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This is a difficult problem to solve.

Starving the entire population, half of which are children, is an inhumane solution. If it is too effective, it becomes the final solution.

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Micropayments would scale at a ridiculous rate like microtransactions in games have, so your $20 example would be at least $200 in reality by now.

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Am on the tail end of Gen X and when I started working even low pay allowed me to afford a place to live, food to eat, and doing fun things occasionally. While work sucked, it at least paid the bills and allowed the freedom to live. Plus there were still some companies that offered actual long term perks, tried and keep people with experience around, and promoted from within.

Gen Z still gets the low pay, but are treated as expendable, and can't afford anything and so it is understandable that they would hate working in comparison.

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Calm down.

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I get angry because of frustration about things beyond my control that impact me negatively and can't simply be ignored. Knowing that extra step is great and all, but doesn't reduce the frustration or the anger. I'm sure that identifying the difference is helpful to some people who can ignore or address the actual cause of their anger.

Note: I don't get angry about frustrating things that I can do something about, or can be ignored.

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This is the first time for me as well, and it sounds likely to be the last.

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Candyman and Bloody Mary only work if you believe :P

Elderly Alaska man is first reported person to die of recently discovered Alaskapox virus (www.seattletimes.com)

The man was undergoing cancer treatment and had a suppressed immune system because of the drugs, which may have contributed to the severity of his illness, the bulletin said. It described him as elderly but didn’t provide his age....

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Someone with a compromised immune system dying of a disease that has mild symptoms in the five other people who have ever been diagnosed with the disease is the opposite of terrifying.

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When they make low effort cosmetics they are both restricting features that could be in the game and incentivizing themselves to prohibit a modding community that adds a ton to games for free.

How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data (www.troyhunt.com)

Ever hear one of those stories where as it unravels, you lean in ever closer and mutter “No way! No way! NO WAY!” This one, as far as infosec stories go, had me leaning and muttering like never before. Here goes: Last week, someone reached out to me with what

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Ahhhh, I was.wondering why they would take the time to set up an API with that data and forgot that almost everything has a way to just dump things into it without needing to be set. I forget because where I work we actively avoid that approach because of risks like this.

How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees?

So I just discovered that I have been working next to the waste of oxygen that raped my best friend several years ago. I work in a manufacturing environment and I know that you can’t fire someone just for being a sex offender unless it directly interferes with work duties (in the US). But despite it being a primarily male...

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If they didn't do it they get the same 'not guilty' verdict, so what is the recourse for someone who was falsely charged?

I am specifically thinking of the US where there are a lot of black men falsely convicted of violent crimes they did not commit because of racist eye witness testimony or even victims who blame a random black person to avoid social stigma and prosecutors who want higher conviction rates.

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Not to mention that not everyone has fingers.

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The whole Lovecraft universe is sort of a hog podge of other's authors work as well who sort of expanded and formalized parts of it.

It is a shame that the other authors are overlooked because it was an awesome collaboration.

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They aren’t going to make this easy cause it quite literally means giving the shareholders less profit, which is illegal in the US.

Making less profit than previous periods of time or even operating at a loss is not illegal in the US. Many companies have periods where they lose money or sacrifice short term profits for long term growth.

Investors with enough control might boot the leadership out, but they can also do that for whatever reason including unrealistic expectations.

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My only complaint about discord is that it requires a mobile phone number for an account, and you can't use the same number for multiple accounts.

I want separate personal (with a silly account name) and professional (with my name) accounts, but only have one phone.

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The worst part is that they act like you can set up an account without a number, but then it acts like there is 'suspicious activity' and requires you to verify with the phone immediately.

Just rant into this yesterday trying to set up a work account as my work phone is not a mobile phone with sms.

Was registering really suspicious?

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I don't know if it is new, but it is in the help files when I tried to figure out why it required both confirming an email and the phone.

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That is what the help files say, but when I tried to register a work account yesterday it did the verify you are human, then said there was something suspicious and sent the email verification, then said there was something suspicious and is now requiring a phone verification even though I did not enter a phone number.

At no point was I ever signed in and able to even pick a channel. This all happened while trying to log in for the first time through the browser at work with my work email. I guess that someone else might not hit that phone requirement as I only tried to do the registration once, but it is in no way limited to joining a particular channel.

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NATO isn't even fighting. NATO gave Ukraine their old boxing gloves and some advice.

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Or if you pretended that material goods had an inherent value.

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Pants can be what keeps you from freezing to death and going to jail.

