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  • you can just do stuff

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  • I've noticed this trend with "You Laugh You Lose" videos as well (yes, people are still doing those). Oftentimes they're 50/50 neat facts and incredibly niche brainrot memes.

  • How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • My problem is that I love the state/region I live in, but large swathes of the rest of the country are a risk to my life and my age, skills, and minority status don't make me appealing from an immigration standpoint, let alone that many places have just as much of an issue with people like me as the Republicans do.

  • How many of you are actually fine with living in USA or are you planning on moving some where else?

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  • The thing is that it would take an extremist left wing government to bring it back to some level of normality. FDR was a Democratic Socialist (officially), and the New Deal was one of the best improvements for the country we've ever had (minus all the blatant racism and destruction of minority communities that the highway projects caused). It was American socialists and anarchists who fought a bloody struggle that won the world the 40 hour work week and weekends. And even that was merely considered a stepping stone on the path to a 20 hour work week. The Overton Window has been pushed so far to the right that we've forgotten what it truly looks like to have 2 sides in the government.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • The bigger and more intrusive screens have gotten, the more sales of new cars have flagged. People are sick of them, and lawmakers are starting to catch up on regulating physical controls back into vehicles.

    The last time I bought a car one of my stipulations was a car no newer than 2016 because that was the last year that RAV4s had the small screens in the middle of the dashboard instead of mounted practically on the windshield, and the guy at the dealership that I talked to said that practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car had similar sentiments. People generally hate the big, intrusive screens, it's just that car makers aren't making any other options and then claim that that's what people want.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • I'd argue that that's probably already the case. Sunk cost fallacy at play. Your posts, comments, blocks and stuff don't follow you from one account to another.

  • Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”

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  • You beat me to it. I was gonna say "non-political" means "make it harder to spot and avoid the Republicans".

  • An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • Washington and Oregon at least are part of the West Coast, and I don't know how much Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas would complain. Outside of urban areas the country seems to be pretty red regardless of where you go, and those states are definitely not known for being very urban.

  • The job market is so bad, people in their 40s are resorting to going back to school instead of looking for work

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  • This article seems to be exclusively about masters degrees or people going back to school for a second degree in a new field, but what I'm curious about is if there's been a similar spike in people going for their first degree. I'm trying to figure out how much of this is people trying to land a job in a recession and how much of it is people trying to make themselves appealing from an immigration perspective. There's definitely a lot of people who feel like getting out of the country is a nonstarter simply because countries only want the kind of labor that comes from obtaining a degree in a field.

  • The job market is so bad, people in their 40s are resorting to going back to school instead of looking for work

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  • That's like the cost of a college meal plan for a 4 year degree in the US. Not including housing in the dorms, just the food.

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    Yup

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  • Freud would've creamed his pants were he still alive.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

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  • Read my comment again. The point isn't just the size of the country - it's the shitty car-centric design philosophy that goes alongside the size of the country.

    From a lack of urban density to a lack of basic public transit options to the fact that local businesses have been destroyed in favor of large shopping centers/companies to zoning regulations favoring separating uses into different locations (like moving groceries and restaurants outside of residential areas and into commercial centers), it all combines to make a singularity of a shitty situation.

    Hell, even our city cores are basically desolate and dying because they're all offices and strangled from any other kind of traffic by highway infrastructure that cuts the city's central districts off from where people actually live, so the only time businesses see customers is basically from commuters on their way in or out of work and buying lunch.

    So it's not "American exceptionalism" that says that these cars wouldn't work here because the country is so big, it's that the shitty urban planning with its focus on cars and low population density has made it incredibly difficult to live without a big car. In most other countries, people often live within 5 minutes of a grocery store because they're generally inside a residential area. In the US, grocery stores are so out of the way that most people go shopping for groceries in a trip specifically for that purpose once every week or two. It's just generally impractical to do otherwise unless your commute happens to pass by a grocery store. The closest place to buy groceries for me is 10-15 minutes down the highway, the next closest is 20-30 in the opposite direction, and my only other option is a sandwich shop/deli.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

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  • Ah yes, India and China, both well known for building massive sprawling suburban developments instead of increasing urban density, horrible mass transit, and big box stores alongside Euclidean Zoning regulations which isolate residential, commercial, and manufacturing into their own zoning types which must be removed from each other.

