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  • Jury acquits L.A. man who towed immigration agent's car during TikTok influencer’s arrest

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  • One time when I was on a grand jury, I tried to convince the other jurors that we don't have to send people to jail for marijuana. It's stupid and unjust, and we can just say no. They don't make you show your work. (Yes, on a grand jury the prosecutors can just try again, but it wastes their time.)

    Those half-awake bootlickers weren't having it. "We have to do what they told us!" "What, are you a dealer?" "The law is the law. Call your rep is you want to change it."

    Maybe an ad campaign would move the needle, but there are a lot of stupid, selfish, people out there ready to lick the boots.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • I was asking which specific hell they live in, but clearly I did not phrase my question clearly.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • No, I was asking about which specific hell they live in. edit: not specific like "give me your address" but like, suburb, countryside, whatever. Maybe I shouldn't post before breakfast.

  • Retro Messenger (Is there anything else a messenger could need?)

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  • For the code, open source is probably the way to go. People should be able to build from source. Otherwise, how do they know you're not doing something shady. Open source is generally a net improvement on security, assuming people actually look at it.

    For screenshots, first fix it so the screenshots render nicely on narrow displays.

  • The US healthcare system hurts poor Americans. It’s about to get worse

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  • Someone in my friend group is convinced that things will get so bad people will demand radical change. He thinks that's the path to socialized healthcare. I don't think this country has the spirit to reach for great things.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • I'm in New York City. There's maybe a dozen food places within ten minutes. There's more, but some of them may be in the 15-20 minute range. Several million people live here.

    What hell do you live in that's so remote?

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    What is fucking?

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  • Fuck Her Gently

    The tenacious D song?

  • Retro Messenger (Is there anything else a messenger could need?)

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  • Would probably need to be open source to be trustworthy. Running a random executable from the Internet seems dicey.

    Needs more screenshots. The two that are on the site don't render great on mobile. Can only see a small portion.

    I'm unclear how you find another user and verify who they are.

    Website should have a clearer feature list. The user manual wants to download a text file instead of showing it in the browser.

  • Using Proton VPN with YouTube now gives me this.

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  • I don't know if YouTube is full Nazi bar, but it's pretty close. You shouldn't go to the Nazi bar just because they have good cocktails and there are some good performers at the open mic.

    Sometimes you have to skip things you like. There's other content and other platforms.

  • ‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent

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  • This seems like an inefficient way to do public housing, but I guess it's better than nothing.

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  • No one needs more than 5 million dollars. That's enough for a comfortable life without laboring every again.

    If they make a shit load of money doing concerts, that money needs to keep moving. Tax it so it can go into schools and infrastructure and such. They don't need a mega yacht. People are starving and suffering from problems money would solve.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • So you then just… never develop any actual reading or writing skills.

    This is one of the scary parts, yes. Reading and writing are fundamental skills that will atrophy if not practiced. Combined with anti-intellectualism, where people fundamentally do not value reading and writing skills, it's pretty nasty.

    I don't know how to fix it. It's a gap in values. I often find myself wondering about the people around me, "Why don't you care?" I don't know why they don't care about things.

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • Microsoft doesn't have to compete very much. They're not a monopoly, probably, but a strict definition. Apple exists. Linux exists and is better than the terminal hell the average person thinks about. But that's not enough pressure to make microsoft actually try to appeal to customers. Most people are basically stuck.

    We should break up all of these companies that are so big they can coast with shitty products for years.

  • Using Proton VPN with YouTube now gives me this.

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  • I pretty much only use YouTube to look up specific clips of things (eg: simpsons clips, bits from movies), the very occasional video game "how do I do this specific thing?", and specific songs i don't have a copy of. I never watch any of its original content. I'm sure some of it is fine, but sturgeon's law says most of it is crap, and there's so much non-crap already on my radar to read/watch/listen to.

    So fuck youtube.

  • These are Americans' biggest priorities for the government in 2026, according to a new AP-NORC poll

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  • Really want the news media to stop quoting and normalizing trump voters. They are idiots. I don't want to hear what they have to say. Unless it's a clear "I was wrong and will never vote conservative again", I'd rather all the space be given to people who are more worth listening to.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • Many people are only semi literate. This cuts two ways- many people struggle with reading longer text, but they also struggle with composing longer text.

    I've generally worked in tech with rather educated people, but even there the lower portion of their writing skills can be disappointing. Like, a low grade for English Composition 101. Now, remember that most people don't have even that much training, and don't practice on their own in ways that encourage (what's traditionally considered) good writing.

    I think this is part of why some people love chatgpt. They're poor at writing, and now there's a tool that purports to fix that problem without all the pesky work of practicing and learning.

  • People with nothing to hide need not be bothered about surveillance, Supreme Court says

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  • People's inability to grapple with cognitive dissonance, and how people often go with "I'm a good person making good choices" instead of the more difficult path of changing, is part of why everything is so horrible.

  • So apparently full stops in texts are 'passive agressive' now. What other unwritten rules for texting have changed over the last couple of decades?

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  • This is a stupid rule and I do not use it. Sometimes I write something, add a period, and then decide not to write the next sentence. The period should not be interpreted as a secret message.

  • How come us Nurses did not get hazard pay for working during the pandemic?

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  • Capitalism. The people with the money aren't the people working. They don't care that much about the people working. The people working haven't organized enough for their demands to be met. There's always plenty of scabs willing to lick the boots for a few pennies more.