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ArbitraryValue

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  • AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

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  • There's nothing in this article about problems with AI specifically.

  • "Damn, this cheese cheap tho"

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  • I went to Taiwan a couple of years ago and it was different but not dramatically better or worse. Otherwise, no, I haven't traveled out of the country much.

    But the stuff that surprised me when we came to the USA was, for example, the availability of bananas. In the Soviet Union, I had gotten to taste bananas because my grandmother was one of the relatively few people at the factory where she worked who would occasionally have business trips to Moscow, and she would sometimes bring bananas back with her for me and my sister. Otherwise we would only eat fruit that grew locally and only when it was in season (except if my grandmother preserved it). So it's hard for me to imagine going anywhere now that might impress me as much as the USA did then - I doubt even living like a Saudi prince would. (I guess the Saudi princes have authority over other people which is like nothing I've known. I'm just talking about their access to luxury products.)

  • "Damn, this cheese cheap tho"

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  • I think it's hard for Americans to comprehend just how impressive the American lifestyle is, and how surprising seeing it was for people from a time before the internet and a society that tried to keep that sort of information out. I can't even come up with a good metaphor - maybe it would be like going to North Korea and finding out that everyone there (even poor people) had flying cars and robot butlers like in the Jetsons. When I immigrated as a child, I recall looking around and thinking "This is like a comic book."

  • Just a few bad red apples!

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  • The defense attorney, being John Adams, wasn't exactly unbiased. (And, to the extent that blaming someone other than the soldiers may have helped sway the jury, he was also just being a good lawyer.)

  • Just a few bad red apples!

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  • Yes, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with your original meme. The British soldiers really were reasonably well disciplined and the colonists really were threatening them. The incident wasn't an example of British oppression. I suppose that one might say that the two convicted soldiers were "bad apples" but I suspect that they might not have been convicted by a less hostile jury.

  • Just a few bad red apples!

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  • You do know that the captain in charge and six of the eight soldiers were found not guilty of any crime by a court of the colonists themselves... The idea of the event as a "massacre" was propaganda rather than truth.

  • Every time...

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  • It bothers me so much when people get distracted but don't pause the movie. Sometimes they go to the bathroom and tell me not to pause it and I don't care, I'm pausing it anyway! They're going to watch it all whether they want to or not.

  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • Online dating back when it was something normal people were embarrassed to do.

  • Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care

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  • It's interesting that the murder rate can drop to less than half of what it was thirty years ago without us knowing exactly why. (There are theories, of course, and this blog post has links to them.)

  • Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

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  • I think so, or rather I think that the average US voter aligns more with Gavin Newsom's policies than with the policies of a hypothetical alternative candidate that Salon might prefer. (Even the average California voter aligned with his policies enough to elect him, after all.) As for what gives nervous voters confidence: that seems to be more about theatrics and vibes than about policies. I'm personally not impressed by Newsom's Twitter shtick but maybe swing voters are - I assume he did his research.

  • Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

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  • I don't think "disappoints California progressives" is the damning indictment that California progressives seem to think that it is, even within California.

  • Olympic Store Sells Out of T-Shirt Promoting Adolf Hitler's 1936 Games

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  • I don't think it was strange for them to offer that shirt for sale, especially since they seem to have a print-on-demand system which does not involve any overhead for having an additional design. Offering the shirt is IMO less awkward that trying to pretend that Nazi Germany never existed.

  • Olympic Store Sells Out of T-Shirt Promoting Adolf Hitler's 1936 Games

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  • The shirt itself:

    I'm not sure why anyone would want one except to be an edgelord but there's nothing obviously offensive on it.

  • OH GOD YES

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  • That that's not what "I don't have the time" means, so the OP should not be surprised that explaining is often necessary.

    (It's a lot easier to say "I can't" than "I choose not to" but then being self-righteous after people catch on is just going to make you look worse.)

  • Based Vampire the Masquerade

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  • But White Wolf VtM vampires aren't.

  • How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School

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  • There's almost nothing in that article beyond one bulldozer driver's self-diagnosis.

  • Based Vampire the Masquerade

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  • Ah yes, vampires, those symbols of liberalism.

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  • So if you know at least 30 people and none of them have ever been struck by lightning, that means you're a giraffe.

  • outlawing pedestrians

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  • Just because I don't want to endure something unpleasant doesn't mean I can't - the argument I'm responding to isn't that walking is survivable but that it's preferable.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Who shops at small businesses?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Federal judge orders return of man Trump administration accidentally sent to notorious El Salvador jail

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/man-trump-accidentally-sent-el-salvador-hearing-rcna199582
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Are old people usually attracted to other old people?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    "Deleted by creator" sounds like the poster was destroyed by God.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Tim Walz Said He Was in Hong Kong in 1989 During Tiananmen. Not True.

    www.nytimes.com /2024/10/01/us/politics/tim-walz-hong-kong-tiananmen.html
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    ArbitraryValue @sh.itjust.works

    Shopping website search is terrible