Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows
  • brandon brandon 12h ago 100%

    Is that the world's most cursed SEO, or is that repetition something that's significant to the cult?

    Nevermind, I see the "for search engines" now. Missed it in all the nonsense.

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  • Our approach to road safety
  • brandon brandon 2mo ago 96%

    We don’t blink an eye when told to not stand under something being lifted by a crane, so why balk at being told to be safe around the two ton travelling metal boxes?

    Nobody is saying that you shouldn't act safely around cars. People are saying we shouldn't design transportation infrastructure that prioritizes driver convenience over pedestrian safety. Cranes are only allowed to operate in much more tightly controlled situations than drivers.

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  • San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave
  • brandon brandon 2mo ago 100%

    This is the first beard I've ever seen make someone's chin look weaker.

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  • What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?
  • brandon brandon 2mo ago 100%

    Edit: is it accessible without knowing much Japanese?

    It is, if you look a few things up, but there's also a readily available translated "backup copy" floating around.

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    What visage hath Marcellus Wallace?
  • brandon brandon 2mo ago 100%

    Dōþ hīe spēcāþ Englisc on hwæt?

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  • brandon brandon 3mo ago 100%

    The question I am posing is not "do modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers" (they do).

    Instead, the question is "should modern farm workers labor harder than prehistoric hunter gathers".

    Farming is more efficient than gathering. That's why we farm. So why is it the case that modern farm workers are working harder?

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  • brandon brandon 3mo ago 95%

    If the required labor was split up more equitably then farmers wouldn't have to work sunup to sundown.

    The entire point of large scale agriculture is that it's more efficient than individual peasants working a single field or whatever.

    Nobody is saying that farming isn't hard work, but modern farming should produce more food per man-hour than neolithic farming (or hunter/gathering), right? So why should it be that farm workers now have to work harder than prehistoric people?

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    Split-/usr on Linux became so broken, that even Gentoo maintainers decided they can't fix it
  • brandon brandon 4mo ago 100%

    And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.

    On my current Fedora 40 install /bin is already a symlink to /usr/bin

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearMO
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    Warner Bros. to Release First New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ in 2026, Peter Jackson to Produce and Andy Serkis to Direct
  • brandon brandon 6mo ago 100%

    Lord of the Rings will start entering the public domain in 2044, so all the rights holders are going to squeeze the IP as much as they can over the next twenty years.

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    Helldivers 2’s Politics Appear To Be Flying Over The Heads Of Some
  • brandon brandon 7mo ago 80%

    The main difference from the film being that the novel isn't a satire--Heinlein was being sincere.

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    Minmaxxing
  • brandon brandon 11mo ago 100%

    Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit

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  • The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder
  • brandon brandon 12mo ago 100%

    That's actually kinda neat

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  • The Warnings About Trump in 2024 Are Getting Louder
  • brandon brandon 12mo ago 100%

    I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but you'll probably have more success if you grow your potatoes in a field instead of the woods.

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  • Israel tells Gazans to move south or risk being seen as 'terrorist' partner
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 93%

    It's a good thing we have you around to let us know what all Palestinians think

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  • Megapost: U.S. Speaker of the House Saga
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 100%

    The Speaker of the House is basically in charge of proceedings in the House of Representatives (the "lower" house of the legislature). No business can get done in the House until one is elected by the representatives. This is the first time in history that a sitting Speaker has been removed from the position in the middle of the term. This is a particularly awkward time since the government will run out of funding in 45 days if Congress does not pass a budget.

    This is a result of a growing split between the ultra-far-right and the slightly-less-far-right factions within the Republican party.

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  • Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 100%

    If you own a home in the area any equity you have there has probably been made pretty worthless. It would make it pretty hard to move if you couldn't sell your home to afford another.

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  • Title
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 100%

    I love this turtle

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  • Judge rejects Trump bid to push federal election trial to 2026
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 100%

    This particular trial is for the federal charges in DC.

