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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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This is an odd comment given that all your comments here are rude and seemed to have missed the point.

That the witness is psuedonymized is obvious - it says that - but also doesn't really impact people's ability to find cases where trump is the defendant, or cases of a missing 12 y/o with connections to trump.

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Being named or pictured in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing.

😂😂😂 "Hey rich pedophiles, please don't sue us!"

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This is basically POSIWID - the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.

There's "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".

The purpose of the state is to empower the rich and dehumanize us. If that wasn't the purpose, it wouldn't keep doing it.

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If he's shitting his pants on the job, it gives weight to calls to invoke the 25th and remove him which could fuel a "who already knew" scandal. I say vilify him for anything that might stick.

Shout it from the rooftops and let a thousand tweets bloom: trump shat his pants.

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That guy in the middle has an unexplainably awful face.

Did he have too much plastic surgery then fall asleep in front of a fireplace? Was his face carved out of play-doh by a distracted child? Is he preparing to molt? Did he look into the ark of the covenant and survive?

I watched the video a few times but kept getting distracted from an actual president shitting himself on the job by how terrible that guy's face is.

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Yeah i would be more surprised if there wasn't a cthulu-esque face stealing monster in the regime.

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This sounds like it's talking about parenting, right? How to motivate kids to read?

Also this is someone forwarding epstein an email from bobby kotick without any input from epstein.

How is it that "microtransaction can be traced to epstein" when it doesn't mention microtransactions and epstein doesn't say anything?

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One of the best country songs ever:

Rameses II is Dead, my Love - The Fugs

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The top drawer is obviously A, so this cat has filed themselves under B, because is baby.

Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time ( ztechtalk.com )

Look, we all knew it was coming, but now it's official. Microsoft just handed middle managers the ultimate weapon. Their new update for Microsoft 365 allows companies to track exactly where you are, and the days of pretending to be at your desk are over.

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I don't think it's wise to believe tech oligarchs saying that orwellian surveillance tech cannot be exploited for orwellian surveillance.

Besides companies can just require employees to opt in - "we just built this fresh horror, how companies use it is up to them" doesn't really fly.

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Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.

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Im guessing the answer is in the video above that paragraph, so we'll never know.

If you're putting info in a video in a news article, you may as well bury it beneath the sands of the taklamakan desert.

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100%. I only spotted it because i read your comment before the article.

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It was the funniest sounding desert i could remember off the top of my head.

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Its so perfectly on brand.

She's spent a lot of her life glancing distance away from major sex trafficking. If you end up married to a money launderer for the russian mob you've probably been trafficked yourself at some point. She worked in an industry known for pervasive rape culture. Her boss was a rapist and pedophile who had his epstein-supplied wife deported. Her husband is a rapist and pedophile.

Of course the director of her film is rapist, it would be weirder if he wasn't.

Government funding negotiations hit snag after Democrats announce deal ( abc13.com )

Senate Democrats announced earlier Thursday they had struck an agreement with the White House to move forward with a plan that would see the Department of Homeland Security funding bill separated from a package of five other bills. Programs funded by the five-bill package would be funded until the end of September. DHS would be ...

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Schumer is functionally part of the regime and should go to jail with the rest of these killers and thieves.

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Let's just share the news please.

Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign paying to insert his name in headlines should not be shared.

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Don't get irate, just pirate.

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Forced retirement for a bunch of corporate dinosaur dems AND more dead whiteys to spur americans to action - honestly sounds like a win/win.

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Sweet baby is cat
Sweet baaaaaaby is cat
Baby baby baby
Sweet baby is cat!

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Given that the US is currently carrying out russia's foreign policy, i find it hard to believe that mexico could seize and control like half the continent but russia hasn't even taken alaska.

Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over ( www.newsweek.com )

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz demanding the state take three specific actions before federal immigration agents would consider reducing their presence in Minneapolis, including handing over voter rolls. ...

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Bullshit. What kinda of idiot would believe a lying nazi?

The fascist death squads we built are murdering americans in cold blood, but if you make it easier for us to fake the next election we'll definitely leave you alone.

Sure, very believable. 🙄

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Surprise surprise, the fascist death squads are lying about their murders.

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Woo, grasses! Let's hear it for C4 photosynthesis! 🎉

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Fascinating! I've really enjoyed your posts today. Keep the hits coming!

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tiny, deformed, cheeto toadstool from mario of a penis.

As reputable sources have informed us.

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Stormy Daniels - who had first hand knowledge, so to speak.

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The chinese kinda did just make a character for each word though.

Modern chinese uses plenty of words with multiple characters but Old chinese didn't really. So character = word was much closer to the truth around the time of the oracle bone inscriptions.

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At it's origins, the Latin script was an alphabet, not 1:1 symbol to word.

You have to go back through a chain of different scripts for different languages from different cultures that influenced it to get to heiroglyphs.

Chinese characters were logograms invented for Chinese and are logograms used for Chinese today. At their origin they were pretty much symbol = word and it mostly still is.

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Monopoly. Literally designed to be frustratingly unplayable to represent the frustratingly unplayable user experience of capitalism, but people insist on playing it anyway.

