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  • Do you think "coconut water" is corporate propaganda and it should be called "coconut juice"?

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  • I considered making a "Meet the Parents" reference, but I'm not happy with what I've come up with.

    Well, what the hell.

    "I have nuts, Greg. Can you milk me?"

  • How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

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  • For me personally, I wish Latin had been an option for me, as it's used extensively in biology and it would have been incredibly helpful.

    My wife and I studied Latin in middle school and high school.

    My kids were also able to take Latin in school.

    Rather than list all the benefits of learning Latin, I found this, Top 10 Reasons For Studying Latin, which says it better than I could.

    I would struggle to translate anything today (although I still know that all of Gaul is divided into three parts), but I know I have benefited from an improved understanding of English grammar and vocabulary.

    Fight for Latin in your schools!

  • ‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer

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  • Then in the US, where the one decent thing to come out of the revolution was licking out the monarchy, you've got a while crop of traitorous morons trying to establish one here.

    I was always disgusted by the way my fellow citizens seemed to crave a monarchy. I see now that they were just waiting for a person vile enough to qualify.

  • The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way

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  • You can say that if you wish, but it makes you sound like you just don't want to admit you were wrong.

    There's plenty to blame the U.S. for, but it's important to be honest if you want to be taken seriously.

  • The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way

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  • That's what I was thinking.

  • The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way

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  • According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the term, "Western Hemisphere", is from the writings of Sir Thomas Browne in 1646.

    It doesn't really make sense to blame its creation on the U.S, as it predates us by more than 100 years.

  • Islamic police in Nigeria arrest nine Muslims for not fasting during Ramadan

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  • Nothing says true religion like using police to force people to follow it.

    "When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its Professors are obliged to call for the help of the Civil Power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."

    -Benjamin Franklin

  • Why does cats (and similar animals) can live with the exact same food every day, but we (humans) need a variety of food to survive?

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  • That's true, but we're not cats.

    It's can be difficult to change a cat's food. You have to gradually introduce the new food mixed in with the old food, or the cat may just refuse to eat it.

  • OpenAI is Suddenly in Trouble

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  • I just looked up a 2TB M.2 SSD I bought in November of 2024 for $179.99.

    It's $419.99 now... Only 1 left when I checked.

    Luckily I don't need it. However, I'm wondering when I'll run out of storage on my media server.

  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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  • I'm assuming that the reason he shared state secrets with Epstein is because Epstein had something on him.

  • ICE is quietly buying warehouses for detention centers and leaving local officials out of the loop

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  • The supremacy clause of the Constitution means that the federal government is not required to obey local zoning laws.

  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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  • Well, it certainly wasn't because he couldn't implicate the billionaires.

  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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  • Perhaps that's the state secret he's being punished for revealing: all the child rape among the rich and powerful.

  • I never thought I would that, but here we are! For the poor!

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  • There is no question that I'm definitely one of the luckiest wage slaves you'll ever find.

  • What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)

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  • I only have 40 yrs to go - if I'm realistic

    Probably far less if society breaks down to the point that libraries cease to exist.

  • Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

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  • Everything I've read about this says that the misconduct in question was sharing state secrets with Epstein.

    The child raping doesn't appear to be concerning them.

  • I never thought I would that, but here we are! For the poor!

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  • Well, I probably won't. My employer has been around longer than the United States. Unless the bubble takes out civilization as we know it, we will probably ride it out.

    They went through a pretty devastating financial loss about a quarter century ago. That was their existential crisis. It refocused management pretty forcefully on making sure they never have to have layoffs again. They may forget the lessons eventually, but I see no signs of it so far. They were still paying bonuses through the pandemic.

    We also don't have shareholders to appease which makes it easier.

  • I never thought I would that, but here we are! For the poor!

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  • I'm hoping the bubble bursts soon so I can get some cheap drives.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Just say what you want!

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Serious

    What is the greatest tragedy a person could experience in their life?

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Fetterman says Democrats have ‘forgotten why we lost’ and Trump is ‘not an autocrat’

    www.cnn.com /2025/09/14/politics/fetterman-democrats-trump
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is the best shampoo and conditioner for a poodle?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are good final words?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Locked

    Lemmings who have personal experience with bipolar disorder (self, family, or friends), how hopeless is the situation, really?

  • Knitting @lemmy.world
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    Doctor Who scarf survived washing!

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Baby kangaroo