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  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • This may be shocking to you, but there are actually Republicans who aren't members of Congress.

    Just because MAGA has captured a majority of the party and therefore wins most of the primaries doesn't mean there are no non-MAGA republicans.

    Also, there's Susan Collins in the Senate, so that's at least two.

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • I mean, in addition to what everyone else said, disabilities can in fact disqualify you from being a good president.

    If someone is non-verbally autistic with an ID diagnosis, it's not ableist to say they aren't a good candidate to be president.

    Obviously this is a spectrum, and ADHD shouldn't be, on its face, disqualifying. But if it's so bad you're literally illiterate, then it's no ableist to say that makes you a bad candidate to be president.

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • It is in fact possible to be both Republican and vehemently against the current regime. There are plenty of die-hard Republicans who have vocally hated Trump for the past decade.

    That doesn't mean he has good politics, but you can have bad politics and still hate the out-and-out Nazis.

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • To be fair, the "change one" part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn't propogate. They are just in sync.

  • The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map

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  • The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map

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  • It it? I feel like anyone paying attention knew this is how it was going to go.

    Heck, look at my post history. I offered 3:1 odds on this over a week ago.

    This supreme court has some loons on it, but if you thought they were gonna rule against California here you haven't been paying attention.

  • The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander

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  • There's a lot of unjustified doomerism here. The article even says that Alito has basically already called the California gerrymander acceptable.

    I'd give 3:1 odds that they don't overturn it.

    Honestly, I'd be surprised if the results were any worse than 1-8, and that only because Clarence Thomas is a literal psychopath. Maybe 2-7. Alito is two-faced as all hell.

  • You goddamn liars

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  • Thicker rope would presumably have a higher test value though, and it seems that most people interpret the hempen rope in 5e as being under 800-test.

  • How the Supreme Court’s Corruption Is Locking Down Reform Public Policy in Its Tracks

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  • Why did they use a picture of SCOTUS that's two justices out of date? This article was posted today. And they captioned it with all the justices names and locations in the picture, so it had to be intentional.

  • Kristi Noem calls actions leading up to ICE shooting ‘an act of domestic terrorism’

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  • The disparity is because 4yrs vs 1. It's less under Biden year over year.

  • Fox News’ Jesse Watters declares Trump taking Venezuela’s oil is ‘common sense’ while dismissing ‘imperialistic’ concerns

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  • I mean, I don't think there's never a scenario where we can interdict shipments. Sanctions are important. If Venezuela had been shipping nuclear fissile material to North Korea and we stopped that boat, I'd probably be on board.

    The argument for this one was that it was oil being sent to sanctioned nations. I've not seen any convincing evidence that that was the case though. And, even if it was, I'm unconvinced oil shipments rise to the level of interdiction.

    But I say all that to say the world isn't black and white. While I agree this interdiction was wrong and Jessie Waters is an idiot, that doesn't mean that we can paint all US interdictions as obviously bad. Each must be weighed on its own merits.

  • Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation?

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  • As opposed to the US which has a famously inland capital. :P

  • Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A - Joe.My.God.

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  • Is it possible for Chic-fil-a to ever redeem itself in your eyes?

    If they fired everyone involved with every controversy and started donating every cent of profit to LGBT charity groups, would you say they were a good company, or is it once tainted always tainted.

    Chic-fil-a has made a lot of changes in the past decade and a half, and I'm of the opinion that, if no amount of self reflection and change can ever make us reconsider our condemnation, then there's no reason for anything to try and change, as it won't stop the hate.

    Not that Chic-fil-a is perfect, but I would argue they are now as good or better than any other fast food chain we're not actively hating on. They actually pay their employees more than minimum wage and give them one guaranteed weekend day off if nothing else.

    So why continue to put them down now that it's "mission accomplished?" If the goal was for them to change, and they have, it seems that we should bring them back into the fold, no?

  • What being gay taught me about B2B sales 🏳️‍🌈👊💵

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  • I would argue that nothing is ever an intrinsic part of one's identity.

    I think there are things society puts a lot of emphasis on, like career or sexual orientation, that are elevated in a way that makes us assume they have to be part of someone's "identity," but that's not some universal law. It's a societal construct.

    I like peanut butter sandwiches. I would never say "I identify as a peanut butter sandwich fan." But here's the thing, some people do. There's somebody out there who's got 50 different "PB Sandos 4 Life" Tshirts, and has a YouTube channel dedicated to trying all the different brands of PB, and wants to be buried on the JIF plantation. For that guy, peanut butter sandwiches are part of his identity.

    And in the same way there are plenty of gay people (who are born that way, to be clear, I'm not arguing being gay is a choice) for whom their sexual orientation are not part of their "identity." They are unquestionably gay, but don't participate in the larger gay community, and if you asked them who they are, being gay wouldn't be in the top 10 things they say about themselves, any more than most straight people would list "heterosexual" in their top 10 things about themselves.

    Now, that's hard in our current societal context, as it puts so much emphasis on who you're sleeping with in a way that drives people who don't "fit the mold" to (very reasonably) band together for solidarity and support, but that doesn't make it intrinsically part of your identity.

    All that to say, identity is a tricky thing, and I would argue that it's far too fluid to say that literally anything is intrinsically part of it.

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    divided we stand

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  • I mean, you're not necessarily incorrect, but I think it's a far cry from having whites only water fountains.

    Like, yeah, systematic racism has huge implications that still affect millions of people, but to say that it's the same as when restaurants and stores were legally banning minorities from shopping at them is a bit intellectually dishonest.

    The post isn't saying that there is no racism or division. It's saying that it's clearly not "the worst it's ever been."

  • China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan

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  • I feel like their analysis is, "it would be costly and risky so they probably won't do it," which could be said for literally any war ever. I'm not sure I find it a particularly compelling argument.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • No, YouTube does track that internally. I meant that I don't wan to have to sit down, open up YouTube and search for the thing I was watching again.

    This is particularly egregious if you were watching something in a playlist, as YouTube won't suggest a playlist on the front page, just the video you were watching (and that only if you stopped in the middle of an episode, which is rare), so you have to search the channel, click into it, go into playlists, and potentially scroll down a bunch to load them all if there are a lot, just to find the playlist you were watching.

    There's also streaming platforms like Dropout that make getting back to where you left off similarly onerous. Because you have to search the show, swap the search to "series", find it in the search results, switch from season 1 to whatever season you're actually on (if you remember), then scroll down to find the episode.

    And sure, this is probably only around a minute's worth of work every time, but when it's a daily or more occurrence it becomes frustrating. Especially when the alternative is just having the history page pop up as your launch page and clicking something in the first few options.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • I can't use Firefox unfortunately, as my main use case hinges on the history menu being remotely usable.

    But yeah, that was kind of my point. When evaluating trade offs, at the time I switched, Brave was the only real browser that checked all the boxes, which is why I use it.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • I don't actually care about tab sync. I mostly care about this for machines I use as browser based media players, which means I need my history synced.

    Main use case is using machine 1 to watch YouTube, then resuming where I left off, via the history menu, on a separate machine.

    The Firefox history menu is absolute trash, and there are no extensions to make it behave in a way that's remotely usable.

    But my whole use case is not "keeping my content disjointed," which kind of is my point. If my use case was your use case, then sure, your setup is reasonable. But it's not.

    And I don't maintain a personal NAS anymore. I realized I just wasn't getting utility out of it, and it was one more thing to get set up again after a move (it wasn't an off the shelf NAS, but a Pi set up with an external storage array.)