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  • Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill

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  • I’m paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I’d still choose the former

    I try to apply the same logic whenever I can too.

    For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it's a very good laptop, but it's literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.

    And my cellphone is a Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch. I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it's also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone with similar performances. And Ubuntu Touch itself comes with its own set of restrictions, but that's the price of trying to be as free from the Android ecosystem as possible.

    So yeah, you can do open, but the choice is very limited and you pay a lot for the privilege.

  • A nationwide, government-organized system of cruelty and injustice

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  • This is what awaits the ICE goons and the Nazi wannabes running the Trump regime. They're cocky now, but one day their uppance will come - and not a minute too soon.

  • Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill

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  • I have a Prusa XL, and the reason is, Prusa is (still) mostly open-source. And quite frankly it's the only reason why I stick with Prusa, because technically they're behind the curve.

  • Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill

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  • That's Washington state, not DC.

    Surveillance capitalism and the fascists always find a way to debase everything good that people like.

  • The photo that shows the man for who he is

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  • Why go to the trouble of finding this picture when Trump is kind enough to provide his menacing mug on his official portrait.

    Hmm... What does that remind me of I wonder...

  • 5 Top ICE 'Corporate Collaborators' Saved $19 Billion in Taxes Under Trump: Report

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  • The onus is on us consumer to make sure the corporate collaborators lose more in sales than they gain in tax breaks.

    Vote with your wallet folks: it's very effective and it won't get you into trouble with the SS ICE.

  • The United States of Canada and Jesusland

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  • I don't think Jesus would want to be associated with this dump.

  • US | Trump Claims 'Concept of a Deal' Reached for Greenland, Says He'll Cancel New Tariffs

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  • How would Denmark know about the deal? They don't have access to Trump's demented mind, which is the only place it lives in.

  • Why the EU is wary of targeting US services in a trade clash

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  • That's nice that he knew. But here's the thing: the quiet but very real strangehold major US monopolies have on everybody's lives on Earth reached five-bell alarm levels decades ago, yet nobody seems to be even dimly aware of it.

    I now live outside the US, and in all the countries I've lived in, I kept thinking "If I was this country's leader, I would be alarmed that a single US tech monopoly can, at the push of a button, at the whim of their CEO or the US administration, effectively stop my country functioning normally."

    Worse, in many countries, the powers-that-be seem really proud to push the internet and promote online services for essential state services, healthcare, taxes and such. Yet all I see is those countries gleefully putting their collective heads into the US lion's mouth without even realizing it.

    Being more independent from US monopolies isn't just a nice-to-have that has gotten a bit more pressing lately: it's been an absolute emergency for decades, and nobody gives a flying fuck. This has always been utterly baffling to me.

  • Why the EU is wary of targeting US services in a trade clash

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  • It's more complicated than you think.

    Take cellphones for example: since everything is connected nowadays and people virtually need a cellphone to lead a normal life now, everybody's balls are in the hands of the US: if the regime decides to squeeze and tells Google and Apple to disable Android and iOS in Europe, it will disrupt the affected countries to an unimaginable extent.

    Same thing with EMVCo (Visa and Mastercard): if the regime tells them to suspend payment processing in Europe, the European economies will instantly collapse.

    And the weird thing is, I'm Mr. Nobody and I've seen this coming for decades. Yet all the world's leaders without exception decided to look the other way and figured the US would always be the nice guys. How short-sighted...

  • I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

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  • That's because ICE isn't police. It's a private paramilitary with zero rules and zero accountability controlled solely by the Dear Leader, like the SS.

  • Danish Lawmaker Tells Trump 'F--k Off' Before Being Cut Off Mid-Speech

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  • It's not very productive but it feels good to hear out loud what everybody think.

  • Fake moo

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  • 1600 parties per cow

    Oh yeah, those cows are party animals 🙂

  • Fake moo

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  • One time I asked a cow if he wanted to be slaughtered

    Was it a transgender cow?

  • Fake moo

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  • It's one of those social media posts to get people who don't think for more than 10 milliseconds riled up.

  • Fake moo

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  • Yeah, I was about to say: if the Village People is the sound of US fascism, McDonald's is its flavor.

  • Fake moo

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  • 1600 patties per cow is a value I've heard since I was a kid in the 70s. It wasn't McD specifically. Maybe the cows have grown fatter or the patties smaller over the decades.

    Anyway, my point was, hundreds of millions of burgers doesn't deplete the country of cattle heads. It was an remark about orders of magnitude.

  • What are some movies that didn't deserve to flop?

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  • Yeah I like the original Dune very much too. But it's not a masterpiece. Just an underrated flick full of great actors.

    But I will say this: even if you think 1984 Dune was meh, go watch Villeneuve's version with the most unconvincing Paul Atreides in the history of unconvincing actors (Timothy Chalamet), the appalling Lady Jessica with zero expressions and zero acting skills (Rebecca Ferguson), and Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto who manages the incredible feat of being as shit in Dune as he was in Star Wars.

    Then watch David Lynch's again: you'll enjoy it all the more.

  • YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy

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  • the antennae inside it radiate, sending signals to your carrier. Maybe don’t do this while living under fascism. Everyone in the corporations or government can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.

    No they don't. Not by snooping on your cellphone's radio signals anyway: the transmission to your carrier is encrypted.

    The bad guys can intercept your convo in a MITM attack by simulating a tower and getting your phone to connect to it.

    But they don't even have to do that: all it takes is subpoenaing your carrier - with a national security letter to keep it quiet and make the unconstitutional a-okay - and your carrier will gladly hand you over to them like a pig on a roast spit.

  • Fake moo

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  • It would be insightful if the math checked out.

    You can get roughly 1600 beef patties out of one cow. Your 6.5M burgers a day use up 125,937 cows per month and there's 95M cattle in the US.

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    Trump and Melania in Emergency Landing After Marine One Copter Scare

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    Newsom Tells ‘Grandpa’ Trump to ‘Take His Dementia Meds’

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    Jimmy Fallon Abruptly Drops Out Of Event Following Kimmel's Suspension

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    Hands-On: Meta Ray-Ban Display Smart Glasses!

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    How Trump's Crypto Corruption Hurts You

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    Fox Hosts Endorse Nazis’ ‘Kill The Ill’ Message For Midterms

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    The American dream is ending in a psychotic breakdown

    www.telegraph.co.uk /news/2025/09/13/americas-days-of-rage-charlie-kirk/
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    What’s Driving Division in America? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

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    Gaza’s amputees: Trapped between daily Israeli bombing, displacement, and denied care

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    Interesting foot-operated mouse - Navifut xStep

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    Trump orders flags lowered to honor Charlie Kirk

    thehill.com /homenews/administration/5497212-trump-orders-flags-lowered-to-honor-charlie-kirk/
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    Russia touts prosthetics breakthrough — fueled by its own war casualties — Meduza

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    Is Trump Doomed? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

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    Mystery shower head holder doohickey

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    Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner

    www.theverge.com /policy/772760/tech-ceos-ai-trump-white-house-dinner
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    Finding out my Tinder date has no legs

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    Trump Term End Countdown - Presidential Term Tracker

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