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  • A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist

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  • My dude I will piss through the brick wall that is Trump and his cult if I must.

    Its not just his actions hurting people. The hate he has espoused and encouraged amongst the public has promoted nationalistic and dehumanizing beliefs to a boiling point, not to mention the influence and power he has provided the Heritage Foundation and their implementation of Project 2025.

  • getting a deadly infection and an eating disorder from an untreated shattered tooth because dental isn’t considered healthcare

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  • My red-headed mother passed down the gene mutation (melanocortin- 1 receptor) that causes resistance to lidocaine and other local anesthesia. Made for some rough dentist/ortho visits as a child. The pain afterwards is pretty negligible but when the lidocaine wears off mid-extraction it's fucking rough.

  • Famed Tennessee sheriff who inspired Hollywood movie 'Walking Tall' implicated in wife's murder

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  • getting a deadly infection and an eating disorder from an untreated shattered tooth because dental isn’t considered healthcare

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  • Been there done that. Was pulling rotted roots from a broken tooth the other week...had my surgery set but my x-rays were 6 months old, shit had deteriorated and surgeon agreed with me that a new exam was warranted. That meant the surgery was delayed and I get to deal with the pain for longer and likely get more pulled.

    I legitimately want them to pull everything. I'd rather deal with full dentures until I can afford implants. My teeth have always been sensitive and I will absolutely fuck my tongue up probing at partial denture wires.

    Just today I had two new chunks fall out. The first time I bit down on a chunk of tooth scarred me, but the day I realized I was used to it broke me a bit.

  • getting a deadly infection and an eating disorder from an untreated shattered tooth because dental isn’t considered healthcare

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  • I'm literally looking forward to having 8 teeth pulled this month because A. at least the pain will go away B. They're putting me under general because the several extractions I've had before this traumatized the shit out of me.

    I could also share the story of paying $800 for a root canal and temp crown then losing my job before getting the perm crown. The remainder of that tooth was extracted a year later for $350.

    Paying $1150 to lose a tooth radicalized the fuck out of me.

  • Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air

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  • Seriously, all these comments about fucked-up and predatory content...has anyone considered quitting Facebook? Or just algorithmically-served content altogether? Am I crazy for preferring to build and do my best to expand my own silo rather than having billionaire-owned corporations do it for me?

  • Social Media Figure Killed in Road Rage Episode, Police Say

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  • The cops were probably impressed by his aim and asked for shooting tips.

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    I BUILT A GOOGLE NEWS CLONE JUST WITH ANTI-CAPITALIST AND LEFT-WING NEWS SOURCES

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  • I'm interested in the long-form articles but have never used RSS, is there a good reference site for learning about it you could recommend?

  • A List of Open Source Game Clones

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  • RekMod is an excellent balance pass and similar to the popular LekMod from original Civ5. There's also mods for the expansion rules/content; Gods & Kings and Brave New World if you prefer to stick to RAW.

    Ancient Civilizations and Community Maps add a TON of civs and quality maps, though I must mention that vanilla UnCiv provides very granular control over map generation already. CM does have really sweet "pre-constructed" maps though.

    DeCiv Redux and Alpha Frontier are complete overhauls and have little to nothing in common with Civ5 aside from basic gameplay. DeCiv is fun, I haven't tried Alpha Frontier yet though.

    Graphics-wise there are tilesets as well as alternate unit art. I personally have 5Hex Tileset and AbsoluteUnits. Looks like some mods have FantasyHex as a dependency as well.

    There's many many mods besides these, but this is the list I've personally curated over ~100ish? hrs playtime.

    Did I mention there's multiplayer?

  • A List of Open Source Game Clones

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  • I'm an UnCiv Stan; Civ5 implemented with SNES-level graphics for your smart phone. Excellent selection of mods and supports multiplayer.

  • Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees

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  • Yeah the private school thing is the only point of contention. I can't decide whether their willingness to hire non-education degrees is a good or bad thing. I'm reasonably confident in my ability to teach (math especially) but definitely lack pedagogy training. I'm taking their willingness to support my certification as a good sign, just concerned about the meantime.

    That said, when my options are teaching math to high schoolers or defense sector...pretty easy choice.

  • Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees

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  • Just today I was made aware of an open position for a high school math teacher that I'm finding myself surprisingly keen on. It is a private/charter school which I'm generally ideologically opposed to but in this case it's geared towards sending underserved children to university.

    I was that child, only I received virtually zero support from teachers and made a shitton of mistakes trying to figure out university and adulting with neurodivergence. Helping to prepare guide and inspire the next generation actually sounds incredibly fulfilling.

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • Congratulations, you just disenfranchised many of our most vulnerable demographics from the disabled to seniors to stay at home mothers.

    Every single person subject to a government and it's set of laws gets the chance to voice their opinion. Full stop.

  • Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time

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  • You've falling for the lies that the right has been shouting for decades. We had that education, had reasonably trustworthy information outlets. Both of those institutions have been eroded and co-opted by the GOP for years and years. We are in the endgame of 60+ years of slow, calculated corruption of our institutions. Flaws have been exploited, loopholes created and repeatedly sommersaulted through.

    Basing school funding on property values is a sick joke that leaves the impoverished underserved and undereducated. This is why we have a literacy epidemic. Social media and the consolidation of news outlets under billionaires have been the primary drivers of mis- and disinformation. The firehose of shit has been pumping trash down peoples throats for over a decade at this point, filling the brains of people who did not have the opportunity to learn critical thinking or media literacy with falsehoods and false hopes.

    Every single person living in any country should have a voice. Citizen or not. Once you allow one group to be disenfranchised it opens the gate to more widespread disenfranchisement of other "undesireables." We need a concerted effort to re-establish robust, evidence-based teaching that goes beyond regurgitating facts, that is equally available and not dependent on your neighbors property values. We also need independent journalism that is not beholden to the whims of a single, disgustingly rich person.

    Start there. Start with figuring out how to respect and help the people around you rather than sneering and looking down your nose at them. Your mindset and solution are antithetical to a fair and just system of governance.

  • The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing – but the planes are harder to track

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  • As a plane-type autist, I had to stop watching the airspaces around El Salvador and Palestine for my own sanity. Shit's so fucked.

  • Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees

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  • I am in this article and I don't like it.

    Mechanical Engineer, graduated a few years ago. Slightly above this age band due to mental health struggles in my 20s. Four years of internships + undergrad research during school. One year, three months of unsteady, career-relevant contract work since then.

    Moved from Bumfuck Midwest to a city with plenty of aerospace gigs but can't even get an interview at the grocery store. I'm lucky that my parents and state aid have covered me thus far, have gotten wildly higher-quality mental/physical care here. Behaviourally I'm better than ever but chucking resumes into the void is wearing me down and I'm backsliding on my executive functioning progress.

    Employment or a Master's/PhD in Sweden/Germany/EU in general is preferable to the American defense industry but that's a tall and expensive hill to climb (if anyone wants to assist please DM 🙃) and I'm nearly out of time before being faced with moving back home.

    I'm tired, boss.

  • Many West Virginians say they can’t reach their members of Congress

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  • Counterpoint - Castle Doctrine. Hard to defend yourself with Implied License when you're full of buckshot.

  • Americans have no idea

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  • We decimated the decimation!

  • Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo

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  • Please, detail the differences you see between redacting and doctoring.