Billy Smith
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This is #Fascism.
“When a transaction objectively looks like a sale to a reasonable customer, the customer should get the legal rights that come with purchase, even if the vendor figuratively has their fingers crossed behind their back in the fine print,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told The Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-16099153/sony-playstation-digital-game-ownership-court.html
Billy Smith
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TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER.
Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots.
This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston County auditor talking about postal service fuckery during the primary, and some of the steps they're taking to get around it:
https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary
Imagine express mail taking 19 days to deliver to the _next county over_. Literally behaviour they've never seen before. That's they kind of fuckery they're seeing.
Take your ballot to a BALLOT DROP BOX, not a mailbox.
#usps #election #elections #seattle #cascadia #2026midterms #midterms2026 #fascism #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP #FuckFascism
@shiva non sono un esperto e l'unica cosa che non mi convince affatto del tuo ragionamento è il fatto che non credo che la volatilità nel settore cripto stia gradualmente diminuendo.
Per il resto il tuo ragionamento fila, anche se penso che la spinta a stablecoinizzare la schiera dei paesi satelliti sia dovuta più alla volontà di speculare da parte del cerchio trumpiano, piuttosto che per consolidare il dominio statunitense
@informapirata @informatica
@economia
Sta oggettivamente diminuendo, se paragonato con i cicli passati di crescita (x1000 x100 x20 x4) e i cicli di ribasso (-98% -80% -75% -55%) ad esempio su 
pur rimanendo molto volatile, lo è stato meno. E meno di alcuni titoli azionari come ad esmpio NVIDA ma non solo...
Like, "Trump wants to return Falklands to Argentina" is not a headline that's going to make me angry, even if the fine print is bullshit and it's about propping up Milei. This dog does not hunt, it's a loser, drop it. By my calculations this is way better than him spending all day trying to figure out how to annex Canada. You will find nothing but ash and ruin on this line of attack.
@AnarchoNinaWrites It's helpful to slap the Brits upside the head as hard as possible though
Billy Smith
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The US declared measles eliminated in 2000. It's back.
One reason is simple: nobody remembers what measles does to children. When a miracle fades into the background, the machinery that produces it starts to look unnecessary.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/we-live-in-an-age-of-miracles-and
Billy Smith
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Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff No sane person loves transformative work that boils the ocean and makes hardware and electricity expensive
The new compound is apparently slick and shiny. They moved there in like 2010.
So 16 years ago.
The old one though, was horrific.
Here's a video tour of the original location, accompanied by a Babyland General song.
It's legitimately unsettling.
My grandmother used to take me when I was a kid. I don't really know why, because I was not interested in dolls even slightly.
But we went at least 6 times between the ages of 4 and 8.
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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The consultant is ranked at the same level as, and as advisor to, the person who brought them in.
I quickly learned, at the start of my work as a consultant, that the most effective strategy was to come up with some excuse to go talk to the workers, ask them what should be changed around here, and put that into a presentation to management.
The better managers would at least ask their people if my proposal was a good idea. They would, of course, say yes. It was their idea anyway.
Paul Schrader è tornato e che fine hanno fatto i filmoni americani - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/podcasts/dicono-che-e-bello-al-cinema/paul-schrader-e-tornato-e-che-fine-hanno-fatto-i-filmoni-americani?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
Billy Smith
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Re: map projections, one of my favorites is this one I saw at the Seattle Aquarium that unifies the oceans into a single mass while maintaining scale
Billy Smith
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As Zack Polanski (rightly) points out:
'How can the government designate new data centres as ‘critical national infrastructure’ when they don’t even keep records on who is using them and what they are being used for? '...
The reason, is all the better to render protestors against Data Centres as 'terrorists'.
This could be a major vote winner for the Green Party of England & Wales, and specifically for Polanski's (likely) by-election..
Dear libs, I mean I just want to warn you in advance that I'm not going to get mad on behalf of the now defunct British Empire, over the Falkland Islands, even if Trump only cares about them because of a mad Nazi plot involving his Argentinian Elon-Thiel fanboy purse dog President.
Stop trying to make everything 1982 again, it ain't happening and I'm still anti-colonialist. We are not going back to when your ideas were the "good ones" and ppl respected you. Fuck off.
Like, "Trump wants to return Falklands to Argentina" is not a headline that's going to make me angry, even if the fine print is bullshit and it's about propping up Milei. This dog does not hunt, it's a loser, drop it. By my calculations this is way better than him spending all day trying to figure out how to annex Canada. You will find nothing but ash and ruin on this line of attack.
Billy Smith
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Hyphenated.
Non-hyphenated.
Alex makes autism fun
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@zzclaybourne/116715979031481405
So soon. Ready your earholes. Advance readers are bringing church.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidiansky/khumalo-tales
Alex makes autism fun
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@maddy@thegayagenda.fans Yeah! There's a study linking testosterone with being cuddly.
And for humans, you really need the right hormones for your brain! It's stressful otherwise, and stress makes you grouchy. But even grouchiness isn't the same as being an asshole!
Billy Smith
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Last week IV saline was recalled because it contained fibreglass.
Now it’s being recalled for iron oxide.
The food & medical supply is compromised.
The sick & disabled need IV saline the most.
This is where deregulation leads.
They were always going to come for the vulnerable first:
