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Stay away from the green ones. Bitter.

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)

On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....

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Snakes on a plane part doodoo?

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Air Canada says what’s the problem?

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I got the mitosis. What’s the loss?

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I’m truly sorry for your and your wife’s suffering. I have one kid, and everything went perfectly up to present day adulthood. I don’t think I would be able to function after even one episode of what you’ve gone through. Internet hugs from afar.

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I was serious and that’s brutal. After thirteen years of Reddit, I have no idea how I was completely ignorant of this one.

Court Rules in Pornhub’s Favor in Finding Texas Age-Verification Law Violates First Amendment (variety.com)

Court Rules in Pornhub’s Favor in Finding Texas Age-Verification Law Violates First Amendment::A Texas law requiring age-verification measures for porn sites, challenged by Pornhub and others, violates the First Amendment, a judge ruled.

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I live in Texas. Is it my patriotic duty to go rub one out now?

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I live in Texas and was considering wearing dresses to work just to see what the definition of “sexually explicit performance” would be.

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It’s in my shaving soap and it’s divine

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I tried the all you can eat pasta at Olive garden once.

The first bowl happened.

The second bowl was in like one of those little soup cups.

They refused to come anywhere near our table after that except to slam the check down.

Fuck everything about Olive garden

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In retrospect, all you can eat in a table service environment is just a bad idea all around.

This was back around 2000. We were young, poor, and hungry, so of course we were looking for value. It’s not fair to servers to offer that.

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I remember those halcyon days when calling each other Sherlock and Einstein was the zenith of insults.

On the playground.

During recess.

In the fifth grade.

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Most shops I know of these days assign a labor time to any given job. You get charged that amount whether the mechanic does it in half the time or takes five times as long.

Anymore, it’s an internal benchmark for mechanics to build on the efficiency of their own work.

In my line of work, it may take me three hours to solve a client tax issue. I will bill for that accordingly.

If another client comes along the next day with the exact same issue, but this time I know the answer because I researched it yesterday, so I can solve it instantly, should the second client get charged nothing?

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I have no horse in this race either way. According to wiki:

Two years later, the university was accredited for degree-granting programs through the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC)

Currently the DEAC is recognized by Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the United States Department of Education as an accreditor of institutions of higher education.

It looks like there are potential issues with transferring credits to more traditional schools.

If I were a hiring manager, I would certainly raise an eyebrow to see that school on a resume.

Edit: While there is no tuition, there are fees from a couple thousand for an associates up to slightly under five thousand for a master’s.

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My Shiba crossed the bridge two years ago at age fifteen.

There are not many dog breeds that are more difficult and there are not many dog breeds that are more rewarding.

I still miss him daily.

Disclaimer: While he did happen to be a purebred Shiba Inu, I got him at the SPCA and didn’t know shibas were even a thing at the time. I only learned that at the first vet visit.

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I don’t like Bud Light. I have never liked Bud Light. It’s been over twenty years since I’ve drunk a Bud Light.

However, I also believe there is a time and place to consume crappy American adjunct lager. Generally daytime outdoor activities.

I don’t understand the culture of disparaging people for the beer they drink. I especially don’t understand something along the line of a Coors Light drinker expressing existential superiority over a Bud Light drinker.

As to the craft drinkers, I see that as an entirely different market that should keep to itself. It’s like Michelin star diners disparaging people who can only afford to occasionally eat at the local greasy spoon.

The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. (www.businessinsider.com)

The world’s largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company’s culture.

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That doesn’t sound like jobs. It sounds like indenture.

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The album cover for the 1980 X album Los Angeles would be a perfect logo for Elon’s little sandbox.

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Is that with a football or a bullet? Both scenarios fit.

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I really enjoy watching the features of the desert when I fly to Vegas. You can almost see the geographic history of how the grand canyon came about. I love the dried up river beds that look like ancient crooked highways.

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Man I’m so out of the loop, I had no idea what Cortana was and thought Windows was finally shutting down all instances of Encarta. (It looks like Encarta did live until around 2008, which does surprise me)

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I was active on the snopes message board before Reddit. Snopes went all to hell right around the time I switched. Now the message boards are gone and the site itself is mostly the owner asking for money.

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When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it’s institutionalized across the entire Internet.

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I can’t see myself headed back to Oregon any time soon, but good. It was so frustrating trying to get gas behind a line of twenty five cars being “served” by a single slack jawed yokel taking smoke breaks between each car and God help you if you needed gas at night when everybody was closed.

