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Taako_Tuesday , in Students Storm Out Of Jerry Seinfeld's Commencement Speech At Duke

This is a serious topic and I'm happy that students are calling attention to the war in any way they can. It's also very funny to see Seinfeld described as the voice of Bee Movie

livus OP ,

I guess that's how gen Z think of him!

gravitas_deficiency ,

Lmao I had the same thought. Like… what…? That’s the cultural touchstone he’s associated with nowadays…?

memfree , in US detects Russian aircraft flying in Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone

"The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat," the statement said.

key , in Trader Joe’s Rejects the New Deal

FDR is going to be pissed.

bloopernova , in Supreme Court may look to the Civil War to resolve whether Trump can be on the ballot
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Lot of words for what will be a vote along party lines.

ashok36 , in Kanye West joins adult industry, announces ‘Yeezy Porn’ is coming

Guy with a crippling porn addiction starts a porn company. What could go wrong?

HootinNHollerin , in Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents

Party of small government

Syo , in Supreme Court may look to the Civil War to resolve whether Trump can be on the ballot
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LoL. So much for pretending "constitutional originalist" was legitimate.

PugJesus , in Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars
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The Middle East's only democracy, their branding goes.

What a lark.

TruthSandwich ,

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Hamas hasn't allowed Gaza to vote in decades.

PugJesus ,
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I'm well aware. That doesn't make Israel's authoritarian games any less heinous.

Neato , in A Former Maryland Governor Ignored Warnings About Mega-Ships
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Fuck Larry Hogan. No idea how Marylanders decided to elect a fucking Republican for so long. Incumbency bias has never had such a good example.

Rhaedas , in Supreme Court Rules Trump Stays on Colorado Ballot
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States' rights, unless it's inconvenient.

IHeartBadCode , in Many believe the founders wanted a Christian America. Some want the government to declare one now
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The Empire we broke from had this "feature" they seem to want so badly. And the thing is, these folks want this not realizing that there's a "losing team" built into this kind of function. See they forget the whole Act of Supremacy 1534 and how then when the other team got in, we had the Act of Supremacy 1558, and guess what happened to the losing team? Ireland remembers.

This isn't a one off thing. in the middle 1700s it wasn't uncommon for mayors to not get to hold office, even after being duly elected, because they were the wrong flavor of Trinity. There's the idea it's a single person and just three "personas" so to say, or it's actually three different people. That it's grape juice and crackers standing in and transubstantiation, you are actually fucking eating flesh and drinking blood.

And this all sounds like small details shit. But I wouldn't put it to chance on the smallness of those details to people who are worried if you look like you might go in the wrong bathroom. It's all fun and games till someone is trying to deny your right to vote because you think instruments don't belong in the church and that praise should only come from within.

See all the flavors of Christian are playing nicely at the moment because it's the enemy of my enemy kind of thing with the secular state. But once's that gone, we're partying like it's 1559. See that's what they all keep getting wrong, they all think they're going to end up on the winning team until someone starts saying "He ain't hurting the people he's supposed to hurt."

That's why they founders wanted a nation based in the people. See the King, his power come from God. And because of that, there's all this technical crap that basically makes it impossible to question him. But a Government of the people, that's the difference, the power of the nations isn't derived from God or whatever, it comes from basically all the vibes from all of the citizens in the nation.

And Founders they were religious, no doubt. And they believed God gave them power and what not, etc, etc, etc. But the nation they created, that derives from the people. The people can be all kinds of religious if they want to be, but our nation is consecrated by the will of the people. What guides that will of the people, that's for the people to pick. God, cool. Flying Spaghetti Monster, awesome. Reason and logic, amazing. Different strokes for different folks. Anyone who has read any of the people who created this nation's works will quickly understand there is a difference between what drives man and whence the power of this nation derives.

But within that is a smaller, hardcore group who also check other boxes in surveys — such as that the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God and that the federal government should declare the U.S. a Christian nation, advocate Christian values or stop enforcing the separation of church and state.

These people have no idea what they are asking for. They think that they'll somehow come out on top or that all the Christians will play nicely with each other or something. And they're just fooling themselves. We've got a lot of history that tells how "amazing" the various sects of Christianity play with each other.

doc , in A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

I thought I saw in another thread that the car entered an area having a Chinese/lunar new year party in the street. Does nobody really know the motivation here? Seems it works be easy enough with some on the ground reporting.

brygphilomena ,

I will sympathize with the programmers that that would be an edge case that they might not have had forethought to program a response to. Informal closing of streets isn't the orderly logic that programming is built upon.

That said, it's just another example of why public roads are not the place to beta test and develop their products. Get these cars off the streets.

As an aside, my dystopian mind just makes me realize that the path we are on is a handful of corporations controlling transportation. When autonomous vehicles are commonplace, we will be reliant on them for approval on where we get dropped off. Imagine if it wouldn't take you somewhere for whatever reason a corporation wants to use.

iamericandre , in Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents

Shithole state

snooggums , in 17-year-old shot and killed by officer conducting welfare check

"The Columbus Police Department was conducting a welfare check on a subject following a report of potential self-harm," Nebraska State Patrol said in a press release.

"We made sure that the subject did not chicken out of his threat."

IHeartBadCode ,
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They went heavy on the serve part and totally gave zero protect part.

style99 , in After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed
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Raichik, the founder of the Libs of TikTok social media brand, has become an internet celebrity among some conservatives for her willingness to criticize teachers, doctors and other professionals who are LGBTQ or who are accepting of LGBTQ people. Raichik often posts their names and photographs alongside accusations of wrongdoing to X, where she has 2.8 million followers.

Funny how "conservatives" always turn out to be violent, devil-worshipping monsters.

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