    Give us all a break from your ignorant hate-boner and start hating America for the right reasons: the shitty situation that car companies have put the infrastructure of the entire country into that makes small cars impractical for much of the population and any other options a mere dream.

    Where I live, things are spread so far apart that we don't measure things in terms of distance, we measure them in terms of the time it takes to drive there. It's not 2 kilometers to the closest grocery store, it's 10-15 minutes without traffic. It's not 81 kilometers to the closest city from my suburban town, it's an hour and a half if you're lucky and more likely two hours away.

  • Supreme Court suggests Trump might use Insurrection Act

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  • Reminds me of the boyfriend of an old coworker. Before he turned his life around, he was an addict that the cartels used a few times to run drugs across the border. The way that worked was that they'd dress him up in some nice clothes, a pair of sunglasses, and throw him in a beautiful convertible with the top down and a load of drugs in the trunk. Border patrol would never bother to stop or check a rich white guy coming back from a 3 day weekend in Mexico, and he'd drop the car off at a gas station a few miles past the border.

  • Delicious rocks

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  • That just means that you aren't a fossil (yet). Give it a century or two.

  • Have you ever tried to "acquire" a taste? (Ie. spent time eating/imbibing something you didn't like at first to start to enjoy it.)

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  • Isn't cough medicine more cost effective per alcohol percentage? That's what I remember the alcoholics drinking when I was younger.

  • Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See

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  • And Republicans claim that the US is a Christian nation all the time, despite half the Founding Fathers being either atheists or at least agnostic and specifically and expressly stating that the US is not beholden to any one religion.

    I am in no way defending Putin or Stalin, but just because he claims to be honoring a former leader doesn't mean that he actually is. So long as it suits the propaganda narrative, people like him, the Republicans, and Israel will claim whatever they want about history.

  • Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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  • Agreed, and I vaguely remembered something along these lines from my time cooking them, but I also know how many that I was cooking in a day as just a small scale operation at a local fish market cooking and shucking for lobster meat and cooking for the occasional customer to take home with them (I think the most we did in a day was close to one metric ton), and how unfeasible it is to do on a large scale.

    I was doing 50 lbs at a time per pot, with 2 large stovetop pots at a time. That's 25+ lobsters per pot, averaging probably about 60 lobsters per hour that I was cooking by myself. Imagining trying to do that at an industrial scale sounds like the kind of thing that would effectively kill lobster meat as anything other than an expensive specialty item.

    And although maybe it should kill mass market lobster meat (why in the hell does McDonald's sell lobster rolls in the first place???), I also have a visceral gut reaction to the idea of effectively making a food the exclusive domain of the rich. Especially when my boss at that job would make a big stink about people buying fish with Social Security money like poor people don't deserve to eat anything other than rice and beans.

  • Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown

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  • I feel like chilling them is even worse. They usually live in cold waters, and chilling them in cold air (like a fridge) will just mostly make them suffocate for a while before you boil them alive. They can live a long time out of the water in a cold environment/on ice (think 24 to 48 hours long, not 2 or 3) because it just slows down their biological processes since they're cold blooded. They're just going to warm up again as they're boiling, and it will probably take longer to start boiling as they have to come back up from a lower temperature.

    Even the shock method seems kinda useless. It would need to knock them out for about 20 minutes to ensure that they're unconscious until they're dead.

    The most humane thing to do would be to kill them somehow in one moment, like with a concussive force or stabbing through the brain stem, but that then runs into the issue of how quickly dead lobsters go bad (also the issue of presentation - people don't want a crushed lobster staring at them from their plate). It's actually illegal in plenty of places to sell dead lobsters (or even cook them!) due to this, so they would have to be killed on site just before being cooked, which is a tall order when 1lb of lobster meat requires about 5lbs of lobster to make (roughly about a 20% yield on lobsters) and it takes about 5 years for a lobster to reach 1lb in size (and then about 2 years for every pound after that).

    All of this said, it's all still probably more humane than that one company I used to work with back when I was in this kind of industry that was experimenting with getting raw lobster meat out of lobsters by tossing them into a pressure vessel.

  • Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See

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  • Maybe you should learn the meaning of words before you start using them. Somebody responding to what you say isn't censorship. Not even close.

    Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

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