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TacticsConsort

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  • Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

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  • Yeah, I love my local pizza place and I'm on good terms with the owner, but the prices have gone up enough that I've set a hard limit of only going there once a month, and there are some menu items that I explicitly just will not buy because they're so overpriced.

    Cost frankly does define my dietary habits. The number one reason that I don't decide to grab the odd piece of vegan chicken to put in a bagel is because it costs 50% more than regular chicken.

  • Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period'

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  • That's one tank too many.

  • Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

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  • Well... that's probably the most expected thing to ever be expected. It was never a matter of 'if', it was a matter of when.

  • TikTok sues U.S. government, says ban violates First Amendment

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  • Huh. Well, that's an interesting turn of events.

    I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but the basic premise seems solid. US has that whole 'corporations are people' shtick going on, and... well, guess now it's time for that ruling to become inconvenient for the government.

  • Wasted potential galore

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  • Literally both! I got these two exact phrases one after the other on my report card!

  • Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list

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  • Ah yes, the crime of trying to keep your nation free and alive through appropriate defensive measures. How truly dastardly (/s)

    Honestly this might be the single most pathetic threat that I've seen in a long time. Is it even a threat? Publicity stunt? Honestly I don't know or care, because we all know this statement means about as much as a Trump tweet.

  • After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it

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  • Blue cheese is a bit strong for most people, I can respect that, I'm one of those people. The trick is knowing what to pair with blue cheese to help balance it out a bit.

    You want my recommendation for how to enjoy some store-bought blue cheese? Try it on a burger, with some sliced avocado instead of lettuce. The meat and the dense fruit balance out the blue beautifully, you get all the nice taste of a blue cheese without feeling like your mouth got nuked from orbit by smelly cheese.

  • After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it

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  • Holy shit, there's a decent vegan cheese? I like my meat but I understand that the current status quo isn't sustainable, and cheese is the number two thing the vegan industry has been struggling with making a good substitute for (number one being bacon.)

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video

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  • Adblock is a godsend.

    Although I actually use Invidious for most videos these days. The only things Youtube has going for it are a decent autoplay function and a professional maintenance team. Invidious has things like 'not aggressively selling my preferences to every algorithm under the fucking sun' and 'a functioning search bar' and 'not actively fighting against adblockers'

  • Zelenskyy thanks US after House passes aid bill

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  • Hot fucking damn, the russian bots are really out on parade in this comment section aren't they?

    ...Welp, not like they can parade IRL, so I guess they've got to take what they can get!

    Shame the TikTok ban went through, but a 60 billion package should give some fresh strength to the defenders of Ukraine.

  • Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons

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  • They're £1 a piece over where I am, me and my brother literally always joke that they're the number one indicator that the economy is in shambles (Edit: And yes, I remember them being 5p each)

  • Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons

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  • I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but good god even I can see how we've been obliterated by inflation. There's a specific chocolate here in the UK, a tiny little one for children called Freddo the Frog. Just a little cartoon chocolate frog, nothing fancy.

    Their price has multiplied by a factor of TWENTY in the past 20 years. And I know pretty damn well that the amount everyone is getting paid has not increased by a factor of 20. Sure this is just a small irrelevant little chocolate bar and other things have inflated less, but like. It's probably the easiest thing to notice.

    But yeah also playing in the street or taking a bike ride around town with your friends was a thing when I was a kid. Sure we were all probably a nuisance, but these days... I don't think I've seen anyone playing outside in ten years. The places we'd ride bikes got bought up and removed. And even the idea of allowing children to play outside feels... socially unacceptable.

    Also early Youtube and Facebook were COMPLETELY different beasts that just didn't have the millions of hours of design work put into them to suck people in and keep them there. Oh, and flash games were a really big thing too if you wanted to play on the computer. They were amazing. And big-name games were in a really good spot, paid DLC and the pay-to-win blight hadn't really started, and stuff like World of Warcraft, LAN Halo, and other games you could play over at a friend's house were at their peaks from a social point of view.

    ...I know nostalgia is a trap, but god, it really isn't hard to think of things to be nostalgic for from that time, and I was only born in the very late 90s. At least I've got plenty of friends online these days though.

  • 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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  • EU being based as always. I have to admit it's pretty damn rare they let me down.

  • What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

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  • Gotta say, I'm a blue collar who also builds sensitive machinery, have been doing so for six years now.

    There is a VERY sharp divide in how well I consider myself to have mastered certain aspects of the job.

    Someone fucking kill me: I'm doing this job for the first time and I'm having to spend ages sifting through our processes that may not be documented in enough detail to do the job perfectly. The job is legally safe because I'm following the rules but god I don't like it. Takes about three times as long as a 'normal' task.

    This is fine: I've done the job enough to know how everything goes together, what torque to use where, and if there's anything I should really be doing that isn't in the instructions, or if there's an instruction mismatch.

    Mastery: I can not only do the job, I actually understand the explicit purpose and function of everything I'm putting together on an intimate level, and can use my knowledge of that purpose and function to make god damn sure that what I'm putting out is top quality. As probably the least sensitive example of this, this is stuff like knowing that the particular brand of no-mixing-needed paint we use can sometimes develop a sediment layer of its' pigments on the bottom that requires you to mix it with a stick for the paint to perform properly, and that you can tell when the paint is experiencing this issue because it'll be off-colour due to the lack of pigment; and if you don't resolve this issue the paint won't adhere to surfaces correctly and is liable to flake off.

    I've been doing this for six years and there are only a handful of aspects of my job I consider myself to have complete mastery over. I don't think I'm the best worker out there, not by a long shot, but to me the idea that you can just lose and replace your workforce when dealing with complicated machinery is about as stupid as the notion that AI can replicate the human mind (It can't unless you abandon the von-neumann computer design).

  • Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack

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  • Hot damn. So I kind of understand why the Russians would dismiss this as a lie or a threat because yknow. War in Ukraine, Trump, etc, relations are bad to put it politely.

    But can we talk about what kind of terrifying flex of power that is from US Intelligence? It's one thing to predict a terror attack on your own soil- sure your citizens quite rightfully won't like the privacy violations, but the national authorities are going to help you; so if your intelligence agency is worth the name it should stop most attacks.

    But can you imagine having information access that's so damn good you can not only predict a terror attack in a nation that has an extremely vested interest in not letting you know what they're doing because they're running a war that you (and everyone else) don't like, but you feel completely confident TELLING THEM, which could risk your information sources if they're not properly hidden. This is like the Foreign Intelligence equivalent of being so far ahead of your opponent in a game that you start giving them sincere advice on how to play so that they don't get thrashed too badly.

  • Rich Indians Own 40% of Wealth in Extreme Inequality Under Modi

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  • For quality, I think it would be quite sensible to include figures from a few other countries. These findings mean very little when they lack context; we need to know how they compare to other big economies like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, China (if you can get accurate data on Russia and China), and Japan.

  • Disturbingly accurate

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  • MASSIVE Dwarven energy. This image is the closest you're going to get to seeing a bunch of children of the mountain sitting in their tavern, discussing their metalworking (hobby cars and bikes) and drinking brews that could atomize a human liver with a single sip.

    Anyways I think these guys are cool

  • Ukraine destroys 20% of Russian Black Sea fleet in 4 months, says British defense minister

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  • Ben Wallace may be a Tory (very bad), but as far as Tories go, he's the only one I'm aware of with the ability to actually focus on his job. I've never heard anything about him or from him apart from the occasional update on Ukraine, and for that, I'll at least go so far as to say: I don't think he's a clown. He is a strong contender for the Most Competent Tory.