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If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Oh, I definitely see the irony, if you want to call it that. Pwning is far more fun when I control it and it's just for a laugh.

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • Maybe.

    To be clear this is an outlet for pro-Ukrainian propaganda with stories that have quite often never been verified or repeated. I get it, they're fighting a war for survival, but I still will take it with a grain of salt especially when it sounds unlikely.

    • Mexico Is Showing the World How to Stand Up to Donald Trump

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  • When Canada retaliated to Trump's "liberation day" tariffs, she basically threw us under the bus and said we should have more respect.

    I think Jacobin is seeing what they want to here.

    • Exclusive: BRICS to launch guarantee fund to boost investment in member nations, sources say

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  • As usual with BRICS projects, I'll believe it when it's both functioning and of any significant size.

    • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • The typical Lemming will be poorer but fine, unless it triggers other human disasters like a nuclear exchange. The lower classes of Bangladesh, less so, and 95%+ of coral reefs are fucked.

    • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • Sort of? I don't think he mentioned tipping points anywhere in there, it was pretty non-specific and ranty, but if we've passed a tipping point it becomes less a matter of applying a brake and more of actively causing massive climate change in the other direction. Failing that, the warming trend and other shifts will stop when the Earth reaches a new balance and no sooner.

    Nobody really knows where those tipping points are. The Paris thresholds were our expert's best guesses for a "safe" amount of warming.

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • That's where I'd go too. It was really the calm before the storm.

    • If you had a time machine that could set the internet back to what it was like in a certain era, when would that be?

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  • Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn’t encrypted.

    This is so true, although I kind of wish I had more time to fully explore the prank potential. The shit I could have convinced people of with a spoofed Wikipedia article...

    • Firefighters and Police are socialism. Change my mind.

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  • About which definition of the word to use, or that one possible definition applies?

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • I feel like Russian support is pretty much a rounding error when it comes to Chinese power.

    • China's foreign minister tells EU that Beijing cannot afford Russia to lose in Ukraine, media reports

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  • If this is true, the EU better be figuring out how to change that price calculus for them.

    Which makes me doubt an open admission actually did happen, since China would understand the possibility for blowback.

    • What's your best tip or hack for camping?

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  • Honestly good to have in general if you live in a place that's sometimes night.

    • A small tax imposed on plastic bags led Orthodox Jews to lasting hostility against measures to protect the environment, a study found. They see policies against plastic as elite contempt

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  • I'm guessing strict gender rules about who does the washing up and a very zealous interpretation of ritual purity rules has something to do with the preference for disposables, as well.

    Whether that falls under self-righteously lazy, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.

    • Non-Americans, what's it like when you're sick and need to go to the doctor?

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  • Ah, look at that post history. Openly fascist troll, never mind.

    • What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

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  • These negative reviews make me really want to watch it. Most TV glosses over all uncomfortable truths.

    • What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

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  • I mean, this is Lemmy, it's a show about making fun of us.

    And honestly I'd respect that if they put effort into it, but "lol nerd" is like 90% of the plot.

    • What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

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  • I fully don't get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it's not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn, too.

    • Non-Americans, what's it like when you're sick and need to go to the doctor?

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  • How do you lose a family doctor? Like, they quit?

    • People who don't live in a jurisdiction with unconditional jus soli, would you be in support of unconditional jus soli in your country? Why or Why not?

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  • I mean, in most of the cases on the map it's actually brown people afraid of other brown people. America invented racism, or at least the main kind of racism, but being a bigot in other ways is ancient and ubiquitous.

    • What is the difference between a neoclassical liberal, a social liberal, and a progressive social democrat?

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  • I'm not actually sure there's been a time and place where all three of these coexisted, and named ideologies can mean pretty massively different things depending on context.