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  • Trump, 79, Uses Old Golf Pic to Prove He’s Alive and Well

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  • Once again, he makes it worse than if he left it alone.

    Learn from Lake Wobegon. Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

  • Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice

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  • The Nuremberg Trials barely got down to the level that these guys are at. They sorta gave up after a while.

    Though Christopher Lee probably took care of a few of them.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • It's not even really true; it's a salacious fact that was passed around and everyone agreed. For example, there's no real evidence that VHS won over Betamax because of porn. Everyone accepted that fact uncritically.

  • Peter Thiel is delivering 4 private sold-out lectures at a club in San Francisco—about the Antichrist

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  • The Antichrist: An Unofficial Autobiography

  • 'We got played again': MAGA turns on House Republicans over 'fake' Epstein files release

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  • That's a very narrow way of looking at democracy. Voting is only one thing you can do to affect change. It's arguably not even the best way.

    Since Trump took office, members of Congress have been talking about getting death threats if they don't do everything Trump says. This has had a real effect on what Congress has done in response. To a certain extent, members of Congress always get death threats, but the amplitude seems much, much higher than it has ever been. This has had a real effect on what they've done against Trump--both GOP and Dems alike.

    If MAGA stops their support, then that goes away, and it will have direct impacts.

  • 'We got played again': MAGA turns on House Republicans over 'fake' Epstein files release

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  • They have no power without the GOP. It's the same reason that the American Green Party has no power, just from the opposite side.

  • 'We got played again': MAGA turns on House Republicans over 'fake' Epstein files release

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  • That's where things are at for now; anything the GOP does to try to make it go away will make it worse.

    Yes, people are leaving MAGA over this, and many others are less vocal than they were. Not everyone, but MAGA doesn't have to shrink much before it's no longer a political force.

  • The Florida Republican Party now has a 10-point voter registration lead over Democrats

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  • Let's solve global warming except for the part where Florida disappears into the sea.

  • Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing 'National Security'

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  • Like abortion, you can't ban unions. You can only ban legally protected unions.

  • Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find

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  • Just block me

    I haven't finished my morning coffee yet, but it'll probably be the smartest thing I do all day.

  • Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • Well, Elon wouldn't work with him because Elon had a shitty idea that Thiel said was shitty and wouldn't let Elon do it. Elon was forced to settle for becoming filthy rich.

    That project is where the name "X" originally comes from.

  • US poll finds 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war

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  • Anyone remotely affiliated with Hamas is little more than a blood smear on the pavement in Gaza at this point

    Imagine if this isn't true. It'd mean Israel managed to bomb literally everything except Hamas.

  • A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn

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  • Whole list of things where the rules were put in for a reason, but people forgot the reasons, and now they want to get rid of them. Sometimes while calling GK Chesterton a conservative intellectual and forgetting about his fence analogy.

    Why, yes, it was all shaving the sharpest edges off of capitalism. It was the only way this system could even possibly work, and they're dismantling it.

  • People in this School District voted for Trump to get rid of the Department of Education. Now, they fear losing school funding. "Please don't take away our funding. We can't function without it"

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  • As a nationwide average, yes. Rural schools tend to depend on it more than city schools. Students are more spread apart, and they don't have a large property tax base.

    Plus, even an 8% cut would hurt a lot when they've already been squeezed the last few years.

  • The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory

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  • It's interesting to see where it's gone. There are enough techbro billionaires and multi-millionaires now that if it were feasible at scale in the long run, someone would have pulled it off.

  • How to selfhost with a VPN

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  • Client data absolutely is encrypted in TLS. You might be thinking of a few fields sent in the clear, like SNI, but generally, it's all encrypted.

    Asymmetric crypto is used to encrypt a symmetric key, which is used for encrypting everything else (for the performance reasons you mentioned). As long as that key was transferred securely and uses a good mode like CBC, an attacker ain't messing with what's in there.

    I think you're confusing the limitations of each building block with how they're actually implemented together in TLS. The whole suite together is what matters for this thread.

  • How to selfhost with a VPN

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  • Public key crypto, properly implemented, does prevent MITM attacks. TLS does do this, and that's all that matters here

  • an internet cryptid but shitty

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  • Vance says he’s prepared to be president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’

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  • Nope, they don't outlive their founders much. The few that do are exceptions.

    There are cults of personality and cults of idea. Every once in a while, a cult of personality can outlive its founder by turning into a cult of idea. Mormons and Scientology are examples. This is hard to pull off, though. Most end up more like the Oneida cult, where its founder fled the country and it fell apart almost immediately.

    The cult I was in, Jehovah's Witnesses, was never really a cult of personality (IMO). Russell didn't exercise particularly strict control over the group to begin with. Rutherford clamped down, causing a few splinter groups (a few of which are still out there). He turned it into a cult of ideas, and it outlived him without much issue.

    As for unitary executive theory, it's irrelevant. It only works for Trump because the congressional GOP doesn't do anything against him. There is strong, aggressive debate among themselves, though. They could barely agree on a Speaker. Vance would weigh into it without the benefit of a cult of personality behind him.