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

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Anyone buying a Tesla at this point either knows they're buying a shit car purely for the status symbol, or they're a rube. Fools and their money and all that

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At least there's a reason for McDonald's ice cream machines not working, even if it is blatant and disgusting corporate greed from Taylor Company.

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The Saudis' also wouldn't be anywhere near as successful with an oil squeeze today as they were in the 70s.

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Because obviously that's what we need, to be encouraging the expansion of capitalism into space.

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I love space exploration. It's absolutely something we as a species should be doing. We just shouldn't be doing it for the motives of profit.

But sure, put things in my mouth asshat

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I think they were joking that we should just go snuff out Russia

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I think you completely misinterpreted what their reply meant.

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It's been a year or so since I've looked into it, but from what I've seen the issue isn't taste, it's that the texture is awful. That'll obviously improve with time though.

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And said government will be funded by it.

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"Were sorry we weren't able to keep things just above the line of so shit that people dont unionize" isn't exactly a sympathetic position either

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The point couldn't have gone further over your head if it were a space shuttle

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"uh oh someone showed how I was being asinine. Time to block them so I can ignore that inconvenient fact!"

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I appreciate you continuing to prove my point.

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Not directly related to income tax, but I'm a big believer in having property taxed on an exponential scale. Start off quite low for your first property, a vacation home is still reasonable, but by the time you're much past that it becomes completely unreasonable to keep buying properties. Add a hefty multiplier for empty units on top of that, and you'd go a long way to fixing the issue with property hoarding.

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That doesn't really solve anything. As long as there is profit to be made, people will horrendously abuse it. That's not something we want when were in the middle of a homeless crisis yet we have more than enough empty housing for them.

Maybe once everyone's basic housing needs are met we can talk, but until then no.

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My point wasn't that you can't have a rental home, it's that you shouldn't stop the increase in tax rate at 3. If you want to try to have a 4th or 5th you can, you're just going to be paying an exorbitant property tax rate to the point where viewing real estate as an investment is moronic.

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I think you're misunderstanding my point. Frankly the terms "investment" and "housing" don't belong near each other in the first place. "Making it similar to other Investments" is still putting those two words way the fuck too close to each other.

Nobody cares if you're renting out Grandma's house to pay for her nursing home currently (even though that's an entirely separate problem that absolutely needs addressing). That's not what the majority of rentals are.

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If you like banana smoothies, peanut butter is another great way to round it out a bit more. And yknow, make it taste all the better because peanut butter fucks.

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Growing up we'd blend just frozen bananas and a little bit of peanut butter together. Keep it going long enough and you'll get real close to ice cream consistency with just those two things. Add a little drizzle of chocolate syrup and you've got a reasonably not unhealthy treat that's damn good.

Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)

We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England...

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I believe they were implying in STEM vs non-STEM

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Because you're not an awful person trying to pull the ladder up while saying "fuck you I got mine"

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Yeah I'm not sure how much room "PP BOY" has when it comes to telling people to grow up.

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Hey now, it was TWO tiny jokes!

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It already happened 15-20 years ago for 90% of people.

Coffee snobs (myself included) sometimes forget that the vast majority of people just want a cup of brown that makes them feel slightly less like shit.

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I know it's said a lot, but how in the fuck do people live with themselves over this type of shit. I still feel guilty about the one kid I accidentally absolutely crushed into the boards with a shoulder check playing indoor soccer. That shit was like 15 years ago, and the kid was no worse off besides some bruises.

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Watching the video, it really looks like the T-90 crew had zero clue what was going on. Wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even know how many vehicles they were being attacked by. Panic, poor training, and the potential for pvt conscriptovich to have sold critical things off for vodka will do a lot to turn a battle against you.

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So while this is obviously bad, did any of you actually think for a moment that this was stopping anything? If the military wants to use ChatGPT, they're going to find a way whether or not OpenAI likes it. In their minds they may as well get paid for it.

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You seem to think I said it was OK. I never did.

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Tapirs are one of those animals I always forget exist and am delighted when I am reminded of them.

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Russian people so strong they survive many gunshot wound, is normal

Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...

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Incredibly

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It's the same general thing as DLSS in games. Saying 720p > 4k upscaled is comparable to 1440p is pushing it a bit, but overall the tech's pretty impressive.

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Unfortunately the results of, say, 240p > 720p tend to be nowhere near as impressive as 720p > 1440p. Just not enough info for it to play with.

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We're well past the point of any of the remaining "skeptics" being actually capable of reason

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Might be more in addition to it, but usually it's as part of a fancy inventory system to keep track or who checks in/out what tool. They'll have GPS sometimes too.

Power tools are expensive and have a tendency to "disappesr", so on a big enough scale I can see where it's helpful.

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Good thing they're primarily talking about things such as aircraft, where this level of analness is sort of the bare minimum.

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Not necessarily stupid. There's a reason military recruitment primarily comes from the poorest parts of the nation with the least opportunities

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I mean yeah I'd love for that to happen. Doesn't change the fact that there are plenty of people who have/continue to see it as the only realistic path out of whatever situation they're in. We're not in disagreement that the root cause of it is bad.

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Is it really hard to understand why people care so much about free shipping when so many people are hurting financially?

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Isn't that due to stricter data collection/retention regulations in the EU?

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Of course not, they're simply pointing out how the title is misleading. Obviously more people being able to feel comfortable enough to come out is a good thing, but that doesn't change the number of gay people in the world.

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Their media bias fact check link if you care

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I find them somewhat useful when you use it on a relatove scale, but yeah it's pretty useless in a vacuum

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That's a nice way of saying war criminals that deserve to hang at the Hague

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Local ownership can cut both ways. Local businessmen reach a certain level of wealth and power and can essentially take over the entire town. It's how you end up with situations like the Murdaughs.

However you look at it, the overconsolidation of wealth always has negative impscts.

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Videos of the sinkings of most of these ships are freely available online, as is a fairly accurate estimate of the black fleet size. Might have something to do woth thay

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Yeah, plenty of us fucking do

Genocide is bad. Supporting genocide unequivocally makes you an awful human being, and any just God would punish you with eternal damnation.

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Good thing I don't believe in a God

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