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  • Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
  • brandon brandon 1y ago 100%

    I just wanted to address a single point from your comment:

    Lemmy does not offer end-to-end encryption by default, which means that your messages could be intercepted by someone who is able to access your ISP's network

    If the Lemmy server is using HTTPS, nobody at your ISP or anywhere else between you and the Lemmy server should be able to read your messages (they could see that you are exchanging data with a particular host, but not the contents).

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    Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action at colleges
    www.axios.com

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1608756 > From the article: > > > The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges can't explicitly consider applicants' race in admissions, a landmark ruling that will radically transform how colleges are able to attract a diverse student body. > > There's also an [article](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744) from the AP.

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    edition.cnn.com

    You can listen to the recording on the article. From the text: > The recording, which first aired on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1212709 > ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/33993c6e-8e60-448d-8929-15728a37b3cf.png) > ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3693209f-b514-4a3c-b63b-8fb417872add.jpeg) > > I recently finished *Moon Witch, Spider King*, the second novel of James' fantasy trilogy after reading the first novel, *Black Leopard, Red Wolf* earlier this year. I'd love to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on these two books. > > I was drawn into Jame's world building. The epic fantasy world he creates draws primarily from African folklore and culture. From the perspective of someone used to the ideology of Western fantasy, I was engrossed in the lore. The prose can be meandering--I had to go back and re-read paragraphs regularly ("wait, what did I just miss?"), but it's masterfully written. > > The book is vulgar and incredibly violent. There are numerous scenes of graphic sexual violence, some of which was bad enough my immersion and had me questioning "does this really need to be in the book?". If you're sensitive about that, I would definitely avoid this one. I still feel uncomfortable about some of the scenes I read. > > The plot of the books is centered around the same series of events (more or less), from different characters' perspectives. The first novel is narrated by Tracker--a mercenary with a supernatural 'scent', and the second by Sogolon, a misandrist with her own mysterious abilities. Both are unreliable narrators, and sometimes recount their stories in non-chronological order. By the end of the second book I was re-evaluating what I thought had happened from reading Tracker's tale in the first. I am sure the upcoming third novel will continue that trend. > > Both books were fairly long, and dense reading, but they felt like only a short glimpse into the world of the North and South Kingdoms. I really want to learn more about that world, so I will probably pick up the third book when it arrives, even if I'm also still a little apprehensive about some of the more extreme scenes.

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    ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/33993c6e-8e60-448d-8929-15728a37b3cf.png) ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3693209f-b514-4a3c-b63b-8fb417872add.jpeg) I recently finished *Moon Witch, Spider King*, the second novel of James' fantasy trilogy after reading the first novel, *Black Leopard, Red Wolf* earlier this year. I'd love to hear if anyone else has any thoughts on these two books. I was drawn into Jame's world building. The epic fantasy world he creates draws primarily from African folklore and culture. From the perspective of someone used to the ideology of Western fantasy, I was engrossed in the lore. The prose can be meandering--I had to go back and re-read paragraphs regularly ("wait, what did I just miss?"), but it's masterfully written. The book is vulgar and incredibly violent. There are numerous scenes of graphic sexual violence, some of which was bad enough my immersion and had me questioning "does this really need to be in the book?". If you're sensitive about that, I would definitely avoid this one. I still feel uncomfortable about some of the scenes I read. The plot of the books is centered around the same series of events (more or less), from different characters' perspectives. The first novel is narrated by Tracker--a mercenary with a supernatural 'scent', and the second by Sogolon, a misandrist with her own mysterious abilities. Both are unreliable narrators, and sometimes recount their stories in non-chronological order. By the end of the second book I was re-evaluating what I thought had happened from reading Tracker's tale in the first. I am sure the upcoming third novel will continue that trend. Both books were fairly long, and dense reading, but they felt like only a short glimpse into the world of the North and South Kingdoms. I really want to learn more about that world, so I will probably pick up the third book when it arrives, even if I'm also still a little apprehensive about some of the more extreme scenes.

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