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TheMadCodger

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Un Dorian Gray sin pasado, ni patria ni bandera.

I’m just a guy in the who likes going on adventures, and playing games with friends.

Three things I love: the Oxford Comma, irony, and missed opportunities.

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Message in a bottle

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Clots and prayers.

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It's always easier when you mentally substitute "economy" with "rich people's yacht money".

Trump threatens 10% global tariffs and rails against supreme court justices ( www.theguardian.com )

Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling the decision a “disgrace to the nation” and claiming he planned to impose even more tariffs under other statutory authorities. ...

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It will still be Obama or Biden's fault.

Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he unilaterally imposed sweeping tariffs across the globe, a striking loss for the White House on an issue that has been central to the president’s foreign policy and economic agenda.

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"Supreme Court justices should be [terrible thing, deadly, obviously bad outcome for them]"

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat ( www.ecoticias.com )

According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks. ...

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Except the dumfucks have railed against the idea of a national id number since before they removed "Not to be used for ID" from the SS cards. So instead we have a national id number that was never meant to be one and stupidly easy to figure out.

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DON'T U KNOW AMERICA IS MORE INFLUENTIAL CHANGE UR WORDS BRITAIN!!!1!

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I mean, they did send over their religious extremists, slavers, and prisoners, before moving on to other colonies. And the US has never recovered.

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The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office is investigating. Allen said the officer’s body camera footage will be reviewed.

Nothing will come of it. Failure to answer your door is an automatic death sentence it seems.

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It was like that here when Reddit fell caused people to leave and look for something better. Give it time, and interact!

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I got told off by the internet for saying the same thing once. Apparently, I should have been standing more during the flight and remained seated when the plane landed.

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Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but that would "officially" start the second American civil war. And despite the fact that we've basically already begun it, the politicians are all hoping things aren't really that bad and we can vote our way out and everything will go back to normal.

There needs to be a much bigger demonstration by the people before they risk anything.

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Thank you. Borders are stupid, we are all humans and we only have one floating rock. Also, I love the Danes I've met.

YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

Why YSK: if you don’t have the ability or time to devote your visual attention to reading, you can still engage your mind the same way as you do while reading by listening to an audiobook. Virtually any modern audiobook player will also let you select the play speed, so you can listen to books at whatever rate you’re ...

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Others have said it, but definitely speed them up. I used to have the same complaint, but now I keep it at 1.25x and adjust from there.

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I was using trakt, and it was originally great, but they started locking more and more behind subscriptions, so now I self host yamtrack.

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I know others have answered, but I wanted to give you a link. I have their device and it works great for turning things off and on out of the box. You can run it locally—if you have the hardware—or use their reasonably priced cloud subscription. I do the latter wanting to support them monetarily.

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That is sacrilege and an abomination. I sent it to everyone I know.

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"Inexhaustible"

Humans: hold my beer

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You know this means a hot wheels movie is incoming.

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I'm not justifying it, nor am I saying you should visit the States (please don't), but I've been photographed on entry/exit of Japan and NZ the last two years of travelling. Fingerprinted as well in Japan.

I guess I'm just saying that this sadly will become more and more normal globally.

Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing ( www.theguardian.com )

It was a wake-up call for America. In January, Donald Trump took the oath of office, declared himself “saved by God to make America great again” and issued a barrage of executive orders. In the ensuing months the US president and his allies moved at breakneck speed and seemed indomitable. ...

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That's not fair. Neanderthals weren't actually that dumb.

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Hard to say. On one hand I've always known though I didn't have the words for it. But I also grew up in a fundamental church, so it was a sin and I denied it. Didn't formally admit it until 24 though.

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Yeah, I started using them forever ago and haven't looked back because it does exactly what I want it to. My only sad is that it isn't open source.

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Or if you have a family history.

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Uranus rotates on its side. Instead of rotating with its axis roughly perpendicular to the plane of its orbit (like all the other planets in our Solar System), Uranus rotates on its side (along its orbital path). This tipped rotational axis gives rise to extreme seasons on Uranus.

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If you're not into using the terminal, I'm going to suggest looking into one of the immutable distros (Bazzite if you're heavily into gaming, Aurora/Bluefin if you're more generic Windows/Mac respectively).

All the important things that make the computer run, you can't (easily) change. All the stuff you care about, you can. As long as you reboot it from time to time, it'll always be up to date. It's meant for people who just want to use their computer and not tinker too much with it.

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They would let Trump take a shit in their mouths if they thought a lib would have to smell it.

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Problem is, arrested by whom?

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Exactly. It's the only branch that doesn't have some sort of law enforcement under them. And usually this is where someone interjects with US Marshalls!!1! In normal times, sure. Except they're owned by the DOJ, and we all know how that would play out.

America Is Finally Starting to See Trump for the Bullsh*t Artist He Is ( newrepublic.com )

The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies. ...

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The Conservative/Nazi party really isn't for anything besides lowering taxes for the wealthy, they're just against whatever the other side wants.

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How many times did you let Florida Man vote?

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I would totally release my tax returns, but I'm being audited, sorry.

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The Dems are primarily right of centre capitalists who think they'll win if they appeal to the "centrists" between the two parties (hasn't worked), and the Repubs are literal Nazis. So yeah, not great.

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Didn't there used to be conservapedia that was just Wikipedia but edited to match their imagined reality?

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Wait until you learn that SoCal closes school when it rains.

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We're technically still in an ice age.

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Darling, I've told you several times before. I have no dream job, I do not dream of labor.

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I haven't quite pulled the trigger on installing Graphene yet. How is it.as a daily driver?

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So like, you create a sandboxes profile for Google and log into that in your car and use android auto, get to your destination and switch back?

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🤩

How long does it take to switch between profiles? Or am I still misunderstanding since you said they all are active at once? So like each of those profiles are available at the same time, but are sandboxed from each other?

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Well damn, that's even better than I thought!

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Imma do it. I've started exporting and backing up settings, I just need to find a free couple of hours to do it and then play with it. This weekend at the latest.

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ESO, but in desktop mode. Otherwise, Disco Elysium when I'm on the go.

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Can't comment on the license, but I switched to it from NextCloud a few months ago and I've been generally very happy with it for where it is in the development process. It's not perfect yet, but it's also still earlyish.

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I think it's also supposed to be worse than when it was during the French Revolution.

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Well, it is handy for those sailing the high seas…