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otp ,

What the hell are they supposed to eat…“and chips”?!

This is a borderline act of aggression. But at least they didn’t do anything to the tea.

otp ,

British slang for porn.

I’m not sure if I’m missing something here…but what did you think “fuck” meant? Lol

otp ,

_He could fix that car with a wrench, a stick of butter, and a deck of cars.

Well yeah, having a whole deck of other cars would make it pretty simple!

otp ,

Dwarf Fortress?

Slight male navigational advantage likely due to cultural differences, researchers find (phys.org)

A team of psychologists, social scientists, philosophers and evolutionary researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has found evidence suggesting that the slight advantage males have in navigation ability is likely due to differences in the ways male and female children are raised....

otp ,

I believe street names are part of the “male method”, so Google Maps uses that method.

If it said “Turn right at the intersection with the big police station”, then it’d be the “landmark method”.

otp ,

Had studies like this already found the same mechanisms?

otp ,

UBI

Y’all have Universal Basic Income on PC?

otp ,

🇺🇦 yesterday, 🍉 today… what’s tomorrow?

…what about watermelon now?

otp ,

Aha! There is your confession for being absurd!! /s

otp ,

This reads like a summary of a chapter in a dystopian novel

otp ,

I actively choose to shop at stores that have self-checkout because they have self-checkout. I don’t know why the author is writing as if everybody hates them.

otp ,

I agree with you in principle, but we still have money and bills to deal with. Which also suck, but we still need money for the bills and the nice things we want in life. So we need jobs. Unfortunately.

otp ,

I’m buying a car for my own protection. Why would I want to pay any more money for someone else’s protection if they aren’t in the car I bought?

/s

otp ,

Lmao someone in the comments said they were sold a used one (at brand new price) straight from the manufacturer.

Then someone replied to them saying basically, “that’s on you from ordering from the manufacturer instead of a trusted store like Amazon. I had no problems with them.”

otp ,

Overall, we rate i24 News as right-center biased based on the promotion of right-leaning government propaganda, especially as it relates to the conflict with Hamas. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks and unproven claims.

(Emphasis mine)

otp ,

I believe “I was going to the mall yesterday” is perfectly grammatical. It’s in the past continuous tense, if I’m not mistaken, and it would generally be used to describe something we were doing when something else happened.

Replace “going” with “walking”, and you have the first sentence in someone’s story about, say, the dinosaur attack they witnessed on the way to the mall.

otp ,

Come on…we could have school sled dog “busses”!

otp ,

*is OWNED BY Unilever

otp ,

Still, going from pop to juice is a step in the right direction. It’s an early step on a long journey, but a step nonetheless.

One reason a lot of people fail to switch to a healthy diet is because they try to go straight from “whatever the hell I want to eat whenever I want to eat it” to “trendy diet full of food I hate only allowed 2 meals per day”.

Switching from pop to juice is far from the last step, but it’s a good conscious decision if they’re committed to continuing.

otp ,

It really is projection.

I remember some people were saying that the fires weren’t actually real, too. Guess all that smoke nationwide (and in the US) was too hard to deny anymore, so instead it had to be faked by the government.

And just to prove how easy it is for a government official to light a fire, I’ll light one now. And another…wanna see me do it again?

What lunatics…

otp ,

if i would own my children, then i could kill them, just like i can kill my dog.

[…]

im officially labelled as “unfit for educating children” because of my radical views

Yeah, this sounds fine to me. Kudos to your government, I guess.

otp ,

Yeah. At the start, it was friends and family members.

Decades later, it was uncles and grandparents.

Nowadays, it’s basically refugees who speak the same language, but a different accent…and are VERY culturally different.

Good luck convincing a developed nation to accept 26 million refugees overnight, who are likely undernourished and undereducated. In exchange, you get 120K KM of land which might be resource-wealthy, but then you also have to be mindful that there might be terrorists who oppose the government.

Reunification sounded great decades ago. It still sounds great on paper in a best case scenario (aka. fantasy land). Even if it’s “the right thing to do”, though, it’s not going to be easy.

otp ,

A question on Quora doesn’t make it a common belief. Especially if there’s only 1.

otp ,

If you’re going to whaddabout like this, then what about the US and Canada? They are occupied territories. But instead of a timeline of almost 1 century, it’s a timeline of a few centuries. Where do we draw the line? Or should the US and Canada be giving back their territory?

You’re blaming a victim here based on the circumstances of her birth.

Or hey, when we’re in that territory, should white Americans be personally responsible for slavery? Any problems a white American experiences should be written off, and have them described with “(who is an oppressor)”?

Your comment is in terribly poor taste.

Iowa Republicans who’ve changed their minds this cycle are searching for a Trump alternative (www.nbcnews.com)

Most likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers say they have supported the same candidate throughout the entire election cycle, a contributing factor to former President Donald Trump’s maintaining a massive lead heading into Monday night....

otp ,

I think it was generally right-wing extremists from Canada who went down to the US, then on a cultural scale, it got exported here.

