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Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words?
  • Perhaps it's just a leftover marketing motif?

    "The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g., the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning in 1956 with the "IBM 350 disk storage unit". "

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_storage

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    Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’
  • I know this is probably rhetorical, but there's probably room for further discussion. Strong overlap in the two groups with their transphobic binary gender/biological sex beliefs that is used to reinforce the "female make baby" beliefs. Also, distancing language. Hard to say if there's room for course correction. Incel results don't seem to deter incel thinking.

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    how do you do, fellow anarchists?
  • Defintely not. Right up there with right wingers using villians as their icons in memes. Although, I can't tell if that's a deliverate choice or ab ignorant one.

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    Trump refuses to accept he's not running against Biden anymore
  • Yes, but I do wonder if he did step down would the GOP recieve the same invigoration the Dems appear to be receiving from a different contender.

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    COCONUT PILLED
  • Wasn't sure if this was a joke or if I didn't read the thread correctly, but the reply above yours is in regards to AOC, yeah?

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    violently cries and sobs
  • I think in this context bullying can be expanded to its summative affect at the level of the society. This accumlative persecution is cultural and does in turn lesd to internal beliefs that one's perceived deviance, as pushed by the dominant social narrative, is unworthy. There are studies that demonstrate societal pressures/persecution does lead to increased rates of suicide. This is most notable within marginalized groups supporting the point made above.

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    Trump documents case dismissed by federal judge
  • This is an important detail often missed when discussing journalism, objectivity, bias, and, unfortunately, integrity. It's a necessary piece of fabric that has been fraying for years. As another lemmy post some month ago put it, with the loss of the Cronkite era folks lost faith in the fourth estate. The tragedy is that the stratification of news by party and by medium is that anything right of CNN, most of the fringe blogosphere, and nearly all of the AM stations is that they are presenting opinionated hot takes as journalistic facts. Moreover, this tends to galvanize an already consitent voter base. It seems like without an emotional appeal to resisting consrvative ideologues the rhetoric and relative baseline just keep slipping.

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    Zelenskyy: If Trump Has Plan to End the Ukraine War 'He Should Tell Us Today'
  • "Our government has a [flexible] policy not to capitulate to [the oligarch that owns my debt and may, possibly have some lewd photos] demands." - Trump quoting Patron Saint of Neoliberalism, Golden Idol of the GOP, Ronald Wilson Regan

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    Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA
  • I had no idea of this entity, but I work with enough similarly, highly nuanced public professionals that I recognize that the rapid and blind "immediately destroy all gubberment" approach will have widespread oh-holy-fuck consequenes if not just for the extensive brain vacuum potentially left in the wake of this type of growing mentality. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and perspective.

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