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baggins , in Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
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Child workers or child care workers?

It sounds pretty scummy whatever one it is.

RobotToaster OP ,
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First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. He questioned why Louisiana has the requirement while other states where he owns Smoothie King locations, such as Mississippi, don’t have them, and criticized people who have questioned the bill’s purpose.

“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”

jlow ,

Such a civilised country, I too wish I could work 24h without breaks for our capitalist overlords.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

I’m weird in that I prefer to not take a lunch brake if it means I get to leave an hour early. But, I don’t eat lunch, so that’s probably part of it.

TheAnonymouseJoker , in Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow
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USA bans Palestinians from the right to life.

Now that could make for a great headline, CNN. Go ahead, but Joe Biden could get your head sliced for it.

ivanafterall ,
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That would be an odd headline choice for a story about a new law regulating music tempo in Chechnya.

phcorcoran , in Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games

Okay now try “game” again but way happier and with your mouth way open piped.video/watch?v=ABxH-NTF0SM

Sgt_choke_n_stroke , (edited ) in NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected

This is watering down conservative voices. Basically, making media a right-wing hell hole, younger people won’t listen to or trust.

They’re digging their own grave. Like sucking on the exhaust of a car.

knfrmity , in Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

I’d bet a fully functioning and safe Boeing passenger plane (rare collectors item) that this was a hit.

pop , in Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

Regardless of what Neil deGrasse Tyson says, the movies sucked.

packadal ,

What did you dislike about those movies?

Spacehooks ,

Movie was great and I understand why they cut some stuff out from the story but I just don’t get why they moved the timeline up so fast. Paul did all this before his sister was even born. Just bothers me.

JillyB ,

I actually think it was a good decision. The sister doesn’t play a huge part in the first book. The movie had to compress things for time. It would’ve been distracting to introduce a new character that doesn’t do much during the crescendo near the end.

billgamesh ,

Didn’t watch the movie, get why they’d leave out Alia, but I always look forward to her killing the baron when I reread. makes me sad about Children too.

Spacehooks ,

Lol was hoping for that too but you realize it won’t happen third of the way in. I think the third movie is going to have add all the parts about Alia they cut. Which I agree is not too much. For non dune fans that were with me Alia came out as ultra creepy and they didn’t get her character. In Past versions I was sympathetic toward her. But again she didn’t have much screen time to flush her out a bit.

billgamesh ,

I guess she is sorta creepy in the books, but with the literary irony u sympathise. That’s be hard in a movie

Spacehooks ,

Yeah I see the reasoning. It just takes me out of the movie he did all this in a few months. I don’t think any movie choices were bad just different. Like chany characters behavior is different than I recall. Like a 180. Is it believable yes. Is it what I expected nope.

Murvel ,

Uh, no

D61 ,

At least the original movie (the “bad” one from 1984… wait … what the fuck? ooohhhwweeeeooohhhh) was interesting to look at.

autotldr Bot , in Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once again has a scientific bone to pick with a motion picture.

This time, per The Hollywood Reporter, Tyson’s qualms are with the second installation of Dennis Villineuve’s “Dune” series — a film in which a superhuman cohort of women use a special voice to perform mind control and a very bald Stellan Skarsgård floats through the air.

But as the scientist explained an appearance on the “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” last week, his issues aren’t with the superhuman magic of it all.

According to online forum discussions and a 2017 study, Tyson’s right: sand is pretty good at absorbing noise.

But as Tyson points out, pretty much all legless, worm or snake-like creatures on Earth have to slither in S-shaped lines if they want to move forward.

Colbert and Tyson then went back and forth with some worm movement theories; the former offered that perhaps they have some sort of propellant system on their underbellies, while the latter wondered whether they might simply be “pooping really fast.”


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jlow , in Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’

I’m preeetty sure that’s not how that works but then again Elmo does not behave like someone I would consider being knowledgeable in anything, so no surprise there.

kratoz29 , in What the actual fuck

Don’t worry, in a not far away future we all will be able to pay to get rid of those annoying and disturbing ads in all our social media services!

Obligatory /s

RizzRustbolt , in What the actual fuck

Finally, a bad take everyone can agree on.

ConstableJelly , in In blistering order, judge tells Florida to stop blocking effort to aid medically frail kids

“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the state will violate the injunction through no fault of its own, and despite its best efforts, because the provision of 90% of [private-duty nursing] hours to 2,750 children in the midst of a nursing shortage is simply impossible.” the state argued.

“It’s not our fault we’re breaking the law, we simply can’t be expected to follow it!”

I wonder what Ron Desantis thinks of the alleged budget and resource shortfall that makes the adequate care for medically vulnerable children “simply impossible.” Probably not irrelevant that the FAHCA lost another court battle a couple months ago preventing them from prohibiting gender-affirming care to trans patients.

QuarterSwede , in New Zealand woman sues partner for not taking her to airport
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And I thought Americans were litigious.

MargotRobbie , in Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

The “Ex Machina” sequel is going way too far to believable, they really need to dial back on the surrealist black comedy.

Linkerbaan , in Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus
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And they wonder why everyone is masked up.

jonne ,

I guess the next step is to bring a rifle and masks.

Mbourgon , in Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games

Already been done, and it’s a really fun game: …wikipedia.org/…/AaAaAA!!

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