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    Seriously? I just got mine done using the paper method and it was so annoying! Hope this is still around in 10 years.

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  • news News Judge Delays Trump’s Sentencing Until Nov. 26, After Election Day
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    2 weeks ago 100%

    I'm looking at it the other way. He'd probably use it to fundraise and rally his base. Better to delay so he can't juice it.

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  • memes memes I was only gone for a day or two...
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    3 weeks ago 100%

    I'm not vegan but I eat plenty of incidentally vegan meals, and all of the best ones have been the ones that weren't trying to imitate another food. They just can't get the texture right and I'd rather not eat some squishy disc of beans and wheat while trying to convince myself it's a burger. It's not. I know it's not and pretending doesn't make it any more of one. Give me a good soup or curry or pasta dish instead.

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  • science_memes Science Memes Conservation irl
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    3 weeks ago 100%

    Hanging around the chive flowers in my garden this morning and loving watching all the little bitty bugs! There was a honeybee, sure, but also lots and lots of sweat bees and parasitic wasps and butterflies and ants too.

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  • workreform Work Reform Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement.
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    3 weeks ago 100%

    Depends on the state. Some states are near impossible to get unemployment in. Others, it's almost impossible for them to deny you unemployment outside of being violent or stealing from them. Know your state's unemployment laws and use them to your benefit as best as you can.

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  • memes solarpunk memes shitty little snowflake has to be special, can't just act normal like everyone else
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    news News Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
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    3 weeks ago 100%

    Dan Savage coined the term "gold star pedophile" in a column years ago, referring to people who acknowledge their attraction to children but never act on it by harming a child or accessing CSAM. I do feel bad for these people because there are no resources to help them. The only way they can access actual therapeutic resources for their condition is by offending and going to jail. If the pedophile goes to a therapist and confesses attraction to children, therapists are mandated reporters and will assume they're going to act on it. An article I read a few years back interviewed members of an online community of non-offending pedophiles who essentially made their own support group since no one else will help them, and nearly all research on them is from a forensic (criminal) context.

    There's a pretty good article by James Cantor talking about dealing with pedophiles in a therapeutic context here.

    Don't get me wrong - I think offenders need to be punished for what they do. I unfortunately have a former best friend who has offended. He's no longer in my life and never will be again. But I think we could prevent offenders from reaching that point and hurting someone if we did more research and found ways to stop them before it happened.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating My job offers "free" online consultations for mental health reasons. Every single "available" slot is during working hours.
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    4 weeks ago 100%

    Everything HR does is for the benefit of the company. They do not do anything to genuinely help employees. You are a replaceable cog and the moment they decide you're not useful, you will be tossed out. Never trust them or the structures they put in place.

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  • technology Technology Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
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    1 month ago 100%

    This is what I did. Works fine for my needs. My older relatives hate it but they rarely come over.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Cyberpunk minus the cool robot arms
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    1 month ago 100%

    Walmart switched to signs saying self-checkouts are for 15 items or less but still only have a single register open, and that single register line doesn't move because some asshole at the front is arguing with the cashier while trying to run a scam.

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  • politics politics "Google has been very bad": Trump warns Google may be "shut down" in rant
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    2 months ago 100%

    That's the thing. He doesn't care about how his party is supposed to work, or what the party line is. His political stances are entirely based on his feelings and whims. Whoever has most recently slighted or inconvenienced him is enemy number one, only to be replaced tomorrow when some other matter irks him.

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  • programmer_humor Programmer Humor Anyone here use assembly?
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    2 months ago 100%

    I was taught assembler in my second year at school

    It's kind of like construction work

    With a toothpick, for a tool

    ~ The Eternal Flame, by Bob Kanefsky

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  • news News President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law.
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    asklemmy Ask Lemmy Ex-Incels, how did you dig yourself out?
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    2 months ago 100%

    Not an incel but someone on the trans-and-women-hating pick me pipeline: Got into a fight with a Reddit mod about autism. I'm autistic and ended up arguing with a sub's mod about how not all autistic people are special snowflake tumblerinas. Left such a bad taste in my mouth that I stopped going to the sub, which was my main source of hate content. Let me get exposed to other viewpoints and ultimately I came out as nonbinary after previously saying nonbinary people weren't real.

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  • news News FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high
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    2 months ago 100%

    Awesome. Do something about the slave labor prisoners have to do in some states next. Then maybe fix commissary account fees and prices. And make sure prisoners can get mail, including books, since some prisons are banning that now. Prisons are currently an insight into exactly how hard corporations would screw us all over if they had more control of our lives.

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  • microblogmemes Microblog Memes What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
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    3 months ago 100%

    I'm pretty sure all of those things specifically say "refrigerate after opening" on the bottle.

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  • microblogmemes Microblog Memes What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.
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    3 months ago 100%

    Same, I eat bread really slowly so it usually takes me a few weeks to finish a loaf. Don't really mind defrosting it, takes maybe twenty seconds in the microwave.

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  • collapse collapse of the old society Idaho library bans minors from entering without parental consent
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    3 months ago 100%

    When I was a teenager, my parents signed a permission slip to change my card from a child's card to an unrestricted adult card because I was there so much and didn't much care if I read "inappropriate" books. The modern persecution of libraries and censoring of content is absolutely ridiculous. It's hard enough to get kids to look away from their phones. Now they're not even allowed to check out a book without their parents.

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    3 months ago 100%

    It goes both ways. I just leaned over and said "mrrow" to my cat, which she immediately responded to with her own "mrrrrow".

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  • degoogle DeGoogle Yourself *Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago 100%

    Already happening, sort of. Google allows companies to upload sets of headlines, images, and descriptions, then Google's system mashes them together and tests them to find the best combos. It's not full AI, but considering some companies doing this are probably AI-generating the input, it's getting close. I wouldn't imagine it'll be too long until Google does it for you.

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  • technology Technology Adobe Promises That It Hasn’t Gone Full Big Brother
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    3 months ago 100%

    Exactly my thoughts. Adobe is not the police and they should not be the ones trying to deter crime by any definition. How many horrible things have governments done to "protect the children"?

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  • technology Technology Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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    4 months ago 100%

    Last I tried, I had serious issues using it on Comcast's billing pages and Quest Diagnostic's site, among others. The pages would not load at all until I went to Chrome.

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  • technology Technology Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
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    4 months ago 46%

    I'd be glad to switch back to Firefox, but websites straight up don't work on it anymore. That was the only reason I went to Chrome.

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  • funny Funny: Home of the Haha The Gargoyle Index™ is an indicator of a functioning society
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    6 months ago 100%

    Unless you're in the World of Darkness, in which case the gargoyle index is a measure of Tremere tomfoolery

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  • news News Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments
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    6 months ago 100%

    Why waste money on housing people when you can evict them and spend it on a five acre dog park?

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  • technology Technology Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them.
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    6 months ago 100%

    Imagine how upset they'd be to see their homes marked out in a "Satanic" app with notes like 'has three young children'.

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  • mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating That gourmet luxury blend...
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    6 months ago 100%

    I don't have kids and I know it. When I was a kid, my parents would make us banana smoothies as a treat. It's just banana, milk, ice, and honey. They mentioned a few times that they were excited for us to turn a year old so we could have them because of the honey.

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