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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

if you, like me, were wondering what the point of that 25 hour non-filibuster filibuster by Booker was, here’s one potential answer.

Booker held a filibuster that wasn't a filibuster - and he scheduled it to let him avoid attending his own committee's probe of his Big Tech pals. […] Oh and Booker and Dems provided unanimous consent to advance a Trump nominee right after Booker's speech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

“Only if he’s read it 10000 times.” -Bruce Lee

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Honestly, a couple hours over some beers might be the only way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's almost causing me to spiral is the commonality of socialism and communism being portrayed as on the road to monarchism. I'm not spiralling because I very quickly realise that these are all made by idiots, and/or that what they are focusing on is the perception of socialism and communism as being authoritarian.

That and "antifa fascists" in chart 4. AKA the Scists. lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

LOL it's almost as if the prerequisite to making a political compass is to be completely fucked in the head

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Finally, someone has solved the political compass. No-one will ever come up with a new political spectrum again. Soon we will have world peace

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Putting the EA in sealion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Softbank!!! It’s happening!!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Refractorive Altruism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

As funny as that is, I am sure that there are nonprofits that are aiming to stop fapping.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that it's a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how it's survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All that's left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.

/s /s /s

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

 

Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

 

Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.

 

Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.

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