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OccamsTeapot

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  • Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge rules

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  • Yeah I see your point. What I mean is what do they say it's based on as their legal justification

  • Trump's name must be removed from Kennedy Center, judge rules

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  • For anyone else wondering what the ruling was based on (other than trump being a narcissistic loser):

    In a 94-page opinion, the judge said the Kennedy Center's board of trustees, made up of primarily Trump loyalists, violated the 1964 federal law that created the center, arguing the statute makes clear "the Kennedy Center must be named for, and is meant to honor, President Kennedy alone."

  • Bearer of bad news

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  • It's definitely one of mine!

    It's quite a visceral look at how radicalization works, and how groups manipulate members and potential members through control of language, artificial camaraderie and especially, having an enemy.

    And the end is amazing. When Chakotay sees the scary looking alien (can't remember the species) on Voyager, all that fear and hatred still comes back to him even though he knows he was manipulated. Because being de-radicalized isn't just like flipping a switch. It's easier to learn to hate than unlearn it.

    Obviously it could be better - as with most Voyager eps to be honest - but it's definitely one of the ones I look forward to most on a rewatch.

    Edit: I glimpsed a comment, now nullified: the nemesis is the Kradin

  • Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

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  • Literally the only reason I remember this person's name.

    If I move, this 👉👉 could die!

  • Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

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  • The first [of 3 catalysts], were the deaths of five adult males and one adult female - for reasons unknown - in 2014, which could have disrupted social networks and weakened social ties across the subgroups

    They assassinated Archmonke Ferdinand!

  • cry harder

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  • Ah thanks! This is why I have manifold PTSD but also that was genuinely helpful.

    This was covered fully in the only course I failed in my physics masters, lol.

  • cry harder

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  • It's been a while so bits of this might be wrong. Manifolds give me PTSD.

    A euclidean space is one where pythagoras' theorem is true, like on a piece of paper. Even if you roll up the paper, everything still works the same. The angles of a triangle still add to 180 etc

    But the surface of a sphere doesn't work like that. You can't fold up the paper into a sphere, it's fundamentally different. Geometry changes a bit on the surface too, and you have to modify pythagoras theorem for it to describe triangles in one of these spaces. And the internal angles don't add to 180 anymore.

    These are non-euclidean spaces, aka Riemannian spaces.

    So the meme is saying "ha ha you're in a non-Euclidean space, it just looks like that because you're small, dumb dumb! Why don't you draw a big triangle, measure the angles and then cry yourself to sleep?"

  • The final frontier

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  • The meme is funny, this isn't criticism of that.

    BUT this general point always rubs me the wrong way. Do people realise how fucking big space is? The observable universe contains so many fucking planets that we don't even know exist, some of which have their own oceans we know absolutely nothing about. We have literally no idea what like 95% of the stuff out there even is (dark matter, dark energy).

    And that's just the observable universe. The rest of it likely comprises even more space than the observable universe. And that isn't "stuff we don't know yet," it's literally "stuff we could probably never know based on the laws of physics."

    Like we know surprisingly little about the ocean. That is shocking. But there is no need to make such a bizarre claim to get that across.

    OK, rant over.

  • Israel Is Dropping 2,000-Pound Bombs on Densely-Populated Tehran, Reports Say

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  • fairly precise

    2000 pound bombs

    Only one of these things can be true

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Understandable. I get cringe PTSD when I know certain parts are coming up. Still worth it for me, one of my favourite comedies of all time

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Recent ones:

    Severance

    Pluribus

    Older one I didn't see anyone mention yet:

    Peep Show (amazing British comedy, truly uncomfortable levels of cringe)

  • Pluribus @lemmy.zip
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    Spoiler

    Episode 6 title translations confirm what Carol saw

  • Trump faces criticism for referring to female Bloomberg reporter as ‘piggy’

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  • Wow, he is abusive to women?! Cancel this man.

    In unrelated news I've been living under a rock my entire adult life and I've been in a coma since 2015.

  • 'Trump demanded screaming and swearing that Zelensky give up territory'

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  • Trump just seems to repeat the thoughts of the last person he spoke to that actually got through to him somehow. Why Putin seems to be so good at doing that is anyone's guess.

    In any case, this will continue until he meets some European leaders again. I think the person who flipped him last time seems to have been King Charles?

    But this all just shows it doesn't even matter. As Orwell said:

    "The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment."

    He is too dumb to do anything else. The record will be changed and changed back again and again.

  • [Steam] Return of the Obra Dinn ~ Game + Soundtrack ($12.48 / 50% off)

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  • Strongly recommended if you like deduction/puzzle-y games. Wish I could play it again for the first time

  • British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows

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  • British here. You're right. It's the culmination of decades of intentional misinformation and stoking the fears of the racist and stupid. Appealing to the politicians spreading this (e.g. Farage) is useless. Appealing to the public is useless.

    I heard a story about a friend of a friend who thought that one million immigrants entered Britain every day. As in, the population would literally double in two months if this was true. But not only did he not realise that, he repeated the "fact" to other people.

    Obviously a lot of us are fine. But Reform is leading in the polls and people believe shit like that so the reality is most of us are not.

  • Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza plan

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  • I saw! Great news.

    Except this

  • RAW says it's okay

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  • I'm a totem loser so I will have to think of some way to do it with my dash, haha

  • RAW says it's okay

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  • I have to find some way to do this in my current campaign. I'm a barbarian though so as a bonus action might be a stretch

  • Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins

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  • And this from the press release:

    In its long history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured brave women and men who have stood up to repression, who have carried the hope of freedom in prison cells, on the streets and in public squares, and who have shown by their actions that peaceful resistance can change the world. [...]

    When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.

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    Locked

    Live reaction to ICC ruling

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Israel’s Self-Destruction: Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect

    www.foreignaffairs.com /israel/israels-netanyahu-self-destruction
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    Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset

    lemmy.world /post/11344980
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    New Rule: Everything I don't like is antisemitic

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    Geopolitical rule

  • Trippin' Through Time @lemmy.ca
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    And some morphine to balance your humors

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    And for the love of god don't let him near your flowerbed