[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Okay, so not only can Superman's sneeze destroy several planets at once, but it's specifically so powerful that in the near-vacuum of space, it imparts enough energy to do that. Also, couldn't he have traveled to a supervoid like the Boötes instead of directly into a relatively crowded solar system beyond the observable universe?

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>Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

>No indication of authorship

>Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into "applicable regulations" and privacy policies/data handling

>When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital 'C']

Definitely written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about/had any role in founding the platform.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

Ngl, this article feels bloviating bordering on AI-generated and/or a padded high school essay. Here's the relevant Wikipedia article. For instance, by the way:

This event underscores the complex relationship between catastrophic environmental changes and evolutionary processes, offering valuable insights into the resilience and adaptability of life on Earth. [thank you, obligatory 'Conclusion' paragraph from all my phoned-in high school essays.]

The Carnian Pluvial Event, also known as the Carnian crisis, has left its mark in geological records across the globe, suggesting a widespread environmental impact. [no shit it had a widespread environmental impact??]

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 194 points 10 hours ago

Not only that:

According to witnesses, Bossio said, the 17-year-old was walking away from a separate altercation with a male Harris supporter when he struck Tomasko and knocked her to the ground.

He did it because he was pissed at a male supporter but was too big of a wuss to throw hands with someone who could plausibly fight back, so to solve that, he sucker-punched an old lady. They're not just abusive garbage, they're pathetic cowards.

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Listen, if you can't tell me, in detail, the plan the bomb squad has to defuse the bomber's bombs, then I'm just going to have to assume the bomb squad is incompetent and vote for the bomber threatening to blow everyone up.

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Nothing helps stop Trump bleeding support from the senior woman demographic quite like a young whippersnapper punching a 70-year-old woman to the ground for her support of Harris.

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Is this the man we want running for vice president? Knowing he could be off by an entire hour at any time?

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 66 points 13 hours ago

Waiting for the article from the NYT about how this is bad for Harris' polling with police officers.

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Matthew 6:19–24 (NIV):

19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24 "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

An infinite amount of monkeys each given an infinite amount of time would produce all infinite strings possible on a typewriter (this includes ones that just happen to be terminated with a neverending substring of blank spaces, i.e. one where the monkey stops or presses whitespace keys and nothing else an arbitrary number of times).

If a cure for cancer exists and is expressable through language, they would not only produce one, but it would be there in every single language transliteratable to a Latin script; it would be there in ASCII art; it would be there in literally every text-based form imaginable. Of course the trouble would be sorting the infinite wheat from the infinite chaff.

Edit: https://libraryofbabel.info/ for the finite strings of 3200 characters.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

The FBI disclosed this to CBS, meaning it's plausible the specific videos weren't shared by the FBI.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I just want to go off-script for a second and say that I'm so fucking happy this meme format has stood the test of time.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

That's an excellent observation. Meanwhile, we've seen Trump skillfully deepthroating Purtin's ween time and again since 2016. It's clear he's the man for the job.

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I don't know about you, but this tells me that he's never made it to third with a microphone in his life and is afraid we'll find out.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

It's a long read, but it's a damn good one.

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I know I'm just some guy, but if you're a vegan in the US, I really can't underscore enough how catastrophic a Trump presidency would be for animal welfare. I imagine the demographic of vegans who are also voting Trump is near-zero, but I can also imagine the demographic of vegans staying home on election day is not insubstantial.

Trump has a history of deregulating factory farms and is comically misinformed about veganism. One of Trump's likely cabinet members is an insane carnist who eats bear corpses. The 2017–2021 Trump administration's environmental policy was (and continues to be) disastrous and likely led to the unnecessary suffering of billions of sentient animals – including the rolling back of the EPA's powers through SCOTUS appointments, heavily deregulating the fossil fuel industry, loosening restrictions on imported "trophies" of endangered animals, removing funding for the protection of endangered species, pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Accords, being a superspreader for FUD about important sources of renewable energy, deregulating animal agriculture, allowing the logging industry to run wild on protected forests, and I could go on.

Will a Harris–Walz administration fix animal agriculture? No. Is it likely it would at least try to make it slightly better? I would say so. Is it absolutely, 100%, beyond a shadow of a doubt going to be better/substantially less bad than a Trump–Vance administration? Yes. Not only that, but a 2025–2029 Trump administration would have much, much fewer checks on their destruction of the environment and of regulations against the abuse of animals than their first administration thanks to their prior dismantling of checks and balances.

Please, on November 5th or if your state is still doing early voting, get out there and keep that cruel bastard out of office, and vote downballot too for politicians who are going to be less hostile to animal welfare than Republicans. Human welfare is animal welfare, and that will be in better (not perfect or even nearly perfect) hands with a Harris administration. But moreover, a Trump presidency would be disastrous for non-human animal welfare both through the deregulation of agriculture and through immense damage to the natural environment. Veganism is the reduction of animal exploitation and cruelty by all means practicable, and that makes it our responsibility as vegans to get out the vote and shut this shit down. Trump has already shown us what he would do once, and we can't let him do that again. It's for the animals, and it's for your fellow human.

Edit: a list of just some of the environmental regulations rolled back.

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