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Pandemanium

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  • 'Your question is so stupid' Trump snaps when asked how much economic pain he'd tolerate

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  • A split would create North and South Koreas. If we don't split, I'm afraid we will only get North Korea 2.0

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  • But how do they know which email that might be? Do they even know which of my accounts are for business or personal use? If I send an email from my business email to a bunch of friends and relatives to plan a party, will Google assume those are subscribers and pull my party-planning content from my email and put that info... somewhere... on my business page? I don't want them reading any of my emails, ever.

    The email from Google was laughable in that it contained almost no info on how this process is supposed to work. All it means to me is that I don't have control over my own content. This should have been opt-in instead of opt-out.

  • 'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate

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  • And crop dusting, ffs. Spraying actual chemicals on our food is totally fine for these people.

  • Trump announces new US tariffs on Mexican... beer

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  • And they'll slap on a sticker that says "lowest price!" to gaslight you.

  • Today I learned hyphenated words are largly obsolete

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  • I think at this point MS Word automatically recommends a hyphen after any number + quantifier combo. One time it wanted me to correct "three armed guards" to "three-armed guards" which would have changed the meaning considerably.

    The number of times MS autocorrect suggests incorrect changes to grammar is laughably high, and most people just blindly follow the suggestions.

  • ‘Something stinks’: Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats’ main fundraising machine

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  • Yeah, he's trying to declare any fundraising done by democrats as "fraud." What I'm saying is that Kamala and the DNC are once again completely out of touch, thinking the original rules are still in place and we're playing the same game we were 10 or 20 years ago. They could raise all the money in the world and it would not matter. The bigger the number, the louder Elon will yell fraud. Reality doesn't exist anymore.

  • ‘Something stinks’: Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats’ main fundraising machine

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  • This is the latest email the Harris team sent out. I have no idea why they think Trump et al would ever be "impressed" by any number.

    "In just a few days, the DNC closes the books on the most important FEC fundraising deadline since the last election.

    When this deadline ends, they are legally required to report how much money they've raised. The number of donations they've received will also be public.

    Everyone will be watching: the press, the Trump administration, and more.

    They're looking to see how much grassroots enthusiasm there is for stopping Trump's agenda, and these numbers are a big part of that.

    If they file a big report with lots of donations, Republicans will know they'll face stiff opposition when Congress tries to pass Trump's tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by cuts to lifesaving programs.

    If the DNC files a weak report, then the Trump administration and the press will see there's no pushback to what they're trying.

    So this is a big deal. And it's why the DNC is hoping for lots and lots of donations before this deadline ends."

  • Alt Writing

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  • How would it help to leave? Lots of cowards have already done so. Have you ever considered that maybe it's because so many progressives are leaving that now we don't have the numbers you want to see when we protest? That the people who would have been protesting are already gone?

    I'm fully willing to die fighting fascism in this stupid civil war, but it isn't a war until we get some governors and coast guard on board. Until that point, anyone who does anything violent is just a 'lone terrorist' and will probably be disappeared to El Salvador.

    Leaving is not speaking out. Leaving is not fighting. It is only for your own survival, and it leaves the rest of us with less to fight with and less to fight for.

  • Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors?

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  • I think this might be the best time to start having these conversations: when things are getting bad for almost everyone, and there is so much governmental upheaval that changing the economic system becomes a lot less disruptive than it would be during good times. It's only going to become more and more clear that capitalism is failing.

    My favorite economic system so far is a land value tax with UBI. I still don't know exactly how businesses would operate, but this system would eliminate the parasitic generational wealth siphoned from hoarding property and housing. It would also allow for people to not work if they're unable to.

    I'm sure it's probably just delusional hopium that we could ever get through the threat of fascism and come out of it with a better system than what we had, but that's about all I got left right now. The rest is just doom.

  • What would you do with small exotic wood scrap?

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  • I've wanted to make something like this for a while, but I never knew where to find such tiny scrap wood pieces like what you have. I certainly don't have the tools to make custom pieces, which seems like it'd be necessary. Unfortunately it looks like there are a ton of cheap "alleys" and even diy kits being sold now, so not likely to make any money even though they're cool.

    https://mymodernmet.com/monde-back-alley-bookshelf-diorama/

  • Columbia University expels, suspends and revokes degrees of 22 students

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  • I want to know how a university can just revoke a degree after the fact. Unfortunately the article didn't say a damn thing about it, not even how many they actually revoked.

  • Advice

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  • OP did say that in this particular instance, and I may have missed that on first read. But this advice is all over the place generally, and I've frequently received this advice IRL, with no caveats or context, so it's not always a matter of "keep scrolling."

    I'm not doing what that article is talking about. I guess instead of reminding people that there are a lot of neurodivergent people not working remotely, I should have just silenced myself. I mean, why even have a thread like this at all if the advice works for some people?

  • Advice

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  • That one is pretty useless if you have an hourly job. Oh, I'll just leave the store whenever I want and won't get fired, hmm? And the infuriating thing will still be there when I get back.

  • Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight

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  • Slightly unrelated, but last time I vomited during a flight they refused to take the bag and throw it away. I had to sit there for 6 hours, holding an uncloseable plastic bag full of my own vomit. Next to other passengers. Like, I get that it's technically some kind of hazard waste that flight attendants shouldn't have to handle, but the alternative is me potentially accidentally spilling it on or near other passengers. I had to carry it off the plane with me like it was my carry-on. It was absolutely ridiculous.

  • UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed

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  • What is up with the large number of people here suddenly refusing to read... barely more than a paragraph? Like, this is a text-based site. If you don't want to read, why the hell are you on Lemmy?

  • Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership

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  • There's really no way we could invade half of those places and still fight the unrest that will be happening inside the US. I bet you'd find plenty of Americans willing to defect and fight for Canada.

  • How can you apply "think before you speak" if it isn't feasible to pause for 15 seconds between every sentence you say mid conversation????

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  • Look, communicating awkwardly doesn't make you a horrible person. I think part of it is you have a confidence problem. It sounds like you always cowtow to your coworkers' reactions, even going so far as apologizing when you haven't objectively done anything wrong (your responses don't seem that weird, but maybe it is the way you say things). It seems odd to me that anyone would be offended by an offer to go home early, unless you're making it seem like you specifically don't want them to be around.

    At the end of the day, your coworkers are just people with their own issues and imperfections. They are probably not experts at communication either, so don't treat them as such. I would not take any social cues from coworker 1.

    You may not be able to change the dynamic at work, so my advice is to find a way to socialize outside of work (with people who actually like & respect you!). That way you won't have to rely on your workplace for those needs.

  • (Meta) What's up with the recent influx of posts here and on nostupidquestions asking borderline insane questions as if written by people who have never encountered another human before?

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  • How is that post borderline insane? It's a lot of unnecessary detail, but outgrowing your high school mates is a pretty common thing that people sometimes don't know how to handle.

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  • Eh, this is something you can probably change. In the last few years I've done a lot of processing work and am trying to make more intentional choices for myself rather than living the way other people want me to. Now when I meet new people it reminds me that I actually quite like my life and wouldn't want to trade it for theirs.