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nightshade [they/them]

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  • please, Xi, send the nukes already.

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  • I refuse to believe anyone actually likes this. Nobody could possibly fall for this abomination just because the houses technically meet the bare minimum for being a waterfront property, right?

    R-right?

  • Armed man arrested near Trump’s California rally was plotting to kill him, police say

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  • Getting revenge after his mother wasted all of their savings on the Trump NFTs.

  • Apologies to david cage

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  • Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

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    (cw transphobia) Anyone who doesnt vote for Democrats are TRANSPHOBIC!!!!!!

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  • I'm reminded of the Henry Cuellar situation, where the Democratic leadership decided to support the anti-abortion blue dog who was also taking bribes from Azerbaijan (so basically the original Eric Adams) against a primary challenge from a progressive candidate, and he ultimately won the primary by less than 300 votes. And they wonder why nobody believes them when they say they're "the most progressive presidency since FDR".

  • How Xi’s crackdown turned China’s finance high-flyers into ‘rats’

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  • And he says he “wouldn’t even think about” buying again from luxury brands like “Burberry or Louis Vuitton”.

    You live in the country that probably manufactured them in the first place. You can buy a knock-off which is just as good for a fraction of the cost.

  • How many layers of self-awareness are you on? That's good. It could be worse.

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  • Elon posting a meme about parents who mistreat their children

  • Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris debate watch party @ 9 pm EST Tonight

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  • Kamala calling Trump a landlord

  • I sadly must inform you. Ben Garrison is back to Buff Trump, but is still cringe

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  • I thought the one on the right was Pence and I was confused because I thought he had fallen out of favor (until I realized that it was RFK).

  • Cygnus X-321: "One of the aims of the legislation is to turn mask wearing into an act identified with criminality & to cause mask wearers to be endlessly harassed and attacked. They hope that the fear

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  • I remember some hysteria being spread about pro-Palestinian protesters wearing face masks, hence the rhetoric around "criminal" and "dangerous" people wearing masks to conceal their identity (given that left-wing college students are more likely to wear them for health reasons anyways). Probably not the main reason but I think there's an element of that.

  • The U.S. will very likely fight a 3-front war against Russia, China and Iran, Palantir’s Alex Karp says

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  • Extremely critical support to the engineers who made US warships touchscreen-controlled.

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    [Transphobia] context: Algerian cis AFAB boxer punches an Italian boxer

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  • Okay, be honest, how many of you were transed by vibeo game (CW: Transphobia)

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  • This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex, and, especially considering the predominantly young player base of Minecraft, can be very confusing in terms of gender. One of these confused young people is my son, now 21 years old, who, it turns out, had been using the default "girl" skin of Minecraft, often shown in marketing alongside a more fitting masculine character. While this is not concerning on its own, having done so since the age of 11 will surely have contributed to his gender confusion.

    Most games have some form of gender customization/selection at this point. How are you supposed to stop someone from choosing an "incorrect" gender? By requiring a genital scan or something?

    Also the "girl" skin is pretty clearly intended to be gender-neutral and is based on a real-life man.

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    10/10 realism

  • Average big oil worshipper

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  • Sabine Karin Doris Hossenfelder (born 18 September 1976)

    In July 1977, a senior scientist of Exxon, James Black reported to the company's executives that there was a general scientific agreement at that time that the burning of fossil fuels was the most likely manner in which mankind was influencing global climate change.

    Exxon's research confirming the existence of manmade climate change is almost as old as you are.

  • Minecraft Modding Website "Modrinth" vs UBlock Origin conflict has begun recently

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  • how many players are using an adblocker enough to make an impact?

    Given the context in which Modrinth was created, it's likely that their userbase is significantly more likely than average to use adblockers.

    The largest host for Minecraft mods is Curseforge, which hosts effectively all Minecraft mods. They intend for you to download mods and modpacks through their ad-infested launcher, and part of the ad revenue is used to pay the mod creator per-download. However, there was an alternate open-source launcher, MultiMC, that used the Curseforge API to download mods without having to see ads. Even aside from that, MultiMC was better than Curseforge in effectively every way.

    Some time ago, Curseforge announced plans to step up the ads on their launcher even more and block MultiMC from using their API to try to force users to use their launcher. This sparked a lot of backlash because their launcher was obviously much worse than MultiMC. Modrinth had been around before this, but it gained a lot of popularity in the wake of this incident because people wanted to move away from Curseforge. Modrinth was open-source and allowed mods to be downloaded through MultiMC, which gave people the impression that it was more trustworthy than Curseforge.

    However, they had promised from the start that they would have payments to mod creators as well through "ethical ads" on their website. This is a problem for them because their userbase (both mod creators and players) is mostly made of people angry at Curseforge, and thus more likely to be free/open-source software enthusiasts and anti-advertising. That being said, their website is still a lot nicer than Curseforge and they don't push ads as aggressively.

    Because Modrinth is still relatively small and payments to mod creators only started recently, the vast majority of mods are still only available on Curseforge. However, Curseforge's protection measures were pretty easily bypassed and PrismMC (the successor to MultiMC) is capable of downloading off Curseforge anyways.

  • Europe swings to the right — led by France

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  • “Today is a good day for [the] EPP. We won the European elections, my friends. We are the strongest party, we are the anchor of stability … Together with others we will build a bastion against the extremes from the left and from the right. We will stop them!”

    Staking out its ground in the culture war over the EU’s identity, the EPP opened its EU election manifesto with its commitment to Europe’s “Judeo-Christian roots.”

    Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German physician and politician

    Saying that you're "building a bastion against the extreme right" and then immediately following up with a Christofascist dogwhistle, very cool.

  • holy fuck...r/neoliberal just obliterated the left. we have no choice but to vote biden

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  • Not pictured: the fact that there are actually 95 and 100 people on the tracks and that the Democrats helped sabotage any other tracks at every juncture.

  • A Black Rose - a dark academia themed CYOA by jayemouse

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    • Unending Journal seems like one of the best since the text implies that you can draw anything you see into the journal with your mind, which is basically instant memorization.
    • Word after Word + Orchard lets you read any book in any language at double speed.
    • Heirloom seems useful at first but is pretty inconvenient to access between the 10-second countdown and having to avoid getting caught vanishing. I don't know if there is enough stuff I would want to keep to make it worth it.

  • Cant believe he did an anti-semitism.

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  • He regularly supports antisemitic conspiracy theories (most notably stuff about Soros and the "Great Replacement") on his website while also parroting the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism against pro-Palestinian activists (and he has also made a trip to Israel to rehabilitate his image aided by several pro-Israel figures).

  • State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections

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  • The funny thing is that it's relatively agreed-upon amongst economists that the point on the Laffer curve that maximizes tax revenue is ~70% for the highest earners. American conservatives bring it up to "prove" why raising taxes doesn't work but even under their own framework it basically says that rich people don't pay enough tax.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve#Empirical_analysis

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    nightshade [they/them] @hexbear.net

    Former spokesman for Israel makes an interesting observation

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    Twitch is using AI to detect Mountain Dew products in people's streams and have a bot post ads for Mountain Dew products

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    Claims to hate urbanism, allows trans people to live rent-free in his densely-packed skull

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    holy fucking bingle

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    Elon Musk is considering charging everyone to use Twitter