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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has decided he’s going to continue collecting sales tax on the sale of gold and silver despite a new law repealing the levy and an attorney general opinion calling his line-item veto of the provision unconstitutional.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2024/08/kentucky-governor-plans-to-continue-collecting-sales-tax-on-gold-and-silver-despite-new-law/
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In the 2024 Summer Olympics, France could have celebrated its great cuisine, wines, and perfumes, its beautiful art in the Louvre, its music, that it is the fashion capital of the world, etc. What happened?
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-decoded.html
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The biggest problem with pride (both in the individualist and collectivist sense) is that it can prevent you from realizing your own shortcomings.

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_The United Nation’s Climate Change Agenda Is Designed To Starve And Kill You Off, Not “Save The Planet”_

"The original humanitarian intent of the UN is being replaced by nefarious climate agendas"

Monopolies are a single point of failure, and a high-value target of corruption.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-united-nations-climate-change
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A recent study published in Nutrients offers a promising natural alternative to pain and inflammation that may help reduce reliance on NSAIDs and their associated risks. #health
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2024/08/pineapple-extract-and-bromelain-reduces-ibuprofen-use-after-oral-surgery.html
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The “Smart Grid” is getting a makeover, but unfortunately, we will get all the unreliable alternative energy (wind, solar) and the high-priority sites like #AI data centers will get all the reliable #energy generated from coal, natural gas, and oil.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/technocrats-get-2-2-billion-from-biden-for-power-grid-upgrade-for-ai.html
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@PurpCat @Indigo
>Nintendo famously likes if you use their characters in their games if you're a third party dev and they approve of it.

Which is why I always argued that the Mother 4 team should've gotten official approval from Nintendo/Itoi instead of rebranding it into an original game. Itoi said that he would play a Mother 4 if someone else made it.

@Indigo I'm surprised that there has never been a Mario and Mickey Mouse crossover given that Miyamoto is a huge Disney fan and Nintendo is big enough to make a deal with them, but maybe Disney thinks that Kingdom Hearts is enough when it comes to video game crossovers.

@djsumdog @gabriel You could only download BitChute videos using the Brave browser. It used WebTorrent but only the BitChute server was the seeder.

@gabriel @djsumdog
I don't know what the future holds for Odysee now that LBRY is dead. It is the closest to a viable YouTube alternative, but it still uses a lot of JS from Google (though it's still viewable when disabled), and apparently the CEO claimed that they really don't care about free-speech and they might add stricter content policies once/if they get a sizable user base.

@djsumdog @gabriel Probably should've said "least bad". Of couse, conservative talk show hosts shill it so that's a huge red-flag there, but at least as of now, I can watch their videos via MPV which is why I usually choose the Rumble option when someone uploads to multiple sites.

@gabriel I've heard that Rumble is actually the most privacy respecting video sharing site right now, not including decentralized networks like PeerTube, provided that you either block the third-party JS or watch the videos via MPV.

@Indigo I never played any of the games outside of a demo for one of the winter games on DS back when you can download DS demos through the Wii. I never saw it as a big deal. I was only three years old when the Dreamcast was discontinued and we never owned any Sega consoles, so seeing Mario and Sonic together like this didn't make a big impact for me.

@sun I think more people should start packet analyzing games while the game is still live instead of waiting until the last minute. I feel like people don't start packet analyzing until it is almost too late. Case in point, the Nintendo Wi-Fi games weren't analyzed until mere months before the servers shut down.

@sun @coolboymew You could have the live services federate with each other and compare and copy each other's leaderboards, but it probably wouldn't be a perfect solution.

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