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    Mass shooting in Main

    Isn't Vermont notoriously politically split, given it can elect both a Republican Governor and Bernie Sanders?
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    Climate Nearing “Point of No Return”

    Mostly due to practical concerns. Once you can haul 40,000 pounds of cargo a thousand miles and not have to spend any more time or money fueling your vehicle than you would with a diesel truck the transport sector will start switching over. That's...a tall order.
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    Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges as unconstitutional

    That was 2022. 2021 had it's own round of that, contemporaneous to the court case and which had no chance of passing at all. This year had another round of it, if I recall. So did 2016. Often it's a republican pushing it when Dems are in power, because if it passes it can be used as election...
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    They fired the Escapist's editor, and the video team, Yahtzee resigns

    Maybe set up one or more communities on something like Lemmy or KBin (think decentralized Reddit-alike)?
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    Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges as unconstitutional

    It's a basic motte and bailey argument. Same as using wheelchair ramps when one talks about equality vs equity. It's the stuff that's easy to defend (and usually at best adjacent to the problematic things being discussed in the first place) being used to defend the other stuff. That is...
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    National Police Association sues to make trans Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto public - days after cops said they were pausing plans

    I mean, are those three pages all there is to it, or is that just an excerpt (I would assume the latter)? Because it's a timetable for planning the attack and a few bits of ranting about wanting to kill private school kids for their "white privlages".
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    Unlike say the OK sign or about a dozen numbers between 1 and 100? I thought the whole point of a dog whistle was that only the metaphorical dogs heard it (aside from people who've been taught the codes and signs)? I know, right? It's not like the worries some have expressed about Alan Wake...
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    Top female Twitch streamer Amouranth stream turns dark as an apparent abusive husband comes to light

    The great thing about alcohol is that there are lots of other beers out there, and lots of other drinks that aren't beer entirely. No need to go all the way to sobriety, just drink cider as is my preference, or wine, or liquor. Or just avoid Polish beers, because apparently their into some...
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    Funny Events of the "Woke" world

    I actually have a custom flair on the Brakebills sub on Reddit for correctly predicting something from the show. It was low hanging fruit though - I predicted the summoning in season one went exactly like the book despite it initially being presented differently and why that incongruity was...
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    Funny Events of the "Woke" world

    As opposed to if someone created a historical drama about 14th century Mali and cast a white actor to play Mansa Musa? Because doing that is exactly the sort of thing you're calling out here (aside from which character is being recast as which identity), aka them doing exactly the reverse of...
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    I thought SR4 did the same as the previous SR games and just referred to the player as "they", "you", or "Boss" throughout so they only had to record one set of lines? Bonus points because you could create some outright monstrous player characters in the SR games if you played with the...
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    Funny events in anti-woke world

    Oh, his tactics didn't rebound. His supporters will take every stutter from Biden as proof he's a senile puppet being manipulated behind the scenes by either Harris or Obama (depending on the conspiracy theory of the day) and ignore anything Trump does that doesn't paint him in the most perfect...
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    AI p0rnography becoming a major issue in Spain

    The way those kind of apps work is by feeding them a photo of the person in general, and the AI identifies the clothes and renders nude body fitting the shape of the clothes, as opposed to just a face photo. If you've seen the DALL-E tool that let's you add/edit a thing in an existing image...
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    Funny Events of the "Woke" world

    What equity practices aren't about giving certain demographics explicit favoritism with a goal of trying to get the final outcomes to match or exceed some preplanned demographic goals? For example, look at the (since overturned by the courts) law passed in CA about the sex makeup of corporate...