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    Sex work (digression from Charlie Kirk)

    You haven't explained how making it legal is supposed to encourage the illegal things. The reality is that legal markets to a far better job of separating permitted and prohibited transactions than illegal ones do. You buy your weed from the dispensary I passed today, you get carded. You buy...
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    World's oldest crater found?

    https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/worlds-oldest-impact-crater-found-rewriting-earths-ancient-history/?utm_source=badastronomy.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=earth-s-oldest-crater-found Why in the world should I believe this? It's Australia, why hasn't something come...
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    Why hate speech laws are a bad thing

    They can define it to be whatever they want.
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    English!

    Why is it that a sun hoodie is maximally covering whereas a sun dress is minimally covering??
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    And we're screwed

    Help those Mexicans fight a pest? Cancelled. Now the screwworm is knocking on our door. (Caution: article is illustrated.) https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/screwworms-are-coming-and-theyre-just-as-horrifying-as-they-sound/
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    An illustration of media bias

    https://apnews.com/projects/israel-gaza-war-pager-attack-survivors-hezbollah/ Attempting to stir up sympathy for terrorists hit by one of the most surgical military attacks of modern times?
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    Affirmative Action (split from Are people already regretting their choice?)

    The thing is it doesn't. The ones that are supposed to be helped are far enough below that it does nothing for them. The real problem is way, way earlier than the university.
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    Looks like vaccination is going away

    https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2025/07/02/331546.htm What company in their right mind would make vaccines when they'll be held liable for everything that happens whether or not the vaccine caused it. The lawyers really hate the systems that put such claims before medical panels...
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    A solution? :)

    https://thesarkariform.com/trump-says-hed-like-to-be-the-next-pope-calls-himself-the-number-one-choice/ He wants to be Pope. A position where all he can do is devastate an organization that we don't need, anyway. Elect him!
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    The party of cutting regulations?!?!

    The agenda doesn't indicate what changes are being imposed. They have been sending out the agenda to licensees for years now, until recently there's been basically nothing pushed down from above. In the last two years (since we elected an R governor) there have been three helpings of state...
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    Why the Constitution is now null and void

    (I could have put this in the thread about 47, but just because he's the one doing it doesn't mean the problem is specific to him) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/usaid-security-leaders-removed-refusing-elon-musks-doge-employees-acce-rcna190357 He's clearly doing a bunch of...
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    Journalist killed by sniper -- why no outrage?

    https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-journalist-shot-head-pa-west-bank Very simple: the sniper was Palestinian, no way to pretend it was Israel. (And while the article doesn't actually say so I have a strong feeling this is part of the Hamas/Fatah conflict.)
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    The reality of income growth

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-u-s-household-incomes-have-changed-1967-2023/ The reality: all brackets are benefiting. And note that this chart understates the effect because it's based on household income and the average US household has shrunk. But people notice the things...
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    Wars hit innocents. Even the drug war

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/11/pregnant-hospital-drug-test-medicine/76804299007/ Hospital gives pain meds during childbirth. Mandatory testing of newborns for drugs. Mandatory reporting of positive tests to CPS. Predictable outcome.
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    Perverted scientists :)

    https://phys.org/news/2024-12-eyes-sun-naked-thallium-ion.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter What I want to know is the energy levels needed to make naked thallium. How do you manage to rip off those inner electrons??
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    Pogroms and blaming the Jews

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/israel-sends-rescue-planes-football-fans-reportedly-attacked-amsterdam Blaming the Jews for it: Starting??? https://www.jewishpress.com/news/terrorism-news/israel-warned-dutch-police-about-the-amsterdam-pogrom-but-was-ignored/2024/11/08/ Israel...
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    Are people already regretting their choice?

    https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fvah1zzj84izd1.png Why did the Wikipedia page views for Project 2025 skyrocket just after the election? And if you're voting about taxes, why didn't you look at the numbers...
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    Trump's economy -- horrible

    Some of our supporters of the Orange Hitler are talking about the economy as a reason. Musk even admits The Felon is going to crash the economy. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-agrees-trump-win-economic-crash-1235146307/
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    Rooftop solar problem

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/10/16/rooftop-solar-emissions-climate-change/ Solar farm: $1.16/watt. Rooftop: $4.20/watt. But the incentives are so mixed up we are doing the latter.
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    Why we need truly encrypted communications--the threat has come true

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/chinese-hackers-breached-us-court-wiretap-systems-wsj-reports-2024-10-06/ We keep seeing the eternal chant of child sex abuse material as justification for the government to have the ability to tap into encrypted communication. But what the...
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