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SlowNPC

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  • Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify

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  • From the article you linked:

    Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll

    From Cornell Law School's web site:

    A party is liable when they are held legally responsible for something. Unlike in criminal cases, where a defendant could be found guilty, a defendant in a civil case risks only liability

    At no point in the article you linked did the Judge say that Trump was "found guilty" of anything. Trump has no crime on his criminal record.

    The judge in the article says that Trump was found to have raped Carroll, but acknowledged that there is "a legal distinction" between liability and guilt.

    I'm not trying to defend Trump here, or argue that he didn't do what he was found to have done, just pointing out that there is a difference between "found guilty of rape" and what actually happened.

  • Motorcycle Riders: You're Using the Wrong RPM

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  • Instructions unclear; bike impounded for Felony speeding.

  • We Are Not The Same.

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  • Shots fired

  • missing

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  • Insert ad featuring gymbro telling you about low t

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • Eggs are gross.

  • Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use

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  • They're both violations of the conditions of release. Two separate violations, unrelated except for being prohibited behavior.

  • Six Colombians arrested over Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassination

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  • My guess is they're cartel, and their boss didn't like the idea of someone shutting down their trade routes.

  • Religious Objections Over Pronouns Test High Court’s New Stance

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  • It's been a while since I read the Bible, but I remember a lot of emphasis on treating people you don't like with love and compassion. I don't remember anything in there prohibiting using someone's name because it's been changed.

    Maybe this guy should read his book again.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread

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  • It's totally different from wow. Wow is a real-time mmo. BG3 is a turn-based fantasy RPG (think Divinity:Original Sin or Wasteland 3).

  • Baldur's Gate 3 - Hotfix #2 Now Live! | Steam News

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  • Did they fix the thing where, after combat, my Flaming Sphere runs up to me like a puppy and accidently sets the whole party on fire before I can dismiss it?

    ::Looks ar patch notes::

    Dammit. Maybe next patch

  • Kai Cenat: Police plan to charge Twitch streamer after PS5 giveaway mayhem

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  • He organized an event without getting a permit.

    The permitting process ensures that there's adequate security, traffic control, etc.

    He didn't do any of that legally required stuff, and the result was an angry mob. We've been through this. This is why you need a permit for large public gatherings, and why he's legally liable for what happened.

  • How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride

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  • Makes sense to me; I've seen how it happens.

    1. Recognize the US govt's imperialim

    2. Notice that US mainstream media generally downplays US imperialism

    3. Discover that RT gleefully covers and condemns US imperialism

    4. Conclude that mainstream news are corporate war apologists, while RT "tells it like it is"

    5. Walk around telling people that Ukraine is full of Nazis trying to genocide Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Putin is just trying to stop the purge.

  • Pro-Russian mayor of city in eastern Ukraine who welcomed Putin’s invasion is found shot dead in the street after being kidnapped from his home

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  • Mr Struk ... actively pursued a 'pro-Russian position' in the last week by 'communicating with the Russian Federation

    Actively supporting an invading force during war isn't "having a different opinion," it's treason.

  • mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev

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  • It can force those who disagree with defederating to find a new instance that has access to all the communities they want. It also makes onboarding new people significantly more complicated, as their choice of instance will drastically influence their feed.

    To be clear, I'm not arguing against defederation, just pointing out that it causes issues that need dealt with.

  • Remnant II has released on Steam

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  • Nice. I really enjoyed the first one.

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    Is my mother bipolar?

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  • Look into cluster b personality disorders and cptsd. This behavior sounds like "splitting."

    I'm not a mental health professional, but lived with someone who was later diagnosed CPTSD, so I ended up doing a bunch of homework on wtf was going on.

  • Overwatch 2 coming to Steam on August 10!

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  • I was fine using battle net. I was not fine with Overwatch turning into a shitty p2w cash grab.

  • Kevin Mitnick has died.

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  • I remember hearing an interview with him many years ago, and he shared a story about the shenanigans he got up to as a kid... he was into phone phreaking (used to be you could control the entire phone system by playing specific tones into any phone) and reprogrammed the phone system to think his friend's home phone was a pay phone. His friend's mom would try to call someone and the phone would ask her to deposit 20c. She was furious, and sent her son over to demand he fix it immediately.

    I always thought that was one of the best pranks ever. RIP to a legend.

  • If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.

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  • Keeping a grizzly away from peanut butter for an hour is an accomplishment.

    Hilarious that this guy figured out a genuinely useful way to put deviant rescue bears to work and help fund their habitat