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Alto

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

Anti-tankie leftist

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All the square head breeds tend to be such goobers, I love them. My sisters in town, she's got a pittie mix. Damn dog broke into my room the other night and woke me up. Took her a second to realize I was awake, and she was definitely purposefully waking me up.

She's both such a little shit and a sweetheart lmao

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Wild that being able to change titles to be more accurate is a feature instead of the default right?

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I'm definitely oversimplifing, but this sort of thing relies 80% on whether or not the SMM can be fucked to make an account on the site

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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Yup, it's better for when it's gonna be sitting

Source: I've eaten an ungodly amount of PBJs in my life

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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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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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I'm relatively certain that JFK did similar during one of his earlier elections, but that's going off memory of something I read a while ago.

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

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I have absolutely zero expertise in the field, but every time you see something like that in history, I always wonder if it was primarily spurred on by a change in writing medium. E.g. paper vs tablet.

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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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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

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Especially when you have constant pressure to be that way from everyone around you. Truth be told, I've always just felt bad for the kid. Sure we're to the point where you've gotta expect him to at least start thinking for himself, but that type of deprogramming takes a long ass time.

Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why. The number of tornadoes so far in the United States this year is just above average. But their distribution is changing. ( www.nytimes.com )

While the timing of this trend lines up with the planet’s rising temperatures, scientists are hesitant to definitively attribute tornadoes’ clustering behavior to human-caused climate change....

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Guys I'm starting to think this climate change thing might be bad

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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I have no clue if this is a hot take or not, but the Hawks won't win a cup with Bedard. For the same reasons the Oilers won't with McDavid and the Leafs won't with Matthews. Assuming he develops as everyone expects, by the time they're competitive, Bedard's AAV is gonna be 12-15M (or whatever the equivalent cap % is when he signs his contract). You just can't have a full, well rounded team when paying a single player that much. The closest we've had to a generational talent winning the cup in the last 14 years was MacKinnon with the Avs, but he was making a solid 8M less than hhe was worth.

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There's plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn't find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.

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The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.

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I like keeping tabs on it, as they're really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.

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Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.

Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.

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Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you're not gonna notice it much. And I'm not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren't you. They're the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.

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It being ugly has absolutely fuckall to do with the structural integrity

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If we had the same size, I could be wearing my grandfather's steeltoes that are probably a solid 40 years old. People really underestimate how long good footwear lasts when you take care of it.

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Combo of Aldi's and a local store got me through college. Got cheap as fuck meat (bless $3/lbs ground pork) at the local store, everything else at Aldi's

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Whatever meat was on sale. Fry it up in a pot. Add some bbq seasoning. Take off the heat, stir in some cheese. When that's melted, add an egg, whatever bbq/hot sauve you want. High protein tacos for cheap, lived off that for a real long time, and they're actually damn good

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I'm assuming it's unnecessary and out of place sarcasm

Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group ( chicago.suntimes.com )

Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....

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Some of those that work forces and all that

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Genocide*

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This is the most fed post I've ever seen

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Right? I remember being absolutely mind blown away by a 2gb SD card. Nowadays I pickup a 32gb microSD for $3 every time I got to Micro Center

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Fascism tends to result in that

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Just treat it like tobacco. Zero advertising.

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Yet people still think we don't live in a police state.

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Really the biggest thing is just having some common courtesy and being considerate of where and when you do it.

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