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Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. He's OK in my book.

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"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent chicken meal?", "Get your hand off my baguette!"

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Or the alternative... quit doom-scrolling all day long to an addictive algorithm. No one is forced to use social media.

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I mean... blocking anything from Meta benefits democracy, if only by a micron.

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Do you know what other federated messaging tool governments use? Email!
Better scratch that too, just in case.

Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins ( www.pbs.org )

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, began on Monday. ...

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Don't worry, nothing will happen as long as they "gift" Trump his 10%.

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Un-american here. Does Canada have the same direct sales ban as the US? Same dealer lobby in both countries?

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He's only doing it now because his name got out on the Epstein emails. The russians lost their kompromat on him.

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We didn't deserve the 90's 🙁

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There are dozens of us!

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    There's no algorithm to be played in the fediverse. The reward is too low for all the work of making a post visible, and it won't carry to the next post, essentially starting all over again.

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    “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language.”

    Mark Rutte about Trump, 2025

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    AI channel with a link for donations. Cool.

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    Why do the anglos always have exceptions for exceptions? The sheriff of this, the city of that, the tiny island that isn't part of the country.

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    I, too, gis'ed in my pants at work.

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    They're not wrong. The orange turd truly believes everything in the US belongs to him now. The White House, Air Force One, the lands, slaves people, and especially all the money.

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    It's infuriating that the whole EU had to drop pants to Trump last year just so Germany could sell more cars to the US.

    And this year we're dropping the pants even more so Germany can sell more cars in South America.

    Meanwhile companies in the smaller EU countries absolutely can't compete with non-auto giants from the American continent.

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    The EU already runs its own mastodon server:

    https://ec.social-network.europa.eu

    No need for a 3rd party alternative for EU politicians.

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    A big, beautiful paywall.

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    It worked with putin, right?

    Right...?

    Meet Jonathan Ross' Wife, Patrixia, and Her Reaction to Renee Good's Shooting ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

    Patrixia Ross, 38, brings a distinguished family background to her life in America. She is a naturalised United States citizen originally from the Philippines, and reports indicate she was raised in an environment of high professional achievement, as both of her parents were respected doctors in her home country. ...

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    I had the same feeling reading the text. It's filled with repetitive sentences in reused topics, like the basic texts from some years ago when AI bots produced bio web pages about famous people.

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    move on to facebook

    eww

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    That's how it feels.

    LMDE users unite!

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    No one said rust was invulnerable.

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    Do you mean buying computers worth thousands of dollars doesn't make you a computer expert? I'm shocked. Shocked!

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    From what I've read in other news, the digital euro wallet will have a hard limit on the amount you can store in it, something like 1000 euros for example.
    Also, it needs to be linked to a physical euro bank account.
    Those features combined prevent fraud and speculation. It's mostly to be used as an online payment method to circumvent the Visa/Mastercard american payment duopoly.

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    No. Those portuguese banks failed in different years because of internal corruption. It had nothing to do to the failed investment assets that caused the subprime crisis.
    The Icelandic banks failed because they invested heavily in toxic assets.

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    I used mailbox.org for some time. They gradually removed features from their "basic" 1 euro plan until it was the same as posteo. So I moved to posteo.

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    I first saw him on Maverick in 1994. Last time was the Marvel TV show Echo. He was always great to see and 73 is still too young, RIP.

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    I don't remember my teachers allowing students to take TVs to the classroom when I was a kid. And classes could also be boring back then.

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    I've managed to screw up every self-hosted service whenever I've made an update, edit a config file or just by looking at it.
    But my Prosody XMPP server? It's rock solid. That thing never fails, for years and years.

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    That's like asking for a FLOSS Disney+ alternative.

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    Did that 2 days ago after reading about lemmy devs.

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    Koka.

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    It successfully separated the cryogenic fractionation unit into several fractions.