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by frob 7mo ago
Under their military rules, they have an obligation to disregard illegal orders. This war was not declared by congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They are chosing to do this and are thus complicit.
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by frob 7mo ago
I spent days and days inside the STAR control room in grad school, often during the 12:30am-7:30am graveyard shift. We needed to run 24/7 for efficiency reasons during the experimental season. Getting superconductors down to temp is co
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by frob 11mo ago
Want to work for a software company actively working to help our fellow citizens instead of harm them? Want to work directly with state governments to get people home sooner? Recidiviz is hiring. https://job-boards.greenhouse.io&
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Teen Swarmed by Cops After AI Metal Detector Flags His Doritos Bag as a Gun(gizmodo.com)
11 points by frob 11mo ago|2 comments
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The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced(karenattiah.substack.com)
38 points by frob 1y ago|29 comments
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by frob 1y ago
Isreal has slaughtered over 60 thousand Palistinians. Israel is purposefully starving the rest. Israel uses desperate people searching for food as target practice as testified to by contractors working along side them. But, apparently Israe
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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain(gizmodo.com)
2 points by frob 1y ago|2 comments
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by frob 1y ago
Thw law is very obviously being abused here by Trump and his administration to punish unfavored speech and unfavored groups. They dont care about equal protection one bit. They want to punish academics and universities so that Trump et al c
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by frob 1y ago
"Attack" is when your arms get in the way of their baton swinging at your face.
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by frob 1y ago
If you're not on multiple naughty lists by the end of this administration, you're doing something wrong.
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by frob 1y ago
Authoritarian states often function via selective enforcement of laws. We see that here. They will use any angle, any technicality to remove someone. Lived here for almost 50 years and are a productive member of your community but you'
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by frob 1y ago
I encourage you to read the quotes from Israeli political and social leaders in this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel... > “The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and f
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by frob 1y ago
Such as the US secretary of "defense", Pete Hegseth, who has the Latin phrase for "god wills it" tattooed on his bicep. A phrase that is also the motto of the first crusade.
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by frob 1y ago
The NSF funded my graduate research. It feels like someone is going through my past and burning all of the ladders that helped me grow and succeed.
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by frob 1y ago
Hi Tom. You're burning your credibility here fast as the new moderator. dang derived his respect as an admin from not getting into fights in the threads. It additonaly tarnishes your credibility as you're doing this in defense of
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by frob 1y ago
It's currently showing up as flagged as a dupe and isn't anywhere on the first 3 pages.
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by frob 1y ago
What you are saying is the fantastical kool-aid Fox News and alt-right media spin to you. In the meantime, Trump is actually deporting people without due process to inhumane torture camps run by a dictator while openly bragging about it and
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by frob 1y ago
I was there during the onavo scandal. It was straight up spyware. They would regularly show graphs of snapchat usage vs messenger vs whatsapp and the snapchat data was explicitly attributed to onovo logs.
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by frob 1y ago
The public cruelty is the point. Make people suffer horrendously outsized consequences for the most minor of innocent infractions and it quickly sends a message that you're not welcome here.
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by frob 1y ago
Do not come here. First, do it for your own safety. A wrong form or the wrong answer to a verbal question after 18 hours of travel could land you in weeks of brutal detention. Second, do it to help the cause. We here in America need to suff
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by frob 1y ago
When the people in charge are acting like the dumbest bully from my grade school, then yes, it does sound like valid critism and a legitimate point of discussion.
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by frob 2y ago
I submitted it as a post this week. It survived for about 3 minutes before being flagged as a dupe and then deleted without any link to the conversation it was supposedly a dupe of. I did some cursory searching and could not find another co
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by frob 2y ago
It's just all about respecting what people want to be called. What harm does that cause you, Andrew?
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by frob 2y ago
Sadly, with this administration, the divisiveness, like the cruelty, is the point.
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by frob 2y ago
If you believed his disavowl, I've got a bridge... fuck it. Just give me your bank account number and I promise there will be $47 million in it tomorrow morning.
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by frob 2y ago
GNU General Public License: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License It's one of several options for software licenses a developer or team can use when distributing a piece of software to help ensu
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by frob 2y ago
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."
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by frob 2y ago
I remember meeting Maxine Williams on my first day at Facebook. She gave a strong introductory address that left me with a deep appreciation of the value of diversity not just as a moral good, but as a good business decision. Seeing her wor
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by frob 2y ago
Years ago I printed out the poster version of https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ . It has lived on my desk since then. Every time I need to work with flexbox, it moves to the top of the pi
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by frob 2y ago
I've gone back to https://cssgridgarden.com/ multiple times. It's https://flexboxfroggy.com/ but for grids.

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