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HappyMeatbag, in 2 Gay Dads Helped Uncover $767,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Texas Town Where 'Officials Called Them Homophobic Slurs'
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She messed with their child? Oh, fuck her.

Gee, I wonder why she didn’t choose a hard red state when moving to a public park.

If Wheeler was the landlord, are they still paying her rent? How much?

Gorejelly, in With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways
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I don't understand why every news source has to give dump so much more time than anyone else. Who cares what he said this time. It's the same thing every time. I guess it gets them more views (by what metric? Nielson?). CNN even said after dump's first win that maybe they shouldn't have given him about triple the coverage of every other candidate from both sides combined. In the interim years, CNN has still had more dump than even the current president.

This is why I do not watch news anymore. But, it matters little. Humanity, please continue our speed run to extinction.

Itty53, in NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens
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I'm gonna propose to the alien believers a different explanation of UAPs: they're black projects. Yes all those physics defying things are man made, and they probably have an understanding of physics we don't currently know about in the wider public.

Technology trends exist. We can see them. It's no wonder that every generation's stereotype of unidentified craft always always always mimicked the latest generation of military flight tech. That's what's been true since the inception of the whole thing. It's true today too, thirty years from now we'll get a public look at the crafts they're testing out in the skies today. Be that because they get used or because they become obsolete. Thats how it goes.

So why the hearings in Congress? Because they're black projects. We're talking trillions in this rabbit hole. Congress very much has an urgent want to understand what they military might be keeping from it, vis a vis private contractors. We're talking multiple times the budgets of nation-states and we're getting receipts that are basically "trust me bro"s.

But Congress can't very well tell the truth of all that without undermining the American military, and thereby America itself. So they go along with the same "aliens" reasoning, "uhh yeah, let's go with that, okay", and keep pressing for more information.

Is that crazy? Yeah, you bet. But it's no crazier than believing all that and that there's aliens. Because the alien conspiracy crowd asserts virtually everything I just said, just, with aliens. Aliens aren't necessary for any of it though.

In the history of nations there's never been a more sure-fire way to lose democracy than making an enemy of the military complex propping it up. So Congress ought to be careful too, keep a little plausible deniability for themselves.

DrYes,
@DrYes@kbin.social avatar

they probably have an understanding of physics we don't currently know about in the wider public.

I don't believe any secret agencies have a better understanding of fundamental physics. They have better technology and engineering.

Itty53,
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If a private, but not secret agency has access to the physics and can't engineer it, there's a question of why. As much as we'd like to disassociate engineering from discovery, they're linked together. Engineering leads to further observation leads to discovery and vice versa back the other direction. It's entirely possible there's "new physics" at play even if they're only theoretical to the Discovery Channel right now. Who's to say, really?

So while I'm not gonna disagree with you, and you're right there's a difference between engineering technology and physics itself, I still don't really see the distinction as that important to the discussion here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, after all. We're talking about exactly that level of technology, commonly being called physics-defying by many engineers today. That's magic to common understanding, for all intents and purposes, even if it's possible that we could all eventually understand and demystify it given the education to do so.

Until then? Hard to close doors other than just "do we need this for the story". And aliens don't need to be there, hence my whole line of thinking above. That's just another example of "any secret is the exact secret I want it to be" kind of thinking. See also "everything I don't understand is a communist" or more recently, "everything I don't like is woke". I like to make reference to dinosaurs, because no one ever does. Why not? It could be dinosaurs in those crafts too! There's more evidence for that than aliens, right? We know 100% dinosaurs existed, here. They would've had much much more time to develop technology than we did, eons longer. So again why not? "Because it's absurd." Yep. It is. Every argument against it counts against aliens too.

downpunxx, in California Senate Approves Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers
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This is how good government works well, for the people.

End0fLine,
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I’m half expecting some type of “except for these 90% of workers” exemption, but until we hear about something like that, this is great. It hopefully will give employers a second thought when trying the “starve them out” strategy.

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

exactly

Itty53,
@Itty53@kbin.social avatar

Check it out.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB799

This is a bill to amend the existing laws. The amendment is really just about removing hurdles, period. There really aren't added stipulations about who it applies to. They also took the opportunity to make the wording more inclusive of everyone, dropping him/her, etc.

Proud of my state today.

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

I'm proud of California, almost all the time, and far more than any other state

End0fLine,
@End0fLine@startrek.website avatar

Thank you for this. That is nice to hear. I miss living in California so much. It was nice being in a state that at least pretends to care about its workers.

Aesthesiaphilia,

Filing this away for my next "Democrats are just as bad as Republicans" debate.

Tigbitties, in Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands
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Stores make more on inflation than shrinkflation.

Treczoks, in Elizabeth Warren Demands Probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX After Ukraine Revelations

Traitor? Agent of a foreign power? Whatever it is, cutting him down a notch will be good for humanity.

NecoArcKbinAccount, in US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins
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Hopefully this stops WEI as it would allow Google to have a total monopoly over the internet.

btaf45,

It is impossible for a company to have a "total monopoly over the internet" because the internet has a decentralized design.

RootBeerGuy, in Pictured: Hero schoolgirl, 15, stabbed to death in Croydon 'when she stepped in to protect her friend'
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Her name was Elianne Andam.

Bloodwoodsrisen,
@Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.tf avatar

It always enrages and bewilders me when they keep the person anonymous in headlines instead of saying their name

stopthatgirl7,
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There was some confusion about her first name at first, though, so I can kind of see why they did here.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yeah but the link to the article included the name, so I am not sure that is a good excuse. They seemed to have the name when creating the article, otherwise how could it show up in the URL?

stopthatgirl7,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

The name in the URL is the wrong one, though - her first name is misspelled.

HeartyBeast,

It's simply because a headline like this is much more useful for people coming to the story for the first time, or who aren't deeply familiar with the story. It's not a sleight on her. Also at the time of publication, I think her name had only recently been released by the police.

I agree that the BBC's style of headline is better, though https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66942594

kubica, in X/Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information
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Oh, come on, he's begging the governments for a ban.

jeremy_sylvis, in Federal judge rules Texas public drag show ban is unconstitutional - UPI.com
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Common federal judge W these days

HubertManne, in Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
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unfortunately 65% is just the population of the 15 largest states.

DougHolland, in US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills

It's the Republic of Gilead.

So fucking infuriating. Everything that ever made an American flag not worth burning seems to be over and done with.

@0x815

HubertManne, in From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections in the U.S.
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At their best republicans are pretty crappy but its super villian in a lair stuff like this which makes it impossible for me to understand how anyone can vote for this party.

spacecowboy,

Because there are a lot of people who are villains, Hubert. A lot.

aeternum, in Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

paywall.

https://archive.md/akh0n

is there anyone in hollywood that isn't rapey? FFS.

rafoix, in Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

To the surprise of nobody.

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