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Some_Emo_Chick, to Vintage
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Ivy Russell (Born 1907, Surrey England) wrestling a gentleman 1934. British weightlifter, bodybuilder, strongwoman, wrestler, all around athlete and at one point given the official title of strongest woman on earth. was able to deadlift 369 pounds at 134 herself and put 300 overhead.

allanb,
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@Some_Emo_Chick Built like a Marine

taylorlorenz, to random
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Beijing might see Congress' divest-or-ban TikTok bill "as a pretty substantial propaganda victory ... It would play into Beijing’s hands to say that the U.S. has been talking about free speech for a long time — and using that as a stick to beat China over its human rights record — but this illustrates that the U.S. is a hypocrite ... and that makes our actions more legitimate" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/business/dealbook/tiktok-us-china.html

allanb,
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@taylorlorenz Paywalled.

allanb, to random
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Well that flight went OK

taylorlorenz, to random
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Members of Congress who voted for the TikTok divest-or-die bill last week "may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies" https://gizmodo.com/politicians-who-voted-to-ban-tiktok-may-own-as-much-as-1851356203

allanb,
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@taylorlorenz Look who opposes this bill. Trump, Musk, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And AOC, (who suffers from millennial self-interest)

All the wrong people are aligned to protect TikTok

allanb,
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@MisuseCase

75% of TikTok users are 18-34
AOC is 34, and is a Millennial.

Maybe I am not understanding your point

allanb,
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@MisuseCase

https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/tiktok-age-demographics

allanb,
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@MisuseCase The point I was making was an attempt to describe AOC's self interest in TikTok as being Millennial interest, and a conflict of interest (or representation, depending on how you want to look at it.)

I said nothing about lawns or getting off them

allanb,
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@MisuseCase

AOC may not have monetary interest in TikTok, but she has generational interest (her national constituents are largely Millennials and younger). TikTok is mostly an artifact of Millennials and younger.

The fact remains it is a spying platform, and has been used to put surveillance on journalists and others.

National security interests are being weighed against generational-centered social platforms, and one would expect her to object.

Despite Trump/MTG being in the same corner

allanb,
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@forthy42 @MisuseCase

The whole point of discussing this is an exercise in futility. People simply do not have enough information to judge for themselves, and there is some movement to declassify some persuasive intelligence that Congress was briefed on.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4550204-senators-call-for-declassifying-information-about-tiktoks-risks/

allanb, to random
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A good example of how headlines differ from stories. The difference is usually due to layout/headline writers being different from the reporter, and they either fail to read the story or "spice it up" by misrepresenting the contents.

Headline is:

"Divided Washington state to choose Biden or Trump: ‘Everything seems a mess right now’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/washington-state-2024-primary-biden-trump

allanb,
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But the story doesn't convey that idea all.

The politically waffling anonymous stall holder with whom the reporter was talking and who seems not to be comfortable with immigration, isn't representative of the majority of people in the state.

As a rule, Eastern WA is more conservative in general, but it's a minority population and view.

Western WA, where most of the 7.7 million people live, is more tolerant of emigration than minority rural interests on the east and south side of the state.

allanb,
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All states in the US are divided on partisan lines. The headline seems to say that WA voters cannot decide between Trump and Biden, but nothing could be further from the truth.

It's simple. There is no 'mess' or FUD and Biden will easily win WA. That's why he never comes here to campaign. He already knows this.

allanb,
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And IMO

The X number of people threatening to withhold their vote as "a vote for their cause" are fundamentally misguided about American politics.

They can throw their votes away, but the nuance is that elections are about selecting the lesser of two evils.

I find it puzzling why people espousing the idea that 'not voting is civic responsibility' are for the most part emigrants or offspring of emigrants themselves (most people are in the US)

Knowing Trump's threats, it doesn't add up.

allanb,
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Trump's insatiable taste for deporting people and building walls seems like it would be an urgent call to 'vote for the other guy' if you wanted to have representative government.

Not voting is a vote for Trump, given the Democrats are in a defensive posture against a known cheater.