New Jersey gas attendants can be surly, but my experiences driving there at least moved the cars through getting gas efficiently.

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Was this article written by Holden Caulfield?

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I was either on my last slide phone or my first smart phone when Twitter came out and Facebook was beginning it’s ascent to late 2000s domination.

From the beginning, I thought the concept of effectively posting text messages on this new Twitter thing made no sense at all, so I never bothered making an account.

However many years later, I’m super glad I thought Twitter v1.0 was so silly.

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It’s been a month, and I’ve mostly forgotten about Reddit. Whether they ultimately succeed or fail is of no consequence to me.

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It also seems like the whole you gotta upgrade every other month hype has long since died down. It’s not the exponential improvements that it was ten or twelve years ago.

Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term (www.politico.com)

Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate...

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The evangelicals seem to be trying to accelerate their end times, which also brings rationalization that present day and future climate conditions are irrelevant because they’ll be swept up into the sweet, sweet air conditioned confines of their heavenly city while they laugh at the libtards left behind burning up in the aftermath.

Source: I grew up in this shit.

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I’ve definitely seen episodes of Father Ted. I think it may have been on Netflix for a while, but the memory fades, so I’m not sure.

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Maybe Exene should get on the horn to her lawyers.

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I clicked on the X in the picture to try to close it. I am not a clever man.

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So she got all that press for a couple hundred bucks in fines. It’s beautiful.

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I loved my Element. Gave it to my daughter when she got her license and she drove it until the wheels fell off.

Now she says one of her goals in life is to make enough money to restore one.

People sticking with audio jack phones, why is USB-C earphones not a solution?

Don’t get me wrong. Apple removing audio jack was the biggest facepalm in smartphone history. And you can thank it for not being able to make an upgrade without sacrificing audio jack (and SD card too :/). But USB-C is getting standardized everywhere now (laptops, smartphones, etc.). What makes USB-C earphones not worth the...

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I only ever use earphones when I fly, which is two or three times a year.

I have a crappy pair of earphones that I bought in a drugstore probably about ten years ago that work surprisingly well and drown out the various environmental noises on a plane.

So I have a perfectly functioning item that I own. I do not wish to be compelled to upgrade something that I use so infrequently because it’s stylish or Apple wants me to spend more money.

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This fuckin’ guy is gonna burn it all down and somehow walk away with more money than I could earn in several lifetimes. There’s something intrinsically wrong with a system that so egregiously rewards such gross incompetence.

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Does it run an online version of Doom?

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Best I can do for your mammoth blood is five bucks.

I’ve got to get it into a decorative vial, then I’ve got to store it until I find a buyer, and the market is super niche. If you had come in fifteen years ago when True Blood was all the rage, and the vampires were still out in the open, it would be a different story.

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Lemmy should make its own awards.

Award #1 – Blackjack

Aware #2 – Hookers

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I appreciate the concept, but I don’t even want to give Reddit page views anymore.

I’ve moved on from various platforms before, but I’ve never done so feeling so thoroughly pissed off at the platform itself. (I never had a Twitter account, or that would likely be neighbors with Reddit in this category)

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This hypothesis of a Swiss cheese crisis seems to have a lot of holes in it.

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So far so good but I haven’t found the blackjack and hookers yet.

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Without naming the firm, I’m a refugee from public accounting.

Back when I was a staff accountant, and we were all making roughly $60k a year, they brought us all into a meeting in the middle of busy season to discuss work/life balance and mental health.

The solution they offered?

Simply hire a full-time live in housekeeper who does laundry and cooks!

That was it. That was the meeting.

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Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren’t the same.

Reality is that it wouldn’t still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.

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I particularly enjoyed this:

Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed]

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I think what pisses me off the most is that no matter what happens, Spez will somehow walk away with enough of that sweet, sweet CEO money to fund my life several generations over and will probably get another sweet, sweet CEO position somewhere else to destroy another company because he’s got “experience”.

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I mean it’s dead to me

Exactly. Whether or not Facebook or Reddit or Netflix or Twitter survive, thrive, or perish is irrelevant to me.

What matters is that they won’t profit off my data, they won’t sell any ads from my activity, and they won’t get a penny more of subscription money out of me.

If others wish to continue diving down those rabbit holes, that’s on them.

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