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  • Graham Platner Could Be the Bellwether of a New US Populism

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  • Sinema was actually in the Green party before becoming a Democrat. There was a time where her being a Leftist was believable.

  • ICE commander Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal today

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  • In my experience, no. Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian people are all below "white people" and above most other "non-whites" in their racial hierarchy. I think white supremacists usually give them bonus points for being European so its not as virulent a hatred as with other groups, but it's still there.

  • What do you use for your personal photos/videos backups? Cloud service? Local external drive? Etc

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  • Ente.

  • Please tell me about your non stovetop kettles, i need a new one and I'm considering how much to spend

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  • I've only owned it for about a year now, although I do use it at least once a day and often several times. I'm not sure if I would say it is worth the money, I don't regret buying it and enjoy using it, but it's also very expensive. Justifying the stupid price to myself wasn't very hard since I use a kettle daily and money isn't tight. You can get a kettle that functions identically but perhaps isn't quite as nice in the hand and save yourself some cash if your priority is cost-efficiency.

  • Please tell me about your non stovetop kettles, i need a new one and I'm considering how much to spend

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  • I have a Stagg EKG Pro Studio. It heats up quickly, you can set it to whatever temp you want, it feels good in the hand and well balanced. I don't really have any complaints about it so far. The only problem I've run into was a result of user error - if you fill it up all the way you have to be careful when pouring so water doesn't come out of the vent in the lid. The only real drawback is the cost. It was stupid expensive.

  • What even is a "toy" or "toys"?

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  • Things you can play with.

  • Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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  • You could tax tires, it avoids all the tracking while still distributing road maintenance costs based off actual use of the roads.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I don't, I quit Facebook almost a decade ago and then Reddit when they did the API bullshit. I do still end up on Reddit sometimes through search results but I nuked my account and will never create another one. I'm not exactly a purist about FOSS or decentralized platforms but corpo social media is dead to me.

  • US inflation rose to 3.8% in April, eroding Americans’ paychecks

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  • There is a balance though or else the system feedback breaks the economy. Too much deflation and the "progress" stops because it starts making more and more sense for people to hold off on spending their money as much as they can. As an extreme example, if you know you can buy twice as much of something for the same dollar tomorrow, you must really need that thing right now to justify not waiting for a day. Scale that behavior across the entire population and it can start producing real problems.

  • How plausible is a medical tricorder?

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  • As far as I'm aware there's not really a feasible path to miniaturization for most of the current medical scanning technologies. Physics and materials science are fundamental barriers.

  • What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?

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  • It depends on what the extraterrestrials are like. I think its probable they would be as incomprehensible to us as we are to fish or bugs. I am confident that a significant percentage of people will immediately freak out and react with aggression regardless of what they are like, and that the wealthy will be looking for any way to make money from them, even if it means selling out life on earth.

  • Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds

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  • Walgreens once gave me the wrong prescription, which I didn't notice until after I already taken some. It was some weird drug for schizophrenics or something like that and it totally fucked me up to the point I had to take off work for the day. Instead of apologizing or trying to make the situation right the Walgreens pharmacist was a total asshole to me and tried to blame me for what happened, they acted like I had stolen someone else prescription instead of them fucking up and poisoning me.

  • How does a ~20% reduction in oil supply translate to a ~60% increase in price?

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  • Which country? Consumer fuel prices have been subsidized to artificially suppress them in a number of places, Brazil for example. The profits are still being made but the rise in prices is being shifted onto the public via govt. debt so it gets paid through future taxes instead of showing up immediately at the pump.

  • ‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more

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  • I remember when they were calling it "Plandemic" and insisted liberals were trying to turn the US into a dictatorship. Funny how it all worked out and yet nothing was learned.

  • Steam controller price

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  • Somewhere between $90 and $120.

  • What is your preferred banana ripeness?

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  • 8 to 10 is ideal. Below 5 or 6 is not ripe. Above 10 is banana bread territory.

  • Could a corporate entity exist without government charter?

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  • Do you consider the cartels to be corporations? They operate like corporations but exist without the sanction of governments.

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    Are people who make 200k a year "poor"?

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  • Mostly no. If you are in a VHCOL area and have a lot of financial obligations, like a large family to support for example, it's really not that much. Outside those circumstances its enough income to support a middle class lifestyle in any developed country on earth.

  • Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’

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  • ARR is around 30b, valuation is over 800b.

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    Japanese and South Korean leaders jam to K-pop hits at a summit

    apnews.com /video/after-the-summit-leaders-of-japan-and-south-korea-loosen-up-in-a-jam-session-on-k-pop-tunes-76894f044b0b4c988c4e8fa4f8b4f672
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    We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    www.propublica.org /article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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    Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of misogyny and racism inside Met Police

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cvgq06d44jyo
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    Nine Bodies Turned Up at a Green Beret Outpost. What Really Happened?

    www.nytimes.com /2025/09/30/magazine/2012-green-beret-killings-nerkh-war-crimes.html
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    Missouri officers accused of pulling over women, searching phones for nude pictures

    apnews.com /article/missouri-officers-indicted-nude-photos-7f489530022d7b7664c9567ecbd4cb9b
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    Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives

    www.propublica.org /article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf
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    The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters”

    slate.com /news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html