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Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.

  • Washington lawyer on furlough lives out dream of running a hot dog cart

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  • The man had the most tax-optimized filing for a hot dog stand in the history of the United States.

  • Trump Directive Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” and “Anti-American” Views as Domestic Terrorism

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  • Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won't Build a Jerk-Off Machine

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  • They should build a synthetic incubus/succubus

    Thanks for the thought, Satan, but I think that consensus is that natural incubi and succubi are the way to go.

  • Trump Obsessed Over Project 2025 Creator Getting “P***y” at Mar-a-Lago

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  • Trump Obsessed Over Project 2025 Creator Getting “P***y” at Mar-a-Lago

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  • Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist

    Instead, Trump was fixated on getting the recently divorced Vought laid

    A new Great Awakening, I see. Society's morals shall be restored to their proper place.

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    Tennessee GOP Proposes Bill Eliminating Age Requirements for Marriage

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  • Because of the Full Faith and Credit Clause, I expect that also effectively eliminates a lower age for other states, as long as someone is willing to establish residency in Tennessee long enough to get married there before moving. Any marriage established in Tennessee must be honored by the other states.

    Some US states do permit marriage at a younger age than normal if you get some additional sign-off from parents or a judge or something, IIRC.

    kagis

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States

    It looks like California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Mississippi also have no hard minimum, so we already should be at a hard minimum of zero years old, as long as you jump through the other hoops.

    California: With parental consent and judicial approval, a person can marry under the age of eighteen but the partners and the minor's parents have to meet with court officials who must rule out abuse or coercion. There is a 30-day waiting period for minors unless they are seventeen and have graduated high school or one of the partners is pregnant.[47][48]

    New Mexico: With parental consent, a person can marry at 16.[71] A 16 or 17 year old teen can marry with the written consent of each living parent of the minor.[72] A person under 16 can marry with judicial approval and parental consent or if pregnant, or by order of a children's or family division of district court.[49]

    Oklahoma: With parental consent, a person can marry at 16. A person under 16 may marry if authorized by the court.[42][43]

    Mississippi: With parental consent, males can marry at 17 and females at 15. Boys below 17 and girls below 15 can marry with judicial approval and parental consent.[49][43][66]

    I also don't know whether it'd be constitutional for another state to prohibit sex between someone and their legal spouse. If I had to make a guess, I'd say no, but not sure. Maybe the right to privacy in Lawrence v. Texas applies.

    EDIT: At least in Arizona criminal code, to grab the first state using the term I searched for, it looks like being married to someone is a defense against statutory rape charges:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States

    The age of consent in Arizona is 18. However, there exist in the legislation defenses to prosecution if the defendant is close-in-age to the minor or a spouse of the minor. Note: these are not close-in-age exceptions but defenses in court. Arizona Revised Statute 13-1405(A)

    D. It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to section 13-1404 or 13-1405 that the person was the spouse (legally married AND cohabiting) of the other person at the time of commission of the act ...

  • Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks

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  • It's probably a coordinated strategy. Cheung also said it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung

    Cheung served as the White House assistant communications director and later the director of strategic response in Trump's first presidency.

    In November 2024, Trump named Cheung as his White House communications director.

    Cheung employs a combative style mirroring Donald Trump's own approach to the media.[24][25] The Atlantic described Cheung as having "relentless aggression" that "helps quench the base's thirst for owning the libs."[25] Stephanie Grisham, who worked with Cheung in the White House, told NOTUS that he excelled at "pithy statements that can offend people quickly, which is exactly what Trumpworld likes."[26] In contrast to his predecessors, Cheung's social media posts are often profanity-laden and attack Trump's adversaries.[25] Cheung has referred to various political adversaries and reporters through terms such as "cuck," "dumbass," "dick," and "fucking stupid." He described James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as "one of the dumbest motherfuckers in human history,"[24] Florida governor Ron DeSantis as a "desperate eunuch",[27] and California governor Gavin Newsom as "a mongoloid who barely registers half a brain cell."[28] According to The New Yorker's Clare Malone, Cheung's abrasive tone is not present in his direct and private communications with reporters.[29]

    The last sentence there demonstrating that it's a character he plays for the public.

