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Trump rages at Biden for wrecking his plans for executions: ‘Makes no sense’
  • The delusion in this thread is hilarious.

    Also, yes we should kill inmates who commit certain crimes if they meet a certain burden of proof. The service done to society by killing off these fools far outweighs the costs incurred should a few innocent lives be taken in the process.

  • Trump rages at Biden for wrecking his plans for executions: ‘Makes no sense’
  • Yes. Also, pardoning your sex-crazed drug addict son is very Catholic. As is pathological lying (claiming to lose his son in Iraq when he actually died of a glioblastoma in 2015, or claiming to have formed the QUAD when in actuality it was Trump who formed it; the list goes on). Also, sniffing a young girl's hair on national television is very Catholic (this last one is actually semi-serious).

    Joking aside, if you think Biden is acting out of any religious sincerity, you clearly don't understand much about politicians. They're all carpet baggers. They'll say whatever they have to say to get the Christian/Catholic or Jewish vote etc.

  • At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now
  • these subscription models don't work. What these morons don't count on is that everyone actually hates the technology deep down. We don't want it! But it gives us a dopamine hit. And when they stack on subscription prices and lock up content and shove ads down our throat... well, the dopamine stops hitting and just get pissed. So we leave.

  • At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now
  • yes video quality has dropped, video suggestion algorithms have become a weird uroboric/echo chamber even if you have dozens of subscriptions, and the YouTube shorts reel refuses to be trained (no matter what I do, if I dislike every video I don't want to see and like all the ones I do want to see and log off if it suggests too many bad videos in a row, it still feeds me an endless loop of unwanted brain rot after 5 or 6 scrolls). I hate YouTube.

    At the same time, they've found a good way around the ad block situation which is to promote ads as thumbnails on your "for you" video main page. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place, because honestly I don't mind that. It's when they constantly interrupt my videos ever freaking minute and a half that I start to get pissed.

  • Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"
  • Luigi was not justified in the murder. If someone with a loved one endangered by UHCs policies enacted by Brian Thompson had killed him, I'd be much more conflicted. But as it stands, Luigi is just some spoiled poser who decided to try and disguise his mental illness and violent urges as internet radicalization. He's a poser, using the proletariat's suffering as a cloak behind which he can hide his own twisted fantasies.

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    Best Budget Telephoto Lens for Low-light photography

    I’m trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what’s with all the “telephoto” lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn’t something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don’t want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk… if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don’t want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don’t have any mirrorless Canon’s.

    Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!

    Edit: Posted in wildlife photo community, but it was dead (no posts since like 2 months ago) so figured I'd move it here.

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    Best Budget Telephoto Lens for Low-light wildlife photography

    I'm trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what's with all the "telephoto" lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn't something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don't want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk... if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don't want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don't have any mirrorless Canon's.

    Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!

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    Ask Lemm.ee @lemm.ee Pavel Chichikov @lemm.ee
    Readings on the Crusades et. al. through a Realist lens?

    Ok so I watched this video and it actually did a really good job at explicating the context of the crusades in ways that a lot of school history readings didn’t for me. I've been notified that the channel is apparently a MAGA pipeline, and I don't necessarily endorse all views held in that channel, but I had to admit: it was refreshing seeing the Crusades explained through a rational, realist lens rather than just chalking it up to "evil bad man kill nice foreign people". And it got me wondering: does anybody here know any good books or book series on ancient European history - the Crusades, the Inquisitions, etc. - that don’t use objectivity as a facade for bashing Western culture? Like, books that use realism and rationality to explain the choices made and provide context into them? I'm looking for stuff as comprehensive as possible. I’m thinking something similar to Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy but with European history. Fairly detailed, objective, etc. Thanks in advance!

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