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Taking money is one thing, but accepting titles of nobility from dodgy Euro monarchists is expressly forbidden by the US constitution unless Congress approves. And yet self-scourging Opus Dei dude Alito could not resist a knighthood.

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Utterly shameful behaviour at the US National Archives as anything remotely confronting to white Americans seems to be being purged from the public national record. Whitewashing history is a shockingly regressive step.

To clarify this, we're talking public display and education. As far as I know, they're not removing items from the archives themselves, although if Trump wins that level of cultural vandalism wouldn't surprise me.

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UN General Assembly condemns the US economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/22048345

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 5:05 PM EDT, October 30, 2024
in reply to Peter Link

So why don't they just ignore the US and conduct trade with Cuba?
in reply to stink

The threat of secondary sanctions is what's keeping countries from doing that. Also, when SWIFT was the only game in town for international settlements, it made it very difficult to do business with Cuba. Now that situation is rapidly changing and I expect things will be looking up for Cuba going forward.


Kamala Harris: Trump has indicated as of last night that the person who would be in charge of healthcare is someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories. And then, even worse, he has increased his violent rhetoric. This must be disqualifying.




I have worked with and spoken with a pretty decent number of solar developers in my time, and not once have they expressed that the key thing they're missing is the ability to have natural language style conversations with planning data



Many people describe prediction markets as a form of wisdom of the crowd. Polymarket has been favoring Trump to win (58% likelihood) but it turns out a lot of that is driven by a single French user who has bet $30 million on Trump winning.

The best part is the bettor is anonymous because they’re hiding their wealth from their friends and children.

Wisdom of the crowd? More like wisdom of the crypto bro.

wsj.com/finance/trump-odds-pol…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Yep, any prediction market that requires crypto to access was always gonna have a heavy skew. It's a wonder why any legitimate-money betting markets arbitrage against it. It's like if PredictIt bettors arbitraged against elementary school mock elections.
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short-term problem as in the future any such “whales” will be arbed out



"Scientists: the most trusted figures in today's society" by Ludwig Federigan for @TheManilaTimes: manilatimes.net/2024/08/17/bus…
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Congrats to Robert Tarjan and his collaborators on winning the best paper award at the 2024 Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science!

Their work, featured in Quanta Magazine, has proven that one algorithm — created by Edsger Dijkstra — is the "universally optimal" way to answer a quintessential problem: how to find the best path between two points.

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@lovelylovely
If you haven't voted there are only three days left to make your voices heard and deliver that sweet victory defeat to Trump and his fascist.

Lets make history.

#VoteforAmerica

#VoteForHarrisWalz



Someone recommended me a #Friendica instance a few weeks ago but I lost it. Can you all recommend some English instances to try? #Fediverse


Please do not forget that our planet's fate in regards to global warming is also on our ballots.

When Joe Biden took office we had 36 gigawatts of solar and wind on the U.S. grid in February. This last February that had increased to 59 GW, from 11% to 18%. That only went from 9% to 11% during Trump's administration.

There is over 2 GW of clean electricity waiting to access our electricity grids and Republican Attorney Generals are fighting against grid expansions.
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Pa. officials apologize for shackled Harris display in Halloween parade (Jonathan Edwards/Washington Post)

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George W Bush Daughter Barbara knocked on doors for Kamala Harris.

George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Is Campaigning For Kamala Harris msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ge…