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PugJesus , in Girls basketball team banned from boys league after reaching championship
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Reminds me of when Zhang Shan won the Olympics' skeet shooting category and then the Olympics barred women from competing against men.

HubertManne ,
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yeah I was under the impression the mens was supposed to be unlimited and the womens were to allow for more female representation. I had no idea they barred a woman from competing in the mens. some bs there.

KyoStarr , in Donald Trump appeals $454 million judgment in New York civil fraud case

Just to make an important distinction, Trump's lawyers submitted a notice of appeal which shows their intent to appeal the ruling. They actually haven't posted the bond to actually do this yet but many news sites are glossing over this detail.

bedrooms , in Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes

Not a good look as a publisher.

From Wikipedia:

In May 2015, Frontiers Media removed the entire editorial boards of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine after editors complained that Frontiers Media staff were "interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing". In total 31 editors were removed. Following this incident, Nature Publishing Group ended its collaboration with Frontiers with the intent "never to mention again that Nature Publishing Group has some kind of involvement in Frontiers."[14]

In June 2015, Retraction Watch referred to the publisher as one with "a history of badly handled and controversial retractions and publishing decisions".[40]

According to researchers referenced in a 2015 blog post quoted by Allison and James Kaufman in the 2018 book Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science, "Frontiers has used an in-house journals management software that does not give reviewers the option to recommend the rejection of manuscripts" and the "system is setup to make it almost impossible to reject papers".[41] However, as of 2022, Frontiers maintains that reviewers are given the option to reject papers with specific recommendations.[42]

In 2017, further editors were removed, allegedly for their rejection rate being high.[citation needed] In December 2017, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch wrote in the magazine Nautilus that the acceptance rate of manuscripts in Frontiers journals was reported to be near 90%.[43]

FaceDeer ,

A symptom of the pressure of "publish or perish" in academia.

I am so glad I decided not to go down that route at the last minute back in university.

RootBeerGuy , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings
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I am sorry for cursing but what the shit? The availability of people's addresses online has led to these bombings? Is this an AI-written article?

The obvious issue at hand isn't that you can lookup someones address online, its that you can go there and fucking bomb the place somehow. The issue is that people get hold of explosives real fucking easy somehow instead of knifing or shooting people (well they do that too but its the explosives that are fucked up). What the fuck does it matter to know that a dude you want dead is living in the first or second story of a house when you just plant a fucking bomb. Finding out addresses is laborious, yeah right, just follow people home as if not publishing those addresses would prevent 90% of those killings.

Unbelievable. Anything to not have to talk about the real issues.

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

Florida already does this with the whole don’t say gay law, not that big a surprise other pieces of shit will follow.

Municipal0379 , in Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents

The next republican nominee for governor everybody.

Granite ,
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This asshat lost to a Democrat last time he tried.

Municipal0379 ,

Yeah, but other than this he’s been laying low. Lots of people will think “it wasn’t really that bad when he was previously AG”.

Narrators voice: it was that bad

snooggums ,

Yeah, but the state voted for Trump so who the fuck knows what they are going to do next time.

NoIWontPickaName , in Mexico overtakes China as the leading source of goods imported to US

People aren’t goods!!!!!!!!

magnetosphere ,
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This made me groan, but also laugh. Smartass.

Laughbone , in In stunning defeat, House Republicans fail to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas over border

After shutting down their own border security bill, what a bunch of useless dirtbags.

DarkNightoftheSoul , in Ohio Attorney General given until Monday to explain rejection of voting rights amendment to court

This looks suspiciously like the system working... I remain skeptical, but cautiously optimistic.

Mbourgon ,

Not really like the system working. More the opposite.

FTFA: “[he rejected it because the] proposed constitutional amendment’s title — “Ohio Voters Bill of Rights” — was “highly misleading and misrepresentative” of the measure’s contents. He issued the decision even while acknowledging that his office had previously certified identical language. It certified a Nursing Facility Patients’ Bill of Rights in 2021 and another Ohio Voters Bill of Rights in 2014.”

Seems like he’s trying to prevent everyone who can vote, from voting.

DarkNightoftheSoul ,

Yes, that was last week though. This week, the system suspiciously looks like it might actually correct this bad actor, for once.

FreeBooteR69 , (edited ) in Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in defamation damages, jury rules

Uh Oh, Looks like poo boy is out of diaper money.

HeartyBeast , in Trump guilty on all 34 counts in hush money trial, in historic first for a former U.S. president

Sentencing July 11 - delayed because the original date would clash with a court appearance in Florida

applepie , in Evidence Is Mounting That the Saudis Had a Hand in 9/11

Between them and israel, US really has great allies in the middle east lol

These guys really know how to play that lobby game and domestic security apparus appears to be fine with it.

hydrashok , in Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails

Time to legally update your name to include it, just like Bob Wehadababyitsaboy.

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

I know this is a serious issue and Jerry can get fucked, but the dean of Duke is named Vincent Price and that gave me a short silly movie in my head

livus OP ,

Has to be Dr Phibes era Price.

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

Why would he even be a commencement speaker?

Melkath ,

Because he is rich and loudly Zionist. Duh.

HubertManne ,
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they use entertainers all the time for that crap. Its why folks who don't have family coming skip the bs to begin with.

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