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I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

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Yup. The traditional American middle class is essentially an endangered species

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Kbin does that sometimes

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For anyone interested in someone who's fantastic about interviewing people from all over the US (and maybe someoutside, cant remember), Peter Santenello is great. Found his videos on Appalachia one night when I couldn't sleep and was hooked.

One of the few people that actually let's people talk and tell their story without trying to be leading or get a sound bite.

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How can we turn a Hilux into a technical using only PC parts

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As someone else commented, the incumbent won their last election 87%-13% to a libertarian in a race where the GOP didn't run a candidate.

I don't think there's much risk of that, thankfully.

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That's a fantastic question

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Because liquids behave the exact same as solids

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Hardees/Carl's Jr. Has always been stupid expensive for fast food, at least in my area

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I also find they tend to last longer and are easier to clean.

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At all times at least 1 step further than whatever Israel last did

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If I have to have microplastics in my balls, then the fish do too dammit!

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Probably technically, but I can almost guarantee you they quite literally couldn't care less about two brothers sharing an account. They're more worried about large groups sharing an account.

Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' (apnews.com)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....

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The answer to the ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians is not more ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians

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It's something people don't realize. We may be a scourge on the Earth, but we're still nowhere even near the top of the list of worst things to happen to this planet.

As the other reply brought up, Theia crashing into Earth. Flood basalt events. The Chicxulub impact.

We may be able to cause some real awful shit, but we still are nothing compared to what the forces of nature can produce. And just to clarify, I'm not saying this to in any way downplay the seriousness of climate change, or that we should do nothing about it.

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If it you it to the extreme, sure. But the foundation of losing weight in any context is calories in < calories burned.

I tried to get my dad to stop drinking soda for years when I was growing up. Dude drank 8+ cans a day. He finally quit drinking soda, and was for some reason surprised when he started losing weight. Changes as simple as that, just ordering a size down of what you normally would when you do esst fast food, etc. all can add up big time.

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Yeah it really wasn't good

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Not reading the article and being aggressively confidently incorrect is basically this guy's MO

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One of the most popular recent movie franchises is literally about a guy who goes on a murder rampage because someone killed his dog

Why the fuck did they think this would go over well.

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This nation used to kill fascists

Republican National Committee’s headquarters evacuated after vials of blood are addressed to Trump (apnews.com)

The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee’s takeover of the national party apparatus....

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We're clearly not going to get boring or normal, so yeah im cool with undangerous but weird

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They're solid generic blockbuster action-ish movies. They're not amazing, but they're fun enough that I think they're worth a watch if you can't decide what to watch one night.

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Everyone in general

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Ones here in the states vary a lot from place to place. Some places have absolutely everything, books, movies, games, tools, makerspaces (or at least 3d printers), computers etc.

But most city libraries outside if your big big ones are still relatively small. My local one is about the size of a small grocery store, real modest. Damn do the workers there pour their hearts and souls into it though, they're always hosting events and stuff. Really appreciate our library workers. Main benefit is getting access to their network, which generally gets you a whole host of other stuff. Ebook rentals, audio book rentals, book transfers, etc.

It's a shame what the GoP is trying to do to the American library system.

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If anyone is interested, Horses has a great video regarding fascism and textbook definitions

Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention (www.theguardian.com)

Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....

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noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5

Guys I'm starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy

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I know it's kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

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He's exactly who the MAGA fuckheads want roaming the streets leading up to this election.

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Emulation when I was younger (and to a lesser extent now. I own the vast majority of old consoles/games I have any interest in playing these days). These days it's near exclusively TV/Movies and pretty much entirely because of convenience. Between myself and the others in my household, we have near every streaming service, I just can't be fucked to figure out which one what I want to watch is on.

I really need to get around to turning my old pc into a media server.

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Guys Im starting to think the guy who's only rich because daddy used apartheid slave labor may not have the best views on race

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In a pretty short span of time no less.

I've definitely had 16 drinks in a day before, just spread out over, yknow, most that day.

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I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You've already seen it happen to 00s music and we're watching it happen with the 10s.

But yeah, it's wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just... don't go looking.

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...why would you put that image im my head

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Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

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Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that's the general gist.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

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Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

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Ding ding ding. Authoritarian governments never disarm the right. The police have shown that they won't protect you, if they're not actively joining in on it.

We protect us.

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People that didn't grow up in environments where you're surrounded by shitty, bigoted opinions don't understand just how fucking hard it is and how long it takes to deprogram yourself from that shit. Took me longer than 18.

Once he starts personally getting on stage and being a bigoted shitbag, I'm more than fine with putting him on blast. Til then, I'm willing to give the kid at least some of the benefit of the doubt.

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I really, really don't like this growing trend of refusing to believe that people can change. I was caught on the young, dumb teenage libertarian > far right pipeline fucking hard. If I hadn't had friends that recognized that and (figuratively) knocked some sense into me, I'm not entirely certain I would've changed.

Edit: apparently hit send mid thought, fixed that

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While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

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Russia could've, y'know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

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If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

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It's a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

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As awful as it is, gotta admit that electrifying a swamp is a pretty creative move.

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CORPSE ROAD

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I'm not sure why this guy's so reluctant to accept something that sticking a bunch of high voltage cables in a swamp isn't something Iraq would've done in that war. I don't even mean in a "oh they did immoral things way", I mean in a "they were basically doing ACME shit the entire war" way.

Did Iraq probably heavily inflate the number killed? Absolutely. Even if they weren't trying to, they had tons of barbed wire and floating mines in that swamp, so kinda hard to distinguish what killed who when all you care about is building corpse road. But they also absolutely electrified a swamp during the battle of the marshes, and it absolutely did kill people.

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Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…

You don't know even know my real name, I'm the fucking Lizard King

Bankrupt Steward Health puts its hospitals up for sale, discloses $9 bln in debt (www.reuters.com)

Bankrupt Steward Health Care has put all of its 31 U.S. hospitals up for sale, hoping to finalize transactions by the end of the summer to address its $9 billion in total liabilities, its attorneys said at a Tuesday court hearing in Houston....

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Could they at least be creative in their dumbassery. Blaming brown people for all your problems is so overplayed

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