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TIL that a ~50% improvement in energy use is 'absolutely negligible'.

I agree that the energy star system may be flawed but the premise of your comment is wild.

Still blows my mind that there are vocal and active 'gays for Trump' and 'gay and Republican' groups that have somehow believe they've found a venn diagram overlap of GOP beliefs and theirs - despite all evidence to the contrary.

Its a noble dream. But for Israel to ever face justice their largest and fiercest backer - the nation that is often the only one that votes to protect them in UN votes, and the one that has almost singlehandedly turned them into a military superpower in the middle east - the USA - must get its house in order first.

There is zero chance of much changing on Israel while Republicans or the conservative wing of the Democrats are in power, and especially while Trump is president. That's not to say it can't change, but there are multiple hurdles: so, I hope you live a long time and see a lot of positive changes throughout your life.

I mean, if that's the best argument you have? OK.

No, the democrats do not install Biden loyalists - people who have loudly and publically repeatedly announced uncritical support of Biden. They do not hire staff that are without any formal education or without significant qualifying experience for important roles - whereas Trump does all of those things. To say they all do the same shows a very uncritical assessment of reality.

The Nazi party believed firmly in social & familial heirarchy, oppressed the underclasses openly through targeted programs to eliminate trans, gay, Jewish and other minority groups, worked hand in glove with the factory owners and corporations to crush and outlaw unions, praised and supported the former Monarchy and Kaiser, and purged the communist party from the German political assembly through violence and incarcerations - and ultimately sent all communists, Marxists and labour leaders to death camps along with any other minorities they had decided to murder. So to insist they were left wing simply because their party name includes the word 'socialist' is naieve and ignorant to history.

Check sources from actual historians and you will find the same conclusions and volumes of evidence.
The only (in)famous people I know claiming the 'Nazis were left-wing' are the criminal liar Dinesh D'Souza, and all the usual right wing grifters Stephen Crowder, Prager 'University', Matt Walsh and so on - they are lying, as they do about most things. There are much better sources of news and information.

Ehh. The default setting of life is to be ignorant - not politically engaged. So when someone does something like this meme they generally just go back to (now willful) ignorance.

Essentially they're Cypher from the Matrix, but instead of having their memories wiped with machine technology they use Ambien and Champagne.

Most school curriculums nowadays have critical thinking interwoven as important parts of the STEM classes, in both primary and high school. Its not exclusive to college graduates, however if you do a philosophy course then you will have learned the highest level of it - and I'm sure many school systems around the world have varying degrees of quality of education.

But agreed it is absolutely something that people are not born with and must (and should) be taught.

Sorry but that is wrong. You are using the textbook definition of confirmation bias.

Critical thinking "is the process of analyzing available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments to make sound conclusions or informed choices. It involves recognizing underlying assumptions, providing justifications for ideas and actions, evaluating these justifications through comparisons with varying perspectives, and assessing their rationality and potential consequences."

Here's dozens of concrete examples of how Trump's government is directly enacting fascist policies. I'm not sure if you're trolling so I put in a very small amount of effort to locate these articles, there are hundreds online.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/03/donald-trump-fascist-government-crikey-part-one/

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/05/donald-trump-fascist-government-crikey-part-two/

P. S. If you hit the paywall they're available on paywall bypass websites.

Good. Temu is 99% trash.

It's absolutely implied by his phrasing, "I’ve got white children, they’re at the bottom of the hiring list here."

This is explicitly stating that white children are at the bottom of the hiring list in the USA. The only identifier he gave of his children is that they're white, and that is enough to put them at the bottom of the hiring list 'here [USA]'.

Am I wrong or do the 8BitDo controllers almost all have inbuilt batteries of unusual capacities? They could just build them to use standard AAA or AA rechargeables, but instead they do proprietary batteries which 8BitDo happily sell replacements for - sure seems like a path to more e-waste.

I'll only list stuff I haven't seen others mention:

• Hot Rod (2007)
• Dude, Where's My Car (2000)
• Step Brothers (2008)
• Nacho Libre (2006)
• Grimsby (2016)
• Swiss Army Man (2016)
• This is the End (2013)
• Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)

I found it 10-20% funny, 80%+ cringe

They do vote on thousands of these per year and often rely heavily on the advice of their team (as in their own policy advisor and staff, not the Democrats) so it may have just been a bad call.

Im not from the US but I wouldn't throw out AOC over one bad vote. If I was her constituent I'd definitely call/email her to let her know how I felt about this issue and that it was an enormous letdown though. Gotta advocate.

Ah my bad, I was going from memory. Thanks for the correction.

Call me a pessimist but while there's oil in the gulf and the US relies on it for their 'national security', I'm pretty sure "prosecuted" is the one thing that Israel won't be.

"He's hurting the wrong people 😫"

How my brain distinguishes them:

apt-get when you want full verbose output

apt when you want to feel fancy with progress bars and colours