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  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • They need a larger majority of 60/100 in the Senate to my understanding, and while they have a majority they don’t have the 60 necessary to pass the spending bill. They need at least some Democrats to cross the floor and I don’t think any are willing.

  • Marc Maron, Shane Gillis slam fellow comedians performing at Saudi comedy festival

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  • His records were among some of the first I ever owned (inherited from my father) and it really hurt to destroy them when we all found out about who he actually is. It really felt like I was destroying a part of my childhood. Had to be done though.

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    If you found someone attractive, would you date them if you found out they were trans?

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  • That depends - am I only physically attracted to them? The answer is no, whether or not they’re trans. Am I also attracted to their personality? Then yes, whether or not they’re trans.

    It helps that I’m bi.

  • FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says

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  • It’s been Israel’s playbook against Palestine for a very, very long time.

  • What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?

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  • As many others have pointed out, there’s no governing body that defines these terms clearly so we all kind of have our own definitions. It’s important to make a few points though:

    • There’s a difference between sexual attraction and romantic attraction. You can be sexually attracted to a gender without wanting to have a relationship with a person of that gender.
    • Because gender is a spectrum, so too is sexuality a spectrum.
    • Sexuality is also fluid, and can change significantly through a person’s life.

    Personally, I identify as bisexual and not either pan or omni, and the reason why I do so is because I’m attracted to feminine women and masculine men. Because I’m not attracted to anything else on the spectrum (masculine women; feminine men; androgyny etc.) I feel like the term bisexual (two) better reflects me. I only have two genders I’m attracted to and am only attracted to those who both identify and present with that gender. I also identify as heteroromantic because, as a cis man, I only want romantic relationships with women (cis/trans, doesn’t matter).

  • Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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  • We were taught a similar trick in physics - point your right-hand thumb in the direction that current (or electrons, same same) is travelling and the curling of your fingers shows the direction of the resultant magnetic field that the current creates.

  • Donors

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  • I donate regularly to a charity and don’t try to dictate how they spend that money, because I have faith that they’ll responsibly use my donations.

  • Platypuses

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  • And their venom HURTS. They’re not particularly deadly or anything but their venom will land you in the hospital or at least laid up in bed for a while. My stepmother grew up out in the bush in NSW the ‘70s and received one of the few recorded platypus envenomations and she described it as the most painful experience of her life. She said childbirth was a breeze compared to the platypus sting!

  • Tip rule

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  • It’s really sad to me that Americans get put in the awful position of choosing between tipping, which supports the low wages, and taking responsibility for ensuring another human being has a living wage. It’s just such a terrible position for a consumer to be placed in, having to make ethical and moral choices about how much money to pay for goods and services.

  • There are no trans women athletes at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.

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  • Honestly, most conservatives are just directing their rage toward whatever conservative politicians and talking heads tell them to direct it at. Conservatism lives and thrives on hate, requiring in-groups and out-groups that must be pitted against one another. The new fad is to care about a person’s genitals.

    You see, conservatives don’t believe in gender equality, so someone who isn’t a cis woman will always perform better than cis women, because they believe that women are inherently weak and men are inherently strong, failing to believe that any other form of gender identity even exists.

  • Breast Cancer

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  • For reference here in Australia my wife has been asking to get mammograms for years now (in her 30s) and she keeps getting told she’s too young because she doesn’t have a familial history. That issue is a bit pervasive in countries other than the US.

  • Rule (Penance 19/100)

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  • The Code

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  • I had one of those myself! Free full-text PDF for anyone who was registered for the course. That’s the way that a true academic who loves the dissemination of their research operates. He was so engaging and invigorating too; he exemplified the archetype of the ‘I don’t care if you don’t care; I’m gonna make you care’ professor.

    When I had a class where the text that was written by the professor was mandatory reading and they demanded buying the newest version (she made a new version every year to keep sales up) I specifically pirated her book to just barely pass the class and move on from it. Fuck anyone who hides their knowledge from those who want to learn.

  • Stoke-on-Trent couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish

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  • Agreed, but rather than take it to the tip (and therefore have to pay fees to dump anyway) just don’t put your name on the box. Be the anonymous hero that the council needs, but very much does not deserve.

    So glad to hear their fundraising outstripped the fines! If council won’t reward them (as they so obviously should have), I’m glad that the people rallied to do so.

  • Stoke-on-Trent couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish

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  • You’re totally right, but I wish we lived in a world where leaving your name on that box would lead to a reward rather than a punishment. I can’t understand a council wanting to not only fail to incentivise, but actively disincentivise works of public good, except that it gave them an opportunity to extract more revenue. It’s a really, really sad state of affairs.

  • They did not reply.

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  • While I loved PropertyCity while I lived there, my early years in RuralTown showed that’s where the real Country really is. We had a herd of FarmAnimals and would always go down to the WaterBody on the weekends where the LargeMammals roamed free and wild!

  • A life lesson for you

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  • I had a little chuckle-up myself

  • DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting

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  • Uhhh, no. That’s not how RCV works at all.

    Let’s say there are five candidates - A, B , C, D, and E.

    Let’s assume candidates A & B are the most popular.

    Personally I choose to rank them as C, E, D, B and then A.

    Out of all of them, no one gets over 50% of the #1 vote. Whoever gets the lowest #1 vote is knocked out first. Let’s suggest that this is C. All of their #1 votes and therefore my vote is then transferred to E.

    Let’s suggest that after this there’s still no one who has over 50% of the vote between the other four candidates. Let’s further assume that candidate E has the lowest resulting vote after the first round of knockout. My vote is then transferred to candidate D.

    Out of A, B, and D, let’s assume none of them still have over 50% of the vote after this redistribution. Let’s further assume that D has the lowest vote of the three. My vote is then transferred to B.

    Given there are only two candidates left, one will have to have a majority. That candidate wins.

    Under RCV, as long as you mark every box with a preference your vote can never ever be wasted. It will always end up with a candidate that wins or one that loses, but it cannot ever be exhausted and therefore meaningless.

  • In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?

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  • Such an interesting perspective, thanks for your contribution! I guess our ‘shopping centres’ are essentially the first condition you’ve described that also have grocery stores attached, and it’s likely the grocery store (in Australia this basically means one of 3-4 companies) that are keeping these structures going in the modern age. Our shopping centres tend to be built ‘up’ rather than ‘out’, with 3-5 storey shopping centres (with up to 7 storey parking lots) being fairly common within city limits that are closely accessible to more than 50% of the population.

    That being said though, I live fairly equidistant between two of the largest shopping centres in Sydney and still choose to go to my local, smaller, single-storey shopping centre which is very small by Australian standards (<40 stores) which feels much more like a ‘mall’.

    Do you guys have a lot of standalone grocery stores that you can drive right up to, park, shop and leave? Because that’s definitely the minority here!