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"I'm not someone who has ever committed violence," says the guy who literally condemned millions to die by cutting foreign aid, defunded life-saving medical research, and slashed programs and benefits people depend on to survive... and that's not counting the pollution, worker deaths, etc
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I'm of primarily Irish descent, mass murder of my ancestors at the hands of the British by starvation was deliberate but even then there was an element of doubt as to intent. They didn't ban all imports from donors with a military embargo.
There are millions of pounds of food waiting to enter Gaza
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So few people bother to make collection agencies validate a debt that 99% of the time, they won't even bother to do it. The CFPB has a collection of sample debt validation letters and information on your rights: www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/c...
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I think it's fair to say that blockchains are a cool and potentially useful data structure. *permissionless* blockchains are a bad solution to an invented problem.
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If you’re relying on AI to come up with your argument, and just checking the cites after… you’re skipping the most important part of constructing an argument.
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sounds like it should describe a member of a fringe religious sect, which ... actually yeah?
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Note that it broke $300 million *globally*; not sure what that means for the domestic take. Major—and well-deserved—achievement regardless.
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possibly also a follow-farming strategy, but more troublingly seems like an unblockable way to mass-distribute a message to specific targets
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Google AI sourcing medical advice from Dr. Bluey
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damnit, now I want an entire album of this
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nb: you will want to choose your target carefully for this one
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my favorite variant is probably "interrupting starfish":
"interrupting sta—" *dart your hand forward, palm outward with fingers splayed like a starfish, stopping inches from their face*
best as the last in a series of interrupting knock-knocks, once your audience is sure they know the schtick
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It’s not just Gambia.
We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.