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Republicans have inveighed against progressive prosecutors after some have brought fewer drug possession cases and sought shorter prison sentences, arguing Democrats are coddling criminals.

Prosecutors charge suspect #1.

Same Republicans: "Oh no you fuckin don't."

I suspect many of them have never heard of it, either. It was default software on some bloatware device I had, either a Samsung phone or tablet or a Lenovo laptop, maybe. I expect plenty of people just accepted that it was there in front of their face and must just be "the news on the Internet".

Translated headline:

Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon / Flipboard is not actually abandoning X.

Edit: Thinking more about it, I think the wise thing is to announce it like this so the head brat at Xitter doesn't revoke their account and hand it to someone else.

Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, the person said on condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.

Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.

I'm really starting to agree that all this drama is clever marketing to sell a neat--but not bombshell--thing that would otherwise not be a real product.

That was a fun ride!

I'm not arguing against Threads being a wider audience, but I do just want to point out that many people may be auto-following. I keep seeing notifications from Threads that I'm now following someone because I was previously already following them (on FB, I guess), and I haven't opened Threads in a while.

Off-topic tangent: I just saw the Sam Antonio zoo's new-ish skywalk (which has been there for a couple of years) for their jaguar. Some badass named it Pantera Walk.

"Think" is an awfully generous word...

Fun info about that for meme aficionados: that expression and its various clones are the basis for the general concept of those reusable templates called "snowclones".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

... armed militia going from house to house killing men and boys,” ...

That's just on the verge of being pure evil?! What more does it take?

They must have been also collectively punishing their own citizens for allowing themselves to get terrorized by Hamas.

This is purely a snapshot of what young people perceive their lives to be like compared to their parents

🥱

(Yes, there are metrics that reveal some things are objectively worse, like income vs. property cost. This article is all about perception, and I just think the headline should reflect that instead of concluding that everything is harder based on subjective data.)

Here's my attempt to de-dangle it.

1M followers for 13-year-old gamer who was killed in Israeli attack

Lights have to get smarter. Right on red is half the traffic flow in my area.* I always see so many situations where a green turn arrow would be appropriate, and yet the intersection is relying on the right-on-red rule instead, causing each car to pause when it should be flowing through. And even more situations where a light always stops the majority direction of traffic on what must be a fixed timer that poorly syncs with some upstream lights, because it always seems to turn red as a clump of cars arrives, even when there's almost always no cross traffic. Maybe right on red is more dangerous in some places, and we can get rid of it, but we have to replace it with some actual civil engineering instead of making traffic even worse.

*±100% margin of error, sample size 1

I hear it feels better than getting kidney stones.

Go forth, drink water, and pee clear.

Deadpool dress-audition for Dethklok.

That's one of the three in the article. The other two are, "Should service providers be able to block officials?" and, "Should officials be able to apply pressure to service providers about their policies?"

Cat and bread attached to generator: not falling.

Not falling: not flipping.

And we can all at least understand when it doesn't get closed after someone takes a slice. Maybe the last person thought someone else was going to get a slice? But a box remaining open with zero slices removed... that's not human.