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  • Michelle Obama says the country is ‘not ready for a woman’ president | CNN Politics

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  • @hotdogcharmer @leadore I absolutely assure you likeability is an issue for women in the workplace in the UK. Signed, a British woman.
    Look up "likeability trap", though - it's the name of a campaign tactic used against women in politics. It's an ongoing problem.

  • God ****** dammit, here we go again

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  • @Rooster326 @1984 it also asks if you would like to generate a secure password, rather than it just being on right-click, in most "new password" fields.
    Google password manager also warns you if you have duplicated passwords saved in it and prompts you to create new, unique ones.
    I don't like Google but they do ok with password management I think.

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

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  • Republicans sound alarm over Latino vote: ‘This is our wake-up call’

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  • This is incredibly stupid. It will drive up the cost of housing

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  • This is incredibly stupid. It will drive up the cost of housing

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  • @CompactFlax @grue it's a tax haven. Where else are they supposed to keep their Bentleys

  • Pro-Andrew Cuomo super PAC depicts Zohran Mamdani in front of Twin Towers attack in late ad

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    House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship, possibly deport NYC mayoral frontrunner over form omissions

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  • @UnderpantsWeevil I think Khan basically had to exist as the national example of Labour in high places, when parliamentary Labour were taking themselves down over how to respond to a completely self-inflicted national disaster like narrowly voting in Brexit. Oh, hey, a parallel.
    If Khan had been shit I think it'd have been harder for Labour to get such a big majority.

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    House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship, possibly deport NYC mayoral frontrunner over form omissions

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  • @Horsey still its nation's richest city

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    House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship, possibly deport NYC mayoral frontrunner over form omissions

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  • @UnderpantsWeevil @frankiehollywood Out of context, I thought you were talking about London then. Can't say the world has shifted on its axis since Khan took over 9 years ago. Although he and Trump really openly hate each other...

  • Stephen Miller Against Voting Rights

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  • @CharlesDarwin @phoenixz same. But it will take a lot of Americans to turn it round, and until/unless that happens the rest of the world has to work out a backup plan, brace, and leave them to sort it out.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • @desmosthenes but to go back to the first point - if they want to have a company in the US they will do it whether or not they're resident. Can't very easily employ thousands of Cayman Islanders in your billion dollar business. A Way would be found. But by structuring the business in such a way as to avoid whatever restrictions there are, there would at least be a small reduction in their cut. And a small reduction in billions is not insignificant. Plus... One fewer tax haven reduces options.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • @desmosthenes they also buy food and drink from your local town, rather than designer limited editions from Paris.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • @desmosthenes a lot of it is more likely to go into the Cayman Islands or investing in media they can control or buying politicians. Give $1b to one man or $20 each to 50 million people - bet you more money makes it into your local economy the second way.

  • We Desperately Need Maximum Wage Laws

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  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • @CmdrShepard49 @dukemirage If ten people want to store or listen to the same original album at the same time then the creator gets to sell ten copies. Then they might hand them on, but ten copies are still out there. Maybe an eleventh person wants one but they're all in use - they're going to have to go back to the creator and buy a new one. If someone pirates one copy and gives it to nine people for them all to have at the same time then the creator only sells one copy, forever.

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • @BananaTrifleViolin @dukemirage a huge proportion of the stuff people watch on Netflix/listen to on Spotify is really old media you could get second hand on CD/DVD for pennies. I mean how much is a Friends box set going for nowadays

  • Vermont Republican lawmaker resigns over racist and antisemitic group chat

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  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • @sugarinyourtea @BarneyPiccolo especially in a language as widely used as English with regional nuance that an NLP could never distinguish. When I say "quite" is it an American "quite" or a British "quite"? Same for "rather"? What does it mean if we're tabling this thing in the agenda? When/for how long is something happening, momentarily? Neither the speaker nor the program will have a clue how these things are being interpreted, and likely will not even realise there are differences.