Knowing the scales of public sentiment have Republican thumbs over them this election (as in 2016), it makes pretty good sense to make your vote count rather than turning coat and running away from responsibility

tenderlove, to random
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Doing security releases sucks (don't worry, I'm just thinking back to the most recent Rails release). Was thinking about writing a blog post that explains the challenges, but even thinking about it makes me tired

allanb,
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@tenderlove My heart goes out to you.

Doing any kind of forensic analysis of undocumented code is probably the most expensive thing you can do in programming,.

allanb,
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@tenderlove Making sure nobody else uses your software is a legit strategy in closed source. But they dispose of you or cancel your project before you can quit.

Which is kind of a mercy :)

allanb, to random
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I knew a guy who opened a brick-and-mortar shop, that only sold CDs of shareware, which wasn't nonsense in 1994

PieterPeach, (edited ) to random
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Getting close to the ideal disposable for source control in (my) children. A modified KF94 with cord locks to help secure it more firmly plus contoured nose bridge pads to reduce reliance on an adequately bent nose wire.

Sawevo 3D KF94 for kids https://www.savewo.com/healthcare/en/products/3dmask-ultra

Australian sources below
Cord locks https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CQWTKLQL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Contoured foam nose bridge pads https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B08ZDGBMK3?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

@masknerd

allanb,
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@PieterPeach @masknerd

A lot of good masks are made better with nose bridge foam, (perferably thin) but only if it enhances the seal.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Every app or feed is now also its own community, platform, information ecosystem, movie theater, newsstand, while also not quite functioning well as any of those things. https://www.garbageday.email/p/cnn-mtv-disney-future via broderick

allanb,
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@taylorlorenz Paywalls and copyright of large media institutions has a lot to do with people no longer being commonly socialized.

All the inexpensive ways to look outside your bubble that used to exist, were provided by well-equipped local media that have mostly evaporated.

The concept of community has shifted from being rooted in location to being distributed globally.

Social media lets find people who think alike, but has diminished connection to a common truth from the world at large.

w7voa, to random
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State Department’s Global Engagement Center releases a report “detailing the ways in which the Tsarist and Soviet denizens of the Kremlin — and now Vladimir Putin and his regime — have for over a century exploited antisemitism in disinformation and propaganda campaigns designed to discredit, divide, and weaken perceived adversaries at home and abroad.”

allanb,
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@HistoPol @w7voa I think this is it:

https://www.state.gov/gec-releases-special-report-more-than-a-century-of-antisemitism-how-successive-occupants-of-the-kremlin-have-used-antisemitism-to-spread-disinformation-and-propaganda/

w7voa, to random
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As New Hampshire voters prepare to cast their votes in the state's first-in-the nation primary, a robo-call is circulating in the state urging Democrats to stay home - using fake audio of President Biden. https://www.voanews.com/a/7450337.html

allanb,
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@w7voa Generative AI is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?

mekkaokereke, to random
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Wow. The Alaska Airlines pilot that handled the emergency had ice in her veins.👍🏿

Air Traffic Control audio:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEh71lT08hI

A teenager in the window seat was almost sucked out of the plane! His phone and his shirt were ripped off of him and sucked out. He was saved by his mom holding him in.

🤔 I need to call my tiny mom and apologize for all the times she did "seatbelt arm" on giant me in the car whenever she had to slam on the brakes. I laughed at her! I didn't know the true power!

allanb,
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@mekkaokereke She was on the mark, so was mom. 🦸‍♀️ 🦸‍♀️

nixCraft, to random
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From Dec/05/2000: News paper headline. 😂

allanb,
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@nixCraft "Science Correspondent"

luckytran, to random
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Independent researchers report in scientific journal The Lancet that there is no evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02713-7/fulltext

allanb,
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Agreed. Yet Hamas was 100% aware ISR would respond to their terrorism in this way. It's part of their plan to legitimize.

allanb,
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@cakeisnotalie @luckytran

There are so many random assertions being stated, I don't know where to begin, and don't really want to address each one.

Your opener is a known conspiracy theory.

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/social-media-posts-misrepresent-video-of-idf-aircraft-attack/

Half the Palestinians in the world outside Palestine are stateless. A lot of people have left. Nobody is in a concentration camp, and genocide isn't what is happening.

What is happening is a kind of Apartheid.

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