AD&D 2e. Insists it's a game about exciting fantasy adventuring, then all the rules are about painfully slow tactical minutiae. The combat mechanics are taken from a game about modern naval warfare, hence bigger Armor Class means easy to hit. It's unclear why anyone thought ships with guns was a good model for medieval sword fighting. Entire sections of rules have to be ignored - hello encumberance - and gameplay regularly has to stop to look up charts, tables or niche rules like grappling.

Screamball. Like ping pong, except the point goes to whoever screams the loudest during a volley. We made it up as teenagers. It was awful.

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The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.

A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.

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This fascist regime has clearly been planning for a while to send the military to attack american cities.

If they feel confident in using the military instead of the death squads they've been building under ice, that implies they are optimistic about their control over the military, or at least ready to test that control.

Anyone who thinks there's an electoral path away from fascism is deluding themselves. They'll shoot us dead in the street before giving up power.

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That's definitely something to work towards but a general strikes requires years of planning, organising, network building, and just fucktons of money. People still need to eat and pay rent. People will be fired and need help fighting it. The regime is likely to injure and maybe kill.

There hasn't been a general strike in living memory.

A general strike takes time, it's not something we can just do. Rushing it and fucking it up would be a huge win for the fascists.

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Though importantly, it's a word made up by a comedian for comic effect.

The 'longest' single chinese character (most strokes required to write) is also the name of a dish. The 'biang' in "biangbiang mian" has 58 strokes, and you have to write it twice. It's also thought to have been made up specifically for it's complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles

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Bad headline, lazy article.

introduced the legislation ... to have a court-appointed neutral arbitrator – known as a special master – compel the DOJ to comply with the law.

On Friday, however, the DOJ filed a motion to block that effort in the Southern District of New York, arguing that courts lack the authority to force the agency’s hand in the matter.

The DOJ filed a motion to block a special master. That's it. No one living in the US or reading the news could possibly be "floored" by that.

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I just dont understand this admittantly common argument.

Free will seems like such a psychologically damaging lie. As if blaming yourself for the outcome of every sad movie you've watched is somehow motivational.

Since coming to accept that free will is farcically impossible, I feel free to just go about my actions with a sense of curious enthusiasm as to what will happen next, safe in the knowledge that que sera sera - whatever will be, will be.

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Life, joy, friends, love, art, pleasure, dopamine, oxytocin, etc.

Anything we're doing now can still be done without the concept of free will, because we're already doing it without free will.

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We all get those things regardless. The stories we tell ourselves about how the world works don't affect how the world works.

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Generation Kill is a very watchable look at a recon unit in the lead up to the 2nd (iirc) iraq war. It's by the guy who did The Wire. Excellent dialogue, plotting and acting.

It uses a soldier's eye perspective to examine the systemic issues in the military - casual racism, war crimes, adult diapers and the constant incompetence of officers all come up.

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In employment, Verizon said it will commit to aligning its business in California with the state’s various requirements under its diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI) laws, though the company ended its employment-based DEI initiatives last year in order to secure approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its purchase of Frontier.

The DEI commitments Verizon will make are not expected to conflict with its promises to the FCC, which largely involved hiring and promotional practices.

So CA allows yet more dangerous corporate power consolidation in exchange for just following CA law - but not so much as to conflict with verizon's anti-DEI promises to the regime.

What a truly progressive victory worthy of gavin newsom.

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Because trump is largely irrelevant.

His job is distraction-in-chief. He's just a dumb patsy - a role he's spent his life perfecting.

His business career was just laundrering russian mob money, and his political career is just drawing fire from the rich cabal looting the american empire before there's nothing left to loot.

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30% of US adults voted for trump.

Decades of gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinfo campaigns and no small amount of outright fraud brought the current regime to power, not the will of american people.

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There was a hilarious study the other month showing that on r/conservative, 30-60% of posts on any given day are 2 posters, who posted every single day - except the day that ukraine strikes knocked out power in moscow.

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    Hegar ,
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    That sounds like a reasonable and healthy attitude to take.

    I've started buying 2nd hand physical games, got a cheap record player, buy books from little bookshops, clothes from goodwill and don't shop online. Not ready for a dumb phone yet.

    I grew up in niave 90s with 'internet will set us free' thinking. But oligarchs turned the things i liked into poison, so i avoid drinking the poison as much as i can.

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    The fascists don't care about consistency or fairness. By definiton they're opposed to that.

    They will without a doubt block anyone else from doing exactly what they are doing.

    Killing multiple regime members on the court or expanding the court are the only two options if we want a supreme court that's capable of upholding the law.

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    “As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever. … I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that,” Sabula told The Washington Post.

    Fucking amen brother.

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    Jate isn't a name.

    UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ ( www.theguardian.com )

    Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”. ...

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    They're fucking nazis and they're doing violent nazi shit.

    “ominous historical overtones” my ass. Call it what it is.

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    I doubt there were that many voters who oppose project2025 but were swayed away from kamala by thinking it's not real.

    About 30% of us adults voted R. 30-35% is about the maximum support that fascism can muster. Voter suppression won the election, not any particular policy or lie.