usual 4/9 of Texans who vote blue. I'm as white as Talarico is, but it really gave me pause.

  • Kevin O'Leary Wanted 400% Tariffs To 'Squeeze Chinese Heads.' Now Says All His Customers And Shareholders Want Their Money Back. 'My Head Is Getting Squeezed'

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  • “I got phone calls from our customers, from our lenders because we board against our line of credit, and from our shareholders that we reduce distributions on during this period waiting to settle on the tariffs,” he said.

    While O'Leary is rightfully eating shit for a stupid trump-simping accelerationist take that everyone knew was garbage, I mostly want to point out how what somebody's transcription software did to his accent, because I'm a dork.

  • 37 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us

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  • Like a candle in the wind...

  • Expecto patronum my ass!

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  • The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don't really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game. Jeez I wish Joanne weren't such an awful piece of shit human.

  • I assure you, it's not good.

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  • Okay, so I'll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the "Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege" Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.

    Makes it much funnier, actually.

  • Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside.

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  • With apologies to the baseball fans in the room...

    The definition of woke:

    You can't just be up there and just doin' a woke like that.

    1a. Woke is when you

    1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob

    1c. Let me start over

    1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can't do that.

    1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can't be over here and say to the patriot, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.

    1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to teach about racist history and then don't teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?

    1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.

    1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there's the children you gotta think about.

    1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT

    Do not do a woke please

  • I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel"

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  • My buddy's older brother did the thing where you remove the little filter cylinders from the coax in, I think(?), the curbside junction box. I saw the cylinders and the result, but not the deed.

  • Get. Out

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  • Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Have you been privy to any of the discussions about what it means for the show to be set a thousand years later than most of the franchise, like where it makes sense for a previous entry to guide the interpretation, and where it maybe makes as much or more sense to let things go a little crazy. The interplay probably has to drift more toward storytelling realities within the brand than it does gaming-out what would "really" happen over a millennium of Star Trek time.

    Honestly, when I think about it, the post-Burn era seems downright conservative in terms of societal change, certainly at least within Starfleet. That's obviously necessary for it to be recognizable as a property, but it's kind of funny to think that it's as static as it seems, like closer to the difference between 426 and 1426 than between 1026 and 2026 CE, and I'm probably understating how different the first two were.

  • Google is being sued over AI voice in NotebookLM by a radio host

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  • They say they used a paid actor. Of course, even if that's true, it's not particularly hard to find someone with a similar pitch, accent, and timbre, and then finish fixing it to make sure it's as confidently soothing as the NPR voice you wanted to steal in the first place. I suppose in one sense it's not utterly different from hiring a soundalike, but now the soundalike is damn near perfect (the clips in the article are VERY similar and feel more like the difference in recording equipment than anything else) and doesn't need to actually be available to perform for new impressions. Yet another example of "withstand motion for summary judgment, string it out, lobby against future guiderails" as the totality of Silicon Valley's legal philosophy.

  • If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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  • I think what they're saying is that the dissent says out loud the part that the majority would prefer to keep quiet. It's a clear consequence of the "clever jackass 7th-grader" mindset that comes from the Originalist school of jurisprudence.

    You can't run a modern nation-state or withstand a bad actor in power if you insist that it must all be done exactly as set out in 4,500 words by a bunch of 18th-century provincial lawyers writing by committee, and that anything not expressly forbidden is allowed because... "oh well." SCOTUS abdicating its role as a backstop of liberty and good sense to instead be a bunch of pedants is a piss-poor reason to send your country to hell, yet here we are.

  • If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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  • They’re about to find out what we actually were getting in return.

    This is one of the huge under-analyzed aspects of all this. The US "over" invested in defense and foreign aid, and got virtually all the soft power benefits of a hegemonic power, and by simply setting an upper limit on the worst abuses of imperial overlords, it generally had its allies saying "Thank You" for the privilege, with no particular signs that the bloc was weakening.

    If the US is not an accessible market or a reliable guarantor of security, or if (for fuck's sake) it's threatening the territorial integrity of its own allies and trading partners, then it's just China with less cheap shit to sell. Hell, even China doesn't do the last one (offer not valid in Taiwan).

  • What tourist destinations do you think are NOT overrated?

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  • Ahh, but which one? LOL, I'm just kiddin', they all have serious issues.

    I grew up in the suburbs of the Florida one. It's... fine? Go Jags!

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    Max is scared of thunder, but also determined to protect us from it.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Pecanwood headphone stand

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Decorative bookcase at our hotel in Seoul

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Lenovo 10e ARM ChromeOS tablet fully converted to Debian for use as a "Writer Deck"

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are there terminal-based Wordgrinder alternatives for an SBC "writerdeck"?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Been watching TOS. Here's my Sam Kirk cosplay.

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Our big one wondering why the little one won't just bake in the sun...

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    More orders of magnitude, please.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    DIY mechanical keyboard build, including Walnut case with Pecan inlay.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    DIY Alps build, including Walnut case with Pecan inlay.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    He comes from the land of ice and snow.

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    Clearly we have a trend.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    Back to my roots...

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    'Cuz every girl's crazy 'bout a LARP-tressed man!

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Title N/A (part IV)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Title N/A (part II)

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Anson's Mount