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The Word "Emergency" Doesn't Exist in the Constitution. That's no Accident.
That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let politicians have extra power or funding because THEY declare an emergency? And you’ll get never-ending emergencies.

Path to Liberty: September 30, 2026 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1952091383796031488
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In light of the recent news about the 3 dimensional aperiodic monotile (arxiv.org/pdf/2609.24779v1) Here an animation of the assembly of the rep-tile it is based on

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Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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No, you don’t own an idea.
Yes, someone else is allowed to improve it.

Every creator builds on language, knowledge, & discoveries they didn’t invent. You were inspired by people before you. People will be inspired by you.

Keep sharing.

(Steal this meme. Somehow we'll survive.)

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Should artificially created humans (clones, designer babies, etc) be considered property because they are created in one's own image?

Finally! No more trending garbage when I want to privately watch YouTube videos.

Seriously, I never understood the mentality that privacy front-ends need to show what's trending. It honestly kind of defeats the purpose and I really just want to enjoy the content I want to watch without a care in the world.

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I'd like to point out that about 5.74 billion investors (70% of the worlds population) lost about $1.14 trillion on their entertainment purchases over the last 12 months.

I bring this up because of the negative publicity California is bringing and laws they're pushing to ban public officials from creating memecoins or anyone from using public officials likeness in producing memecoins.

The question is why are people permitted to invest in (translation buy/rent/subscribe/etc) other entertainment, ya know like hollywood's movies and tv shows/streaming content/etc, but when we start talking memecoins it's an 'investment' and has to be regulated or even banned????

I say this as someone who would NEVER buy a memecoin and I don't 'invest' in memecoins. I do however use cryptocurrencies as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin were intended (not that I am a fan of BTC, it's not privacy friendly, Monero is better). That is as a means of transferring value/ease conducting business:

"The governor's office pointed to reports that about a million investors lost an alleged $3.8 billion on their purchases of the memecoin released by President Donald Trump in 2025 as a the motivation behind the new rule."

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So the logic is…

The ruling class lies to us, loots us, poisons us, surveils us, brutalizes us, extorts us, cages us, and experiments on us, but the only solution is to hand power back to the other wing of the same criminal cartel?

How many times are we going to do this?

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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913

Funny comments section guys keep it up
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if you used a camera to paint a picture its not real art 

1400s bitches be arguin about using reference :gutkato_mallibera:

RE: https://shitposter.world/objects/3cee96fc-3159-4a57-a88e-e2ff66a86f3d
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@Broken_gamer I think the biggest problem Sega had back in the mid-90’s was that they overextended themselves with crap systems and accessories that they never had any intention of seriously supporting. They had Sega CD, they had some kind of virtual reality headset, they had the 32x. They rushed the overpriced Saturn to market without really learning how to program for it, and it had no backward compatibility with the Genesis library. They let the Game Gead die on the vine instead of refining it and making it smaller and cheaper the way Nintendo periodically did with the Gameboy.

One of the biggest mistakes Sega made was abandoning the Neptune project. Neptune was supposed to be a 32x console with backward compatibility with the existing Genesis library. Sega should have brought that out in ‘95 instead, and waited a couple years to the Saturn right. The 32-but hardware on the Neptune would have been ideal for making cartridge ports of a lot of Sega’s arcade titles, which was arguably their strong point as a company.
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How you know the law is unfair to your average user / individual publisher:

"Websites that are blocked by mistake can ask the court to modify the order. However, unlike Issa’s bill, which offers up to $250,000 in compensation, the DEFEND IP Act has no payout for collateral damage."

So in other words there is basically zero chance that a small guy is going to be able to get stuff blocked, but the ~7 hollywood studios (do we even have 7 left???) will be able to basically block any site they like without consequences even if it's non-infringing or primarily non-infringing because the little guy won't have the funds / lawyers on staff / etc to defend against the over-blocking that is inevitable and has occurred in EVERY country that has implemented a censorship regime.

Lets not forget that this also is one of the tactics that is used against political opponents. Particularly the authoritarian kinds (and yes- the very folks we have in congress too!). They have pushed for financial "sanctions" and used such censorship (of a financial nature) in Canada (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts, credit cards, and donations of those he disliked for protesting thanks to a highly regulated financial system) and the US against those they oppose. Europe has done the same thing for that matter, but it isn't just who you think. It's a large number of groups from "conservatives" during democrat administrations to folks previously involved in the legal porn industry (bank accounts being shut down by order of republican administrations).

In Canada which does have a censorship regime and site blocking like this bill proposes has attempted to add (?and maybe has?) other non-piracy sites to the list including gambling sites. Censorship doesn't end.

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I think the British Empire more or less just moved to New York and kept business as usual. The British Empire is built on the Bank of England, and there was never a true reckoning where depositors lost everything. They still run almost every little money-laundering island nation around the world.

For me, if they're going to make it their policy to try to destroy my people, then I want to see the everything lost. End the dollar, end the pound, mass bankruptcies, crime families that deposited the money putting hits on the crime families that lost it...
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Guys, I need help trying to find a particular PC game and I don't even know what it was called or exactly what genre it was.

So as we all know, big box stores (or maybe even stores in general) don't sell physical PC games anymore, but a few years ago, when they still carried some games like The Sims 4, there was a game in a brown jewel case still being sold in many places. It stood out because it seemed to be old, but was still in print. It must have been a full version of those casual shareware games that used to come with your PC back in the mid-2000s. It must have been a puzzle game, a virtual board game, a game show game, or a collection of those. I just know it existed but never cared about it, but now want to know about it for historical purposes.

If anyone has any idea what it was, please tell me.

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I really want to know how this protects free speech or consumers, this literally makes zero sense, talk about propaganda (internet censorship bill / site blocking):

"'By enacting this legislation, our country can deploy a highly effective tool to protect creators and consumers from overseas digital piracy, all while safeguarding free speech and preserving the open internet,' MPA Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin says. "

Bill to censor the US internet:

torrentfreak.com/unified-u-s-s

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