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News•'Material factual error': 9th Circuit reverses victory for Trump admin in National Guard case after discovery shows feds lied about troop numbers in OregonEnglish
16·hace 9 díasThey didn’t claim a low number of troops, they claimed a high number of Federal Protection Service officers. They claimed that they had to send 25% (115) of all protection officers to Portland to protect ICE and that demonstrates an inability to execute federal law. The actual peak number of protection officers deployed at any one time was 31.
It looks pretty similar to this image I found from a British playground equipment site. Odds are it’s a real slide in a real room that was furnished after this photo was taken. Outlet looks weird because of the screw holes and the power switches in the middle that UK outlets have.

I wonder how accurate that number is. From what I can find, the source was Castro’s head of intelligence. He’d certainly know things, but he is a single source. His list includes things that arent assassination attempts, like assassination schemes (plans that haven’t been/won’t be put into action) and attempts to assassinate his character. Is a plot to make his beard fall out an assassination attempt?
The scuba suit with poison fungus is one that seems pretty popular, people love to bring it up. But it wasn’t an actual attempt, it never made it out of the planning phase.
Wait, the BBC article I just found about his book Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro says, “However most of the ideas were never put into practice, former bodyguard Fabian Escalante said.” The source of the 634 number isn’t even claiming that there were 634 assassination attempts.
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News•Trump Brags That He “Took the Freedom of Speech Away” From ProtestersEnglish
2·hace 24 díasYou can’t separate the two things like that. Lighting a flag on fire is political speech and the administration has said they will charge people who light the flag on fire. The fact that the thing he lit on fire on federal property was the flag is absolutely legally relevant here. It will be a major part of his defense, as they will try to argue that the law he has violated is placing an undue burden on his freedom of speech. It will be the thing the entire case hinges on.
This is important because it’s fairly easy to make laws against all the things involved in a protest and then say “oh we aren’t charging them for protesting, we are charging them for obstructing the view by holding a sign.”
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News•Trump Brags That He “Took the Freedom of Speech Away” From ProtestersEnglish
9·hace 25 díasI’m not sure why the article says the charges aren’t relating to burning the flag when the charges are about lighting the flag on fire. The charges don’t say the word flag on them, but it is the flag burning they are charging him with.
The US has a progressive income tax, so it is true that people with higher education pay more income tax as a whole. The main difference with other countries is that it has a fairly low percentage cap and an absurdly low capital gains tax. The wealthy paying a low tax rate because of most of their earnings being asset based instead of income based doesn’t change the fact that the people who get paid higher incomes from their jobs that required higher education pay more income tax.
It’s labeled 1.25 pints. A US pint is ~473 ml. Multiplying that by 1.25 gets me 591 ml.
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Not The Onion•U.S. parole board can’t jail people because it doesn’t legally exist, suit saysEnglish
14·hace 27 díasBut this isn’t about nationwide relief, this is about DC residents.
No, Amazon does not own Kohl’s. You might be confusing that with them partnering together to take Amazon returns.
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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Walgreens requires you provide "sex assigned at birth"!?English
81·hace 1 mesIf you were intentionally trying to design the page in a way to deny trans people their identity, I don’t know what you would do differently from this.
A binary ‘Sex’ field could at least have the cover of “Sorry, the code is 30 years old and we don’t know how to change this field in the database without breaking things.” Labeling the field as Sex Assigned at Birth means they considered trans people and considered them worth hurting.
Edit: I do think asking for sex is a CDC thing. But only asking that means you can be misgendered at the pharmacy and also ignores that hormones have a major role in your health. A doctor or pharmacist going off your birth certificate to treat you is a bad doctor/pharmacist.
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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Walgreens requires you provide "sex assigned at birth"!?English
6·hace 1 mesJust Male and Female.
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Trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Walgreens requires you provide "sex assigned at birth"!?English
15·hace 1 mesThe hiding behind vague medical reasons is infuriating. When I went through this form, I was thinking “don’t lie to me and I won’t have to lie to you.”
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News•An immigration judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil deported. What happens now?English
6·hace 2 mesesImmigration judges aren’t actual judges. They are in the executive branch.
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World News@quokk.au•Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X postsEnglish
17·hace 2 mesesHe wasn’t talking about trans men, he was using a slur against trans women.
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World News@quokk.au•Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X postsEnglish
6·hace 2 mesesHe wasn’t saying anything about trans men, at least in the part you quoted. That’s a slur used against trans women.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnantEnglish
1·hace 2 mesesThey make dedicated Nvidia images and I’ve heard good things. It’s supposed to be one of the distros to pick if you want a good out of the box experience with Nvidia. Only used the Amd/Intel image myself though.
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Technology•Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'English
22·hace 2 mesesCrypto was an annoying bubble. If you were in the tech industry, you had a couple of years where people asked you if you could add blockchain to whatever your project was and then a few more years of hearing about NFTs. And GPUs shot up in price. Crypto people promised to revolutionize banking and then get rich quick schemes. It took time for the hype to die down, for people to realize that the tech wasn’t useful, and that the costs of running it weren’t worth it.
The AI bubble is different. The proponents are gleeful while they explain how AI will let you fire all your copywriters, your graphics designers, your programmers, your customer support, etc. Every company is trying to figure out how to shoehorn AI into their products. While AI is a useful tool, the bubble around it has hurt a lot of people.
That’s the bubble side. It also gets a lot of baggage because of the slop generated by it, the way it’s trained, the power usage, the way people just turn off their brains and regurgitate whatever it says, etc. It’s harder to avoid than crypto.








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