I don’t think Canadian culture is a big import in the US…

The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years, anti-poverty group Oxfam says (apnews.com)

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.

otp ,

I personally wouldn’t be upset if a few of them died even today

otp ,

Technology used to be more about solving a problem or making something difficult easier. This thing has no real use beyond “neat”.

I guess you haven’t been following the video game industry for the last half a century?

otp ,

Where 2.5 children? There, or here?

otp ,

I’m very sorry. At first, I thought Guayaquil was an alternative to Nyquil and Dayquil.

otp ,

the Air Quality Index (AQI) is 71. This is a considerably low quality of air.

71 is nothing. They make it sound bad because they say 50-99 is considered low quality, which makes it seem like it’s only a 2-digit scale.

It’s a 3-digit scale, and if you live near a city, 71 is probably relatively common for you. Over 120 is when it starts to get unpleasant, and that’s probably not unheard of.

If you lived anywhere near wildfires, you were probably getting ratings over 300, or if you were particularly close, maybe over 500.

otp ,

I love self-checkouts.

But what I love even more is having one single line for all lanes. It’s ridiculous that customers have to guess which lane will move the fastest.

Making a single line is the best thing self-checkouts have introduced around here.

Also, if they won’t bag my stuff for me, then I might as well be at the self-checkout. And since they don’t offer plastic bags at most places around here, most don’t bag your stuff for you.

If there are multiple lines and they won’t bag my stuff, I’ll go somewhere else that has self-checkout.

Prince William County admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden (www.nbcwashington.com)

A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case....

otp ,

Would the outcome have changed?

Exclusive: Hamas, Islamic Jihad accused of using child soldiers in war against Israel (www.foxnews.com)

Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing. According to the United Nations website for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General...

otp ,

If not Hamas, they won’t be dead.

This is false. Civilians are dying, including children.

otp ,

I for one are willing to let old IP die

Well the rest of us am not!!

otp ,

You have very confidently missed the point of the post.

Do they stop making oil and air filters for your car after 3 years? Do the seatbelts artificially refuse to connect after 3 years? Lol

Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds (www.reuters.com)

About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....

otp ,

Canadians also worry that CANADIAN democracy cannot survive Trump’s return to the White House…

otp ,

“That was awesome! Now YOU give me a treat.”

otp ,

Seems like an option would make the most sense

otp ,

If the red-until-we’re-dead outnumber the blue-no-matter-who, then you end up with the Republicans, who tend to be worse when it comes to war things (and other human rights violations). Anybody who abstains to vote in a region where their vote matters is supporting a Republican, or even a Trump, victory.

The tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. But it keeps laying off humans (edition.cnn.com)

The tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. But it keeps laying off humans::The tech sector has kicked off the new year with a spate of fresh job cuts that are coming at the same time as the industry is doubling down on investments into artificial intelligence.

otp , (edited )

(had to look deep into my contract because HR bot told me I wouldn’t be eligible for severance pay which was false)

Sounds like the same performance as before, when it was a human!

“If we lie*, hopefully they won’t check. And if they call us out, it was an honest mistake!”

otp ,

Does it actually let you buy them? I thought they were mostly locked away behind special event codes, or even dummied out.

Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... (www.theverge.com)

Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo…::CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we...

otp ,

They have tests you can take to see if you can hear the difference. A lot of people fail! Lol

otp ,

Do you take everything valuable from your house and your car with you from wherever you go? Or do you just lock them up and leave them unattended? Lol

The most secure place to keep something is to leave it locked up in a safe place. A person can get robbed…even if they have a gun, lol

otp ,

Similarly, going postal is back on the table!

otp ,

It was your second paragraph that got you the downvotes. And/or missing the joke

otp ,

Lmao, what were guns invented for if not to kill things? And which everyday object in the post office was equally invented to kill people?

otp ,

when Americans say that “the USA is a developing country,” it’s not even funny anymore, it just looks like, excuse me, a mockery for those who live in real developing countries.

As surprising as it may be, not everyone lives in the “good parts” of the US that they show on TV.

There are definitely parts of the country where life is similar to how you described, except with less government control.

In some parts of the country, there is no safe drinking water. In some places, you can’t even boil the water to make it safe to drink.

There is similar poverty as you described, and while there isn’t much chance of warfare of any kind, there are places where being a certain race could get you shot and/or killed if you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Marijuana meets criteria for reclassification as lower-risk drug, FDA scientific review finds (www.cnn.com)

Marijuana has a lower potential for abuse than other drugs that are subjected to the same restrictions, with scientific support for its use as a medical treatment, researchers from the US Food and Drug Administration say in documents supporting its reclassification as a Schedule III substance....

otp ,

It goes deeper than that. They could be making money from weed instead of alcohol.

The answer is existing wealth and power structures.

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