2023-01-20
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Horseshit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Nearly 50-meter laser experiment sets record in university hallway
"Reaching the 50-meter scale for air waveguides literally blazes the path for even longer waveguides and many applications,"
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Dungeons and Dragons' New OGL Will Be an 'Irrevocable' Creative Commons License
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Collections: The Nitpicks of Power, Part I: Exploding Forges – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
The problem with that is that this show’s plot in this season centers entirely on an act of metal-working, the production of the Three Rings. That means metal-working, metal-working skills and everything related to them are central to this plot and thus important to get right.
And they are not right.
TechSuck
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Which Political Victories Cause Backlashes?
Maybe the public backlashes against conservative victories, but not liberal ones? Why would that be? Maybe because liberals control more of the media than conservatives; when conservatives win something, the media does a good job making everyone panic that conservative ideas are taking over, and convinces them to do a thermostatic reaction. But when liberals win something, most people either don’t hear about it or don’t hear anyone telling them to worry, so they don’t. Or maybe it’s because liberalism is “on the right side of history”, ie the direction things naturally tend, so nobody finds liberal victories surprising, whereas everyone finds conservative victories surprising and feels like they need to react against them.
Maybe it has to do with how quickly people can find a case of the new law going wrong? My impression of the post-Dobbs debate on abortion was that it centered on an incredibly sympathetic 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who really needed an abortion but was having trouble getting one - a few stories like that can probably move opinion a lot.
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The Media’s Embarrassing George Santos Fixation — Explained – Issues & Insights
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Biden’s IRS plans to squeeze everyone, even those making less than $400,000 a year.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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U.S. airline accidentally exposes ‘No Fly List’ on unsecured server
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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
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The Enduring Mystery of an Aggressive FBI Raid Near Area 51
As of this week, it’s been more than two months since the government raided both of Arnu’s properties, but he still hasn’t been charged with a crime. He was served with a search warrant that was missing dozens of pages and gave no reason for the raid; the case records related to the warrant have been sealed, so there’s no way of telling what the point of the search was. He also hasn’t been able to get in touch with the FBI, aside from a letter from the agency’s legal department denying reimbursement for the damage caused during the raids, he said. And, it goes without saying, he never got his stuff back.