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  1. Happysin

    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    What that is going to cause is an epidemic of Luigi-itis in the United States. Too bad the government just axed the CDC. Or as a rather apt gif on Reddit put it: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://i.redd.it/kqvb2o4r2wse1.gif OP profile for the gif...
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    In this case, it quite literally is. There is nowhere that has this combination of geography, lack of security net, and firearm density that has effective protests. It's not American exceptionalism, it's acknowledgement of on-the-ground reality. And let's be real. If we had millions...
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    I have already posted in this thread why French-style mass protests in the US are not feasible, and even the BLM protests were mostly only possible because of what Covid did. The biggest protests the world had seen up until that point were against the Iraq war and GWB, but it did a fat load of...
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    The next planned day of action is literally tomorrow: https://handsoff2025.com/
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    🦄 Current Events Monday March 31, 2025 through Sunday April 6, 2025

    The military has such a stellar history with atolls, too.
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    But did you take off your shoe to use as a gavel?
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    Ukraine is game to you? Part deux.

    I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust my life to a Russian-built ship right now.
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    IT nerds using surveillance as an excuse to keep track of their favorite furry sites. I'm going to call that a very creative grift. :D "No Mister President, that cheetah girl is an illegal immigrant planning on protesting your trans(genic) agenda! It's critical we track everything she posts!"
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    UBlock Origin's Element Picker is pretty decent at getting by those, as long as the side is actually loading the content in the background.
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    🦄 Current Events Monday March 31, 2025 through Sunday April 6, 2025

    As someone who had no idea, and had to go look it up, I figured I would share just in case anyone else didn't know the "why" behind the phrase: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/29/326690947/should-saying-someone-is-off-the-reservation-be-off-limits I had never associated the...
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    Following up on yesterday, Yahoo Finance has a "fun" chart of the markets on news of the tariffs. And this doesn't include what has happened tonight, which has all the futures down by another 2% or more.
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    In this episode of 'Things That Piss Me Off'.........

    Having had both coyotes and foxes on my property, I'd take the foxes every time. No fox even considered getting close to us, but coyotes clearly considered their chances around my toddler. I literally had to take a bat to the pack, and I was swinging for home runs before they finally cleared...
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    Small, personal victory. At the age of 45, I just did my first-ever handstand pushup. Not against a wall, unassisted. I've been taking Capoeira for about six months now. We don't focus too much on ground work yet, that's more advanced. But I've been going out of my way to practice...
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    I love it when devs are responsive. I mentioned Spell Disk earlier, and I have been enjoying it. I ran into an interesting edge case that turned out to be a bug. I submitted a report to the dev this morning, and they just released a patch on Steam to address it. That's an impressive turnaround.
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    Lounge random thoughts/stories thread -- CURRENT

    Ah, the indignity of your own equipment telling on you...
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    Yahoo Finance chart of what things looked like in the markets this morning: They also have a live update stream if you want to watch this train wreck in real-time...
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    Consequences of the US 2024 Presidential Election: Global Geopolitics Edition

    Those responses have to be replied to with a loud and forceful "Then I look forward to removing you from office, loudly and without hesitation." There must be at minimum, a follow-up making clear what this is costing local politicians. Until they fear their constituents more than they fear...
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    🦄 Current Events Monday March 31, 2025 through Sunday April 6, 2025

    As a channel, they have no shortage of videos on climate change, so I think they were more focusing on specific government policies that South Korea had enacted that prevent even the basic mechanics of child rearing.
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    🦄 Current Events Monday March 31, 2025 through Sunday April 6, 2025

    ...except for South Korea, it's too late for that, and the video explains why. They can't childbirth their way out of this one, and immigration would have to be a degree that South Korea wouldn't look terribly South Korean anymore. I don't have a problem with the latter, I'm a melting pot...