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Spices
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The Soleimani angle is the only motivation Iran needs to want to sink Trump. Not even on a geopolitical level, but a personal one. But this thing is a moist fart. For all the secret service / national security council handwringing about "Iranian election interference" this is fucking weak. Literally just a list of points which have been made in various mainstream US publications. Way too overhyped.
Ken Klippenstein has been banned from Twitter for publishing the J.D. Vance dossier. 
(it's >200 pages, but from a glance it mostly seems to be a paper trail of his "liberal ties" and being a "never-trumper." Very much opposition research targeted at right wingers)
This proposal has tangential clauses.
If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also any other Twitter mirror that doesn't require an account. [...] or archive them as you would any other reactionary source usin
I am against this as a requirement, but I have utmost respect for the posters who do it, and try to do it myself when I'm not out on a smoke break with like two minutes left. I'd prefer a paywall/accountwall link over no news. It is a sliding scale though. I probably will not view anything on instagram or facebook. The worse the platform, the more compelling the news must be to justify posting it.
Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed
100%. Anybody can whip up a fake tweet in two seconds. Tweets (posts in general on any platform) can be taken down, revised, corrected, or simply fake. Screenshot as a convenience is one thing, but it needs a source. It isn't real unless I can send it 
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Turning demurrers into jurors at the stand of success.
Really. Making Rudy Giuliani look downright professional.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on corruption charges: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-indicted-corruption#eric-adams-indicted
Zelensky is in a similar situation to Netenyahu. Domestically, he is not particularly popular to begin with, and the second the war is over, he is done. With the end of active combat comes the relaxation of martial law. Relaxation of military censorship, the return of electoral politics. People will begin to reflect on the losses they have been forced to endure. In the face of defeat, they will question how many additional hundreds of thousands of lives it was worth sacrificing to avoid an earlier settlement. Meanwhile, anything short of delivering Moscow on a silver platter will make him persona non grata to the Banderites. And their fascists now have years of combat experience, unlike the typical American chud who can't even bag a deer.
This is why they eliminated all opposition parties and media platforms on day one of the war, and ultimately did away with elections entirely. They wanted to make sure that the only end to this conflict is death.
I hate Windows so fucking much. Its such a fucking piece of shit. So fucking bad.
screed continues...
Shit tries to be all cute showing news headlines in the lock screen. The headlines are obviously curated by Microsoft, because every other one is about Copilot. Surely this can be disabled, but I'm not sending IT an email about it. I disabled the nags in Explorer myself.
IT was kind enough to install 7zip on here. Surely for their own convenience, but it helps me low key install some software (like FreeCAD and Emacs) in my user directory. But it is an old version which fails to open some more recent archives. So I grabbed a copy of the latest version, threw it in my user directory, right click the 7z archive (the right click menu on Windows 11 is an ABOMINATION, but I'll get to that), open with, pick the NEW 7zfm.exe, check ALWAYS, and it STILL USES THE FUCKING OLD ONE.
This isn't just a thing with pre-installed software. I set up Emacs for editing NC programs, because I won't be caught dead using Notepad or CimcoEdit. Been using Emacs 28.1 for a while. Just updated to 29.2. Did the same thing. Right click, open with, new exe file, always, it still opens the old Emacs.
The right click menu in the file browser fucking SUCKS. The copy/paste/rename functions don't even have text. I'm supposed to decipher these hieroglyphic icons which change depending on the context. AWFUL. At least this can be fixed with an (undocumented) registry entry (and doesn't require admin).
The icons in the start bar straight up disappear. You have applications open and you don't even know what they are, because there's no text either.
3 times a week I need to print a spreadsheet that gets emailed to me. From Outlook, this requires clicking "print" on FOUR layers of dialogue windows.
If I already have a file browser open and I open a second one, it is OBVIOUSLY because I intend to drag and drop files from the current one to a new folder, but the file browser always opens up stacked directly on top of the current window, no matter its size or location.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Absolute fucking dog shit operating system.
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Just finished the Strawberry Jam intermediate lobby. 🥳
(hexbear.net)
16,651 deaths to get through 'beginner' and 'intermediate' lmao.
For those who live under a rock, Strawberry Jam is a collaborative level pack made for Celeste which contains 111 levels and NINE HOURS of original soundtrack. It embodies the workmanship of over 350 contributors. The levels are split into five categories ranging from 'beginner' to 'grandmaster.'
This is what the final stage of 'intermediate' looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7zvu0kDro
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DSA National Committee posting cringe
(hexbear.net)
The statement continues in a tweet thread
Absolutely pathetic. My pessimism is spiking to C. Derek Varn levels. These motherfuckers have given you NOTHING. They are jingling car keys in front of your face and you are cooing like an infant. How are you not only going to endorse, but TAKE CREDIT for the selection of this guy with absolutely no promises or concessions. This man will be the Vice President, and by your own admission, the blood will be on your hands.
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Category four? More like category snore.