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  • Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉

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  • They don't play well with any leftist parties, not necessarily the socialists (who are iirc pretty center these days). LFI is quite abrasive.

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    You guys fell for memebait

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  • Sure, but the slippery slope fallacy is still a fallacy. If it suddenly does become required, fork the thing. Or better yet: focus your attention on the shitty lawmakers who are pushing for this.

  • Anon wants to live on Super Earth

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  • There's also the idea that since the system "works" it shouldn't be changed. IIRC Le Guin did some stories on a place called Omelas that explored a similar idea: there's this utopian city, but they chuck a child down a hole to suffer there, which for some arcane reasons is deemed as necessary. Once people learn of this, they either accept it as indeed necessary or (rarely) leave.

    A utopia only works if everyone thinks of the same thing as being a utopian society, which people generally just don't.

  • You guys fell for clickbait

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  • They ask each time because they don't want to store the data themselves if they don't have to. With this, they wouldn't have to.

  • Britain ‘defenceless against Iranian missiles’

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  • Netanyahu claims Iran has these missiles, but Iran disputes it. There's also no publicly verifiable evidence that this is true. UK intelligence also does not think Iran has such capabilities.

    Besides, Iran has been only weeks away from nukes for 30 years, I'm sure they're only a couple miles off of hitting the UK as well /s.

    Even then, I doubt Iran wants to trigger a UK military response to any missiles sent to the mainland.

  • Minecraft Dungeons II TBA 2026 on Steam

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  • Eh, I quite enjoyed the first game, and at least it seems Mojang has some plans for the portal at least. I wouldn't be surprised if some variant of what's going to be in Dungeons II will be added to the main game down the line.

  • It's 2026, and I still can't believe Apple won't change the most frustrating thing about iOS

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  • They clutter the overview screen. If I'm done with an app, I want it fully closed, not lingering in the background somewhere.

    Same reason I close browser tabs and not rely on Firefox to unload them.

  • What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?

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  • This is a hitpiece, imo completely the wrong tone to have this discussion in.

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  • You can even not use it if you live in the US. There's nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it's correct, which is why people say it's not age verification).

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  • Auto-filling those "you must be at least X old to access this content" inputs could be one? Eg Steam could skip that page directly when accessing 18+ games.

    I suppose you could ask the same for the realName and location fields that are already in systemd.

  • Anti-car candidate Emmanuel Grégoire elected mayor of Paris 🎉

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  • why do we have these

    It's the LFI, it's leftists who don't play along well with other leftists (along with some other problematic traits).

  • [Video] Ukrainian military conscriptors kick a man in the face before sending him off to the front lines

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  • You'll also remember that the UK and France broke these pacts and declared war when the Nazis invaded Poland, right? Whereas the pact with the USSR included clauses to divide the east between the Nazis and the Soviets, ceding eastern Poland and the Baltics to the USSR?

    The capitalists weren't going to ally with the Soviets, who had seized power after a bloody civil war, and whose ideology sought to destroy their own (and vice-versa I should add). Meanwhile, most of Hitler's indefensible and horrific crimes were still mostly in the future. Only once the war broke out an alliance of convenience was forged.

  • Anon wants to live on Super Earth

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  • Even the author of BNW wasn't sure of the world really was a dystopia or not. A lot of people do seem to have a lot of freedom, and most seem happy (or at least, not unhappy). Sure, a lot of questionable things have been done to achieve that goal, but if 99% is happy with their life; can it really be a dystopia?

  • TIL there is no agreement on how many continents there are.

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  • Large mountain ranges (the Urals for Europe-Asia and the Himalayas for India-rest-of-Asia).

  • How 'Active Clubs' use male bonding, fitness and other healthy activities as a trojan horse for extremism

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  • So you speak for the vast majority of working class white guys? Interesting.

    I am merely making an observation in this thread, where so far your claims have been met with incredulity.

    Elite colleges where the far left ideologies that lemmyites adore, were created and established from which they spread.

    Left-wing ideology is famously a working-class ideology. Progressivism has taken hold in colleges, but leftism isn't a guarantee: just look at many conservative politicians who often graduated from the most elite schools (the Tories in the UK are often accused of being too "Eton-centered" for example).

    Just because people don't see something personally or directly, is a shitty way of evaluating other people. I've never seen a woman be raped. Does that mean rape doesn't happen? That's the logic you keep employing.

    But there are plenty of documented cases of rape happening. Lots of people know someone who was either sexually assaulted or raped. There's a lot of knowledge on how rapists behave and how rape happens. But this isn't the case for leftists accusing someone of being a bad person, for merely being white and working-class.

    What is more commonly known is that people victimizing themselves online tend to understate their own role in a conflict, or leave out critical details that paint the context in a different light. Take the various YePowerTrippingBastards communities: it happens quite often that someone leaves out crucial details that significantly undermine the story they're telling.

    This is why you're being met with severe skepticism. You're making some inflammatory accusations (leftists physically accosting people for being white and working-class), without evidence nor context, based on supposed repeat personal encounters. And I'm not saying that it didn't happen, but I am trying to explain why you're unlikely to be believed here. You also don't exactly paint yourself as an impartial participant when you make statements saying the left "hates men" and "hates native citizens".

  • Val Kilmer set to be be resurrected with AI for new film

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  • For those who didn't read: Val himself had already signed up for this movie and it apparently meant a lot to him to star in it. The producers contacted his family to discuss the matter, and they consented to the idea.

  • How 'Active Clubs' use male bonding, fitness and other healthy activities as a trojan horse for extremism

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  • You said, and I'm quoting here:

    I spent 3 years in uni being screamed at, in my face often, about how awful I was for being white and working class guy. Glad you didn't have that experience? But plenty of men do. But it was really hard not to become totally alienated by that. A few times I was threatened physically, because I 'don't look leftist', whatever the fuck that means. I still occasionally have some nutbags approach me and scream at me about my perceived politics based on how I look.

    You're being challenged on this because the vast majority of white working class guys simply don't have this experience whatsoever. This whole "leftists screaming at your face"-thing seems to be pretty uniquely happening to you, not white men in general.

    So this does beg the question: why do you have this experience when other white guys in this thread don't? You've immediately resorted to blaming leftists in general, but since others don't share your perception of leftists you're simply not very convincing.

    It's like arguing that the far-right grows because the left shits on the street; nobody else seems to have seen this so people end up questioning your sincerity here.

  • How 'Active Clubs' use male bonding, fitness and other healthy activities as a trojan horse for extremism

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  • You've come into this thread by making pretty inflammatory statements. When asked to explain, you provided a very barebones anecdote about how someone told you you were evil because you have a white penis. Others chimed in saying that this has never happened to them, despite also being owners of a white penis.

    Instead of clarifying and providing more context, you've stuck to the very basic story, with zero details or context. Since the story sounds quite unlikely, this naturally casts suspicion on you, as it sounds like crucial details are left out. We're supposed to believe fairly extraordinary claims here, which usually requires at least some kind of evidence, or at least believable context.

    So I don't think you should be surprised that when you accuse people of treating you poorly because you have a white penis, you're going to receive some pushback. And I don't think you can reasonably claim that that pushback is somehow evidence of people hating you because of the colour of your member.

  • US and Israel’s strategy to kill Iran’s top figures may prove counterproductive

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  • An Iranian civil war would be Netanyahu's preferred outcome.