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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • We can play that game too

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  • Okay, but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security. This person, specifically, did not fully pay for their own Social Security. They're living off of public money, not money they contributed themselves.

  • We can play that game too

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  • The OP specifically depicts someone that's 90 years old.

    Doesn't that mean the amount they paid in to Social Security might have actually run out years ago?

  • Scientists Link Popular Sugar Substitute to Liver Disease

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  • The DNA damage comes from the formaldehyde that the body produces when metabolizing aspartame, but guess what? The body makes formaldehyde anyway, just from its natural metabolic processes. As long as you don't consume too much it's fine.

    The problem is over-consumption, which is the basis of having a consumer economy. If everyone ate less the food industry would collapse. They need us to overeat and if we ever stopped they'd have to reconcile with the fact that they can't just keep growing their profits infinitely. Plus, when we overeat, they can make even more money by treating the sicknesses it causes. Win/Win!

  • Scientists Link Popular Sugar Substitute to Liver Disease

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  • Sugar isn't harmless.

  • Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’

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  • American Rugby

    EDIT SHIT y'all beat me to it! 😅

  • Trump showing signs he’s battling major medical crisis, Democrat claims

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  • When he dies they will replace him with AI and the Supreme Court will rule it constitutional.

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    I support this

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  • It only causes inconvenience for herself and the cashier. It doesn't effect the guy behind her even slightly.

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • They could, we'd just need to hand over even more of our privacy and rights.

    Which was always the plan.

  • Will competition always exist or is competition just a symptom of scarcity?

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  • I think there are antagonistic and non-antagonistic competitions.

    Competition under capitalism becomes antagonistic because of the ideological superstructure, winning and losing are existential. Even when there aren't stakes, no money or fame on the line, the superstructure organizes all competition under capitalism along these antagonistic lines despite our best efforts. Fundamentally, winning under capitalism means survival and losing means death. I'd go as far as to say that having a competitive personality is actually a trauma response to living under capitalism.

    Once capitalism no longer determines the ideological superstructure we could see non-antagonistic competition become the dominant form, where winning and losing no longer factor in any way into survival or comfort or happiness. Competition wouldn't necessarily whither away but it certainly would transform into a new form that we might struggle to even recognize as competition.

  • US raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official

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  • "What's the difference?" - USA

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • Those solutions don't really work if you need an ID to connect to the internet. Can't access your VPN without internet access, can't get on a P2P or usenet without accessing the internet first.

    And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.

    They'd definitely prefer this, that gives them a physical media that they can track and the police can seize.

    Plus it'll give them more excuses to search through people's belongings.

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • In order for social media sites to actually be able to enforce this law it's the only thing that would work. They might feel pressured to make deals with the internet service providers to actually implement this kind of ID check for internet connections.

    If they don't, it's only a matter of time until some country does pass such a law.

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • And the social media sites, in the interest of complying with the law, might make deals with the internet service providers to actually put an ID check on every internet connection. This isn't impossible.

    Even if they don't, once legislators realize their law didn't fix the problem they can always pass new legislations.

    My point is that this isn't impossible.

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example

    They could require you to show an ID to purchase a phone.

    Or finding open wifi networks

    Open wifi networks certainly wouldn't provide an ID to connect, which would mean they couldn't be used to access social media.

    This is not an unsolvable problem. The question is if Australia is willing to piss everyone off to actually do it.

  • Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

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  • That isn't some ultrasonic bullshit, that just uses passive solar and humidity.

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • They could require an ID to connect to the internet.

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    Ponche de frutas navideño - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of December 2025

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  • Once you have to put your hands on the rungs it's no longer a step ladder, it's just a ladder.

  • It is the one year anniversary of the assassination of United Healthcare CEO - make sure you disavow extra hard today and do a wellness check on your favorite insurance executives / s

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  • What assassination? He tripped and fell into some bullets.

  • Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs

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  • I really hate the kind of liberal reform where they recognize that something is obviously bad, but instead of banning it they just require that the business discloses the information. Heaven forbid we restrain businesses or interfere in the market in any way!

    And incredibly the only other party thinks that forcing them to disclose is too much regulation. 🤡

  • Australia is banning social media for kids under 16.

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  • If you have to use a government ID to access the internet I don't think there'll be a way to subvert it. The tech fixes like face recognition and age inference can probably be spoofed, but IDs seem rock solid unless you steal someone else's ID.