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  • Louisiana mayor convicted of raping 16-year-old boy at her home while still in office

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  • In October, in an unrelated case, her 40-year-old brother, Brandon Lee Roberts, pleaded guilty to raping two people: an underage girl and a young woman. He subsequently received a 42-year prison.

    I was going to joke how it's "all in the family" but this goes to show how the law treats female offenders different than their male counterparts. In much of the western/anglophone world, we've come to associate sex abuse with men engaging in sexually predatory behavior; little thought is given about women committing sexual offenses since many are (sadly) the victim of such offenses. We've also come to see unbalanced age dynamics (younger man-older woman) as something of a rite of passage for men. If a guy loses his virginity with an older woman, he "scored" or got "lucky." If the roles were gender-swapped, it would rightly be considered assault but the assailant would receive a much higher sentence than the woman.

    We have stop treating sexual assault as one-sided.

  • Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change

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  • If they were really serious, they would shut down their energy intensive datacenters and pledge far more (like 25%) of their annual profit.

  • Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers

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  • Wait, they have to weigh the option of having their rivers poisoned? How about just rejecting it out right?

    I forget what state this was in but they allowed pork farmers to dump pig effluent into the local rivers. This killed many fish and local wildlife. Why a state's local EPA chapter would allow such blatant environmental hazards to happen is beyond me.

  • This brilliant campaign from Quebec shows exactly what it takes to get motorists to actually yield

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  • Sort of unrelated but what is Quebec like to live in? I ask because my wife and I may take refuge there in couple of months with the way things are going here in the states. I don't speak French and the only language that I speak, besides English, is Spanish.

  • Not Controversial

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  • A country's sociopolitical problems are theirs to solve, not a foreign actor. This should be one of the tenets of self-determination.

  • What is tux up to these days

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  • I'm not surprised that Tux has taken up drinking. RAM prices, Microslop, AI infestation, and his homeland is melting from underneath.

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    Do you think the situation in Iran will escalate regionally?

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  • It's bound to cause some destabilization in the region. Israel is all too happy that Daddy America help attack a long time rival and the Saudis are celebrating that their planet-destroying endeavors oil interests are protected. People will say that Iranians are celebrating his death. The ayatollah was a brutal religious tyrant but that doesn't change the fact the US and Israel didn't do this to save the Iranian people; they did this for their own geopolitical endgames.

  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • I'd argue that an armed uprising would have a greater effect than a smaller internet-based boycott but I'm just some random guy on some niche internet forum so... who's to say?

  • Game over

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  • Dime que eres gringa sin decirme que eres gringa.

  • Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

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  • Without Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would've been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature. Without spoiling too much, I remember reading the story of Sol Weintraub and his daughter and almost being brought to tears; something that no other book, regardless of genre, has done.

    Rest well, scribe. Asimov, Heinland, Clarke, Herbert and, of course, Keats. You'll be in good company

  • Netflix bows out of Warner Bros. auction, Paramount to claim the prize

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  • Why so antitrust? Trust is a good thing! Don't you trust us to take care of Batman? Trust us, WB is in good hands. /s

  • Trump Is Threatening to Cut Transit Left and Right

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  • Ironic considering the MAGA crowd complained about 15-minute cities. Don't want little Bobby having a school, library, park and stores within walking and cycling distance from Mommy and Daddy's two-story, HOA-approved house.

  • Births in Japan fall in 2025 to 706,000, record low for 10th straight year

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  • I'm a bit conflicted on the population and birthrate issue. On one hand you have those who worry that an ever increasing population will lead to resource scarcity, economic stress and degrading climate resilience. Then you have those, especially on the right, that insist we need to have more babies. Usually, that "we" is white people. For example, that weird Collins couple who are having kids not of love but out of eugenic patriotic obligation.

    So, my question is this: when discussing population crisis, be it overpopulation or under-population, what is legitimate concern and what's just ring-wing fear mongering?

