sqgl

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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago

MP3's sped up copying of music. As for games though, they increased in size because of CD's so that countered any speed up.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

The "derangement syndrome" political phrase was actually coined in 2003 during the Bush administration by political commentator Charles Krauthammer about critics of President George W. Bush. The Minnesota bill borrows the exact phrasing Krauthammer used to describe "Bush derangement syndrome," which reads: "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency—nay—the very existence of George W. Bush."

https://www.fox9.com/news/mn-lawmakers-want-make-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness

 

They want to classify opposition to Trump as a mental illness.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Did you read the explanation for the third one? It is awesome but would be impossible for citizens to produce freehand (is that even done nowadays? Even in schools?)

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

~~Didn't Trump also ban women's voices from being heard in public?~~

EDIT: Sorry that was the Taliban, the other right wing extremist regime.

 

I think this is a serious article folks. Can any Polish people here confirm?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

How long were the piglets without food before being "rescued"?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Or it was all according to the artist's plan anyhow.

Not that I would be surprised if the artist never cared about animal rights in the first place.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Are you trying to paint Christian- majority countries as equally repressive as these listed countries?

 

Politicians caught out lying about the science and bypassing any real consultation with communities.

You can choose either the transcript or the podcast audio. Source articles used in the story are also linked at the top of the page.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is it misleading?

r/worldnews only allows unedited titles. Looks like it has changed since then.

The thread I stole comments from was answering a person asking someone like "how can the US order Taiwan to do anything?". I hate to promote Reddit but credit where it is due...

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1gnowuf/comment/lwd8fy0

 

US ordered TSMC, not Taiwan the country. The vast majority of sales are made to US based firms so they likely have a lot of sway.

US is the major customer of TSMC, so they can order them, not to mention we protect them with defense pacts, so they might want to actually listen. Pretty sure they make some of our military grade chips as well.

Cutting edge chips are used in cutting edge military hardware. TSMC provides a lot of the chips used in advanced American weapons. Turns out a faster chip in a missile makes the missile better able to make sophisticated split second decisions.

US can order most of its allies to do anything. Remember when the US thought Edward Snowden was on the Bolivian presidential airplane and within the span of like, half a hour, managed to get all of western europe to deny airspace to Bolivia, ground the literal presidential plane and search him like a dirty drug mule? Was pretty awkward after that when Snowden wasn't even there.

[Cobbled from Reddit thread]

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Gives me hope. Would you also say the males are less constrained by the macho culture of older generations? More capable of talking about emotions?

And women less constrained by their own old stereotypes?

I find it hard to be sure because both stereotypes are still alive and popular. The gender benders have been around for decades but perhaps not as flamboyant now so they merely seems more mainstream now.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

younger people today are skilled in ways could have only dreamed of.

Any examples?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago
[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The point is there was no global outcry. You hadn't heard about it had you?

It is only when Israel responds to an entire year of daily missile attacks by Hezbollah that attention is paid.

UNIFIL was warned by Israel to get out of the way before they entered to stop the attacks by Hezbollah which UNIFIL couldn't/wouldn't.

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Julian Assange in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction - and their chilling effect on human rights - on 1 October 2024 ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In his first public remarks since his release from detention at Belmarsh Prison in the UK, Mr Assange told parliamentarians: "I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was."

 

Hamas is literally an internationally recognized terrorist organization, proscribed by many countries including the UK and the Arab League.

CBC also refuses to call Hamas terrorists despite their government labeling them as such.

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