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Sludgeyy

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  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Distance and size makes the most difference.

    If you're sitting ~7' back from a 50" TV it really doesn't matter if it's 720, 1080, 4k, or 8k.

    You have to be right up on it to tell or have a huge screen.

    Nicer TVs do have better color and contrast that you can tell from any distance. But generally you have to have something to compare it to for it to really matter. Dark scenes on a poor quality TV can look awful.

  • Olympics news: The 5 USA players not attending State of the Union on Tuesday

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  • They thought of that and gave him a decoy medal

  • Science knows no borders!

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  • My favorite thing is "We wouldn't have had the technology to go to the moon in 1969"

    So Apollo 12 (1969) 14 (1971) 15 (1971) 16 (1972) 17 (1972)

    Were all fake too?

    So we faked the first moon landing and then proceeded to fake 5 more moon landings in 3 years?

    That sounds real smart

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • You do not get a Red Junglefowl laying a 2000s definition of a chicken egg. You get a Red Junglefowl laying an egg with a mutation that that "Red Junglefowl" will pass on.

    Every generation the Red Junglefowl becomes closer to the 2000s definition of a chicken.

    It wasn't a "mutant" in the sense that one Red Junglefowl was born to create the chicken egg what we know as a 2000s definition of a chicken.

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • Proto-chicken>chicken>eschato-chicken

    Chickens have "evolved" in recent years more than recent centuries

    We just keep the chicken name but at what point do they become a different animal.

    Evolution is slow and has no definite point in time of "First official example of a 2000s definition of a chicken"

    It's similar to the paradox of the heap.

    Of course a "chicken" layed the first chicken egg. But if we called that "chicken" a chicken then her egg would be the first chicken egg. Not the one she just layed.

  • Just so there's no confusion

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  • You cannot have a chicken without a chicken egg. And the egg comes first.

    It's the paradox of the heap

    At some point the pre-chicken will lay a chicken egg and a chicken will be born

  • Get on my level

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  • Do you know what relativity means? You keep saying it

    A 6 or 7 year old child is ~120cm

    Average person 160cm to 170cm

    Relatively, a 3:4 ratio

    For a tall person at 200cm (6'6") that would be the same as 150cm

    Average woman is 160cm

    Yes a 200cm person standing next to a 150cm person looks like an adult standing next to a child height wise. Yet to them a 150cm person is much taller than 120cm. 1 foot difference.

    Why does your mind jump to "they look like they are with a child?"

  • What's yours?

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  • I'm an architect

  • 2 North American 4 you has been created

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  • Grits

    Also cornbread and corndog

    Probably a lot of things with corn

  • Tune a fish

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  • I'll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)

    And

    I'll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)

    I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)

    And

    I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)

  • House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate

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  • A real ID does not mean US citizen. Non-US citizens can receive a real ID. It just proves you are a lawful resident in the US.

    Same for drivers license and ID card.

    A birth certificate does no good on it's own. And verifying a birth certificate is another can of worms. If it can only be the official government issued one? Then you get into the whole birth right citizen thing. You can easily be a US citizen without being born in US.

    Passport would be the closest thing to a true "Citizen ID". US Nationals can receive a US passport without being citizens.

    Citizenship certificates would fix the birth certificate problem of US citizens being born outside of the states. However they cost 1k+. Maybe they can make them cheaper or hand them out?

    It's laughable how bad identification is in the US. We still use social security numbers.

    I wouldn't be against Voting IDs if everyone was issued one for free and replacements were easy and inexpensive to obtain.

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • Perfection is the enemy of progress

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • You remember that one time you walked your dog into that real nice gas station bathroom?

    It's not just about dirt

  • 9-year-old Illinois boy severely burned after TikTok trend inspired him to microwave NeeDoh toy

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  • Lawn darts were so cool

  • U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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  • A- 10,000 dollar car

    B- 50,000 dollar car

    Intrest is 5-15% (depending on credit score)

    6 years loan

    Interest paid over loan:

    5% A- $1,595 B- $7,977

    15% A- $5,224 B- $26,122

    If the dealership sells a 50k car they can get 6.5k-21k more money than if they sell a 10k car.

    They want to sell you the most expensive car they can

    So even if they could sell you the "cheap" Chinese EVs they would make less profit

    This is just one reason. Sales margin is another. When you're a Ford dealership and get special treatment from Ford you have higher profit margins. If you just flip a Chinese EV with no special treatment you have lower margins.

    If there was a solid 10k car available less people would buy the 50k car (average cost of a new car today)

    Inexpensive cars on the US market is not good for dealerships in anyway

  • Hard to hear the haters

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  • The picture in the meme is probably added

    The car in the picture is probably not theirs

    Someone caring enough to post a picture with their review and had their car parked in front of the store. You'd be lucky to read Chillis.

  • Videos show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal officers 11 days before he was killed

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  • Anyone arguing that anything that happened on a previous day is relevant

    This could make it premeditated

    Ice sees gun, knows they could push a future altercation

    Imagine if Pretti didn't have a gun. Ice tackles unarmed guy and shoots him? Other than AI unbelievers it would be a hard sell.

  • Society is Limited by Wage Slavery

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  • We should push for a UBMI

    Universal Bare Minimum Income

    "Basic" is debatable

    Hard to argue everyone needs the bare minimum

    Maybe they aren't going to be able to buy their art supplies at first. But it's definitely a start.

    Wonderful thing about art is that multiple people can share the same crayon box

  • Soda pop

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  • It's the whole "Is Pepsi fine?" Thing.

    You ask if they have coke and they will say "is Pepsi fine?" Then you can say "Yes I'll take a Sprite" and get Starry.

    Like you can't order a sprite without saying sprite. You cannot be like "I'll take a soda" and expect sprite. Same with saying coke. You have to elaborate.

    You could ask for a "coke" and accept any soda. But you're not really calling what they are giving you coke. You just wanted any soda.