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A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him ( www.theguardian.com )

Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...

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Russia has a jail that you go to if you're suspected of a crime to keep you from running away. It's insane. I read news every day of people during in those facilities. There are so many people being detained right now for everything from helping people escape to simply commenting on posts against the government.

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We used a lot of it on Teal'c

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We're trying to solve with medicine what we should be solving with therapy.

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The Liberal Arts being a joke degree holds up.

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When's the IPO?

[Movie] Cowboys and Aliens - you know what you're getting as soon as you read the title ( lemmy.zip )

To be fair, I think the first half of this movie is great. There are a lot of long, slow shots which really feel reminiscent of a spaghetti western. But as it goes on, it eventually just turns into a mindless action movie with lots of quick cuts and as much CGI as they can fit on the screen. So yet another entry into the...

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Agreed. It could have been a dumb movie about cowboys trying to lasso UFOs, but it was an actual attempt to make a serious film about a ridiculous concept.

China’s grip on Hong Kong just became a little tighter creating an oppressed society "where people live in fear" ( www.vox.com )

Last week, the government of Hong Kong published the latest of a series of increasingly draconian national security laws. This one will target espionage, treason, and foreign political interference, and those found guilty of violating some of its tenets could be sentenced to life imprisonment....

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Hong Kong is doomed. The British should have never left.

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I think he believes what he's saying. From his perspective AGI will be great, and a lot of people think that AI and quantum computing will have a feedback loop where AI will help us create a better quantum computer which will make a better AI and so on...

Down here in the filth though, we're going to go through mass unemployment, rapid shifts in markets, loss of privacy due to increasingly sophisticated AI powered surveillance, and complete loss of our freedom of speech.

So, all that stuff probably will happen to people like him. Just not us.

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I'm sure it's possible, but I'm sure they've made it as painful as it can be.

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Do you have any resources that I can use to learn more about about removing telemetry from a vehicle? Is there a good forum that could help me potentially do this to my car?

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We all laugh, but I think he's going to win again.

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You can use deductive reasoning figure out what "again" means in this context.

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In 2016 I was so certain that Trump would lose to Hillary, that when he won I was in complete disbelief. Over the last 8 years I've spent a lot of time working with a lot of blue-collar people and have spent a lot of time talking to them about their beliefs. And while I don't share those beliefs, I understand how they got there.

And as unbelievable as it may be to some of us, there are a large portion of population that thinks of Biden just as lowly as we may think of Trump. And they have their reasons. They have their own echo chamber that makes them believe that there's not a single chance that Biden will wil, just like how we have our own echo chamber telling us the opposite.

And from what I can see, the right is a lot more enthusiastic about their candidate then the left is about theirs. That's the only reason I think Trump will end up winning.

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Just because you decided that he wasn't supposed to win the presidency last time, doesn't mean he didn't already sit in the chair for 4 years. If it's happened before, it can happen again. And I think it unfortunately will.

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I've been a bad boy.

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That's my guess. They started going down hill when Advice Animals banned the Unpopular Opinion Puffin.

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My guess it's porn.

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He's just senile. I feel bad for him. Let him go take a nap.

What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?

So I've realized that in conversations I'll use traditional terms for men as general terms for all genders, both singularly and for groups. I always mean it well, but I've been thinking that it's not as inclusive to women/trans people....

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We can close this thread now. The question has been answered.

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I don't think Putin will invade anyone else. The people of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus all started in Kyiv. Loosing Ukraine to NATO is a huge blow to his regime. But ain't nobody caring about Moldova.

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What's the joke here?

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Android, Firefox, uBlock Origin. You can pick elements and block them just like you can on the desktop.

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Good. We need more people like her husband.

Biden's legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory ( apnews.com )

President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory....

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And when Trump wins this the left will claim it was rigged. I don't want him to win either, but I'm certain he will.

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Sure, here you go:

https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-election-160716779.html

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Also, there are like 10 people on this platform. We're going to keep bumping into each other.

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Haha ok bud.

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Dont worry, the mods will quietly remove your comments just like they used to on reddit.

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I linked it.

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Throughout the whole article she keeps repeating how she doesn't feel that elections are legitimate. I'm not even arguing that she's right or wrong. All I'm saying is that people blame the other side for doing things that they themselves have done before, and when it's their turn they will do it again.

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Ok bud.

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I really think Trump will win again. Regardless of my opinion, I see that Republicans are focusing mainly on "look how good our guy is" and Democrats are only saying "look how bad that guy is" . The Democrats don't seem enthusiastic about their candidate.

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I don't think this is new. The right has always been more masculine and the left more feminine. That's why we need a bit of both.

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The headline makes it sound like Russians are doing nothing to protest their government.

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Oh they absolutely do. It's just not popular to mention that.

77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit Against Biden in U.S. Court ( theintercept.com )

In late December, 77 groups — representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents — filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that Palestinian human rights organizations, residents of Gaza, and U.S. citizens with family members impacted by Israel’s ongoing assault brought against...

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Makes sense.

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I don't like the guy, but idk if trying to keep him off the ballot is the right play. It seems desperate. It's giving him even more credibility.

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I call bullshit on them rebuilding anything.

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I guess you guys are into underage girls holding guns...

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Which no one should ever do.

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What I've learned about "war crimes" is that it doesn't matter what you do as long as you don't lose. And if you win you get to punish the loser for their war crimes and pretend like you didn't commit any.

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They didn't lose hard enough

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I have to ask. Partners, plural?

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They need a Holiday in Cambodia

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You got any more of them,
pixels?

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XKCD is amazing.

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I realize that now. Well done!

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