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Trump Media shares halted repeatedly as DJT turns negative in volatile trading
    1. Why would anyone have to sign up to Truth Social to see what he's posted? Wouldn't a single bot reposting it elsewhere do the job?

    2. I'm pretty sure Musk is on board to hand him back the POTUS Twitter handle and say any censorship or moderation would be unconstitutional and unpatriotic. Regardless of the result, probably. He will not care if Truth Social tanks if he's got that.

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    The Blowout No One Sees Coming
  • Large margin for Harris: "this is absurd, we should have won, look how much they cheated"

    Small margin for Harris: "They cheated, we need to send electoral votes for Trump anyway. Stop the steal!"

    Small margin victory for Trump: "we won even though they cheated! Big changes coming to prevent their cheating in future"

    Huge victory for Trump: "we have a mandate to eradicate the wetbacks"

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    Stuck in the middle with you
  • I don't think the meme should be exclusively about building/fixing PCs though. Half the young people starting in our business show the same ineptitude as my parents when tasks with clicking stuff.

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    Jordan condemns “Israeli” airstrikes on Iran
  • Them not being part of the region doesn't mean they don't exist.

    I fully support the Palestinian cause - I'm Irish, so that's not a shock - but the quotes just looks petty and childish, like the Americans still saying "Drumpf".

    Acknowledging something is real is probably the first step to dealing with a threat.

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    Apparently I'm banned from Lemmy.ml, I guess I'm here now
  • Ukraine certainly was one of the most corrupt nations in Europe. Pre-pandemic its CPI score was 30, placing it between Bolivia and Myanmar.

    Russia scored 28 (ie, worse). So I'm not sure what outcome you expect from Ukraine losing. I'm also interested to hear if you think countries like Mexico, Nigeria or Cambodia, also below Ukraine in the ranking, are "evil" and don't deserve statehood.

    https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019

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    Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports
  • I know. I know. I'm already a converted vegetarian or "bad at it vegan". I'm spending a fortune on an EV car payment. My electricity is from a wind farm. I'm off all the socials. I've been recycling properly for decades and they tell me it was pointless. I'm getting pretty tired of personal responsibility. Can we do the guillotines now? I can't make the first move. I've got kids and a mortgage. Start rounding them up and I can do some small part there too.

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    Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports
  • Look, that's honestly quite sad and very telling of the way things are, but I audibly snorted at the idea of Jeff Bezos noticing his income slightly lower this week, panicking, scrambling to find The Borbendorfs' payment. A single tear wells up, but he wipes it away frantically. Never let them see. Never let them know how it hurts.

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    Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds
  • One point to disagree on: less teens than ever are having sex, and with no actual experience, their imaginations are based on porn. No wonder they're terrified of it, if their first impression is what comes up when you Google "boy girl have sex".

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    Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
  • One of the good things about living in Ireland is that I'm 99% our government is neither competent enough to perpetrate elaborate crimes against its people without being exposed almost instantly, nor powerful enough that even fascists getting into government would have a meaningful impact bar providing a colourful humorous segment of the inevitable documentary on Europe's second fall to the Axis.

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    Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
  • I work for a telecom. In my country there is well regulated legislation that specifies how and when the police can ask the telecoms for cell location data, usually used for missing people.

    They also provide large scale, anonymised data for crowd movement analysis. For example it was used to demonstrate how 60,000 people moved into and out of a stadium located for historical reasons in an old-fashioned, dense residential area, in preparation for the arrival of English football fans.

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    My Nose At Night When I'm Trying To Sleep
  • I think there's some useful context, if not a good defence of this story.

    It's one of the original stories told by Reverend Awdry told to his 2 year old, measles-ridden child in 1942 war-era England (Wait, is this making it worse?).

    Awdry would sing/recite old poems to Christopher, who then pressed him for further details that turned into a story.

    For example, the opening of that episode of Thomas features the Limerick that prompted the story, which was around at least since 1902:

    In the original story by Awdry, there is only a single tunnel, and the train is completely blocking the line and essentially ruining a business. So stubborn is the engine, that they have to dig a new tunnel beside the old one. The rails are removed and "a wall" are placed in front of the tunnel, for safety - to prevent trains literally running into the wrong tunnel and crashing. The Fat Director/Controller is also pretty unsympathetic deliberately - he commands people to push and pull the train out without success, but doesn't himself help - "My doctor has forbidden me to push". However the original books follow the realities of steam engine and railway operation far more closely than the TV series did (and as a result, the original series, closer to the books, were far more realistic than the later ones).

    As portrayed in the TV show it definitely comes off more villainous. But in the original telling we have to take away 70 years of Thomas trains having faces, personalities, relationships and familiarity. When originally told, the Henry story didn't even take place in the same "universe" - there was just 3 abstract stories about trains, loosely based on old rhymes and news stories.

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    They know exactly what they are doing
  • You are correct. In my defence:

    In Old English, ⟨ð⟩ (called ðæt) was used interchangeably with ⟨þ⟩ to represent the Old English dental fricative phoneme /θ/ or its allophone /ð/, which exist in modern English phonology as the voiceless and voiced dental fricatives both now spelled ⟨th⟩.

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    They know exactly what they are doing
  • They're using Thorn Edd, the single character that represented the Th sound in old English (still used in Icelandic).

    It's a harmless little quirk in their own writing, although editing the title of a book to include it seems pretty silly.

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