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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Linux rules! How do you like my desktop?English
0·3 days agoIt really kicks the
llama’sgnu’s ass
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News@lemmy.world•James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in TexasEnglish
81·3 days agoI received a metric fuckton of texts that were like, “ZOMG YOU GUYS WE ARE SO REPUBLICAN AND CROCKETT HATES ICE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-ZORZ?!?!?!?” They seem to trace back to a shady republican group. Apart from a couple of milquetoast Cornyn ones, everything else I got was for various Dem candidates despite my living in a very red zip code.
The campaigns have excellent lists, and somebody on the right wanted blue voters to know how very “terrified” they were of her. The only reasonable alternative is that she ran them herself as a low-grade false-flag, and in either case it made me go ahead and decide on Talarico, though I’d have happily voted for either in the general. I think he’s made such a brand of being a blue christian that he’d probably feel obligated to make separation of church and state an important part of his brand, and he’s speaking very explicitly to the wealth divide in a way she hasn’t.
I do tend to think the dust-up over the Talarico’s Allred comment has at least some truth to it, but while I assume he’s much more calculating than his public persona, even in the worst case the story hit my (admittedly white) ears like someone who assumed that his allyship exempted him from micro-aggressions, rather than his being some cackling hypocrite. He’s got his work cut out for him, but if he can energize the base, recover Trump 2024 Hispanics, and get a couple of percentage points’ worth of red voters to flip or even just say, “meh” and stay home, he’s got a chance.
Realistically, I think the most likely scenario is that we’re looking at a pre-guns Beto campaign that comes close but can’t get over the hump versus an unpopular Republican, but I think he’s the best chance we’ve had since then to flip a seat. All of which is incumbent on elections happening semi-normally.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?
0·3 days agoImagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English insteadEnglish
0·7 days agoAlways grimly funny when you can basically suss out the lazy-ass prompt: “Now do the same message, but Spanish.”
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News@lemmy.world•Marco Rubio orders US officials to stop commentary that could strain Iran talksEnglish
0·7 days agoRubio’s gonna get fired anyway. He made a speech that that didn’t terrify people in Munich as badly as MAGA speeches usually do, so he got a standing ovation, and Trump HAAAAATES that.
The actual ad, if one is feeling like a fuddy duddy.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•37 years since our homecoming queen was taken from usEnglish
0·10 days agoLike a candle in the wind…
The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don’t really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game. Jeez I wish Joanne weren’t such an awful piece of shit human.
Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.
Wrinkled Eggs
These eggs appear to have ridges or wrinkled surfaces. Overcrowding, which results in stressed hens, can cause this abnormality. It also can be seen when a hen’s shell gland is defective or if the flock has infectious bronchitis. Wrinkles can result in weakened shells. Based on USDA standards for exterior eggshell quality, a wrinkled egg is downgraded to Grade B.



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