  • Wouldn't you like to know

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  • Since the replies are about people being nostalgic for corporate sandwich franchise, allow me to give a hoagie recipe so you recreate those great sandwiches:

    • Flour (Wheat flour if you're a healthy boi)

    • Yeast

    • Salt

    • Olive or Avocado Oil

    • Water

    • Optional: Vital wheat gluten, Diastatic malt powder and Dough conditioner

    The measurements will be up to you but if you decide to include vital wheat gluten, you're going to have to add a bit more water. As a baseline, try to make a dough that will yield at least 4 hoagies. This recipe works best with a food processor but can be made by hand.

    Mix the dry ingredients first

    Once thoroughly combined, add olive or avocado oil

    Add the water to make the dough

    Knead the dough. If using a food processor, 3-4 spins on high. If making by hand or you prefer to knead by hand, knead on flat surface for about 8 minutes. Use the windowpane test to see if the dough has developed enough gluten. If it fails this test, keep kneading until it passes.

    Once ready, proof the dough for 1 hour

    After 1 hour, cut the dough into 4 pieces. Roll each piece into a ball shape and proof for 1 hour

    After that other hour, take each piece and flatten into a square-ish shape. From here, you two options for forming the hoagie. Option 1: fold one side to the center, fold the other side so it meets the edge of the first fold and seal the edges. Option 2: Roll into a blunt (heh!) shape sealing the edges as you go.

    Proof each piece for 1 hour. This should be our last proof.

    Once that's done, preheat the oven to 425°F 218°C. While the oven is heating up, take a either a sharp knife or a bread lame and make an incision down the middle of the bread. Optionally, while the oven is heating up place either a cast iron pan or brownie pan on the bottom (heh!) rack. When baking the hoagies you can add some ice to pan to create steam.

    When the oven is ready, place the hoagies-to-be into the oven and bake for 12-14 minutes. Once done, take them out of the oven, let them cool and enjoy!

    As for "topping your sub"? Well, I have some suggestions (besides the obvious). Avoid prepackage meats if you can. Go to either a butcher or the deli section and ask for fresh slices of meats. Try to also get the freshest vegetables either form the produce section or growing it yourself if you're into that. Condiments don't need that much diligence so add whatever you like.

  • Don't forget to wash up!

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  • Now, what does this remind me of?

  • sales =/= quality

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  • Mathcore: Am I a joke to you?

  • Whats the flaw of the "Nothing to Hide" argument?

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  • Never thought of that way. We all want security; personal, financial, employment, etc. Parents want their children safe from harm. Thinking of this way, I now realize that companies like Flock are exploiting that desire for security by offering a false hope.

  • Whats the flaw of the "Nothing to Hide" argument?

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  • There was already a case of a police officer using a Flock camera to stalk his ex-girlfriend.

  • US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite

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  • I'm proud of you, girls! Tell Dear Leader to go fuck himself.

  • Tennessee House passes bill allowing private citizens to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages

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  • I really, really would like to love and support my home state but the GOP is making it really difficult. Memphis, my home town, gave birth to blues, soul and rock'n'roll, was pivotal in the civil rights movement, gorgeous view to the Mississippi River and a world renowned BBQ scene. Nashville has a thriving nightlife and a music scene of its own owing to its numerous music halls. Chattanooga and Knoxville are their own little nuggets of Tennessee charm. There's also the natural beauty: Great Smoky Mountains and the associated national park, numerous smaller state parks, swimmable lakes (e.g. Percy Priest Lake), and so forth. This isn't even including the extensive Native American history.

    Instead of using it's natural beauty and rich, though troubled, history to make Tennessee a center of the southern U.S., Bill Lee and his Republican-led (i.e. Trumpist stronghold) state house makes it a living hell for everyone. xAI was allowed to install poisonous gas turbines right next to poor, black neighborhoods. ICE and the National Guard were given carte blanche to roam our streets. The south is, truly, a backwards backwater.

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