Can be, but pants do not have inherent value in the context of a tropical climate where freezing is not an issue and nudity is allowed. They have contextual value.

Food does not have inherent value, it scales with availability and demand. An excess of apples that will spoil before they can be processed into something that can be consumed do not have inherent value.

This is important because while money's value is far more volatile, the argument that material goods have inherent value as a comparison is flawed.

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Pants have value in any climate.

Pants can have value, they do not have inherent value.

You’re looking for particular circumstances that mitigate or otherwise affect the inherent value of certain goods, though your scenarios depend on those goods having inherent value in the first place.

I am pointing out that there are exceptions to the assumption that there is inherent value to show that material goods do not have inherent value. That is the opposite of 'depending on them having inherent value'.

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I don't think you understand what inherent means.

If something does not always have value in every circumstance, the value is not inherent.

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Do you think I'm talking about inherent value to dogs and cats?

I'm going to assume you are trolling and kick myself for falling for it.

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If they develop for only Firefix it will work with all browsers because Firefox is standards compatible.

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Fewer kids are going to church to learn about who to hate, so I think it balances out.

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Keep hoping!

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Pretty sure McDonald's has had more than a 200% increase in menu prices over the last 6 years. Pretty sure labor and other overhead has gone down, and last I checked those were a bigger portion of the menu price than the food itself.

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An electric one, as in with a motor, is more consistent since you just need to move it at a steady pace. Plus it can do multiple directions at the same time and get in the nooks and crannies a little better. Not a ton better, just a bit.

Anything beyond an electric motor with an on/off switch adds nothing.

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Pretty sure they got bought out around 2010ish which is when they went to complete shit.

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get permanently disgusted

Typos can be so entertaining.

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Zero ice cubes is the correct amount.

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Can't hold a moral stance without shouting it at everyone around you!

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How long does someone need to have a belief before it counts?

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It really doesn't matter because short of being in a publicallt visible leadership position it will never be enough.

Join rallies, but anonymously? Doesn't count.

Attended a rally openly but no one took a picture? Doesn't count.

Told one person? Not enough witnesses.

Told multiple friends? Just covering for you.

Decided this week based on an experience, but no rallies or groups doing scheduled stuff? Doesn't count.

Publicly attended 3 rallies over the last few months? Just doing it to avoid getting drafted, doesn't count because it wasn't long enough prior.

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They push the stuff that people spend more time interacting with. People tend to interact more with negative stuff.

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They could in theory, but that would drive down engagement and they would make less money.

It is pretty hard to identify negative posts separately from hyperbolic exaggeration though. How do you tell ridiculous rage bait from a good Onion article when the only real difference in context is who posted it?

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Like free trials, they keep free in the name just to make sure it is clear and because people like free stuff.

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Really?

Doom's shareware sold Doom for me. Most recently the Tekken 8 demo sold itself. In between there have been a ton of games where the demo was helpful in deciding whether or not to play something.

I'm just surprised that in all that time there wasn't a single one that at a minimum confirmed a game was what you were expecting if you were on the fence.

I believe it, just surprised.

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If the arrest people and take them into custody under false pretenses then charge them with kidnapping and false imprisonment. If they cannot do their own due diligence on the job, they need to be punished for abusing their authority.

Senate presses toward vote on border policies and Ukraine amid Republican backlash (apnews.com)

Senate negotiators on Sunday night released a $118 billion package of border enforcement policy and funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, hoping that the details would win over skeptics. The bill represented a rightward tilt in Senate negotiations over border measures, yet the backlash was intense from...

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The only reason they won't support it is because they automatically oppose anything the Dems are in favor of.

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I give the IDF zero benefit of the doubt after they straight up murdered the Reuters journalist with a fucking tank.

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Come on man, I just told you.

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They had to suffer that beautiful view. Tsk tsk tsk.

Florida parents say 2-year-old was restrained during Rosa Parks reenactment at day care (www.wesh.com)

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — Parents of a 2-year-old in Osceola County say their daughter, who they believe is the only Black child in the class, was made to play Rosa Parks in a reenactment that included her being restrained by another student in a police uniform and fingerprinted.

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"Being self aware hurts our fee fees!

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When Netflix was under $10 I stopped pirating and just watched stuff on Netflix because it was worth it for the convenience at the price point.

That is how they solve piracy. Everything they have been doing over the last couple of years is the reason for the increase in piracy.

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A creative interpretation of the firearms policies of 1627.

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Bomb squad member is based.

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