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  Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’ The families of US soldiers who have died in the US-Israeli war against Iran are battling to ensure they receive appropriate pay and benefits for their loved ones. Libby Klinner, a widow, wrote on social media that the US air force had deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following the death of Major Alex Klinner, her 33-year-old husband, because Congress had not officially declared war. He was...

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  GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, according to multiple reports. Imagination Library, the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world, faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri as Republican lawmakers limit public funding, Newsweekreported Wednesday.

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  They don’t wanna kill art. They want to place themselves between you and everything. While it’s free now, when they get done destroying all the books and shutting down all the independent websites, you’ll pay. Just like the streaming services shut down physical copies of games, music stores and video rentals. You’ll pay.

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  Finally saying out loud “feels before reals”.

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  Trump does something stupid. Nah. Too easy. Trump is no longer in office. Death, mental incapacity, whatever. There. That’s my guess.

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  There have been several. I think mostly all little things. Someone not making you fish for the last bit of change for a purchase. An rare cup of coffee. One somewhat recent one was I went to grab food at an ethnic restaurant. Real basic place, not a chain. After I’d ordered and they were handing me the food to go, I realized I’d left my debit card behind. I only had $5 on me. He must’ve seen the surprise on my face. Dude behind the counter was “Just take the food, don’t worry about it.” I w...

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  A price he and his sycophants won’t pay. Trump yet again running up a bill he’s going to make someone else eat.

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  Ask a decent question in a reply without engaging in argumentative fuckery, like appeals to hypocrisy, trying to be right via technicality or specificity, etc. Add relevant info without the aforementioned arguments. Add humor - hopefully without derailing the entire discussion like reddit does in a fight for upvotes.

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  Damn right, Bernie. I was a blue-no-matter-who because they actually make some policy sense, but now it’s only because the Right is absolutely insane. If a Progressive or Social Democrat actually had any traction I’d vote for them over the straight (D) instantly.

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  I assume you live someplace warmer?

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  AI/LLMs are the modern equivalent of the house or business with “Psychic” and “Tarot Reading” signs out front. The proprietor isn’t going to tell you any hard truths or make you feel bad, that’s bad for business and you won’t come back. They want you to come back and stay engaged. Whatever they tell you is going to be what they think you want to hear based on skills picked up over the years - the equivalent of LLMs petabytes of scraped and stolen knowledge used to predict what comes next....

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  Cornered bullies with guns are going to shoot more people.

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  The same people that say the economy is shit because life’s hard and they can’t get ahead are the same ones that point out that the president says the economy is doing great whenever someone criticizes him.

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  There are several industries that run on 24 hour time outside of the military. Ocean shipping, aviation, and medical care off the top of my head. Want to throw a real wrench in the works? Start figuring Zulu time, especially when time changes happen at different times of the year in different countries or US states that don’t change at all. Anyway, 24 hour time is so much easier. No making mistakes forgetting to select AM/PM when setting an alarm or reminder, for instance. Even converting...

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  “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” From Ron fucking Paul of all people.

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  JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time. Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

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  The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?

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  A sad story https://askdrnandi.com/fire-ant-bites-turn-deadly-for-toddler-with-undiagnosed-allergy-what-went-wrong/ Another woman https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9662108/ This reports 83 deaths from the surveyed group: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0091674989903199

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  Can’t sue AI for malpractice.

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  Next in AI: realistic eyes!

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  I was not able to find a source I find reliable, but there are many sites that suggest elephants recognize individual humans and recognize guns as threats, and can even recognize a gun pointed at them is a threat. So if someone they don’t know has a gun, and we’ll never know if he aimed one at an elephant for funsies, they may have identified him as a threat and defended themselves by killing him.

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  Plenty of women don’t report crimes against them. I think it would be fair to assume that reporting crimes against men in an attempt to sway these numbers probably would’t change much or might even swing them further in women’s favor.

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  Just ask for more tax breaks. *poof* Problem gone.

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  I’m not sure if I should feel ashamed for understanding this without the translation. Also, for anyone wanting an indirect education on this language, go listen to the *Behind the Bastards* podcast on Clavicular, it does a great job explaining the infiltration of incel language (which is mostly what the meme is) into the lexicon and talking about Clavicular. Worth a listen, not because we need to understand the words, but because we get to understand where they came from and the toxicity of...

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  Ah yes, another bill named after something it doesn’t actually do, for people who can’t actually be bothered or are unable to understand technology in order to restrict their kid(s) access anyway.

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  After decades and decades of kids consuming cartoons and comic books depicting hero protagonists who win by kindness, sacrifice, and battle cruel and greedy authoritarianism it’s hard to believe how easily these adults lie and attack a cartoon they probably watched as “woke”. I mean, what? The Decepticons are the misunderstood good guys?

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  The irony of losing your job as a paid troll to AI.

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  Yeah. Massive societal and environmental issues behind that reductionist meme. Poverty, food quality, parent(s), neurodivergence, and even the simple fact that some people are shitty students but might excel at a job despite poor grades.

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  “We can’t make as much money off of them!”

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  No impact on employment? How so? Weren't there layoffs due to AI implementation, expected or actual? Or is the time and work-hours needed to correct and understand what AI is doing not realizing the expected savings? Also, AI/LLM in the popular over-invested sense is the Tesla FSD of corporate tools. A badly designed, over-promised system that doesn’t live up to the hype and far too often commits errors, some of which are lethal or have other serious consequences. IMO AI should be a too...