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valaramech

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And what are the chances that the Democrats have learned their lesson and will pivot to a more progressive candidate for the next election cycle?

Exactly zero. The rich people in the DNC benefit just as much from the conservative agenda as any other rich asshole. Not being in power is completely irrelevant to their interests, as far as I can tell.

Unless and until Donnie makes good on his threats to imprison/murder his political opponents, none of them will give a single fuck that leftist didn’t want to vote for them because they weren’t left enough.

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14 points

At least the AI gave them good trigger discipline

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I actively do this with uMatrix - granted, I only block non-first-party JavaScript. Most sites I visit only require a few domains to be enabled to function. The ones that don’t are mostly ad-riddled news sites.

There are a few exceptions to this - AWS and Atlassian come to mind - but the majority of what I see on the internet does actually work more or less fine when you block non-first-party JavaScript and some even when you do that. uMatrix also has handy bundles built-in for certain things like sites that embed YouTube, for example, that make this much easier.

Blocking non-first-party like I do does actually solve this issue for the most part, since, according to the article, only bundles that come from the cdn.polyfill.io domain itself that were the problem.

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LAMP is a programming stack used by a couple fediverse projects. It usually stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”; the primary components in the stack, though Perl or Python sometimes replace PHP.

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We’ve actually discovered a few of these! Though, nothing quite so catastrophic as you might be thinking.

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Protip: when you’re looking for something and you find it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it in the first place you looked.

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The internet is filled with Schrodinger’s Asshole. How is anyone supposed to know if you meant it sarcastically originally or are just claiming it was sarcastic now that it hasn’t landed?

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My expectation is that the “mass deportations” will quickly morph into “mass incarceration” will quickly morph into an enslaved workforce.

There will probably be one wave of deportations just to “show we mean business” or something and then the news will move onto the next distraction while the remaining undocumented immigrants are quietly sent back off to do the jobs they were doing only now the business don’t have to pay them.

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The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration

This is, effectively, how oral flee/tick medications work in animals. It basically turns the animal’s blood into a mild poison. The poison is mild enough that it doesn’t affect the animal but it’s enough to kill small insects like flees, ticks, or mosquitoes.

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The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there’s no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.

The only potential loophole that I can discern is that there’s no clear consensus on if Trump would be allowed to run as Vice-President on someone else’s ticket. If he can, then, theoretically, he could run for VP and then have the elected President immediately resign, making him the President again.

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