    EDIT: If that sounds strange, I remember an interview some years back with an EU senior translator where the question came up of why Brussels didn't codify an "EU English". His answer was that that was a very intentional decision, to avoid having language that diverged from what was in general use, so as not to come off as being decoupled from the public, some sort of disconnected elite.

    Now imagine that you're doing that and cranking it up to 11 to try to demonstrate that you're like someone that you want voting for you. A lot of politics is just saying things that people agree with and acting like them to convince them that you're aligned with them. Trump's political goal is to get and keep white blue-collar voters voting Republican, not Democratic.

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wtf-donald-trump-politics-f-151806801.html

    Donald Trump drops the F-bomb: Is the presidential profanity really that shocking?

    Plus, swearing is normalised for what is referred to as “blue collar” work sectors – a key demographic when it comes to votes. So, dropping a few f-shaped transgressives into speeches could be considered as judicious.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/democrats-anger-swearing

    Democrats race to embrace swearing and angry comebacks – but will it work?

    Democrats’ wider embrace of swearing, trolling and scorched-earth comebacks is part of a broader mission to sound more like “normal people” and less like a party of poll-tested talking points and white papers. From campaign rallies to TikTok vent seshes, the characteristically buttoned-up Democrats are taking more risks – and punching back harder at Trump and his administration.

    The bigger challenge, Shenker-Osorio notes, is that Democrats aren’t just competing for eyeballs with Republicans — they’re up against an algorithm that prizes outrage and emotion, whether it’s Maga memes or Taylor and Travis engagement headlines.

  • Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks

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  • That was just the Pentagon that they walked away from, not the White House. And OAN was the one entity that did agree to the Pentagon rules.

  • Trump could offer refugee status to Europeans who oppose migration

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  • Top US Army General Says He's Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions

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  • Article title:

    Top US Army General Says He's Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions

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    “I’m asking to build, trying to build models to help all of us,” he said, adding that he’s using ChatGPT to help make military and personal decisions affecting the soldiers under his command.

    These are not equivalent statements. You can take input from a subordinate, or from a military history work, doctrine manuals, or Google, or ChatGPT in making a decision without having them make that decision.

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    British public wrong about nearly everything

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  • Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

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  • Dog starts house fire by chewing portable phone battery, officials say

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  • keep portable charging devices out of pets' reach

    Realistically, I suspect that a smartphone battery is enough to start a fire. I doubt that there is any chance that every dog owner is going to keep smartphones out of pet reach.

  • Women shouldn’t hold office, says GOP woman now running for office

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  • Emotional support alligator is no longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart

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  • American Airlines expects all passengers, be they mammal or reptillian, to act responsibly and respectfully towards other passengers, including after use of American Airlines' first class complimentary alcoholic beverages menu.

  • Emotional support alligator is no longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart

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    • Emotional support alligator banned from local pizza parlor

    • Emotional support alligator no longer allowed in municipal swimming pool

    • Emotional support alligator no longer permitted in first class seats on American Airlines flights, moved to economy class

    • Emotional support alligator banned from men's bathroom at local club: 'that alligator is female'

  • Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT

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  • The bug was fixed by another ex-Microsoft engineer, Raymond Chen. Speaking on Plummer's other YouTube channel, Dave's Garage, Chen fondly remembers adding a frame rate limiter, thereby reigning the game in to a 100 fps maximum.

    And now that we have monitors running at over 100 Hz, that's too low...

  • Canadian Police Arrest Man Driving a Pink Barbie Toy Jeep in Rush-Hour Traffic

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  • [article] India's honk-happy drivers are switching to even louder horns | NPR

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  • The horns made me sorely miss the inoffensive chaos of Mexico.

    And yet!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tD9MouLKB8

    Relaxing Life Ambiance

    2 Hours of Mumbai Traffic Sounds | ASMR City Noise & Honking Horns for Sleep, Relaxation & Focus