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I've been using Waterfox on deskop for years and adore it. Firefox for mobile does great. I don't grasp how anyone uses Chrome as their daily driver willingly aside from just inert…

Wang Huning, then a little-known academic, was moved by his travels through the U.S. to write the book America Against America, in which he described a nation beset by social fragm…

It's just gonna be chatting with sockpuppet AIs from here on out. Someone needs to set up a social network where our AI agents (who for many of us, know us better than our families…

I don't know how to code in any meaningful way. I work at a company where the bureaucracy is so thick that it is easier to use a web scraper to port a client's website blog than to…

FTA, quotes from council members: Encrypting police radios “is a crime in itself,” Councilmember Robert Holden testified on Monday. “There should never be a blackout of the press,”…

It is pretty rich that Microsoft of all companies is now coming in to be seen as the savior and not many people are batting an eye. It's a face turn 20 years in the making. If Face…

Okay, here's something written by Trump supporter and Cal State Fresno prof. Victor Davis Hanson discussing the effect of immigration on a community where he has lived since 1970: …

It's interesting that we treat kettling children up indoors by age cohort with little movement and making them solve math problems ad nauseum as if it were the most natural thing i…

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Exactly, the deflections of 'racism' and 'sexism' are thought-terminating cliches bandied about in an act of pure class war. No need to listen to Trumpies talk about immigration an…

I subscribe to the FB and Insta accounts of local libraries in my county and those next to mine, and it appears that many of the librarians view much of their position to be engagi…

This bug is older than the initial release of Firefox by two years.

https://archive.is/8S4oD

I hope that self-hosting is the route that this plays out a la rdrama and themotte. Eventually these sites will all be confederated via link aggregation and can have their own mode…

>pub trivia This was one of my two outlets for social participation until about 10+ years ago, but this pursuit has been ruined by phones. Participants cheat without a second thoug…

Removing the bankruptcy exemption from student loans as was the status quo prior to the 1980s solves this. The lenders then have a vested interest in ensuring that their lendees ge…

I had to throw my VPN on to see this, PornHub in Virginia now shows a message by Cherie Deville against age verification as it's currently being enforced.

But perpetuating the logic of groups being advantaged over groups only keeps the identitarian mindset going. By openly favoring certain groups the discrimination never ends. All yo…

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In your opinion, do they have to say a racism or merely think it to be worthy of being locked out of their home?

A few subs like r/themotte and r/drama moved offsite and self-hosted before this current kerfuffle, does anyone know of others of the same ilk?

https://archive.is/DF4hZ

https://archive.is/FMKQH

https://archive.is/YLmuR

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