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GOP Lawmakers Propose Death Penalty for Abortion

“Pro Life” is a joke.

They are so pro keeping any baby they are willing to kill anyone who wants to not have a baby.

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Ars Technica Meta threatens to restrict news in Canada if it’s forced to pay publishers

TLDR:

Good thing there are other places to get news than Meta. You know, like actual news services.

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Six Colors, Dan Moren: Four iPhone 15 upgrades that will make you want one right now

My List

  1. Allow users to choose default apps for ALL app types
  2. Do not require IAP for purchases in apps
  3. Do not require Webkit for ALL browser engines
  4. Allow other App stores on iOS
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Wow.

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My brain doesn’t work sometimes. I just said “vowel words” when trying to explain “words that start with vowels”. 🤦😁🤷‍♂️

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River

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Woke had nothing to do with it.

DeSantis Blames Woke Economics for Bank Collapse

Shitty investments of short term money in long term bonds had everything to do with it.

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This is the guy Elon Musk tried to say was “independently wealthy”.
This is the guy Elon Musk fired before he realized it would cost him millions of dollars to fire and didn’t fire him.

My Modern Met, Margherita Cole: One Man Is Increasing Wheelchair Accessibility in Iceland a Ramp at a Time

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This is pretty stupid.

Oh, Come On!

What is the reason not to sign this?

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I would think this would get more coverage from the China hawks out there.

China brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reopen diplomatic relations.

Maybe it is getting coverage and I’m just not seeing it.

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Axios reporting,

Dems are betting DeSantis’ culture-war politics are a turnoff to women and working-class voters in rural counties,

I think that’s a bad bet.

I think the working-class voters in rural counties support the culture-war politics because they’re much more likely to be socially conservative than urban voters.

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My summary of the Silicon Valley Bank failure

The bank failed because their was a run on the bank. There was a run on the bank because customers thought the bank was going to fail.

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John Gruber writing about the SVB closure

To say this is shocking is an understatement. This just shouldn’t happen to a bank.

Really? Why shouldn’t this happen to a bank?

People make bad investment choices and banks are run by people.

From Vox

The longest stretch in US history without a bank failure was from 2004 to 2007, and, well, you know what happened after that.

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It is time to meet the Merovingian.

Here we go.

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It’s almost time for the Burly Brawl.

One of my favorite fight scenes of all time.

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Ditto.

Pixel squeeze for assistant

Such a great little hardware feature. A shame it was removed from the Pixel lineup.

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Morepehous: There are some things in this world, Captain Naiobi, that will never change.

Lock: Naiobi.

Morepehous: Somethings do change.

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Currently watching: The Matrix Reloaded

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River watching some Premiere League action while Cobb could care less. Just a normal Caturday morning.

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The fear of China is strong with Nick Heer

Furthermore, nothing would prevent this sort of exploitation by groups based outside the United States, which may be able to obtain similar data to produce the same — or worse — outcomes.

There is nothing stopping groups INSIDE the United States from compiling data from data brokers to identify individuals.