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Robert Fico's condition is still "very serious" after he was shot several times on Wednesday.

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After a pair of resignations rocked the pageant world, organizers have found a replacement for Miss USA but not Miss Teen USA. Last year's runner-up said this week that she turned down the crown.

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A soon-to-be released Biden administration report to Congress does not conclude that Israel has violated the terms for its use of U.S. weapons, That's according to three people who have been briefed on the national security memorandum to be submitted by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to lawmakers

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The House killed the far-right Republican's motion to remove Mike Johnson over support for Ukraine aid.

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Israeli forces seize main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, cutting off vital aid route

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Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from Egypt and Qatar for a cease-fire. It is not immediately clear what the proposal entails, nor what Israel's position is.

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Officers in riot gear tore down makeshift barriers and set off flash bangs as they dismantled the site.

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Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

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The president says weapons and equipment will be sent to Kyiv "in the next few hours", after approval from Congress.

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Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to be called as the first witness in Trump's "hush money" trial in New York.

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Denys Shmyhal tells the BBC his country desperately needs the US to approve long-stalled security assistance.

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The Supreme Court will consider whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

I get the need to have a distinction between fish flesh and other meats such as beef, pork, and chicken, but using the same logic as in this article, I've always thought of fish as part of the general "meat" category. It confuses me how Catholics do the "no meat, yes fish" thing. Maybe there's some etymological explanation for why our current-day definition of meat doesn't explicitly have this distinction (assuming it ever did), but if there is, that context seems to have been lost long ago. For some reason, many people now just reflexively believe that fish is not meat -- even non-Catholics.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The irony is that I wasn't that against ads until they got super intrusive and started causing performance issues and breaking web pages. And of course the privacy problems with tracking cookies. But yeah, fuck all ads now, and fuck Google for trying to wring as much ad revenue out of me as possible. I switched to Firefox with uBlock.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Yeah, using humanoid aliens makes it easier to relate to them for obvious reasons (and is a lot cheaper for the costume and effects departments), but it's pretty likely that alien life would be vastly different from humans. Just look at the huge variety of animal life on Earth alone.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Obviously just being grammatically correct by putting the title in quotes!

[-] snarf@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I have no idea where TF2 should fall, but I will say that for a simple-seeming blocky building game, Minecraft has a shocking amount of lore.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I love how Tesla recalls still make national headlines. As if other car companies no longer have any.

[-] snarf@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

This feels like the correct take to me. I still view the occasional Reddit post but only as an absolute last resort for information I can't find anywhere else. Even though I don't post, comment, or vote, I'm still aware that my mere presence there is helping them in some form.

It's similar to the recent Harry Potter game. Lots of people decided that it's far enough removed from Rowling to be okay to buy even if they were pro-trans. But everyone who bought it DID give some of their money to Rowling. It's your decision to weigh the cost/benefit of such a thing, but it was a little shocking to see how many supposedly pro-trans people straight up deluded themselves into thinking they weren't directly supporting Rowling and her anti-trans views.

So yeah, use Reddit still if you must; I certainly understand how much important/useful content and information lives exclusively there, and the overzealous Reddit boycotters may be missing this (or just don't care). But don't pretend like using it isn't also supporting them.

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