[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 82 points 1 day ago

The first hospital diagnosed her with strep throat without investigating her sharp abdominal cramps. At the second, she screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 46 points 1 day ago

There is this cycle of hedonistic treatbros whiplashing between “the Dems are nanny state buzzkills that want to take away our good times that’s why we’re voting Republican” and “oh shit republicans are all puritanical weirdos that want to ban cleavage on television” so yeah this makes sense.

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I don’t think that’s the whole story though. The migrant “crisis” is animating a lot of voters despite migrants having little impact on the vast majority of people‘s lives. People tend to assign outsized risk to the unknown/unfamiliar and vice versa. Nothing is more comfortingly familiar to the typical Amerikkkan than their oversized house kept at 65 in the summer and 75 in the winter with three giant SUV’s in the driveway that they drive everywhere on clogged stroads.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 72 points 1 day ago

Well that’ll cost her 13 freedom points on the Burgerite-Eagleland Institute’s liberty scale.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

To guarantee the sale to Santander, the Simonsen and Cochrane families, the owners of Banco Noroeste, paid the $242 million bill themselves. However, Banco Noroeste collapsed in 2001.

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 68 points 1 day ago

A few months back I was at a Native American museum, and one exhibit had this quote from a English settler’s journal from the 16th or 17th century that basically said “we raided a native village, stole their supplies, burned their buildings, killed some of them, all of which aren’t as bad as what they would do to us.” Just thought “shit hasn’t changed.”

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I think this is the order of operations:

Conservatives believe bizarro conspiracy theories because they need to assign the ills of society to anyone other than the responsible ruling class.

Liberals point to this and say “See, look at this foolishness, if you don’t want to end up a rube like this, you need to trust The NY Times and WaPo and CNN, etc.”

Thus, leftists that are otherwise critical of capitalism but still want to be seen as being part of reasonable society, develop a bias of taking those sources at face value least they get branded with the scarlet F of fake news.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 56 points 1 day ago

Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.

Training AI to be even more racist and misogynistic, cool.

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If history is any guide, at best they’ll protest the procedure of Trump’s support of the genocide. Trump won’t follow some meaningless rubber stamping process of the shipping of arms to Israel and then the libs will say “this is wrong we’re against this” but not because of the genocide but because Trump didn’t follow the by-laws of supporting a genocide.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 64 points 1 day ago

Big time “we totes found this baggie of weed on the unarmed black man we shot” vibes

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They were trying to get me to vote for this Dem running for a state seat, guy’s a chief of staff for some local establishment democrat, usual machine operation.

I explain I’m sick of the democrats, and the volunteer’s response? “Well candidate such and such is actually much more moderate than people make him out to be.” I wryly pointed out that he just said that to a socialist, and at that point I think he realized he couldn’t do anything to pitch his candidate at that point.

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First off, no that’s just his handle it’s not literally a dog playing Tetris.

Rebirth happens at about the 1:21 mark. It’s absolutely insane that the first killscreen happened less than a year ago and back then rebirth seemed like a pipe dream. Not just the endurance and skill, but knowing all the unique, unseen situations he needed to avoid in the higher levels in order to not trigger a killscreen. And some of those levels have a lot of conditions that will trigger one.

For those unaware of what this means: because of the way NES Tetris is programmed, eventually the levels will functionally loop back around to level zero again. Hence why the speed suddenly goes from hyper speed to beginner mode.

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Workers had sought a 40 percent wage rise, the restoration of a defined-benefit pension plan axed in 2014, and a stronger guarantee that future production would not be moved out of the Seattle region.

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Take the World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, a green giant with over $600 million in assets. WWF and McDonald’s are both founding members of the beef roundtable, and later, the two worked together on other beef-related projects. In fact, that inaugural conference in 2010 was officially titled the World Wildlife Fund Global Conference on Sustainable Beef. (WWF has helped to found similar industry roundtables for poultry and soy — most of which is fed to farmed animals — and a certification program for seafood.)

For its collaboration, McDonald’s makes sure WWF is well compensated; from 2015 to 2022, the company donated $4.5 to $9 million to WWF-US.

From 2017 to 2022, WWF-US brought in approximately $12 million to $28.6 million from various meat, dairy, seafood, fast food, restaurant, and grocery companies, including Tyson Foods, Cargill, Burger King, Costco, Walmart, Red Lobster, Chobani, and Dairy Management Inc., a dairy trade group.

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You hate having to deal with an automated voice recognition system when calling customer service? Well we put it in an app and called it AI and now you piggies love it. That’s right, eat your slop.

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A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech, which has come under fire from across the political spectrum.

“The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.

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