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EssentialCoffee

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  • Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

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  • Why didn't you tell this librarian that you'd asked another librarian and they said it was okay to plug in? Why was none of this included in the original post?

  • Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet

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  • Do you trust every one-sided story to be entirely accurate of all details?

    And what does trust have to do with it? Can we use Ethernet here? If the person says no, would you just walk around the building until you found a port and plugged in?

  • ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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  • Not really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren't available in the US, but make a killing in Asia.

    Like, here's Genshin Impact numbers from 2023.

    On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland.

    For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports.

    Let's look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America.

    China's numbers are 750M daily.

    I don't think most of their money comes from the US.

  • USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time

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  • Most American bread has sugar added to it, even the 'healthy' stuff.

    When I was trying to switch to healthier breads, I tried a Pepperidge Farm bread once. It was so sweet, it was like eating brioche, but it was marketed as just normal standard bread. Absolutely disgusting. I don't buy that brand anymore at all.

  • Ford recalls over 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick cars due to loss of drive power risk

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  • I honestly don't know why anyone would buy a Bronco.

    They're completely synonymous with OJ Simpson to me.

  • Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds

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  • I was so happy I could get my cat off of Purina.

  • Is this thought about school too radical?

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  • Well, then you have folks like my brother who was Kid B, but doesn't have ADHD and was just a lazy fuck who didn't see the point of schoolwork. ¯(ツ)/¯

    The average school is going to be built for the average kid to pass. That means more points are going to be in the day-to-day work rather than the big tests. So if your class has 500 points available and only 100 of those are tests, then yeah, you're going to fail when you only get 100/500 points.

    However, if you have a kid B, then it's worth looking into if your area has alternate programs from the average curriculum and seeing if they would work for your kid.

  • Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?

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  • Someone that is wildly happy with their life is not thinking how life is so terrible and evil.

    This isn't a zero sum game.

    You can be happy and recognize that life is also terrible and evil.

  • Whats your favorite nostalgic cartoon?

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  • The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.

  • Lemmy, what music artists do you believe deserve more attention?

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  • Nick Drake.

    Years ahead of his time and while he gets a lot of recognition posthumously in certain music circles, he didn't have any hits during his life, or even any hits after, so the average Joe hasn't heard of him.

    All three of his albums are fantastic, though Five Leaves Left is my favorite.

  • What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven?

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  • The US has limited hard braking? What city do they live in?

  • European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches

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  • Both my and my husband's US cars already have all of the items listed as physical buttons. I don't know that it'll really change much.

  • TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus

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  • We all played a game called Drug Wars. It was text based.

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • I don't know anyone who's used IRC in the last fifteen years at least.

    At least back when I used IRC, it wasn't indexed either. It was just an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Chat.

  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

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  • Depends what you're into. CD sales are more than alive and well in the kpop/jpop circles and there isn't a lot of vinyl to find there.

  • you don't need consumerism or mass media to be happy

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  • Yes, I love when birds wake me up at 5 am from their incessant singing because they can't shut up. It makes me so happy to not be able to sleep.

  • This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases

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  • Now try making tortillas in ten minutes.

  • This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases

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  • I don't keep milk or heavy cream in the house and I don't think it would work as well with soy, so I don't think this will work for everyone.

  • Tethered plastic caps

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  • We also have that in Michigan. You still see bottles and cans places. Historically, there have a lot of 'reward programs' that incentivised keeping bottle caps separate (either from the company or occasionally locally for reasons). I also distinctly remember it being advertised that bottle needed to be capless for recycling, so we always removed the caps and tossed them. Only recently have I seen verbiage on bottles requesting them to be recycled with caps on, which I usually forget to do because it's habit to toss the caps.

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