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Statement from President Joe Biden on Coalition Strikes in Houthi-Controlled Areas in Yemen | The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)

Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces—together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways. These...

Texas turns down $350M in summer food assistance for children, citing lack of resources (www.houstonchronicle.com)

Texas is passing up nearly $350 million in federal aid to help feed millions of low-income children during the summer months after a state agency said it lacked the time and resources to implement the program this year....

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Birth the child, and let him suffer, said the Lord.

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Not sorry. You need book smart and street smart to manage a university. You willingly walked into a PR trap and blunted the answer on content and timing. No matter how much prestige you have, it won't save you.

We live in a world of human behaviors, not one of institutional rigor.

Russia announced it had deployed, to Ukraine, its best new artillery-detecting radar. Hours later, the Ukrainians blew it up—with artillery. (www.forbes.com)

Ukraine plinking a Russian GPS-jammer with a GPS-guided bomb. Ukrainian drones blowing up Russian drone-jammers. Ukraine’s cruise missiles striking Russian air-defense sites whose missions include, you guessed it, shooting down cruise missiles....

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Russians engineers are hardcore, they really go all out on systems validation.

China cracks down on negativity over economy in bid to boost confidence amid record high youth unemployment and struggling property sector (www.theguardian.com)

This month the Weibo account Weibo Finance, which has more than 1.5 million followers, issued an instruction against posting any comments “that bad-mouth the economy”. The post appears to have since been deleted. Bloomberg reported that several other finance influencers had been told by Weibo to “avoid crossing red...

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What a case of "the beating will continue until morale improves."

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We're going to see if the country is run by laws, or this country is run by power. Too many have fantasized about ruling by power. Too long the opposition just blindly believed the system would check itself in an honor system. This case, from the home state of a confederate general, will reveal which path US chooses.

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"Trump is quoting fascists!"

"Can you back up your assertion with real book citations, yeah, didn't think so. You're all just part of the woke Internet."

/s

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We know. You don't really care. Your voters don't care.

Time to legalize sex work and drugs, and hope the next generation is hardened against this age old blackmail scheme.

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This is similar to the "correlation doesn't equal causation" fallacy.

Dual income and no kids, is due to the prospect of cost of living and raising a family out pacing income. Housing, vehicle, child care, tuition, are all the items pricing middle class out of options.

DINK is not a choice, if anything, it's more the result of not having the luxury to choose.

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The economy is booming, but you also need to negotiate with your employer and switch jobs if needed. Unless your boss automatically gave your 10%+ annual adjustment, you are slowly falling behind.

[Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

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Absolute waste of tax money and resources, anyone advocating for this policy is an idiot and psychotic control freak that should never be allowed to opine on public policy.

Outdated values are driving this country back into the stone age. The body was designed to be horny as we go through teenage years. It's nature. Rather than guide kids on the safe path, fools would forbid, outlaw, prohibit until they can't control them after age of 18.

Here's how this plays out... Kids are going to masturbate, regardless. They will dive deeper into the Internet into places with no restrictions and be exposed to really messed up stuff. Hey at least the parent can pat themselves on the back, right, they were good partners that did everything right by the book, even paying the kid's therapist.

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Do it! Do it!

I want all the money drained out of there.

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basic necessity

Did you misspell guaranteed revenue? They know exactly what they were doing.

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First bullet from the link.

Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, and control or influence 85% of consumer spending

No. Just flat out no. Statistically, if the norm is to start at 50%, then the quoted number is way too much deviation to be statistically improbable. It does not pass the smell test.

Then I scrolled further down. Oh boy, that website is a misinformation gift box.

Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases:
91% New Homes
66% PCs
92% Vacations
80% Healthcare
65% New Cars
89% Bank Accounts
93% Food
93% OTC Pharmaceuticals

I'm sorry, those assertion are just impossible. New home of $300k - $700k is purchase by women, alone? I stopped thinking after this and encourage all to stop believing something just because they "cited" their sources.

Only source that is trust worthy is US BLS, and this is the quote from the website.

Approximately 40% of U.S. working women now out-earn their husband.

Only relevant data point I can find is from https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-databook/2022/home.htm

In 2021, women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median usual weekly earnings of $912, which represented 83.1 percent of men’s median weekly earnings ($1,097).

This is the usual "80 cents for a 1.00 dollar" that has been widely tracked for the last decade, between women and men workers. This tells me the girls power link is misleading on key statistics. As a personal note, the government never refers to "wife" or "husband", so that immediate red flag this number was cherry picked and derived.

TL;DR - key figures shown on girls power marketing website does not pass smell test. Their "citing" is vague. Do not trust.

My opinion, websites like these hurt equality movement.

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Probably worked to death on two jobs, incoherent when interviewed.

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ASS... All the cool kids are doing it.

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One day you black out. You wake up. You're now $20,000 in debt.

None of this debt makes sense to begin with. This change doesn't fix that.

Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins (apnews.com)

The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida’s ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect....

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Sorry for the family.

Fuck Republicans and their bigotry.

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"What made you upgrade to the OLED?"

"Because I couldn't smell it anymore."

"What?"

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

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Steam engine breaks, you can fix it.

Steam engine with digital circuit breaks, you're a hacker, a pirate. DRM was a mistake.

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When the judicial was held up by "honor system" ... you're gonna find a bunch of cheats.

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It always bothered me when in law class they said court "opinion" matters and can set "precedence". Then we go over case from 100 years ago saying they are still valid today.

I'm like ... is everything just loosely "understood" with final "constitutional" decision being made on the spot every time it's challenged? That's just asking for abuse of the system, try until you get what you want... Prof at that time convinced me there's more to that so don't worry.

Long behold, look at what extremists are doing at the SC today, and absolutely no rails to guard it.

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